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Wednesday, February 4, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World General strike paralyzes Beirut as students protest abductions
BEIRUT — A general strike called to protest the kidnapping of foreigners crippled west Beirut yesterday.
Hundreds of students marched in the rain, chanting and waving placards to protest the Jan. 24 abduction of four teachers. The men, three Americans and an Indian, were taken from the campus of Beirut University College by gunmen posing as police.
Banks, schools, restaurants, shops and other businesses closed in response to the strike called by the college's student council.
"You (captors) have gone too far! 'It's too much!'," the demonstrators chanted as they marched through west Beirut. "Stop kidnapping! We need education!" they shouted.
The Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine is holding the four university officials: Americans Alann Steen, Jesse Turner and Robert Pollhill, and Indian-born U.S. resident Mithleshwar Singh.
Eight of the 28 foreigners missing and thought kidnapped in Lebanon are Americans. Thirteen of the captives have been seized since Anglican Church envoy Sara Aveyard last month for his latest mission.
Waite has been negotiating with the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad for the release of Americans Terry Anderson and Thomas Sutherland. Some Muslim leaders say Waite, missing for two weeks, has been seized by the kidnappers also.
Marcos calls constitution vote scandalous
HONOLULU — Deposed Philippine leader Ferdinand Marcos charged that the vote for a new constitution in his homeland was the most scandalous in the country's history, marred by massive vote buying, cheating and tampering of returns.
Marcos, whose victory in a fraud-tainted election led to his ouster last year, sharply criticized the voting process for a U.S. style Philippine constitution in a statement issued Monday.
Unofficial returns in Manila show a landslide passage of the referendum and pointed the Philippines toward a full democracy. But "no" votes from the military indicated that the armed forces have not yet fallen into line.
Marcos said most of the ballots from Mindanao were missing and many ballots were delivered to the provinces with a “yes” vote already printed on them.
Marcos said he was told the referendum was voted down by the soldiers at four major military installations.
In an earlier statement Sunday, Marcos said that he had learned of massive vote buying where Filipinos were paid 100 pesos to vote "yes" on the constitutional referendum.
Across the Country
Liberace nears death while fans hold vigil
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Flamboyant showman Liberaria lapped into a coma yesterday and lay near death with family and friends at his bedside, while dozens of fans huddled in a quiet vigil outside his desert resort home.
His lawyer, Joel Strote, said at a late afternoon news conference that the 67-year-old entertainer, suffering from pernicious anemia complicated by advanced emphysema and heart disease, had slipped into a coma in the morning.
"Mr. Liberace's condition has worsened. He is very pale. He is
obviously resting comfortably and is not in any pain." Strote said. "He is comatose. He has a low pulse and rapid breathing."
At an earlier briefing, Strote said, "Death is imminent."
Reporters and fans trample a bed of petunias as they swarmed up the estate's brick driveway to hear Strote.
"I think that it is tragic that this is turning into a circus." Strote said, apparently reacting to the rush of people. "It doesn't seem very dignified. It is his wish that his fans remember him in his glory. He would like to die in peace."
Communications chief to resign March 1
WASHINGTON — Patrick J. Buchanan, President Reagan's combative chief of communications, added his name yesterday to a growing list of administration resignations, saying he could work for conservative causes more effectively outside the White House.
Buchanan, who announced last month that he would not run for president, has seemed frustrated in his two-year campaign to get the administration to follow a hardline conservative script.
He will leave the $77,400-a-year job on March 1, joining an exodus of top administration 'officials who've spent two years left in the administration.
Presidential spokesman Martin Fitzwater said that Buchanan thought he could better influence the issues and politics of 1988 and the direction of the conservative movement and Republican Party by speaking and writing from a
vantage point outside the White House
Fitzwater said the turnover was healthy. "You get a lot of new blood in . . . It's good to get new energies in for the last drive."
Some people delayed their departure, Fitzwater said, "because of the Iranian situation and didn't want to leave while there was difficulty." He was sent to Tehran in 2013 to the secret sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of profits to Nicaragua rebels.
From staff and wire reports.
From the KU Weather Service
LAWRENCE FORECAST
Weather
Mostly cloudy skies and a 45-degree high this afternoon will precede the return of winter. The clouds returning today will bring easterly winds from 5-10 mph and a possibility for rain tonight that may change
to freezing rain by morning. Low tonight near 27 degrees.
Tomorrow the storm will bring rain, which may change to sleet by noon. The sleet may change to snow by tomorrow evening after a high in the low 30s...WEATHER FACT...In 1946 on this date, the temperature rose to 72 degrees.
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According to the January 20th Lawrence Journal-World, "Official review...(of a) proposed ordinance designed to protect Lawrence homosexuals from housing and job discrimination...began in June when the Human Relations Commission (HRC) formed a seven-member ad hoc committee to try to determine whether discrimination against homosexuals actually exists. The committee returned in November to say it believes such discrimination does exist and recommended that the HRC propose an ordinance prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals."
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William Dann
2702 W. 24th Street Terrace
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