THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAI
VOL. 101, NO. 147
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1991
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Iran fears Iraqi attack
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The Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iran said yesterday that 100,000 Iraqi troops were poised to launch an all-out air and land offensive to wipe out hundreds of thousands of Shite Muslim men down in Iraq's southern marshlands.
But U.S. officials expressed skepticism about the Iranian reports, which could not be independently confirmed.
Iranian media have been accurate in reporting internal developments in Iraq the past few years, but the Teheran government has been hostile toward Iran regarding the Baghati's treatment of the Shiites in Iraq.
State-run Teheran radio reported "massive military preparations by the Iraqi army are under way, including air, land and amphibious"
units to surround and attack the refugees."
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency said the refugees, cornered by the Iraqi army near Basa and Nasirirav, numbered 1 million.
In Washington, State Department representative Richard Boucher said the United States had seen no evidence of an Iraqi military offensive, and there had been scattered clashes between Iraqi troops and Shite rebels.
Pentagon representative Pete Williams said officials had no evidence of any massing of Iraqi troops.
"This is a very marshy area. . . It's not the kind of terrain that could support large numbers of people." Williams said. He said the Pentagon viewed the Iranian radio and television reports of the massing of hundreds of thousands of troops with extreme skepticism.
Williams did say U.S. officials were aware of Iraqi military activity directed against the people in the battlefield, scattered incidents and skimishes.
"We have no evidence of any kind of large-scale attack," he said.
But a senior Iraqi diplomat rejected Kharrazi's claim.
At U.N. headquarters in New York, Iranian Ambassador to the U.N. Kamal Kharirazi urged the Security Council to take steps to head off any offensive, saying there was credible evidence that one was imminent.
They followed accounts of persistent hit-and-run operations by Shiite rebels against government forces in Basra.
More than 1 million Iraqi Kursi and Shifes led to Iran after Iraqi President Saddam Hussein crushed Al Qaeda in March, and Kurdish rebellions in March.
Kuwait expels foreigners in violation of agreement
The Associated Press
ABDALLI, Kuwait — At least 200 foreigners, mostly Iraqis, were deported yesterday in what Western officials said was a possible violation of the cease-fire agreement in the Persian Gulf War.
He said all those coming through Abdali had Iraqi passports,
At the border post at Abdali, army Lt. Fieel al-Enezi said some of the foreigners were being expelled because they entered Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion, others because they had no legal jobs.
"Some were crying, saying 'I don't want to go. The Iraqs will kill me.'" said al-Enezi. "I told them not to be in the Iraqs. They will welcome us."
Al-Enezi said a first group of 46 Iraqis — including nine women and three children — walked across the border Sunday night and about 200
others were sent home yesterday.
Meanwhile, others, including Jordanians, Sudanese and Palestinians
— whose leaders all expressed support for Iraq during the war — were being sent out of the country by air, to Cairo, said on Western ambassador
In Kuwait City, scores of men,
women and children filed onto buses
at the Immigration Department's
neighborhood on the city's outskirts.
"My son-in-law didn't do anything," wailed one distraught woman as a man was led to a bus in band-riffs.
"They are just expelling him because he has the same last name as an Iraq official," she cried.
The man was from the same tribe as Iazat Ibrahim, vice chairperson of Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council, she said.
Western officials said forced deportations violated the March 7 Memorialum of Understanding negotiated between the coalition partners and Iraq ending the gulf war.
The agreement, drawn up by the International Committee of the Red Cross and signed by Kuwait, specified that a person could not be forcibly repatriated.
"One guy forcibly repatriated is a violation. That's enough," said one Western diplomat monitoring the situation.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has asked to be able to interview the detainees before they are taken to the border.
The U.S. Embassy had no immediate comment beyond saying it was studying the situation. The United States also signed the March 7 agreement.
Derek Nolen/KANSAN
Sponge art
Rachel Thiele, 6, works on her sponge-art project as part of the Museum of Natural History's summer workshops. Thiele was taking part in the Animals Without Backbones class. The classes started June 3 and will run through August 2.
KU students relate gulf experiences
Kansan staff writer
By Rochelle Olson
Phil Borders, Lawrence sophomore, left for the Penske Gulf on Jan. 11, but he had to leave the university's semester to attend Army training.
Some KU students spent the past semester fighting sandstorms, monitoring radios and carrying injured soldiers off helicopters in Saudi Arabia where they were forced to drop backpacks and commit all classes as Army Reservists.
Four students who recently returned from the Middle East are finding their summer school courses a change from the Persian Gulf War.
tal, about 13 miles from Iraq.
He was among 75 people who set up he 400-bed 410th Evacuation Hospi-
Borders said he drove more than 6,000 miles during his first two weeks in Saudi Arabia. He worked in a pharmacy in the city and tried to pick up drugs and equipment
When he was driving at night, he could see the red and green tracers from the exchange of fire between the Iraqis and the allies.
He said the only time he was scared was when he first arrived, but eventually he began to ignore Scud missile launch warnings. Instead of putting on his chemical suit, he once put on a mask because he was tired from travelling.
At the hospital, he helped unload wounded soldiers off the helicopters. Borders said the work did not bother him until he saw someone who was
dead-on-arrival
"He was 19, and his legs were laying next to him in the body bag," Borders said.
The number of patients cared for at the hospital increased after the war ended, he said.
"All the people that the Iraqis treated, we treated again," Borders said.
He said his experience in the war remained separate from his life at home.
"I don't know what I really did, I'm glad i'g went," he said. "I came right back here, and a week later I'm going to summer school."
Jim Pilch, Lawrence senior, left Kansas Jan. 20. He endured a Scud missile launch his first night in Saudi Arabia.
An electronic voice announced "Scud alert" and a few minutes later the voice announced "Scud launch," meaning the missile was aimed at the camp. Within a few seconds, Pitch heard the roar of Patriot missile being fired and saw the flash when it intercepted the Scud.
"I thought, 'I saw this on CNN last week, but I never thought it would be me,'" Pilch said.
Pilch worked in the same hospital that Borders helped set up.
He controlled telephone and radio lines, and in his spare time, he guarded prisoners of war.
He said that he was apprehensive about watching the POWs but that they were well-behaved.
See GULF, Page 12
Local family planning clinics consider options after Supreme Court decision
By Eric Swanson
Kansan staff writer
The Supreme Court's recent decision restricting family planning clinics' activities may have disrupted clinics, but it has not silenced them.
The Hays Planned Parenthood agency is urging its supporters to start a write-in campaign directed at legislators, said Marian Shapiro, the mother of the agency and an associate director of Planned Parenthood of Kansas.
Planned Parthenoad of Kansas has not decided yet on an official response to the decision. However, it is determined to keep the issue alive by staging various protests while it considers its options.
"The heat isn't letting up on people who believe in choice and who are providing needed medical services," she said. "Our No.1 hope is that Congress will reverse this decision.
"Consequently, we're asking our supporters to write to the legislators. We do have some postcards we can sign and can sign and to Congress."
Shapiro said pro-choice advocates would stage a protest July 21 in Wichita, following a week of demonstrations by Operation at Women's Health Care of Wichita.
According to the regulations, federally assisted family planning clinics are forbidden to perform abortions or to refer their clients to an abortion clinic. Furthermore, counselors are required to say that abortion is not an appropriate course of action and should provide abortion counseling or referrals, the clinics must maintain separate facilities and finances.
This wave of activity follows the outcry that first was heard May 24, after the Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision upholding federal regulations that said any farm planning clinic that received federally funded money could not mention abortion as an option for their clients.
Rachael Pirner, public-affairs chairperson for Planned Parenthood of Kansas, said the agencies might decide to fieftefederal money and replace it with money from the private sector.
Other family planning clinics.
such as Comprehensive Health for Women in Overland Park, are not federally financed. However, they may be financed by the Supreme Court decision.
Adèle Hughey, executive director of Comprehensive Health for Women, said the agency would feel implication effect from the court's ruling.
"The restrictions on Title X will impact agencies without federal funding because it blocks a referral source," she said.
Although representatives of abortion-referral services and abortion clinics are appalled by the ruling, representatives of family planning clinics that discourage abortion affiliated with the Supreme Court's court.
Title X is the provision of the family planning law under which clinics are financed and regulated.
Hughey said the decision would force the clinic to raise its prices.
Debbie Danley, executive director of Advice and Aid, an Overland Park clinic, said the Court's decision was appropriate.
"I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for Planned Parenthood," she said. "It has been notorious for not providing the facts about abortion for their clients."
Danley also said the ruling would not affect Advice and Aid's services because the clinic did not promote abortion.
David Gittich, executive director of Kansans for Life, also hailed the decision, saying that it would be that Title X money is used correctly.
"All the Supreme Court did was cut off a misuse of funds from Title X, which was never designed to cover it. "We're delighted with the decision.
"The other side is hollering about it, but they shouldn't have gotten the funds in the first place."
Even agencies that only provide abortion referrals expect that the ruling will affect their services.
Lisa Roush, regional organizer for the Missouri National Abortion Rights Action League, said the group had to lead more restrictive legislation.
"The frightening thing about the ruling is the message it sends," she said. "Now the flood of restrictive legislation will pour in."
Fear of fund cuts halts hiring process
Officials must weigh hiring priorities in view of last week's hiring freeze
The freeze came in expectation of state-financing cuts, a possible effect of Gov. Joan Finney's veto in May of a tax-reform bill.
By Kelley Frieze
Kansan staff writer
The KU hiring freeze announced last week is causing departments and schools to try to determine which students must be filled despite the freeze.
The freeze will force departments to be more selective about which positions they fill while state-financing cuts still are unknown, said Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Positions could be filled if departments, deans and the executive vice chancellor agree they are needed desite the freeze, he said.
Authorization from the chancellor or executive vice chancellor is required now to conduct a search and also to hire a classified or unclassified employee, said Kelley Hayden, assistant to the executive vice chancellor.
Some recommendations already have been received in the office of the executive vice chancellor, but they have not been dealt with yet, be said.
Brinkman said the freeze would be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
Bill Crowe, dean of libraries, said, "A freeze is the clearest thing to do for a brief period of time to force a careful review of resources."
One library position that may need to be filled before the freeze is lifted is in the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American department.
Crowe said he would talk to the librarian in the department to decide whether there were any other options for him. He authorized to conduct a hiring search.
Some jobs can be done by other people, some can wait, but jobs requiring special skills such as fluency in a foreign language must be filled within a certain length of time. Crowe said.
A position that Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations, said needed to be filled was purchasing officer.
Richardson had advertised for the position before the freeze and said he would authorize to hire a purchasing officer.
He decided to leave the associate director of facilities operations position open for three to six more months, he said.
Richardson kept the position open from November until May 18. When the freeze was announced a nationwide search had been completed and a search committee was beginning to conduct interviews.
About 11 vacant positions in facilities operations have been targeted to remain open, he said.
Richardson said there was less of a demand to fill all facilities operations positions in the summer, but if the freeze is still in effect in the fall, custodians might need to work extra hours to make up for the vacancies.
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said most appointments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences had been made by May 1. But the number of students enrolled in the summer for the fall semester could change the college's class offerings and hiring needs.
Michael L. Johnson, chairperson of the English department, said the only positions in the department affected by the freeze are lecturers.
"I think the college will try to get us the people we need " he said
Carothers said several searches for professors last year did not yield appointments.
"We don't expect to authorize the re-opening of those searches until the extent of the governor's cuts is made clear," he said.
Because of an editor's error, a June 5 Kansan article about the hiring freeze sold the University of Kansas had been asked to identify 1.54 percent of its budget. The correct figure was 2 *1/2* percent.