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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 16, 1991
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Calls for peace in the face of war
Demonstrators desire peaceful solution in gulf
Students march to memorial
Paul Longabach, a member of Voice, speaks about the U.S. role in the gulf. About 80 protesters marched on campus yesterday, afternoon.
By Eric Nelson Kansan staff writer
A crowd of more than 80 people demonstrated against possible war in the Persian Gulf with a march and rally yesterday after reports that a nuclear bomb had been
The march began at the Kansas Union and culminated with speeches given at the memorial. Participants in the demonstration included University of Kansas students and Lawrence residents.
"We organized this in the last few hours," said Dan McCloskey, Iowa City, Iowa, junior, one of the organizers of the march and rally. "I believe it will show that people are against this war."
McCloskey is a member of Voice, a student organization protesting possible war.
Members of the protest carried banners and flags. The memorial was decorated with a black casket surrounded by bottles of Pennzoil. One student wrapped himself in an American flag.
with the situation and was grow ing more impatient.
"It has to be stated that we are not for giving into Saddam Hussein." McCloskey said. "We are for taking the time to finding a solution to this horrible crisis and recognizing the responses that this war will have."
Recent war protests included the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice rally, Sunday, which was attended by about 650 people, and a protest Monday at the University by local high school students.
McCloskey said another reason for the demonstration was to recognize the Jan. 15, 1929, birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
"His stand on the Vietnam War cannot be overstated now," McCloskev said.
He said that although Voice members participated in the protest, it included many others. He said the public was discontented
The protesters marched to the memorial because Vietnam was the last battle students were directly involved in. But McCloskey said the implications of this activity and damaging than Vietnam.
Tom Berger, associate director of the office of affirmative action, was one of the speakers at the rally.
"The Congress didn't stop the last one," he said. "The people must stop the war."
Several pleas were made for increased protest during the eight to nine hours that remained until a United Nations resolution passed.
become actively involved. She said more than 120 faculty members signed the Vote petition at a stand located in the Union.
Deborah Gerner, assistant professor of political science focusing on international relations and politics, will lead a plea to other faculty members to
"This is not an appropriate
occasion to go to war," she said.
McCloskey said Voice would sponsor more activities throughout the week. The organization formerly had about 200 members, but 200 new members have signed
up in the last two days.
He said that while he was hoping for a resolution, the thought of war had interrupted his sleep.
"There hasn't been enough
Protesters are hoping that their opinions will be heard before combat begins.
demonstrating to tell the administration we don't want this war," he said.
Lawrence priest writes Bush in protest
By Vanessa Fuhrmans Kansan staff writer
"It been on my mind from the beginning, since Aug. 2," said Krische, director of the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road. "But I always had this idea that we'd learn what that we'd learned our lessons. The people I listened to gave me the hope that Congress wouldn't approve the resolution.
When Rev. Vince Krische sent a peace letter to President Bush two weeks ago, he never imagined the threat of war would be so real.
"I heard that (the United States) had ordered 50,000 body
The threat of war turned an ordinary meeting of the Catholic Campus Ministry Association in Orlando. Fla._ into a peace rally.
bags. When you hear that, it's just like lead in your stomach. We're actually preparing for our people to be killed."
Krische attended the association's annual Continuing Education Week Jan. 2-7. He was one of 132 Roman Catholic college chaplains who signed a letter to President Bush and House Speaker Thomas Foley to protest the possibility of war.
"It wasn't on the agenda at all," he said. "But within 15 minutes of people getting there, everyone started talking, saying,
'We've got to say something about the possibility of what's happening in the Persian Gulf.'
Krische said he now was even more worried that the United
Although the Catholic chaplains condemned Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, a war was "not a viable option for the human family or our planet," according to the letter. It urged the president to continue economic sanctions and negotiation.
"Every other possible angle has to be searched," Krische said. "War has to be the last resort. We know there's a problem in Iraq, but have we exhausted all other possibilities?"
States would go to war
He said he was surprised that Congress had voted to give the president the authority to go to war because he felt it did not reflect the opinions of the community.
"We all have people in our communities that are going to Saudi Arabia," he said. "It touches all of us. In my life as a priest, the young people here are really important to me."
Allan Hanson, member of the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice, said he had noticed increased anti-war sentiment in lawrence. About 650 people participated in an afternoon vigil Sunday.
Vince Krische shows a letter he sent to President Bush last week.
KBI reopens investigation of three Native American deaths
Bv Katie Chipman
Kansan staff writer
A team of four Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents, two Douglas County sheriff's investigators and two Lawrence police investigators investigated recently reopened investigation of the deaths of three Native American men.
Douglas County Sheriff Loren Anderson said he had asked the KBI in April 1990 to review the case and determine if there were any other
leads that could be followed.
The case was reopened Dec. 17 after the bureau completed a nineteen-month review of the files in each of the three cases.
A collision analyst from the Kansas Highway Patrol was added to the team in early January to investigate Christopher Bread, 18, of Lawrence.
Anderson said the information from the expert's investigation had not been released but had raised
'There was a lot of concern, worry and skepticism at the job being done by the police department. It's a good sign that it's being looked at again. No one has forgotten what happened.'
Jim Middleton Native American Student Association
some new angles on the case.
Bread's body was found March 2 lying along East 15th Street about a
there have been additional leads that have been generated with the information since then," Anderson said.
nine east of LAWRENCE.
"As of the first week of January, 51 leads have been investigated, and
mile east of Lawrence.
Investigators also are reviewing details of the death of John Sandoval Jr., 18, who disappeared in November 1988, and the October 1989 death of Ceil Dawes Jr. , 21. The bodies of men were found in the Kansas River.
Jim Middleton, officer in the Native American Student Association at the University of Kansas, said that there had been some tension in the past between the Native American population and the Lawrence police and that reopening the case might ease the relations.
"There was a lot of concern, worry and skepticism at the job being done by the police department," Middleton said. "It's a good sign that it's being looked at again. No one has forgotten what happened."