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The Inside Front
Monday March 8,1999
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
NATION
Officials end search for drowned refugees
MIAMI — The Coast Guard called off its search yesterday for up to 40 Haitians who apparently drowned while trying to sneak into the country in what is described as the deadliest smugglings attempt ever off the South Florida coast.
"At this point they are presumed dead," Lt. John Pierce said. "We searched right up until midnight without results."
Two boats loaded with refugees sank Saturday in the early morning hours. Crew members on a passing freighter reported hearing screams from the water about 30 miles east of West Palm Beach.
Rescuers found only three survivors. A Coast Guard cutter recovered the bodies of two men, and crew members saw two other men's bodies sink below the surface.
The Coast Guard was not sure of the exact number of people missing. U.S. Border Patrol Senior Patrol Agent William Brett told the Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale that interviews with survivors led him to believe there were 43 people in all—16 men and two women on one boat and 20 men and five women on the second boat.
Lack of aid mars Clinton's Central America tour
WASHINGTON — Hamstrup by domestic politics, President Clinton will venture empty-handed into hurricane-clobbered reaches of Central America this week. His message of solidarity with America's neighbors is aimed as much at Congress as at the people rebuilding the region's roads, homes and schools.
Clinton will embark today on what is intended to be a four-day goodwill tour of reconstruction projects in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — the nations hardest hit by last fall's Hurricane Mitch.
But the president leaves at home nearly $1 billion in U.S. aid trapped on Capitol Hill by unrelated, partisan disputes over spending. Most likely, he will encounter the disappointment of Central Americans who fault his trade policy as halfhearted.
Clinton will address the Salvadoran legislative assembly Wednesday. He will stand with disaster victims in a schoolyard in Posotega, Nicaragua, where mudslides wiped out entire villages, and lend support to U.S. troops pitching in on the reconstruction.
Mitch and its subsequent flooding and mudslides killed more than 9,000 people, left thousands more homeless and caused between $7 billion and $10 billion in damage to the region's infrastructure.
Donna Shalala foils robbery at D.C. bank
WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala fended off an attempted robbery at a bank cash machine Sunday and provided police with information that led to three arrests.
Shalala, 58. was not hurt.
The incident occurred about 7:15 a.m. after she had withdrawn money from an ATM near her home in the Georgetown section of town and was walking back to her car, said Lt. Pat Burke of the District of Columbia Police
A man tried to grab Shalala's wallet, telling her, "give it up, give it up," Burke said.
"Ms. Shalala falls to the ground, curls into a fetal position and screams her lungs out." Burke said.
When a witness approached, the man and a woman standing nearby jumped into their car, joining a second woman already behind the wheel. The three then drove off.
Shalala noted the license plate and called police, who arrived quickly. Burke said.
Police apprehended the trio after witnesses reported seeing three people fleeing a car in another part of Georgetown.
WORLD
Lebanese group fears raids will scare tourists
BAALBEK, Lebanon — When Israeli warplanes thundered over this eastern Lebanese town last week and blasted a base belonging to the Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah, its guerrillas swiftly sealed off the area and began clearing away the rubble.
But Hezbollah also engaged in a different, far unlikelier form of damage control: expressing hopes that such raids would not scare away the tourists who come to Baalbek to see its spectacular Roman ruins.
Hezbollah's welcoming attitude toward foreign visitors is an odd turnabout for a group whose Islamic militants were linked — despite its strenuous denials — to notorious attacks such as the 1982 suicide truck-bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut and kidnappings in the 1980s of dozens of foreigners, some of whom were held in Baalbek.
It's all part of a plunge into the Lebanese mainstream for Hezbollah, which in recent years has become a formidable political force, fielding candidates in local and parliamentary elections, operating its own radio and TV stations, running a social-services network, even backing a soccer team.
Baalbek, a market city of about 150,000 people set among vineyards and almond orchards in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, is Hezbollah's hometown — the place where the Iranian-inspired Party of God militia
Kosovo leaders pledge to sign pact on Sunday
was founded 17 years ago.
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia — Ethnic Albanian rebel commanders met Sunday to consider the peace plan for Kosovo, but — contrary to Clinton administration declarations — it appeared the deal would not be signed until later in the week.
As promised, leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army gathered in the hills of the Drenica region, the nerve center of the rebel movement, to vote on a plan for broad autonomy but not the independence for which they have fought.
Representatives of William Walker, the U.S. chief of international monitors in Kosovo, attended the rebel meeting held at an undisclosed location, an American source said.
The source said that rebels were expected to approve the deal, and that they and ethnic Albanian politicians would likely sign around March 12.
Former Sen, Bob Dole, who visited the region at President Clinton's request, declared Saturday that the ethnic Albanians "promised" to sign the deal Sunday.
Classic, cult film director Stanley Kubrick dies at 70
LONDON — Stanley Kubrick, the director of 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange, whose films often puzzled and shocked audiences only to end up as classics, died Sunday at his home in England, his family said. He was 70.
Police were summoned to Kubrick's rural home north of London yesterday afternoon, authorities in Hertfordshire said, where he was certified dead.
"There are no suspicious circumstances." police said.
Malcolm McDowell, who starred in A Clockwork Orange, issued a statement through his publicist calling Kubrick "a heavyweight of my life."
"He was the last great director of that era. He was the big daddy," said McDowell.
Kubrick's latest film, Eyes Wide Shut,
still is slated for release on July 16.
Warner Bros. said Sunday.
Director Steven Spielberg issued a statement describing Kubrick as a "grand master of filmmaking."
in an interview with Playboy magazine, Kubrick said he had "tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholling and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content ... just as music does. ... You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning."
"He created more than just movies. He gave us complete environmental experiences," Spielberg said.
-The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's cellular phone was stolen at 8 p.m. on March 1 in Lawrence, police said. The phone was valued at $200.
■ A KU student was the victim of criminal trespass between 3:15 and 4:30 p.m. on March 1 in the 400 block of Heritage Drive, Lawrence police said.
■ A KU student's compact disc player was stolen between 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 27 and 6 p.m. Tuesday in the 2100 block of Kasold Drive, Lawrence police said. The CD player was valued at $270.
■ A KU student's debit card was stolen sometime March 27 and used to make purchases at JC Penny, 3311 S. Iowa St., and the Village Inn, 821 Iowa St., Lawrence Police. The loss was $682.82.
■ A KU student was the victim of phone harassment between 10 and 10:10 p.m. Saturday in the 1100 block of West 11th Street, Lawrence police said.
■ The hood of a KU student's car was scratched between noon Friday and 2:50 a.m. Saturday in the 1300 block of West 24th Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was $300.
Today:IN HISTORY
1954 . A world record for the quarter mile was set by Herb McKenley in Melbourne, Australia. McKinley ran the distance in 46.8 seconds
1962 - The Beatles performed for the first time on the BBC in Great Britain, John, Paul, George and Pete Best sang Dream Baby on the show Teenager's Turn on "Auntie Beeb" (as the BBC was known).
.7V1 - A new, undisputed world heavy-weight boxing champion was crowned this night as "Smokin'" Joe Frazier of Philadelphia won a decision against Muhammad Ali, who was previously undefeated. For the night's work, both Frazier and Ali collected $2,500,000.
Environs say program off to slow start
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together on the weekends to work on the project.
"Volunteers are wanted, needed and would be greatly appreciated." Dunbar said.
Dunbar said a program in the early '80s and one a few years ago did not last very long.
Although the yellow bike program is slow getting started, other free bike programs have been offered at the University in the past.
"We're going slow on this because we want to do it right," Dunbar said. "We want to make sure this is built to last."
He said the other programs failed because students graduated and there had not been enough long-term planning.
Environs members would like to see the project unveiled around campus in time for Earth Day, which is April 22. Dunbar said he would be happy if it began before the end of the semester.
Andrea Repinsky, Environs member, said the group already had considered that some people might want to steal some of the bikes.
"They're not going to be really fancy bikes," said Repinsky, Isle Royale, Mich., senior. "Their condition will vary. Also, they'll be bright, glowing yellow — even the spokes on the wheels will be yellow, in case people try to steal the wheels."
She said Environs was spending some of its organizational budget fixing the bikes, which will not translate into costs for students.
"It won't cost anybody anything to ride the bikes, because that's the whole point of the program," she said.
Edited by Julie Sachs
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 Environers will meet at 6 tonight at the Kansas Union. Call Matt Dunbar at 864-7325 for more information.
■ The KU Ballroom Dancing Club will have an Argentinian Tango workshop from 7 to 9 tonight at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. There will be an open dance afterward from 9 to 11 p.m. Louis Barr will be the instructor and the workshop costs $20 or $15 for KUBDC members. No partner is necessary. Call Abby at 838-3327 for more information.
- The Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union. Call Roslyn Wills at 840-0710 for more information.
■ The KU Bahdi Club will present "Two Wings of One Bird," a presentation on equality of women and men, at 7:30 tonight at the Regionalt Room in the Kansas Union. Call Amanda Boatright at 749-1642 for more information.
■ Writer's Roots, 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. Call 864-2399 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 also will 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.
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