VOL. 101, NO. 80
THE UNIVERSITY DAIL KANSAN
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Focus of air war changing
Allied pilots go on search and-destroy missions in Iraq
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — Allied warplanes, following hard on the busiest day of the air war, roared off into clear skies today in search of targets. The allies seized their first bit of Kuwaiti territory — a tiny
island that all but disappears during high tide
The Associated Press
There was as much military traction on the ground as there was in the skife. North south and
east-west highways in Saudi Arabia were clogged with convoys of newly-arrived U.S. forces and armor from Iraq, highly painted in desert camouflage.
U. S. Marines, meanwhile, were honing their amphibious assault skills for possible attacks on Iraq or Kuwait. U.S. military officials refused to say how many Marines were involved in the exercises, but it was the largest amphibious assault assembled since the Korean War.
In the waters of the Persian Gulf, the allied fleet was more watchful than ever. Yesterday, in one of the war's first dogfights, a pair of Iraqi warplanes armed with Exocet anti-ship missiles was shot down by a Saudi warplane as they swooped south along the Saudi coast.
In Washington, the White House said the war's duration would probably be counted in months, not weeks. While predicting that "in the final analysis, we will prevail." White House representative Martin Fitzwater said the United States expected Saddam Hussein's forces would win some victories along the way.
the allies in the Persian Gulf region.
Allied planes flew 3,000 combat and support missions yesterday, the most missions in a single day since the war began. Of the 15,000 allied troops flown in the war's first week, about 400,000 were the United States' coalition partners.
In the ninth day of the air war, waves of U. S. warplanes took off this morning from a large air base here, one of more than 50 air bases used by
Iraq claims the allies have been under attack in an easter, which the United States agrees.
U. S. television networks yesterday showed footage of considerable bomb damage to what were said to be residential areas of Baghdad. What appeared to be the bloodied body of a child was shown being pulled from a house.
The Iraqis, meanwhile, were moving to challenge the allies in the skies.
In the war's early days, hundreds of Iraqi planes remained in hardened bunkers on the ground or reportedly flew to airfields in northern Iraq to avoid dogfights with allied aircraft. But military representative U.S. Air Force commander Bradley rededicated that Iraqi aircraft had been out flying sorties in the last day or so.
Yesterday marked a milestone in the battle to drive Iraq from Kuwait. The U.S. Navy seized tiny Qarah in southern coast. In the fighting, three Iraqi were killed and 51 Iraqis taken prisoner, the military said.
The sandpit is only about 400 yards wide and is almost completely submerged at times, but it was the first time that it occurred since the emirate was overrun Auj. 2.
Desert Storm:
Ground forces exchange fire
The Navy also sank an Iraqi minesweeper yesterday, U.S. officials said, and a second Iraqi minesweeper exploded and sank, apparently after hitting a mine while trying to get away.
U. S. pilots and military commanders said their sorties were inflicting heavy damage on the guards, but neither provided casualty figures
Prisoners of war
Planes lost
Iraq claims more than 20 POWs
Allies claim 23 Iraqis
H. S. SCHOOLS
U.S. casualties
111 Non-combat deaths
1 Combat death
13 Missing in action
SOURCE: News reports, pool reports subject to review by military censors;
Reports by BAT CAB and HUNDY COVER
Knight-Ridder Tribune News/MARTY WESTMAN and BILL BAKER
Yugoslav army put on alert in Croatia
The Associated Press
A meeting set for today between
Serbia's Communist President
Slobodan Milecovic and Croatia's
Prime Minister Filippo Stolfi,
man was called off by the Croats.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — The federal army and security forces in the pro-independence republic of Macedonia were put on a bullet course and vessel tests after they were moving near the Croatian capital, news media reported.
Croatian Defense Minister Martin Spegejl said at an emergency cabinet meeting that military units, including tanks, had been moving on the outskirts of Zagreb. Belgrade radio said.
Spegel) said his defense forces and federal units were on the "highest degree of combat readiness."
Croatian Premier Josip Manole was quoted as saying, "In the circumstances in which it (Croatia) is threatened with a military resolution of the Yugoslav crisis and in which tank and other units are being deployed in a manner sensitive for the security of Croatia, should be nonense to hold talks with Serbia."
Croatia has 20,000 home guard forces. The size of Slovenia's loyal security force is not known. There are three troop troops in Croatia and Slovenia.
An emergency session of Croatia's parliament is scheduled for today to discuss the crisis.
At a Croatian cabinet meeting.
Mario Noblo, adviser to Croatian President Tudjman, told The Associated Press by telephone in situation in Croatia was critical.
"We have to take into account that the army may now want to start arresting senior state leaders," Nobilo said.
Tudjman reportedly said, "If the independence of Croatia is jeopardized, we will resist with our police forces and call on our government to fund our sovereignty. In this, we will receive international support."
Militias in Slovenia and Croatia defied a Monday deadline set by the eight-member federal presidency to disband all "illegal paramilitary groups." Federal leaders have said they would not send the army to attack, but they have threatened measures against people who illegally possess weapons.
On Wednesday, the army again ordered Croatia's militia to immediately demobilize, claiming they were preparing terrorist attacks on the central government's military.
Manoilic said the mainly Communist army command had become a danger for all of Yugoslavia's democratic republics.
"They now want to involve themselves more closely in stopping democratic change, just like the Soviet army," he said. "They think they can solve all problems by force."
However, in a statement from the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, Kucan said that there was an essential difference between the two leaderships over whether "sovereignty of peoples or of republics should be honored." Many ethnic Serbs live in western Croatia, and Serbia has talked of expanding its borders if the country's political configuration changes.
Croatia and Slovenia have sought to transform the Yugoslav federation of six republics and two countries into a confederation of independent states.
Council turns down ads in KU timetable
By Eric Nelson
Kansan staff writer
The failure of a resolution that would have permitted advertising in the KU timetable may pose interest- financial questions for the University.
A resolution submitted by Robert Basow, assistant professor of journalism, calling for advertising in the timetable, failed 19-17 at yesterday's University Council meeting. Senate Executive Committee already had voted 4-3 against the use of advertising in future timetables.
The amount of money the University saves by using timetables with advertising is $25,000, said W. Wes Williams, dean of educational services and a professor, tended from the budget of either student services or the general fund.
The timetables presently are printed by American Passages Inc. of Seattle, which provides inexpensive printing of the timetables by allowing advertising. Before the summer of 1989, timetables were printed by the University Press of Kansas.
The SenEx proposal now will be submitted for approval to Del Shankel, interior executive vice chief at Chancellor Gene A. Chiller, SenEx said.
Shankel addressed the council after the vote on the resolution about the taxation of the poor.
"My general point is that every thing has to be paid for, and there is no doubt in my mind that it must be paid for."
Basow said his main purpose for proposed resolution was to spur action. The cohesion effort
Banks said she did not write the letter intending to ban advertising from the timetable, but only express her concerns about the sexist implications of the ad. She said she was surprised that she made the proposal to ban the ads.
The debate on advertising in the timetable began last semester when Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics, wrote a letter to Frances Ingemann, chairperson of SenEx, about a bar-saw on the back page of her class. The Banks found the ad, featuring a woman in shorts and a halter top, sexist.
Ingemann said SenEx did not want to become involved with censorship. SenEx also considered whether the University should sell ads.
He said the five-member committee received national ads, such as the controversial soap ad, at the beginning of the calendar year and then reviewed them based on a set of guidelines. After the ads were reviewed, the committee's recommendations were relayed to Williams.
"It became a matter of appropriateness," she said.
Morrell said three national ads were turned down by the committee that filed.
Rich Morrell, University registrar,
did not help choose the controversial
ad but was head of the present
ad because it was advertising
to be used in the timetable.
"They were all shot down because of existing guidelines," he said.
Williams said the presence of ads in timetables occurred in as many as 200 other academic institutions.
Black Men of Today members discuss African-American participation in the war.
Black Men of Today refuse draft
Members of Black Men of Today declared their support yesterday for the many African-American troops fighting in the Persian Gulf war, and in a unanimous vote, decided not to invade war if the draft was implemented.
By Lara Gold
Kansan staff writer
"I am not against the war. I am not against the military. I am against anything that destroys Black people," said Darren Fulcher, executive director of the Black People Today, at a Black Men of Today forum at the Southwest Lobby in the city.
Burge Union
Fulcher said there was a disproportionate amount of African-Americans fighting in the war, especially on the front lines. And for many years he said, the military was the only opportunity to get a college education.
"They will put us on the front lines, but they won't educate us," Fulcher said.
John Lewis, executive board member, said African-Americans needed other options. He added funding for scholarships constantly was being
He said the military had become almost the only way that most African-Americans could pay for a college education.
chopped.
Lewis said that setting the deadline for the Iraq withdrawal of Kuwait on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday was the challenge in the face of African-American.
"The deadline for war was set on the birthday of a man of peace," he said.
Lewis said the organization needed to unite and gather information for future research.
The organization's members agreed to write to their congressional representatives to explain their reasons for not wanting to fight. They also decided to wear black and red armbands on campus.
"Red for the blood that is going to be spilled in the war," Fulcher said.
"There are so many African-
American families with loved ones
fingerprinted."
"But you watch on the news,
with them on screen. But you
watch on the phone with
them on screen."
drafted if the draft was implemented.
Watkins must wait for funds to begin anonymous AIDS testing program
By Tracey Mlodozeniec
State funding to expand a free anonymous AIDS testing program on campus has been temporarily denied in spite of the overwhelming response from students, a Douglas County Health Department official
Kay Kent, administrator-health officer in the health department, said the Kansas Department of Health and Environment would not provide a health check upon grant between the county health department and Watkins Memorial
Special to the Kansan
Health Center until at least July 1. "I am disappointed that the funds
Kent said the state needed to be convinced there was a demand for an anonymous testing program for acquired immune deficiency syndrome on campus before it would allocate funds for the program. Currently, plans for the program, which will begin officially in February, consist of two half-day clinics each month at Watkins.
Priscilla Belcher, Watkins appointment clock, said appointments for the day.
and March already had been filled.
Janie Demo, coordinator of education at Watkins, said, "We've got a responsibility to answer to those who have been hurt by pus. This shows that there is a need."
James Strobl, director of student health services, said he could not be sure if the large number of appointments already filled demonstrated a positive anonymous testing or if it was just an initial rush that would later decrease.
Strobil said that Watkins would continue to offer confidential AIDS testing but that the testing was not
necessarily anonymous because the AIDS test and the results were printed on the student's medical file.
He said the anonymous program would be conducted through the health department using Watkins' facilities for students' convenience.
Ann Aiior, coordinator of the communicable disease counseling and testing program at the health department, said the testing program was a pilot program to see if there was a pilot program for an anonymous testing on campus.
Allor said an important part of the Allor said an important part of the anonymous AIDS test was a counseling session before the blood test to ex-dividends. There were exceptions if the test came back positive.
Allor, who will be conducting the actual tests at Watkins, has been providing this service at the health department since 1987. She said the testing process included a risk assessment to identify risk factors and discuss ways for the individual to lower that risk.
"I'ts not a pleasant thing by any means," she said. "I've had to work through a lot of feelings. I laugh with him, cry with them and hug them a lot."
The anonymous testing program grew out of meetings between Watkins officials and student organizations, including the Women's Student Union and Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
Patrick Dilley, Oklahoma City graduate student and GLSOK member, said the program was to benefit the student body as a whole.
"The gay community has made itself aware of AIDS testing and the importance of safe sex much more to other communities," Dilley said.