University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 24, 1991
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Iraqi use of German weapons a serious issue, journalist says
By Sarah Davis Kansan staff writer
The Germans are wringing their hands in anguish, a German journalist said yesterday during a lecture at the Kansas Union.
Carola Kaps, economic correspondent for the Frankforter Allgemeine Zeitung, a German newspaper, spoke of the war's toll in Persian Gulf war to about 40 people.
Lisa Harris, program assistant for the office of international studies and programs, said Kaps came to the University of Kansas as part of a series of events to promote German awareness on campus.
Other events include the Camerata Musica-Berin chamber orchestra concert, which was Sunday, and a photo exhibit documenting the fall of 1968 by students display in the Murphy Hall Exhibition Gallery until Jan. 31.
— Carola Kaps German journalist
Kaps said one of the most serious issues confronting Germany today
'It could well be that the gulf war will be remembered in history as the war for which the Germans supplied the chemical weapons.'
was its involvement in supplying chemical weapons to Iraq.
"It could well be that the gulf war will be remembered in history as the war for which the Germans supplied the chemical weapons." Kaps said.
"The question raised here in America and especially in Congress is 'Where are the Germans?' " she said. "How come they're at the
sidelines?    how come the Germans are on the streets protesting, whereas the British, French and German are in contesting with the Americans in the fight?"
It creates tremendous problems because it is all one country now," she said.
Kaps also spoke of the challenge of combining what was the booming West German economy and the economic challenges that were part of East Germany.
Kaps also discussed being able to stabilize migration from the region that was East Germany to the more prosperous western side of the country.
An average of 20,000 people a month travel to the West, totaling 4 million since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
"It's a constant drain of skilled people who are missing in an economy that you want to build up," she said.
Campus police receive instruction to use new semiautomatic handgun
Bv Mike I. Vargas
Kansan staff writer
The KU police department is in the process of joining half of the nation's police departments by replacing the police officers with semi-automatic handguards.
Of the 34 KU police officers, 24 have completed the training to use the Glock 17 and presently are carrying the gun, said KU Police Lt. John Dale. The police, whose whole force will have learned to use the 9mm semiautomatic handgun.
When officers start training, they turn in their .38 Smith & Wesson revolvers for the Glock. Mullens said.
To complete training, an officer must have had eight hours of training in the classroom and 24 hours of training on the firing range. he said.
The day in class is designed to teach the officers the various features of the gun, Mullens said. The class will make the officers familiar with a different style of holster and show how to clean and care for their guns.
He said that on the firing range, officers must receive 80 percent or better to meet training requirements.
During the timed test, officers must shoot from various positions at a target that is from seven feet to 25 yards from them.
Officers also must be proficient in low light to test their night-firing abilities.
"Officers will continue firing the Glock until it becomes second nature." Mullens said.
James Denney, KU police director, said that the present revolvers were being replaced because they were wearing out.
Denney said police officials tested
a variety of semiautomatics and revolvers and surveyed recommendations from other police departments before making their choice.
The Glock was chosen because it was the most economically efficient gun that could provide officers with better protection than a revolver, Denney said. It cost about $14,000 to issue the Glocks to the department.
The Glock's reloading process is faster and makes the gun more efficient during a potential shoot-out. The Glock's reloading process of reloading a revolver, he said.
Burdal Welsh, KU police representative, said the Glock could hold 17 rounds.
The gun is also easier to handle and is less likely to malfunction, he said.
Although the Glock is more dura-
ble and relatively similar to the
revolver, Denney
AIDS activists stage protests in New York
The Associated Press
Demonstrators chanted outside the New York Stock Exchange, and before they descended on the train station, they left empty coffins at City Hall symbolizing the despair of AIDS.
NEW YORK — Hundreds of AIDS activists marched through the city yesterday, clogging Grand Central Terminal during evening rush to protest government policies they believed were driving for war over spending for health.
It was the second day of demonstrations planned by the AIDS Coalition to unleash Power — ACT IP
train platforms, chanting: "We're dying of red tape!"
About 400 protesters stretched out in the center of Grand Central. Others emptied racks of train schedulers and dumped them into vets, others, string, red tape, across
One man scaled 15 feet up the terminal's main clock to place a stickering caller for money for AIDS and some threw fake blood on the floor.
A sign attached to a cluster of red balloons read "Money for AIDS, Not for War." As the cluster floated to the orate ceiling of the terminal, the protesters created a cacophony of whistles, screams and applause, at one point chanting "Thousands dead, where's George?"
"We're spending all this money putting together a city in the desert to kill people, but we can't take care of the thousands that are dying of AIDS and the homeless." Goldberg, 32, of New York. "We here today let commuters know
that AIDS is everyone's problem."
"transit official said trains ran on schedule despite the massive protest. There were no arrests at Grand Central, but police representative Fred Weiner said that about 60 demos had been reported later after a street was blocked.
Earlier, three marchers were arrested when they tried to deliver a container, which they said contained medicine, to the city health commissioner.
Tuesday night in New York, 10 people from ACT UP were taken into police custody after invading the broadcast studios of CBS and PBS and disrupting the start of the netting process. Four other protesters were stopped and turned in to police when they tried to get into NBC's studios.
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