Thursday, April 20, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
A day at the beach
Andrea Branson, Leaward junior, takes a break from watching the Kansas Relays to play in the sand. Wescoe Beach was transformed into a sand pit yesterday for SUA's annual Sand and Sea Sculpture Contest. Photo by Selena Jabara/KANSAN
Anniversary marks Columbine massacre
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Television networks are wrestling with how to mark today's first anniversary of the Columbine school massacre while responding to pleas from some families of victims to show restraint.
ABC, CBS and NBC are expected to devote much of their morning news shows to Columbine High School, where two teen gunmen killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves on April 20, 1999.
Students and school officials in Littleton, Colo.. have asked that cameras and all outsiders be kept away from Columbine, where a private memorial service will be held. Public remembrances are planned for the adjacent Clement Park and Denver.
Some parents of shooting victims have asked the media to refrain from showing pictures of the attack
"When you're sitting in your living room and watching television, and I know this from personal experience, and you see flashes of Columbine, and for me, people running past my lifeless son lying on the side."
Judges keep Elian in U.S.
Ruling forbids departure but not reunion with dad
The Associated Press
the U.S. government should have taken the 6-year-old's wishes into account.
ATLANTA — In a strongly worded ruling today, a federal appeals panel extended a court order keeping Elian Gonzalez in the
In Miami's Little Havana, a crowd of more than 300 people erupted in cheers and chants of "God Bless America" after the ruling from a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
"This is the second miracle of Elian," said Ramon Saul, Sanchez.
Elian: court says his wishes should be taken into account
leader of Democracy Movement. "We are taking the right way."
The 16-page ruling bars anyone from attempting to remove Elian from the United States while his Miami relative's appeal for asylum is pending. But it did not specifically forbid the INS from taking custody, and it
did not address government efforts to reunite Elian with his father, who has been waiting in Washington since April 6.
But the appeals judges expressed support for efforts by Elian's great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez to win an asylum hearing and questioned the INS's handling of the case.
"According to the record, plaintiff — although a young child — has expressed a wish that he not be returned to Cuba," the judges wrote.
"It appears that never have INS officials attempted to interview plaintiff about his own wishes. It is not clear that the INS, in finding plaintiff's father to be the only proper representative, considered all of the relevant factors — particularly the child's separate and independent interests in seeking asylum."
There was no immediate reaction from the Justice Department, and the INS said it was preparing a statement. One issue under debate as Justice Department officials met this afternoon was whether their previous promise to that court not to remove Elian from great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez's home still applied.
The ruling, which could be appealed to the full circuit court, is considered a critical step in the international custody dispute that has lasted for nearly five months. It addressed an emergency order issued last week that delayed government efforts to bring Ellan to Washington.
The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — Church bells chimed on streets that once rang with a bomb's blast. Children saw their reflections in a calm pool where there was once an ugly crater. And families found serenity yesterday in a place that has pained them for five years.
On the anniversary of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, 168 sculpted chairs stood in silent tribute to the 168 victims of the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil.
"To me it's like my funeral for him — my time to say goodbye," said 20-year-old Sarah Broxterman of Las Vegas, who lost her father, Paul Broxterman, in the bombing.
The chairs overflowed with flowers as thousands came for the first of two ceremonies to dedicate the Oklahoma City National Memorial at the former site of the federal building.
Bells toled at 9:02 a.m., the exact moment when the fuel-and-fertilizer truck bomb exploded, turning the federal building's nine floors into a tomb of concrete and steel.
After the names of the victims were read, family members, survivors and rescues
were 149 big chairs for the adult victims and 19 little ones for the children who died.
Children with thick sticks of chalk scrawled messages on tiles beneath artwork in the children's area of the memorial.
P. J. Allen, who was severely injured but was one of the few children in the building's daycare center to survive, stood waving an American flag. His hand still bears scars, and a tube helps him breath.
Just blocks away, Terry Nichols sat isolated in Oklahoma County Jail, awaiting an August preliminary hearing on 160 state counts of first-degree murder in the attack. Nichols and Timothy McVeigh were convicted in federal court. McVeigh, who was sentenced to death, is in a federal prison in Indiana.
Many family members were content with the memorial, but Jannie Coverdale, who lost her two grandsons in the daycare center, had a different reaction.
"Those empty chairs, they are too sad," she said. "I don't have to go downtown to be reminded my grandsons are dead."
Sarah Broxterman echoed the thoughts of other family members that the memorial offered comfort and serenity.
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