Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1978-09-01

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70th Year No. 296 Good Morning! It's Friday, September 1. 1978 2 Sections 22 Pages 15 Cents
Somoza orders troops to crush revolt
MATAGALPA, Nicaragua ( UPI)
President Anastasio Somoza Thursday
ordered the National Guard to attack
die city of Matagalpa " with everything
they've got" to destroy a rag- ta- g army
of students and children trying to
overthrow his regime
The guardsmen, m helicopters, a
tank and jeeps mounted with heavy
machine guns, moved to attack the
small army of some 500 students, many
of them not even in their teens, who
have been fighting government troops
in the city for the past four days.
In Managua, a New York public
relations agent lured by Somoza to deal
with the foreign press told reporters the
National Guard had been ordered into
Matagalpa 75 miles north of the capital
to crush the student revolt
" The president said he expects to
have it cleaned up by tomorrow
( Friday) night," saidNorman Wolf son
Other sources who were with Somoza
when he gave orders to attack said he
told his commanders " to move in with
eveything they've got"
They said he Compared the
Matagalpa revolt, the most recent m a
series of popular uprisings against his
regime, to " street gangs taking over
the South Bronx," and the students to
" punks going around New York City
beating up old people "
It was not immediately clear whether
the full offensive had been launched.
But the students, most of them between
the ages of 12 and 16, were not expected
to stand much of a chance against tanks
and heavy machine guns from behind
their makeshift barricades of sandbags
and pfled- u- p garbage cans
The youths manned roadblocks in and
around the aty center, permitting only
Red Cross personnel waving white flags
to pass Most were armed with home-made
bombs and pistols and shotguns
apparently given to them by sym-pathetic
adults
Food and medicines were reported to
be running low
Hundreds of people fled this city of
50,000 on foot, carrying bundles of
clothing and household goods Others
took refuge inside the San Jose Church
in the city's main square. ,
No official casualty figures were
available A brief communique from
National Guard headquarters said
snipers in Matagalpa had " succeeded
in killing several troops in the space of
two days."
One doctor at a Red Cross clinic said
he had seen at least 14 bodies, including
those of women and children Officials
found the bodies of one family of four in
their apartment, victims of a National
Guard strafing raid Tuesday night
The doctor t who did not want to be
identified, said there were probably
more dead in private homes around the
dty that had not been reported He also
said there were 30 injured at the Red
Cross clinic
Dr Jorge Ruiz Quesada at the
private Monserat clinic in Matagalpa
said 38 persons were being treated for
gunshot wounds at his clinic and
several of them were in serious con-dition
" We have three days of medicine left,
and the government is doing nothing to
supply us with more," he said
Quesada said food was running out in
the city and the situation was par-ticularly
precarious for children
because of a shortage of milk
Government officials tried to
minimize the rebellion, which also
spread to other towns, and dismissed
the growing economic boycott as a
" weak bourgeois" movement
However, some 100 factories closed
Thursday in support of the escalating
general strike aimed at toppling
Somoza, whose family has ruled
Nicaragua for 41 years Airline per-sonnel
also joined the strike, virtually
dosing Managua international airport
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Paisanters9 pants Kenneth Kelley, left, and Dick Vance appear to be cut
in two as they paint the underside of the Broadway
canopy. The painters, employees of Barthelmass
BfllSflcw
Painting Co., spent several days this week painting the
canopies.
Arson probe under way
Diane Capuans and Phfllis Dent
Missourian staff writers
Arson may have been the cause in
two Wednesday night fires that started
within a 30- mw- ute period Thursday,
according to Columbia fire officials
The incidents, which may be related,
are under investigation.
A fire in the apartment of Peter
Hasselrus, 1038 Southpark Ave , was
reported at 9 20 p m. Wednesday and
caused between $ 300 and $ 400 worth of
damage, authorities said. A second
blaze in the apartment of Stanley
Kawanishi, 1400 Porter St , reported at
9 43 p. m , caused between $ 800 and
$ 1,000 damage No one was home at the
time either fire broke out.
Fire Lt Don Christian said the
department is looking for " an ex- tena- nt
on the street," but he would not reveal
his name " It's a matter of getting a
hold of htm and talking to nun," he
said. " At this point, he's just a suspect.
" The causes were incendiary
Someone set them, and we think they're
related." Christian made no estimate of
when the investigation might be con-cluded,
but said it could last anywhere
up to two or three weeks
At both apartments, Christian said,
authorities found evidence that
someone had " poked a bole" in a
window and set the drapes on fire The
damages were in the bedroom of the
Southpark apartment and the living
room at the Porter address The Ore at
the Porter address appeared to have
been set near a rear window under a
couch, which was destroyed by flames.
Though there was property damage ( to
drapery, carpet, window facings and a
living room couch), Christian said
structural damage in both cases was
minimal -
The Southpark apartment is owned
by Gordon R. Toland, 908 Hulen Drive
Jim Estes of Ommco, the company that
manages the Porter Avenue apart-ments,
had no comment other than " it
was a fire that shouldn't have been
there"
Peter Hasselrus discovered the fire
in his Southpark apartment when he
arrived home about 9 15 pjn Wed-nesday,
said Fire Inspector Gary
Warren. He stomped out some of the
embers and notified the fire depart-ment
Hurricane headed toward coast
United Press International
Hurricane Ella, picking up steam and
classified as dangerous, churned
toward the mid- Atlant- ic coastline with
90 mph ( 144.8 kph) winds Thursday
night, while parts of West Virginia
mopped up from floods triggered by
heavy rams for the second time in a
month.
The National Hurricane Center said
EDa, the season's fifth hurricane, was
located about 525 miles ( 844 9
kilometers) southeast of Cape Hat- tera- s,
NC, heading on a west- northweste- rly
course
" All coastal interests from the
Garohnas northward are advised to
stay in close touch with future releases
on tius dangerous hurricane," a
hurricane center advisory said
Nearly 4 inches of rain in a two- ho- ur
span Wednesday night caused flooding
and property damage in several West
Virginia counties, including Kanawha
County, which was hit by flash flooding
for the second tune this month No
injuries were reported.
Greek life not inviting
for sole black rushee
By Kathy Brady
MJsscurian staff writer
Freshman Minnette Bumpus of
Kansas City did not know until
sorority rush parties began Aug 20
that no blacks were active in the
University's white sororities By
Aug 21, however, the lone black
rushee had decided Greek life
wasn't for her, either
" I went through rush to see what it
was like," Ms Bumpus said. " It was
fun meeting everyone, but I decided
sorority life wasn't what I wanted."
Ms Bumpus said the absence of
blacks from the houses did not affect
her decision
Ten of the 14 houses invited Ms
Bumpus to their second round of
parties. She declined to return
" We had hoped to attract more
black women, but apparently the
interest wasn't there," Margy
Hams, PanheDenic adviser, said.
She said this year's rush pamphlets,
sent to all undergraduate students,
presented black and white houses as
part of a united Greek system
Last year, Greeks were forced to
respond to charges of segregation
when Anita Estell, a freshman from
Decatur, III, participated in rush
but was not asked to pledge
In response to the charges,
University and Greek officials
formed an anti- cbscnminat- ion task
force under the direction of James
Banning, former vice chancellor for
student affairs
Workshops and exchanges were
sponsored jointly by blacks and
whites to break the traditional
barriers Blacks for the first time
participated in Greek Week
festivities last April Black
Panhellemc sororities were granted
membership in the all- whi- te
Panhellemc Council.
Last spring, the UJS Department
of Health, Education and Welfare
cleared the Greek system of
discrimination charges
Four black sororities, with a
combined membership of fewer than
75, have been active on campus
since the 1960s
U. S. trade not influencing Soviets
By Craig Whitney
New York Times
MOSCOW While the Carter ad-ministration
agonizes over the problem
of whether sales of American oil- drilli- ng
technology to the Russians will
compromise UJ5 national security, the
Soviet Union is acting as if it couldn't
care less if it gets the equipment.
The political issue in the case is
whether, as some of fee president's
advisers argue, trade can be used as a
" weapon" to make the Soviet Union
modify its behavior in otter areas to
ease its crackdown on dissidents, for
example
The answer Soviet commentators
give is a resounding " no "
" This is a ' policy of ptepricka, 9" an
article in " Sovyetskaya Boasiya"'
observed recently, " and it cannot
J produce the results for which certain
political figures in Washington hope "
Past experience here is that the
leverage of American trade, or of in-dividual
American companies, on
Soviet political actions is very smalL
Most American businessmen in
Moscow have supported the Soviet view
that business should not be confused
with politics Most nave stuck by that
position even after one of their number,
Francis Jay Crawford of the In-ternational
Harvester Company, was
arrested last June in retaliation for the
jailing of two accused Soviet spies in
Mew Jersey An now are free awaiting
trlaL
The center of the trade dispute in
Washington is the proposed sale of a
$ 144- trtlli0- n plant to the Soviet Union to
produce hard- met- al oil drill Mis, which
it needs to exploit deep, untapped
reserves of petroleum from the fields of
Siberia. Dresser Industries of Dallas
got an export license after the deal was
reached last June, and bom the State
and Commerce departments have
cleared it
But after the Soviet Union put
prominent Soviet dissidents on trial this '
summer. President Carter decided to
demonstrate official displeasure by
stopping high- lev- el political visits to
Moscow and reviewing trade relations.
He cancelled the sale of a Sperry- Ran- d
computer to the Tass press agency , but
after a review be let the oil bit deal go
through.
Now protests from such influential
congressional figures as Sen. Henry M.
Jackson, D- Wa- sk, and studies made
under the auspices of the Defense
Department, have put the contract In
doubt again. Aides of the president's
national security adviser, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, have argued that the
Soviets could use the technology to
produce more oil, in strategically
significant quantities, and the VS
Army has argued that tungsten- carbid- e
know- ho- w could be turned to making
armor- pierci- ng shells
What the president will decide is not
yet dear.
Senator Jacason co- sponsor- ed an
amendment to the Trade Act of 1974
which tied improved American trade
and credit terms to the Soviet Union
with a liberalization of Soviet
emigration policies
The aim then was to pressure the
Soviets into letting more Jews emigrate
to Israel.
The result was that the Soviet Union
cancelled the 1972 trade agreement
with Washington It reduced
emigration of Soviet Jews from 35,000
in WW to 13,439 in 1875. Possibly 8,000
wfllteallowed toleave this year.
In the Interim, UA- Sovl- et trade has
stagnated, except for agricultural
exports of American wheat, soybeans
and feed grams Last year the U. S sold
only about $ 500 million of sophisticated
industrial technology to the Soviet
Union, and in the first five months of
this year it has sold only $ 228 6 million
worth
A Soviet critic of the Kremlin said
that the only way trade could become
an effective political weapon is for the
United States to deny the Soviets goods
they cannot get elsewhere
Oil drilling technology apparently is
best- develop- ed in the United States, but
one oil executive here said, " the Soviets
have their own hard- met- al technology
they can make the drill bits them-selves
if tbey have to,"
Even the administration's attempt to
get the Western European allies to
agree not to sen Tass a computer met
with something less than success.
Staffers
seeking
more input
By Grace Schneider
Missourian staff writer
About 400 members of the Univer-sity's
non- academ- ic staff have signed a
petition calling for the establishment of
a council to represent staff interests on
' campus The petition is expected to be
presented to Chancellor Barbara
Uehung today
At her news conference Wednesday
morning, Dr Uehhng said she would
welcome a request from staff members
and hopes to see a petition soon
Unlike the Missouri Students b Association and the Faculty Council,
the University's 6,200 non- academ- ic
staff members do not have an
organization for input nto the
University.
The closest thing, they have is the
Campus Management Advisory
Council, which was set up by former
Chancellor Schooling m August 1977, to
advise nun on staff matters Larry
Taylor, chairman of the advisory
board, said the council was not set up or
perceived to be a representative body
for the staff
Several members of the non- acade- mic
staff said they did not know
how the petition was started or who
wrote it.
The petition states, " We believe the
Columbia campus would benefit from
establishment ofa Staff Council elected
by its peers and representing the broad
and diverse interests of the staff " Such
a council " would strengthen the
University community" and bring to
light " the staffs contribution to the
University's mission of teaching,
research and service," the petition
stated.
Taylor did not sign the petition He
said he and other staff members who
opposed the petition " objected not to
the contents, but the form it was
taking"
Although Taylor said by not signing
the petition, " It's like saying you're
against Mom, apple pie and the flag
because the idea represents a more
democratic process," he and other staff
members declined to sign because they
fdt " the petition route" was not the
best way to approach the chancellor
" Why not just go and talk with the
chancellor about it9" he asked.
Clifford Manlove, business affairs
director in the Arts and Science
building, said he favored the petition
because, " I'd like to see the staff have a
way to express their feelings to the
administration about what their needs
are It would improve morale because
of their recognition "
Manlove said he believed those who
refused to sign the petition likened the
petition to a grievance procedure and
fdt it represented an " adversary- typ- e
expression"
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happened to all those
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you travel much on out- of- to- wn
roads, it's likely you
will eventually see the
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the Booneslick Bicycling
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