THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.99
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1991
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World awaiting Iraq's answer to Soviet plan
The Associated Press
DHIHAN, Saudi Arabia — A waiting world watched Baghdad and the bleak Arabian desert yesterday
the bleak Arabian desert yesterday
- Baghdad for word on peace,
the desert for news of all out war
From front-line bunkers to the distant corridors of power, reports and rumors flew of deadlines and risks for the long expected ground war
A key French lawner made the Desert Storm alarms would give Iraq until late tomorrow to respond to a Soviet peace proposal, or face a far offensive to drive its forces from Kuwait.
Late yesterday, Baghdad radio said President Hussein was sending Foreign Minister Taraqiq Aziz to Moscow with the reply of the Iraq leadership to the Soviet plan, believed to call for an unconditional Iraq withdrawal from Kuwait, coupled with vague assurances that U.S. power and the Palestinian question eventually would be addressed.
Commentaries on the radio earlier yesterday indicated that Iraq believed all out war was imminent
despite the Soviet peace initiative. The radio predicted a long, hard and costly ground war in the Persian Gulf and pledged to send the allies' dead soldiers home in endless convoys of coffins.
The Soviet initiative was described by the U.N. secretary general, Javier Perez de Cuellar as a historic opportunity, and the U.S. allied Italy also endorsed it. House Speaker Thomas Foley said that if the withdrawal was unconditional, he did not know how President Bush could fail to accept it.
Bush kept a public silence on the issue yesterday, a day after describing the plan as well short of U.S. requirements.
Although Bush did not elaborate on his objections, Republican House leader Robert Michel said that the United States wanted to see conditions change in Iraq — wanted to see Saddam ousted.
While Bagdad's beauferaged leadership kept the world waiting for its reply, its official radio remained defiant.
The United States and Britain have insisted in their responses to a Soviet invasion of North Korea.
The diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, indicated that the Soviet plan:
- Lacked a firm timetable for Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait.
Made no mention of prisoners of war, restoration of the Kuwaiti government or reparations for damage to Kuwait
Did not insist on compliance with all 12 U.N. Security Council resolutions adopted since Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2.
Soviet officials have claimed that their plan does assure compliance with all 12 council resolutions. Some reports have said the plan has a specific timetable for Iraqi withdrawal.
This story includes reports subjected to review by allied military censors.
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More quiet news
Ground preparation intensifies
U.S. choppers destroy Iraqi bunkers, hundreds of prisoners taken in blitz
The Associated Press
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — U.S. attack helicops swooped down on a warren of Iraqi bunkers north of the Saudi border today, destroying more than a dozen of the forcifications and capturing 450 to 500 Iraqi prisoners, a military representative said.
In another clash yesterday somewhere along the Saudi border, one U.s. soldier was killed and seven Brig Gen Richard Neal said.
The two engagements came during intense preparations for an all out ground assault by allied troops to push Iraq forces out of Kuwait. While diplomatic efforts continued to try to威压 a ground war, there were varying accounts today of how difficult such a conflict might be.
Despite signs that some Iraq ground units are starting to fall apart, most of Saddam Hussein's forces are still well dug in and prepared to fight. U.S. military officials said yesterday.
the Persian Gulf, was quoted as saying the Iraqis are on the verge of collapse. But some of his top officials said they had seen no signs of that.
"I'm not ready to say that as an armed force the IRA are ready to all drop their weapons and come forward," Neal said at the military's daily briefing in Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
At the Pentagon several hours later, Lt. Gen. Thomas Kelly was asked about Schwarzkopf's state department said. "TsIs not my assessment."
He added that he did not disagree with Schwarzkopf's overall comments. Other officers continued to express reservations.
Kelly and others sought to dampen public expectations of a lightning victory in any ground campaign.
"Yogi Berra addressed that," Keith said in a cry reference to the aphorism, "It ain't over till it's over."
- This story includes reports subjected to review by allied military censors.
Chinook copter: 'Airborne truck'
U. S. Army Chinook helicopters yesterday picked up hundreds of Iraqi prisoners.
Primary mission: Transport ammunition, repair parts; move troops, artillery on battlefield
Size: About the size of an
18-wheel tractor-trailer
Ground Tire
Crew: Three
- Cargo: Can carry up to 50,000 lbs. inside; up to 23,000 lbs. of equipment can be hooked to outside of copter. "first-class" has some seating, otherwise, remain on a floor of
helicopter
passengers sit on floor of helicopter
When built: Developed 1956; first flight 1961
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
SOURCE: "Army Aviation," "Jane's All the World's Aircraft"
Exchange students arrive from Japan
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Kansan staff writer
They will be staying at KU, where they will take classes focusing on culture in the United States, for six weeks.
Chizu Hara (left) and Yuko Utsuji learn about Lawrence and the KU campus from Lori Sandhold, of the Applied English Center
The ties are growing stronger between Lawrence and Hiratsuka, Lawrence's Japanese sister city.
Twenty Japanese students from the Hiratsuoka campus of Kanagawa University arrived Monday at the University of Kansas.
Their coursework will place special emphasis on language, family life, cultural diversity, law and education.
While at KU, the Japanese students will live in the campus residence halls.
Betty Sopela, director of the Applied English Center, said the trip was the beginning of a possible series of research on RU and Kanagawa University.
"This is first of what we hope will be a long relationship between the two sister cities, Lawrence and Hirsch and the two universities," she said.
Soppsela said she hoped to send a group of KU students to the Kanagawa campus this summer. The plan to begin an exchange program between the two schools was a major base on the sistercity relationship.
Ted Kawana, Lawrence resident and chairperson of the Friends of Hiratsuka, was part of the Lawrence
delegation that went to Japan last fall to settle the details of the sister city agreement.
"This is sort of a window for us into Japan," he said.
Yoshio Kanaya, director of the study abroad program at Kanagawa University, said that preparations for the trip to Lawrence began one month after the sister-city agreement was made in September 1990.
He said the purpose of the exchange was to promote a sense of global thinking. He wants the Japanese students to learn about the people of the world, paying special attention to the people of the United States.
"I would like the students to learn the American way of thinking," he said. "They need to learn that Japan is not the only country."
Kanaya said that it was at Michigan State University that he learned that all people's hearts were the no matter where they came from.
Kazunori Ozeki, Kanagawa student, said he had discovered many differences between Lawrence and Hiratsuka.
"In United States, there are many races of people. In Japan, there is only one race," he said. "It is good to understand American culture."
For spring skiing, half the students plan to take a skiing trip to Colorado. The other half plans to stay with families in the Lawrence area.
Plane carrying U.S. tourists crashes in Chile, killing 19
The Associated Press
SANTIAGO, Chile — A chartered airliner carrying 72 people, mostly U.S. tourists en route to Antarctica, crashed into a freezing channel yesterday near the southern tip of Chile, the airline said. Authorities said 19 passengers died.
Among the survivors were seven crew members two pilots, four flight attendants and a commander. A LAN President nosed Louis Mours.
Also, 17 of the 53 survivors were injured in the early afternoon crash of the British-made BAE-146 in Chile, a representative of the Chilean land LAN
The plane overshot the runway and plunged into the frigid Beagle Channel as it attempted to land in light rain at Puerto Willem, on islands of the Andes, and 1,560 miles south of Santiago, said the LAN representative.
The 65 passengers were on an Antarctic vacation organized by Seattle-based Society Expedition Company, the company's director of planning.
Another group of 30 tourists on the Society trip landed safely in Puerto Williams earlier yesterday on a flight from Punta Anas, 300
miles to the north, Cox said in Seattle. The entire group of vacationers had arrived in Santiago from Miami on Tuesday and traveled together to Punta Arenas on a commercial flight.
The airline said the cause of the accident was not immediately known. The Air Force sent a special investigator, Cmdr. Hernan Barahona to Puerto Williams late yesterday.
"The airplane went beyond the end of the landing strip and fell into the water," according to a LAN statement.
The tourists planned to board the ship Society Explorer in Puerto Williams and ferry to Antarctica, said Miguel Rivero, manager of the travel agency that manages the nearest Antarctic port is about 1,000 miles south of Puerto Williams.
The names of the passengers — all foreigners and mostly U.S. citizens, according to tour officiaries, were not immediately released.
"I have no indication that the weather was particularly bad or abnormal," Cox said.
Population increases in Kansas metros
Census Bureau says 20.9 percent growth in Lawrence was the highest in Kansas
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — All of Kansas' metropolitan areas grew in population during the 1980s, but Lawrence led with a 20.9 percent increase, the
Final census figures for metropolitan statistical areas showed that the Lawrence area of Douglas County had a 1990 population of 8,179, up 14,158 from a decade earlier. Only 35 percent had a larger rate of population growth.
Lawrence ranked 275th in population nationally up from 292nd in 1980.
It ranked just below the St. Joseph, Mo., metro area and one place ahead of the Ranid City, S.D., area.
The Wichita urban area, which is made up of Sedgwick, Butler and Harvey counties, is one of the most populous areas among metroropolitan areas across the country.
The Wichita metro area grew 9.7
percent, an increase of 42,869. It had
a 1990 population of 485,270. Its
population remained unchanged at 75th.
The Wichita area stood just above the Stockton, Calif., area in the
Lawrence ranked 275th in population nationally, up from 282nd in 1980.
ranking and was one spot below the Youngstown-Warrent, Ohio, area.
The Topeka metro area grew 3.9
percent, an increase of 6,000. It had a
sector growth rate of 4.2%.
The Topeka urban area, which is made up of Shawnee County, dropped in national rankings to 179th in 1990 from 174th in 1980.
In terms of population, the Topeka area ranked just above the Wheeling metro area of Ohio and West Virginia and was one spot below Olympia.
The Kansas City area ranks just behind the Milwaukee- Racine, Wis., metropolitan area and ahead of the Sacramento, Calif., area.
The Kansas City metropolitan area remained the 25th largest nationally, growing 9.3 percent during the period in the association rose 132,616 to 1,669,290 in 1991.
The Kansas City urban area includes Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas and Cass, Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte and Ray counties in Missouri.
Wash.
More census news
sian-Americans have top KU, state growth rate
By Patricia Rojas
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Kansan staff writer
Asian-Americans were the fastest-growing racial group in Kansas and at KU during the 1980s.
The state's population of Asian Americans increased by 110.6 percent between 1880 and 1900, accorded with the reopening Tuesday by the Census Bureau.
The percentage of Asian-American enrollment at KU has doubled in 1983, said Rich Morrell, University registrar of student records.
Asian-Americans accounted for
about 2 percent, or 521 students, of the total enrollment in Fall 1990.
Morrall said the actual percentage of Asian-American students enrolled at KU was unknown because students received ethnic information voluntarily.
"I could put down I was Asian and not be," he said.
Betty Choi, Kansas City, Mo., junior, said she thought the Asian-
Also, Asian students who do not report their ethnic background appear under the unknown racial category.
American population in the Midwest was increasing because there were more job opportunities in the region.
Choi said her grandfather moved from China to San Francisco, where he began his own business. Her parents, he chose to open their business.
The number of Asian-operated companies in large chai said. Such business is large, chai said.
"The cost of living is cheaper," Chot said. "And there are more business opportunities for Asian-Americans."
nesses face less competition in the Midwest and therefore have greater opportunities to succeed.
Choi said she was pleased to know that the number of Asian-Americans in Kansas was increasing.
"I grew up in Kansas City, and there were hardly any Asians," she said.
The Census Bureau reported that in 1990 Asian-American accounts for 1.3 percent of the state's population, up from 0.6 percent in 1890.
■ The Associated Press contributed information to this story.