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The Inside Front
Thursday April 27, 2000
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CORRECTION
The article "Urge, eclectic groups to play on the Hill" in Tuesday's Kansan was incorrect. The Co-op has six members.
CAMPUS
Student's series receives recognition from SUA
W. David Keith, Overland Park junior, will be showing his film Earthlords ... A Love Story at 9:30 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
"This is a chance for my movie to get on the big screen and for me to premiere it," Keith said. "SUA people really like my movies."
The film is a prequel to Earthlords ... Gorozoan, which was honored at the 1999 KU Film Festival, Keith said.
Earthlords ... A Love Story is Keith's most serious film to date.
He plans to work on a third installment in the Earthlords series this summer. However, he doesn't plan on entering it into any contests.
The film is about an hour and a half and is free.
NATION
Psychiatrist urges family to reconcile for Elian
WASHINGTON — A child psychiatrist who interviewed Elian Gonzalez for the government recommended yesterday to postpone any visit by Miami relatives until they reconcile with the 6-year-old Cuban boy's father.
As Elian remained in rural Maryland with his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, stepmother and half brother, Paulina F. Kernberg of Cornell University Medical College reported that Elian was doing well but needed more private time with his family, said Justice Department representative Carole Florman.
"She (Kernberg) believes that before the Miami relatives see Elian they need to work out their differences with Juan Miguel," Florman said.
Meantime, Eilan's greatunc Lazaro Gonzalez, Lazaro's daughter Marisleysis and other Miami relatives campaigned on Capitol Hill to keep the boy in this country.
Kernberg, fluent in Spanish, spent more than two hours Tuesday with the Gonzalez family at their new retreat at the Wye River Plantation on Maryland's Eastern Shore. She spent time alone with Elian, alone with the father and with the entire family.
"The doctor reported that Elian needs to feel there is no tension between his family and his Miami relatives before any sort of extended family meeting." Florman said.
Bush, foreign minister discuss Russian relations
WASHINGTON — George W. Bush told Russia's foreign minister yesterday it was time to move past their nations "old way of thinking." But the courtesy call was marked by lingering differences about Chechnya and U.S. proposals to build a missile defense system.
"I don't view you as the enemy, and you shouldn't view us as the "enemy."
Bush: met with Russian foreign minister
aides quoted the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as telling Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. Ivanov had requested the hour-long session and traveled to the hotel where Bush was staying before a Republican fundraiser. He told
Bush that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to build a marketplace economy and attract U.S. investment
The meeting came two days after Bush made a brief foray into Mexico for a bridge dedication ceremony and a speech boosting free trade.
Bush said yesterday that the events just came to him. But the photos of him with Ivanov and Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo allowed him to display international standing — and provided his campaign a welcome contrast to last November's video of him stammering when a TV reporter asked questions about foreign leaders
Some critics have called him too inexperienced in international matters.
Columbine video release upsets victims' parents
GOLDEN, Colo. — To the horror of the Columbine victims' families, law enforcement authorities released video yesterday of the dead and the dying, with some of the footage set early to a pop music soundtrack.
The material included helicopter footage of efforts to reach the victims outside the school. The video also showed the damaged cafeteria, bullet-ridded classrooms and the library, 10 students were killed.
"It hurts. They have pictures from the helicopter of dragging Richard by his feet," said Connie Michalik, whose son was shot outside the school and left paralyzed.
Jefferson County Attorney Frank Huttiff released the tapes to the victims' families Tuesday under a court order after a judge ruled that the relatives had an undeniable and compelling public interest in seeing
the footage. For reasons unexplained,
the county attorney also made copies
available to the public yesterday for
$25.
The tape was adapted by a Littleton firefighter for the training of police and fire personnel around the country. it contained added background music, including "If I Were Up To Me," by Chevli Wheeler.
The song concludes: "Maybe it's the end, but I know one thing. If it were up to me, I'd take away the guns."
Drought in India plagues more than 50 million
WORLD
ARABASAN, India — With necklaces and anklets jangling under their saris, village women joined their men digging a pit to hold water in India's smoldering western expanse, where severe drought is punishing 50 million people.
Tens of thousands of desperate villagers are said to be fleeing their parched lands, leaving hordes of cattle to die across a huge swathe of two western states. But many others are staying put, hoping an aid-for-work program started this week by the government will bring them money, food and water.
The desert state of Rajasthan and adjoining Gujarat are the worst affected. The water table has been dropping since November as the region endures its third year of drought.
Summer has arrived early this year and is hotter than usual, with dry weather in large areas of the states of Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa — where a cyclone and floods killed at least 10,000 last fall.
Chernobyl anniversary greeted with openness
KIEV, Ukraine — In public gatherings, official statements and televised reports. Ukrainians yesterday marked the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with a degree of openness that contrasted sharply with the secrecy that once surrounded it.
When a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded and caught fire April 26,1986, in the world's worst nuclear accident, it was at first a nearly invisible tragedy. Soviet authorities tried to keep the accident under wraps and its deadly consequences — radiation — could not be seen with the eye.
But the aforettes are grimly visible — an estimated 4,000 deaths among those who took part in the hasty and poorly organized cleanup and 70,000 people were disabled by radiation, according to government figures.
The Associated Press
Former KU dean named North Carolina chancellor
By Doug Pacey
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Board of Governors appointed a former University of Kansas dean as its chancellor.
James Moeser, School of Fine Arts dean from 1975 to 1986 at the University of Kansas, has been chancellor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since 1996.
"James Moeser will bring to UNC a passionate commitment to academic excellence and to diversity, proven skills in strategic planning and a deep understanding of the ties that bind all great public universities to citizens that support them," said Anne Cates, chairwoman of the UNC Board of Trustees.
"I accept this election to the greatest university in America," Moeser said as he pledged his dedication to the tradition and future of the oldest public university in the country during the press conference announcing his appointment.
"James Moeser will bring to UNC a passionate commitment to academic excellence and to diversity, proven skills in strategic planning and a deep understanding of the ties that bind all great public universities to citizens that support them."
UNC Board of Trustees chairwoman
ON THE RECORD
Moeser said higher faculty salaries would be key in attaining his goals.
Moeser was also a candidate to fill the presidency vacancy at the University of Florida.
He was an assistant professor of organ at the University starting in 1966. He later became organ department chairman, and from 1984 to 1986 he was a distinguished professor of music.
A KU student's portable CD changer was stolen between 1 and 8:30 a.m. Tuesday from the Lindley Annex, the KU Public Safety Office said. The CD player was valued at $150.
A KU student's credit card was stolen between 8 a.m. April 18 and 4 p.m. Tuesday at Miller Scholarship Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The card was valued at $5
A KU student's mountain bicycle was stolen between 10 p.m. Monday and 12:30 p.m. Tuesday from the 900 block of Indiana Street, Lawrence police said. The bike was valued at $550.
A KU student's driver-side window was damaged when an Eclipse CD stereo and black box with 2 speakers were stolen between 10:30 p.m. Monday and 9:30 a.m. Tuesday from the 2400 block of West 25th Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $700 and the cost of the damage was unknown.
A KU student's maroon 1990 Chevrolet Corsica was stolen between 11 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. April 20 from the 1700 block of Maple Lane, Lawrence police said. The vehicle was valued at $1,000.
ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries and KU Environs will have a vegetarian lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 12:30 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call 842-0110.
Alternative Spring Break will have a multimedia celebration at 5:30 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium. Call Chris Huskey at 864.4317
Campus Crusade for Christ will meet at 6 tonight at Mr. Gatti's, 3514 Clinton Parkway. Cal Damrickr Patton at 749-2890
KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 tomorrow
night at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Pannir at 864-7735.
KU Racquetball Club will practice from 6 to 8 tonight at Robinson Center. Call Stewart Hunt at 331-2231.
KU Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351.
KU HorrorZontals ultimate Frisbee team will practice from 8 to 11 tonight at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Call Will Scott. u!m
■ KU Badminton Club will practice from 6:30 to 10:15 tomorrow night at 211 and 212 Robinson Center. Call Tee or Kevin at 843-2267.
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