THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 101, NO.98
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL
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Peace efforts from Soviets may end war
They discount U.S. rejection of peace plan for gulf conflict
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Soviet foreign minister yesterday discounted the U.S. rejection of the Kremlin peace plan for the Persian Gulf War and said negotiations with Iraq could resume as soon as today.
"If the signals correspond to reality, a halt to military operations is close." Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertynk said.
At the United Nations, Soviet U. Ambassador Yuli Voronsvut said the plan sought rapid pullout of Iraqi forces from Kuwait and called for the US to step up its links linked to the Gulf crisis. He did not give additional details of the plan.
He said Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, who returned to Baghdad to present the Soviet peace plan to Saddam Hussein, should be back in Moscow today with Saddam's reaction.
Yevgeny Primakov, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's special Middle East envoy who sat in on Monday's Kremlin meeting with Aziz, said on Soviet television, "Iraq is now closer to a decision to withdraw its troops from Kuwait than ever before."
The Soviets reportedly gave Iraq 36 to 48 hours to accept the peace plan, apparently to force a resolution before allied forces in Saudi Arabia launch a massive ground attack. Pessmertnykh said such an attack would tremendously complicate negotiations.
the Soviet peace plan. He said only that it was based on a United Nations resolution that demands an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal and restoration of Kuwait as an independent state.
In Washington, President Bush said the plan fell well short of what would be required. He said he had spoke candidly to Gorbachev about the proposal.
Bessmertykh said he did not consider Bush's response a setback. "I don't think that it was a rejection," he told reporters.
British Prime Minister John Major also called the Soviet proposal unacceptable.
Moscow Deputy Mayor Sergei Stankevich, who is also a member of the Soviet parliament, told reporters that the Soviets should simply try again with a new peace proposal.
"All political steps should be taken to avoid a full-scale ground battle," Stankevich said.
Bessmertynkh's speech was largely a defensive response to harsh criticism of Kremlin policy in the gulf from Soviet legislators and the press. He insisted that the Soviet Union should not use a course in supporting allied efforts to defend a tiny nation against the aggression of a larger foe.
U.S. rejects Soviet-Iraq peace plan
President Bush had no encouraging words about the possibility of peace. U.S. military officials said they were ready for ground war
He refused to reveal the details of
Missile attack
In the air
More gulf news Pages 6,14
On the ground
Persian Gulf
3 Allied forces cross
12 Foot protective
fences along border
into no man's land
4. U.S. minesweepers search for mines; oil spill smaller than feared
Allied losses
Baghdad
United States
Allied forces
Deaths: 16
MIAs: 30
POWs: 8
Planes lost: 22
Iraqi losses
5 Thousands gather at Red Crescent center distributing bread from Jordan
Deaths: 19
MIAs: 21
POWs: 4
Planes lost: 9
Deaths: No exact casualty figures available. Iraqi official says 20,000 killed,
coul. wound in first 28 days or war. no civilian, military breakdown.
PDWs: More than 1,280*
Jordan Joes: 135*
t to review by military censors
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
Yeltsin: Gorbachev 'strives for power'
Russian asks leader to resign from post Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin today called for the immediate resignation of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, accusing him of bringing the country to the edge of dictatorship.
The demand, made in a nationally televised appearance, was the strongest and most public attack Yeltis has made on Gorbach in months and seemed likely to rekindle the tension.
Crisis in Soviet domestic politics. Yeltsin said his biggest mistake since becoming president of the Russian Federation parliament in May was placing too much trust in Gorbachev.
"In Gorbachev's character, there is a streak of striving for personal power." Yeltsin said. "He has brought the country to the edge of dictatorship. I think he should resign immediately."
Reformers' fears of a shift in power to the old guard Communists in the central government were heightened in December by the resignation of Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who said he did not want any part of a dictatorship being created under pressure of hard-inners.
Yeltsin, a former member of Gorbachev's Politiburo, was ousted from the ruling body in 1987 and has feuded with Gorbachev since over the pace of his rise to power. Just last summer the two men announced an agreement on shifting
Reformers blame Gorbachev's recent turn to the right on severe pressure from the military and hard-liners in the Communist Party.
to a market economy, but the deal fell through when Gorbachev balked at a swift move to such an economy.
As president of the largest of the 15 Soviet republics, Yeltsin has great popularity in the Soviet Union, but he has been stymied by hard-liners in his own parliament and in the central Soviet government.
Veltins's remarks, broadcast live,
came after most government offices
closed, and there was no immediate
action from Kremlin representatives.
The centrally controlled media, particularly the state broadcast monopoly, have criticized Yelissin relentlessly in the past month, after he spoke out against Gorbachev's crackdown on independence movements in the Baltics.
Yeltsin described his efforts to appear on Soviet television today as difficult. During the 40-minute appearance, he answered toughly worded questions from two Soviet journalists, who reflected the Kremlin line that Yeltsin was one of the leaders of instability in the Soviet Union.
Yeltsin saved his harshest words for the end of the broadcast and included an apology.
"We will not be able to live better under the present center." Yeltsin said, referring to the Kremlin, "not with the constant policy of deception of the people by the center."
The first two years after 1965, when Gorbachev was elected general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, he instilled some hope in many people and from that time, his active policies began, Yellins said.
"While making promises, 16 seems he did not understand well or to fulfill them. Having instilled hope in people, he started acting according to other laws. Lately, it has become especially apparent. "Yotin said."
Phone solicitors deceive victims, exploit gulf war
Organizations ask for troop donations
By Mike I. Vargas
Kansan staff writer
On the home front, the Kansas National Guard is fighting against a covert enemy.
"People are taking advantage of people's feelings of good will," Moser said.
Joy Moser, the Adjutant General's public affairs officer, said people claiming to represent guardmembers were asking for donations. The organizations they represented, however, did not exist.
Since the Persian Gulf War began, there have been three reported fraudulent telephone solicitation organizations in Kansas, she said.
Somebody was calling people in Topeka and asking for donations for the 190th relief fund. Moser said.
Moser said that in Hays, about 200 miles west of Topeka, another fraudulent telephone solicitation organization was asking for donations for guardmembers who had to stop their educations because of the war and for the housing of their families.
She said that there was a 190th Air Refueling Group from Topeka but that the relief fund was bogus.
Col. Bill Blakley, 190th Air Refuelling Group, said no one from the group was involved or even aware of the fund.
'People are taking advantage of people's feelings of good will.'
- Joy Moser
Adjutant General's public affairs
office
Eakins said he had contacted the Ellis County attorney and verified that four people had reported being by the fraudulent organization.
Staff Sgt. Ken Eakins, family assistant supervisor in Hays, said the fraudulent organization was asking for donations for guardmembers in the 170th Maintenance Company, which was activated Nov. 2.
Moser said that asking specific questions about the organization such as "Who is your supervisor?" or "What is your telephone number?" was a good way to find out if it was legitimate.
He said the people became suspicious when the organization would not give out a telephone number, address or name.
Moser said that she was not sure whether there were more groups throughout the state but that she was of similar groups in other states.
She said that Kansas City, Kan. also was being targeted by fraudulent telephone solicitors.
Fukushima Keido demonstrates calligraphy at Spencer Museum of Art. He spoke to about 100 people yesterday about Buddhism
Monk tells how Buddhism influences life
By Sarah Davis
Kansan staff writer
Fukushima Keido, a Zen monk from Kobe,
shares his long, chocolate-colored robes and
hunched hands.
With eyes closed, he used his finger to trace a mental picture in the air of what he would put down on paper. When satisfied, he selected the right amount of black ink and dabbed on just the right amount of black ink.
"Look under your feet and not those of others," Fukushima said yesterday through a translator to about 100 people at the Spencer Museum of Art.
He said this meant that any person had the
He skilfully and quickly painted a long, sweeping calligraphy stroke represent Budd
ability to be Buddha, and all beings had Buddhist nature in them.
"Buddhia nature should work throughout our day," said Fukushima, who has been an artist for 30 years.
In the first half of his lecture, Fukushima discussed Zen and the Buddha nature by telling seven stories in which he emphasized their spiritual significance and start included a basic calligraphy demonstration.
"Buddism is the religion that teaches the Buddhist nature." Fukushima said. "And Zen tries to give an understanding to Buddhist wisdom in a static religion. It is a very dynamic religion."
Steve Addiss, professor of art history and humanities, brought Fukuroda to the university as part of a Zen
painting and calligraphy exhibition.
"He was so wonderful that we asked him to come again." Adiss said.
Fukushima gave a three-hour lecture and meditation session Monday to about 65 people at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Addiss she enjoined Fukushima's visit and thought people were very receptive.
Wesley Bowman, Everest senior who was at the calligraphy session with his Eastern Civilization class yesterday, said he enjoyed watching Fukushima paint.
"He's a master at Zen Buddhism," Bowman said. "Their writing is their art, and their whole life is connected to Zen. They're trying to have something so everything they do has an effect on them."
Senate Education Committee considering qualified admissions proposal
By Joe Gose
TOPEKA - A qualified admissions bill has been introduced into the Senate Education Committee for the fifth consecutive year.
Kansan staff writer
Proponents and opponents of the bill testified in front of the committee yesterday. The bill died each of the four previous years.
The bill would require Kansas high school students to graduate with a 2.0 grade point average, have a compos-
ict ACT score of 23 or rank in the top one-third of their high school class after completion of seven or eight semesters to be admitted into a
state-supported university.
Kansas presently abides by the 1915 open admissions law, which only requires graduation from an accredited Kansas high school for admission.
Stanley Kopik, executive director of the Council of Regents, said the Registrar had requested that
"At the heart of the bill is improving the educational preparation of our high school graduates, which will result in a greater likelihood of their
success in pursuing aaccaluateur studies" he said. "A substantial body of research has shown clearly that the student's academic performance in secondary school is a major predictor of college attrition.
"We need to be more concerned about students' success in college, not just getting them to college."
"The students are better served if
David Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, agreed.
they come here well-prepared," he said. "And the state spends dollars more efficiently when students are well-prepared."
"We differ from the proponents of qualified admissions in believing that all students are competent."
But Mark Tallman, coordinator of governmental relations for the Kansas Association of School Boards, said educationally disadvantaged high school students would be hurt if the bill became law.
educational progress through admission to college, even if statistics indicate they will probably fail,” he said. “On the contrary, students at risk of failure are the students who lack training in assistance, no discouragement.”
Koplik said students would be better prepared for college if the bill passed.
"The evidence is if we raise expectations, students will meet the challenge," he said.