VOL.101.NO.93
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Saddam willing to negotiate, radio says
The Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iraqi President Saddam Hussein told a Soviet envoy that he was prepared to cooperate with the Soviet Union and other nations to end the Persian Gulf War. Bush radio reported early yesterday.
The radio, monitored in Nicosia,
said Soviet envoy Yevgeny Primakov
gave Sudan a message from Soviet
Bobovice to Borzhache during
talks late yesterday.
"Iraq is prepared to extend cooperation to the Soviet Union and other
nations and agencies in the interest of finding a peaceful, political, equitable and honorable solution to the region's central issues, including the situation in the gulf," the radio quoted Saddam as saying.
The non-aligned movement and Iran recently have put forth peace initiatives. Iran's foreign minister, Al Akbar Velayati, said yesterday that the country had an encouraging response from Saddam Hussein. He did not elaborate.
In Washington, White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said U.S.
officials did not have details of the discussions between Saddam and Primakow.
"We don't know enough to characterize it," he said. "Saddam has said similar things before. It's just too premature to make a judgment. The deciding factor for us is, what does he say about getting out of Kuwait?
"Finding a solution would have to start with Iraq getting out of Kuwait and complying with the U.N. resolutions." he said.
Moscow has expressed concern that the allied war plans might
exceed the goals set out by U.N.
Security Council resolutions, which call for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait.
The Soviet Union, one of the five permanent Security Council members, voted in favor of the resolution authorizing military action against Iraq if its troops remained in Kuwait past Jan. 15.
Soviet officials have stressed that Primakov would insist Saddam pull his troops out of Kuwait.
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Gunners pound Iraqi tanks
The Associated Press
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — In a foretaste of all-out war, Marine and naval gunners combined their fire with W. U.S. air strikes yesterday to pound Iraqi tanks and massed in southern Kuwait.
The U.S. command said the thunderous land-sea-and-air barrage that shook southern Kuwait
could be described as part of their training program — training for the large offensive that may lie over the horizon.
Iraq's Parliament speaker said the Iraqi military had saved its lethal developed weapons — an apparent reference to chemical and biological arms — from the non-stop air raids.
Play with a purpose
LEFT: Brandon L'Heureux (center), Fairway freshman, referees a rock-paper-scissors contest between Jason Carrier, Salina freshman and Rory Casey, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore. One hundred sixty-five people signed up for the competition, which was conducted last night at Benchwarmers Sports Bar and
Grill, 1601 W. 23rd St. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit families of service members in Operation Desert Storm. Joe Cunningham, Lawrence resident, won the competition.
RIGHT: Holly lfft, Overland Park junior, tries to win a match with a scissors symbol in the tournament.
"But this is the first on a war in progress," he said.
Trading cards depict gulf war in progress
progress, he said.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
By Nedra Beth Randolph Kansan staff writer
Operation Desert Storm commemorative trading cards are coming to a store near you.
The Topps Co., which produces many different types of trading cards, will release a series of commemorative war cards featuring military leaders, weapons and vehicles. The cards will be available around the country by the end of this week.
Jeff Dolezal, of JD's Baseball Card & Sports Nostalgia Shop. 1420 W. 23rd St., said he will be back for the wartime trading cards soon.
"If the war is still going, they'll be hot," he said. "But if the war is over by the time the cards come out, they won't be so hot."
According to a statement on the back of one of the cards, the AH-64 Apache helicopter was the "costliest 'copter in service' in the world." The collector's caption called the helicopter an indispensable ally.
"These cards do not glamorize war," he said. "They offer an encyclopedic look at this military operation, its personalities and weapons in a non-sensationalistic way,
series was neither opportunistic nor frivolous.
Brad Handler, Northbrook, Ill., freshman, said that if he had children, he would not allow them to be the commemorative war cards.
Ellis Hayden, owner of Ellis' Coins & Collectibles, 1025-A Massachusetts St., said a lot of his regular customers had been asking about the Operation Desert Storm cards.
"I don't agree with it," he said. "It's not a good thing. Children are too young to understand war."
Topps has done series on the Civil War and the American Revolution. Boyle said.
"I try to carry everything that I can get my hands on." he said.
SenEx asks about holiday classes
By Eric Nelson
Kansan staff writer
The action was instigated after Jacob Gordon, presiding officer of University Council, said a class met on Thursday in the Chapel at Knu Jr. Dau, in the Kansas Union.
The University Senate Executive Committee decided yesterday to write a letter to Chancellor Gene A. Budig asking for clarification of KU policy concerning classes being conducted on official holidays.
Frances Ingemann, chairperson of SenEx, will draft the letter and send it to Budig.
Gordon said that KU had an obligation to observe holidays listed on the calendar. He said that if they were
not observed they should not be considered state holidays.
"We are saying we should be sensitive to all holidays," he said.
"When we do not observe it, why do we put it on the calendar?"
Ingemann said the goal of the letter would be to find out the policy about classes meeting on official holidays, but if there are students exist and what the guidelines are.
"The intent of a holiday is to observe it. If that intent of the law is violated, what do we do?"
Barbara Romzek, chairperson of public administration, was the instructor of the class that focused on circumstances for the class meeting were unusual.
She said the public administration class consisted of graduate students who served internships in city management across the United States. They meet in Lawrence and have classes times a year for one week at a time.
The meetings take place in the fall, winter and spring.
The January meeting focused on collective bargaining, she said. The class met from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday.
"We only do it three times a year, and we had to work around the guest speaker we had," she said.
The speaker was Dave Spencer, professor of labor relations at the
University of Indiana. She said that he had to work around his and the students' schedules.
"We were really constrained by that," she said. "That was the week he could come in for us."
Romzek said she had planned the meetings with Spencer in the fall last year.
She said next year's schedule had been made to avoid similar conflicts.
Gordon said that if this class meeting violated KU policy, action should be taken.
Rozek said, "This is not a normal situation. We didn't feel good about having to do that. All of our regular classes were on campas like everybody else's."
Quick recovery predicted for economy
WASHINGTON — President Bush said yesterday that the recession was causing genuine economic distress, but in his annual economic report, predicted a quick recovery that could help end a deep-breaking expansion of the 1980s.
The Associated Press
"Despite the economic events of 1990, we have reason for both hope and optimism in full measure as the
nation approaches the next century." Bush said in his introduction to the "Economic Report of the President."
With the economy in its first recession since the 1981-82 downturn, Bush was less upset than last year, when he had proclaimed the nation's economy to be in excellent health with not a hint of a recession in sight.
"The events of 1990 were a reminder that even a healthy economy can
suffer shocks and short-term setbacks." Bush said.
"I know that in some regions of the country, people are in genuine economic distress," he said.
The administration blamed the recession on the jump in oil prices and the job to consumer confidence in Hussein invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2.
Democrats in Congress said the
report glossed over significant problems facing the economy, including a rash of bank failures and a chronic federal budget deficit projected to hit an all-time high of $318 billion this year.
"My concern is that I see factors of weakness that were not present in past recessions," said Sen. Paul Rahm, the chairwoman of the Joint Economic Committee.
Bv Joe Gose
Opposition arises to proposed financial incentives for use of contraceptive
TOPEKA — A bill that would provide additional financial assistance to women on welfare ran into opposition yesterday at the House Federal and State Affairs Committee.
The bill, introduced by State Rep. Kerry Patrick, R-Leawood, would establish a program that would pay
Kansan staff writer
women receiving state aid an additional $500 to use a new, long-term contraceptive.
The contraceptive, Norplant, lasts for five years and is implanted in a woman's arm.
The state would pay the women $50 for each year they remained in the program.
Opponents said the bill was racist, sexist and an attempt to control lives.
Marilyn Harp, president of Planned Parenthood of Kansas, said she approved of the bill, but objected to the payment
"It shows a total disregard for the ability of women to make the right choices for themselves," she said. "It is very premature to think that an adult woman should encourage women to have children at appropriate times in their lives."
"Like all decisions about reproductive choices, the decision about Norplant must be left to the woman."
Harp said the bill reminded an African-American woman, with whom she worked, of the days when she worked on a government upon African-American women.
Pat Goodson, a member of Right to Life of Kansas Inc., said she opposed the bill because it violated traditional
moral values.
"Can we foresee an increase in promiscuity, as well as in venereal diseases and AIDS?" she said. "We do not believe the people of Kansas are prepared to abandon the Judeo-Christian ethic on which this nation was founded or to supplant morality with technology."
But Patrick said he did not think the criticisms were strong.
"I still think the inducement is important," he said. "One of the problems is contraceptive use in this country is more prevalent in the middle class than the lower classes, and I put the financial inducement in."
Patrick also said that the program was voluntary and that it allowed the person involved to make decisions according to her own values.