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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1989
(USPS 650-640)
VOL. 99, NO. 86
Gwen Kuckelman, Seneca freshman, and Tony Morefield, Lawrence junior, rummage through Kuckelman's apartment after a snowplow crashed through a wall yesterday
Snowplow cuts path through apartment
by a Kansan reporter
A KU student's living room was turned to rubble yesterday when a snowflow crashed through her window from where she slept on a couch.
Gwen Kuckelman, Seneca freshman, was not injured when a awrence fled the scene in a counterstrike a utility pole and dove backward through
her living room wall at 1614 W. Ninth St.
The snowplow was traveling west on Ninth Street in front of Village Square Apartments but lacked enough power to get up the hill, said Tracy Dover; an Auto Repair company who is working across the street.
The truck's engine stalled and the truck rolled backward down
"It's damned lucky nobody was going up the hill behind her or she would have killed them," Dover said.
the hill, went out of control and struck the apartment. Dover said.
Earl Silvers, street department supervisor, said the truck was driven by department employee Sorenson. She was uninjured.
Tony Morefield, Lawrence junior, who was also in the apartment, said he heard a rumble and a bang and was knocked to the ground by the impact. He was not seriously injured.
It was fortunate that there were no serious injuries. Morefield said, because police and fire officials can enter the apartment to check
"Not a soul came in to see if we were all right." he said.
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman, said the driver told the police officers that there was only one injury. She said the injured man would go to the hospital on his own. After determining there were no additional injuries, the police blocked off the street.
Chinese, U.S.S.R. announce May talks
The Associated Press
BEJIING. — Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev will visit China from May 15 to May 18 for the first summit between the two countries since they split bitterly 30 years ago, China announced today.
The official Xinhua News Agency also issued a joint Chinese-Soviet statement on Cambodia containing points of agreement reached between Soviet Foreign Minister Edward Shevardnadze and his Chinese counterpart, Qian Qichen, in meetings last week.
Both support a Vietnamese troop pullout from Cambodia by September, with "strict international supervision," and an end to Chinese aid to Cambodia's anti-Vietnamese guerrillas.
They still differ about the composition of a transitional government in Cambodia from the Vietnamese-installed Hun Sen regime to a popularly elected government. Xinhua said the two sides would continue to discuss their differences. However, they agreed that the bipartisan problem close enough to resolution to go ahead with a Chinese-Soviet summit.
One of its conditions for a summit has been a Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia after a decade of occupation.
The Soviet news agency Tass announced yesterday that the summit would be conducted May 15-18.
Sweardnadre told a news conference in Beijing on Saturday that the two sides agreed the summit would be in mid-May, and the Soviet Embassy privately said on Saturday the date was May 15.
However, in a blunt contradiction minutes after she Skardwaredna's plane took off, Chinese Foreign Minister Tian Zengpei insisted no date was fixed and his government still was considering the matter.
Shevardman also was two hours late arriving in Beijing for his news conference from Shanghai, where he met with Deng Xiaoping, the senior Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping.
Moscow radio says troops leave Kabul
The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Najib told thousands of communist loyalists at a rally yesterday his government would survive after Soviet troops left and his soldiers from the nation's 10-year-old civil war.
"God is with us. The people are with us. We will win the war," Najib told about 10,000 members of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, who gathered near the presidential palace.
In neighboring Pakistan, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze extended talks on the civil war. Guerrilla sources said he would meet today with the Moslem guerrillas and Soviet-backed Afghan government.
Leaders of the Iran and Pakistan-based resistance signed a cooperation pact yesterday in the Iranian capital, Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Velysahi. The agreement takes on the "Giraffes" chances of taking over in Afghanistan and creating an Islamic republic once the Soviets are gone.
Najib's rally, broadcast on national television, was staged mostly for the dozens of foreign Afghanistan for the Soviet withdrawal.
"The Russian armies are leaving the country and we will defend ourselves," said the 43-year-old Najib, jabbering with al-qaeda ties to be strong. We urge them to be strong. We unite. They say our people cannot defend our homeland. That is a lie."
As he spoke, more than a dozen giant Soviet transport planes streaked in different directions, spewing flares designed to deflect heat-seeking missiles fired by the guerrillas, or mjuheaden.
Artillery fire, which officials said was aimed at the rockets, could be heard in the distance.
Before the rally, agents of KHAD, the Afghan secret police, searched
each party member, emptied their Soviet-made rifles and placed the ammunition in a truck.
Naijah later led party loyalists, who carried red flags, on a march down the street in front of the palace, not far from the U.S. Embassy.
U. S. officials closed the mission last week because of fears the Afghan army would not be able to defend the capital against the guerrillas once the Soviet army had departed.
Guerrilla and Pakistani sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a delegation of insurgent leaders was to meet today in Pakistan with Shenadrahndez to hear his proposals for ending the Afghan war.
The Soviet Union sent troops into Afghanistan in December 1979 to help the Marxist government fight the insurgents.
The Soviets began their pullout in August and resumed it January, when convoys of tanks, trucks and armored personnel carriers started up thealing up the Railway Highway toward the Soviet border 20 miles away.
Under a U.N.-mediated agreement, Moscow is to have all its troops out by Feb. 15.
"The march today is a demonstration of our might, that we are stronger than ever." Najib said. "We are fighting for independence and liberty. Let us unite the people and fight against imperialism, against the enemies of the people. It is time to fight."
Soviet and Afghan officials say there are about 1,000 Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan and that they could be goose as early as Wednesday.
Swedish Col. Bo Pelnna, who heads the U.N. observer force in Kabul, said in a telephone interview with Swedish national television yessubstantially clear" "the Soviets were about to complete the withdrawal.
Campus recycling project studied
by Alan Morgan Kansan staff writer
Nine plastic 55-gallon drums that will be placed in Wescoe Hall today could help turn alumina and paper money for a campus organization.
Ask, who is in charge of the recycling project, said that Environs expected to receive more drums for their construction projects than that the group planned eventually to
The drums are part of a feasibility study to see whether a recycling program can be profitable, said Sue Ask, a member of Enviros. Enviros is a group that promotes environmental awareness.
Environs collects paper, cans
place six drums to collect aluminum cans and six drums to collect newspaper on the fourth floor, three of them being placed in a circle each on the second and third floors.
"We're hoping to get all-plastic containers, but whatever we get we are going to modify." Ask said. "I like the idea of using plastic drums that would normally be thrown away for a useful purpose."
Asked that she had been thinking about this project since last year, but began to seriously consider placing
the drums in Wescoe Hall last semester.
"We talked to lots of different people who would be affected by it." Ask said. "People were very supportive. There were no conflicts, and most people were very encouraging."
Ask said that the money the group raised would go to promoting the project.
She said the group expected to collect 462 pounds of paper and 62 pounds of aluminum cans each week.
Robert Spangler, president of Environs, said that he believed the project would be a success. He said that changing attitudes on the campus had helped the group accomplish more this year than in the past.
raising $32. The money will go back into the program's budget. Ask said that 25 people had volunteered to help with the project.
"At about 4:45 every night, three volunteers will empty the bins into a storage room in Wescoe. "Ask said. Till-Sar Enterprises, a Topeka company, will buy the material from Environs each week.
"Personally, I feel it's a matter that people are ready for," Spangler said.
Watkins services women's health Issues to be raised at forum clinic to serve
by Mary Neubauer
Kansan staff writer
One of the demands from a group of women who occupied a campus building 17 years ago was for a women's health program to be established at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
The group of women, which became known as the February Sisters, wanted the program to provide free Pap Smears, pelvic examinations and ready access to birth control devices without charge, all administered by a competent gynecologist. The women also wanted a counseling service to be established at Watkins to give out information on birth control and venereal disease.
Trish Horkan, Oranah senior and member of the organizing committee for the 17th anniversary commemorative forum of the February 2015 Women's Health Care services she had received at Watkins.
Horkan said Pap Smears should be free at Watkins.
"Pap tests are necessary functions for women to be healthy." Horkan said. "Every woman is supposed to have one on a yearly basis to check for cervical cancer. If a fee is charged for the service at Watkins, the test may be too expensive for some students."
Candyce Waitley, a registered nurse at Watkins, said there was no charge for student health services performed at Watkins, but any test that had to be sent off the premises for results required a fee.
"We have no choice about those charges," she said. "Not all labs have the equipment to detect the cancer cells searched for in Pap tests, performed at Watkins are also sent to labs and charmed for."
Watkins has a full-time gynecologist on staff who is board certified, Waitley said. To become board certified, a doctor must study a specific area of medicine for three years.
Watkins also has a gynecology
clinic to serve the needs, needs, Waitley said. Men can be treated there also, she said, for such problems as condyloma, a venereal disease known as the HPV, commonly called genital warts.
Watley said that although routine Pap Smears could be performed by any medical physician, women had the option to request the physician of their choice at Watkins.
"A female can walk in and say, 'I want to make an appointment with a gynecologist,'" she said. "A woman can also request to take her picture." A female physician or can just say she wants a Pap test."
Birth control devices are available at Watkins at a lower price than students would have to pay at most pharmacies, Waitley said. Birth control pill packets cost $4 and condoms can be purchased at three for so cents over the counter. Students also purchase vaginal spericide over-the-counter at Watkins, said Waitley.
Fire forces apartment evacuation
by a Kansan reporter
Fire and smoke forced residents to evacuate Tower A of Jayhawker Towers yesterday.
Maj. Paul Findley of the Lawrence Fire Department said that a fire began in a third-floor bedroom after a maintenance worker tripped a breaker for the apartment. The residents of the apartment had called maintenance because one room was without electricity.
The residents of the apartment, Tisha Sparfeld, Chesterfield, Mo., junior, and Karen Butkiewicz, Topeka sophomore, told the maintenance worker that they smelled a fire and smoke then came out of the wall.
Findley said the fire call was made at 2:41 p.m. The fire was soon under control as three engines and one ladder truck responded to the fire. One person was treated for smoke inhalation at the scene.