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VOL. 101, NO.77
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Copter saves downed pilot
U.S. Patriot missiles intercept Iraqi attacks on Saudi Arabia
The Associated Press
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — The besieged Baghdad government turned captured pilots into "human shields" against, be allied air assaults and struck in the skies. A lucky aircraft plucked from the Iraq desert in a bold rescue mission.
Irauck struck back at Saudi Arabia this morning with Seud missile attacks on Riyadh and Dhabran. At a shot down by U.S. Patrol missiles.
WAR with IRAQ
No casualties were reported.
Debris from missiles crashed near the Dhahran International Hotel and onto a street in Riyadh, 270 miles to the southwest.
on the fifth day of Operation Desert Storm, the U.S.-led military campaign to oust Iraq from occupied Kuwait, a Navy A-6 Intruder pilot was rescued by a search-and-rescue
helicopter after two Air Force A-10 attack planes crisscrossed the skies for eight hours and refueled four times in their search.
"We couldn't take the risk," he said.
In the final minutes, an A-10 fired on and destroyed an Iraqi army truck approaching the downed pilot's location of the A-10 pilots. Capt. Randy Goff.
The military did not immediately release the name of the rescued pilot or provide other details, such as the age of the pilot, at the time of time the pilot was on the ground.
Allied pilots kept up day-and-night assaults yesterday, and a U.S. commander said the air war would last at least another two weeks. Iraq reported 14 raids late Sunday and early yesterday.
"It was awesome and it was frightening." British television reporter Brent Sadri said after emerging from Iraq and reaching Amman, Iran.
Without water and electricity, life in Baghdad was becoming primitive.
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Saudi units move behind troops
The Associated Press
IN SAUDI ARABIA — Saudi units assigned to the front line near Kuwait moved to positions behind U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria, surprising some U.S. and British soldiers.
Saudi officials acknowledge the pullback but insist it was, in the words of an official military source, "a planned withdrawal."
American military sources said the U.S. command knew about it ahead of time, but the U.S. command has refused official comment.
"We're essentially the front now" said a U.S. Marine officer, who would be there if the plane crashed.
If the Saudi troops "had come by when" they were pulling back, said a British officer in the border area, "I'd have turned my bloody guns on them and sent them back."
U.S. Marines remain, however,
and have inched north, harassed
every day by artillery and rocket fire
from Iraqi forces just across the
Kuwaiti border. Several Marines have been reported slightly wounded.
"Our guys are up there getting shot at, jumping into NBC (chemical protective) suits three, four times a day," the Marine officer said.
Since the American buildup began after Iraq seized Kuwait on Aug. 2, U.S. and Saudi commanders have said their soldiers would fight side-by-side in case of war. Some unite level U.S. commanders, however, have questioned the Saudis' willingness to fight.
"Our forces are ready and willing to fight," a Saudi official said. "This was a planned move and is nothing to our commitment. We will fight."
But, as the ground troops move into new positions near the border, it is increasingly clear that U.S. and British forces are taking positions where the fiercest tank and tank and infantry battles are likely.
Three-day event includes banquet, music, service
By Lara Gold
Kansan staff writer
Everybody sharing the responsibility of breathing life into the dream of Dr. Martin King Jr. was the underlying theme of his three-day birthday celebration, titled "Let Freedom Ring Now."
"Martin Luther King brought hope to speech," said the Rev Wallace Hartfield, pastor of the Metropolis Baptist Church in Kansas City, Mo.
"Hope has to be articulated. Hope has to be put into speech. Hope has to be put into word." Hartssaid said to the reporter on Wednesday in Kansas Union Ballroom on Saturday.
"One of the reasons Martin Luther King became such a great leader was because when he said something, people who could not speak felt like they said it," Harsfield said. "He saying what they felt deep within."
The celebration began with a banquet and lecture Saturday and included a gospel musical Sunday and a commemorative service yesterday. All events were sponsored by the Ecumenical Fellowship, the University of Kansas and Douglas County.
Gov. Joan Finney made a surprise appearance at the banquet and lecture.
"Martin Luther King is a model," she said. "A model for all Americans."
Hartfield said one of the enemies of King's spoken hope was silence.
Other enemies to hope are "those people who don't want to rock the
He said King was created to bring hope to a world of racism.
boat and criticize the system that permits racism," Hartfsield said.
"When God got ready to stop us from riding on backs of buses, to move off sidewalks so that other people can walk in there and back doors. King was born," he said.
Hartfield said that he had this hope and that everybody needed to be there.
"Don't give up the dream. And let freedom ring now." he said.
Voices singing the verses of freedom on Sunday rang through the St. Luke A.M.E. Church, 900 New York Avenue, on the occasion of the celebration of King's birthday.
About 200 people jammed the church to hear local and state gospel groups
KU's Inspirational Gospel Voices,
a student gospel group, brought people to their feet, dancing and singing and clapping with the music.
"Any man who is prejudicial has admitted he is not who he wants to be," said the Rev. Frederick Sampson, a graduate of Dartmouth Baptist Church in Detroit.
The aplause continued yesterday at the Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church, 847 Ohio St.
"Don't just dream his dream," he said. "Launch it."
Sampson presented his plan on how to contraf the problems of racism and human inequality.
"We have to have the commitment to confront, the courage to change and the confidence to continue," he said. "All of us have to get together
The Rev. Frederick Sampson offers a plan to end racism.
and make a fist of purpose."
and make a list of purpose.
He said, "It's not Blacks on one side and whites on the other."
Getting to a "cohesive wholeness" is the challenge to combat the problems and get to victory, Sampson said.
Sampson, who has served as a delegate to the United Nations, was presented a key to the city by Mayor Shirley Martin-Smith.
Smith said Lawrence was founded in the anti-slavery tradition.
She said all citizens of Lawrence should reflect their heritage and welcome anyone who believes in peace, equality and happiness for all. Smith said the week of Jan. 16 to Jan. 22 was proclaimed Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
Sampson said, "Blacks and whites should get together.
King followers address current issues
The Associated Press
Hundreds of people filled a large assembly hall at the Jack Reardon Civic Center in Kansas City, Kan., to hear speeches and spirituals
ATLANTA — The war in the Persian Gulf and the war for economic equality at home were the themes yesterday as followers of the Rev. George King Jr. observed the national holiday marking the civil rights leader's birth.
"Even when they killed the dreamer, the dream lived on," the Rev. Nelson Thompson told the assembly. "If they knew what would happen after they shot him, they would never have shot him. If they knew that he had knowledge, they would have taken himbildung named after him, they would never have shot him.
"Still, we are not yet free all over the world," added Thompson, president of the area chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. "As we invade Kuwait and Baghdad to liberate the Kuwaiti people, I want to ask the question when do we liberate the South African people. We have come a long way, but we have a long way to go."
Kansas Gov. Joan Finney urged blacks in Kansas to remain unified and said that they deserved much of the credit for her upset election over Mike Hayden and for giving Democrats a majority in the state House.
“It’s very important that you remain unified,” Finney said. “It is fitting and proper to the honor and tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King.
said. "I know this continues today because 25 percent of the troops serving in the Middle East are members of the black community."
Finney promised to increase black employment in state government. She said she soon would announce the appointments of blacks to the state Corporation Commission, the Board of Regents and to her cabinet.
"You and your ancestors made similar contributions to the state of Kansas and to this country," she
In Arizona, where a bitter political battle has been waged over whether to establish a paid state holiday, a group of farmers drew an estimated 20,000 people.
Elsewhere around the country,
many people observing the holiday
endured bitter cold or faced off with
a bear in the rain and kninched heads and Ku Klux Klan members
At King's Atlanta church, former Mayor Andrew Young called for a temporary halt in allied bomb
"The violence is producing the very chaos that we seek to avoid," he said. "Now is the time to seek a solution."
attacks on Iraq to allow the dispute over the invasion of Kuwait to return to the negotiating table.
Young, the keynote speaker at the annual ecumenical service honoring the slain civil rights leader, joined King's widow, Coretta Scott King, for a full cause live during her annual "State of the Dream" address Sunday.
Mrs. King appealed for King's followers to become involved in working to stop the war.
The ecumenical service was followed by a parade through downtown Atlanta. Organizers estimated that the cold, blustery weather to watch
Changes lead to improvements in math grades
Changes in Math Programs Show Improvement
Bv Eric Nelson
Dramatic improvements occurred in the success of students taking KU's self-taught math courses during the past semester, KU officials
Kansan start writer
Improvements were presented to the Board of Regents on Thursday in a preliminary report compiled by the University.
Del Brinkman, vice-chancellor for academic affairs, said that the self-taught math courses could be a successful means of teaching the large number of students enrolled in the courses.
A set of changes were designed by a University task force and implemented at the beginning of Fall 1990 with the assistance of 200 and 101, both self-taught courses.
"There have been concerns for a number of years," Brinkman said. "Because it did not appear successful, we put together this task force."
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that from Spring 1990 to Fall 1999, the number of students receiving either A's, B' or C's in Math 022, increased from 29 to 66 percent.
Robert Creighton, chairperson of the Regents, said the improvements reported were impressive.
The number of students receiving D's and F's in the two courses has declined. In Math 002, the number fell from 42 to 21 percent. In Math 101, the number declined from 33 to 22 percent.
In Math 101, that figure increased from 44 to 67 percent, he said.
Withdrawals in the two courses also has decreased. Math 002 dropouts after the 20th day fell from 29 to
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12 percent. In Math 101, that number decreased from 24 to 12 percent.
The first change was that all students enrolled in the course were required to attend class each week, he said. Students enrolled in Math 002 had to attend one class while students enrolled in Math 101 had to attend two times a week.
Second, students could no longer choose which math course to begin with as freshmen, he said. Placement was decided by either ACT math scores or by a placement exam at the orientation or the beginning of the year.
Shulenburger said that four basic changes were made at the beginning of the year at the recommendation of the task force.
Third, the program used more flash cards in its curriculum, he said.
The flash cards were available on microcomputers for students enrolled in the course.
Fourth, there was a significant amount of revision in the course material and manual, Shulenburger said.
The program involves high school juniors in Kansas taking KU-developed exams that are returned to KU for grading. Results show the students how well prepared they are for college and where they would be placed at KU.
Another program for future success with the math courses focuses on state high schools.
The program began last year in about 30 high schools statewide but has spread to include 100 Kansas high schools and more. The program's Relations Release. Its main purpose
is to prepare high school students for college math requirements.
"If the high school program works and we can spread it statewide, the change we would see is that students would come to KU not needing remedial math courses," Shulenburger said.
The current program is being financed solely by KU, he said. The Regents are interested in the program being used statewide, but the issue of financing will have to go through appropriations in the Legislature.
Brinkman said he did not know if such a program would receive the necessary financing.
The program would cost $100,000 annually if implemented statewide, Shulenburger said.
Scholarship halls have panel honoring King
"You made my, Martin Luther King Day," said Barbara Ballard, associate dean of student life, to 70 students last night after a panel discussion on racism to celebrate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The students crowded into the living room of Douhart Scholarship Hall to share their views with Ballard and two other panelists, Ralph Crowder, assistant professor of history and John Lewis, president of Black Men of Today.
By Jonathan Plummer Kansan staff writer
"When (Black Men of Today) stand up for issues you think are pertinent, speak out," Lewis said. "Many white students are afraid to stand up to their own racist friends."
The panel was the first function of University Scholarship Halls for Ethnic Reality, a group formed in October.
When one student asked what white students could do to help end racism, Lewis said they should educate themselves and attempt to change the students around them.
Crowder answered one student's question about the effect of African-American leaders on gay people, saying people should not fall into the fallacy of thinking one person speaks for a whole race.
a trap he said which is partly extended by the media.
"If you ran into someone, you wouldn't think he spoke for all Jewish people or all Irish people or all Arabs," Crowder said. "You must see people point of view. Black people have vivified opinions. The press makes people into the speaker for all Blacks, and that in itself is racist."
When a white student told of a time she was shunned at a function where she was the minority, Crowder advised her to consider what the other students had done for being at the function was.
“There is a sense of voyeurism about the culture,” Crowder said, “even though it fuels this culture. Try not to take people out of context, and try to understand that people's judgments are based on their past.”
The students saw a videotec of King's "I Have a Dream Speech," and the program concluded when Ballard requested that the group sing "We Shall Overcome."
Crowder said that while he thought King's ideas of civil disobedience still worked as a means of protest, it was no longer effective as a vehicle to empowerment.