THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.74
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
TOPEKA, KS  66612
THE STUDENT NEWSAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1991
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Deadline expires with no action in gulf
The Associated Press
The midnight deadline for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to pull his forces out of Kuwait passed yesterday and more than 680,000 U.S. and allied troops began a new countdown to war.
Barring an attack by Iraq, the start of a war in the Persian Gulf lies in the hands of President Bush and allied leaders. Bush, armed with congressional authorization to drive Iraq from Kuwait, was described yesterday as resolute.
With the passing of the deadline,
set Nov. 29 by the United Nations
Security Council, U.N. members are
authorized to drive Iraq out of
the city.
The deadline expired with the Iraqi
government giving no sign it was willing to withdraw from Kuwait.
Six hours before the deadline, U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar made a final appeal to Saddam Hussein to withdraw his troops. He assured Iraq that once it began a war with al-Qaeda, its forces would not be attacked.
Perez de Cuellar also said that when the crisis was over, every effort would be made to address the Arab-Israeli conflict, including the Palestinian question.
The Defense Department said Iraqi forces in Kuwait were continuing to dig in against a multinational force that had grown to 680,000. The coalition said its forces ran battle on the front line in our U.S. incursions in the hours before the deadline.
Sadiq Al-Mashat, left Washington for Baghqal with several aides last night. Four Iraqi diplomats will remain at the embassy.
Iraq's U.S. ambassador, Mohamed
Iraqi state TV said Saddam visited the front in occupied Kuwait yesterday. It said he toured military zones occupied Kuwait and the Iraqi city of Basra.
Saddam met corps and division commanders and said, "There will be no battle without rights." The slogan of expelling the aggressors from the land of Islamic
sanctity will be our slogan which we will not give up."
In Baghdad, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in a government-orchestrated show of defiance. "The holy war is about to begin!" said one man, waving his AK-47 rifle.
Many Iraqi fled the capital. Shops were closed and parks and playgrounds were deserted.
France said its last-minute initia
See DEADLINE, Page 8
Currency is limited in Gulf
Students from area may pay tuition later
By Joe Gose Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
As the tension in the Persian Gulf builds to a crescent, some KU students from the Middle East are eagerly seeking easily difficult to access money.
Gerald Harris, University of Kansas director of foreign student services, said 12 students from the gulf to deter payments this semester.
"Fee deferment allows the students to remain students and pay later," he said. "The same students affected by the crisis for most of last semester will be affected this semester."
Khalid Najib, Jerusalem senior, is one of those students.
"My dad has a business in Kuwait, and since the invasion, I haven't been able to get money," he said. "I don't know if you even know if he still has his business."
'KU has been helping us by deferring the payments. It's very nice of you.'
Najib said he had heard rumors that the Iraqis had changed the Kuwaiti currency and were giving them money in the bank, those who had money in the banks.
While the deferred payments caused by the crisis last semester exclusively involved students whose parents worked in Kuwait, Harris said that if war broke out, money would be hard to access throughout the region. Already the grip on money in Saudi Arabia has become tighter.
"If war happens, then KU is going to support me," said Nadeem Naqvi, Pakistan freshman, whose parents have their accounts in Saudi Arabia.
"We didn't have any trouble last semester, but now they're paying the Americans with our money and won't let any out because everyone will be he said. "It's stupid. My parents have already gone to Pakistan."
Repayment of the deferred fees are up in the air, Harris said, especially over the last three years.
Harris said none of the 100 Middle East students attending the University from Iraq or Kuwait. Most of the Iraqi and Kuwati students who attended KU last spring did not return after the summer.
A placard for peace
Paul Famvrini, Lawrence graduate student, marches with other protesters from the Kansas Union to the Vietnam Memorial to urge a non-military solution to the Persian Gulf crisis. See story page 3.
iversity prepares for more reserve call-ups
Bv Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas is preparing for the possibility of more students and staff being called into service in the Persian Gulf by staging on many people and collecting data, officials said.
Bob Turvey, an associate director of the Student Assistance Center, said that 17 students received refunds after being called up last semester and 12 students reached agreements with their instructors through the center to receive credit for their courses.
In August, David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, released a statement saying students who were called from reserve to active military status in the armed forces would be discharged without tuition and fees and the balance of unused University housing charges at the time of withdrawal.
Turvey said he did not know if his list included all the students who had entered into agreements with their
'Some students were really frustrated last semester because their best friend got all A's and they got incomplete.'
— Bob Turvej associate director of the Student Assistance Center
"It could be 10 times that or five times that or we could have gotten them all," he said.
Turvey said meetings would begin this week to create a uniform policy pertaining to reservists wanting to be formulated to be formulated in about two weeks.
Bob Turvey
instructors.
"Some students were really frustrated last semester because their best friend got all A's and they got incompletes," Turvey said. "To find a policy on this, you would have to go back to World War II, so we are
Mary Ellen Henderson, director of KU on Wheels, said that no student had asked for a bus pass refund last semester but that students who were called up this semester would receive a refund if they bought a bus pass this semester and were later called to duty.
trying to reinvent a wheel and be fair to all individuals."
Jackie McClain, director of human resources, said that a small number of administrators had been called into service. But if hostilities grew, she said she would make an exact count of personnel that could be called.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig, a major general in the Air National Guard, said in a prepared statement that he has read a memoirs to 'ake his military status active.'
KU police Lt. John Mullens said one member of the KU police force already had been called to service because he was ill, and were reservists, but were not on
standby
There are 33 officers on the police force at this time.
If the three officers were called into service, the police would shift personnel hours instead of hiring temporary officers, Mullens said.
"With officers, it takes a little more than a year to train personnel," he said. "We can't have temporary or part-time officers."
Mullens said that on the present schedule, officers work four 10-hour days a week, with officers' hours overlapping to provide for unexpected situations. To keep this overlap in place if the three officers were called up, the schedule might be shifted to five eight-hour days.
Due to the normal fluctuation of officers' duties, work schedules already are flexible, Mullens said.
Surveys indicate U.S. people want war against Iraq
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — At least two-thirds of Americans favor military action against Saddam Hussein, according to public opinion polls taken since the talks with Iraq in Geneva failed and Congress authorized the use of force.
In a poll by The Washington Post and ABC News taken Sunday night, 69 percent favored an attack by the U.S.-led coalition in Saudi Arabia at some point, while 26 percent were against any attack.
In an AP poll taken Jan. 47, 44 percent said the United States should go to war if Saddam failed to withdraw troops from Kuwait by the end of the year, 50 percent favored giving economic sanctions more time to work.
Polls on foreign policy are particularly sensitive to the effects of question wording. The Post-ABC poll measured support for going to war "at some point." The AP poll showed the extent that the public was divided between the possibility of immediate war and what could seem to be a much less painful wait-andsee alternative.
A USA Today poll of 600 adults gave three options with this breakdown: 48 percent said attack immediately, 15 percent said extend duration, 27 percent said set no deadlines and 27 percent diplacy and economic sanctions.
Even after accounting for the 3 or 4 percentage point margins of sampling error in each telephone survey, the polls show a fairly wide pattern of tie support for Bush's ultimate to Saddam of war sooner rather than later.
The polls give Bush no assurance, however, that the pattern can withstand a war that drags on with high casualties. Not surprisingly, the polls indicate that support for an attack on Iraq is highest among those who expect a short war with relatively low loss of U.S. lives.
Support was lowest among African-Americans and women — by margins of 15 percentage points and more in a CBS poll.
How military draft would work
Procedures for reinstituting the military draft are set by law.
Time frame; If Congress ordered resumption of the draft, The Selective Service System would be able to get the first men to an induction center within 13 days and the first 100,000 men within 30.
The draft pool: There are 14 million men ages 18 through 25 who are currently registered and in Selective Service files.
Birthday lottery: The first call up would be of men who turn 20 each calendar year in which the draft is in effect. If more men are needed, 21-year-olds would be called up. The order of call-up would be determined randomly. Capsules containing birth dates would be pulled from one large drum and paired with capsules containing order of selection numbers pulled from a
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, Selective Service System
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
Economic incentives in the all-vul-
unteer military have enticed African-Americans to a disproportionate role in the golf combat forces. A USA Today poll Dc. 29-30 found 58 per-
cent of respondents who had voted 24 percent of whites believed African-Americans would bear an unfair burden in Mideast fighting.
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AIDS vaccine emerges in 'cautious optimism'
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — The first AIDS vaccine tested on humans has proved safe, scientists said yesterday. Now they have to find out how well it works.
VaxSyn was injected into 36 healthy adult volunteers at six hospitals in 1988, and side effects were few and slight, the researchers reported in yesterday's Annals of Internal Medicine. The study, the American College of Physicians.
Eight volunteers experienced a slight fever. Four said they had headaches or felt sluggish and two were injected in the injection site, the scientists said.
Researchers now are conducting tests to determine just how effective VaxSyn might be in building up a person's immunity to the AIDS virus
During the tests to determine safety, all 36 volunteers showed some immune response, developing AIDS antibodies and "killer T cells" that were specific to the AIDS virus, the researchers said.
"This gives us some room for cautious optimism," said the study's lead author, Raphael Dolin of the University of Rochester. "We ought to be able to come up with a vaccine that will work."
The theory is that after a person is vaccinated, his immune system will react to gp160 by developing antibody could trigger an immune response.
One of the biggest problems in developing an AIDS vaccine is that the virus changes its molecular identity as it replicates and spreads. That is difficult to develop a vaccine that will recognize the virus.
VaxSyn is a genetically engineered protein matching one protein in the envelope, or skin, of the virus. That part of the envelope is called gp160.
Because of the virus' changeability, researchers say the best candidate for a final vaccine would be a $^{18}$-labeled based on several AIDS proteins.
But that goal may be beyond reach, at least in the short-term, virologist Dani Bolognesi wrote in an accompanying editorial. For the time being, researchers should work on vaccines that could offer some degree of protection, he said.
The first round of tests were conducted at the University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Maryland, John Hopkins and Marshall University.