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The Inside Front
Monday March 15,1999
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CAMPUS
KU student robbed by men with knife, emerges unhurt
A KU student was robbed by two men with a knife at 1.1 p.m. Thursday in the 1200 block of Mississippi Street, said Sgt. Troy Mailman of the KU Public Safety Office.
The student was walking home when two men wearing black skis masks walked up to him and told the student to give them his wallet, Mailen said.
The men, who had a knife with a five-to six-inch blade, took $20 in cash from the wallet and gave it back to him.
"The victim quoted them as saying, "Sorry
we had to do this to you."" Milton said.
we had to do this to you," Malen said. Both men were described as being in their 20s. The student described one suspect as six feet tall, between 180 and 200 pounds and wearing camouflage pants with military-style boots. The other was described as five-foot-eight and wearing dark clothing.
The student was not injured in the robbery.
Mailen said that anyone with information about the crime should call the KU Pubic Safety Office at 864-5900 or KU Crime Stoppers at 864-8888.
KU student heads to court on eavesdropping charges
Shawn Michael Mikulich, a 25-year-old KU student who was charged with eavesdropping and criminal damage to property, will appear in court at 1:30 p.m. March 25, said Marlon Williams, a lawyer in the Douglas County District Attorney's office.
A neighbor of Mikulich's called police after she discovered three holes drilled in her bathroom wall, which adjoins Mikulich's residence in the 1100 block of Louisiana Street, a Lawrence Police report said.
The holes were drilled sometime between Oct. 10, 1998, and Nov. 10, 1998.
Students harassed; car damaged following run-in
Three KU student were stopped about 12:45 a.m. Friday at 18th and Indiana streets when their car was rear-ended by a black car that had been tailgating them.
Four men got out of the car, threw beer bottles at the students and then hit one of the students in the face with his fist, said Sgt. George Wheeler of the Lawrence Police department.
The students ran away from the men, leaving their car behind. When the students later returned, the windshield and a rear panel window were broken. Damage to the car was estimated at $700.
Police could not locate the men, who were described as being four white males of average height and build driving a black Volkswagen or Honda.
— Katie Burford
NATION
Government says stolen technoloay helped China
WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration conceded yesterday that the Chinese gained from technology allegedly stolen from a federal nuclear weapons lab but insisted the government has responded decisively. Republicans disagreed and pressed for a comprehensive review of U.S. policy toward China.
The administration, represented by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson and the president's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, said the Chinese did benefit from the leak of information in the 1980s from the Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico.
But, Berger said, "I think we moved swiftly, and I think we continue to impose on China the strictest controls."
Richardson said the administration had doubled the security budget for the national labs, initiated strong background checks for scientists visiting the labs from sensitive countries, and subjected employees to polygraphs.
Republicans, seizing on the Los Alamos case, contend anew that Clinton's policy seriously has been tainted by alleged illegal campaign contributions and the transfer of satellite technology that may have been used by the Chinese military.
Government: U.S. prison population growing fast
WASHINGTON — The number of American adults imprisoned has more than doubled during the past 1.2 years, reaching its highest level ever last year, the Justice Department said yesterday. The United States soon may surpass Russia as the country with the highest rate of incarceration.
At mid-1998, jails and prisons held an estimated 1.8 million people, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report. At the end of 1985, the figure was 744,208.
In Russia, 685 people out of every 100,000 are behind bars, according to The Sentencing Project, a U.S. group critical of the general trend toward harasser sentencing of American criminals.
A planned amnesty of 100,000 prisoners in Russia and the expectation of continued increases in the U.S. inmate population means the United States probably will become the world's leading jailer "in a year or two," said Jenni Gainsborough, a Sentencing Project spokeswoman.
ate a coalition government in the strife- weary nation, offering the hope of peace after two decades of fighting.
The number of people imprisoned in the United States has grown for more than a quarter century, helped by increased drug prosecutions and a general get-tough policy on all classes of offenders.
possible treaty could end fighting in Afghanistan
The agreement is the first on a shared government for the Central Asian nation, but thorny questions remain about how power would be shared and whether all factions can be persuaded to lay down their arms.
WORLD
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Afghanistan's warring factions agreed in principle yesterday to a peace deal that would cre-
Yesterday's announcement was greeted with caution in the Afghan capital of Kabul, where people have prayed for an end to a war that has claimed as many as a million lives and has touched virtually everyone in the country.
"People in Afghanistan are thirsty for peace like a man in the desert is thirsty for water ... but we don't know," said a Kahul shookeeper. Mongo Gui.
The U.N. brokered talks involved the Taliban Islamic movement, which rules about 90 percent of the country, and the northern-based alliance of opposition groups, which controls the remaining 10 percent.
Both sides met for four days in Ashagab, the capital of Turkmenistan, which shares a border with Afghanistan. The U.N. Special Mission to Afghanistan said in a statement that the talks had taken place "in a spirit of solidarity, mutual respect and diplomacy."
At a news conference after the Ashgabat talks, representatives from both sides described the agreement as a breakthrough.
Serbs shell, burn village after Albanian slayings
MUJALIC, Yugoslavia — Chared houses smoldered yesterday in this tiny farming village, which Serb forces shelled, looted and nearly burned to the ground in apparent retribution for the Albanian rebel slaying of two Serb brothers.
At the heart of Kosovo's war lies a fierce ethnic hatred often played out in a cycle of revenge — most recently with village attacks and deadly bombings Saturday of two town markets in this northern region.
The U.S.-backed plan to be discussed Monday envisions autonomy for the province, enforced by NATO-led peacekeepers. But on the eve of the Paris meeting, residents and observers questioned whether the two sides can ever live together again after all that they've done to each other.
A chief concern of U.S. and European leaders is that Serb civilians will flee Kosovo if the autonomy deal is reached, fearing discrimination and oppression by ethnic Albanians whose leaders would govem the province.
That would leave Kosovo "ethnically cleansed," a potential embarrassment for world powers struggling to keep the mixed population of 2 million intact, with its majority Albanians and minority Serbs. Turks and Egyptians.
Serbis living near the burned villages — Mijalic and Dvare — blamed the violence on the U.S. push for a peace settlement, expressing rage at the possibility that NATO forces would enter the country. The deployment of peacekeepers has been Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's main objection to signing the deal.
—The Associated Press
A KU student's jacket and backpack were stolen from her car between 5:30 p.m. Thursday and 12:30 a.m. Friday in the 2400 block of Alabama Street, a Lawrence police report said. The items were valued at $200.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student received harassing phone calls between 2:30 a.m. Feb. 11 and 11:52 Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU police officer was dispatched to Robinson Center at 7:19 p.m. Thursday in response to a report that a student had bitten his lip, the KU Public Safety Office said. The injury occurred when two students collided during a basketball game. The student was advised to go the hospital.
ON CAMPUS
The SUA Recreation Committee will meet at 5 p.m. today at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Call the SUA box office at 864-3477 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 School of Social Welfare will have a SCARE meeting at 7 tonight at Alcove G in the Kansas Union to discuss racism and the Code of Ethics. The meeting is open to all social work students and prospective majors. Call Melinda Garden at 864-3823 for more information.
The National Council of Negro Women will have a general assembly meeting at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Yasmeen Coleman at 843-9371 for more information.
The St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will have daily Mass at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at Danforth Chapel. Call Father Ray May at 843-0357 for more information. There will also be daily Mass at 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Center, 1631 Crescent Road. Call Father Vince Krische at 843-0357 for more information.
The Office of Student Financial Aid is re-awarding Federal Work Study funds for the Spring 1999 Semester. To apply, access an online application at the Web site www.ukans.edu/~ofsa. For more information about the program, call 864-4700 or stop by 50 Strong Hall.
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.
Smoking disallowed outside some doors
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icy. She said she wanted people to understand that it would affect only one entrance per building.
"You have the right to do what you want as long as you're not hurting someone else," she said. "We just want to share."
Smokers outside of Wescoe Terrace weren't bothered by the new policy.
"I know I'm killing myself; I'm not trying to kill anyone else," said Greg Geckles, Olathe senior. "It's OK as long as they don't bother me outside of that 50 feet and as long as they don't close this whole area, because that means we have to smoke in the rain."
Geckles questioned how the policy would be enforced.
"Are they going to have a hall monitor out here to hand out tickets?" he asked.
Snuttic said the committee hadn't determined how the policy would be enforced. Jeannette Johnson, assistant to the provost, said most people willingly complied with other University no-smoking policies.
Another issue that remains unresolved is placement of ashtrays. SenEx said in its recommendation that ashtrays should remain near smoke-free entrances so that cigarettes wouldn't be extinguished on the ground.
But Burd said ashtrays should be removed from those areas. As of yesterday, none of the three entrances had an ashtray farther than 17 feet away. The entrances at Fraser Hall and Dole Center had ashtrays within eight feet.
"In my opinion, wherever ashtrays are placed, it means that the University condones smoking in this area," she said.
— Edited by Jon Campbell
NATO welcome to new nations sparks emotions
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emotional for him and his father, who was a member of the Polish underground Solidarity Trade Union in the 1980s.
Choromanski, who came to the United States three days before martial law was declared in Poland in 1981, said that the turmoil that had plunged Poland since World War II was symbolic.
"It showed the common man was striving to be free," said Choromanski. "Our generation hasn't had the problems that they have had. We've always enjoyed the rights the Polish have recently received."
After the ceremony, Choromanski and his father were invited to a luncheon that Albright and several other international dignitaries attended.
Throughout the lunch, Choromanski said he spoke briefly with political figures such as the mayor of Independence, a U.S. senator and the U.S. ambassador to Poland, Daniel Fried.
Choromanski said that plenty of toasts were given to the newly inducted NATO nations and that he cheerfully partook.
"This is a revelation that everyone is free," he said.
-Edited by Julie Sachs
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