2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2005
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Helping out
Hayley Travis, Lenexa junior, accepts a donation from senior Lindsey Morgan that will aid tsunami relief. Travis and other volunteers walked up and down Wescoe Beach yesterday afternoon asking for any money students could spare. A candlelight vigil to remember those touched by the tsunami tragedy will be held at 8:30 tonight at the Campanile.
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The KU Campaign for Tsunami Relief has scheduled a speaker and a candlelight vigil tonight to commemorate the one-month anniversary of
Candlelight vigil to be held for tsunami victim tonight
the tsunami in Southeast Asia. Don Steeples is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. at room 120 in Budig Hall and the vigil is scheduled to begin at 8:30 at the Campanile
The campaign was developed by Student Senate, KU UNICEF and the Center for Community Outreach at KU
The death toll has climbed to more
than 200,000 since the waves hit on Dec. 26.
Steeple, geology professor and vice provost for scholarly support, is scheduled to repeat his discussion on tsunamis. He gave the lecture earlier this month.
Estuardo Garcia
As election looms hostage makes plea
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — An American kidnapped in November pleaded for his life in a video aired yesterday, and at least a dozen Iraqis died in Baghdad as political violence continued to plague the country five days before Sunday's crucial elections for a new National Assembly.
"I am please asking for help because my life is in danger because it's been proved I worked for American forces," Hallums said.
Hallums was seized by gunmen Nov. 1 along with Robert Tarongoy of the Philippines at their compound in Baghdad's Mansour district. The two worked for a Saudi company that does catering for the Iraqi army.
On a day the U.S. military announced that six American soldiers died, Iraqi police engaged in fierce shootouts with insurgents, including gunmen who were handing out leaflets warning Iraqis not to vote or risk seeing their families' blood "wash the streets of Baghdad."
In Westminster, Calif., his daughter, Carrie Cooper, 29, said she last saw him at a family reunion last June.
In the hostage video, a bearded Roy Hallmalls speaking with a rifle pointed at his head, said he had been taken by a "resistance group" because "I have worked with American forces." He appealed to Arab leaders to save his life.
"My heart's broken to see my dad with a gun to his head. ... He's fearless and he wanted to help the people there and rebuild Iraq," she told KNBC-TV.
Hallums' former wife, Susan Hallams, urged President Bush to help the captive and urged the kidnappers to let him go.
"Please release him. He's never hurt anybody in his life. He's only done good things. He's a wonderful father and grandfather, and he's kind and I know that you can see that he's kind," she said at her home in Corona, Calif.
The U.S. military announced that a Bradley armored vehicle rolled into a canal northeast of Baghdad during a combat patrol Monday night, killing five American soldiers and injuring two from the Army's 1st Infantry Division. The accident, which was under investigation, occurred near the town of Khan Bani Saad during a sandstorm, it said.
A sixth U.S. soldier died Monday of wounds from a roadside bomb that blasted an American patrol in Baghdad, the military said.
A 23-year-old KU student was verbally assaulted around 3 a.m. on Jan. 24 between Lilac Lane and Alumni Place, a KU Public Safety Office spokesman said.
DA reviewing complaint involving verbal assault!
At least 1,378 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
The victim was walking home when a car approached and people inside made threatening comments, said Capt. Schuyler Bailey of KU Public Safety.
Bailey said the safety office later identified and questioned the suspects.
The case has been sent to Douglas County Municipal court for review by the District Attorney.
Joshua Bickel
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A 22-year-old student reported his cell phone stolen at approximately 10:15 a.m. on Jan. 24 in 2700 block of Harrison Place. The phone is valued at $150.
A 20-year-old student was reported for possession of marijuana between 9:30 and 10 p.m. on Jan. 23 at McCollum Hall.
ON THE RECORD
A 20-year-old student reported her parking permit stolen from her car sometime between 12:05 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. on Jan. 24 from Lot 90. The permit is valued at $85.
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Dog wins 'hero pet' award for saving young girl's life
SALINA — When he saw the wounds that punctured poor Osh Gosh's body from his jaw to his shoulder, veterinarian Norman Morrow knew the golden retriever had been the victim of a vicious attack.
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"He had multiple, very severe, deep puncture wounds," said Morrow, who owns Animal Clinic in Salina.
"We spent a lot of time working on him."
And Morrow spent a long time, too, thinking about what would have happened if Osh Gosh hadn't diverted the attention of two pit bull dogs that were attacking one of Osh Gosh's owners, 3-year-old Caitlyn Forsberg.
Forsberg was attacked May 4 as she played in the back yard of her father's Salina home. As it was, Caitlyn suffered 16 deep cuts on her face, and a torn eyelid and tear duct that had to be surgically repaired.
"I don't know what he (Osh Gosh) did, how he intervened in this circumstance," Morrow said. "But in my own mind, had he not been there that particular afternoon, circumstances might have been much worse than what they were."
"I just think Caitlyn's a very lucky little girl."
During the association's annual meeting, Morrow presented Osh Gosh with the organization's Hero Pet of the Year award — a plaque presented during a banquet this month at the Airport Hilton in Wichita.
Forsberg said he was a little surprised his 7-year-old golden retriever was honored, "but he definitely deserved it."
The attack on Caitlyn, which was one of several in Salina this past spring and summer, led to revisions to the city's animal control ordinances and the banning of new pit bull dogs in the community.
The dogs that attacked Osh Gosh and Caitlyn were euthanized at the request of their owner.
Osh Gosh survived the attack and is doing fine, Forsberg said.
The Associated Press
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