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6 Former Pittsburgh Steeler
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Franco Harris returned to the
University yesterday to host the
annual Sickle Cell Anemia
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• A little bit of England will
come to the University this week
when five actors from the Lon
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New demands set
for Soviets' release
By RODAINA KENAAN
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon A caller say- Frenchmen hostages. It claimed that
ing he represented the extremist a sixth kidnapped American, diplo
group holding three kidnapped Soviet mat William Buckley, had been "exe-
Embassy personnel said yesterday cuted" in retaliation for Israel's air
they would not be freed until the raid Tuesday against the Palestine
Soviet Union and America end Leb- Liberation Organization headquar
anon's 10-year-old civil war. ters in Tunisia.
The anonymous caller told , a West- There has been no confirmation of
ern news agency that the group that Buckley's death.
kidnapped the Soviets, the Islamic The caller said all Soviet, Ameri-
Liberation Organization, also ap- can and European hostages in Leb
pealed to another terrorist organiza- anon should not be released unless
tion not to free the American and President Reagan and Soviet leader
French hostages it holds. Mikhail Gorbachev agree on "termi-
Guerrillas of the Islamic Liberation nating the Lebanese tragedy and the
Organization, a Moslem fundamen- sufferings of the Lebanese people."
talist group, kidnapped three Soviet He noted Reagan and Gorbachev
diplomats and a Soviet Embassy doc- are scheduled to hold a summit meet
tor on Monday and the body of one, ing in Geneva, Switzerland, next
Cultural Attache Arcady Katkov, was month.
found Wednesday in a west Beirut The other American histages held
suburb. He had been shot in the head. by Islamic Jihad are Terry Anderson,
In its initial report of the abduc- the Associated Press' chief Middle
tions, the Islamic Liberation Organi- East correspondent; American Uni
zation threated to kill all four Soviet versity of Beirut librarian Peter Kil
hostages unless Syrian-backed mili- burn; a Roman Catholic priest, the
tias halted their offensive against the Rev. Lawrence Jenco; American
Moslem fundamentalist Tawheed mi- University Hospital Director David
litia in the northern port city of Tripo- Jacobsen, and the American Univer
li. • sity dean of agriculture, Thomas Su-
But the caller said the Islamic therland.
Liberation Organization would not Islamaic Jihad also claims it is
free the Soviets even though a cease- holding French Embassy Vice Consul
fire took effect yesterday in Tripoli, Marcel Fontaine; Protocol Officer
with Syrian troops moving into the Marcel Carton; Michel Seurat, a re
city and disarming the rival mili- aseacher at the French Center for
tiamen after three weeks of fierce Studies and Reasearch of the Con
fighting. temporary Middle East, and journal
" The heretics think they can invent ist Jean-Paul Kauffmann.
this truce to deceive us into releasing Islamic Jihad is a Shiite Moslem
the hostages," the caller said in Arab- group with close links to Iran's funda
ic. "We emphasize that this (kidnap) mentalist Islamic government.
operation will not end that easily and Iran helped arrange the Tripoli
it will not be the last. We shall not ceasefire, with Syria agreeing to send
release the hostages. some of its troops stationed in north
" Therefore, we appeal to our broth- ern and eastern Lebanon into the
ers and comrades of Islamic Jihad embattled city. Syria, the Soviet
(Islamic Holy War) to intensify oper- Union's main ally in the Middle East,
ations against the Soviets and Ameri- has supported Persian Iran in its war
cans alike and plead with them not to with Arab Iraq.
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Collegian
release the hostages they hold."
Islamic Jihad is believed to hold at
least five Americans and • four
University debates
replacement for BDRs
By COLLEEN BARRY
Collegian Staff Writer
By Fall Semester 1988, the Univer
sity's baccalaureate degree require
ments will be replaced with an
updated concept of general educa
tion.
However, exactly how the Universi
ty will approach improving general
education remains uncertain.
"We have a vaccuum that needs to
be filled. Our fear is that it will be
filled in too quickly," student Faculty
Senator Tracy Brant said.
Under the present general educa-
tion program the BDRs it is
possible for undergraduate students
to graduate without a coherent over
view of their culture, said Judd Ar
nold, chairman of the Faculty
Senate's Undergraduate Studies
Committee. An aim of general educa
tion is to provide a general frame
work into which students can fit their
knowledge.
Promoting a new general education
program, University President Bryce
Jordan has pointed out that the na
tional trend is toward more coher
ence and fewer choices in general
education programs.
But Brant questioned whether
watching trends is a valid concern for
the University.
"Integration is a good thing to
provide a base of knowledge, but does
Riots explode
By The Associated Press
LONDON More than 500 youths,
most of them Blacks and a few firing
shotguns, ~ b attted—police_ in_ fierce
street fighting last night in North
London. Officials said one policeman
was stabbed to death and more than
80 people were injured.
Scotland Yard said 40 policemen
were •among the wounded and that
two policemen and three reporters
were struck by shotgun pellets. It
said one officer was seriously injured
when he was hit by a a piece of
concrete dropped from a balcony.
It was the first police fatality and
the first gunfire reported in the rash
of recent violence including riots that
hit the south London district of Brix
ton last weekend and the industrial
cities of Liverpool and Birmingham
last month.
Clive Appleby, administrator of
North Middlesex Hospital, said a
policeman died shortly after being
admitted with a stab wound in the
neck.
Press Association, Britain's do
mestic news agency, reported earlier
that three policemen were shot dur
ing the fighting in Tottenham district,
and quoted one officer as saying,
"They are now using shotguns." •
The trouble began a day after a
black woman died while police were
searching her home. Police said the
woman apparently suffered a heart
attack, but her family disputed that.
About 200 youths, most of whom
were Blacks and some wearing
masks, hurled bottles and stones at
the Tottenham police station yester
day afternoon, and then sat in the
street. They blocked traffic for about
an hour before dispersing, and no one
was injured
At about 7 p.m., gangs of black
youths started throwing objects at
patrolling officers, and riot police in
helme,ts and carrying shields con
verged on the area, a racially mixed
neighborhood with mostly low-in
come housing.
The violence escalated quickly, and
reporters at the scene estimated
more than 500 youths had taken to the
streets.
Demonstrators overturned cars
and set them on fire and set ablaze at
least one house, Scotland Yard re
ported. Authorities dispatched four
fire engines but police advised them
not to go into the area.
Scotland Yard spokeswoman Gil
lian Humphrey said the situation was
"pretty volatile," but the rioting and
looting appeared to be tapering off
around midnight.
Police from all over London were
sent into the area and came under
repeated attack. Each time police
charged the demonstrators showered
them with bricks, stones and bottles,
some containing burning gasoline.
Television coverage showed police
in running battles with youths amid
the flames`kpd smoke of fires started
by firebombs.
Police reinforcements were
equipped with tear gas but it was not
used immediately.
On Saturday, Cynthia Jarrett, 49,
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it necessarily fill our needs?" she
said.
The many issues related to general
education and the variety of ap
proaches to forming a new program
complicate the planning.
"Everyone feels they have the right
idea, but everyone can't be right.
That's why it is taking so long," said
Laurie Dieffenbach, assistant vice
president of the Undergraduate Stu
dent Government's Academic As
sembly.
Some people are satisfied with the
current general education system
while others want it totally restruc
tured, she added.
One criticism of BDRs is that stu
dents do not make connections be
tween the many courses they can
choose from, Brant said.
Also, faculty and students ap
proach BDRs as courses that must be
taken to satisfy requirements, result
ing in problems with attitude, said
Jerry Covert, chairman of the senate
Curricular Affairs Committee.
"We don't want that atmosphere.
We want something that would bene
fit students in their personal lives and
in their professional lives," said Co
vert, associate professor of biology at
the University's Hazleton Campus.
The senate took its first step toward
improving general eductation last
Spring Semester by passing a defi
nition of general education that looks
at it as a program enabling students
to grow intellectually.
collapsed while police were searching
her house for stolen goods following
the arrest of one of her sons, Floyd.
He had been arrested in an investiga
tion involving a stolen car. • -
A police statement said Cynthia
Jarrett was very cooperative "but
towards the end of the search another
of her sons arrived home and began
strongly objecting to the police pres
ence."
"She collapsed and the officers
were physically shoved out of the
house," it said. "Eventually they
persuaded the occupants to let them
back in and one of the officers trained
in first aid administered mouth-to
mouth resuscitation, but without suc
cess."
Jarrett's daughter, Cynthia, 23,
claimed a policemen pushed her
A police officer, carrying a truncheon, leads away a youth in Tottenham, North
London, last night. Officials said one policeman was stabbed to death and 80
people were injured in clashes between riot police and more than 500 youths. It
was the first police fatality reported as a result of the violence that has hit
England recently, including riots in the London district of Brixton last weekend
and the industrial cities of Liverpool and Birmingham last month.
Two senate committees will use the
approved definition and present cred
it requirements while studying possi
bilities for a new curriculum, said
Arnold, also an associate professor of
English.
In addition, information from
deans' offices, departments, the sen
ate and students will be used to get a
workable solution, he said.
One possibilty is to trim down the
number of available courses, but
Covert said, "We don't know that's
the only route."
Brant said general education
should be a place where students can
explore disciplines.
"Less choice means less advising.
They are saying that we don't have
enough qualified advisers, so they
want to take our choices," Brant said.
"As a student, I like my choices, but a
lot of students don't know their needs
and don't know how to make choic
es."
She added that general education at
the University could be better with
improved advising. However, there is
pressure to change the present
"smorgasbord" of required classes.
Last spring, the senate rejected
"Linkage" an attempt to force
integration by requiring that a sub
ject is studied from several points of
view or that courses are taken in a
specified order. The proposal was
supported by Jordan.
London
mother and caused her to fall.
"My mother weighed 20-odd stone
(280 pounds) and she lost her balance,
• stumbled and fell to the floor. She was
- gasping for breath," the. daughter
said.
The family called an ambulance,
but less than 15 minutes later she was
dead.
The independent Police Complaints
Authority ordered an investigation of
the death. Floyd Jarrett demanded a
public inquiry.
Riots broke out in Brixton last
weekend when police shot a black
woman, Cherry Groce, 37, after en
tering her home in search of her son.
Cherry Groce was paralyzed from the
waist down:
Police called the shooting "a tragic
accident."