THE UNIVERSITY DA KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.24
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1991
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Iraq gives permission for U.N. helicopters to fly over nation
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Iraq has given written permission for U.N. monitors to freely over its territory, but troops in Baghdad early yesterday detained a siege of inspectors who found documents to detail a nuclear weapons program.
The standoff in a Bagdad parking lot has dramatized the rising tensions in the Persian Gulf region. Iraq called the chief U.N. inspector an American spy. President Bush called the attack a "terrorist act" and warned Saddam Hussein not to miscalculate as he did during the Persian Gulf War.
The tension prompted plans to send nearly 100 Patriot anti-ballistic missiles and 1,300 troops to Saudi Arabia, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday. Flights were scheduled to begin today from a U.S. base in Germany.
There were reports that Saudi Arabia, which served as the staging area for allied
forces during the Persian Gulf War, demanded anti-missile batteries in return for allowing the United States to stage possible cover attacks against Iraq. Pentagon officials declined to comment.
Late Tuesday, the U.N. Security Council demanded the immediate release of the 44 weapons inspectors held by Iraq, which had been detained as a condition for ending the war.
ending the war
But in a television interview from Baghdad, the chief inspector said there was no sign that Iraq was lifting the siege.
"We can hold up as long as necessary," David Kay, the inspector, said. "This is a team in good spirits and good health."
Kay, who spoke on ABC's Nightline program on Tuesday, said the group was examining the documents captured on video tape on an Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission build-
Scores of Iraqi security men surrounded the inspectors, who parked their six cars and
a bus in a circle to protect themselves and the videotapes. The videotapes were said to show details of Iraq's secret nuclear weapons program, its foreign suppliers and to Iraqi
On Tuesday, Bush underlined the tough U.S. stance toward Iraq.
"We don't want to see any more anguish inflicted on the Iraqi people, but overriding that is the international community's determination to resolve resolutions be fully compiled with," he said.
Late Tuesday, Iraq sent a letter to Jean Bernard Merimee, French ambassador. The letter agreed to allow U.N. inspectors to use helicopters for their inspections, which was a major demand of the Security Council, David Hannay, British ambassador, said.
France is the head nation of the 15-member Security Council. Bush talked Tuesday with Francois Mitterrand, president of France, to plan strategy over the Iraqi impasse.
The council unanimously adopted a statement Tuesday that insisted Iraq release the inspectors and allow them to take whatever documents they feel need.
Council statements do not carry the weight of resolutions, which may be enforced by international law. The council was expected to wait for Iraq's response before deciding whether to arm its forces of help in gunships and warplanes to accompany U.N. inspection teams in Iraq.
Iraq sent another letter to Merimee on Tuesday that complained about the behavior of the inspectors, in particular Kay, who is an American.
At a news conference in Baghdad, Tariq Aziz, deputy prime minister of Iraq, accused the team leader of being an officer of the U.S. intelligence service, the official Iraqi News
against Kay called the charge ridiculous and untrue. Pentagon representative Pete Williams called a ludicrous allegation.
As for Iraqi charges that they had had trouble from his team, Kay said, that if his team had a problem it was because they were close to finding out the true scope and nature of the Iraqi program.
On Monday, Kay's U.N. team was detained for 12 hours in a Baghdad building after finding what they said was evidence that Iraq has been trying to develop nuclear weapons. Iraqi troops seized the papers, and although some were returned early Tuesday, U.N. officials said key documents were missing.
Kay's team then found other documents Tuesday before it was hustled out of the building.
Iraiq officials claimed that the team took personnel records unrelated to Iraq's nuclear research program. On Monday, the Iraqis claimed they objected to not receiving receipts for the material.
Kay said, "We were taking information on the top personnel in the Iraqi nuclear weapons program."
Mark Rowlands/KANSAN
Studying in the Sun
The afternoon sun makes reading more pleasurable for Darin Williamson. The Manhattan senior was taking a break from his classes yesterday at South Park, Eleventh and Massachusetts streets.
Sale to help finance investigation
Kansan staff writer
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
Native American Students Association plans to sell T-shirts tomorrow to raise money for the investigation into the death of Gregg Sevier.
"I feel that with the unexplained deaths of Native Americans in our community, I would like to see this investigated further." said Penny Postak, treasurer of the association.
Gregg Sevier, then 22, was shot in his home by two Lawrence police officers April 24. The death was ruled a accident.
Postak said that selling the T-shirts was a way for the association to show support for the Sevier family.
The association will sell the T-shirts tomorrow because it is American Indian Day. Members of the association plan to sell the $12 T-shirts from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union.
Lori Learned, legal assistant to Lance Burr, who is the Sevier family lawyer, the money raided would help him defend his independent investigators.
Learned said $1,500 had been raised with the sale of the first edition of 7 shirts. The estimated cost of the investiga-
Burr is not charging the family for legal services. The money raised helps defray costs of consulting psychologists, forensic pathologists, photocopies and phone calls.
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But she said weirnst to make sure everything that could have done was done.
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She said a drawing that was submitted to the highest that correspond with the coroner's notes and that an entrance
"We have some questions that we would like clarified," Learned said.
Learned said the investigation was not being done out of
N. A.S.A. will be selling t-shirts tomorrow in the Union.
On a civil-rights level, she would like to see the policy of shoot-to-kill changed, she said.
However, she said that she was concerned with the shoot-to-kill poison of the police.
She cited the Rodney King case as another example of excessive force used by police.
The problem of excessive force could be eliminated if police were trained to handle situations in otherways, Learned said.
"The guy was shot six times," Learned said. "That seems a little excessive."
KU enrollment climbs to record 29,000-plus
By Alexander Bloemhof
Kanneen staff writer
Kansan staff writer
For the first time in its history, KU has more than 29,000 students enrolled.
Twentieth-day enrollment hit a record 29,150 students, an increase of 241, or 1 percent, from last fall's enrollment of 28,909, according to a release issued yesterday by University Relations.
"The University's efforts to stabilize enrollment over the past several years continue to be most successful," Chancellor Gene A.Budig said in a prepared statement. "That will continue to be our objective."
Enrollment at KU's Lawrence campus increased this fall by 225 students to 26, 661. That number includes 1,493 students who are enrolled off campus at the Regents Center and the Capitol Complex Center in Topeka.
At the University of Kansas Medical Center, enrollment increased by 16 students this fall in 0.2489.
Figures for the first day of classes already had indicated that enrollment would remain relatively stable.
But 20th-day enrollment figures are more important because the submitted to the Board of Regents to justify requests.
Budding said the slight increase illustrated the need for adequate state money.
"The immediate challenge is to persuade the governor and the Legislature of the need for adequate levels of state support," Budig said. "Our position as a national academic leader is at stake."
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said the administration had hoped that enrollment would neither dramatically decrease nor increase.
He said that it had been the University's policy since 1987 to keep enrollment stable.
"We have created a pool of out-of-state students who might or might not be admitted," he said. "We do our enrollment management through that pool."
setting earlier admission application deadlines and establishing qualified admissions for out-of-state students, the University has been able to regulate its total number of students, Shakpek said.
The graduate school registered the largest increase with 305 more students than in Fall 1990. That brings the number
Fall 1991 enrollment statistics
Fall 1991 enrollment statistics
For the first time, total enrollment at KU passed the 2003 mark.
Compared with Fall 1990, however, the number of students remained relatively stable.
Total enrollment: 29,150 an increase of 241 students from last fall
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The largest decrease occurred in the School of Engineering. Enrollment dropped from 1,606 to 1,433 a loss, of a
or graduate students to 9,000.
"I'm pleased that graduate enrollment is up significantly because it shows that we continue to be a comprehensive institution," Shankel said.
of graduate students to 6.480.
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor of academic affairs, said enrollment in individual schools varied because of those schools's initiatives to change their number of students.
In the case of the engineering school, however, the decline of students reflects a national trend, Shulenburger said.
Revolution alters Soviet attitudes
By Mauricio Rios
Kansan staff writer
The Soviet Union's main concern is not only economic improvement. It also is concerned with changing people's attitude.
That's what Leonid Drokhotov, representative of the Soviet Embassy in the United States, told approximate friends in the Kansas Union Ballroom last night.
"We are in the beginning of a revolution," Dobrokoto said. "It's a real change."
He said that perestroika and glasnost were an attempt to change the Soviet Union slightly while still preserving the best of the system.
But Switches soon realized, he said, that it was impossible to improve the economy without making drastic changes.
"Free democratic systems are the base for free economy and that implies free politics," he said.
The radical changes the Soviet Union is experiencing have to be accepted and understood by the Soviet people. Dobrohkov wrote.
"The main problem was and is now the psychological barriers," he said. "The decision-making point is the mass psychology."
Dobrokhotov explained that generations of people were educated in a different way from what people were
being told today
"We never experienced democracy and made sure it was working." We know the private ownership. "We know."
Learning will be slow, Dobrokhotov said.
Slow because Soviets were used to receiving social guarantees like homes, jobs, pensions, free medicine and free education.
Slow because Soviets are not fully willing to take the risk to change.
And slow because the adaptation to new capitalistic changes probably will take 15 years or more, he said.
"We need time, we need experience,
we need to change the mentality of the
community."
By Blaine Kimrey Kansan staff writer
Senate turns down motion requesting student vote on Fulcher
Student Senate last night struck down a motion calling for a campus-wide referendum on whether student Darren Palucher should remain in office.
The motion, made by William Edwards, off-campus senator, proposed that the student body be allowed to vote on the resolution passed by Senate Sept. 4 that requested Fulcher's resignation.
Because the resolution was a non-
binding piece of legislation, it did not
require Fulcher to step down.
The referendum also would have been non-binding because it was based on a piece of non-binding legislation.
However, Edwards said Fulcher was morally bound to fulfill the wishes of the student body in a referendum of his recent comments on KJHK
During a radio talk show, Fulcher had said that if a majority of the student body voted for his removal in a referendum, he would leave office.
The charge raised questions about Fulcher's credibility and led the Senate to vote for his removal Sept. 11.
Fulcher was charged with battering his ex-girlfriend, a KU student, in a domestic dispute in February, accord- ing to law enforcement court reports.
Troy Radakovich, Student Senate Executive Committee chairperson, objected to Edwards' motion because it did not guarantee any results.
"We don't have a binding agreement Darren would step down. Rachael
He said money and time could be wasted conducting a referendum.
Radakovich wrote the Sept. 11 motion requesting Senate's removal from office.
He said that the removal motion would be binding.
Allowing the KU Judicial Board to complete its review of the two appeals to the motion is a better option than the referendum, Radakovich said.
Fulcher said after the meeting, "I agree with Troy. It's in the hands of the Judicial Board."
Fulcher will remain in office at least until the Judicial Board finishes its review.
Arecalelectionpetitionisbeingcir-
Radakovich said a recall election also was an option because, if two-thirds of the voters wanted Fulcher to step down, he would have to leave
culated by Students for Justice. The group needs 4,100 signatures to mandate an election.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, addressed Senate at the beginning of the meeting, which included a Bighit Eight Room in the Kansas Union.
He advised Senate to allow the Judicial Board to finish its review of the removal motion before it took any more action.
Ambler said that in the meantime, Senate should work to correct inadequacies and contradictions in its rules from the Judicial Board's actions.
Dr. Seuss dies
Theodor
Seuss
Geisel
a.k.a. Dr.
Seuss died
yesterday
at the age
of 87.
See story
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