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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 135 (USPS 650-640)
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Khadafv in desert, reports sav
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration yesterday received intelligence reports indicating that Moammar Khadafy had fled his Tripoli headquarters and gone into the desert, government sources said.
They said Khadafy might have been wounded in Monday night's raid.
See related stories p. 10, 11.
Speculation of a coup in Libya through Washington, and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said reports of gunfire in Tripoli could indicate that some people might be trying to take matters into their own hands.
One government official, who refused to be identified by name, said it seemed quite likely that Khadafy was somewhere in the middle of the desert and had flown there within the past day.
"He has several times before gone into the desert when things got tight in Tripoli," the official said, adding
that tensions have existed between Khadafy's East German-trained guards and the regular army.
"He recharges his batteries in the desert," the official said. "Whether there's more to it this time or not, we just don't know."
The sources said information reaching Washington indicated that Khadifa might have been wounded during the Monday night air raids. Khadifa end speculation that he had been killed with a television app in which he haunted the Reagan administration for the bombing.
Khadady condemned the United States and Britain for the bombing, saying, "We are ready to die and we are ready to fight and defending our country."
The source of the broadcast and its place of origin were unclear.
Gunfire in Tripoli around Khadafy's headquarters fueled speculation about factional fighting. One congressional source said it had been reported back in town. Another congressional source said the administration had
received reports of fighting elsewhere in Libya, outside Tripoli.
U. S. intelligence received reports that gunfire near Khadabad's Tripoli headquarters was not merely renewal of fire from nerves lobyan gunners.
The administration professed uncertainty about developments.
The intelligence information indicated that Khadiya might have been injured, or at the very least stunned and that his out-of-sight posture may have been contributing to unrest there.
"We cannot confirm the state of his health and we cannot confirm his actual whereabouts or whether he has been injured," said White House deputy press secretary Edward Dijerian.
On the CBS Evening News, Weinberger was asked whether Khadity was losing his grip on the Libyan government.
"There are a lot of peculiar things happening, including a lot of unidentified gunfire going off and on at times. And the other hand, that happens fairly
frequently in some of those cities
"But there may well be some people — and there are a lot of them — who have every reason to be unhappy with him, who are trying to take matters into their own hands, in other words, people who read the lesson that this attack was supposed to minister."
ABC News, quoting U.S. intelligence sources, said mutiny had been reported at the Tarkunah army base, south of Tripoli. The network said that Libyan air strikes reportedly used against Libyan army units.
Meanwhile, the State Department asserted that the raid could have been avoided if the Soviet Union had sent requisits to restrain the Labyans.
However, the network said there was no indication any particular group had moved to seize power.
Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, appearing before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, insisted that the United States was not trying to assassinate Khadafy.
Mary Burger/KANSAN
D. W. Acker, University of Kansas Athletic Corporation maintenance worker, points a running Jayhawk on the back of the awards stand in preparation for
The race is on
the Kansas Relays. The relays began yesterday and will continue through Saturday.
Trips to continue despite terrorism
By Mark Siebert
Staff writer
President Reagan had said the United States would not be intimidated by terrorist threats from Libya or Moammar Khadjaf.
And neither will students and instructors in the University of Kansas Study Abroad Program.
All summer study abroad trips to seven countries in Europe and Asia will continue as planned. Mary Tucker, author of study abroad, said yesterday.
Gwin said that a few of the 250 students enrolled in the program had asked about the status of their trips but that no one had withdrawn because of the United States-Libya conflict.
"We have no plans to cancel any trips," Gwin said. "Our main concern is to monitor it and not do anything that is dangerous."
The program is in constant contact with the State Department in Washington and American embassies in the foreign countries, she said. Between 100 and 125 KU students are studying abroad.
"We're all parents and we're not going to let anybody's children into a danger spot."
The word is go. Gwin said, but the final decision lies with the students and their families.
Mimi Allard, Chicago junior, is
scheduled to travel to Spain this summer, her first trip to Europe.
"I'm worried," Allard said, "but unless the Study Abroad program tells us we shouldn't go. I still go"
Allard said she had considered going to Italy and several countries in the Mideast but probably would not go.
William Blue, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, said his trip to Spain would be his 10th to Europe.
He said that in those trips he had never encountered any terrorism but that this year he would avoid big tourist hotels and airports whenever possible. His group of about 35 is flying into Madrid airport. He told me that since a magazine had ranked it one of the three safest in Europe.
"If it comes to a point that we begin to worry about their safety, by all means, we'll make some changes." Blue said.
Some students at Lawrence High School planning on a European excursion will not be so lucky.
Art Sloan, a teacher in Humanities and English at Lawrence High, said he had been forced to cancel a trip to Europe because he wanted their children to take the risk.
"There was a great concern, which is understandable," said Sloan. "Most of the parents are concerned
See TRAVEL, p. 5. col. 1
Semifinalists chosen for journalist in space
Staff writer
Ru Sandra Crider
The 20 regional semifinalists will be interviewed at the University of Kansas by the south-central region's panel.
The names of the 100 seminalists for the Journalist-in-Space Project were released yesterday by the journalism and Mass Communications.
Nominine will be interviewed by the panel, photographed and videotaped, said Rick Musser, associate professor of journalism, who is handling arrangements for the interviews. The Association of Schools of Journalism has allocated money for tapes, photography supplies and the expenses of the applicants.
The KU School of Journalism will probably pay for anything that is not covered by the project budget, Musser said.
The field was narrowed down from 1,700 journalists in the first round by 20 cooperating schools of journalism
Of the 100 nominees, 37 applicants are from newspapers, 36 from broadcast media, 12 from magazines, four from journals and 11 are free-lance journalists.
The list of semifinalists includes such notable journalists as Walter Cronkite, former CBS anchorman.
have a special correspondent; James Reston, special correspondent for Newswire, and Geraldo Rivera, the analyst and former ACE correspondent.
Applicants will be judged on their professionalism and their ability to communicate clearly and effectively to mass audiences, according to port Serogiris, chief program officer of the Journalist-in-Space Project.
Several journalists who made it to the second round expressed confidence in their chances while others were more lucky to make it as far as they did.
"I'm honored and humbled to have come this far," said Larry Hateberg, associate news director at KAE-TW in Wichita.
The only other seminalist from Kansas is Mark Chamberlin, also an associate news director for KAKE-TEV
Hattheberg said he thought journalists wanted to board the space shuttle for a voyage in space because the carrier is not yet conquered by the media.
He said journalists would have a much different perception of space from that of astronauts and scientists.
See SPACE, p. 5, col. 1
Spring has sprung
Campus groomed by crew
By Abbie Jones
Staff writer
Jim Mathes once stood in the middle of Jayhawk Boulevard and took a picture of one little tree. A woman passing by just couldn't believe it.
"She could not believe that I wasn't taking pictures of girls," Mathes, assistant director of landscape maintenance, said yesterday.
The woman didn't realize he was in charge of every tree, bush and blade of grass on campus.
The crab apple trees sweeten the air. There is a rumor that the Kansas Relays were scheduled for the third race in August, and they are at their prettiest, Mathes said.
Take a look around.
Red, yellow, purple, pink and white blossoms have sprung up everywhere. The grass is mowed, the trees are pruned and the birds are having a heyday.
His crew of 20 work full time on a budget of $300,000 to $400,000 a year — and on the most beautiful of all the campuses, he said.
Take a look around.
campaign, in it
"I haven't seen any as nice," Mathes said.
They mow and water the grass,
trim the foliage, spray the bugs,
up trash and fix just about anything
on the 1,000 acres with 17,000 trees.
With 17,000 trees.
"It takes us a week to mow the
whole campus once if we're lucky," he said.
They plant $600 worth of the tulips, narcissus, crocuses, cannas, day lilies and jonquils now seen in their current near Wescoe, Hoch and Spooner halls.
There may be six different types of a flower, 30 to 40 types of a crab apple tree and thousands of shrubs, he said. The larger type of powering crabs in Pottison's Pavilion.
Although his favorite spring spot is right behind Watson Library, the students have chosen Hoch Auditorium, the Campanile and the Chi Omega fountain, he said. He knows that by how many camera film wrappings that he picks up from the ground.
But Mathes' lawn is a little different than most. Few have thousands of students strolling past hopa crab trees in front of a library and dogs making paths around a campanile.
"With 23,000 students, if each one picked a flower then there wouldn't be any flowers." he said.
While the students mill around on the lawns, the staff works to keep it neat.
From early May until the first frost there are two men who care for only the flowers, he said. There are five designated areas of campus that one
worker will garden, and after commencement there is a group who works almost every day pruning the trees until fall.
Pruning the trees exposes them to air and wind, so they are less attractive to bugs, he said. The process is called sanitation, and if the campus is clean the bugs have nowhere to hide.
Mathes said one of the staff's main goals was to protect the squirrels, skunks and night creatures. They don't want to endanger the animals' lives when spraying the foliage.
It also helps keep the fungus growth down and attracts birds.
"It's a method of helping Mothe Nature do the good things;" he said
The only ones unsatisfied with Mathes' work are those students who get hit by the water sprinkler.
"The biggest satisfaction is providing a place for wildlife," he said."
"There are a few who don't like to get wet," he said. "We try our best to avoid causing problems."
Mathes' walkie-talkie beeps and one of his workers says something about windows.
"Besides mowing the grass we even get to wash windows," he said.
Engineers offer bypass route
By Juli Warren Staff writer
Engineers proposed a $15.7 million route for a bypass last night that they said would put less of a pinch on Douglas County citizens' pocketbooks.
Dan Watkins Sr., a consulting engineer, said he wanted Kansas Turpike Authority traffic engineers to look at the new study results to consider the effect of development on the traffic situation.
The engineers presented the results of their traffic and route study to about 200 people packed into the county commission room, some listening to the proceedings on a speaker system in the hallway at the County Courthouse.
Previous studies by the turnipke authority, which did not take future development into consideration, stated there wouldn't be enough revenue from tolls at the property to cover construction and maintenance costs.
Douglas County and Lawrence officials decided to finance a study to determine the effect of development.
The county paid $100,000 and Lawrence paid $50,000 o. the cost of the engineering study, which was done by Howard, Needles, Tammen and Bergendoff, Overland Park, and Landplan Engineering, 2500 West Sixth St.
The recommended route would run from Noria Road and County Road 442 south, crossing Kansas Highway 10, continuing along 31st Street, and angling southwest at Louisiana Street to 35th Street.
At Kasdo Drive, it would turn north, run along Clinton Parkway for less than a mile, turn north and follow County Road 13 to meet I-70.
A proposed bypass, he said, would keep those intersections at an effectiveness level of C on a scale of A to F
The other route considered would cost $19.2 million, engineers said.
One engineer, Scott Smith, compared the intersections of 15th and Iowa streets. 23rd and Iowa streets and 23rd and Louisiana streets.
The three intersections now rate from a C to an F on the scale. Smith said. The scale takes safety and convenience into consideration.
Lawrence and Douglas County officials, as well as the engineers, took questions and comments from the audience after the 90-minute presentation.
Many residents voiced their concerns about how much they would be forced to pay for the bypass.
A bond issue of $4 million was made last year, amid press from county residents because there was no problem.
Attorney General Bob Stephan said in an opinion that the county had the authority to issue the bonds without a
County Commissioner Warren Rhodes said the money was obtained and the bypass route was being planned in order to get ready to apply for federal and state funds.
If money was obtained from the government, he said, it would probably be on a matching basis, with the county paying 25 percent and being matched 75 percent by the government.
Rhodes said that the county could only issue bonds for a certain amount without a public vote and that Douglas had already written a letter to the governor.
"If $4 million is not enough, we're going to have to come back to you." he said.
County commissioners also responded to comments that the residents outside Lawrence were being unfairly charged for the city's mistake.
Hayden Smith, Route 2, said, "The city has failed miserably on their construction of streets."
Nancy Hiebert, chairman of the County Commission,
said Lawrence residents and corporations paid about 80
Members of the Douglas County Citizens for Responsible Development, which has long been vocal in the battle