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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
March 21,1988
Vol. 98, No. 116 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
U.S. says troops won't fight
The Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — U.S. soldiers practiced military maneuvers yesterday on a Honduran airstrip 21 miles from the Nicaraguan border, but U.S. officials said the threat from Sandinista troops had subsided and combat appeared unlikely.
"These guys are not going to get involved in any sort of conflict," said Maj. Gary Hovatter, spokesman for U.S. troops here.
Nicaragua formally protested a Honduran bombing raid on Sandinista positions Saturday as an unwarranted act of aggression. It denied that its troops crossed the jungle-choked border dividing the nations.
U. S. officials in Washington said the Sandinistas appeared to be drawing back from the Honduran border and predicted that the training exercises involving 3,200 U.S. troops soon would end.
A U.S. House of Representatives delegation viewed a military exercise involving U.S. infantrymen and Honduran soldiers at Jamastran, a dirt airstrip about 55 miles southeast of here and about 20 miles from the border.
The exercise was held about 80 miles south of the Bocay border region, where Honduran fighters on Saturday dropped bombs on Sandinista positions.
Honduran officials said the raid was carried out because about 600 Sandinistas troops were moving too slowly from the disputed Bocac, Nicaragua, area, which Honduras considers its territory. Two Honduran jet fighters carried out a similar raid Thursday'.
No one was hurt in either raid and no damage was reported in Satur-
Nicaraguan Foreign Minister
Miguel D'Escoto sent a protest note to Honduran Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez, saying his government energetically and formally protested Saturday's attack, which it called aggression against Nicaraguan territory.
The 600 Sandinistas were part of a force estimated at 2,000 that was believed to have entered Honduran territory last week in pursuit of the U.S.-backed contras.
The action prompted President Reagan to send in U.S. troops to noncombat areas for military exercises in a show of force to the Marxist regime.
In Washington, national security adviser Lt. Gen. Colin Powell said that the fighting between Nicaragua and Honduras was essentially over.
Powell who appeared on ABC's "Tribune" said the U.S. military exercises
should be completed shortly and the troops will return to the United States.
"The Sandinistas have withdrawn. They're apparently on their side of the border again. They appear to be drawing or having withdrawn," he said.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has denied that the Sandinistas were in Honduran territory.
Yesterday, Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco said that reports that Sandinista troops remained inside Honduras territory was a ruse by the Reagan administration to obtain more money for the contras.
Tincoo also said that today's firstever direct talks with contrasts inside Nicaragua would focus on the mechanics of a cease-fire. The contras want the talks to include political issues.
Cease-fire planned in Nicaraguaun war
The Associated Press
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The Sandinista government yesterday protested attacks on Sandinista targets by Honduran forces and prepared for its first direct ceasefire talks with contras.
Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, the mediator in previous talks and an observer to today's discussions, expressed a hint of pessimism about their outcome.
"I see the situation as quite complicated," he said during his homily yesterday. "It is very difficult to find all the things that are completely opposite."
The negotiations were scheduled for the southern border post of Sapoa, 90 miles south of the capital near the Costa Rican border.
The Honduran bombings Thursday and Saturday along the isolated northern border were meant to retaliate for an alleged Sandinista troop incursion last week into Honduras to chase contras, officials said. They reported no casualties in the air attacks.
The rebels have been fighting the government since November 1981 in a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people. The cease-fire talks are part of a regional peace plan signed in August by the presidents of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica. The pact calls for amnesty, democratic reforms and an end to support for insurgencies.
Protesters plan to oust Noriega Leaders urge strikes today
The Associated Press
PANAMA CITY, Panama — Opposition leaders urged Panamanians to observe a nationwide strike today in hopes of paralyzing the country and providing the final push to oust Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega.
The indefinite work stoppage was called after Noriega rejected a U.S. plan for his removal as "unacceptable, illogical and anti-Panamanian." Noriega is the commander of the Defense Forces and controls the civilian government.
Norigia reportedly told William Walker, a U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state, that he wanted to remain in Panama and take part in the formation of a transitional government.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz, appearing yesterday on NBC's "Meet the Press," said Noriega "can't expect to have any say in the transition."
Aurelio Barria, leader of an opposition coalition that called for today's strike, also opposed Noriega's desire to unblocking in role in Panama's government.
Shrutz added, "He can't expect any indictments to be quashed," referring to drug trafficking in Mexico against Nortega. "It's out of the question."
ate with him except his departure, the day and the flight number," Barria said.
"We don't have anything to negoti-
Shultz also said Noriega "should settle quickly before the opportunity that's there before him to go to Spain should disappear."
Referring to that comment, Barria said he understood the U.S. proposal encouraging Noriega to leave had a time limit of only a few days.
Barria, who is president of the Panamanian Chamber of Commerce, said he had heard of meetings within the Defense Forces to discuss Noriage's future. He predicted reaction this week, although he said he did not know at what level those meetings were being conducted.
But Maj. Augusto Villalaz, who had been one of Noriage's personal pilots before defecting last week, said Norrie's assault and Cuban arms to keep him in power.
Villalazar yesterday said on ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley" that he had flown three shipments of arms to Panama from Cuba and that Noriage planned to import 500,000 pounds of weapons.
Spain's prime minister, Felipe Gonzalez, reiterated Saturday his country's willingness to offer Noriega asylum.
Controlled burn
Louie McElhaney, Lawrence resident, works to control the burning of his field on Leary Road. He took advantage of yesterday's warm weather to clear the land of sage brome grass. Although McElhaney
Language helps professor learn culture
Kansan staff writer
Bv Brenda Finnell
Growing up in Richmond, Va., Bryant Freeman focused his mind's eye on the world through miniature travel posters.
He collected stamps.
He remembers the exotic ones his uncle sent him from Africa, Asia and India.
And for Freeman, a professor of French and Haitian Creole at at the University of Kansas, this understanding was enhanced by knowing foreign languages. He learned to speak French and English enough German and Spanish to order a meal or get a hotel room when he was traveling.
"It itt because you want to become a fake Frenchman, or a fake Haitian, or a fake German or a fake Spaniard that you study these various languages," he said. "It's to have another way of looking at life and the
As he grew older, Freeman began to travel. His passport became not just a permit to enter other countries but also a ticket to understanding the world.
Teacher says he feels bond with Haiti, uses writing abilities to help its people
was conducting a controlled burn, Lawrence Fire Chief Jim McSwain discouraged others from burning. "Any time it is this dry, it is best, if at all possible, to eliminate outside burning." he said.
world, another way of looking at reality."
It was this fascination with languages that inspired him establish the Haitian Creole program at KU. Through teaching, writing and lecturing, Freeman has been able to demonstrate his vision of the world and his love for exploring other cultures.
Freeman's view of the world has been influenced by years of travel. He has visited more than 60 countries. He has spent 25 summers in France and was a Fulbright Scholar from 1959 to 1961.
But of all the places Freeman has been, he feels a special closeness to HER.
from Miami. At a recent University Forum lecture, he said he never felt more alive than when he was in Haiti
The lure of Haiti
"Haiti is as though you put France and Africa together on a raft and set them adrift for over a century with no outside influence," he said. "The result is something which is certainly not good and it has made it too important. It is totally unique. This is one of the reasons Haiti captivates so many people."
Although Freeman has been visiting there since 1958, about two or three times a year the past 10 years, the country still surprises him.
His office door is covered with postcards from Haiti. His eyes light up when he speaks of the country that is one hour and 40 minutes by plane
"If you go to the Caribbean and simply want a beautiful beach and a palm tree and a nice Howard John Place, it's not your place" he said smiling.
A desire to visit the French-speaking areas on this side of the Atlantic Ocean first led Freeman to visit Haiti 30 years ago. What attracts Freeman
to the country now is its generous, open people.
"They just ask for a chance to lead a successful life," said Freeman. "But the conditions of the country have always been awful."
Freeman has made his own efforts to improve those conditions.
While his teaching colleagues were grading tests or lecturing to students last year, Freeman spent three months studying Haitian medical practices. He left Haiti with plans to write a medical manual to help U.S. doctors who work in Haiti.
The book contains a glossary of medical terms, common doctor-patient questions and answers, and an anthropological section dealing with medical beliefs of Haitian peasants.
Problems often develop when American doctors and their Haitian patients try to discuss medical problems, Freeman said. Medical terms don't always have direct translations.
"How do you say morning sickness?" Freeman said. "How do you say ingrown toenail?"
See FREEMAN, p. 6, col. 1
Kansas House approves $1 million fee-release bill
By lill less
Kansan staff writer
The Kansas House of Representatives approved a fee-release bill Friday that would return about $1 million to four Regents schools because of enrollment increases.
House passes Regents budget p. 3.
About half of that money would go to the University of Kansas.
State universities give all the money they receive from tuition fees to the state, and the Legislature then determines the budgets for the universities.
This year, KU, Kansas State University, Emporia State University and Wichita State University told the Legislature that they had had higher enrollments than had been expected. Because of this, they said, the needed the money generated by additional tuition to pay for added expenses.
KU's official spring enrollment was 24.817 at the Lawrence campus,
an increase of 472 from spring 1987. That figure includes students attending classes at Lawrence and in off-campus locations, such as the Regents Center in Overland Park.
The bill represented the 75 percent recommended by Gov Mike Harden.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said the release would increase the total base budgets of the universities about $1 million.
The bill will now go to the state Senate. This will be the first time this session that the Senate has discussed the Regents budgets.
Under the bill, the universities would receive:
KU: $406,382.
K State: $304,910.
Emporia State. $123,205.
Wichita State. $109,098.
In addition, Fort Hays State University would receive an extra $65,330 because it had a lower enrollment than expected and thus collected fewer fees.
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
Kansans chose Dukakis; Jackson wins Douglas County
Bv lill less
Kansan staff writer
Two KU students were chosen as a delegate and an alternate to the Democratic state convention at the Douglas County caucus Saturday which were won by John Dabbs (Jhiel Dabbs) with 65%
January Layman, Shawne sophomore, will represent Dukakis as a delegate, and Joe Orrick, Prairie Village sophomore and president of the KU Democrats, will serve as an alternate delegate for Dukakis in Topeka April 23.
Orrick said yesterday that not many students participated in the caucus because of
Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis won the most delegates statewide.
spring break. KU Democrats had done a little work to get students to participate, Orrick said, including a session by state Democratic party leaders who explained the caucus process.
m Douglas County, Jackson captured 17 of the 26 delegates and alternates while DukeAkins received nine. Sen. Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee, Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri and Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois all failed to encourage enough supporters to get any delegates.
Of the 525 registered voters who participated in the first grouping at the caucus, 314 supported Jackson and 114 supported Dukakis. In addition, 42 favored Simon, 28 favored
Gore, 26 were uncommitted and 1 was for Gephardt.
After regrouping, Jackson had 335 supporters and Dukakis had 166. The remaining 24 voters chose not to participate in the second grooming.
The caucus began at noon Saturday in the Lawrence High School auditorium with voter registration and campaigning. Supporters of Jackson, Dukakis and Gore filtered through the crowd, waving signs and passing out campaign filters. As the 2 p.m. deadline for choosing a candidate section approached, supporters lined the entrances, urging late-night voters.
orders to join the group. The auditorium was divided by candidate
Orrick said that that Jackson supporters' large turnout probably was the result of
Supporters in each section were counted, and a candidate had to have at least 15 percent of the supporters in his section to receive delegates. After the first count, supporters in sections lacking 15 percent of the crowd were allowed to regroup and join another candidate's supporters.
and supporters were to sit in the areas designated for their candidate. About 1:30 p.m., the south side of the auditorium was full of Jackson supporters and about another six rows in the center section of the auditorium had to be redesignated as Jackson seats.
better organization than the Dukakis group.
But Barry Shalinsky, head of the Douglas County Jackson campaign, said that his group was not necessarily better organized, but that its members were just excited about winning.
"I see it as a reaction against the same old business-as-usual politics," he said.
Jackson, Dukakis and Gore all campaigned in Kansas last week. Across the state Saturday, Dukakis came in first, followed by Jackson second and Gore third.
Democrats held 117 local caucuses in the state Saturday, electing 768 delegates to congressional district conventions April 23