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The Inside Front
Monday April 19, 1999
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
Moore to discuss work with Young Democrats
Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan., will spare an hour today to discuss his work on Capitol Hill with KU students before he catches an evening flight back to Washington, D.C.
Moore will conduct a town hall meeting at 5 p.m. in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union. The meeting, sponsored by KU
Moore:
sored by KB Young Democrats, originally was scheduled for last night, but Archbishop Desmond Tutu's speech took priority.
All students are invited to attend the meeting,
where Moore will give a brief opening speech and then field students' questions
about political issues such as campaign finance reform, Social Security and his perspective as a freshman congressman.
This will be the first time Moore has visited the University of Kansas since he was elected last fall, said Phil Stephenson, Young Democrats president.
"We wanted a chance for students to get to know who's representing them in D.C. now," Stephenson said. "He's coming in on the tail end of the impeachment proceedings."
Moore is the first Democrat to represent Kansas' Third Congressional District in almost 40 years.
— Nadia Mustafa
Three students cited for fake identification
Three fake drivers licenses were discovered by police during regular bar checks early Friday morning, said Sgt. George Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department.
POLICE cited two KU students at the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507 W.14 St., and one KU student at the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., between 12:40 a.m. and 1:20 a.m. Wheeler said.
None of the students were arrested.
— Katie Burford
Katie Burford
Juvenile justice funding pending in Legislature
STATE
TOPEKA — The one thing the Legislature must do each year to keep Kansas government operating is approve a new state budget.
This year, the one thing legislators
will have to discuss before they finish work on the next state budget is juvenile justice.
Not only did senators and House members adjourn their regular session without deciding how much to spend on programs for young criminals, they didn't approve a penny of spending for the Juvenile Justice Authority for the state's 2000 fiscal year, which begins July 1.
Their decision to zero out the authority's budget will force them to focus on the juvenile corrections system during their wrap-up session, which is scheduled to begin April 28.
The Legislature approved nearly $9 billion in appropriations for fiscal year 2000 before adjourning the regular session on April 10. During its wrap-up session, it will consider the last budget bill of the year, the Omnibus Appropriations Act.
The omnibus measure gives legislators a chance to correct mistakes in previous budget legislation, add money for programs they've recently created or expanded, or finance pet projects.
The House Appropriations Committee and the Senate Ways and Means Committee are to begin meeting Thursday to start work on each of the group's own versions of the omnibus bill.
NATION
Murder trial to resume for 'whites only' pair
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Two men accused of committing a murderous crime spree as part of a plot to set up a whites-only nation face a tough road as their defense opens this week.
Both their mothers testified for the prosecution. One placed her son near the scene of three 1996 murders. The other told the African-American jury that her son took part in the killings
"God won't let me live with it anymore," Goria Kehoe told her son, Chevie Kehoe, in front of jurors.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Khoe, 26, of Colville, Wash., and Danny Lee, 26, of Yukon, Okla., who are accused of racketeering, conspiracy and murder.
The trial resumes tomorrow skipping today, a key anniversary in white supremacy circles. April 19 marks the start of the American Revolution at the Battle of Lexington in 1775, the fiery federal raid on the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas, in 1993, and the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995.
The government alleges the two white men were out to overthrow the federal government and set up a new nation, based in the Pacific Northwest, that would bar people of African, Asian, Hispanic or Jewish descent.
Court officials said the day off was only to give defense lawyers time to study the vast amount of prosecution evidence.
Kehoe and Lee are accused of the
January 1996 robbery and killings of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell, in the northwest Arkansas town of Tilly.
Indian leader returning to political spotlight
WORLD
NEW DELHI, India — For years, Sonia Gandhi disdained politics and hid from public view.
When her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated in 1984, she pleaded with her husband, Rajiv, against taking his mother's place as prime minister. When her husband was killed in 1991, she went into seclusion, shunning the politicians who begged her to lead them.
Yet she reluctantly emerged from the shadows to accept the inheritance of India's foremost political dynasty a year ago, when the venerable Congress Party reached its lowest point. Now, the Italian-born widow may be India's next prime minister.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Al Bihari Vajpayee lost a vote of confidence in parliament by one vote and resigned. His fall was precipitated by the defection of his biggest coalition ally.
Although Sonia Gandhi did not initiate the government's downfall, she engineered the final blow. Indian newspapers said her personal lobbying on the telephone Friday night turned key votes against the government.
German Reichstag to open as new symbol for Berlin
BERLIN — What hasn't happened to the Reichstag?
It was burned during the Nazi era, bombed by the Allies, and stormed by Red Army soldiers who scrawled obscenities on the walls and planted the red Soviet flag on the roof, marking the defeat of Hitler.
East Germany built the Berlin Wall just a few steps from its back door. And after the Wall came down, the artist Christo wrapped the Reichstag in a million square feet of silvery fabric, a celebration of the end of communism.
After a $330 million renovation, the Reichstag debuts Monday as the reclaimed seat of German lawmakers, a defining episode in the government's return this year to the prewar capital of Berlin.
More than any other building in the city, the Reichstag (pronounced RIKES-tahg) has symbolized every phase of Germany's turbulent, terrible history during the past 80 years. So it only seems fitting that in his restoration, celebrated British architect Sir Norman Foster has made the Reichstag into a new symbol for the new capital, one of a Germany mindful of the past but moving confidently into the future.
A KU student was arrested on suspicion of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol at 2:12 a.m. Friday in the 2300 block of West 15th Street, the KU Public Safety Office said. An altered driver license and a spring-loaded knife, which qualifies as a concealed weapon, also were found in his car, police said.
ON THE RECORD
The Associated Press
A KU student's Visa card was used illegally between 5:48 p.m. and 6:06 p.m. Saturday in the 800 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence Police said.
Charges were made on the card in the amount of $151.77.
A KU student received a harassing phone call between 8:15 p.m. and 8:50 p.m. Thursday on the sixth floor of McCollum Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
ON CAMPUS
KU Young Democrats will have a town hall meeting with U.S. Representative Dennis Moore of the Kansas 3rd District at 5 p.m. today at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union. Call Phil Stevenson at 841-7207 for more information.
The SUA Recreation Committee will meet at 5 p.m. today at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Call the SUA box office at 8643-4777 for more information.
KU Environs will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Kansas Union, Call Matt Dunbar at 864-7325 for more information.
The International Students Association will have a treasure hunt and pizza party at 6 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries as part of International Awareness Week.
■ The St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate Mass at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Danforth Chapel. Call the Rev. Ray May at 843-0357 for more information. There will also be Mass at 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the center, 1631 Crescent Road. Call the Rev. Vince Krieche at 843-0357 for more information.
- Writer's Roosts, sponsored by Writing Consulting:
  Student Resources will be open today at the following times and locations: from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Burge Union and 4003 Wescoe Hall and from noon to 4 p.m. at 4006 Wescoe Hall. Call 864-2399 for more information.
Committee's goal to better relationships with landlords
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Department of Student Housing is a self- sufficient unit which typically is well-run, said Ben Burton, All-University Residence Hall senator.
housing has done a good job, but the question is, does Senate have any power in the University, and I think the answer is no, although it would be nice," Burton said. "In terms of actually being responsive to student needs and operating in the black and being self-sufficient, housing is one of the most capable groups on campus."
One issue which affects both on and off-campus students is transportation. The referendum in last week's Senate elections on city-wide transportation and past projects such as KU on Wheels and city bike lanes show Senate's commitment to student transportation issues.
"Regardless of what seat you are in, I think this is something a lot of people are interested in," Dunbar said. "One of the things Senate will be working on is to provide the same level of service to students or to expand it to provide more utility to people who are not just trying to get around campus."
Dunbar said he hoped senators would put politics aside and make transportation issues a priority in the future.
— Edited by Amber Stuever
Today: IN HISTORY
1775 The American Revolution begins. The first battle of the Revolution was in Lexington, Mass.
1932 Actress Jayne Mansfield is born.
1935 - Actor Dudley Moore is born.
1987 - Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" tops the chart.
1993 - The Branch Davidian Compound burns at Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, the Federal Bureau of Investigation watched a tear-gas assault on the compound after a 51 day standoff.
1995 - A massive truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The blast collapsed the northface of the nine-story building after killing more than 100 people and trapping dozens more.
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