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Tuesday, January 17, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
American tourist killed near Cambodian temple
The Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Gunmen opened fire on a tourist van at the Angkor Wat temple complex, Cambodia's biggest tourist attraction, killing an American woman and seriously wounding her husband, U.S. and Cambodian officials said. The couple's Cambodian guide also was killed.
Aprovincial official said the attack Sunday was carried out by Khmer Rouge guerrillas, but that could not be confirmed. The forested area around the temples in Siem Reap province is heavily fought over by Khmer Rouge guerrillas and government soldiers.
A State Department official in Washington identified the woman as Susan Ginsburg Hadden of Austin, Texas. Her husband was identified as James Hadden Jr.
The official said Mrs. Hadden was killed when gunmen opened fire on the van after it stopped at a roadblock. The official, who asked not to be identified, said robbery appeared to be the motive for the attack.
U. S. Embassy representative David Miller said the wounded
American was being treated in Phnom Penh but would not release his condition.
Diethelm Travel, which sponsored the Americans' trip to Siem Reap, said the man, who it identified as V. Hadden, suffered from shrapnel injuries and was evacuated by military aircraft to Phnom Penh.
The Americans were headed to Banteay Srey, one of several 12th-century temples in Angkor Wat. Guides regularly take tourists around the main complex of delicately-carved temples but discourage visits to Banteay Srey because it is isolated on a long, potholed dirt road and thus more vulnerable to attack.
Uk Kim Leng, the provincial police chief, said the Khmer Rouge fired on the vehicle with a grenade launcher as it traveled along the dirt road to the temple site.
The Cambodia Daily, Phnom Penh's English-language daily, said the Americans were traveling in a convoy of four vehicles of more than a dozen tourists and four policemen.
A German tourist in another vehicle was slightly injured, the newspaper said.
Chief of Angkor Police Chea Sophal told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that police engaged the attackers in a firefight for about five minutes until government soldiers arrived. One attacker was injured in the battle, he said.
The government often blames violent incidents on the Khmer Rouge, but unpaid soldiers regularly extort money at gun point from motorists. Bandit gangs with no political allegiances also roam the countryside.
An Information Ministry representative said it was unclear if the Khmer Rouge was to blame, noting that no hostages were taken. Khmer Rouge defectors said the group had offered a reward to any guerrilla who seized a foreigner.
The guerrilla group, which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1978, has refused to recognize the new government. Hundreds of thousands of Cambodians died under the Khmer Rouge regime.
Angkor Wat is about 150 miles northwest of Phnom Penh.
Wichita program targets minorities
The Associated Press
WICHTA — A dozen minorities and women are being offered a four-year college education in exchange for five years of police service.
said.
Wichita State University has agreed to pay 12 students' tuition for four years. The city will provide them part-time work and mentors. In return, the students must agree to work at least five years as a Wichita police officer.
The program, called "Grow Your Own Police Officer," is part of the city's community policing effort. Funding comes from part of a $1.86 million grant Wichita received from the Justice Department.
The program's goals include attracting minorities and women to the police department and providing a career path for young people, officials
"It's necessary; it's right; it's needed for your police department to be as representative as it can be of the community it serves," said Wichita police training Capt. Mark Richardson.
White officers make up 83 percent of the Wichita police force. One of every four officers is female; one in 10 is black. Asians and Hispanics combine to make up less than 1 percent of the force.
With the exception of female, Asian and Native American officers, the figures generally reflect 1990 census numbers.
Candidates for the Grow Your Own program must be female or a racial minority and a graduating senior in the Wichita school district, a student at Wichita State or a resident of Wichita.
Candidates must provide two letters of reference and a 250-word essay.
After submitting those items to the city's personnel office, candidates must complete a written test given to police recruits. If they pass, they go to the police department's personnel division for more tests, including polygraph and physical agility tests.
They must graduate in four years with a grade point average of at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale.
They will have to pay for books and board.
Throughout their academic careers, the students must adhere to the same standards as police officers, including no convictions on morals, drugs or weapons charges, and no convictions of misdemeanor crimes of violence or threat or use of physical force.
THE NEWS in brief
DHAKA, Bangladesh
'Grabbing bull by the horns' doesn't work, results in injury
A bull went on a rampage Sunday after breaking free from a slaughterhouse, damaging stores and injuring at least 20 people, police said yesterday.
One person who tried to grab the bull by its horns was hospitalized with a hand injury.
Police captured the bull after an hour-long chase in Narayanganj, 10 miles southeast of Dhaka, on Sunday night. Officers used six buses to trap the bull on a street.
The bull spent the night in a police station and may still end up in the slaughterhouse, police said.
TOPEKA, Kan.
Site chosen for Russian art exhibit
Russian museum officials have selected a Topeka site for the second and final U.S. exhibition of the Treasures of the Czars. a 270-piece collection of Russian memorabilia.
The exhibit features icons of the Orthodox Church, Faberge works of art and objects from the Romanov dynasty of czars, including crowned users in the dual coronation of Peter the Great and his brother Ivan.
The director of the Kremlin Museums and her assistant have given the go-ahead to using the east end of the new Law Enforcement Center for the Aug. 1-Dec. 31 exhibition.
Irina Rodintseva, Kremlin museums director, and her assistant, Valentina Narozshynya, made their decision Sunday after a tour of the building while accompanied by city officials, architects and engineers. Concerns of both groups were addressed on the issues of safety, security and construction.
Pete Gierer, president of Ekdahl, Davis, Depew, Persson Architects and appointed architect for the remodeling, said he understood Rodimtseva's concerns.
"It sounds like their largest concern by far is to prepare the building by August," Gierer said.
Topeka Mayor Butch Felker said that upon completion, the facility would be a carbon copy of St. Petersburg's Florida International Museum, which opened Jan. 10.
PORTLAND, Maine Maine slaps 'snack tax' on Girl Scouts
The Girl Scouts say it's a half-baked idea to tax a nonprofit group.
The state of Maine is trying to collect a few crumbs from the Girl Scouts, slapping a 6 percent "snack tax" on sales of Thin Mints, Trefoils, Samoas and Do-si-dos.
"We're just a bunch of girls trying to raise money for our organization, and we don't need the tax people picking on
us." said Julia Payne. 13. of Houlton
The state imposed a snack tax in 1991 on cookies, chips and candy bars. Initially, the Bureau of Taxation wanted to tax Girl Scout cookies on the wholesale level but backed down when challenged and returned $100,000 to the group.
Now the state argues that the Girl Scouts must pay taxes at the retail level because they're running a major retail enterprise, more than just a casual sale.
"A casual sale is hit-or-miss," state tax assessor John LaFaver said Sunday.
Jane Hartman, a lawyer for the Kennebec Griot Scout Council, said LaFaver was misinterpreting the law.
The chips will fall tomorrow, when Superior Court Justice Donald Alexander rules on the legality of the state's action.
Hawaii has a sales tax on Girl Scout cookies but very few other states do because the Girl Scouts are a nonprofit organization, said Bonnie McEwan, representative for Girl Scouts USA in New York.
"A part of scouting ... is learning to be a responsible citizen. And part of that is paying your taxes." LaFaver said.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Nichols Co. suit revision questioned
A New York investment group said the changes J.C. Nichols Co. recently made to its lawsuit against the group amount to an admission on Nichols' part to a crucial mistake and waters down one of the real estate company's main arguments.
The 90-year-old Nichols Co., which owns the upscale shopping district Country Club Plaza, filed suit Jan.4 against Allen & Co., its partner and an affiliate, seeking an injunction to stop Allen from making a tender offer. It accused the investment group of staging a hostile takeover.
The lawsuit claimed Allen and partners misused confidential inside information about the Nichols company in mounting its offer.
The amended lawsuit, filed last week, basically changed "alleged violations" of a securities act to "threatened violations."
Where the original lawsuit said "the takeover effort in which they are engaged," the amended lawsuit said "A hostile tender offer ... has been threatened and appears imminent."
James W. Quinn, Allen & Co.'s chief financial officer,
said the changes appeared subtle but were significant.
Allen & Co. never made a hostile tender offer to Nichols shareholders but in fact made a consensual offer to Nichols' directors, Quinn said.
The investment group is led by Allen & Co. and includes Harvard Private Capital Group Inc., which invests some of Harvard University's endowment fund.
The Nichols company characterized the changes to the lawsuit as "fairly unimportant technical corrections."
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