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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Feb. 11, 1963
Telephone Visit A Lewis Hall Gift
By Joanne Prim
What is $14?
It can be seven cartons of cigarettes or a wool sweater or 28 banana solits or a big date.
But for Efi Demopoulos, a fine arts freshman, it meant a reunion with her parents for the first time since she left her home in Athens, Greece, last fall.
DURING FINAL WEEK, forty-one of Efi's friends at Lewis Hall chipped in to surprise her with $14, the price of a three-minute telephone call to Athens.
"I was so surprised. I couldn't believe it." Miss Demopoulus said. "It was something wonderful. Sometimes you can't express your feelings on these things.
"I thank the girls very,very much." she said.
Phyllis Walker, Leavenworth junior and a friend of Efls', said, "She just went completely wild when we gave her the money. She was just out of her mind. This is the first time she has been away from home, and then she comes bopping over here."
MISS WALKER SAID she got the idea for the phone call when she was talking with Miss Demopoulos one night. The latter was describing her home in Athens—even the colors of the walls—and the family's roof garden.
"She was really lonesome," Miss Walker said. "She told how she wanted to call home during Christmas vacation. She tried New Year's Eve, but the Atlantic cable was tied up indefinitely.
After discussing her idea with other friends, Miss Walker told other Lewis residents of the plan, and they told more.
"It was really easy." Miss Walker said. "Rarely did I tell people I was taking a collection. They came to me with money."
ELSA PAISSIOU, graduate student from Athens, Greece, assisted Miss Walker.
Miss Demopoulos got so excited when she received the money that she wanted to call the same night. Miss Walker suggested that she wait and write to her parents to make sure they would be home.
But Miss Demopoulus wanted to
call immediately, so they called at 11 that night because the time difference between Kansas and Greece is eight hours. Miss Demopoulos was sure her parents would be home at 7 a.m. The call was made on a private phone at Lewis.
"The way she jumped on the bed, I thought it would break," Miss Walker said, referring to her friend's excitement.
"FIRST SHE HAD to change her clothes from the skin out. I told her they wouldn't be able to see her, but that didn't make any difference," she said.
Connections were made through the overseas operator, and soon the Kansas coeds were connected with Greece.
"I dialed the operator and said I wanted to call Athens, Greece. She thought I said Augusta, Kansas."
"Then Elsa picked up the phone and said the connection wasn't very clear. The operator said, 'You aren't connected vet.'
"After they were connected. Efi said it was just as if you were talking in your own room," Miss Walker said.
Her father asked if she was learning to walk on the ice. When he asked about her grades, Efi told him the University would send them to him.
Miss Demopoulus' parents asked her about the weather and if she was eating well.
"Efi started shrieking to her parents. Then the operator said, 'You aren't connected vet.'
Although it was morning in Greece, Miss Demopoulos shouted good night to her parents at the end of the call.
At first her parents thought something was amiss, but Miss Demopoulus explained that the phone call was a gift. They told her if she was homesick they would come visit her next year. Efi will be in the United States three more years.
Demopoulos is a university professor and his wife is a grade school teacher. Because of a school strike, they were not working at the time of the call. They told their daughter about the severe winter they are ox- periencing, with the first snow in eight or 10 years.
Rebels Control-
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few had been imposed and that groups of armed with sub-machine guns were helping troops to maintain control.
Edward Foley, an American engineer from White Plains, N.Y., who reached Beirut yesterday on one of the first planes to leave Baghdad since the revolt began, said the new regime claimed it was determined to "root out at least a half-million Communists in Baghdad."
A Dutch businessman who flew to Tehran estimated about 1,500 persons were killed in the fighting which raged through Baghdad when the revolt flared on Friday.
THE BUSINFSSMAN, who asked that his name be withheld because of his business contacts in Baghdad, said he believed the Communists "will continue to pose a problem for the new regime."
An air force and army junta began the revolt before dawn last Friday by sending MIG jet-fighters Kassem had obtained from Russia against his defense ministry headquarters stronghold.
Kassem, the 49-year-old soldier who led the revolt that overthrew the monarchy $4\frac{1}{2}$ year ago, was reported executed Saturday after his capture deep inside the blasted ministry. On Friday, the rebels claimed Kassem had died in the aerial assault on his headquarters.
Baghdad television Saturday showed films of the dead Kassem.
EARLIER IN THE day, Baghdad radio reported that Kassem and three of his top lieutenants had been captured and tried by a military council.
"The council sentenced them to be shot by a firing squad and the execution took place at 13:30 (1:30 p.m.) this afternoon (Saturday)," the radio said.
The semi-official U.A.R. newspaper Al Ahram in Cairo said Kassem was found in an underground shelter in the ministry, weeping and shouting hysterically "I am Iraq's faithful sole leader" while troops dragged him off.
In other developments:
- In Washington, U.S. under-secretary of state George Ball said it was believed the fighting in Baghdad was "pretty close to over" and that the new regime is "establishing order and probably will be able to survive."
- Sudan and Yugoslavia recognized it yesterday. Recognition had been granted earlier by the U.A.R., Syria, Algeria, Morocco, Kuwait, Yemen, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.
- Iran recognized the new regime today.
- In London, a foreign office spokesman said recognition of the new government "will be considered as rapidly as possible."
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