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The Inside Front
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Friday March 19,1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CORRECTION
The band preceding the Sandbar float in Wednesday's St. Patrick's Day parade was incorrectly identified in a photo caption in yesterday's Kansan. It is called the Lawrence Bar Band.
CAMPUS
SUA's "Swing with me" to take place at Union
Student Union Activities is sponsoring a night of swing music and dancing. Students will be able to swing dance and hear two swings at "Swing with Me" March 29 at the Kansas University Ballroom.
The KU Ballroom Dancing Club will begin lessons at 7:30 p.m. and Swing 39, a local swing band, will play at 8:30 p.m. At 9:30 p.m., the Dave Stephens Swing Orchestra will take the stage and play until 11 p.m.
"Get a date, dress up, learn some steps and have fun," said Matt Dunehoo. live music coordinator for SUA.
The Dave Stephens Swing Orchestra soon will begin a nationwide tour. It is stopping in Lawrence for "Swing with Me" before playing at Disney World. No dress code exists, and all students are encouraged to attend.
Tickets are $5 for students and $6 for non-students and are available at the SUA box office.
Tiffany Seeman
Three libraries to close because of maintenance
Three KU libraries will be closed during parts of spring break because of routine electrical maintenance on campus.
Anschutz Science Library, Music Library in 448 Murphy, and the Government Documents Library in 6001. Malott will be without power at points during the break.
The science and music libraries will be closed tomorrow, while the documents library will be closed Tuesday, Wednesday, and after 1:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Kent Miller, head of libraries facilities, said that the power outage would be caused by work on Murphy and Malott Halls.
Chris Hopkins
NATION
Sinn Fein leader can't deliver IRA disarmament
WASHINGTON — The leader of the Irish Republican Army's affiliated political party said yesterday he could not deliver a start now to the outlawed group's disarmament, one of the long-postponed goals of the Northern Ireland peace process.
The blunt talk from Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams came on Capitol Hill after a particularly candid half-hour meeting Wednesday night inside the White House with his political nemesis, Ulster
Unionist Party leader David Trimble.
Abbott Party leader David Trimble, the Protestant assigned to form a new Protestant-Catholic government for Northern Ireland, is refusing to support Sinn Fein's eligibility for office unless the IRA starts disarming first. Their deadlock has jeopardized that central goal of last year's Good Friday peace accord.
Diplomat denies China stole nuclear designs
WASHINGTON — A Chinese diplomat yesterday denied allegations his country stole nuclear weapons designs from a U.S. laboratory and blamed a Cold War mentality for the furor that has prompted FBI and Energy Department investigations.
"They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union, and they don't know how to act," said He Yafei, a minister-counsel at the Chinese Embassy, referring to those accusing China of espionage at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1980s to help modernize Chinese nuclear warheads.
Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwan-born American engineer at the New Mexico facility, is the focus of the investigation. He was fired last week for violating security regulations
Lee has not been charged with any crime and Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said he did not know if Lee would be prosecuted.
ricardson told Congress on Wednesday he planned to tighten security at the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories. Former CIA Director John Deutch is to help decide whether too many foreign visitors are admitted.
Court-martialed Army general rebuked, fined
FORT LEWIS, Wash. — A retired Army general who admitted to adulterous affairs with the wives of four subordinates has been reprimanded and fined — and will not spend any time behind bars.
Retired Maj. Gen. David Hale, 53,
was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and
forfeit $12,000 of his $75,744 annual
pension for one year. He had faced up
to 11 years in prison and prosecutors
had wanted him jailed.
Hale, who tearfully apologized in court, did not meet with reporters after Wednesday's hearing. Donald Mancuso, the Defense Department official who oversaw the investigation, said the sentence was enough to send a warning to other officers.
Such high-profile cases "do in fact cause officers to think twice," Mancuso said.
Hale was the highest-ranking Army officer to face court-martial since 1952. His case led to allegations the Pentagon had a double standard for dealing with sexual misconduct when it came to officers.
Hale was allowed to retire with honor last year despite claims of improprieties he committed while he was a top NATO commander in southern Europe. The resulting furon led the Pentagon to change its rules to bar top officers from retiring
while facing allegations of wrongdoing
The allegations concerned relationships Hale had from 1996 to 1998 when he held the NATO post in Turkey. He and his wife separated in 1995 and divorced in 1997.
Hale was forthright in admitting guilt.
Americans not taking advantage of tax credit
WASHINGTON — As many as 4 million Americans with modest incomes may be overlooking an IRS provision aimed at cutting or even eliminating their federal income taxes. And the sheer complexity of the earned income tax credit leads to errors by many of those who do try to claim it.
Simply determining eligibility for the credit requires completion of a 12-question checklist, which is then followed by a nine-line worksheet and an eight-line form.
The IRS, which expects 20 million taxpayers to claim the credit this year, frequently finds up to 40 percent of such returns contain some error. But the people for whom the credit is intended typically don't have the money to hire a tax professional.
The earned income tax credit was created in 1975, in part to keep lower-income people working to contribute payroll taxes to Social Security and Medicare and in part to give people incentives to stay off welfare rolls.
L.A. communities talk of secession from city
LOS ANGELES — From the Pacific Coast to the inland valley, entire neighborhoods are talking about seceding from Los Angeles and creating new cities across Southern California.
This week, Sherman Oaks and other parts of the San Fernando Valley took a crucial step that could put secession on the ballot in 2002. Similar movements are afoot in other communities. Altogether, they make up as much as 60 percent of the city's population of 3.6 million
Secession proponents say that Los Angeles — which is the nation's second-biggest city in population and occupies one of the largest areas of any U.S. community with 467 square miles — is too unwieldy to govern and that smaller governments would be more efficient, more responsive and perhaps less costly, meaning taxes could be lower.
Opponents of secession fear such a move only would create more bureaucracy, hurt the poor and minorities by dividing voting blocs and diminish the clout Los Angeles needs to land federal aid and conventions.
If the three largest communities seceded, Los Angeles would remain racially and economically mixed. Within its borders would be the downtown skyline recognizable in such TV shows as L.A.Law, the tourist attractions of Hollywood, the poor African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods of South Central and Watts and largely Hispanic East Los Angeles.
n A KU student's Jew Wrangler was damaged between 5 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. Sunday in the 1500 block of Sigma Nu Drive, a Lawrence Police report said. The damage was estimated at $400.
n another KU student's Jeep Wrangler was damaged between 2 a.m. and 2:12 p.m. Sunday in the 1500 block of Sigma Nu Drive, a Lawrence Police report said. Thus damage was estimated at $200.
ON THE RECORD
The Associated Press
n A KU student's textbook was stolen between 1:30 p.m. and 1:50 p.m. Wednesday from Wescoe Terrace, the KU Public Safety Office said. The book was valued at $68.
n A KU employee's staff identification card was stolen between 9:15 a.m. and 9:45 p.m. Tuesday from 4158 Haworth Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The card was valued at $15.
n A KU student was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol early Thursday morning in the 1000 block of Missouri Street, the KU Public Safety Office said.
ON CAMPUS
n OAKS — Non-traditional Students Organization will have a planning meeting for Hannah's House Baby Shower from 11:30 a.m. to noon today at AlcveC in the Kansas Union. Call Simmie Berroya at 830.0074 for more information.
n The St. Lawrence Catholic Center will have Mass at 4:45 p.m. tomorrow and at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 5 p.m., and 10 p.m. Sunday at the Center, 1631 Crescent Road. Call Tracey English at 840-0357 for more information.
Hall resident arrested on arson charge
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"The way I see it, it's just based on ignorance." Rubin said that as a Jewish person, the symbol was especially loathsome to him.
"It means hate against people who are different," he said. "But I don't think it was directed to anyone specific."
Webster's dictionary states that the word "swastika" was derived from Sanskrit and originally meant a sign of good luck. According to Webster's, "It exists as a mystic symbol among various American Indian tribes and in India, Japan, Persia, etc."
In this century, it was used in Nazi Germany as the party emblem and symbol of anti-Semitism.
McEhlennie said that part of the reason for holding floor meetings was to discuss the importance of sensitivity and diversity in creating a positive community, he said.
The swastika attracted media attention yesterday from radio and television stations in Kansas City and topeka as well as Lawrence media.
Daniel Catlla, Bolivia freshman and third floor Oliver resident, said that he thought the media coverage was good because the acts of vandalism weren't something that should be ignored. Nevertheless, he said that he didn't have the impression that racial tension was on the rise in the residence halls.
Today: IN HISTORY
1865 The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time. An Englishman's insights during a journey through the Confederacy.
1874 Hawaii signs a treaty giving exclusive trading rights with the islands to the United States.
1881 Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth games in Madison Square Gardens.
1881 Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison Square Gardens.
1911 Theodore Roosevelt opens the Roosevelt Dam in Phoenix, Ariz., the largest dam in the U.S. to date
1911 Theodore Roosevelt opens the Roosevelt Dam in Phoenix, Ariz., the largest dam in the U.S. to date
1917 The Germans sink the U.S. ships, City of Memphis, Vigilante and the Illinois, without any type of waring. When the United States entered World War I, propagandist George Creel set out to stifle antiwar sentiment.
1913 Greek King Georgel I is killed by an assassin. Constantine I is to succeed.
1922 Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience in India.
1939 Georgia finally ratifies the Bill of Rights, 150 years after the birth of the federal government. Connecticut and Massachusetts, the only other states to hold out, also accepted the Bill of Rights in this year.
1942 The third military draft begins in the U.S. because of World War II
1943 American forces take Gafaša in Tunisia. In the crucible of Operation Torch, the men of Sub-Task Force Goalpost received their baptism of fire capturing the Moroccan town of Port Lyaute. 1944 The Russians reach the Rumanian border
1944 The Russians reach the Rumanian border in the Balkans.
1950 Nationalist troops land on the mainland of China and capture Communist held Sungmen.
1965 Cosmoulat Alexei Leonov becomes the walk when he exists his Voskhod
2 space capsule while in orbit around the Earth.
1969 President Richard M. Nixon authorizes Operation Menue, the 'secret' bombing of Cambodia
1971 U.S. helicopters airlift 1,000 South Vietnam
located out of Laos.
1970 The U.S. Postal Service is paralyzed by the first postal strike.
■ 1981 The U.S. discloses that there were biological weapons tested in Texas in 1966.
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