VOL. 100, NO.63 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY
NOV.27,1989
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Czech premier speaks at rally for democracy
The Associated Press
PRIAGUE, Czechoslovakia — The Communist premier held unprecedented talks with opposition leaders yesterday and then joined bold reformer Alexander Dubeck at a pro-democracy rally before 300,000 elated, flag-waving demonstrators.
Even the armed forces and riot police, who just nine days ago beat peaceful protesters, indicated backing for the growing reform movement. "We support the democratic changes," a riot policeman told the crowd, which braved freezing weather and snow.
Adamec also held his first talks with leading dissident Vaclav Havel and independents in an effort to find a way to end the political crisis and propel Czechoslovakia toward democracy.
Premier Ladislav Adamec became the first top official in 20 years to share a platform with Dubcek, the former Communist Party leader who spent two decades in political exile after Warsaw Pact tanks crushed his “Prague Spring” reform movement in 1968.
The talks seemed intended to clarify the situation as the Communist Party's policy-making Central Committee began its second emergency session in three days yesterday. It was expected to further revamp the Polithurb after a shake-up on Friday.
The powerful Prague Communist Party, in a harsh condemnation of party leadership, demanded that Adamec, dumped from the Politburo
along with six others Friday, be restored to the panel.
"Dialogue has begun!" Havel declared triumphantly at the rally, which capped a week of pro-democracy demonstrations and hectic moves by the Communists to regain control.
"Give Forum is ready to create a bridge for a peaceful path from totalitarianism to civil freedom, which will later be guaranteed by free elections." Havel said, referring to pro-democracy group Civic Forum.
Demonstrations were also reported in Bratislava, Bro, Pisen, Hradec Kralove, Ceske Budejovice, Kosice and other cities.
Adamec told the cheering crowd there was "no place for rivalry and interests of prestige."
State-run television reported 800,000 people at the rally, but reporters estimated no more than about 300,000.
Also yesterday, state television reported that the leaders of the People's Party, a small party allied with the Communists, submitted their resignations, apparently because of the anti-government protest. A meeting was scheduled today to choose replacements.
Also under apparent pressure from the opposition, Miroslav Zavadil submitted his resignation as head of the official trade unions. The state-run news agency CTK quoted him as saying he also had asked to resign from the Politburo, a demand of the protesters.
Salvador suspends Nicaraguan accords
The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — President Alfredo Cristiani suspended diplomatic and commercial relations with Nicaragua's government yesterday to protest alleged smuggling of weapons to leftist guerillas in EJ Salvador.
Also yesterday, police arrested a U.S. woman and said they confiscated about 80,000 rounds of ammunition, explosives, detonators and grenades stored in her house.
hates shows. The move, announced by Cristiani in a nationally televised address, occurred one day after military authorities discovered two light planes delivering weapons to the rebels fighting the U.S.-backed government.
One plane crashed in eastern El Salvador, and army troops recovered sophisticated weapons, including 25 surface-to-air missiles. Three crewmen died, and the fourth committed suicide.
The other plane apparently was able to unload its cargo after landing in the southern part of the country. But it was unable to take off, either for lack of fuel or other reasons, and was set on fire by its crew, who then
Cristiani told a news conference that relations would remain suspended until Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega "stops intervening in El Salvador" or loses in national elections Feb. 25.
Missiles and other weapons taken from the wreckage of the two planes were displayed at the news conference. As Cristiani spoke, sounds of renewed fighting could be heard after a pause of several days.
Cristiani rejected the possibility of the Salvadoran rebels buying the missiles from the U.S.-backed contra rebels in neighboring Honduras and said he had no doubt the planes had come from Nicaragua.
Saturday's discovery of the arms shipments, which included SAM-7 and Redeye missiles, was the first concrete evidence to back up the Salvadoran accusations.
Both the United States and a succession of U.S.-supported governments here have accused Nicaragua's Sandinista government of providing secret military assistance to the guerrillas in their decade-old war for power. The Sandinistas deny it.
He blasted Ortega and Cuban President Fidel Castro for what he said was their refusal to join the wave of liberalization sweeping much of the Communist world.
Cristiani called the leaders of the rebel Rebarundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, "puppets of Communist aggression."
Volunteers keep wildlife program alive
The bandaged left wing of this bald eagle will likely be amputated tomorrow. The injured yearling was brought to WILDCARE Nov. 14
WILDCARE gives injured animals chance for recovery
By Chris Evans
Human staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The bald eagle seemed ill at ease in its new life of captivity in Malott Hall.
The 2½-foot tall bird stared intently at the intruders who had entered its caged environment. As one of the humans crouched down to look it in the eye, it took a small step backward.
A section of the yearling's bandaged left wing was missing.
"Shot, blown away by a rifle," said Nancy Schwarting, director of WILDCARE, a wildlife rehabilitation group. "No matter what we do for him, there's a chunk of muscle that's been blown away. He'll never fly again."
Schwarting looked around the darkened classroom in the Animal Care Unit, then back to the eagle.
"We don't have room in our animal lab, so we making do here in our teaching area," she said. "Space is a real commodity here."
Schwarting operates WILDA-CARE with the help of two part-time workers and 30 to 40 volunteers. It is the largest such animal-care organization in Kansas. Since Schwarting and Christy Ken-
pedy, Care Unit animal technician, started the program in 1979, nearly 800 injured or orphaned animals have been treated.
Many animals can be nursed to health. But some, like the eagle, cannot be returned to the wild.
cannot
Amy Albright, WILDCARE
assistant, said the eagle, which is not yet old enough to have its characteristic bald head, was handling it's cantivity well.
"And that's good," she said,
"because it's going to be in captivity
for the rest of its life.
"We'll probably amputate its wing on Tuesday."
The injured eagle is one of about 45 animals currently under the program's care. During the summer, Albright said, WILDCARE workers receive up to 200 animals.
to WILDCARE has increased nearly every year since 1979, Schwarting said. The program's funding has not changed.
The number of animals brought
"The Animal Care Unit provides the vast majority of what we need," she said. "The University support has been unchanging. What has changed is our need for manpower. And what's bad, the manpower hasn't changed either."
sewarting said that WILD-CARE volunteers kept the program alive.
"We couldn't run this program on our hours alone," she said. "If we don't have an active volunteer program, we can't handle the load. The program would inevitably close down."
See WILDCARE, p. 6
Murder suspect in custody
Missouri man arrested in local investigation
By Jim Petterson Kansan staff writer
An 18-year-old Blue Springs, Mo., man was arrested Friday morning in connection with the Oct. 2 murder of Timothy K. Ridpath, 18, Independence, Mo.
Douglas County sheriff Loren Anderson said yesterday that Christopher Wilson Mitchell was arrested Friday by the Blue Springs police department on a Douglas County warrant charging him with first degree murder in the death of Ridpath.
Anderson said Mitchell appeared Saturday before a Missouri judge and extradition proceedings were waived. Mitchell was transported
Saturday to the Douglas County jail. Mitchell is scheduled to appear today in Douglas County district court for arraignment, Anderson said.
Ridpath's body was discovered Oct. 2 lying beside a car on Douglas County Road 1250E, about a quarter of a mile south of U.S. Highway 24-59 in northern Douglas County.
Although authorities have investigated a possible sexual motive in the crime, Anderson declined to comment on the possibility of the sexual, or any other motive.
in northern Bodie.
Authorities said Ridpath died of multiple gunshot wounds from a small-caliber weapon Oct. 1.
Anderson said Mitchell and Ridpath had been schoolmates in him.
school and acquaintances for several years but would not comment further about their relationship.
Anderson said Mitchell had been a suspect since early in the investigation, but he refused to reveal what led officers to believe Mitchell killed Ridanath.
The arrest was the result of a continuing investigation by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, Anderson said.
Authorities have said that Ridpath was last seen alive the evening of Oct. 1 at his home in Independence.
OCT. 14, 2013
Anderson said authorities have information regarding Ridpath's reason for being in Douglas County the night he was killed but refused to elaborate further.
Professor has yen for Japanese
Childe is interested in Japanese medieval stories.
By Doug Fishback Kansan staff writer
Margaret Childs, assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures, stands with her shoulder against the wall, pensively eyeing the 10 words written on the chalkboard.
As her students nod between their papers and the board, translating the words into Japanese characters and then erasing and writing again, Childs swiftly and thoughtfully draws invisible characters in the air with short, choppy strokes of her index finger.
choppy, choppy annotations in the book.
After all the papers have dribbled in, she goes to the board and writes the first of the 10 characters — "chiri" which means geography.
"Mondai nai desu ne?" she rhetorically asks the advanced Jannese class. "No problem, right?"
In her office, Childs, dressed comfortably in pumpkin-colored corduroy slacks and a pullover sweater, props her feet on the edge of her desk and discusses her approach to teaching. She says she tries to keep her students from becoming frustrated by emphasizing the easier elements of Japanese.
with the language.
"They get awestruck, some of them, and it's fun to see them fascinated," Childs said. "It's almost like working with children, the sense of wonderment."
"It's my job to make them feel challenged instead of overwhelmed," she said, though she did admit that it sometimes was interesting to see the reactions of beginning students when they first were confronted with the language.
Childs, who will be considered for tenure this year,
teaches Advanced Modern Japanese and a course
called Understanding China and Japan. She said she
also had taught beginning and classical Japanese
during her two years at KU.
"I didn't really have a calling." Childs said. "There are a lot of different factors. Some of it was environmental and coincidental and serendipitous."
She does not construct a romantic, idealized history for herself when it comes to retracing the steps that led her into a teaching career.
Takes, for example, the fact that Childs decided to study an Asian language while she was a history
See JAPANESE, p. 12
He said the proposal would have to be considered by a number of people who were concerned with it, such as facilities operation employees and telecommunication employees.
Halls may install cable by January
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said he received a proposal Nov. 17 from Sunflower Cablevision, 644 New Hampshire St.
By a Kansan reporter
Installation of cable television in the residence halls could start by Jan.1.
The installation would start in Templin Hall and move south on Daisy Hill. Cable would be installed in every room.
Dennis Knipfer, general manager of Sunflower Cablevision, said Tempilin was the priority if the proposal was accepted.
"We would hope to have everything done with Templin by the first of the year, but there could be delays," he said.
Kniper said some movie channels would be available to students at their own expense.
But the cost of basic cable will be included in residents' rental rates, Stoner said.
Next year there will be an 8 percent to 10 percent increase in rental rates for all student housing, but Stoner said the increase should not be attributed to the installation of cable television.
sion.
Knipfer said the opportunity to provide the residence halls with cable television was good.
"We are expanding our Lawrence Report coverage and giving good education and entertainment to students by making it available to them," he said.