THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
EUROPE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Riots break out in Greece after bailout terms approved
Firefighters spray burning buildings in Athens on Monday. Rioters destroyed and damaged several buildings in response to new austerity measures.
ATHENS — Firefighters doused smoldering buildings and cleanup crews swept rubble from the streets of central Athens on Monday following a night of rioting during which lawmakers approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the nation from bankruptcy.
also suffered extensive damage.
Police said rioters destroyed or damaged more than 110 buildings, of which 50 were burned. They included nine listed as national heritage buildings, mostly in the neoclassical style, while 30 stores were looted.
More than 170 people were hurt in the rioting which also broke out in other Greek cities. Authorities said 109 police needed medical care after being injured by gasoline bombs,
The stench of tear gas still hung in the air on Monday, choking passersby, while traffic lights at many major intersections were out after being smashed. The Athens municipality said cleanup crews had gathered an estimated 40 tons of broken marble and rocks from the streets of the center, while railings, drainage covers and paving stones from sidewalks
rocks and other objects hurled at them, while at least 70 protesters were hospitalized.
Associated Press
SOUTH AMERICA
Chavez to face new opponent in October re-elections
CARACAS. Venezuela
Venezuelan presidential candidate Henrique Capriles is calling for "balanced elections" and criticizing the use of government money and sianted coverage in state media as
relection.
The winner of
Sunday's
opposition
primary vote
is also criticizing
Chavez's eco-
solar
President Hugo Chavez seeks re-election.
nomic policies.
Capriles
saying his expropriations of companies have been a failure.
Capriles warned that newly stiffened price controls won't work and that affected items such as deodorant will become scarce.
Capriles said at a news conference Monday that after the vote, "Venezuela woke up with a new political reality."
The 39-year-old opposition candidate is governor of Miranda state and will face Chavez in an Oct. 7 election.
Opposition election chief Teresa Albanes announced the preliminary results, saying that Capriples won about 62 percent of the vote, beating Zulia state Gov. Pablo Perez by a margin of more than 30 percentage
Chavez's opponents lined up to vote in many areas, surpassing most expectations with a turnout of about 2.9 million ballots cast out of Venezuela's 18 million registered voters.
Capriles had been the front-runner in pre-election polls among five contenders, presenting a younger, energetic alternative to the 57-year-old Chavez, who has recently battled cancer.
points.
"He's going to be the candidate who can get us out of this giant hole we're stuck in," said Carmen Gloria Padilla, a 66-year-old telephone company employee who voted for him.
ASIA
Israeli Prime Minister links Iran to car bombings in India
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW DELHIASSailants targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia in near-simultaneous strikes Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed on archenemy Iran, and its Lebanese proxy, Hezballah. Iran denied responsibility for the attacks.
The bombs, which wounded four people, threatened to ratchet up already high tensions between Iran, which has been accused of developing a nuclear weapons program, and Israel, which says such a program would be an existential threat to the Jewish state.
A worker sweeps debris as police officers gather around a car belonging to the Israel Embassy that was damaged in an explosion. The wife of an Israeli diplomat was injured in the explosion.
Tehran already has accused Israel of covert attacks on its nuclear program, including assassinations of top nuclear officials and scientists.
The attacks Monday appeared to have been carried out with sticky bombs attached to cars by magnets. Similar weapons were used against Iran's nuclear scientists, feeding suspicions that the new bombings were a retaliation crafted to mirror those attacks.
"Today we witnessed two attempts of terrorism against innocent civilians," Netanyahu told a gathering of lawmakers from his Likud Party. "Iran is behind these attacks and it is the largest terror exporter in the world," he said.
In India, an assailant on a motorcycle apparently attached a bomb to an Israeli diplomat's vehicle and it quickly exploded, officials said. Israel said an attempted car bombing in Georgia was thwarted.
EUROPE
Blizzard leaves Eastern Romanians in state of emergency
BUCHAREST Romania
been trapped by blocked roads inside homes with little heat.
BUCHAREST, Romania Military planes and police helicopters flew in tons of emergency food to snowbowl villages and ships in the Balkans on Monday, after blizzards so fierce that some people had to cut tunnels through 15 feet of snow to get out of their homes.
Since the end of January, Eastern Europe has been pummeled by a record-breaking cold snap and the heaviest snowfall in recent memory. Hundreds of people, many of them homeless, have died in the bitter cold and tens of thousands have
Authorities declared a state of emergency Monday in eastern Romania, where 6,000 people have been cut off for days. About a dozen major roads were closed, 300 trains canceled and more than 1,000 schools shut down.
In addition to the flights, the defense ministry also sent 8,000 soldiers out clearing roads across Romania and helping those trapped by the overwhelming snow.
were canceled. The airport in the southern Romanian city of Craiova was closed after a plane carrying 48 people skidded during takeoff Monday and landed in a pile of snow, breaking its propellers.
President Traian Basescu tried to assure Romanians the country has enough energy supplies to prevent shortages but said the government was deciding whether to stop exporting energy, which national energy company Transelectrica wants to do.
Scores of flights across the region
TRANSPORTATION
Bus route changes will aid students
ELISE REUTER
ereuter@kansan.com
Members of Student Senate and the KU Transit Commission are discussing several changes to make existing bus routes more efficient, as well as proposing two new bus routes for KU students.
The new routes would travel a loop that passes through Clinton Parkway near the Legends Apartment Complex, and goes to Daisy Hill. The proposed "route 19" would be a means of bringing students on campus for their classes during the day.
The other would be a SafeBus route at night to reduce driving under the influence. The costs for the proposed changes would be covered by an increase of $2.50 to student fees, with the support of the City of Lawrence to help keep the costs down.
While the proposals have not been verified yet, three public hearings will be held by the University and the city of Lawrence to get public opinion on the proposed changes. The meetings will be held this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at various locations in Lawrence.
"Over the year, a lot of people have been asking about it [a bus route to Legends Apartments]."
We looked into it, but it was always very costly. Since then, we've been looking at how we can make it possible," said KU Parking and Transit Transportation Coordinator Casey Briner.
More than 2,500 students live along the proposed route, according to Briner. The route passes several other apartment complexes including the Grove and Parkway Commons. Some of these complexes have their own shuttle system, including the Legends apartment complex, though students still expressed that the new bus route could be useful.
"I've heard people complain that the wait between buses is so long that it [the Legends bus system] is not functional. If you miss a bus, you might miss class, because it's
a 30 minute wait between buses," said Emily Shapker, a junior from Kansas City. "I really like the SafeRide bus idea too; Legends is so far away from Mass Street that everyone there pretty much drives. So hopefully it will prevent drunk driving."
Routes 32 and 36 will also combine to make a "U-shaped" route, and the southern portion of route 32 will be removed.
Several smaller changes to the bus system were also proposed. For students living on Daisy Hill, the red and yellow SafeBuses will be staggered at 10-minute intervals instead of the usual 20 minutes. The green SafeBus route will also be changed; it will go straight to downtown Lawrence without stopping at Daisy Hill.
PUBLIC HEARINGS
Upcoming meetings for bus route changes:
- Wednesday, 5 p.m. at the Douglas County Fairgrounds,
2110 Harper Street
- Thursday, 4 p.m. in the Malott Room at the Kansas Union
- Friday, 10 a.m. at the Lawrence Transit Administrative Office, 933 New Hampshire Street
Maps of all of the proposed bus route changes can be found at Lawrencetransit.org.
Edited by Gabrielle Schock
Route 30X will also be removed because of low ridership. Students who rode route 30X can still take routes 10 and 30 to get to campus.
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