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Wednesday
July 1, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 149
(USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
Published by the students of the University of Kansas since 1889
Brother of slain U.S. civilian gives talk on contras
By KRISTEN HAYS
Staff writer
"The contras are simply hired guns; the real killers are the United States government, with their hands clean and nails clipped.
"We know the facts. The fact is that Ben is dead. He was murdered by the contas, and the contras are armed, trained, and directed by the U.S. government."
John Linder, whose brother, Benjamin Linder, was the first U.S. citizen killed by the contras in Nicaragua, spoke to about 80 people Thursday at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
"I'm doing this tour to stop the killing, not to ask for pity for me or my brother." he said.
John Linder, 32, temporarily left his job as an autoworker at Martin Marietta Corp., in New Orleans, for what he called his "peace tour."
His stop at KU was the fourth in a national speaking tour to tell the story of his brother's death, the U.S. government's response and the destruction caused by the war in Nicaragua.
"I want to bring home what's happening in Nicaragua. When you lose a family member, there's a lot of grief. But 15,000 people killed in Nicaragua, and we need to multiply that grief by 15,000."
At first Linder appeared hesit
ant, speaking slowly. But he gradually gained confidence, telling his brother's story and answering questions with an emphasis on detail.
He explained why his brother went to Nicaragua after graduating from the University of Washington in 1983.
"He had a chemical engineering degree, and he wanted to help people and use his skills to give them control of their lives.
"He was sent to El Cua, (Nicaragua), and by May 1966 he had built a hydroelectric plant to give the people electricity for the first
"He was in the process of empowering the people, establishing a mechanical shop with a machine shop for operations and electronics training.
"Ben saw contra attacks. He saw children killed, an ambulance driver and nurse killed, teachers killed, and 11 construction workers killed."
Before his brother's death, El Cua had been under heavy contra attacks. Linder said his brother thought the contras were trying to prevent completion of the second hydroelectric plant he was working on.
He said the contras tried to prevent that kind of progress because they were unable to deal with the Nicaraguan army and
See LINDER, p. 7, col. 1
Darcy Chang/KANSAM
John Linder speaks about the destruction caused by contras in Nicaragua. Linder's brother, Benjamin, was the first U.S. citizen killed by the contras. Linder stopped Thursday at KU during his national "peace tour."
Walt Gunn, director of the Aerophobia Clinic, explains the cockpit instruments of a commercial jetliner to a participant in the clinic.
Clinic helps fliers manage fears
By STORMY WYLIE
Staff writer
Patty, a plump, pretty, blonde-haired woman in her late 20s, showed the signs of being absolutely petrified at the thought of flying.
As she sat down in a window seat, she pulled the seat belt tightly around her and clutched the armrests with a white-knuckled grip. Her face was drained of color, and she glanced at her husband often for reassurance
Except Patty wasn't really flying.
She was sitting in a simulator.
Patty, whose last name was withheld on request, was one of six people with a fear of flying who attended an aerobia clinic at the University of Kansas Medical Center last week.
The clinic, which is designed to help people learn to cope with the fear of flying, is conducted by Walt Gunn, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and director of the Med Center's aerophobia clinic. Gunn is also a retired Trans World Airlines pilot with 39 years of experience.
Gunn said more than 500 people have attended the clinics, which he has offered about once a month for the last three years. The two-session clinic costs $90 per person.
In the first session, Gunn explained why people were afraid to fly and suggested relaxation techniques to help his clients ease their fears.
The second session involved a trip to the TWA office in Kansas City, Mo., where clients sat in a simulator of a jet airplane's cockpit. This demystifies the client about the technical aspects of flying a jet plane, Gunn said.
His most recent clinic was on two Thursday evenings, June 18 and 25.
Aerophobia, or fear of flying, is a common problem among U.S. citizens, he said. He estimated that more than 25 million U.S. citizens suffered from it. For some, this means missing vacations or job opportunities.
For Patty, who is a public information officer for the state of Kansas, it means weeks of worrying and bad dreams before she flies.
"I went into the fetal position (on a flight) once, with my head in my husband's lap," she said last week during the trip to the simulators. "I thought, 'Oh God, they think I'm crazy!'"
When she does have to fly, she always asks for an aisle seat and never goes to the bathroom on the plane, she said.
Patty said she read about the aerophobia clinic in a Topeka newspaper. Her husband, Jim, came along to give her moral support, he said.
tors and usually walked up four flights of stairs to her office.
"Flying makes her crazy." Jim said. "She worries about it before, during and after the flight. I think this clinic will be good for her just so she knows she's not the only one."
Patty also suffers from claustrophobia, or fear of enclosed spaces. She said she avoided riding in eleva-
Bill, an older man who is in the investment business, wore a "Top Gun" hat to the clinic. When he飞sys, he goes to the bathroom to make deals with God. he said.
Hylan, a sales representative, also must fly a lot in his job, but said he hates every minute of it. Like Patty, he had he worried for days before a flight.
Neither Bill nor Hylen would agree to be identified by last names.
Gunn said people who suffer from aerophobia generally fit into one or more of four profiles, which are general anxiety, control problems, claustrophobia or separation anxiety.
People with general anxiety are usually nervous about many things,
See PHOBIA, p. 5, col. 1
Authors invited for reunion
Ginsberg and Burroughs will attend
By TIM HAMILTON Staff writer
In the first full week of September, Lawrence will host a gathering of some of the finest minds of the beat movement, a co-coordinator of the event said yesterday.
These and other renowned authors will be in Lawrence for the River City Reunion, an event sponsored by the department of English in conjunction with other campus and community groups.
George Wedge, associate professor of English and co-coordinator, said the famed beat poets and writers Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Anne Waldman, John Giorno, Andrei Codresu and Michael McClure were expected to attend and read their works.
The idea is to bring KU alumni beat authors, as well as nationally known authors, to Lawrence for a week of reminiscence, Wedge said.
"Among the people who are coming back will be Jim McCrary, who owns and operates his own press near San Fransisco, and Robert Day, author of 'The Last Cattle Drive.'
"There'll be music at various places around town. There also will be a beat film festival going on downtown with some films previously not shown in Lawrence."
James Grauerholz, coordinator of the Reunion's downtown activities, said the festival would focus on Jack Kerouac, perhaps the most famous member of the beat movement. Three films on Kerouac by Robert Frank would be included, he said.
The films are: "Pull My Daisy, which features Ginsberg and Burroughs; "This Song Is For You, Jack," a documentary of the 1982 Kerouac Conference at the Narpa Institute in Boulder, Colorado; and "Me and My Brother," which features Kerouac and Peter Orlovsky.
Liquor laws loosen up
By KEITH ROBISON
Staff writer
Liquor by the drink is here. in River City
Right here in River City.
Today, for the first time in more than 100 years, Kansas drinkers can belly up to a bar and legally order a drink without having to show a club card.
Also going into effect today are laws prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages to adults.
"I'll tell you one thing," Wallace said.
"They couldn't have raised the drinking age when I was going to school. They would have heard from the young people.
"I can't conceive of going to college and not being able to drink at 18." Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St. said. Wallace was chairman of the board of the now-defunct Kansas Club and Tavern Association.
However, John Gillem, training officer for the state division of Alcohol Beverage Control, said, "the voters of a county can apportion waiving the 30 percent food requirement."
According to the new law, only clubs that derive at least 30 percent of their incomes from food sales will not require memberships. All other clubs will remain as they have been, requiring drinking customers to be members.
Wallace said, "It's entirely possible that the 'Hawk will be gone pretty soon. If we can't turn into a club, there's no way we can stay in business," he said. "We'll really be missing a piece of history."
"We would have burned the statehouse or kidnapped the governor or whatever it took."
Also affected by the legislation are the hours a club can sell alcohol.
Drinking establishments can sell liquor from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. Before the new law went
into effect, a private club could sell alcohol until 3 a.m.
Gillem said that although some drinking establishments would be able to serve liquor on Sundays, grocery stores would not be able to sell beer on Sundays.
"The law is meant for on-the-premises consumption, not for carrov." he said.
Temporary liquor licenses can be obtained for $2 a day, with a three-day limit. A person is allowed these permits only four times each year.
Wallace and Gillem both disapproved of temporary permits.
The old law didn't allow the issuance of temporary liquor licenses.
"The fraternity possibility is an extreme limit to the law. It isn't likely at all. If liquor laws are continually violated, we have the musterize and padlock the premises." Gillem said.
The new law also allows caterers to serve alcohol and allows the issuance of temporary liquor licenses.
"There's nothing in the law that says fraternity row can't set up a string of bars every night of the week," Wallace said.
Gillem said he didn't think that would become a reality.
Enforcing the law as it applies to temporary licenses would not be easy, Gillem said.
"This will be a headache for us and a headache for local law enforcement officers," he said.
A caterer's license allows a caterer to go anywhere in a county that voted for the liquor-by-the-drink law. The caterer does not have to be based in that county to operate there.
See LIQUOR, p. 5, col. 1
Liquor Laws at a glance
Licensed restaurants can sell alcoholic drinks to anyone 21 or older. These restaurants are permitted to operate from 9 a.m. until 2 a.m. 7 days a week.
Taverns and grocery stores will continue to sell 3.2 beer. The hours of operation for these businesses have not been changed. Only those 21 or older are permitted to buy alcoholic beverages of any kind.
An establishment which does less than 30 percent of its business in food must continue to operate as a club and must require memberships. These clubs may share reciprocal agreements with other such businesses.
Caterers can obtain a license to sell liquor by the drink at unlicensed locations such as private parties.
Liquor may be sold at special events such as parties if a special permit has been obtained from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division in Topeka. The permit is good for up to three days. An individual may obtain four such licenses each year.
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CONNIE SHERIDAN / Kansan Graphic
Staff writer
Local S. Koreans doubt reform will affect nation
Bv CARLA PATINO
Three Lawrence residents born in South Korea said yesterday that no matter what South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan said, they still doubted he would agree to a direct presidential election.
See related story p.2.
Ji-Young Jeong, Seoul graduate student, said, "We don't believe what the government saves anwmore."
Today, Chun is expected to agree to implement reforms, including a direct presidential election, demanded by the chairman of the ruling South Korean Democratic Justice Party. Rob Tae Woo
But Jeong said he didn't see much difference between Roh and Chun.
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"Both Roh and Chun were educated and have worked together for a long time," he said. "They are basically in the same category."
Young Chung, Seoul graduate student, also said he was sketical.
He said that only students were able to criticize the government, because they didn't have jobs to lose.
Chung said he thought most Korean people were politically apathetic because they'd never had an opportunity to voice their opinions.
“President Chun had to accept the suggestions of Roh, otherwise the situation would be worse,” said. “I don't expect big changes, but I hope the situation would improve.”
"Companies are restricted by the government, and employees are controlled by the companies," Chung said.
"It is not a problem strictly for students. It affects all the Korean people," she said.
"It is easier to get involved if you are student and don't have a family to think about."
But Yong-Cha Jenerette, Lawrence resident who grew up in Pusan, South Korea, said all South Koreans should join the demonstrations.
Jenerette said she was concerned about the safety of her mother and brothers, who live in Pusan.
"It talked to my mother two weeks ago, and she told me that she was afraid to walk out of the door," Jenerette said. "It looks like a constant demonstration was going on."
The latest wave of demonstrations broke out three weeks ago to protest the selection of Roh as Chun's presidential nominee.
Chun seized power in 1980, one year after the assassination of President Park Chung Hee.
Cameron Hurst, director of the Center for East Asian Studies and professor of history, said, "There has not been an equivalent amount of political and economic development. The economical development has been enormous since the mid-1970s, but the political situation has remained static."