VOL.100,NO.92
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEB. 13, 1990
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Crowds prepare to meet Mandela Leader wants racial harmony
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Nelson Mandela said yesterday that he wanted a South Africa that was fair to both whites and Blacks. He insisted that violence against apartheid is unjustified.
The 71-year-old Black leader, enjoying his first full day of freedom after 27 years in prison, defended the policies of his African National Congress but said talks with the government could be held soon.
In his nearby hometown of Soweto, schools were deserted as thousands of students marched and danced in the streets, anticipating his return home. Believing Mandela was due back for an afternoon rally, tens of thousands of Sowietrans crammed into a soccer stadium, and dozens were injured in the crush.
The activists making arrangements for Mandela decided he should not re-enter Sweto until today, when welcome welcoming rally was planned.
"I am absolutely excited to be
"out," Mandela told reporters in Cape
Town before taking an evening flight to Johannesburg. He was released unconditionally Sunday.
More South Africa coverage p. 6
"The state of emergency has to be lifted in its entirety, and political prisoners have to be released," Mandela said.
Mandela said negotiations between the ANC and the government could begin if President F.W. de Klerk continued his peace initiative and made further reforms.
Andries Treunicht, leader of the pro-apartheid Conservative Party, accused the government of falling victim to "Mandela hysteria" and moving toward white surrender. Eugene TerreBlancie, leader of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, said de Klerk was powerless to control Mandela. He warned that his movement would protect itself if the government did not.
Mandela said whites should not fear the prospect of an ANC-led government.
Soviets: U.S. should reduce naval power
OTTAWA — The Soviet Union challenged the United States yesterday to extend superpower cooperation in arms control surveillance to the high seas and to space.
The Associated Press
o foreign Minister Edward A. Shevardnadze, addressing the opening of a 23-nation "Open Skies" conference, also accused the United States of bolstering its naval strength while agreeing to cut ground forces and land-based missiles.
"Let us face the truth," Shewardnadze said. "Today, the easiest way to launch a surprise attack, a military invasion or an aggression is from the seas."
U. S. officials dismissed the idea, telling reporters in a separate briefing that Washington was not interested in a naval arms control agreement and that surveillance flights already were allowed over oceans and in space.
Shevardnadze's tough speech, and one by Secretary of State James A. Baker III leveling criticism at Soviet
positions, broke from a recent trend of soft-spoken reconciliation between the superpowers.
the supervisors. The exchange also strayed from the main topic at hand, an agreement between the 16 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the seven members of the Warsaw Pact on allowing the alliances to survey member nations by air.
President Bush originally made the proposal in May. It includes aerial inspection on 24 hours' notice to allay fears of surprise attack.
The plan has been promoted as a confidence-building measure, and both alliances have agreed to it in principle.
He also said an agreement was reached during Baker's talks last week in Moscow to provide for inspections of radar sites.
A Soviet team will be permitted to go to Thule, Greenland, and to U.S. installations in Britain, while an American group inspects the Siberian radar station at Krasnoyarsk and other sites.
Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams visits students camping out by Allen Field House for tonight's game against Missouri.
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Mark Sizemore, Omma freshman, Greg Harp, Dallas, Tex., sophomore, and Ted Adams, Silver Lake sophomore, use a Macintosh computer to do their homework while they wait at Allen Field House.
'Hawks ready for Tiger hunt
By Molly Beld
Kansan sportswriter
Forget Tyson and Douglas,
tonight's Kansas-Missouri game at
Allen Field House could be one of
the biggest bouts of the year.
The Tigers beat the Jayhawks
95-87 on Jan. 20. That loss is the only stain on the Kansas record of 24-1. Missouri, 22-2, is also responsible for knocking Kansas out of the first-place ranking three weeks ago. Missouri leads the Big Eight Conference with an 8-1 record. The Jayhawks are 7-1.
Kansas is back at No. 1 in The Associated Press rankings, and with Missouri in the No. 2 spot, the media hype has hit a high. However, Kansas coach Roy Williams still contends that this is just another game.
"It's a big game because it's the next game," he said.
Williams said he did not need to get the team motivated for this
game.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know these guys are going to be up for this," he said. "I think we're excited this time. It doesn't need any extra hype."
Unlike Tyson, who is just hoping for a rematch, the Jawhawks will get a chance for revenge. This time, Kansas will need to use its experience to knock out the Tigers, Williams said.
"I know it has got to be our best defensive game," Williams said. "I think the biggest thing we learned is that against a team like Missouri, you can't afford to have any laps."
In Saturday's game against Iowa State, Kansas let a 13-point lead dwinkle to one before rallying to win 88-83.
Missouri routed Nebraska 107-85 Saturday with the help of 44 points
See 'Hawks. p.13
KU student visits Wall
Participating in historic adventure called memorable
By Carol B. Shiney Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
A week before thousands of East Germans streamed through the newly opened borders to the West, KU student Stephen Wampole visited West Berlin and saw the guarded Berlin Wall.
when he returned to the city a month later, he danced on the Wall in front of Brandenburg Gate, a checkpoint that had been a symbol of the division of Berlin and Europe since 1961.
Wampole, Lawrence graduate student in Soviet and East European Studies, has been in Eastern Europe since September 1993. He is studying at the Catholic University of Lublin in Lublin, Poland, for the 1989-90 academic year. Wampole was in Poland when East Germany opened its borders on Nov. 2.
"I got to see history happen," Wampole said in a telephone interview Saturday. "And I've got my own personal pictures. I feel happy."
He took his first trip to Germany in early November with his suitemate from Catholic University, Bolko von Stein of Bad Eilsen, West Germany.
"We didn't know that all the demonstrations were going on on the other side," Wampole said. "Then the Wall fell about a week later."
On Dec. 21, when Wampole and von Stein returned to Bad Eilsen for Christmas break, they heard
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"We decided we had to go see this." he said.
KU graduate student Stephen Wampole stands on the Berlin Wall.
that the Brandenburg Gate would be opened.
friends made the three-hour trip to Berlin on Dec. 22.
Wampole, von Stein and two
See GRANIN. D. 5
Exclusion from cultural filmangers members of GLSOK
Bv Mark McHugh
Kansan staff writer
Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas is upset after learning that it was not represented in a film about cultural diversity at KU.
Dennis Saleebey, professor of social welfare and faculty adviser for Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said he sent letters of appeal to the Office of Minority Affairs, Office of University Relations and Office of Affirmative Action on Feb. 1. He requested recognition for the KU gay and lesbian community in a 90-second film titled "The First Step."
The film is planned to precede all screened Student Union Activity films.
Unholy Activity final:
Saleebey said he had not yet received a response from
the school.
any of the offices. The film was shown to student group representatives
Feb. 4.
Aaron Andes, GLSOK director, said people with disabilities and members of the Jewish community were also left out of the film.
"These people that are highly renowned for being public communicators at our University should use their talents to communicate in the film that the cultures of gay, lesbian and Jewish communities are valid and important and are minorities experiencing discrimination." Andes said.
He said the organizations making and supporting the film should have included those members of the campus community.
Elizabeth Tolbert, a member of GLSOK, said she was frustrated that the film did not depict anyone who was
See FILM, p. 5
Gorbachev upheld by writers
Novelists abandon literature, now write in president's support
By Carol B. Shiney
Kansan staff writer
Writers in the Soviet Union have turned away from writing literature and instead write to support the policies of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, KU's Soviet writer-in- residence said last night.
"We all want to help Gorbachev and his followers as much as possible." Soviet novelist Daniil Granin said to an audience of about 100 people at the Kansas Union.
and East European Studies and Slavic languages and literatures.
Granin said that more than 50 writers were elected to the Congress Peoples' Deputies.
Granin, who also is an elected member of the Soviet Congress of Peoples' Deputies and of the Supreme Soviet, the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union, spoke about the role of writers and political change in Gorbachev's U.S.S.R. Granin spoke through a translator, Gerald Mikkelsen, professor of Soviet
He said writers, whose works had been suppressed before, were being published, and articles also were being published about topical subjects.
or by what he said. He said Gorbachev understood that perestroika and glasnost had to have the power of creative artists' organizations.
"This cleaning out of the minds of people and the enlightening of the peoples' minds was primarily taken on by writers," Granin said.
"The course of perestroika, which was earlier announced, was a great help and support for people working in the creative arts, especially for writers," Granin said.
"He started to lean very heavily on those like us and to gather us together for talks quite frequently," Granin said.
He said a body of political activists began to form.
"In our country where people were silent for so long, where they were afraid to say what they really thought, there were really deep-thinking people of political instincts and leadership who emerged in various parts of the country during this period of the silent majority," Gragin said.
This led to a gradual interest in politics in the Soviet Union, he said.
*"People who had not been interested in politics for a long time and
See GERMAN, p. 5