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VOL. 101. NO. 72
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Saddam orders hostages freed
The Associated Press
BAGHAD, Iraq — Saddam Hussein's rubber-stamp parliament endorsed his decision to free all foreign hostages trapped in the Per-
The National Assembly voted 232 to 18 with no abstentions to lift the bank on travel for foreigners, said a source at the parliament, speaking on condition.
Saddam said the reason for holding foreigners — to deter an attack — had diminished. He also said Iraqi troops had been given enough time to become battle-ready. And he said that there had been growing opposition in the United States to President Bush's efforts to form a consensus on military action to dislodge Iraq from Kuwait.
Saddam told his parliament yesterday to free all foreign hostages in response to "positive changes" in the Persian Gulf crisis, and he said Iraq should apologize to the thousands who were held.
The measure by the assembly, which has no record of ever defying Saddam, frees more than 8,000 Westerners, East Europeans and Japanese stranded by Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait.
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Officials said foreigners would be allowed to apply for exit permits immediately after the parliament begins leaving as early tomorrow.
Flight will be added to the daily Iraqi Airways trip to Ammon, Jordan, the airline's only regular destination in the United Nations imposed economic sanctions on Iraq if the invasion of the officers said.
Countries wishing to send special flights to Baghdad to retrieve their nationals must first get clearance from the U.N. sanctions committee, they said.
Saddam urged parliament to end the travel ban on foreigners in a letter yesterday to the National Assembly speaker, Sadi Mehdi Saleh, which he said was prompted by recent consultations with his Arab brothers," a reference to a group of Jordanians led by Jordan, PLO chief Yasser Arafat and Yemeni Vice President Ali Salem al-Beidh.
It is expected to take days, at least,
for the hundreds of foreigners held at
strategic sites throughout the country,
and an estimated 2,000 believed to be hiding in Kuwait, to be processed for departure.
Saddam said the hostages had been meant to 'delay war' and give the
Leaders react to Iraq's pledge
The Associated Press
LONDON — World leaders have welcomed Iraq President Saddam Hussein's decision to free all foreign hostages, but opinions vary on whether the move diminishes the threat of war.
President Bush, in Santiago, Chile, said Saddam's announcement yesterday "would be welcome if true, but it will not change my thinking on his need to comply 100 percent, without condition, to U.N. resolutions" that demand an Iraqi抓队 from Kuwait.
British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hard said that if Saddam does not withdraw, "then he will be forced to give up" the U.N. resolution last week
authorizing the use of force against Iraq after Jan. 15 if a pullout does not occur.
An estimated 900 U.S. citizens and 1,300 Britons are among the several thousand Westerners still in Iraq and Iraq-occupied regions who Iraq officials said the foremerer could begin leaving forgrrowm
"Saddam is complying with one of a dozen U.N. resolutions," the Times of London commented today. "The decision therefore raised hopes of a peaceful solution."
But it added, "The decision to let foreigners go may simply be a shrewdly calculated move aimed at the anti-war lobby in America."
Iraqi troops occupying Kuwait time to complete mobilization. Now that they have done so, Saddam said, "they no longer any need for the hostage."
He said, "The reason for which the foreigners were prevented from travel have diminished and has been replaced by something more powerful — a change in the American public opinion which will impose restrictions on the decisions and intentions of the evil ones, let by
Bush, the enemy of God.
He also noted that recent diplomatic overtures indicated "positive changes" in the international standoff against Iraq, and said the release of hostages would encourage such trends.
■ Fort Riley troops deploy p. 3
■ KU students debate war p. 3
■ Soldier shot and killed p. 3
Alice Darrow, associate professor of speech, language and hearing (second from right) and students from her class sign carols.
Class sings carols in sign language
Edwin Fisher waited by his front door last night for the Christmas carolers to arrive.
Through an interpreter, Fisher, who is deaf, said, "They've come for three years in a row now on the first Thursday of the month."
He said his favorite song was "Silent Night."
Kansan staff writer
The carolers, including the Jayhawk mascot, crowded around the steps of Fisher's home.
Bv Monica Mendoza
They began singing "White Christmas." But they did not just
But it was the first time that the group was joined by the Jayhawk.
"It's a special project that we do in the fall," she said.
The students were from Alice Darrow's Introduction to American Sign Language class.
sing the words; they signed them.
Darrow, who is an associate professor of speech, language, and hearing, said this was the sixth year he has taught residents' houses to carolls.
Who's still in Iraq or Kuwait
The 24 KU students signed the words of three Christmas carols for Fisher and his family.
Darrow had arranged for a bus to take the class to four Lawrence residents' houses. The class also signed "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and "Silent Night" at three of the homes.
At the third stop, the family requested a Hanukkah song, Darrow said. The class came prepared and signed "Hanvv Hanukkah."
Fisher did not seem to mind that the group had signed the same songs as last year's class had. He studied the photographs of the students and the teachers.
Bobby Venable, Overland Park senior, said that it was the first time he had taken a sign-language class and would take him long to learn the songs.
Saddam Hussein said yesterday he would release foreigners held in Iraq and Kuwait. Fewer than half of the three million foreigners living there when his troops invaded Kuwait have left. Estimates of those remaining
Fisher signed. "I hope they keep it up and make it a tradition."
"Once you know the signs, it's easy," he said. "You sign the meaning, you don't sign the text."
"They always sign very well."
Venable said the sign class was his favorite class this semester.
"I want to be a lawyer, and I may have deaf clients that might come in," he said. "It would open up more opportunities."
Americas
Before invasion Dec. 6
U.S. 3,500 90
Canada 890 42
Brazil 450 40
Venezuela 38
Asia Pacific
Middle East
Egypt 1.6 million 1.3 million
Morocco 36,000 Unknown
Tunisia 4,000 Unknown
Palestinians 470,000 Unknown
Iran 60,000 Unknown
Lebanon 50,000 15,000
Before invasion Dec. 6
Australia 127
Brazil 11,000
China 10,000
Hong Kong, Taiwan 150
Japan 790
India 190,000
Mexico 39,000
New Zealand 36
Pakistan 130
Philippines 93,000
South Korea 1,300
Sri Lanka 15,000
Vietnam 8,150
Unkown 0
80
780
1,490
600
320
140
Europe
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
- SOURCE: AP
Before invasion Dec. 8
Austria 70 4
Belgium 59 5
Bulgaria 650 320
Britain 4,000 1,310
Cyprus 35 20
Czechoslovakia 470 46
Denmark 100 16
Finland 46 5
France 560 25
Greece 127 7
Hungary 178 32
Ireland 380 164
Italy 540 206
Netherlands 200 150
Netheray 46 6
Poland 3,400 477
Portugal 4,80 8
Romania 3,055 300
Soviet Union 10,000 3,270
Spain 183 6
Sweden 200 5
Switzerland 158 8
Turkey 4,000 100
W. Germany 1,000 15
Yugoslavia 10,000 310
Council prefers fee paid by all students
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
University Council said yesterday that it would not support a $15-accredit* engineering fee but that it would pay to students a fee that would apply to all students.
The Council did not endorse the engineering fee, which would only apply to engineering classes, because it would cost engineering students $850 to $1,120 more during their years at KU.
The engineering fee would raise about $300,000 for the acquisition, maintenance and replacement of equipment for the School of Engineering.
Council members raised several other concerns that they said made the engineering fee a bad idea
Council members said that the University of Kansas might need a University-wide fee, which would raise about $1 million each year, because of needs that are not being met by state financing.
"What it boils down to is that the state of Kansas is not fulfilling its obligations," said Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics.
But several Council members said they would have to know more about how revenue from the fee would be shared and how it would be committed to a University-wide fee.
One concern was whether the University-wide fee should be generaluse or armored for equipment only. A general-use fee could be used for almost anything; an equipment shoulder would have to be used for equipment.
The Council was asked to take a position on both fees by the Council of Chief Academic Officers and the president of Faculty Senate Presidents.
A proposal for a University-wide fee will be presented at the presidents' council Dec 20. meeting The students' fee will be the engineering fee the same day.
He said the fee was not a good idea because students would choose a field of study for financial reasons or because of their interests and talents.
Student Senate Executive Committee, said the school should have consulted with students before proposing the fee to the Regents.
Pat Warren, chairperson of the
Warren and several faculty Council members predicted that the fee would encourage other departments of money to ask for special fees.
"I don't think we have any reason to suspect that it won't happen again," Warren said. "We need to know the needs of the University at one."
Mike Schneiner, student body president, said the fee would distort the fee-to-cost ratio, which reflects the cost of education that is financed by tuition
In a student referendum requested by the Regents, KU engineering students opposed the engineering fee by a 3-to-1 ratio. Engineering students at Wichita State University also opposed the fee, but Kansas State University engineering students approved of the fee.
Del Shankler, interim executive vice chancellor, said the University-wide fee proposal was still being developed but that the School of Engineering probably would receive the same amount under either plan.
Carl Locke, dean of engineering, attended the University Council meeting to support the fee. he said he had been working with K-State and Wichita State for five years to solve equipment problems that existed at all three universities' engineering schools.
Locke said earlier this week that he would be pleased if a University-wide fee was passed but that he preferred the engineering fee.
Man shot during fight
By Dave Wakefield
WSU opposes fee
A young man was shot about 2 a.m. today near 923 Indiana St., a Lawrence police spokesperson said.
Special to the Kansan
The victim, who was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, was believed to have been shot by a small-caliber weapon, according to unofficial police statements. Police declined to release the identity of the
The shooting appeared to have taken place during a fight among several men, said Sgt. George Wheeler of the Lawrence police. The shooting occurred in an alley Indiana and Mississippi streets.
No suspect was in custody as of 5:10 a.m.
least nine people to the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center for questioning.
Between 2 and 4 a.m., police took at
At the law enforcement center, one of the men the police questioned identified himself as a soldier from Fort Riley but declined to give his name. He said he had been standing outside Pizazz, a dance club at 90 Mississippi St., when he saw several of his friends in a fight across the street in a parking lot in front of Duds and Suds, 918 Mississippi St.
He said that he ran to help his friends, whom he said also were soldiers from Fort Riley, but that the police kept him from getting to them. He said he had not seen the shooting or heard any gunshots.
No further details were available at press time.
Soviet students treasure KU experience
First year of exchange program offers valuable new perspectives, friendships
During their hectic semester studying abroad, Yelena Yankovskaya and Vladimir Kuykin learned that friendship is universal.
By Courtney Eblen Kanean staff writer
They are more relaxed now than when they arrived in August at the University of Kansas, a long way from home in Leningrad.
They joke with their new friends about their trays of residence hall food, usually speaking English but sometimes chattering in Russian, too.
Yankovskaya, 22, and Kuykin, 34, are the first Soviet students to participate in an exchange program
Two more Soviet students will be arriving next semester, and in exchange, two KU students will go to Leningrad as part of the Council of State Exchanges for External Exchange program, which Stinson said was approved last spring.
between KU and Leningrad State University, said Jim Stinson, assistant director of admissions.
"We've agreed to conduct exchanges with the Soviet Union," Stinson said. "We hope it will continue, and may expand."
English and American literature courses.
Yankovkaya, called Lena by her friends, is studying to be an English teacher. She already is fluent in English and is taking 12 hours of
Kuykin has a bachelor's degree in economics from Leningrad State University, and now is in graduate school in the university's newly formed sociology department. He is a PhD student at KU's Applied English Center.
They landed at Kansas City International Airport on Aug. 30, suffering jet lag from a daylong series of flights from Leingengrad, and immediately were whisked to Lawrence for orientations to the campus.
Fortunately, they had Labor Day weekend to get used to their new
Because of a mixup with their visas, Yankovskaya and Kuykin arrived in the United States a few months after KU classes already had begun.
surroundings, the grease-packed American food and the climate.
In their hometown of Leningrad, the adjacent Baltic Sea sends a breeze across the city, tempering its subarctic temperatures and leaving its winter climate much like that of Chicago.
But in Leningrad, balmy summer-temperature temperatures rarely go above 80 degrees, which is why Yankovskaya and Kuykin both sweated buckets during Kansas' 100-degree days at the beginning of the semester,萨uzanne Myers, Yankovskaya's roommate in McCollum Hall.
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One was very anxious for it to get cold. "Myers said, "I remember the first time we went to a football game and we sat on the hill. We went on
See SOVIETS, p. 6