THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday April 20,1988
Vol. 98, No. 138 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Hostages let go from Kuwaiti jet
The Associated Press
ALGIERS, Algeria — Moslem hijackers late yesterday freed their hostages from a Kuwaiti jet after saying that Algeria had offered a solution to the 15-day ordeal in which two people were killed and dozens terrorized.
An estimated 35 hostages had been on the plane.
Algeria's Interior Minister, Hedi Khediri, announcing the liberation, said the blue and white Boeing 747 would be returned to Kuwait.
Asked by reporters what would become of the hijackers, he replied only. "That is a question which regards Algeria."
Khedri said earlier, "A solution settling all the issues of the hijacking has just been reached." He refused to give any details of the agreement.
Two women wearing black veils, distant cousins of the emir of Kuwait, were the first off the plane. They entered a waiting white bus.
As they were driven to the airport
VIP lounge, they waved to a crowd of
journalists at the edge of the tarmac.
About 20 other hostages came off the bus carrying hand luggage and filed into the lounge. The men, unshamed, baggard and dazed, starred vacantly.
The shades on the airplanes' windows were raised for the first time since its arrival in Algiers, the third stop on its odyssey.
The hostages were held in grim conditions aboard the Kuwait Airways jet, which was commandered on a Bangkok-Kuwait flight and flown to Iran. Cyprus and Algeria long long days of tense negotiations.
The gunmen had demanded that Kuwait release 17 pro-Iranian terrorists convicted of the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies, which Kuwait had refused to do.
In a statement issued in Arabic at 11 p.m. EDT, the gunmen thanked Algeria for its help "in the case of the brothers in Kuwait and their help in other humanitarian and Moslem causes."
Percent of vote Number of delegates*
Dukakis 51% 164
Jackson 37% 88
Gore 10% 2
Number of delegates*
Bush 91
Kemp 4
Uncommitted 1
(99% of precincts reporting)
Republicans voted for convention delegates ONLY if they did not cast a ballot at the state Republican conventions. SOURCE: Unofficial results from the New York Democratic and Republican conventions.
Knight-Ridder Graphic
Dukakis wins primary New Yorkers pick Jackson second, Gore third
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Michael Dakuski swept to a convincing victory over Jesse Jackson in the New York primary yesterday and seized control of the turbulent race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Vice President George Bush won the Republican primary, with no serious opposition in New York or elsewhere. He told reporters he thought Dukakis was a "good bet" to go on and capture the Democratic nomination and said he was eager to oppose him and then opponent the Democats gave him.
"I love New York," the Massachusetts governors launched in a victory statement prepared for a hotel rally in midtown Manhattan. "Friends, if we can make it here, we can make it anywhere."
Sen. Albert Gore Jr. finished a weak third and seemed likely to quit the race tomorrow. He congratulated Dukakis and said the Democratic party was "going to be unified" for the fall campaign.
With 99 percent of the precincts
reporting, Dakukis led the Democrats with 51 percent of the vote. Jackson had 37 percent and Gore had 10 percent.
"I think we have a nominee," said Lynn Cutler, deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee. She said Dukakis now "has to be very careful not to look as though it's a done deal. . . . There is a tendency in the Democratic Party to slap the hand of the front-runner."
A Gore withdrawal would leave Jackson as the only candidate left in the race against Dukakis. New York offered Jackson an unusually high percentage of black voters that won't be available to him in the primaries during the six final weeks of the campaign season. Pennsylvania votes Tuesday, and Ohio and Indiana vote the Tuesday after.
New York was the biggest single-state primary night so far this year, offering 255 delegates. Victory brought Dukakis' national total to half the 2,082 needed to clinch nomination, and his aides expressed confidence that they could rally the run.
dreds of uncommitted party officials who will attend the convention to his side.
Dukakis led for 164 New York delegates and brought his national delegate total to 1.044. Jackson led for 88, bringing his total to 833.
New York offered 91 Republican delegates for Bush, who steadily increased his support to secure his nomination at the Republ can National Convention in August.
Tennessee Gov. Ned McWherter, a key Gore supporter, said he advised the senator to "gracefully get out" of the race, and Gore seemed ready to do just that. He congratulated Dukakis on a "super Tuesday" and said, "New York is a real marathon, and he beat us by a mile."
New Yorkers voted while Democratic senators met behind closed doors in the Capitol to select 43 delegates to the party's national convention. Dukakis won 13 pledges and outdueeed Gore, who gained six as well as his own. Jackson was shut
See DUKAKIS, p. 5, col. 4
rernando Oller, Costa Rica sophomore, practices his bowling form at the Kansas Union Jaybowl. Oller took advantage of reduced rates yesterday afternoon.
Let 'er roll
Decathlon and heptathlon will lead off 63rd Relays
Bv Keith Stroker
Kansan sportswriter
Today marks the 63rd time track teams from around the United States will display their skills at the Kansas Relays on the track of Memorial Stadium.
The Relays officially begin at 10 a.m. with the men's 100-meter dash in the Jim Bauch Decathlon. Completion will continue through Saturday.
The relays began in 1923 when Forrest Allen, legendary KU basketball coach; at the time, Schladerman, KU's track coach at Karl; and John Outland, one-time Kansas football coach, decided to start a track event comparable with the well-known Penn Relays.
Outland, known for his football contributions and his annual Outland Trophy, given to college football's outstanding interior lineman, is considered the "Father of the Kansas Relays."
Kansas men's track coach Bob Timmons is coaching in his 23rd and last Kansas Relays. He said the event had been a good one, but low
The first two days of events will be filled with the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon. The last two
days will have the finals of the other major events, including the men's invitational pole vault, the men's 10,000-meter run and the women's 400-meter hurdles.
The women's 400-meter hurdles will feature La Tanya Sheffield of the San Diego Club, whose enter-
1. a 26.35-metre jump.
2. a 41.41-second shy of the U.S. record.
Kansas will have three women in the heptathlon and two men in the decathlon beginning today. Senior Ann O'Connor is the favorite in the heptathlon, but the KU tri-captain will have plenty of healthy competition.
Kansas sophomore Kuthoefer and senior Andrea Schwartz are
expected to do well out of the field of 12. Schwartz thinks that O'Connor has the best chance of winning, although she said anything could happen.
The preliminary scores seem to be close, which will make it competitive." Schwartz said. "Being at home in a meet like this one should help give the Kansas competitors a slight edge."
In the men's decathlon, the rankings are not as close as the women's, but Kansas senior Craig Branstrom thinks he can win it. He is seeded fifth.
"Overall scores can be deceiving because high ones are not necessary to win sometimes," Branstrom said. "The decathlon takes a lot of patience to train for, and it is a grueling series of events. A lot of things can happen."
Kansas senior Jim Strafuss is the other KU decathlete. He expects to finish in the top six.
"I don't have any goals as far as points are concerned." Strauffs said. "I think it will be competitive on the level of each individual event, but not so much on the whole. There are a couple of guys that stand out."
Vitale says he'll scrub field house
The Associated Press
Television analyst Dick Vitalis said he would keep his promise and scrub the floor at Kansas Allen Field House when the Jayhawks began practice next fall.
Vitale, a basketball commentator for ESPN and ABC, had insisted during a Kansas telecast in late February that Coach Larry Brown would not be back with the Jayhawks next year. If Brown was back, Vitale said, he would scrub the team. After winning Jayhawks opened practice with their annual "L Night with Larry" session Oct. 15.
Vitale performed a similar stunt in 1987, promising to stand on his foot if Austin Peay beat Illinois in the NCAA tournament. He kept his promise and later spoke at the school's basketball banquet.
"I was there (at Kansas) during the Final Four, speaking before thousands of people." Vitale said. "They were teasing me, telling me Larry was coming back. It'll be what basketball is all about. It's not brain surgery. It's a good time."
Integrity hit with more campaign fines
By Jeff Moberg
Kansan staff writer
The review board fined the coalition $10 for campaign posters that did illicit harassment.
The Integrity coalition received an additional $85 in fines for campaign violations from the Student Senate Elections Review Board during its meeting in the Kansas Union last night.
The additional fines bring the total of the fines against the coalition for campaign violations to $210. If the fines are not paid by Monday, the coalition could lose the four seats it won in last week's elections.
group paying for them. According to Senate rules, all campaign posters must bear such a statement.
The coalition also was fined $75 for having a party that was not declared in their final audit of campaign expenses.
Jane Hutchinson, campaign manager for Top Priority, filed a complaint April 7 contending that the party should have been considered a campaign expense because beer was served to non-coalition members while campaign materials were present.
The party was at the home of Frank Partnoy and Brian Kramer, Integrity's presidential and vicepresidential candidates.
The review board decided that the party could have been used to entice non-coalition members to vote for Integrity and should have been declared on its audit.
"That is a campaign expense which they failed to audit," said Brian Short, chairman of the review board. "It requires that members of the coalition be removed from the election."
Partnoy could not be reached for comment. Kramer declined to comment.
Nick Franano, a former member of the Integrity coalition, said removing the coalition's winning senators would have been too harsh a penalty.
After deciding that removing the coalition's winning senators would be unnecessary, the review board decided on a fine.
The review board validated election results from the resident at large and liberal arts and sciences seats in the county's coalition's final campaign audits.
Med Center psychologist sees the other side of illness
By Stacy Foster
Kansan staff writer
While a nurse administered an IV, Matthew, a 5-year-old cancer patient lay in his hospital bed at the University of Kansas Medical Center, frightened of the plastic tubes and bottles hanging overhead.
Rapoff, a psychologist at the KU Med Center, often plays such games with his patients. He counsels children who have chronic diseases and families of those children by helping them with the emotional aspects of a disease and encouraging them to follow treatment procedures.
Chronic diseases are those that endure over a long period and require frequent hospitalization, such as leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis and cystic fibrosis. About 10 to 15 percent of children in the United States have some form of chronic illness. About 1 million children have a severe disease such as cystic fibrosis.
The doctor, Mike Rapoff, played a make-believe game of soccer with him to take his mind off the painful procedure.
Braffoot said that one of the main problems with children and chronic diseases was
getting children to comply with their medica regimens..
"Children don't like to take medicine," Rapoff said. "I remind parents that a child with a chronic illness is still a child, so a 2-year-old is still going to do what a 2-year-old does. You treat them like you would any child."
Rapoff said that for too long, the image of dealing with children who have chronic diseases has been on the negative side. People often see it as a depressing and hopeless job.
"I think we need to look at the more healthy side," Rapoff said. "These children are more healthy, they live longer. Their futures are much brighter."
Because of new drug discoveries and technological developments, children today are much better off compared with children 10 to 15 years ago. Ranoff said.
Rapoff doesn't see it that way.
Rapoff came from a family of six in which children were always around. He said it was hard for him to remember.
Success stories
children.
Seeing children beat the odds is Rapoff's inspiration for a job that can have just as much emotional trauma for the physician as for the patient.
"I'm amazed at how well these children cope," Rapoff said. "I look at them and think how difficult it must be. If they can take it, I certainly can."
Leonie Adams, a high school sophomore in Kansas City, Kan., is one of Rapoff's patients who has defied the odds of cystic fibrosis, an disease that affects the respiratory system.
Rapoff remembered the first time Adams sat in his office.
She came to his office at the age of 5, when she was first diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Doctors did not expect Adams to see her 10th birthday. This month, she will turn 16.
"Leonie was a pretty strong-willed 5-year-old, as I recall," Rapoff said. "She was 5 going on 18. She was so strong-willed that she manneled that in appropriate directions."
See RAPOFF, p. 8, col. 1
nine Swatkowski/KANSAN
Psychologist Mike Rapoff and Leonie Adams, a cystic fibrosis patient, share one of many good times that the two have had together.