MONDAY. APRIL 18. 2005
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WORLD
Daniel "Mighty Sequoia"
Gilchrist slams Justin "The Dekin"
Caughron into the corner supports of the wrestling ring Saturday afternoon. Gilchrist, Lawrence resident, and Caughron, Olathe resident, wrestled in the main event of a Wrestling Alliance Midwest show held at The Crossing, 618 W. 12th St. Gilchrist, at 7-foot-7, 450 pounds, won the match to continue his unbeaten streak during the past year. Gilchrist was the crowd favorite and also works at The Crossing.
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Retired Army sergeant battles porn
PROTEST
Phillip Cosby stands with a sign he and other residents erected adjacent to an adult sex shop in Abilene last Monday.
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BY CARL MANNING THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALINA — In the state where Carry Nation started her saloon-busting temperance movement, Phillip Cosby is battling sex shops.
Rather than using a hatchet, as Nation did a century ago, the 54-year-old retired Army master sergeant uses the power of persuasion and a seldom-used Kansas law.
framed "Jesus Loves You" sign.
"One of my goals is to chase them wherever they are," Cosby said. "I want these stores out of these communities."
"My goal is to be in every county this year that has a pornography shop. I'm going there to speak to the community about the dangers of pornography and tell the people they aren't helpless, that the law is on their side," he said.
After Cosby met twice last year with people in this town of 45,000, church groups started circulating petitions in October requesting a grand jury investigation of two adult stores. The panel began its work earlier this month.
"It's not your Playboy of 30 years ago. This is porn on crack. It so depraved and so perverse that the average Kansas citizen would recoil," the soft-spoken Cosby in an interview Monday as he worked from his den at a desk that includes a computer, phone, fax machine and a small
Mike Zrubek, owner of Behind Closed Doors, one of the two Salina stores under investigation, said if there were no demand for stores like his, they wouldn't be in business.
He said the petitions start only if local officials are reluctant to act after the problem is
He also has started talking to people in Wichita, Great Bend, Hays and Topeka about what they can do to battle adult stores, including pointing out the little-used law allowing for grand juries by citizen petitions.
"I don't understand why
Bob Johnson, manager of a liquor store across the street from Zrubek's store, doesn't see any cause for alarm.
some of these people think they need to go out and save the rest of us," he said. "As far as consenting adults go, I don't think it does any harm."
The other Sina store under investigation is Pricilla's. Its manager, who refused to give her name, declined to comment in a telephone interview.
"It's a small group imposing its will," Zrubek said. "They're using taxpayer money to push their beliefs on other people."
Industrial powers discuss oil prices
WASHINGTON — Amid fresh jitters from Wall Street, finance officials from the world's industrial powers said Saturday surging oil prices could crimp the economy and they pledged to limit the fallout.
An intense discussion of the energy situation dominated the meeting attended by representatives from the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada.
"Higher oil prices are a headwind" and the global economic expansion "is less balanced than before," the finance officials said in a joint statement.
They urged producers to increase energy supplies and said countries should conserve more.
The Group of Seven countries endorsed more timely and accurate information about the oil market, which officials said could help control price fluctuations and make companies more willing to expand production.
The Associated Press
Iraqi detainees break out of jail
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi security forces surrounded a central Iraqi village yesterday after Sunni militants took as many as 100 Shiite Muslims hostage and threatened to kill the captives if other Shiites did not leave town.
The explosive sectarian standoff played out, as 17 people — including an American soldier — were killed in insurgent attacks elsewhere in Iraq.
Late Saturday, insurgents fired mortar rounds at a U.S. Marine base near Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, the military said, adding that there were no American casualties.
In the southeast, 11 Iraqi detainees angry at their treatment by American jailers broke out of Camp Bucca, the American military's largest detention center, by cutting through a fence. Ten were recaptured, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said.
The Associated Press
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