University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 16, 1991
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Watkins staff cut by Gulf recruitment
By Mike Vargas
Kansan staff writer
Watkins Memorial Health Center is currently lacking one physician because of the Persian Gulf crisis.
But if war breaks out, Watkins could be lacking two physicians during what has been traditionally the winter months, said Charles Yoyck, chief of staff.
Yockey, an Air Force reservist who is on 24-hour notice, said the shortage in staff had been anticlippant. Yockey worked working extra hours to compensate
Yockey said hiring replacements was another provision that Watkins had made in preparation for the flu season, which usually begins in January and lasts to the beginning of spring break.
James Strobl, director of student health services, said two physicians had been hired to help the existing staff.
But despite these provisions, Yockey said if he was activated to military duty before Feb. 11, Watkins would be short two physicians.
Yockey said the temporary physician who recently was hired, Randall Rock, needed to give his former employer notice and was not able to start working at Watkins until Feb. 11.
He also said Myra Strother, a family practitioner who is replacing Pat Walker, would not start working at Wakins until March 18.
Walker, a general practice physician, resigned his job at Watkins and joined the Army, where he was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, a Fort Riley combat unit. Walker has been in Saudi Arabia since Jan. 7, Yockey said.
Another member of the Watkins staff who may move to a physical therapy. Mike Chase
Chapman, a Navy reservist, said Watkins was fortunate not to have lost more of its staff. He said many pharmacists and medical technicians
Peggy Graham, media coordinator at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said that 14 members of the Med Center's staff had been activated to military duty, and that one was on standby. She said 54 Med Center employees had a potential military commitment.
Students form peer group for support in gulf crisis
Kansan staff writer
By Amy Francis
She did not find one.
This led her, with the help of Teri Avis, Lawrence graduate student, to form the Persian Gulf Crisis Peer Support Group.
North's boyfriend, John Miller, is in Saudi Arabia. He was sent Oct. 2 from Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City.
"The group is an outlet for those who have family or friends over in the Persian Gulf," North said. "It's not going to be an intense counseling session. It's just a place to come and vent your feelings. This is not a group where political action is going to take place."
Avis, who has a stepson in Turkey, said the purpose of the group was to provide peer support for people and
also to help them find information about someone in the gulf.
The group's first meeting is 7 p.m. Sunday at the Immunary Lutheran Church, 2104 W. 15th St. The group is not limited to KU students but is open to anyone who has a friend or relative in the Middle East, North said.
"I know I'm not the only one out there," she said.
Ten Army units have been deployed from Kansas to Saudi Arabia, said Chdy Weaver, public affairs officer 80th U.S. Army Reserve.Command.
Other Army units from Kansas have not been entirely deployed to the gulf. Of those, one unit has been partially deployed, one activated and one divided into groups and sent to other units in connection with the deployment of other units.
Some members of these units are KU students.
North plans to have weekly meetings at 7 p.m. Sundays until the situation in the gulf has ended. But no
specific plans for the first meeting have been made.
"People will come with things to
saith said. "I'll let the group
meet itself."
Avis said she thought people would get involved with the group but might not attend the first meeting.
"I think a lot of people are on a sort of hold pattern to see what happens," Ivis said.
Although some people might be on a hold pattern, North and Avis are working to inform people.
North said she had contacted radio stations and newspapers in Lawrence and posted fliers that Avis had made.
Avis and North said they did not know what to expect from the situation in the Middle East during the weeks, but they did expect problems.
"I tend to be a very realistic person," North said. "Ideally, I think everyone wants peace and happiness, but that's just not reality."
Views on U.S. policy in gulf vary in state and University
Bv Rick C. Honish
Kansan staff writer
The possibility of war has reached its highest point, and politicians, professors and students are setting into their opinions as a basis for the war. The ippy-pile.
The U.N. resolution giving the United States and its allies the power to use force to remove Iraq from Kuwait is now in effect.
Since the Aug. 2 invasion by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's armies, the United States has maintained a firm position that it would not back down from its threat to militarily attack Iraq if he did not pull out by the deadline.
ation.
Deborah Gerner, assistant professor of political science specializing in Middle East politics, said the stunner was that he had avoided had there been more negoti-
Economic sanctions have been in effect for more than six months, but their effectiveness has been questioned by many.
"The attitudes of Iraq and the U.S. have not been conducive to diplomacy or negotiation," she said.
She said that in order to negotiate, the two sides had to put something on the table that they would be willing to do. They agreed that the other side had been willing to do that.
She said she was not convinced that military action was the proper way to solve the crisis, especially when the states was so divided in its omnions.
"Once you go to war, it is very hard to step back from war," she said.
Gerner said that having the U.N. endorsement for the removal of Iraq from Kuwait was one thing, but refusing to negotiate was another.
Aida Dabbas, Amman, Jordan, graduate student, mirrored the opinion of Gerner in her belief that the sanctions had not been given enough time. She said she thought the United States was rushing toward war and thousands of innocent people would
be killed because of the stubbornness of the U.S. government.
"The cost of war is more than the cost of keeping the sanctions working," she said. "There should not be a single person involved as much time to work as necessary."
Pam Rucker, press assistant for Sen. Robert Dole said that the senator also did not want war but that he supported the president. She said that Dole wanted to send Saddam the message that the United States was a victim of the war and would be enough to convince Saddam that he was making a grave mistake.
Sen Nancy Kassebaum also agreed to support the president in her Jan. 11 floor statement to Congress.
"A man who will torture and execute the children of his opponents is容易被判无罪。"
She said that it came down to whether "one brutal dictator should be given life-or death power over the nation of our nation and all our allies."
Kansan staff writer
Sunflower artillery production steady
By Nedra Beth Randolph
affairs officer at the plant.
But the plant has not been ordered to step up production since the initiation of Operation Desert Shield in August, said Sharon Fritz, public
The artillery product that the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in DeSoto produces most likely will be used in the Persian Gulf if war breaks out, said Jess Manahan, chief of the military branch of the Army Corps of Engineers in Kansas City, Mo.
"The plant is assigned a certain, undisclosed amount to produce, and that number has not changed," she said.
tion, she said.
The plant has not hired any new personnel since the deployment of troops to the gulf, Fritz said.
The plant — the only one of its kind in Kansas — produces nitroguanidine, a powdery substance that is used as a propellant for ammunition. It is one part of a triple propellant used in tank and artillery ammuni-
The plant cannot disclose for security reasons whether its product is being used in Operation Desert Shield, Fritz said. But Manahan said that since there were guns and tanks in the air before dine to fire artillery, it was likely that the plant's product was being used in the
The Army ammunition plant closest to the DeSoto plant is the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in
Independence, Mo.
The Lake City plant produces small arms ammunition for the Department of Defense, said Dale Pollard, civilian executive assistant for the plant. He said the plant produced the cartridges that are used in the rounds for small weapons.
The Lake City plant has not been producing any more ammunition or hired any more employees since the beginning of Operation Desert Shield, Pollard said.
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