THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 20,1989
(USPS 650-640)
Salvadorans vote while rebels, army clash
The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Salvadorans went to the polls yesterday to elect a new president as leftist revolutionaries opposed to the election attacked military posts and campaigned countered with rockets and rife fire.
Early voter turnout appeared diminished by the combat and a reimbosed transport ban. But Roman Catholic churches were crowded with Palm Sunday worshipers, at least 150 per cent planned to be buried. By midday, there were long lines at the downtown polling stations.
At least five guerrillas and two soldiers were killed in fighting in nine provincial towns, military officials and witnesses said. Two journalists and a Dutch television cameraman also were reported killed.
Turnout was light in smaller towns.
"With these problems, it's better to stay home," said Jose Carlos Ortiz, 23, speaking in front of his home in
the capital as guerrillas retreated from an assault on a military post three blocks away.
three mikes.
Sparecade rifle fire by guerrillas echoed from the slope of the Guazapa volcano north of the capital as troops from the army's elite Bracamonte battalion pursued the insurgents.
Two air force helicopters raced toward the volcano and fired rockets into the mountainside.
DEACRE. Salvadorans voted to elect a president from among seven candidates. Field Chavez Mena, of the incumbent Christian Democratic Party, and Alfredo Cristiani, of the rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance, or Arena led the field in polls. But neither was likely to receive the more than 50 percent required to avoid a run-off next month.
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Guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front are waging a 9-year-old war against the U.S. hacked government.
avoid a run-on next month.
Cristiani, favored to become the country's next president, pledged
free-market policies and reduced state intervention in the economy. His party promised to step up the war if the guerrillas do not agree to lay down their arms.
down their arms.
Surrounded by supporters, Cristiani voted yesterday morning on the capital's Rosewood Avenue.
"I hope the United States realizes that (Salvadorans) want democracy, with this effort they are making to turn them over to say what any more bombs," he said.
is dying of Neal Cancer
Chavez Mena is a lawyer and leader of the Christian Democratic Party's conservative wind
bolts;
Josepiano Jose Napoleon Duarte's five ever term ends June 1. Duarte, barred by law from running for reelection, is Washington's stunnest ally in the Western Hemisphere. He is dying of liver cancer.
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Party a member
the centrist Christian Democrat
content that Arena has not changed
much since it was founded in 1981 by
individuals allegedly linked to death
squads.
Arena denies links to death squads.
Cristiani says the party's ideology is similar to that of the U.S. Republican Party.
The leftist Democratic Convergence, whose leaders maintain formal links with the guerrillas, was running third in the election, accorded with the first election since 1877 in which the socialist candidates have competed.
About 1.83 million people out of a population of 5 million were eligible to vote. Polls opened at 7 a.m. in 289 cities, and were scheduled to close at 5 p.m.
Nineteen towns in the north did not set up voting stations because election officials deemed those rebel-held zones too dangerous.
Cornel Lagrouw, a cameraman for Dutch national television, was killed as army troops moved to out-guard militias occupying the eastern San Francisco juvenile and Bill Glen U.S. photographed for Newsweek.
Presidential voting in El Salvador was diminished because of attacks by leftist revolutionaries and a rebel-imposed transport ban.
Moving in
After spending Spring Break working in Lawrence, Clint Wedel, Lawrence sophomore, moves back into his room at Hashinger Hall. Wedel returned to his residence hall yesterday afternoon.
Wedel moves his video equipment back into Hashinger Hall.
KU student killed while on ski trip
by Thom Clark Kansan staff writer
Curt Allen Cooper, Hutchinson sophomore and member of the Trian-
glale fraternity,
was killed while
skiing in the Snow
Ski Resort
in Colorado last
Wednesday. He
was 20.
Mr. Cooper died of a broken neck after he slid into trees on the
steepest part of the mountain, said Steve Hanna, Overland Park junior.
"Curt was sking in the tuck position when he hit a dip at the bottom of the slope which caught his ski," Hanna said.
Hanna, who traveled with Mr. Cooper and other fraternity members to Colorado for Spring Break, said Mr. Cooper apparently lost consciousness when he fell on the "Go Away" bus and slid his back into a group of trees.
Hanna said two medical interns were skiing behind the group and reached Mr. Cooper within one minute of the accident.
"They attempted CPR before the ski patrol took him down the hill to the medical station." Hama said.
the medical station. At the medical station, Mr. Cooper was pronounced dead of a broken neck, Hanna said.
Mr. Cooper, a business major, was elected by his fraternity as assistant to the social chairman in January
"He was one of the more dedicated guys in the house and had always wanted to be involved since he was initiated last year." Hume said.
mature lass. Hanna said Mr. Cooper always had a smile on his face and was a good guy to have in the fraternity
Danny Kaiser, assistant director of the organization and activities center, said he would be working with the fraternity to provide support during the grief period.
Survivors include: Mr. Cooper's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cooper; his brother, Craig L. Cooper; and his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. "Bub" Cooper
Funeral services will be today at the Trinity United Methodist Church, 17th and Main streets in Hutchinson
Senate weighs bill creating new right for high-school freedom of the press
bv Alan Morgan
by Alan Morgan
Kansan staff writer
A bill creating a right for high school students to publish without being censored by school administrators will enter a State Senate committee tomorrow.
The bill, passed by the House two weeks ago, will now begin its trail through the Senate.
began. And Frederickson, associate professor of journalism,
said that if the bill was passed, it will create a right for
high school journalism students not created by the First
Amendment
Amendment The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1968 that administrators at Hazelwood East High School in suburban St. Louis had the power to censor stories in the school's newspaper. The stories in question dealt with teen pregnancy and the effects of divorce on children.
and the Directors of Law.
"The Supreme Court said in the Hazelwood case that there isn't a First Amendment right granted to high school journalists," Frederickson said.
He said the Supreme Court decided that because high school newspapers were published in classroom situations, the newspapers were part of the curriculum, and the principal had the power to censor material.
the principals had take the Supreme Court did not find such a right in the First Amendment, can create such a right by statute." Frederickson said. "The bill doesn't overthrow the Hazelwood case; it just says that we are creating a right by statute."
right by statute.
Frederickson said that an individual's rights could come from the Constitution, state law or court cases. The proposed law would make students and instructors — not school officials — responsible if libelous material were published.
Relieves responsibility
The bill was amended to relieve school officials of that responsibility, and that change should help the bill to be passed. Frederickson said.
passed, Frederickson said.
"I would say that since it is being supported by the people most likely to oppose it, the school administrators, it has a good chance of passing." Frederickson said. "I think school officials realize that the bill will be to their advantage by relieving them of the responsibility."
The bill would allow censorship if the stories contained libelous, slanderous or obscene material or encouraged unlawful acts. Also, stories creating substantial disruption of normal school activity would not be protected by the bill.
Allows some censorship
Jackie Engel, executive secretary of the Kansas State Senate Press Association, said more high school students were scheduled to testify in favor of the bill in the Senate committee tomorrow than did so in the House.
"Along with having more students testifying, we also plan to have a couple senators testify," said Engel, lecturer in journalism. "It's sounding more positive at this point than it did when we began in the House."
"If you don't have the freedom to publish without prior censorship, your student newspaper is only going to be a newsletter for the administration." Frederickson said.
Frederickson said the bill was necessary for high school journalism
Protest supports ousted boss for seat in Soviet parliament
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Thousands of supporters of maverick communist Boris Yeltsin marched through downtown Moscow yesterday and vowed to hold a general strike if he did not win. The government took the national parliament.
Yeltsin, who was ousted as Moscow party boss after he criticized the pace of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reforms, claimed that the Moscow party machine was working to defeat him. For many Sovietis, Yeltsin epitomizes the quest for more democracy and an end to special privileges for the government and party elite.
Chanting "Yeltsin" Yeltsin" at least 3,000 Muscets set off from Gorky Park after they were refused permission to hold a pro-Yelsin election rally there. They marched to Moscow's city hall after scores of uniformed police sealed off Kalinin Prospekt leading to the Kremlin
At city hall, the protesters demanded a meeting with Lev N. Zakiv, who replaced Yeltsin as the Soviet capital's Communist Party boss in November 1987 and who is in charge of the Moscow party machine
A city official with a bullhorn climbed to the top of a bus and demanded that the crowd disperse, but the protestors remained in front of the municipal building for more than two hours.
One pro-Yeltsin speaker perched beside the hall door and called on the crowd to approve a general strike if Yeltsin did not win the right to represent Moscow in the March 26 elections for the Congress of the People's Deputies, and the protestors raised their hands in agreement. It was not immediately clear when such a strike would take place.
that the protestors claimed was trying to engineer Yeltsin's defeat.
Earlier this month, the Communist Party released a transcript of Yeltsin's remarks at a private Central Committee meeting in 1987 that cost him his job as Moscow party boss.
with his job as a secretary. According to the transcript, Yeltin told him the gathering that Gorbachev had become the object of intolerable glorification. Yeltin was named mlorock party chief in December 1985 and a non-voting Poliburo member two months later. He lost both posts as a result of his remarks at the meeting on Oct. 21, 1987.
or many Soviets, Yeltsin epitomizes the quest for more democracy and an end to special privileges for the government and party elite.
The party said that it had published a transcript of the meeting in its new monthly journal, News of the Communist Party Central Committee, because of requests by workers and party members.
But a U.S. specialist said that the release of 40 pages of scathing attacks on Yelinson by Gorbachev and other leaders appeared to be designed to undermine the 38-year-old Yelinson's bid for political office
The transcript showed that Yeltsin criticized not only Gorbachev, who brought him into the Kremlin leadership, but Yegor K. Ligachev, a conservative force on the ruling Politburo.
KU graduate claims government AIDS research is a lie
by Max Evans
When Charles Ortle moved from Lawrence to New York in 1972, he was unaware of a mission that for eight years has dominated his money, his time and his legacy.
Kansan staff writer
Ortleb, who graduated from the University of Kansas in 1971 with an English degree, spearheads growing opposition to government policies and describes what has been called the most influential gay newspaper in the country. New York Native Ortleb uses the
newspaper as his weapon against the widely accepted government sponsored 4DTS research.
Ortleb said government research was not only erroneous in its findings, but a conspiracy by the government to obscure the actual cause of AIDS.
"I think what the government would like to do is have a group of people, like the New York gay community, that they can experiment on," Ortleb said.
experience transferred from Wichita State Ortleb transferred from University in 1969 to the University of Kansas to study English. He found KU and
Lawrence to be just the catalyst for change he had been seeking.
"The gay movement was in full swing." Ortleb said. "I was part of the Gay Liberation Front. We even sued the University."
Ortleb said the group was involved in a dispute with the University when it would not sanction the Gay Liberation Front as a genderized student organization. The group hired William Kuntslus, the Chicago Seven attorney, but the case was settled out of court when the University reversed its position, Ortleb said.
Edward Grier, professor emeritus of English, remembers Ortelf fondly.
Otelt left Lawrence after one year of graduate school, but not before he made discoveries in the literary world that would make poetry a focus of his life and would ultimately influence much of his future.
English, rebellious; "I was always surprised that someone from a small community of a community, with very little cultural exposure, could understand such sophisticated ideas." Grier said.
Grier isn't the only professor who heaps
upon ordele Bob. Edward Ruhe,
Mary Mills.
"He was a brilliant, brilliant student," Ruhe said. "I saw him turn into a poet." Ruhe knew early on that Ortleb was talented.
professor of English now on leave, called Ortleb gifted
"He handed me a sheet of poetry in March (after only two months of classes)." Ruhe said. "I was astounded by the quality. It was beyond criticism."
inneed, Ortleb's talent as a poet led to an award in 1971 in the Carruth Poetry Contest.
See GAY p. 6, col.1