VOL. 101, NO.76
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KANSAS STATE MISTURICAL
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Iraqi missiles strike Israel
Soldiers with the U.S. Army's 7th Corps huddle in a bunker with gas masks and chemical suits just after the U.S. started bombing Irvine.
The Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel — Several missiles struck Israel before dawn today, smashing houses in a densely populated neighborhood and causing at least some minor injuries, officials said.
Israelis were ordered into shelters and to told to don gas masks for protection against Iraqi chemical weapons. However, an Army official said none of the missiles carried chemical warheads.
Israel had said it would retaliate if attacked, but there were no signs that a counterattack had been launched. The United States has urged the Jewish state to stay out of the Persian Gulf war, and Arab members of the anti-RAF coalition say that its entry could split the alliance.
"The problem of Israeli retaliation, if at all, arises." Israel television said.
An Israeli official in Washington, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he was under fire.
The official said preliminary reports suggested that three missiles had exploded in Tel Aviv, two in the northern seaport of Haifa and three in unpopulated areas of the country. It wasn't clear where the others landed.
The first air raid sirens went off in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv at about 2 a.m. Numerous explosions could be heard
A U.S. military source in Washington said it appeared 10 missiles were launched from western Iraq and eight landed in Israel.
Brig. Gen, Nachman Shai, the Israeli army representative, said there were at least seven minor injuries. Police reports said at least 30 people were taken to hospitals but their conditions were not known.
Television pictures showed buildings in a poorer residential neighborhood in Tel Aviv that had been bombarded by an Israeli missile. Smoke waited out of bomb craters.
Tel Aviv Mayor Shiloo Lahat told Israel television that two or three buildings were destroyed.
Israel's ambassador to the United States, Zalman Shoval, described the neighborhood as being inhabited mostly by elderly people and labor-
Shoval, speaking to reporters in Washington, said Israel reserved the right to respond in any way it deemed would not say what it planned to do.
He stressed that Israel had taken a calculated risk by not striking Iraq pre-emptively. As a result, he said, it
had paid the dearest price of any of the countries in the Middle East that faced Iraqi aggression except Kuwait itself.
An U.S. official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Israel had the right to defend itself. His comment appeared to signal that the United States would understand if Israel struck back.
The official also repeated U.S. assurances given Israel in the past few weeks that an unprovoked attack was possible on an appropriate U.S. response
Bush condemned the attack on Israel and was outraged at it.
The White House said President
"Coalition forces in the gulf are attacking missile sites and other targets in Iraq," press secretary Martin Fitzwater said in a statement.
Shai said Israel's military leaders convened in Tel Aviv to consider what to do. The country's next steps are coordinated with the United States.
hotline with the Americans," he said.
"I want to remind that so far we have coordinated our steps with the Americans. This is a very important step, and I will maintain the communication, the
notice with the americans," he said. Kuwait's ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad A. Abubasan, said, "We are afraid of Israel reaction. If there is, it complicates the matter, but we should not exaggerate the complication."
It was the first time Tel Aviv or other major population centers had come under bombardment since the 1973 Middle East war.
The Israeli army said the missiles were likely of the al-Hussein type, an attacker used by Israel.
See IRAQ, Page 16
Gulf crisis hasn't cut recruiting
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Kansan staff writer
"We reached 103 percent of our mission in December for the Kansas and eastern Missouri area," said Bob Wolstad of the Army recruiting office in Kansas City.
The level of recruitment for the U.S. armed forces has exceeded set goals since the beginning of the crisis began in August, officials said.
Sgt. Jann Lugo, an Army recruiter in Kansas, said that it would take six to 18 months for a person who has served in the Army today to become battle-ready.
"We've seen an increase in requests for information about the Navy," he said. "They're saying they want to fight for their country, be patriotic."
Petty Officer Chip Littlewood from the Navy recruiting office for the Lawrence area said recruitment had been going as planned.
When a person enlists in the Navy, it takes six months to a year to be fully trained, depending on the area of specialization. Littlewood said.
"If a person were to enlist in the Navy right now, in all reality, they would not see any action in the gulf war," he said.
Staff Sgt. John Bannon, of a Topeka recruiting team, said enlistments for the Air Force have exceeded the set goals.
Banion, who covers the Lawrence area, said he had no problems meeting his recruiting goals.
"In fact, I've been over my goal crisis, and the start of the gulf crisis." The job is hard.
It takes nearly two years for an Air Force recruit to become fully trained for a job.
Figures were not yet available for recruitment levels since the initiation of war against Iraq in Operation Desert Storm on Wednesday.
Turkey's parliament authorizes use of air bases
A two-front war against Iraq
The Associated Press
ANKARA. Turkey — Parliament yesterday authorized the use of air bases in Turkey for attacks on Iraq by U.S. warplanes.
It passed the Warpwaters Resolution by a vote of 250 to 148, with 52 abstentions, in a session convened hours after the U.S.-organized multinational force began air strikes against Iraq and its forces in Kuwait.
Turkey is the only NATO country sharing a border with Iran.
"The bases could be used if the U.S. wants, and also airspace could be used," President Turgut Ozal said.
after the vote.
Opposition parties voted against the measure, saying it would drag Turkey into the war. But the governing, Motherland Party has a solid majority with 276 seats in the 450-seat parliament.
Col. Gary R. Lorenz, U.S. commander at Incirlik told reporters vester-
The main base is Incirlik near Adana in southern Turkey, 440 miles west of the Iraqi border, where the United States has deployed 48 warplanes and 16 helicopters and F-115s. An additional 48 U.S. war planes began arriving yesterday.
There was no immediate indication if or when the bases would be used for strikes against Iraq.
day that he received no orders involving use of the planes.
Lorenz said Patriot surface-to-air antiaircraft missiles also had arrived at the base. He did not say how many.
NATO also has deployed about 50 Belgian, Italian and German planes
Military analysts in Ankara say Incirlik may not be used immediately but only when the United States feels the need for attacks from the north to hit Iraqi targets close to the Turkish border.
in Turkey to signal the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's commitment to defend the country from attack
Col. Boudwign Grunewald, the Dutch liaison officer for the NATO force, said a unit of Patriot missiles fired from an aircraft over Europe and a second unit was due yesterday.
In southeastern Turkey, near the border with Iraq, shops closed yesterday and thousands of residents fled from their homes. The Turks
remaining lined up to buy plastic to
cover windows in event of chemical
More than 100,000 Turkish troops along the 150-mile frontier with northern Iraq were on alert, officials said. But no threatening moves came from the 100,000 Iraqi soldiers dug in hundreds of vards away.
Prime Minister Yildirim Akbuhil pledged that Turkey would not attack Iraq unless Iraq struck first.
Child care center will stay open
By Jonathan Plummer
Stouffer Place residents Jing Guan (left), An-An Ku (center) and Lu Wang enjoy some time at the apartment complex davcare center.
Kansan staff writer
Kim Callahan/KANSAN
A daycare center at Stouffer Place Apartments that has been operating without liability insurance since it opened Monday will continue operations today, a worker at the center said yesterday.
The organizers of Helping Hands Day Care Center discovered Wednesday that because of miscommunications among volunteers and the University Comptroller, the center had been operating without insurance, said Kim Kelly, Wichita senior and a volunteer at the center.
Kelly said she decided to keep the center open for the rest of the week because she feared the children could be left unsupervised if commitments the center made to parents were broken.
"I felt we were obliged to finish the week out," Kelly said. "I know I shouldn't have, but I always try to think in the children's best interest."
Jonathan Long, an assistant director of the office of residence life, said he had been notified by the center that a doctor had advised would insurance and would close until Feb. 4, when the insurance will have been processed.
The state does not require daycare centers to have liability insurance, but an agreement between the office of residence life and the Stouffer Neighborhood Association stipulates that the center be insured. Kelly said
Long said the office of residence life agreed to pay the rent and utilities of the center because there is a need for day care in Stouffer Place.
Melissa Gratton, a member of the association, agreed that the center fulfilled a need.
Stouffer Place is an on-campus apartment complex for married students.
"This summer there were children left unattended at the playground here," she said. "They found some children playing in the Jawhaker Towers pool. It costs a fortune to send children to day care."
The parents pay $1 an hour for the service, must agree to work two to four hours a week at the center and provide a nutritious snack for the children at least once a week, she said.
The center is seeking financing from Student Senate to help pay the costs of a full-time director, Kelly said.
Regents propose increase in tuition, starting in '92
By Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Students planning to attend college in Kansas in the next four years may need to prepare for hefty tuition increases.
After considering a variety of issues about how the increase should be implemented, the Board of Regents Tuition and Fees Task Force passed a proposal to raise tuition beginning in Fall 1992.
Resident tuition will increase 10 percent at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University and 8 percent at Emporia State University. Fort Hays State University and Pittsburg State University
Non-resident tuition will increase 12.5 percent at all the Regents schools. The increase, if approved, may be leveled for three consecutive years.
The proposal was amended to include a line-item allocation that, if
The proposal will go before the Regents this spring for final approval.
Task force members were unsure if the $15-a-credit hour engineering equipment fee, passed by the committee, would be in effect for the three-year period.
'The proposal allows us to address funding needs across the state and offers benefits to all institutions. It's inevitable that you're going to see an increase in tuition.'
passed by the Legislature, would eliminate the fee without losing the revenue used to purchase and maintain equipment used by the School of Engineering.
In addition, enough money would be available for the same purpose in other departments.
The line-item component was proposed by Mike Schreiner, student body president and a member of the Student Advisory Committee.
If the proposal is approved by the Regents but not the Legislature, the engineering fee will remain in effect. However, the Regents will have the
"The proposal allows us to address funding needs across the state and offers benefits to all institutions," he said. "The program helps our students to gain a sense to see an increase in tuition."
opportunity to reconsider the tuition increase.
Andrea Roberts, Emporia State student body president and a member of the committee, asked that a re-evaluation clause be included.
"I just want to be sure that, if it doesn't pass, the students won't have to pay for something they're not receiving," Roberts said. "That's what happened to us in the third year of the Margin of Excellence."
Schreiner said he and Roberts also were concerned with making Kansas schools attractive to out-of-state students.
"The proposed 12.5 percent non-resident increase will still place us below peer institutions when comparing tuition," he said. "In addition, we want to offer a fee waiver to out-state students who have a 3.75 grade point average coming out of high school.
"They would have to maintain a 3.5 GPA when they're here, but they would only be charged the in-state amount. It's an indication that the Regents want to bring top-top students to the state of Kansas."
Schreiner also discussed a need-based waiver program that could be offered to residents.