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VOL.101,NO.101
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY,FEBRUARY 25,1991
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U.S. successes prompt accelerated attack
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON    Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf yesterday ordered commanders to accelerate the opening ground assault designed to punch through Iraqi defenses, according to Pentagon sources. These officers said the deciding showdown in the battle was a difficult away, when allied forces would engage large units of the Republicic Guard
The Desert Storm plan for a broad series of lightning-quick strikes has encountered several sharp engagements with Iraqi forces in the first full day of ground battle, said several senior military officials.
But the ground battle plan, designed to encircle the enemy and force its surrender in large numbers, has worked well enough that war planners are concerned too many Iraqi prisoners of war could bog down the advancing allied forces, the officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, as Pentagon officials reported, in a decision to insure military briefs.
After enemy front-line troops were
pounded with artillery, aircraft equipped with loudspeakers flew over their bunkers as Arab speak in Arabic. Iraqi traps to surrender, one official said
"It's a slap-and-hug technique, designed to give them a chance to give up with dignity," he said. "Those they are coming out of their hides."
The main fears are the possible use of chemical weaponry and Saddam Hussein's best equipped forces, the 150,000 strong Republican Guard
The military official cautioned that despite the early reports of success, more than a week of tough combat in Kuwait and in Kuwait City — might be ahead
"There is some resistance," one official said of yesterday's opening confrontations. He refused to say where such exchanges had taken place but said no significant tank or gun reports and no reports he received as of midday.
Schwarzkopf said that in the first to hours of fighting, his forces had achieved goals set for more than twice that timetable. The initial successes prompted the four star general to put his troops on an acelerated schedule, according to several military planners.
At least 48 hours were scheduled for the opening stages of the ground attack to unfold, but the sources said Schwarzkopf, commander of the Desert Storm operation, advanced the timetable by almost half a day.
Citing the need for secrecy of pacific ocean data, the seas did not provide details.
Iraq's front-line defenders, the least fed and worst equipped of Saddam's troops, have been pounded for days by a non-stop allied air attack. The Iraqi forces put up the least resistance, a senior civilian Pentagon official said.
"The deciding factor will be when we meet the Republican Guard, 'the one'."
Although Schwarzkopf said that some elements of the battle-tested guard had been encountered in the initial stages of the ground campaign, they have since weakened and strong force remained inside Iraq and had not yet been contested, the
senior military sources said.
Despite the early successes, military planners were taking little for granted.
"Don't automatically assume that things will always continue this way," one official said. "This is a street fight. We'll beat them, but it may take a while — days, even weeks."
The sources said initial reports of the conquest of Kuwait City were wrong, as were reports of early conquests in the region and unauthorized ground units Saturday evening.
Schwarzkopf said that the first wave of the assault included Marines, Army paratroopers, air force personnel and super secret Army special forces.
While the general said those were followed by mechanized and armored units moving north with great speed, sources said those units did not gather anywhere near the large units of the Republican Guard.
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Baghdad radio says that Iraqi troops have struck and maimed allied troops
The Associated Press
The military command also denied reports that allied troops had captured a Persian gulf island, made amphibious landings or captured thousands of Iraqi soldiers.
In another message to the troops, Baghdad radio said death with dignity was better than life in humiliation.
President Saddam Hussein exhorted Iraqi soldiers to show no mercy.
In Baghdad, militiamen for the first time during the war set up checkpoints at key intersections
and bridges. Some residents passing through the checkpoints were asked to join the militia.
The capital was quiet most of the day, except for a midday air raid on the outskirts of the city.
A military communique, unusual in its specificity, said the 3rd Division under Maj. Gen. Salah Abboud and the 1st Division under Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Ismail were continuing an epic confrontation against the onslaught of allied forces.
Iraq said that French and British units trying to advance in the same area were contained and had suffered heavy losses. It said U.S., Egyptian and Saudi troops were driven back with great losses by Iraq's 4th Division, under Maj. Gen. Iyad Zaki.
'Goldberg Gust' puts out candles, steals contest
Engineering Week hits a light point
By Benjamin W Kansan staff writer
The goal of the competition was to blow out a small birthday candle.
to book out a similar job because
not such an easy job when it is
the task in the Rube Goldberg
competition.
One of the lighter aspects of Engineering Week was the Rube Goldberg competition, for which he designed complex machines to do a simple job.
On Fri'say more than 60 people crammed into the basement of Learned Hall to watch four dff machines machines extinguish a candle.
The rules of the competition are fairly straightforward.
This year's winning entry was called the Goldberg Gust.
The machine must have at least five steps and be self-contained, but almost anything goes as long as it is legal and safe.
It started with a small birthday candle burning through a string and ended with a lever falling and breaking the candle, tridge, which blew out the candle.
However, in between those two steps, a golf ball rolled through ramps and tubes, hit another ball, tripping a mousetrap that pulled a string, starting an electric motor to spin the red cool-k aid into a tunnel connected to a clear tube coiled to spell the word "gust."
The Kool-aid drained into a small bucket, which pulled a pin holding a hockey puck with a razor blade on it — the "gullous punk"
- that sliced through a string holding the wheel, which then let the lever fall to puncture the cartridge
Spectators watch the winning entry of the Rube Goldberg contest perform its grand finale as it spews contetti. The winning machine
And it all happened in about 30 seconds.
Geoff Wehrman, Derby senior and one of the members who built the winning machine, said he had wanted to enter the competition.
"It's probably been the most fun thing I've done since I've been in engineering." he said.
Wehrman's collaborators were Jim Jensen, Bridgeport, Neb., senior; Todd Follt, Topeka senior; Mary Beth Heil, Apple Valley, Minn., enricia Erika Tegeder, Littleton, Colo., senior and Dennis Kim, Oklahoma City, Okla., senior.
by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which provided prize money for the event
Participants received $100, $50 and $25 for first, second and third places, respectively.
Heil said the group probably would spend their money on a party
was called 'Goldberg Gust.' The contest was conducted Friday on the ground floor of Learned Hall.
Rube Goldberg was an early 20th-century cartoonist and sculptor famous for his humorous
The competition was sponsored
The judging of the machines was based on overall effect, number of steps and creativity.
diagrams of incredibly intricate machines designed to carry out simple tasks.
Matt Rose, Shawnee senior and third place winner, said the competition was fun.
"It's just a good waste of time when I should be studying for a test."
Subcommittee looks for ways to cut back Regents budget
Bv Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Round one of higher- education financing proposals began Friday in a House Appropriations subcommittee.
If subsequent rounds come to pass as this one did, higher education could be face-down on the canvas when the final budget recommendation
Instead of looking for ways to finance the Margin of Excellence, the subcommittee looked for ways to cut costs. The Board of Receipts for fiscal 1997
The subcommittee proposed that programs targeted by Chancellor Gene Budig as desperately needing Margin financing be canped or cut
chairperson of the subcommittee, said $15.8 million had to be cut from the Regents budget to reduce State general Fund spending by 2.2 percent.
Student, faculty and staff salaries would be affected as well as Other Operating Expenses such as library and equipment acquisitions.
The subcommittee also considered cutting scholarships, spending for maintenance of student living organizations and Regents transportation
and furniture requests.
None of these cuts would have to be made if Gov. Joan Finney's proposed tax plan is approved, Teagarden said.
But the subcommittee is placing little faith in that possibility.
State Rep, Robert Vancrum, Overland Park, said, "Every time you talk to some angry taxpayer, they tell us to stop spending money. I hate like hell to let salaries and OOE happen on them, but it looks like we have to."
In an effort to keep the Regents budget at its present level, the subcommittee recommended tuition
By raising non-resident tuition by that amount, Vancrum said resident tuition would have to be raised only 5 percent.
"I think we could take non-resident tuition up another 10 percent in addition to what the Regents have suggested," Vancrum said. "If we were to increase of 10 per cent, we'd be still going to be 10 percent on our peers."
increases in addition to increases the Regents already have proposed.
The subcommittee also recommended that schools be allowed to keep any money saved by the implementation of individual cost-
cutting initiatives rather than requiring them to put it back in the general fund.
"I personally think we're going to do damage to the higher-education system this year," Teagard said. "We should also offer us flexibility to manage that damage."
He said the Regents request had to be cut in anticipation that the Legislature would not approve the governor's current resources budget, which would provide the general fund with an additional $20 million.
WAR with IRAQ
Patriotic T-shirts will help students
Kansan staff writer
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Two Kansas utility companies are selling T-shirts to establish a scholarship fund for children of military servicing in Operation Desert Storm.
John Hayes Jr., KPL president and chief executive officer, said, "These T-shirts make an important statement. The scholarship dollars that will result through their sale are a way to show our appreciation to those whose lives have been directly affected by Desert Storm."
In a joint announcement Friday, officials of Kansas Power and Light Co. and Kansas Gas and Electric Co. said Desert Storm T shirts were issued for sales and service centers throughout Oklahoma, Missouri and Oklahoma.
Fred Bryan, KPL, executive vice president of utilities services, said the T-shirts were available in the T-shirt at Ninth and Tennessee streets.
Other Desert Storm T-shirts are selling briskly in Lawrence, according to employees at local stores.
"We also have a group of retired employees selling the T-shirts at local malls and area shops," he said.
All proceeds from the shirt sales go to the scholarship fund. The scholarships will be available through college in the two companies' service areas.
The U.S. made white shirts with red and blue printing have the Desert Storm insignia on the front and a U.S. flag on the back along with the words, "These Colors Don't Run." The shirt sells for $10 each.
Steve Comeau, general manager of Shirts Illustrated, 846 Massachusetts St., said three different Desert Storm T-shirts had been hot items.
"We've sold somewhere between 200 and 300 dozen Desert Storm shirts," he said. "We're not really a retail store, but people have been coming in off the streets to buy our shirts because they've heard about them. A lot of the industry has picked up on the Desert Storm theme, because I've seen an awful lot of shirts out there."
Christina Shirla, Leavenworth junior and employee of Jayhawk Spirit, 835 Massachusetts St, said the university just one Desert Storm T-shirt.
"It says, 'Don't be a Scud, be a Patriot, support our troops in the gulf' on the front," she said. "They've been a big success."
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.