Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1983-11-12

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76th Year No. 52 Good Morning! It's Saturday, November 12, 1983 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents
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M. Ufctofyffiiifrigger suiotiier ambush
By Troy Comfort and Pat Finan
Mlasourtan staff writer
There's a mean- lookin- g gang of
cowboys ridmg into town today, but
the local law is more waned about
the good gays.
The good guys, clad in black and
. gold, are usually pretty tame around
high noon. But given a few fingers of
hooch at a tailgate saloon and a grid-iron
brawl, Missouri fans have been
known to getdownright ornery.
After last week's npset over a Qat
Oklahoma team, the rip- roari- ng UBz- zo- u
gang stampeded Faurot Field
and destroyed the goalposts. With
the 6-- 3 Cowboys favored to win to-day,
Tiger fans may roar and np
But the Tjgers must win their
showdown with the Cowboys, who
havealrttle tiger blood of their own.
The cowpokes were once known as
the Fighting Tigers from the
" Princeton of tie West" The name- cre- pt
west from be Ivy league
Today's game
Kickoff-- 1 30 p m
Weather Mostly cloudy, high in the
upper 40s
Radio KFRU ( 1400 AM), KTGR
( 1580 AM) and KCMQ 97 FM)
Crowd 45,000- 50,00- 0
Pre- gam- e story on Page 1 B, Sports
when two OSU faculty members de-cided
to name the team Tigers after
that of their alma mater, Princeton
University.
But if you ' know anything about
Oklahoma, you know that deer and
antelope, not tigers, roam its range.
Tigers just wasn't right
That doesn't explain why Missouri
is nicknamed the Tigers, but the
only obvious Missouri mascot lends
itself to bemg called a jackass.
Oklahoma has Cowboys plenty
of ' em.
In 1930, a Oklahoma City reporter
calkd- fb- e team the Cowboys. The
name stuck like a bund porcupine ui
love with a cactus. OSU kept the
name when it moseyed into the Big
Eight Conference in 1957.
Instead of punchm cattle across
the" plains, these modern- da- y cowr
boys intend to knock the Tigers
around me field and possibly out of a
bowl bid.
But the Tigers have some goals of
their own.
The Tigers achieved all of their
goals, but later lost two goals last
week against the OU Sooners. No
sooner had the team pulled off its 10-- 0
upset victory when a mob of fans
tore down the goalposts and wan- -'
dered off to the local watering holes
to celebrate.
A University maintenance crew
" rode fences" Thursday and re-placed
the busted posts at a cost of
$ 5,000.
Victories over these Cowboys have
not been easy to come by in recent
years. Oklahoma State has won four
of the last five showdowns
But the Tigers hope to draw 50,000
fans this afternoon. When the final
gun smokes, will the fans stampede
again?
The law, better known as Universi-ty
Police, did not attempt to head the
throng off at the pass last week be-cause
the University Athletic De-partment
requested that police not
interfere, Maj Jack Watnng said.
" We could stop them if we wanted
to,' said Watnng. The police pre-vented
fans from tearing down the
south goal post at the Oklahoma
football game two years ago. Warr-ing
recollects, although the mob
hightailed it down the field to de-stroy
the north postinstead.
Athletic Department officials de-liberate
the fate of the posts before
each game. The thundering herd of
fans makes its decision on impulse.
The bowl- hungr- y Tigers don't give
a hoot whether the posts come down
or not They just want to boot the
cowpok3 out of town before sun-down
. . . with an invitation to the
DustBowL
Soldier comes home
a Grenada veteran
Td go again if I had to'
By Helena Fegcr
Missourian staff writer
At 8: 30 on the night of Oct 24, VS.
Army Pfc. Donald Ferrell received
the alert at Fort Bragg, N. C. He was
told to pack a rucksack just in case
his company, Bravo Company, was
to see action.
" Everyone was so sure it was an
inspection," fee paratroopersaML
Then the phone lines were killed.
No one could call from the base. Fer-rell
was handed an M- 20- 3, a grenade
launcher." The company was locked
In a compound enclosed by barbed
wire. Annmmftlon was issued.
" Lots of planes were taking off
there were five out in 15 minutes,"
Ferrell said. " There was talk about
Lebanon and. Nicaragua. Then we
were told we were going to Grena-da."
Ferrell came home to Columbia
Thursday, 8 day before . Veterans
Day. la less than a monm, the 20- year- oldso-kUer
hadbecome a veter-an
cf the most recent UiJ. conflict A
1331 graduate of Rock Bridge High
School, JemE is meson of IHy Fer-rell,
acoccouribjatat the University.
' 1 always ranted " to go into the
Army " bs said. " I always wanted to
jmhp from an Mrplaoe."
Sixteen months after joining the
Army, Ferrefi prepared for his first
combat jump. It was 6 o'clock on the
morning of Oct 25 mat UJ5. troops
invaded Grenada on President Rea-gan's
orders.
As Ferrell suited up aboard -- the
plane, he and his comrades were
told they may have to parachute
onto the island to evacuate Amen- -'
can students from St George's Uni-versity
Medral School The men
were given few details about the in-vasion,
he said. Many didnt even
know where the country was. They
were told it might take a while, or
they might be brought right back
home.
Ferrell and his comrades didnt
have to jump jnto Grenada; their
plane was able to land. As the 3rd
Battalion Ferrefl's own touched
down at about 3 that afternoon, the
Rangers, the first Army' unit de-ployed
to the island, bad already
parachuted onto the flight strip at
Point Salines.
But the airstrip still was under
fire, they were told. " I could hear
gunfire and then screaming. It puts
the fear of God into you right quack,"
Ferrell said.
That night the Americans were
transported, out Ferrell and his bat- -
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talion did not return to Fort Bragg
unnlNov. 4.
" Nobody questioned why we
stayed. We did what they told us to
do," Ferrell said.
He and his company were as-signed
to clear about seven miles of
rough mountainous terrain from St
George's University Medical School
to Pomt Salines.
" We got shot at as we went up the
road it was panic coy," Ferrell
said. " The buildings in the area
were supposed to be cleared, but
some guy, a Grenadian, started
shooting.'
UJS. troops gave the combatant
the cnance to surrender, but he re-fused.
So the sokbers retaliated,
Ferrell said. " We started throwing
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Sw WAR, Page 8A
Moscow wants
PLO struggle
to be resolved
New York Times
MOSCOW Syria's foreign min-ister
left Moscow Friday carrying a
clear message that the Soviet Union
wants the internal struggle in the
Palestine Liberation Organization
stopped.
A report by Tass, the official press
agency, on two days of talks between
the Syrian official. Abdel Halun
Khaddam. and Foreign Minister An-drei
A. Gromyko said they had a
" thorough exchange of opinions" on
the situation in Lebanon ' as well as
current dev elopments in the north of
that country, in the area of the city
of Tripoli "
Tripoli has been the scene of a
strong assault against Yasser Ar-afat,
the PLO leader, by Syrian- backe- d
rebels from within his orga-nization.
" The Soviet side stressed the
pressing, urgent need to overcome
strife and restore unity in the ranks
of the Palestinian resistance
movement so that it will continue to
be an active and effective force in
the anti- impenal- ist struggle in the
Middle East" Tass said "
The statement was the strongest
indication to date of Soviet dissatis-faction
with the threat to Arafat
The PLO chairman has enjoyed
Moscow's support in the past, even
though Soviet relations with him
ha e not been smooth
Western diplomats said the Rus-sians
were concerned that the fall of
a Palestinian leader with interna-tional
stature would weaken the PIjO
and further divide the Arabs, thus
diminishing prospects for a M'ddle
East settlement in which Moscow
could play a visible role
Syria is the Soviet Union's chief
ally in the Middle EasL But there is
no evidence that Moscow sees any
benefit in bringing the PLO under
Syrian control, since this would
probably weaken support for the
Palestinians among Western- leanin- g
Arab countries like Jordan, Egpt.
or Saudi Arabia Such a shift might
make those countries more amena-ble
to JS -- sponsored regional ef-forts
like the Camp David agree-ment
The Tass report made no refer-ence
to Khaddam's position on the
Tripoli fighting, further suggesting
that no agreement on the issue had
been achieved. Tass spoke of a
" thorough exchange of opinions." a
formula suggesting an inconclusive
debate
Both the Russians and the Syrians
expressed support for the Lebanese
unification talks in Geneva, although
their respective toasts suggested
some differences there as well
Election procedure
divides City Council
By Mark Weaver and Todd Copilevitz
Missounan staff writer
Fourth Ward Councilman Pat Bar-nes
said Friday he is looking for
more candidates for the position
soon to be vacated by Second Ward
Councilman Duane Lammers in-cluding
a black applicant
In the meantime the council ap-pears
to be headed for a procedural
fight at its meeting Monday evening,
unless Mayor John Westlund
changes his plans for selecting the
interim councilman
Barnes said Friday he has been
contacting community members this
week to drum up interest among
Second Ward nominees to apply for
the position. The replacement term
will run through April, when the sec-ond
half of Lammers' two- ye- ar term
goes before the voters.
Barnes said he hopes at least one
of those candidates will be black
" The council has a unique opportuni-ty
to appoint a person who perhaps
does not have an opportunity to
serve otherwise."
Mary Rathff, president of the local
chapter of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo-ple,
said Friday she also is working
to locate a black candidate from the
ward's sizable black population
Rathff said she will be contacting
former Councilman Harold Warren
and other black community leaders
this week to see who might be inter-ested
in Lammers' seat
At the council meeting Monday
night however, the final roster of
candidates for the position will take
a back seat to a disagreement sim-mering
over the procedure for elect-ing
Lammers' replacement
The council will meet to canvass
the returns from last week's bond
election. But at least two councilman
said they will use the opportunity to
try to force Westludd to change the
voting procedure mat he has an-nounced
will be used in selecting
Lammers replacement
Westlund said Wednesday be had
decided Lammers would be allowed
to nominate his choice for the post
first after the applicants are inter-viewed.
The council then would vote
See COUNCIL. Page 8A
Challenge
of Luther
still valid
By Patrick Mamn
Missounan staff writer
If the world and the Christian
Church had to contend with Martin
Luther today, his message would
probably be much the same as it was
in the 16th century.
As they mark the 500th birthday of
Luther, Protestant and Catholic
See Page 5A for an imagined
interview with Martin Luther.
theologians seem ready to agree that
his challenge is soil vital and de-manding
" Luther was a reformer, and his
message for today is sull the same:
that the church has to continually re-new
itself to -- keep from becoming
complacent" says the Rev. Ralph
Anderson, pastor of St. Andrew's Lu-theran
Church, 914 West Boulevard
S.
In Luther's tune, the church had
become fat and comfortable, self- servi- ng
and oppressive, says Ander-son.
" Luther upset the apple cart
and forced the church to look at it-self.
Today, many Catholic theolo- -
Sm LUTHER, Pago 8A