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Monday, November 15, 1978
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From the Associated Press
Syrians move into Beirut
BEIRUT—Syrian troops and tanks moved into the heart of Beirut at dawn today as machine-gun and artillery fire and rocket explosions shook the city.
The firing had continued all night, and the Syrians didn't appear to be the target. People lined the sidewalks cheering the peace-keepers on. A man climbed onto a jeep, kissed two young Syrian soldiers and plastered a poster on the jeep's front that said "Welcome to the envoys of peace in Lebanese soil."
One report said leftist Moslem and right-wing Christian militiamen were getting off final exchanges before abandoning their mid-city positions to the Syrians.
Ford vacation ending
PALM SPRINGS, Calif.—President Gerald Ford said yesterday that he was relaxed and was four pounds slimmer after a week's vacation that included daily swimming and golfing here.
Ford skipped church yesterday and got in a final round of golf at La Quinta Country Club on his last day in this desert resort.
Ford leaves today for Washington. He will resume his Oval Office routine in the White House tomorrow, giving budget matters top priority.
Soviet plane shipped home
HITACHI, Japan—A Soviet MIG25, once considered a super-secret jet fighter,
begins its journey home aboard a Russian freighter today.
begin its journey into the United States. Seventy days ago, the pilot of the supersonic craft, L.I. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko, made a surprise landing in northern Japan and asked for asylum in the United States.
His request was quickly granted and Japanese and U.S. Air Force experts made a thorough study of the plane, including disarming parts of it.
Dole: Economy hurt GOP
MIAMI—Public concern about the economy cost President Gerald Ford, the election, his running mate, Sen. Robert Dole, said yesterday as he returned from a post election vacation in South America.
post election electoral campaign in a situation "the Economy—when you boil it all down, that was the issue that turned it—the unemployment," Dole said. "The Democrats exploited those issues, as they should have."
Those issues brought high numbers of blacks and labor union members to vote for Jimmy Carter, Dole said as he prepared for a short stay in Florida.
Sorority exchange chance to see others' lifestyles
An exchange program this week among KU's 12 sororites will allow 24 women to get a first-hand look at life in other sororites. The program, called community will live in another house for the week.
The exchange program, which began last year, now includes two, rather than one, exchanges a year, and two women, rather than one, from each sorority.
Panhelenic college affairs chairman, said the program gave women the opportunity to experience living in other houses and realize their similarities.
Maribeth Olson, Salina senior and
"After the exchange week, the women realize there are all kinds of people in the houses," she said. "Whether they have an excellent time or a bad time depends on the attitude of the individual and the house they visit."
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)—Convicted murderer Gary Mark Gilmore wanted to die before a firing squad at 8 a.m. today. He now awaits a Board of Pardons meeting Wednesday where he will again ask for an early death.
Lawyers who oppose the execution because legal questions still exist said yesterday that future legal efforts would depend on the pardon board's decision.
V. Jinks Dabney, attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, (ACLU) said representatives from ACLU would attend the Wednesday hearing. The ACLU opposes death sentences as cruel and unusual punishment.
Pardon board to debate murderer's death wish
Robert Van Scliver, who represents other death row inmates, said he wouldn't attend the hearing. Van Scliver earlier asked for recognition as a friend of the court on the grounds that Glimore's execution could influence his client's appeals.
THE EXECUTION of Gilmore, convicted of killing a moteel clerk, was stayed last week by Gov. Calvin Rampton pending a review by the pardons board.
Dennis Bozx, Glimmore's attorney, has asked that the stay of execution be lifted so Glimmore could avoid the "lingering death" of waiting.
Boaz said Gilmore should be released
because the state's failure to execute him left him imprisoned without a legal sentence. Boe said last week that he might give a motion in federal court for the release.
because of crowded conditions. However on Saturday, Warden Samuel Smith accused Boas of violating prison rules by allowing a call to London Daily Express reporter.
Gilmore, 35, was reported in the Saturday London Daily Express as saying he wanted to marry his girlfriend, Nicole Barlett, in a ceremony on death row. Boz confirmed that Gilmore had mentioned the idea. Boz said, however, that Gilmore hadn't asked prison officials whether a wedding could take place.
Mrs. Barrett is in her 20s, a divorcee and a mother of two.
Prison of officials said the request would be considered if made.
"MR. BOAZ was in a room with Glmore and assumed a non-attorney function of placing a call or providing a call with Glmore to this London paper," Smith said.
Prison authorities said Bao Wen was taken away from the prison yesterday until the morning of Monday.
Smith must approve *immale marriages*. He said he has "no feelings whatsoever" on the request, but added, "I see no value in such a thing."
Boaz acknowledged that he was paid $250 for arranging the interview. Boaz first introduced himself to Glmore as a freelance writer and later became his lawyer, when Glmore fired the court-appointed attorneys who appealed his case.
Blacks to be allowed to join Plains church
PLAINS, GA. (AP)—The members of president-elect Jimmy Carter's Plains Baptist Church voted yesterday to end a membership, a move long backed by Carter.
Carter, leaving the church, stood in the rain and said, "I was proud of my church."
The Rev. Clem mon King, a black minister from Albany, Ga., said, "The sun is shinning on the earth."
The Rev. Mr. King stirred the controversy about the Plains Baptist Church's racial policy several weeks ago when he announced he would seek membership in the church. He swaited yesterday's verdict while standing in a chilly rain.
The Rev. Mr. King can now return to the Sunday and apply for church membership.
Carter emerged from the church after a three-hour closed meeting to report that his fellow church members also had voted not to fire their pastor, the Rev. Bruce Edwards and that he was careless of committee to judge the qualification of people desiring to join the church.
Asked whether he exerted any influence over the congregation, Carter said "I was just one of the church members. I'm completely satisfied with the church. The pastor is pleased. There will be no exclusion based on race."
The official results were announced from the church steps by Georgia State Sen. Bassel E. McDonald.
Rosalyn Carter, the President-elect's wife, critically softly as she and her husband tried to reassure him.
"The fourth and final motion was to open the doors to all who want to worship Jesus
Christ, and that motion passed 120-66," he said.
Eleven years ago, the Carters were virtually unrecognizable to church visitors who chanted against blacks.
Kansas poet and painter Harley Elliott will read from his poetry at 7:30 in tonight's concert.
Elliott is the author of seven books, including "The Resident Stranger," "Animals Stand in Dreams" and "The Tiger's Spots," a children's story. He has two more books scheduled for publication early next year.
Kansas writer to give reading
Elliott lives in Salina, where he teaches drawing and painting at Marymount College. He is also involved in Kansas" Poet in the Schools program, in which he teaches students in high schools and junior high schools across the state for week-long intervals.
Tonight will be the first time Elliott has spoken at KU. He will appear in SUA's *Daily Show*.
No admission will be charged.
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