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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 134 (USPS 650-640)
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Libya attacks Coast Guard outpost
The Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya - Libya aimed a hit-and-run blow at a remote U.S. Coast Guard station in the Mediterranean yesterday and summoned fellow Arabs to an hour of revenge against the United States for its predawn air raid on Libyan cities.
Sporadic anti-aircraft fire crackled again over blacked-out Tripoli late yesterday. Libyan radio said that U.S. warplanes had returned in a second-wave attack, but U.S. officials denied it.
Diplomats here estimated 100 people were killed in the attack on Tripoli, and doctors said the dead included an adopted baby daughter of Libyan leader Col Moammar Khadafy's.
Put related stories p. 2, 8, 9
The Libyans, through their state radio, called for strikes against U.S. targets.
In its first retaliatory attack, Libya claimed to have destroyed the U.S. maritime navigation station on Italy's Lampedusa island, 175 miles
Students consider effects of U.S. raid
By Lori Polson Staff writer
Military action taken thousands of miles away in a small North African country does touch the lives of some students at the University of Kansas.
"I understand the motives behind what was done, but what have you achieved?" Hamed Ghazali, Cairo, Egypt, graduate student, said yesterday.
KU students whose homes are much closer to Libyan military bases than Kansas wheat fields are keeping a close eye on the explosive situation.
Monday night, U.S. warplanes bombed Libya, hitting military bases, an oil port and Col. Moamur Khadiyah's headquarters. President Reagan said the attack was in
response to Libyan-backed terrorist action.
Ghazali, who is the past president of the Moslem Student Organization, said the bombing would only increase anti-U.S. feelings.
"Before it was just the United States against Khadafy, he said 'From today, the United States must
See REACTION, p. 5, col. 1
In Washington, White House spokesman Larry Speakes described the U.S. air assaults on Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi as a successful blow against command centers for Libyan-sponsored terrorism.
But in Tripoli, where many private homes were damaged, it was clear that the raid had also left civilian casualties.
north of here. But U.S. officials said that two missiles fired from either a ship or a warplane fell short.
through the Mediterranean and beyond;
The raid's repercussions rippled
Earlier in the day, Tripoli state radio said that forces destroyed a U.S. base on Lampedusa, where 30 Coast Guard and Navy personnel run a LORAN-C electronic navigation station.
Opposition leaders in Britain
assailed Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher's decision to allow their
country to be used as a base for the U.S. attack. Anti-U.S. protesters
demonstrated outside U.S. diplomatic missions in West Germany, Greece, Austria and Cyprus.
At an OPEC meeting in Geneva, Libya's petroleum minister called for an oil embargo against the United States.
Coast Guard spokesman Nicholas Sandifer in Washington said two missiles were seen landing in the water near the shore. In Rome, Italian officials said a motor launch fired on the base from four miles away.
At 8:53 last night and again a half-hour later, salvors of anti-aircraft fire echeered over the Lebyan capital, but there was no sound of warplanes or other indication of a new U.S. attack. Occasional explosions and repeated bursts of fire could be heard from various areas of the capital.
■The Arab world denounced the military strike. Even U.S. supported Egypt, generally hostile to Libya, expressed alarm and strong resentment.
Washington, Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims denied it.
At about 10 p.m. Libvan radio said U.S. planes had struck Tripoli again and four had been shot down. But in
After the U.S. strike, Libyan radio declared that the hour of unity and revenge had struck and called on Arabs in neighboring states to attack U.S. and European targets and interests in the region.
Hundreds of Libyan men, many wearing camouflage uniforms and carrying automatic weapons, surged through a bombed Tripoli neighborhood yesterday chanting, "Assassins! Assassins!"
Two Western diplomats, insisting on anonymity, estimated about 100 people had been killed.
U.S. man in Sudan wounded
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — An U.S. employee at the U.S. Embassy in Sudan was shot and seriously wounded yesterday in Khartoum, the State Department said.
A spokeswoman said that U.S. officials did not know who was responsible for the assault and that no group had claimed responsibility. However, the incident followed anti-U.S. protests sparked by the U.S. bombing of neighboring Libya.
State Department spokeswoman Anita Stockman would not identify the victim. She initially identified him as a diplomat, but another State Department spokeswoman, Diane
The White House said that it had few details about the attack but that President Reagan had been told of the shooting.
See SUDAN, p. 5, col. 4
Area woman enjoys police memorabilia
By Brian Whepley Staff writer
Staff writer
TECUMSEH - Beverly Root has been collecting police memorabilia for about 14 years with the intention of starting an international police museum.
TECUMSEH — Badges and arm patches hang on the walls. A British bobby's hat and a rubber Belgian night袜 are on a shelf next to a couch holding a pile of police uniforms.
The police memorabilia are part of 68 year-old Beverly Root's collection from around the world.
Root, who lives in the eastern Shawnee County town of Tecumseh, has tried to organize a drive to honor policemen and other public safety professionals. She said she wanted to give them the recognition they deserved by founding a museum.
About 14 years ago she started collecting badges, arm patches, police uniforms, police hats and other memorabilia from her states and countries our root. Roots.
The memorabilia was collected in many ways
While working for a newspaper clipping bureau, she would send clippings that mentioned police officers to the officers. The officers appreciated the clippings, she said, and would sometimes send her badges or other paraphernalia from their departments.
She also wrote to embassies, telling them she was trying to set up a museum. Three Malaysian uniforms
were collected that way, she said.
A University of Kansas police uniform is part of the collection. Mike Thomas, former director of the KU police, gave it to her, she said. She also has memabella from the University of Arizona police department, which Thomas now heads.
"They sent everything but their underguns." Root said.
Root contributed some police hats and badges to the KU police collection at the department's Carnruth O'Leary offices.
Other memorabilia was acquired by trade.
Root said she was interested in the memorabilia but had seriously started collecting only after a New York art store helped her about trading memorabilia.
"These officers pass your name around." Root said.
The officer planned to start a police museum in Arizona after he retired, she said. The plan was cut short when the officer was after being shot on dutv, she said
In 1982, Root founded the International Police Museum and Hall of Fame at her Tecumseh home. The museum was closed last year because of financing problems and strife among the organizers, she said.
Seating in field house awaits decision in Mav
See MUSEUM, p. 5. col. 5
By Frank Ybarra
William Hanna, Newton senior and student representative on the board.
Staff writer
Earlier this semester, a controversy arose over whether fans behind the KU bench should stand or sit during basketball games. The fans, in turn, were blocking the view of those seated in the several rows behind them.
San Write
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board decided yesterday to let its executive committee make a final decision on the seating arrangement in Allen Field House.
The executive committee and student representatives from the KUAC Board will meet in the first week of May to work on a compromise for the problem, said Anthony Redwood, chairman of the executive committee.
Redwood said the committee would meet when Monte Johnson, athletic director, and Richard Konzem, assistant coach, had come up with plans for changes.
Redwood said. "We're going to be very open in the process."
Also in yesterday's meeting, the board unanimously approved a new athletic ticket policy. The policy is a
said he hoped some solution would be found before students left for the summer.
If it wasn't, he said, it would appear that the board was pulling the wool over the students' eyes.
"We found out last February it is a solution that cannot be solved over-night," he said.
statement of the principles and objectives to guide ticket allocation and pricing.
The policy says, "In situations where the demand for tickets greatly exceeds the availability of seats students, faculty/staff and Williams Fund members will be given priority over the general public."
For student seating, it says, student representatives will be involved in pricing decisions. Student seating will include some of the best seats in both the field house and Memorial
Stadium
Station
"The goal for the availability of seats in Allen Field House," the policy states, "is that approximately 45 percent of the arena be allocated to student seating."
Also, beginning in the 1986 season, retired faculty will have to purchase the two tickets that they are allocated. But the current policy of giving complimentary tickets to the retired faculty will be continued until then.
Kansas Relays
The 61st annual Kansas Relays begin today with events in the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon. Forty-nine collegiate teams along with Olympic competitors will be in action during the four-day event.
Kansan coverage will include daily reports from Jim Hershberger Track and will be highlighted with a double-page spread on Friday previewing the weekend action and taking a look at past Relays.
Proposed bypass generates support as well as criticism
By Juli Warren
Nancy Heibert thinks a proposed bypass south of Lawrence can be an economic development gold mine for Douglas County.
Staff writer
Not only that, the proposed $20 million bypass would ease overcrowding on the streets that follow the growth of the town to the west where she said.
Commissioners will hear comments from the public on the issue at a hearing at 7 p.m. today at the Douglas County Courthouse.
"The project glisters with economic development opportunity." Hiebert, the county commission chairman, said last week.
At the meeting, engineers will report to the commission on the costs of possible routes, the amount of traffic required and the effects of not building the road.
County Commissioner David Hopper said that after a route was established, the county would apply for federal and state aid and possibly plan an environmental-impact study.
pected some public opposition to the bypass but that it planned to go ahead with the project when a route was decided.
County Commissioner Warren Rhodes said that the commission ex-
The cost of the project allows for acquisition of the right of way for four lanes and construction of the two-lane trafficway, according to Frank Hempen, county public works director.
But construction depends on whether the commission can find state and federal money to match $4 million in bonds issued last year.
Hiebert said a formal vote by commissioners would be required before plenary approval.
The issuance of those bonds, which was never put on a public ballot, has a group of county residents voicing opposition to the bypass.
The group, Douglas County Citizens for Responsible Development, has at least 300 members from Lawrence, Baldwin, Eudora and Compompton, said Daryl Richardson, president.
Bud Nation, a member of the group, said. "It's just the way they go about doing it. They don't even let me vote on it."
Hiebert said the bonds were issued then because the county was refinancing its debt. Combining the debt with the new bonds allowed the county to take advantage of low interest rates on tax-free bonds, she said.
Before the bonds were issued, state Attorney General Bob Stephain issued an opinion that said public vote was not required because of home rule, which says that cities and counties have no decision without higher authority.
Once the bypass is built, Hiebert
See BYPASS, p. 11, col. 1