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VOL.101.NO.52
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5,1991
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Middle East peace talks end in frustration
The Associated Press
MADRID, Spain — Arabs and Israelis went home yesterday with mixed feelings of frustration and anticipation after an intense foray into the realm of peace. Israel and Syria were mired in recriminations but promised to meet again.
Few concrete achievements resulted from last week's three-day Middle East conference and the three sets of direct Israeli-Arab talks that ended early yesterday with a bitter Israeli-Syrian session.
But the talks smashed a 43-year taboo on direct Israeli-Arab talks, setting in motion a process of face-to-face negotiations to resolve one of the most intractable regional conflicts in the world.
The United States and Soviet Union sponsored the talks, and President Bush was hopeful.
"We have a long way to go and interruptions will probably occur, but hopes are bright," he said.
The brightest hopes are for negotiations between Israel and the 1.7 million Palestinians living under its military rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. There is little hope for a thaw between Israel and Syria, the region's strongest military powers and most bitter foes.
"I would like to express our regret for leaving this city without having tangible results," said Syrian Foreign Minister Farook al-Sharama.
In a reminder of how relentless the conflict is, hard-line Israelis inaugurated a new Jewish settlement in the Golan Heights just hours after the talks ended. Syria's main demand is for the return of the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war.
There were also reports that Israeli troops shelled the positions of radical Islamic militants in the village.
In the Iranian capital of Tehran, Shite Muslim demonstrators burned American and Israeli flags and an effigy of Uncle Sam outside the former U.S. Embassy compound to mark its takeover 13 years ago by Iranian radicals.
The talks in Madrid were the first ever discussion between Israel and Syria. They lasted five hours, into the early hours yesterday. But the enemies failed to move an inch from their positions or even to shake hands. Even coffee breaks were taken in separate rooms.
Syria refused an Israeli request to establish direct contacts to arrange the site for the next round of talks, scheduled later this month.
Nevertheless, both agreed to meet again if the United States came up with an acceptable location. Officials on both sides said Washington or other sites in North America were possible.
An Israeli representative said yes.
terdary that Israel would still prefer that the talks be held alternately in Israel and Syria or along their border. But Syria remained just as adamantly in favor of a neutral site and accused Israel of being intrensient.
Both sides have said that it was a dialogue of the deaf.
Israel's delegates talked about everything except the land that the Israelis occupied and have beenOccupied for the last 24 years, said al-Sharaa.
The Israelis countered that Syria's demand for Israeli concessions dominated the meeting. "If they keep up their demands, there will not be any progress," said Israeli representative Yossi Olmert.
Israel repeatedly insisted territorial concessions were unrelated to its goal. The goal is a peace treaty with Syria.
Jordan, clearly pleased with its part in the talks, said it would attend the regional discussions.
Syria reiterated its refusal to attend regional talks that were to begin in about three weeks among the countryside. A group of armed forces and water resources
During nearly five hours of talks on Sunday, Israel and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation agreed on a two-track approach. Israel will negotiate separately with the Jordanians and the Palestinians.
That will lay to rest forever that Jordan is Palestine, said Jordan's chief delegate, Abdul-Salam Maiali.
Hard-liners in Israel say Jordan should become the homeland for Palestinians, rather than the West Bank, because it has a Palestinian majority.
Local homeless seek day shelter
As the temperature drops, Dennis Knight tries to stay warm during the day under the Massachusetts Street bridge at Sixth Street. With no day shelter in Lawrence, Knight uses his alternative shelter until the Salvation Army Shelter opens at night.
By Blaine Kimrey Kansan staff writer
Dennis Knight braces against the bone-chilling breeze that gusts across the Kansas River.
His face ruddy, Knight has tears streaming down his shivering cheeks.
Three cotton sleeping bags he pulled from a dumpster are the only shelter separating him from the cold.
"The weather really took me by surprise," he says.
A mouse scurries from beneath his sleeping pallet. Dennis shifts, unalarmed
The mouse is little threat in the face of frostbite.
Knight is one of many Lawrence homeless people who finds himself this winter with no guaranteed daytime shelter.
Although the Salvation Army provides shelter for the homeless from 9:15 p.m. to 8:45 m. during the winter at its gymnasium, 946 New Hampshire St. it cannot keep the homeless from entering the scheduled activities in the building.
The gymnasium also houses Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts meetings, clothes and toy drives and little league basketball.
Homeless left in cold
In the past, the Salvation Army Safehouse, 924 New Hampshire St., was a place where homeless could go during the day to stay warm, said Jim McDonald, Salvation Army night shelter specialist.
However, the Safehouse closed during the spring because of a lack of money, he said.
"We just don't have room for all the other programs and a daytime shelter." McDonald said.
He said he hated to turn the homeless out into the cold.
Three days last week, McDonald extended the closing time of the shelter because of cold weather.
Nevertheless, he eventually was forced to close down the shelter before the morning was over because of other planned activities.
So the Lawrence homeless are left to their own devices during the day, to wander from building to building and they will not be turned away, he said.
Some homeless hung around the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., for warmth. Others drink cup after cup of coffee in the restau-
rantslining Massachusetts Street.
Knight huddles beneath the Massachusetts Street bridge on a worn mattress, waiting for the Salvation Army Shelter to open for the night.
McDonald said a daytime shelter in Lawrence was needed desperately.
The number of Lawrence homeless is not decreasing, McDonald said.
"We figure that in the dead of winter, there will be about 30 to 50 people staying at the shelter at night," he said.
The increase means more homeless will wander through the alleys and businesses of downtown Lawrence during the day.
Although the shelter can handle the increase at night, it cannot care for the increasing homeless during the day, he said.
McDonald said that number would be twice the number of people staying there last year.
"They're here so much," said
Belinda Ballard, co-owner of Sweetgrass Downtown Restaurant and Bar, 907 Massachusetts St. "It's hard, I feel really bad for them."
However, Ballard is torn between her compassion for the homeless and her desire to run an efficient business.
"Over the weekend, I've seen 10 or 15 homeless people I've never seen before. "Ballard said. "But what else are they going to do?"
She said the cold weather this weekend had sent many more homeless people into her restaurant.
Established in May as a response to the closing of the Salvation Army Safehouse, the coalition is working to improve services for the homeless in Lawrence.
Community can help
Steve Fleeker, coordinator and case manager for the coalition, said he and other coalition members
The Lawrence Coalition for the Homeless could have the answer.
would be discussing possibilities for a daytime shelter in Lawrence at a general meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesda-
cific. In the community Center Inc.
704 Elm St.
The meeting is open to the public.
the meeting is open on the public.
"The homeless need a place where they feel like they have a center for their lives." he said.
Fleeker said that not having a permanent daytime address made it hard for the homeless to look for jobs.
Generally, employers call to hire between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., and the Salvation Army Shelter is closed during that time period, he said.
Fleeker said a daytime shelter would be impossible to establish without help from the community.
"We're trying to make the community realize it's the responsibility of the community to work with the problem," he said.
Fleeker estimated that a daytime shelter would cost from $1,000 to $2,000 a month to run.
"It wouldn't be that great of a burden on the community to come up with that," he said. "It seems like a fairly simple thing, really."
But for now, Lawrence homeless lack a daytime shelter.
He said KU students could contribute to a daytime shelter by volunteering to work there.
Coat clutched around his cringing body, Gene Williams curls in the automatic teller machine booth at Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
The heat gusts from a steel vent, keeping him warm.
"Last couple or three nights, I've been staying at Salvation Army," he says.
It's 8 p.m., and the shelter has yet to open.
Williams reclines in the wet filth from the bank-goers' sneakers.
He says he really does not mind that much, though. He says he just wishes Lawrence had a daytime shelter.
Burglaries increase as weather turns cold
By Melissa Rodgers Kansan staff writer
As the temperature decreases, car burglaries in Lawrence increase.
"When the first cold spell hits, we see an increase in car burglars," Sgt. Mark Warren of the Lawrence police said. "We've seen every year about the time it turns cold."
Since Thursday when temperatures began dropping, 11 cars have been burglarized. Nine of those burglaries involved purses being taken from cars. In weight of the incidents, windows were shattered to gain access.
Jennifer Pasley, Lawrence graduate student, said that her car, which was parked in the parking lot outside of Benchwarmers, was broken into and that her purse was stolen while she was inside the bar.
Most car burglaries happen near bars because burglars know that people going to bars tend to leave their purses or wallets in the car and take only their licenses and some money into the bar, Warren said.
Two of the burglarized cars were parked in a parking lot outside Benchwarmers Bar and Grill, 1601 W. 23rd St., and three were parked near Seventh and New Hampshire streets, according to police reports.
Pasley said she had left her purse underneath a coat on the front seat of his car.
Pasley said the burglar or burglars might have watched her go into the bar.
"I usually stash it under the front seat of the car," she said. "Police told me it did not matter because that is the first place they look."
Warren said cold weather was beautiful weather for car burglaries because bar-gorers headed straight inside and did not linger in parking lots or on sidewalks. No one is around to notice potential car burglaries.
Also, he said, house and business windows are shut, curtains are drawn and nobody is aware of activity on the net or can hear car windows shatter.
Burglar们 often use a spring-loaded punch (a small carpenter's tool used to set nails) to shatter car windows, Warren said.
Deann Shaddox's car was broken into and two purses were taken while it was parked across from the Mad Hatter, 700 New Hampshire St.
Shaddox, Kingman sophomore, said that she usually left her purse in the trunk when she went into a bar but that she didn't leave her purse and left it on the floor of the car.
Michael Shanks, a Lawrence police officer who often patrols the area that includes Benchwarmers, said car burglars usually worked in a group.
One person will break the car window and steal the contents inside, another person will serve a lookout, and a third will drive the get-away car.
L. John Mullens, KU police representative, said cold weather had the opposite effect on burglaries on the KU campus.
When there is cold weather, the number of quarries on campus should be small.
Students in residence halls usually will call KU police and report suspicious activity if they see a person out in front during bad weather, Mullens said.
GLSOK co-director says KU too inactive on ROTC discrimination
By Alexander Bloemhof
Kansan staff writer
KU should take a leadership role in changing the Defense Department's policy that excludes gays and lesbians from the military, the codirector of GLSOK said.
"I don't doubt the sincerity of the committee," Taylor said. "But I think as a university we're not very active. Right now, it looks like we are seeing what the University of Wisconsin is doing."
Rob Taylor, the co-director, met yesterday with Siegfried Lindenbaum, who heads the chancellor's committee on discrimination in ROTC, to discuss the committee's progress.
Lindenbaum has said that the University of Wisconsin at Madison led efforts by universities nationwide to change the Pentagon's policy against tacts and lesbians.
ROTC scholarships and commissions.
Taylor said it was the official stance of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas that the ROTC must comply with the University's anti-discrimination policy.
That violates a University policy prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, sex, creed, ethnicity, sexual orientation and irrelevant disabilities.
He said that GLSOK did not advocate suppose KU's contract with the ROTC but that the administration should consider that possession of the Pentagon would not change its stance.
The policy excludes gays and lesbians from
ROT Officials could not be reached for comment yesterday, but in the past they have said they would not comment on Pentagon policies.
The Defense Department has said that it would not change its policy on homosexuality.
"The trend right now is toward inclusion of gays and lesbians in the military."
But Lindenbaum said moving the ROTC from campus would be a loss.
Rob Taylor Co-director of GLSOK
"we would lose our voice," Lindenbaum
has written, "we have the program, wehave a bargaining tool."
He also said that any recommendation to move the ROTC from campus would have to be made.
Del Shakel, interim executive vice chairwoman, said the administration would not support him.
"We don't think that's the right way to go."
Taylor, like Shankel and Lindenbaum, said
The faculty at the University of Wisconsin voted in December 1988 to suspend the university's contract with the ROTC after three years of decision was not approved by the chancellor.
Shankel said, "Since the Department of Defense is going to reduce the number of ROTC units anyway, we want to preserve the program as an opportunity for students."
he hoped such a move would not be necessary.
"We do believe that ultimately, the Department of Defense policy will change," Taylor said. "The trend right now is toward inclusion of gavs and lesbians in the military."
He said that GLSKO this semester began working with the KU chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union to increase awareness of the issue.
Anne George, president of the ACLU' KU chapter, said both groups were urging that the ROTC comply with the University's anti-discrimination policy.
She said they planned to contact administrators for support and send letters to student officers.
"I think what the university has done so far is really very positive, but we think more can be done," George said. "Awareness is really our primary concern."