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Marines stage landings prepare for sea assault
WASHINGTON — A Marine amphibious task force is working its way north in the Persian Gulf, staging major landings exercises in anticipation of a possible seaborne assault on Iraqi troops, Pentagon sources say.
Four exercises have been conducted since August to keep the Marines sharp in case President Bush decides to use them against Saddam Hussein.
The most recent exercise put 8,000 Marines ashore over the past two weeks on the shores of Oman, according to the sources, who spoke only in Arabic.
Iraq claims allied raid killed 150 civilians
BAGHIDA, Iraq — Iraq yesterday claimed an allied raid on the city of Nassarayah city about 150 civilians and announced it was severing ties with ISIS.
It also claimed its artillery killed 40 all soldiers.
The reported death toll in the southern city included 35 children and was the highest in a single raid. Iraqi officials said many homes were
Baghdad radio, meanwhile, promised an escalation in terrorist attacks against Western targets and called President Bush a liar for the use of the nuclear bomb.
The Foreign Ministry announced yesterday it was cutting diplomatic ties with the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
The official Iraqi News Agency said it had learned from diplomatic sources that Iraq artillery bombardments killed 40 allied soldiers and 125 civilians.
Saudi, Syrian, Egyptian and Kuwaifi forces are encamped in Hafr al-Batin.
Iraqi planes ambushed while flying to Iran
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Two U.S. fighter jets ambushed a group of Iraqi warplanes trying to slip into Iran, shooting down two, but the number of enemy planes reaching sanctuary rose to 120, U.S. officials said yesterday.
Allied officials also reported the capture of 23 more lie-inested Iraqi soldiers, including two officers, and the sinking of an Iraqi armed speedboat in an abortive attack on the northern port city of Khafji. In what apparently was the first such engagement since the Iraqi bomber engaged across the border a week ago, Air Force MK-15 destroyed SU-23 fighter bombers and scored two probable kills of MK-21 bombers.
- These stories include reports subjected to review by allied military forces.
From The Associated Press
ASK seeks more Margin financing New effort by group is the 3-point card
By Michael Christie
People will do a lot for $57 million.
Kansan staff writer
People will do a lot for $3 million.
Associated Students of Kansas is attempting some new programs for the third year of the Margin of Excellence and the Board of Regents new budget requests, which would bring an additional $7 million to Kansas' seven Regents institutions next year.
Greg Hughes, campus director for ASK, recently unveiled the 3-point card, a plan to bring new attention to the Margin.
The 10.000 cards will be distributed at KU home basketball games, Hughes said.
The cards, about 9-by-11 inches,
have "Fund the 3rd year of the
Margin" printed on one side. The
margin is the largest character on the page.
Every time a KU player makes a 3-point shot, KU fans are supposed to wave the cards. Hughes said.
The Margin is explained on the back of the cards.
The Margin of Excellence was the Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
A KU loss on the first night of the cards' distribution might have been looked upon as a bad omen. he said.
"If we win tonight, though, they'll hold them till they die," he said yesterday.
Last night, about 500 cards were
distributed at the Kansas-Nebraska game. Hughes said he was taking a risk last night with Nebraska because KU fairs were superstitious.
Clapp said that when going to games, he took dunk-cards, for rating the dunks made by KU players, and a "Terry Towel." a terry-cloth towel that has Kansas guard Terry Brown's number on it.
Greg Garrett, St. Louis senior,
camped out for last night's game.
He said that he thought the cards were a
good idea and that he would use one.
Sean Clapp, Kirksville, Mo. sophomore, said he already had a lot of items to deal with at the games without the 3-point cards.
Hughes said that 500 more cards would be given out at the Oklahoma State game Saturday and that 9,000 more cards would be given out at the Kansas State game Feb. 16.
The superstition factor is not something to be taken lightly, he said.
"People are funny like that," he said.
On Feb. 11, Lobby Day, about 100 students are scheduled to go to Topeka to meet with legislators, Hughes said.
Israel hits PLO guerrillas
The Associated Press
SIDON, Lebanon — Israeli helicopter gunships attacked Palestinian guerrilla bases in south Lebanon yesterday, and the Lebanese army gained control over the area used by rebels to stage assaults on Israel.
Four Cobra helicopters fired a 10-minute burst of rockets into guerrier positions in the Apple Province, a police representative said.
The representative, who declined to be identified, said one guerrilla was killed and two others were wounded in the raid, Israel's second in as many days against Palestine Liberation Organization chairperson Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah faction.
The Lebanese army has not exercised control over the area since the outbreak of civil war in 1975.
Raid strikes bases in Lebanon
In the first phase of its deployment, about 1,000 troops in 38 tanks, trucks and armored personnel carriers drove along the coastal highway from Beirut into the southern city of Sidon.
The force deployed at a seaside oil refinery, 30 miles south of Beirut. Its commander, Col. Qassem Sibili, said the force would start fanning out across the hills of Apple Province today, seeking to fulfill a directive to extend the government's authority and protect civilians.
It was not clear whether those plans would be delayed by the attack.
The police representative said that the guerrillas killed yesterday were
in a jeep mounted with an anti-aircraft gun that took a direct rocket hit
craft gun that took a direct rocket hit. Fatah bases around the villages of Sarba and Houmine also took several hits from the air.
Guerrillas fired ground-to-air
beat seeking SMA7 missiles that
were launched by helicopters.
released by the helicopters. No hits
"**** scored, the representative said.
The attack, Israel's third on Lebanon this year, was an apparent retaliation for a barrage of Katyusha rockets that guerrillas unleashed down at Israel's self-designated security zone in south Lebanon.
Israeli officials have said that they
want the army to prevent attacks against their forces.
The Apple Province, where about 1,200 guerrillas from the Fatah faction are stationed, is six miles northeast of Zahriani.
Deploying in the province would be a major challenge for the Lebanese army, which would be entrenched under guerrilla lines and Israeli forces.
The PLO commander in Lebanon, known by the code name of Col. Alaaz, said that the guerrillas did not object to the army deployment but that he did not promise to halt attacks on Israel and the South Lebanon Army.
Sure sign of spring
Kansas pitcher Lance Niles checks his pitching motion in a mirror. Niles practiced with the rest of the team yesterday in the first outdoor practice of the 1991 spring baseball season. The
Jayhawks' season opener will be Feb. 15 at Hardin-Simmons University, and their first home game will be Feb. 27 against Washburn University.
Indians charge senator with racial bias over bill to collect taxes at reservations
Kansan staff writer
By Joe Gose
Charges of racism were leveled at a state senator yesterday concerning a bill that would allow the state to refuse foreign aid on American Indian reservations.
But State Sen. Don Sallee, R-Troy, who introduced the bill, said he would continue to push for the bill's approval
Businesses on American Indian reservations do not collect state sales taxes from any customers; they collect only federal taxes. If the bill is adopted, state taxes would be collected from any customer who was not a member of the tribe that owned the reservation.
Steve Cadue, chairperson of the Kickapoo Indian Tribe of Kansas, said, "Senator Sallee's work on the development of Senate Bill 80 is based solely on racial bias. It's not based upon economic reasons."
Local lawyer appointed attorney general for Kickapoos
Cadue said Sallee had not met with
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The chairperson of the Kickapoo Indian Nation yesterday attended the appointment of a new chief of staff.
Steve Cadue, the chairperson of the tribe, called the appointment of Lance Burr as attorney general an historic occasion. The announcement was made at a Statehouse news conference.
Cauque said it was the first time any of the four tribes with reservations in Kansas has appointed an attorney general. The appointment coincides with the newly
established Kickapoo Nation Tribal Court, he said.
The Kickapoo Reservation is in northeast Kansas near Horton.
any of the four Indian nations in northeast Kansas to discuss the bill.
"We feel his experience in dealing with Indian matters will greatly assist us as we continue the struggle for self-determination for our Indian people," Cadue said.
Burr, who was once assistant attorney general for Kansas, has specialized in Indian affairs for almost 20 years. He is a graduate of the KU Law School and teaches Indiana law at Haskell Junior College.
The Kickapoo nation has no intention of granting the state jurisdiction, Cadue said.
Salle said the bill was proposed because of businesses on the Pottawatomi Reservation that were not part of it. They were not part of the Pottawatomie
Tribe.
Federal law allows the state to collect taxes from businesses on Indian land that are owned by people who are not members of the tribe.
"There was Indian business up there way before these two people came in, that's the problem," said Mr. Jang, who enlarged this and expanded this in
such a flagrant violation of Kansas law that we've got to do something."
But Cadue said the reservations were offering the same kind of tax incentives that states used to attract industry.
Sallee also said that Cadue and Lance Burr, attorney general for the Kickapoo Tribe, were making more of the issue than was really there.
Graduate teaching assistants substitute for faculty in tight financial times
Bv Eric Nelson
Kansan staff writer
Tight financial times have meant an increase in the number of graduate teaching assistants at KU, officials say.
"The average GTA for nine months makes somewhere around $8,000," he said. "The average faculty member makes $44,864. So in effect, we employ five GTAs with an average faculty member would make."
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said GTAs were an affordable solution to the University's money problems.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said that using more
GTAs helped keep classroom space open for students but that the quality of education at the University had not necessarily dropped.
Shankel said KU's ratio of faculty to GTAs was similar to that of other academic institutions.
"We've made some shifts over the past few years to keep freshman and sophomore classes open," he said.
He also said that in surveys given to seniors, many GTAs were listed as popular instructors.
Greg Hughes, campus director for Associated Students of Kansas, said that because many GTAs were working toward their doctorates, they were very knowledgeable about their subjects and that their high turnover rate helped cycle new ideas into the University.
full-time faculty accessible to students.
Sulenburger said the quality of GTAs at the KU rivaled that of faculty at other institutions. He said he was surprised by faculty research and having more
"They're finding new things," he said. "That's what makes or breaks a dissertation."
Another advantage GTAs have is that they are very committed to undergraduate students. Hughes (1998) reported a number of undergraduates because $p$
short time ago they were in the same position.
Hughes said that it would be ideal if full-time faculty could teach every class but that he understood that this was financially unrealistic.
Renee Newcomer, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, agreed with Hughes.
She said she sometimes felt more comfortable in a GTA's class.
However, Bill Nettelhorst, Chicago junior, said he did not like having GTAs as instructors.
"I'd rather have a class open, but I
"They are easier to talk to sometimes." she said.
Shankel said one drawback to having more GTAs that were they ineligible to compete for national research grants.
think the GTAs are horrible," he said.
"It does affect our ability to be competitive in research, but not in the quality of undergraduate teaching," he said.
Sulenburger said the University has asked for about $1.3 million in the Regents enrollment adjustment formula. He said that if received, the money would allow the addition of the equivalent GTA positions at KU.
He said that if enrollment increases occurred, the money would have to be sbread to other areas.
Shankel said that each department made the decision about how many GTAs were hired.
"They make the decision on how best to utilize their resources," he said.
Gov. John Finney has endorsed a proposal to increase the GTA tuition fee waiver from 75 percent to 100 percent.
Hughes said the total fee waiver would be a great reward to GTAs.
"That would help immensely in rewarding GTAs and recruiting GTAs," he said.