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Reagan acts against Soviet 'savagery'
By JAMES GERSTENZANG
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON President
Reagan imposed limited
diplomatic and aviation
restrictions against the Soviet
Union Monday night, but took no
economic reprisals despite "the
savagery of their crime" in
shooting down a strayed South
Korean jetliner.
Reagan said he seeks truth and
justice from Moscow, not
vengeance.
Using a tape recording of a Soviet
pilot announcing to a ground
controller that "the target is
destroyed" two seconds after'a
missile was launched, Reagan
demanded an accounting and an
apology from the Soviet Union.
In a nationally broadcast and
televised address from the Oval
Office, the president referred five
times to "what can only be called
the Korean Air Line Massacre."
"Our immediate challenge to this
atrocity is to ensure that we make
the skies safer and that we seek just
compensation for the families of
those who were kii!ed," Reagan
said.
He accused the Soviets of
barbarism and said, "This crime
against humanity must never be
forgotten."
Within a week, he said, the
United States will be making a
claim against the Soviet Union to
obtain such compensation, saying
these payments are an absolute
Two more marines killed
in middle east warfare
By The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon Two U.S. Marines were killed
and two others wounded in an artillery barrage at dawn
Tuesday, the third day of renewed Christian-Druse
civil warfare in Lebanon, Marine spokesman Maj.
Robert Jordan said.
The bombardment occurred at 4:05 a.m. (10:05 p.m.
EDT Monday), when a barrage of rockets and mortar
shells slammed in and around the Marine base at
Beirut's international airport, said Jordan, 45, of
Shenandoah, Ga.
It was the first deadly attack on the Marines since
Aug. 29 when two leathernecks were killed during
intensified fighting between rival Lebanese factions.
Those were the first Marine combat deaths in Lebandn
The 1,200 Marines are part of a multinational
peacekeeping force deployed in the Beirut area for
more than a year at the Lebanese government's
request
Jordan said the latest victims were posted within the
airport perimeter. Two armored cars brought the four
casualties to a helicopter that evacuated them to the
•
Renovations have begun 'in some parts of campus to make way for more student housing. The Theatre Arts
Production Studio (TAPS), located near Hilton) , Halls, was torn down Saturday and will be replaced by more modern
living quarters
moral duty which the Soviets must
assume."
' Congressional figures were
generally supportive of the
president. Senate Democratic
leader Robert Byrd characterized
Reagan as "tough in tone but
restrained in action," but said he
would have preferred imposition of
allied trade restrictions. He also
said Reagan ought to have
suspended the new U.S.-Soviet
grain deal until the Russians
admitted 'the attack.
On Monday, a Soviet
commentator in Moscow said the
jet fighter that intercepted the
airliner "fulfilled its duty" in
protecting the nation. But neither
he nor any other Soviet official has
admitted Soviet responsibility for
shooting down the Korean Air Lines
flight last Thursday. •
"There was absolutely. no
justification, legal or moral, for
what the Soviets did," Reagan said.
In resporise to the incident,
Reagan said he was imposing a
series of restrictions against
Moscow, including cancellation of
an agreement on transportation
cooperation. There were no tough
economic sanctions and he
reiterated American commitment
to pursuing an arms control accord.
At the same time, he said "this
crime against humanity" should be
a factor as Congress acts on the
new weapons he seeks for the
American arsenal. -
Reagan reaffirmed the U.S. ban
on Soviet planes landing at U.S.
airports, praising Canada, which
Navy's helicopter carrier Iwo Jima, off the Beirut
coast, Jordan said.
In ,Washington, Pentagon duty officer Lt. Col. Peter
Friend confirmed the casualties and said there would
be no immediate announcement of the names of the
dead Marines. He said it was not clear whether the
shelling was aimed at the Marines or had gone astray.
'Associated Press photographer Don Mell, who spent
the night at the Marine base, said the American
peacekeepers dived into bunkers and foxholes on their
highest state of alert, known as "Condition One," when
shells and rockets started raining down at 1 a.m. local
time.
Several rounds struck the runway near the terminal
building of the closed airport. A few landed within the
Marine zone and others exploded nearby, Mell said.
Marines fired four 155-mm illumination rounds as a
warning.
There was no immediate word whether the Marines
fired mortars or sent helicopter gunships into the air to
strike at the sources of fire that killed the two
Atnerican peacekeepers. Such a response was ordered
after the deadly attack last week.
earlier in the day announced it was
suspending the Aeroflot landing
and refueling privilege's in
Montreal and Gander,
Newfoundland.
The United States alone could do
little to restrict the Soviet Union's
commercial aviation activities, but
a suspension of landing rights and
actions taken in cooperation with
other nations could have a
significant impact.
Representatives of about 20
friendly governments were called
to the State Department for
consultations about the plane
incident before Reagan's speech,
and the president said: "This
attack was not just against
ourselves or the Republic of Korea.
This was the Soviet Union against
the world and the moral precepts
which guide human relations
among people everywhere.
"It was an act of barbarism, born
of a society which wantonly
disregards individual rights and
the value of human life . . ."
Soviet officials have described
firing warning shots at a craft that
they said could have been operating
a possible spy mission under cover
as a civilian jet.
A top U.S. official, briefing
reporters on the condition that he
not be identified by name, said the
administration does not believe it
can impose sanctions sufficient to
change Soviet behavior. He
suggested that the way to do that is
increase the U.S. defense budget,
and strengthen the economy and
military alliances.
Desegregation funding requested
By PHIL GUTIS
Collegian Staff Writer
Continuing the development of
the University's equal opportunity
plan, administrators will ask the
University Board of Trustees next
week to approve the appropriation
of $700,000 for desegregation
activities.
The trustees, meeting Sept. 15
and 16 here, will be asked to
approve about $500,000 for
increased University recruitment
and retention of black students.
They will also vote on $200,000 for
activities aimed at - enhancing the
state's two traditionally black
universities Lincoln University
and Cheyney University of
Pennsylania, said William W.
Asbury, executive assistant to the
president for administration.
In its portion of a statewide
desegregation plan recently
approved by the U.S. Department
of Education's Office of Civil
Righfs, the University pledged to
undertake several activities aimed
at enhancing Lincoln and Cheyney.
It also pledged to increase the
number of black students by about
50 percent from about 2.5 percent to
5 percent at Penn State.
If approved by the trustees, the
money will be distributed
following certain state and
University guidelines by the
University's new Equal
Opportunity Planning Committee,
chaired by Asbury, formerly the
University's affirmative action
officer and assistant to the provost.
Following a state line-item
appropriation of $200,000 for
minority recruitment and retention
efforts, the University agreed to.
provide a dollar-for-dollar match of
that amount, University President
Bryce Jordan said recently.
To strenghen its recruitment and
retention program, the University
allocated about $300,000 of the
additional $2.9 million it received,
to bring the total available to
$700,000, Jordan said.
In addition to distributing that
money, the planning committee
will coordinate the activities of
several task forces, which will
work to implement the goals and
pledges made in the University's
desegregation plan, Asbury said.
If the committee agrees, Asbury
said that at least two-thirds of the
money, or about $460,000, will go
toward recruitment and retention
efforts. The rest could be used for
the hiring of additional staff and for
expenses involved in the Lincoln
and Cheyney activities, he said.:
In addition to the federal
approval, the trustees in July
accepted the University's
desegregation plan as official Penn
State policy. Since that time,
University administrators, most
notably Asbury and James B.
Bartoo, acting executive vice
president, have worked to
implement the University's plan.
Another area of the plan,
represented on the planning
committee by Dr. Marshall Jones,
head of the Department of
Behavorial Science at the
University's Milton S. Hershey
Medical Center, will work with the
two other state-related medical
schools, to establish a program to
encourage Lincoln and Cheyne'
graduates to enroll in one of the
medical programs.
The University had earlier
pledged to assist in the
development of "high-quality pre
medical curricula" and to provide
counseling and advising services to
students enrolled in such a
program.
To increase the University's
ability to recruit black students, the
administration recently hired the
consulting firm of Mitchell, Lynch
and Braithwaite of Philadelphia to
do a six-month study of the
University's recruitment efforts in
southeastern Pennsylvania.
• The other major area involved in
the desegregation efforts is the
retention of black students already
enrolled in the University. This
area, Asbury said, "is the key to
increasing the number of black
students at the University."
"If we do a good job keeping
black students, they will be our best
recruiters," he said.
While the possibilities for
increasing retention rates are still
being studied, Asbury said a
reorganization in terms of
"streamlining and focusing"
services for all students with an
emphasis of increasing quality
would help the University retain
black students.
To increase that quality, the
University is considering the
possibility of going back to a more
central location for student
services, where one office would
coordinate all those activities,
Asbury said.
"There ought to be some office
that can advice a student on every
aspect of student services —from
admissions to personal
counseling," he said.
Another area where the
University needs additional money
and efforts to help retention efforts
is financial aid, Asbury said.
Analysis has shown that "most
students especially graduate
students need more money than
they have right now," he said.
"I would expect that the less
problem students have in meeting
their financial obligations, the
more success they would have in
their academic programs," he
said.
In recognition of that need, the
University will ask the state for at
least an additional $2 million for
financial aid in the 1984-85 state
appropriation request, which will
go before the trustees next week.
"Two million dollars would bring
us up to speed," Asbury said. "I'm
sure we're going to ask for at least
that much and maybe more."
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