University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Shevardnadze resignation stuns Soviets Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, [one of the main architects of the breakthrough in East- ' West relations that led to the end of the Cold War, resigned December 20, saying he feared that the Soviet Union was heading toward dictatorship. President Mikhail Gorbechev condemned the lecision of his longtime friend and political ally but insisted that htere would be no changes in Soviet : oreign policy. Shevardnadze ' s departure is one of the most dramatic events in the 5 1 2-year history of Gorbachev ' s perestroika reform movement. Designed to emphasize the danger of a return to authoritarian rule, it also underlined the fragility of Gorbachev ' s position at a time of deepening economic crisis and growing ethnic ten- sion. ivefl .S. strikes Iraq, ignites gulf war Hundreds of allied warplanes roared ut of Saudi Arabia shortly after 3:50 p.m. ansas City time January 16, taking 28 ountries into war against Iraq. The liberation of Kuwait has begun, Resident Bush said later in a brief state- nent from the White House. At 8 p.m. Kansas City time, President ush spoke to the nation, tracing the events ince Iraq ' s Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait, utlining his efforts to negotiate and Sad- am Hussein ' s intransigence, and finally epeating his pledge that the Middle east ould be no Vietnam. Chocolholic GIs receive desertproof candy bars U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia finally have chocolate bars that melt in their mouths, not in the sand. At the request of the Army, Hershey Foods Corp. sent 144,000 her- shey ' s Desert Bars that won ' t melt in 100 degree- plust heat. The first round of heat-resistant chocolate sent earlier this month to the Persian Gulf was a test of the product, said Hershey spokesman Bonnie Glass. If the chocolate bars taste good and are tough enough for desert warfare, Hershey will send thousands more, she said. 29-cent stamp gets approval; rise Feb.3 The governors of the U.S. Postal Service made official a broad range of rate increase including a 4-cent boost, to 29 cents, for a first- class stamp. The postal service had asked for a 30-cent rate for first-class mail, but the governors reluc- tantly accepted an inde- pendent rate commis- sion ' s recommendation earlier in the month to trim that increase by a penny.

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The day the earth stood still Q-Day came and went Monday, December 4, and the atmosphere was as much party as panic. Despite Iben Browning ' s projec- tion that a killer eartyhquake was likely to hit the New Madrid fault Monday, all was normal for this town of 3200 - or as normal as could be with dozens of reporters milling about and tourists making a seemingly endless loop through downtown. The reaction was much the same from St. Louis to Memphis as residents appeared to pay close, but skeptical, attention to Browning ' s forecast. Murder charges for ' suicide doctor A doctor who invented a device that a woman with Alzheimer ' s disease used to commit suicide was charged with first-degree murder November 4. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, 62, of Royal Oak, Mich., was arraigned and ordered jailed after failing to post $150,000 bail. Kevorkian connected Janet Adkins, 54, of Partland, Ore., to an intravenous solution that would stop her heart, but she activated the switch that allowed the solution to flow into her veins. She oneo dram Maximum reservists number for active duty up by 63,000 Defense secretary Dick Cheney raised by 63,000 the maximum number of military reservists who can be or- dered to active duty for Operation Desert Shield. there are now 96,834 members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard reserve oon active duty under a call-up authority granted by President Bush on August 23. Thou- sands more have been alerted to pre- pare to mobilize. The Pentagon gave no reason for increasing the call-up limit to 188,000. The previous limit was 125,000. Space shuttle finally lifts off Columbia blasted off today after - [J an agonizing half-year delay withi undei seven astronauts and an astronomi- cal observatory that will examine some j SJO n of the hottest objects in the heavens. The 100-ton spaceship floodedjU-S the sky with light visible hundreds oft [ miles away as it thundered toward a| , 218-mile-high-orbit. Its journey into! space was supposed to have been in|fa May, then September, but was post- poned repeatedly by hydrogen leaks. Monet work and other stolen art is recovere , ' roc Nine impressionist paintings stolen from a- Paris museum in 1 985, including a Claude Monet ' ' fj]gfy masterpiece that gave impressionism its name,. ' ' have been found in Corsica, authorities said. , The works, including Monet ' s famed Imn pression Sunrise, were stolen from the Marmot- tan Museum in a daring daytime theft witnessedjkjnp, by more than 30 people. Police disclosed few details about the break- !OU(||[ through in the case, but said seven persons had;;, been taken into custody on the MediterraneartpH island and were expected to be transferred soo to Paris. 9ft

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KUgets$1 million for post The University of Kansas has received $1 million from the Knight Foundation of Miami to create an endowed professorship i n journal- ism, officials announced. The grant will be used to sup- port teaching and research about the leadership role of the press in com- munities, said Mike Kautsch, dean of the William Allen School of Journal- ism and Mass Communications, in a statement. He hopes to have the position filled for the falM 991 semester. KU, Florida A M University, and Duke University were selected from 34 applicants for the $1 million grants. Iraq pumps oil into the gulf Saddam Hussein struck with fire and oil on January 25, raining vol- leys of Scud missiles into Israel and Saudi Arabia and spreading an oil slick of historic proportions over the Persian Gulf. The Scuds hit Israel for the fifth time in eight days, this time killing at least one and injuring more than 40. The massive, environmentally disastrous oil slick, potentially a dozen times worse than the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill near Alaska, is spreading from opened valves on the Sea Island terminal, a super- tanker station 10 miles off Kuwait, and maybe from giant tankers in Kuwait harbors. Gretzky scores 700th career goal Wayne Gretzky, the NHL ' s all-time point leader, reached another milestone when he be- came only the fourth player in league history to score 700 goals. Gretzky got the milestone goal when he backhanded Brian Benning ' s pass behind goal- tender Glenn Healy at 11 minutes, 48 seconds of the first period in the Los Angeles Kings ' game against the New York Islander at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. Gordie Howe, the man Gretzky replaced as the NHL ' s point leader, is No. 1 with 801 goals. Marcel Dionne is second with 731, and Phil Esposito is third with 717. Gretzky holds the single-season record for goals with 92, set im 1981-82. Kasparov wins $1.7 million Garry Kasparov played Anatoly Karpov to a draw in the final game ol their World Chess Championship, guaranteeing himself $1.7 million ofl the $3 million in prize money. The draw after 36 moves alsoi means Kasparov wins a diamond stud- ded trophy put up by the Lyon spon- sors. The draw gave Kasparov 12.5) points of a possible 24 in the competi- tion. Had he lost to his fellow Soviet! grandmaster, they would have had 12!; points each and split the winnings; Chinese girl, 12, is best there is Fu Mingxia of China is 1 2 and a world champion ' 1 She became the youngest world titlist in the history of any i aquatic event when she won the women ' s platform cormj petition at the World Swimming Championships in Perttof Australia. No sooner had she accepted he. gold medah boquet of flowers, and wide-brimmed Australian hat than] FINA announced it was limiting future world champion , ships, Olympics and World Cup events to those 14 antf over. 30.