VOL.101.NO.79
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
TOPEKA, KS 68612
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1991
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Desert Storm:
Ground forces exchange fire
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Two American soldiers were reported wounded, six Iraqi soldiers captured in ground skirmish.
Tuwaitha
Two nuclear reactors
destroyed
Basra
Iranian news agency
reports heavy bombing
traji nuclear chemical sites destroyed
SOURCE: News reports, pool reports subject to review by military censors.
Research by PAT CARB and WENDY GOVER
Knight Ridder Tribune News
Schmidts suspected of tax-law violation
Police, state agents conduct three-hour search of nightclub owners' apartments
Kansan staff writer
By Vanessa Fuhrmans
Kansas staff writer
Spurred on by alleged tax-law violations, Lawrence police and state authorities yesterday searched the apartment of two Lawrence men nightly.
After a Douglas County district judge approved the search warrants yesterday morning, police and about two dozen agents from the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Division and the internal Revenue Service have arrived to Don Schmidt and their club, The Power Plant, 901 Mississippi St.
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police representative, said the search was successful, but he declined to say what had been confiscated.
But John Bushouse, who was working at the Meadowbrook Apartments, where Don Schmidt lives, said he saw ABC agents seize a car, a boat and boxes from Schmidt's apartment after a three-hour search yesterday.
Mulvenon said that after police had reason to believe the Schmidt's had violated tax laws, the ABC and the IRS were called to join the investigation into the brothers' taxes began Jan. 15. He declared to say how police learned of the allegations but that they were both state and federal tax laws.
The club, which opened in 1989 as Pizzaz, has been under fire for more than a year from area residents who complained about noise and crime.
Mulvenon said that the investiga-
The Schmids' attorney, Mike Riling, declined to comment on the search
Further investigation and analysis of the evidence will take about two weeks, Mulvenon said.
ABC officials financed the club's owners and suspended their license in October for violating liquor laws, and in November for serving alcohol to officers and non-members. The Schmidt appalled the fine and suspension.
Allies preparing for assault on dug-in Iraqi forces in Kuwait
Bush: costly sacrifices ahead
The Associated Press
Saudi Arabia, heading north to targets in Iraq. More than 12,000 combat and support sorties were launched from Saudi Arabia and Iraq from Kuwait, the military said.
President Bush, assessing seven days of fighting, said last night that Operation Desert Storm was running "right on schedule."
DHAIRAH, Saudi Arabia — President Bush sought to prepare U.S. citizens for a long and costly conflict in the Persian Gulf, somberly warning that setbacks and sacrifices lie ahead. Iraq lobbed more missiles at Israel and Saudi Arabia, but Patriot interceptors blasted them in midair.
By the dawn's early light, American warplanes soared off runwaves in
But he and his top military men also drove home another point: The
war is a long way from won.
"There will be setbacks — Bush will be more sacrifices," Bush said in his first address since announcing the war's outbreak.
"We're dealing with an enemy that is resourceful, an enemy that knows how to work around problems, an enemy that is ingenious," said Gen. Colin Powell, chairperson of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Iraq's modified Scud rockets continued to cause trouble far out of proportion to their limited firepower.
Finding Iraq's elusive mobile miss-
sile launchers is a top priority of the anti-terrorism agency.
commander, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, tried yesterday to minimize the actual hazards the missiles pose.
"Saying Seuds are a danger to a nation is like saying lightning is a danger to a nation," Schwarzkopf said.
Such sentiments were small comfort to residents of the northern Israeli coastal town of Haifa, who huddled in sealed rooms with their gas masks last night as air-raid sirens heralded Iraq's fourth missile attack on Israel in five days.
See ALLIES, Page 8
Officials reveal U.S. military plan
The Associated Press
Gen. Colin Powell, the chairperson of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, joined Cheney at a Pentagon briefing on Operation Desert Storm. "Our strategy for dealing with this army is very simple: First we're going to cut it off; then we're going to kill it," Powell said.
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Dick Cheney pledged yesterday to inflict enormous damage on Iraqi troops with new bombing raids and left open the possibility that a land war might be necessary to drive occupying forces from Kuwait.
Cheney said that one week into the campaign, Saddam Hussein and his 545,000-person army in and near occupied remained resourceful and ingenious.
"There may well be surprises ahead for us." Cheney said, contending that Saddam remains capable of mounting a massive air strike, unleashing terrorist attacks or launching missiles.
Yet both Powell and Cheney painted a picture of an Iraqi air force and army that had been forced, by more than 12,000 air combat and support missions, to hunker down in protective bunkers.
"He's not thrown a single military punch back at us." Powell said.
He derided the Scud missile as a weapon of terror against the populations of Israel and Saudi Arabia. But he did not mention vexing problem for warplanes scouring Iraq's vast desert in search of the mobile launchers.
Cheney said, "If we do have to go with our ground forces to push him out of Kuwait, it will be after we have done enormous damage to his ground forces. I think time is clearly on our side."
On Capitol Hill, a source present at a congressional briefing by military officials said lawmakers were told that only a couple of dozen of the more than 12,000 air sorties had been aimed at Saddam's elite Republican Guard, which is encamped in Kuwait and southern Iraq.
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the lawmakers had been told that the search for Seud launchers in western and southern Iraq had diverted some air attention from the anti-personnel phase of the battle plan.
A second source, a member of Congress, confirmed that account.
Spy-satellite photographs seen today showed that at least one Republican Guard unit, an artillery gun, had been hit hard by the bombing.
But the official cautioned that the guard was dispersed and that the artillery position represented only one of many enclaves.
Powell said it was difficult to assess the damage done to Saddam's troops and tanks because such a measure could only be taken when an army attempts to move.
The Iraqi army is dug in and waiting to be attacked, which it will be, Powell said.
Hopeful performance
Maureen Dubuois, Overland Park freshman, puts on her best face during an audition for the University Dance Company. Dubuois and
15 other dancers auditioned last night at Robinson Center for a spot in the dance troupe.
Yellow ribbons show campus solidarity with the gulf forces
Bv Nedra Beth Randolph
Kansan staff writer
Students are displaying yellow ribbons all over campus to show support for the troops in the Middle East.
oy putting up the yellow ribbons, it's telling the soldiers we want them home," said Tim Winkelebke, Deer-crossing troop leader to do with supporting the war."
Winkbleck organized a group of Hashinger Hall residents to put up yellow ribbons inside the hall and tie them around car antennas outside
"There were some war protesters tearing the ribbons down," he said. "They don't understand that the ribbons do not symbolize the war at
Tim Rummel, a member of Voice, said that for some members of the campus peace group, the ribbons do
Rummel, an Oakley junior, said that the members of Voice who wanted to use or wear yellow ribbons to show support for the troops could do so but that it would not be a group action.
symbolize war. The group planned to distribute ribbons on campus to show support for the troops.
However, some members thought it might look as if they were supporting the war, so they decided not to do it as a group, he said.
"We couldn't come to a decision on what kind of message the ribbons would send," he said.
"Just because we support the troops, it does not mean we support the policies that go them there," said Rummel, who were a yellow arm around his arm. "The best way to support them is to bring their way to support them."
Employees of Stitch on Needlework, 928 Massachusetts St., said they had donated an unspecified amount of yellow ribbon to people who said they were members of Voice.
The symbolic ribbons have been placed all across campus but many University officials said they did not who tied the ribbons around the trees.
Margaret Miller, assistant director of organizations and activities, said, "I just drove onto campus on Saturday and they were all over the place."
Representatives from the Organizations and Activities Center said no one had asked for permission to put up the ribbons.
Nobody at the chancellor's office, in Strong Hall, where some of the ribbons were placed, knew who put them up either.
Jim Scaly, assistant to the chancellor, said, "We didn't do it, but I'm certainly not going take them down."
Merchants from many area craft stores have done brisk business with yellow ribbon.
Several fraternities and sororites have put up yellow ribbons on their houses to show their support for the troops.
"We can't even order it from the factory," she said. "They're sold out, too."
Candy Clark, an employee of George's Hobby House, 143 W. 23rd St., said the store was completely sold out of yellow ribbon.
Charlotte Kenberry, who works at the Flower Shoppe, 1101 Massachusetts St., said, "There have been some requests in and asking for yellow ribbon."
A yellow ribbon around a tree in front of Wesco Hall shows student support for U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf.