University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Iraqi troops invade Kuwait Minority enrollment up at KU Tank-led Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait before dawn today, August 2, and the Revolutionary Command Council of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced that the Kuwait govern- ment had been overthrown. Iraqi also warned that any foreign troops try- ing to interfere with its action would be at- tacked. Hussein ' s council in Baghdad issued a state- ment saying that Iraq was responding to a re- quest for an invasion fromthe revolutionary government in Kuwait. The statement said the troops were in Ku- wait to defend the revolution and the Kuwaiti people, with no further identification of the revolutionary government. The United States condemned the invasion August 1 , and called for anemergency meet- ing of the UN Security Council to deal with the situation. Marion Barry jury: no ver- dict on 12 of 14 counts The jury in the trial of Mayor Marion Barry convicted him of one misdemeanor count of drug possession, acquitted him of another misdemeanors drug count and failed to reach a verdict on the 12 remaining counts, includ- ing the most serious charges. The verdict ended a sensational trial that attracted national attention and transformed the political landscape of the city of Washing- ton. Many local residents were saddened by the eight weeks of testimony that portrayed the highest local official in the District of Co- lumbia as a drug user. The prosecutor, U.S. attorney Jay B. Stephens, would not say whether the govern- ment would seek a new trial on the remaining charges which were declared mistrials. The University of Kansas School of Medicine has more than tripled its enrollment of speific mi- norities in the last four years thanks to a federal program and private assistance. In 1 987, two black students began their medical education at the University of Kansas, said the associate dean for admissions at the school, Una Creditor. Today, August 9, seven black students are expected to enroll in the school. They are among 10 members of underrepre- sented minority groups beginning their medical education at KU this fall. She continued, it ' s not overwhelming in terms of numbers, but percen- tagewise it ' s a significant increase. Fires near age-old sequoias Lightening fires have burned more than 200,000 acres of California forest in the last week, and experts said August 12 it could get much, much worse, because of the lengthy drought. In Yosemite National Park, off limits to tourists since Friday, two fires had burned more than 1 5,000 acres. Flames were within two miles of the Merced Grove, a stand of giant sequoias, and within two miles of the Badger Pass ski area. Wisconsin helicopter crash kills blues guitarist Grammy-winning blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan was among five persons killed August 27 when their helicopter slammed into a hill in dense fog after leaving a concert. Stephan Ray Vaughan, born October 3, 1 954, in Dallas, began playing the guitar at age 7, copying his older brother Jimmie, the two just completed a n album, Family Style, for September release. This year, Vaughan won a Grammy Award in the contemporary blues category for In Step. The Associated Pr

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Ramaley departs KU for Portland State by Melissa Bulgren Although Judith Ramaley left Friday, July 13, to assume the presidency of Portland State University, her programs and ideas will remain at the University of Kansas. During her three years as executive vice chancellor, Ramaley sought to improve KU by creating an environment in which research, teaching, and various programs are all related. Ramaley said she particularly was proud of her work on a campus-wide planning process, involving all levels of admini- stration in the development of University goals. The program created a sense of what the University of Kansas was all about, she said and that the process was designed to strengthen exist- ing programs and to provide criteria for the allocation of money. $4 trillion U.S. debt forecast for 1993 The federal government will be more than $4 trillion in debt by 1993. the Bush administration told astonished members of the House Ways and Means Committee Wednesday, July 11. Citing higher-than-expected costs of the savings and loan bailout, Treasury Undersecretary Robert Glauber said Congress soon would have to raise the debt limit from the current $3.12 tril- lion to $3.5 trillion, to allow enough borrowing to get through 1991. Driven by record peacetime deficits and high interest rates, the federal debt grew from $994 billion to $2.6 trillion during the Reagan years and has kept rising. At $3.5 trillion, the debt would amount to about $14,000 for every man, woman, and child, more than three times the amount owed 10 years ago. Roughly a quarter of the debt is held by the government itself, representing such items as money owed to the Social Security trust fund. World Cup soccer victory for Germany German fans chanted and sang and screamed their pleasure on July 8 when West Germany dethroned Argentina and won the World Cup. Deutschland ist Weltmeister (Germany is world champion), was the most prevalent scream among the fans packed within Rome ' s Olympic Stadium. Many Germans headed to central Rome to celebrate the victory that came after the frus- tration of losses in the previous two World Cup finals, to Italy in 1982 and Argentina in 1986. Associated Press Major counts against captain of the Exxon Valdez dismissed The Coast Guard dismissed charges of drunkenness and misconduct against Joseph Hazelwood after the former captain pleaded no contest Wednesday, July 25, to two lesser counts. Hazelwood entered the pleas to allegations that he violated Coast Guard policy by drinking liquor less than four hours before embarking on the Exxon Valdez and by leaving the vessel ' s bridge whiloe it was headed for jagged Bligh Reef. The 987-foot tanker ' s hull was ripped open when it plowed into the reef the night of March 24, 1989, spilling almost 11 millions of Alaska crude into Prince Wiliam Sound in the nation ' s worst oil spill. Doctor finds possible cause for Alzheimer ' s Researchers have found a genetic abnormality that could lead to the cause of the most common form of Alzheimer ' s disease, which afflicts about 4 million Americans. The discoverer of the new find- ing, Allen Roses of the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., said that Alzheimer ' s disease appears to be linked to a genetic abnormality on chromosome 19, one of the 46 human chromosomes. Previous studies had found a defect on chromosome 21 linked to a rare, early-onset form of Alzheimer ' s disease which had been found in only 10 or 20 families in the world. 19

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1 0,000 students rally for reuni- fication of North, South Korea About 10,000 radical students rallied August 14 to demand the immediate unification of the divided Korean peninsula and vowed to march to the heavily fortified border to press for free travel to North Korea. The students demanded the withdrawal of the 43,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, and said their presence hindered dialogue with commu- nist North Korea on unification. The two Koreas have been bitter rivals since the division of the peninsula in 1 945. Early in the 1 950 ' s, a three-year war was fought. U.S., Israel dismiss Hussein ' s proposals Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said that he would not withdraw his forces from Kuwait unless all issues of occupation in the Middle East are resolved, starting with an unconditional Israeli with- drawal from occupied territories and a pullout of Syrian armed forces from Lebanon. In Bhagdad, Hussein also proposed that as a first step toward defusing the Persian Gulf crisis, a Pan- Arabic force under the United Nations flag be sent to replace the U.S. and Egyptian troops now de- ployed in Saudia Arabia to help defend it against possible Iraqi aggression. By tying the current crisis to Middle East stiputes that have defied decades of exhaustive negotiation. Hussein ' s self-proclaimed peace initiative ap- peared to offer little prospect of a breakthrough. It was viewed by many Arab and Western ana- lysts as an attempt to involve Isreal in the Persian Gulf crisis and marshal Arab masses against U.S. intervention in the Arabian peninsula. An Israeli spokesman called the proposals cheap propaganda and White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the United States categorically re- jects them. Assets frozen and oil halted to Iraq President Bush joined other world leaders in condemning Iraq ' s invasion of Kuwait as an act of naked aggression August 3 as the United states imposed a near-total economic embargo on Iraq and launched a diplomatic effort to force withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Scientists to keep sunken treasure A federal judge awarded a small group of scientists and investors from Columbus, Ohio, sole ownership of the richest sunken treasure in history more than $1 billion worth of bullion and coins from the gold fields of California. The ruling gives Columbus-America Discov- ery Group title to all gold and other artifacts re- covered from the SS Central America, which sank in a hurricane 160 miles off the coast of the Carolinas in 1857. The ship went down in 1 1 2 miles of water, taking 425 lives and carrying three tons of gold to the bottom. Entertainer Pearl Bailey dies at 72 Pearl Bailey, the actress and singer with the sexy, throaty drawl and droll sense of humor who once was called America ' s ambassador of love, died August 1 7 at age 72. Pearl Bailey was the mother of the world, said Stan Irwin, her manager of 25 years. She was a very spiritual woman, and she never recognized her color. Her ideology was, ' We are humans. '