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United States asks Iran for release of journalist
From Kansan wires
The United States asked Iran yesterday to release a Wall Street Journal correspondent and KU graduate who was detained after visiting Iran with a group of foreign reporters at the invitation of the Teheran government.
There was no immediate explanation from Iran for the detention of Gerald F. Seib, a Middle East correspondent based in Cairo, Egypt.
Seib, 30, is a Hays native and a 1978 graduate of the University of Kansas. He has worked for the Journal for eight years.
He and his wife. Barbara Rosewell, also a 1978 KU graduate, have been Journal correspondents in Cairo since 1965
At the State Department, spokesman Charles Redman said Iran was continuing to prevent Seib from leaving the country.
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency said Saturday, the day Seib was taken into custody outside his Teheran hotel, that somebody posing as a journalist had been arrested and was accused of spying. The reports did not identify the accused spy.
A spokesman for the Journal, Jim Fusilli, said yesterday, "Nobody, I mean nobody, is saying that Jerry is the guy the Iranians charged."
"The Swiss Embassy, our protecting power in Iran, is protesting Mr. Seib's detention and demanding that he be released." Redman said "His continued detention is unwarranted."
Meanwhile, at their Hays home,
Seib's parents, Richard and Annette
Seib, last night anxiously were awaiting any specific news about their son.
They learned of their son's detention in a Saturday night telephone call from Rosewicz.
The Seibs spoke again yesterday afternoon with Rosewicz, who is in Cairo.
"I'm amazed." Richard Seib said. "She appears to be confident and upbeat about it."
Richard Seib said Rosewicz had spoken Thursday with her husband, who was in Teheran. Seib told his wife, Caroline, that he had with his passport, Richard Seib said.
After meeting yesterday in Washington, D.C., with Secretary of State George Shultz, Journal chairman Warren Phillips told reporters, "We are working through many diplomatic channels. Iran and Iraq have a strong unity to the government of Iran that this is a well-respected American reporter who has been seized without any cause at all."
"He has not been seized by some mysterious, elusive band of terrorists but by the government of Iran that had invited him personally and by name, in the company of more than 50 other journalists. We believe a dreadful mistake has been made."
He said that Seib had not been charged by the government of Iran, and said. "He is being held by a police agency of the government of Iran."
Seib was among more than 50 U.S. and other foreign journalists invited to Iran by the government to visit the battlefront of Iran's $6^{th}$-year-old war with Iraq.
After Iraqi jets attempted to bomb Teheran on Thursday, the government ordered the journalists to leave by Saturday.
Washington Post reporter Loren Jenkins said Seib had been one of several British and U.S. correspondents who sought to have their
On Wednesday, their passports were sent to the Iranian Immigration Department for action. All but Seib's were returned Thursday. Jenkins
That night, Seib received a series of telephone calls from a man who identified himself as "Mr. Jalala" of the Immigration Department, telling him there was a problem and that he would visit Seib at his hotel.
Jalala never appeared and the Iranian Immigration Department later denied anyone by that name worked there.
"This alarmed Iranians familiar with the situation because it indicated that the case had moved beyond the Immigration Department and probably into the hands of Iran's insurgent police, the Sevama." Jenkins reports.
On Friday, Seib contacted the Swiss Embassy, and a Swiss diplomat accompanied him to Iran's Immigration Department. After two hours, the diplomat took Seib to the embassy for protection.
Seib and the Swiss diplomat later were detained by plainclothes police outside Seib's hotel while trying to get clothes from Seib's hotel. The diplomat later was released, but Seib remained in custody.
Kansan report Paul Belden contributed information to this story
Director says investigators refute student's complaints
Staff writers
By PAUL SCHRAG and JOHN BUZBEE
Investigations into a student's complaints about food service at McCollon Hall showed the allegations were unfounded, Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said yesterday.
But the student, who had worked in the McCollum cafeteria since August before being placed on an involuntary leave of absence Jan. 29, said he wasn't satisfied with the investigations' findings.
Garry Adam, Salina sophomore, has charged since last semester that mismanagement, excessive food waste and theft at McCollum have cost the University of Kansas hundreds of thousands of dollars this year.
"That's not possible." Stoner said. "I'm proud of the job that our food service people do. KU students get a good value for their dollar."
Adam said he felt a responsibility to KU students to report what he saw.
'Sometimes there's a price to be
paid for separating oneself from a large crowd of passive, uncaring individuals and saying, 'No, I don't agree with what's going on,'" he said.
Stoner said Adam's allegations about food contamination, theft by student employees and mismanagement and harassment by McColum food service managers all had been investigated. In each case, the investigators concluded that Adam's charges were unfounded.
Stoner said food services and student housing personnel had taken Adam's complaints seriously. He said that he was in the field of findings of the three investigations.
The student housing office responded to Adam's complaints by starting three investigations, each conducted by an agency outside the housing department. Stoner said.
Student Health Services conducted an unannounced inspection Jan. 20 and 21 of the McCollum cafeteria to
Adam presented his complaints to food service and student housing of
The cafeteria received a "very acceptable evaluation," Stoner wrote in a letter to Adam dated yesterday.
investigate Adam's charges that food was being served in unsanitary conditions.
The University's personnel services department has completed its investigation into Adam's allegations of mismanagement and harassment by two of his McCollum food service supervisors. Stoner said.
KU police in late January investigated Adam's allegations that student cateraferia workers were stealing large quantities of food. The fund insufficient evidence to file criminal charges. Stoner wrote in the letter.
Adam had charged that the two had physically and verbally harassed him last semester. Adam said there were witnesses to the harassment episodes.
Personnel services found no cause to recommend any disciplinary action. Stoner said.
See FOOD, p. 6, col. 2
Juggling Jones
Gareth Waltrip/KANSAN
Mikey Jones, Angeles City, Philippines, senior, practices his hand—eye coordination as John Schneider, the "Tan Man," looks on. Jones and Schneider basked in the sun east of Wesco Hall yesterday. Yesterday's high was 66 degrees, the National Weather Service in Topeka said.
KU student closer to realizing dream of flying F-16 fighters
Staff writer
By IOSEPH REBELLO
For Joseph Katuzienski, flying an F-16 fighter jet in the skies over Western Europe in defense of the free world is still a dream, but today he is one step closer to seeing it come true.
Recently, Katuzienki, Lenexa senior and a cadet colonel with KU's Air Force ROTC, finished second in a national search for men and women who will train to be fighter pilots at the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas.
Almost 200 cadets from 152 ROTC units across the country applied for admission to the program, said John Heidrick, assistant professor of aerospace engineering and an ROTC instructor. Students from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs,
and various officer training schools also applied.
"I'm in awe," Katuzienski said. "I'm the kid that grew up dreaming of these things. And now it's actually me." He pointed to his gun school everyone wants to go to.
Katuzienski, who will earn an aerospace engineering degree in the spring, will begin his 55-week training program later this year. He will spend more than 60 hours with about 180 U.S. plots and 74 pilots from 11 NATO nations.
Heidrick he wouldn't be surprised if Katziemis finished first in the tournament.
"I think the interesting thing about him is that he believes he doesn't really want to be number one." Heidrick said. "But he's just so competitive and so capable that he often
ends up there.
"The experience he will have will give him a big edge. If he can't make it, then Chuck Yeager shouldn't be where he's at."
Katuzienski said his goal was not be number one, but simply to do the best job he could. Eventually, he wants to be able to educate people about the need to keep up the country's defenses.
"If I could convert just one typical civilian on the street who is real anti-military, and make him realize why we have to defend the freedom of this country, that would be enough," he said.
Katuzienski said he planned to serve as a fighter pilot in Europe for a few years before becoming a flight
See AIR FORCE, p. 6, col. 2
Kidnappers threaten lives of hostages if U.S. forces make move into Lebanon
BEIRUT — Pro-Iranian kidnappers said yesterday they would kill U.S. citizens Terrry Anderson and Thomas Sutherland, who have been hostages since 1985, if the United States made a military attack on Lebanon.
Another group made the same threat last week against three U.S. teachers and an Indian faculty member taken from Beirut University College on Jan. 24. The adductors have said since, they will kill the four men unless Israel releases 400 prisoners by midnight Saturday.
Lebanon's justice minister said the kidnappers had "arrested" Terry Waite, the Church of England envoy. Waite left his Beirut hotel Jan. 20 to negotiate the freedom of two U.S. citizens and other foreign captives in Lebanon.
The official press of Syria, which supports pro-Iranian groups, has accused the U.S. of planning a military attack on Lebanon after 11 foreigners were kidnapped in 12
A typewritten statement in Arabic delivered to the office of a Western news agency Monday made the death threat against Anderson and Sutherland in the name of the Shite Muslim group, Islamic Jihad. Accompanying it was a photograph of Anderson, 39, chief Middle East correspondent of The Associated Press.
days U.S. naval forces in the Mediterranean have been strengthened.
"Any military attempt against the Muslims in the region, particularly in Lebanon, will result in the death of the captives and America's interests in the region," the statement said. "Our answer will be cruel. We shall have no mercy."
Bill encounters few opponents
The black-and-white photograph showed Anderson with a moustache, wearing a dark striped shirt. He was looking at the camera and was not wearing his glasses.
Kansans may have pari-mutuel betting for the first time
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
"With so much money going to be made by so few individuals, you bet that there's going to be a fight," said State Rep. Robert H. Miller, R-Conway, chairman of the House Federa and State Affairs Committee.
TOPEKA — A House bill that would enact pari-mutuel betting in Kansas for the first time may have little opposition, but the debate among its proponents has just begun, a state representative said yesterday.
The committee heard testimony from dog-racing supporters yesterday and will hear from horse-racing supporters today.
The bill is the result of a voter-approved constitutional amendment allowing wagering on both horse and dog races in Kansas.
'It's the first time a state has tried to start both dog and horse racing at
Miller said after the committee hearing that dog racing had proved more profitable than horse racing in the state. He said the horse tracks out of business.
Miller said dog-track operators received a greater return in profit because it was cheaper to buy and care for dogs.
the same time," he said. "Some people say it's worth trying."
"Nebraska is a good example of where dog racing has driven horse races."
The Kansas Legislature is trying to help horse track operators by taxing horse and dog racing at the same rate. Miller said.
"The goal is to try to develop and maintain a broad and varied wagering industry in the state." Miller said.
Unlike state lotteries, which
However, some proponents of dog racing said it would be unfair to their business.
But Larry Erne, a lobbyist for Kansas Independent Greyhound Owners, said, "if it will help promote the growth of part-mutual betting in Kansas."
"It would be like subsidizing their tracks at the expense of ours," said Gordon Davis, owner of Kansas Kennel Inc. in Abilene and a raiser of Greythounds.
"We have already in place, the needed facilities to provide a quick boost to the state's economy." he said.
Miller's committee also heard testimony from Kansans for PariMutuel and the Greenwood County Fair Association.
unter said, "The real benefit to the state isn't the taxes, but all the people that will be raising horses and dogs and paying property taxes."
Wayne C. Chambers, president of the association, operates the state's oldest non-betting horse race track in Eureka. He said his track could provide an instant start for pari-mutual betting for both dog and horse racing.
"Most people have never seen dog racing, but we hope Kansans will have the unique opportunity to enjoy both horse and dog racing," he said.
sometimes are taxed more than 50 percent, race tracks normally are taxed between 3 and 5 percent because of their high operating costs. Miller said.
Davis said introducing dog racing to Kansas would be a very educational experience for the state, since most Kansans have never seen it.
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