THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 101, NO. 67
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1990
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Security Council OKs Jan. 15 deadline 12-2
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council, led by the United States, voted 12-2 yesterday to authorize military action to free Kuwait if Iraq does not withdraw its occupying troops and release all foreign hostages by Jan. 15.
The only other time the council, created 45 years ago to iron out international disputes, has sanctioned force in its history to counter aggression was during the Korean War.
China abstained, to the disappointment on the Bush administration, while Cuba and Yemen cast dissenting votes in a session of the State Council, to show of international solidarity against Iraq.
In an extraditional meeting of 13 foreign ministers, the council handed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein an ultimatum to vacate the small, oil-rich richdom that his troops were planning to attack military conflict with U.S.-led forces. The army, with a round of handshakes and embraces.
In Washington, President Bush called the U.N. vote a strong and powerful message
Once again, the United Nations exercises its proper responsibility and its peace-keeping role.
statement. Everybody ought to understand how strong it is and how important it is." Bush said minutes after the vote.
Secretary of State James Baker, top representative for the United States as president of the council, said, "Our aim today must be to convince Saddam Hussein that the just, humane demands of the Council and the international community cannot be ignored.
"If Iraq does not reverse its course peacefully, then other necessary measures, including the use of force, should be authorized. We want it to Saddam Hussein in unmistakable terms."
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A Shevardnadze in a speech warned that Saddam would be held personally responsible for any use of chemical weapons and breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention guaranteeing the rights of civilians during wartime.
He said the international community had shown "genuine magnanimity in giving the side which breached the peace time to think again. We have started the countdown of the pause of good will. Those who breached the peace should know that all necessary means will, indeed, inexorably be used against them."
Shevardnadze later told reporters that the Soviet Union would not consider committing any Soviet troops to an international force. He cited painful memories of World War II.
The resolution gives Saddam "one final opportunity, as a pause of good will," to
But the Iraqis appeared intransigent.
Iraqi Ambassador Abdul Amir al-Anbariyi, "If war is imposed upon us by the United States, this will be our destiny. Our mission is to kneel, we will rise to this responsibility."
Baker at this juncture appeared to glare at the Iraqi representative and flipped through a copy of the U.N. Charter. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd twirled his ear in an enthusiastic gesture, dark suits and saddomly around a circular table in the vaulted council chamber.
The chamber is decorated with a mural of a peaceful world arising from the ashes of war.
Kuwait Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah sabah
and Mr. Al Hussein said that not pact
saying, "The intransigence is
See Security, p. 8
The Associated Press
Families unsure of hostages' fate
Relatives of U.S. hostages wrestled with mixed feelings about a proposed U.N. resolution aimed at forcing Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
"I've got a son over there and, of course,
when the bullets start flying he's in danger"
said George Carroll of Winfield.
"We can do that. We can do we can
We can't let this go on forever."
Carroll, whose son is trapped at the U.S. Carroll, whose son is trapped at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, only regrets that U.S. embassy didn't walk in there immediately." He resolved that military action is inevitable.
David McDonald Jr., whose close friend and client is hiding out in Kuwait, said. "People have forgotten the agony of a major war and are just now being reminded of what that loss could be."
But he still is afraid
And military action could be imminent under a U.N. resolution authorizing an attack if Iraqi troops are not withdrawn from Kuwait and all hostages are not released by Jan. 15. The Security Council yesterday authorized that action.
"My friend is not a warmonger, but I think he realizes it's the only realistic option if Saddam is to be stopped," McDonald said.
But Donnita Cole, who was among a group of hostage relatives scheduled to visit Baghdad next week, said she could not abide an offensive stance — at least not until every diplomatic option had been exhausted.
"I want to know what gives our president the power to decide that on a certain date we're going to start a war," said Cole. "We are among Saddam's 'human shields.'"
U.S. should avoid war, Slattery says
By Carol Krekeler
Late night with Jerry
Jerry Kelch, a facilities operations custodial supervisor, cleans the shift for 27 years, said he cleaned 30 rooms and one auditorium at floor of a Wescool Hall classroom. Kelch, who has been on the night Wescool each night.
Kansan staff writer
"What if Saddam Hussein attacks Israel in the first hours of a war?" Slattery said during a news conference. "Just how much are the Ger- and the Japanese — very wealthy countries — going to help us?"
TOPEKA — The U.S. government should know more about the repercussions of a war with Iraq before taking further action against Saddad Hamseen. Jim Slattery, D2nd District, said yesterday.
"These are questions we don't have answers to. I think we have time in this country to find the answers to these questions and to rush into a military offensive."
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Maintaining economic sanctions against Iraq is the best strategy for the U.S. government, he said.
Slattery said he favored the U.S. military occupation of the Persian Gulf but predicted that the conflict would be a prolonged standoff.
"I think the president of the United States should be very candid with the people of the United States that a long-term commitment has been made," he said. "Our troops are going to be there for a while."
"I think we need to be patient," Slattery said. "We should not set a time deadline on economic sanc-
The U.N. Security Council passed a measure yesterday that would allow U.S. troops to attack Iraq on or after Iraq if it does not retreat from Kuwait.
Slattery stressed that Bush needed congressional approval before declaring war
"The Constitution of this country must be followed," he said. "I hope and pray that we don't get to that point."
Walt Richer, press secretary for Sen. Bob Dole, said he thought Congress purposefully was avoiding calling the Trump administration to have to take a stand on the gulf crisis.
"Congress is really the only missing piece in the whole puzzle." Richer said. "They can't have it both ways."
Congress needs to pass a resolution similar to the one adopted by the U.N. Security Council. Richer said.
"They need to adopt a tightly wadded resolution of support," he said.
Richer said that Bush might call on Congress to reconvene for a special session if it did not take action on its own.
"No one is talking about war."
Rick said "But the Congress needs
to take action."
NCAA reverses ruling; UNLV will defend title
The Associated Press
OVERLAND PARK — The University of
Nashua at Las Vegas have been allowed to
host a soccer match.
In an unprecedented reversal, the NCAA said yesterday the top-ranked Rebels could play in this spring's tournament if they agreed to one of two conditions.
UNLV agreed to forfeit live television appearances during the 1991-92 season and to sit out the NCAA tournament in the spring of '92.
The other alternative would have been for coach Jerry Tarkanian to sit out this year's tournament and for the school to skip the '92 tournament.
If not for the NCAA's change of heart, UNLV would have become the second national basketball champion to be barred from defending its title; the first was Kansas, which won the 1988 NCAA title but to had lost the tournament because of recruiting violations.
The Rebels, who returned four starters
from the team that captured UNLV's first national championship last year, were told in July they could not defend their title as a member of the 1977 case between UNLV and the NCAA.
In that case, the NCAA ordered the university to suspend Tarkanian for two years because of violations in the basketball program.
The NCAA's announcement this summer that the Rebels could not defend their title triggered protests from UNLV officials and fans, who noted that the current players were only children when the original infractions were said to have occurred.
Tarkanian, however, won a court injunction prohibiting the university from suspending him. The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which did not overturn the injunction but said the NCAA had the power to discipline its members.
In presenting the conditions for reinstation, the NCAA all but conceded that some player was not eligible.
Former players think decision is a mistake
By Derek Simmons
Kansan staff writer
When the NCAA reversed an earlier decision yesterday and decided to allow UNLV to defend its national basketball championship, the NCAA second mistake in the past two years, he said.
Jeff Gueldner is not amused.
"I thought it was a joke," said Gueldner, on guard on Kansas' 1988 national championship team that was barred by the NCAA from the game. "You're just causing problems for themselves."
Kansas was excluded from the tournament as part of punishment for recruiting violations that occurred during Coach Larry Brown's tenure at Kansas.
This summer, the NCAA barred UNLV from defending its 1989 championship because of violations stemming from a 1977 infractions case. But the NCAA changed its mind yesterday and said the Runnin' Rebels could compete in the 1991 NCAA tournament for an eighth consecutive appearances for the 1991-92 season and skip the 92 NCAA tournament.
Kansas coach Roy Williams was incredulous.
"I'm happy for the players at UNLV." Williams said in a statement. "What the NCAA did, though, just amazes me. I sure would have given us a multiple-choice penalty."
Guelner agreed. "They took the NCAA to the Supreme Court, and now the NCAA gives them a multiple-choice penalty," he said. "They're setting a dangerous precedent before you. The everybody that gets penalized is going to appear here in that that they levy will be seen as permanent."
Guelner said he realized that UNLV's current players were not involved in the violations, but that fact did not make the NCAA's inconsistency any easier to accept.
"It's unfair to penalize their players for stuff that happened 13 years ago, but none of us were involved in the stuff we were punished for either." he said.
Milt Newton, a guard for Kansas during the championship season and the next season, said that the reversal put the NCAA in a bad situation.
"A move like that just shows how spineless and guttel the NCAA really is," he said.
'But I don't see how the NCAA can have such a double standard. If they go back on
their word for one team, they're going to have to do it for all of them. It seems like if you keep plugging away, keep appearing it, they might just drop all of the charges. I think that's going to come back and haunt them."
Freeman West, a Kansas forward during the 1988-89 and 1989-90 seasons, said he thought the NCAA had done everything it could to be fair.
"If a team or school does something wrong, they're going to have to be punished," he said. "They're going to have to live with it. At the same time, if it was the coach that did something wrong, then only he should be punished."
West said the Kansas case differed enough from the UNLV case to justify yesterday's ruling.
"coach Brown was completely beyond their reach," West said. "They had to punish the school. Tarkamian's case, those player-owners with it, and they could just punish the coach."
I'm happy for UNL. They've got the team to win, they'll be able to defend their championship.
Engineering dean, students debate proposed equipment fee
By Amy Zamierowski
Kansan staff writer
A few days before they will vote on a proposed engineering fee, engineer students last night listened to their dean defend the law and heard opposing viewpoints from their peers.
If passed, the fee would require engineering students to pay $15 more for each credit hour of engineering courses.
About 45 people attended a forum at Wescoe Hall focusing on the fee, which will be considered by the Board of Regents at its Dec. 20 meeting.
The Regents requested the student vote, which will be Dec. 4, and 5, to help gauge students' opinions about the fee. The vote will determine whether the Regents to either adopt or reject the fee.
The fee would generate about $400,000 each year for software and the repair and replacement of equipment, mostly computers, said Carl Locke, dean of engineering.
Locke, who took center stage during most of the forum, began by saying he first proposed a new system.
Since that time, he said, he has requested additional funding from the University. "But they said it was difficult, if not impossible, for them to reallocate money," he said.
Locke said he knew of no other way to raise the money needed to maintain and supply the farm.
"There is no perfect plan." he said.
Locke said the lack of money for equipment improvements had not yet put the school in jeopardy of losing its accreditation, and it was being talked about the long-term future of the school.
Vince Calhoun, engineering senator, said one problem with the fee was that it might cause a decrease in state financing for the school.
Also, he said, if the fee passes, other schools and departments in the University must pay.
Calhoun suggested that instead of a fee restricted only to engineering students, a universitywide equipment fee or a tuition fee would be charged besides the School of Engineering use computers. he said.
But Locke said if a universitywide fee were passed, the engineering school would not receive sufficient financing because of its overwhelming nature of the school's needs.
Locke did admit that there was a danger the Legislature would reduce the school's appropriation because of revenue that would be generated by the fee.
Locke said he had spoken to legislators and had stressed that they should not reduce
"The Legislature could look at the money we are receiving and say that they have taken care of the engineering school," he said. Then might not appropriate as much to us."
financing to the school if the fee were passed
to the school if the fee were passed. And if a decrease in financing did occur, Locke said, he would have the equipment fee赚了.
Curt Davis, Prairie Village graduate student, supported the fee.
"The bottom line is that with the high-tech world, engineering students use more computer-based learning."
Dave Surcoff, engineering senator, said he thought it was noble that some students wanted to pay the fee, but others might not have been engineering school because of the extra cost.
Dave Downing, chairperson of aerospace engineering, said all the engineering depart-