THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAI.
VOL.101,No.117
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1991
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Three attacks reported near KU
Women report two incidents of rape, one of sodomy during weekend
Kansan staff writer
By Mike I. Vargas
Two incidents of rape and one of sodomy were reported between Friday and Sunday to the Lawrence police.
Lawrence police said a woman was sodomized after she was grabbed from behind and pulled into a yard in the 1700 block of University Drive while walking to a party early Sunday morning.
The woman managed to escape, said Sgt. Kevin Harmon. Lawrence police representative. The woman motioned to a motorist to stop and was taken to a friend's home, where she called the police
She was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital with minor facial injuries. Harmon said.
About a half an hour earlier, in a separate incident, a woman was raped in the 1700 block of West 24th Street, according to Lawrence police reports.
The suspect was the woman's boyfriend, Har mon said.
In a third incident, a 14-year old girl was raped early Friday morning in the 300 block of Missouri Street, police said.
The girl knew the suspect, Harmon said KU police Lt. John Mullens said four rapes were reported to KU police in 1988, one in 1989 and none in 1990.
Li Mark Brothers, Lawrence police crime analyst, said 11 raps were reported to the Lawrence police in 1988. 16 in 1989 and 24 in 1990
These figures also include reports that were
found not to be rapes after police investigation.
It is difficult to determine whether there was an increase in the number of rapes or an increase in the number of raps being reported. Brothers said, "Everyone is worried," and Nelson person feel comfortable in reporting it to the police.
But not many people are comfortable. Only one out of 10 of the raps that occur are reported to anyone, including police, counselors, friends or hospitals, according to the pamphlet "Surviving Rape and Sexual Assault in Douglas County" from the Douglas County Rape Victim Support Services.
Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center at the University of Kansas, said that rapes were so infrequently reported because many women were embarrassed and did not want to admit they were victims of the crime.
What to do if you have been raped
1. Get to a safe place.
3. Seek medical attention. RVSS can meet you at the hospital.
2. If you want confidential help contact the Douglas County Rape Victims Support Service through the KU Information Center or Headquarters.
4. You have the choice if you want to report the rape to the police.
5. Seek some kind of counseling whether it be from a professional or from someone you trust.
Call KU Information at 864-3506 or Headquarters at 841-2345 for more information or crisis intervention
Information. Sarah Russell, director RVSS
Refugees say Iraqi army tactics harsh
The Associated Press
SAFWAN, Iraq — Employing brutal tactics, the Iraqi military has recaptured every large city in southern Iraq, according to resistance fighters and refugees who fled to U.S. military outposts yesterday seeking food, shelter and political asylum.
Tired mumy and dirty the refugees said they had escaped from Bassu Najal Nasiriya and other southern cities as Saddam Hussein's troops crushed units of Iraqis, including helicopters and heavy artillery.
The official Iraq news agency, monitored in Cyprus, reported yesterday that Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan had visited Syria and argued reconstruction efforts to wipe out traces of the rebellion
The rebels in the south, made up mostly of Shiite Muslims, have lost control of all the larger cities and towns that they controlled as recently as March 15, the refugees said.
In other developments yester day;
Fighting continued in northern Iraq, where Kurdish rebels reported numerous casualties from assaults by forces loyal Saddam.
-Iraq, in a letter to the U.N. secretary-general, accused Iranian military units of crossing the border, firing on Iraqi soldiers and siding with rebels in the south. The letter cited 13 border incidents that allegedly took place earlier this month.
—Jordan's King Hussein flew to Damascus, a country, to meet with President Hafez Assad after seven months of strain caused by their conflicting forces on the gulf crisis. Syria sided with the U.S. led coalition; Jordan tilted toward Saddam.
The Pentagon denied a report
in the Washington Post that U.S. heavy armored units drove 60 miles north to the Euphrates River valley over the weekend in a significant repositioning apparently aimed at intimidating Sadam Pentagon representative Pete Williams said the movement of the repositioning of troops that has been going on in recent days
Refugees said Republican Guard troops, Saddam's best trained and most loyal soldiers, patrol the streets in tanks, giving young men a stark choice: Join the army or be killed.
"They keep 7,000 prisoners at a university (in Basra), and they shoot about 50 to 100 everyday," said Khalif Rheem, one of 26 Iraqi soldiers who surrendered yesterday to U.S. forces occupying Mosul. "He was on a war-battered tow on the Iraqi Kurdish nation."
The claims could not be independently confirmed. Iraq has not allowed foreign journalists to visit the troubled cities since the uprings by Kurds in the north and Shites in the south began last month in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War.
Refugees claimed that soliders were distributing poisoned oranges and bread in Basra.
"I'm sure it was not the burns from a normal fire." Tahar said. "They were blistering very badly and in a very strange way."
Makki Jaffar Tahar, a physician, said he treated several young girls that apparently were shaken up in napalm attack at Naif hospital.
In fighting in northern Iraq, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said many people died in the oil center and two in government air raids.
See Nation/World briefs Page 7
U.S. may profit on gulf war if allies pay all their pledges
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The United States could turn a profit on the Persian Gulf war if allied pledges are paid in full and the war's costs are determined by a strict standard, congressional budget analysts said yesterday.
But congressional budget officials, citing the short duration of the war and the unexpectedly low losses of equipment, said the cost of Operation Desert Storm would be closer to $40 billion.
Pledges from allies, including the gulf countries, Japan and Germany, now total $4.5 billion, of which some $28.6 billion has been paid in cash or services, according to the latest tally.
If that figure proves accurate, the government may not need the $15 billion in taxpayer dollars appropriated last week by Congress in a bill that awaits President Bush's signature. In fact, the Treasury could wind up with money left over.
But it all depends on what is counted in the tally for the war.
There is broad agreement that the costs should include the tab for moving troops and equipment to and from the Persian Gulf; for lost airplanes, tanks and other military equipment in a munition, missiles and bombs.
There are other costs, however that are in dispute. For example,
should the Pentagon be able to claim higher fuel costs because of the war's effect on oil prices? Or should we wear wear and tear on equipment?
And what about money doled out to allies as compensation or rewards for their help? Some $7 billion in past military debt from Egypt has been forgiven. Israel is receiving an additional $650 million, and Turkey stands to receive $200 million extra.
But yesterday, after a $3\frac{1}{2}$-hour meeting with Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, German Finance Minister Theo Waigel promised that Germany's full pledge would be nailed by Thursday.
In Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaufa said his country would not boost its war pledge to make up for $400 million lost through changing currency exchange rates. In January, the Japanese pledgeed it 17 trillion yen, but Japan's yen has weakened since then, making the pledge worth only $8.6 billion.
The prospect that the United States could reap a windfall from the war already has angered the Germans, who have pledged $6.5
One official said Congress was operating at a disadvantage because it had to rely on incomplete Pentagon estimates.
Hanging out by the pool
Dan McGurk, (left), Leawood, sophomore; Dan McKernan, Emporia, junior; and Chris Bird, Atchison, sophomore, combine warm weather enjoyment with a Jayhawk victory celebration by wading in a pool at
Bird's house, 1431 W. 19th St. yesterday. Bird said they planned to watch the Kansas-North Carolina game from the pool Saturday if the weather permits.
Computer Center detects viruses
By Patricia Rojas
Kansan staff writer
Never trust a computer that plays "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
Yankee Doodle is one of two computer viruses that infected the Novell server at the Computer Center last week. The other is the Stoned virus.
Herb Harris, assistant director of users services at the center, said the Novell server was infected sometime between Thursday and Friday. Staff members who used the computers on those two days detected the virus.
The Novell server is the network that supplies software to and connects the Zenith computers in the environment allowing them to share programs.
The Yankee Doodle virus appears to have come from Bulgaria, he said. It affects programs that run under MS-DOS operating systems. Zenith and IBM computers both use MS-DOS systems.
Harris said Yankee Doodle affected programs that used extensions EXE, COM and OVL., including WordStar and WordPerfect word-processing programs. This type of virus does not affect text or data files but program files. The virus hides on hard disks or floppy disks.
It sometimes plays 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' on the computer's sound system. Its presence also may be evident in the system's functioning.
"The computer just appears to lose
its mind," Harris said. "It just sits there catatonic."
Harris said that although the Stoned Virus did not seem destructive in nature, it could wipe out material on an entire disk. This type of virus often hides in the floppy disk's directory.
Stoned Virus tends to show a sign on the screen that says, "Your PC is stoned."
Computer center employees have disinfected the Novell server, Harris said. However, the viruses may not have been exterminated.
"The people who used our lab last Thursday or Friday and put in a floppy disk that had programs in it got it," he said.
Greg Bryant, software analyst at the computer lab in Learned Hall, said the engineering lab had had both viruses in the past couple of weeks.
The engineering computer lab is the only one that has reported the presence of the Yankee Doodle and the Stoned viruses to the center.
He said that the viruses were more of a nuisance than a hazard.
However, the virus also might have spread to any computer system on campus that has access to the Norvell server through its network.
People who want information on how to disinfect disks from Yankee Doodle and Stored病毒 should call their consulting services at 864-0410.
Committee approves proposal to cut $12.5 million from higher education
By Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — It is deja vu all over again.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee is working on the higher education budget bill that passed through the House last week and the bill is taking a worse beating than the House committee administered.
The committee approved a tentative recommendation to cut an additional 2.3 percent, or $12.5 million, from the bill that the House passed.
In addition, the committee decided not to mandate a tuition increase
If these two measures stand, almost $20 million would be cut from general use financing.
recommended by the House. The increase would bring a million to $100 billion.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, said it was time to start talking about financing higher education rather than cutting it.
"Kansas has always had a long tradition of supporting higher education," he said. "Now is not the time to abandon the very sector of our economy that will provide the hope and direction of the future of our state."
The committee should acknowledge the key role of higher education and be willing to make the tough decision and provide additional revenue.
"I don't think the Regents have been treated all that bad by the State General Fund," he said. "I would venture to say that tuition has not increased 39.17 percent in that same four years."
But State Sen. Gus Bogina, R-Shawnee, said that general support for Regents institutions had more than 39 percent in four years.
State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Daugusta, added that the Regents had failed to implement a plan that could cut down on wasteful spending.
"I'm convinced there's a substantial amount of disorganization out there," he said.
However, Winter said the problem did not justify cutting the budget.
"That doesn't mean that what you do to solve that problem is cut the quality of education for the students; that problem is to not cut the Regents budget but to tell them to adopt a system-wide plan."
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