THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
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CENTRAL AMERICA
President of Guatemala legalizes the transportation of drugs
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan
President Otto Perez Molina said Saturday he will propose legalizing drugs in Central America in an upcoming meeting with the region's leaders
leaders.
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Perez Molina said in a radio interview that his proposal would include decriminalizing the transportation of
drugs through the area.
"I want to bring this discussion to the table," he said. "It wouldn't be a crime to transport, to move drugs. It would all have to be regulated."
Perez Molina, a former army general who took office last month, didn't give any other details about his proposal, mention specific drugs or say when the next meeting with Central American leaders will be.
The Guatemalan president said the
He said he will bring the subject up with Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes when Funes visits Monday.
war on drugs and all the money and technology received from the U.S. has not diminished drug trafficking in the area.
"There was talk of the success of Plan Colombia but all it did was neutralize big cartels," Perez Molina said of a U.S. initiative supporting Colombia's fight against leftist rebels and far-right militias involved in the drug trade.
Perez Molina also blamed drug cartels for rampant violence in Guatemala, which has a homicide rate of 41 murders per 100,000 people.
EUROPE
Extreme cold weather miserable for Turkey's quake survivors
ANKARA, Turkey — Freezing temperatures and life miserable in Turkey are making life vulnerable for the more than 140,000 residents who were left homeless by the nation's devastating earthquake four months ago and who are still living in tents or temporary shelters.
The cold snap, which began in Europe in late January, has left some families in Turkey's quake relief centers trying to stay warm by using coal stoves or electric heaters, and watching their drinking water freeze overnight. Nearly a foot of snow has fallen in the quake zone, and temperatures have dipped as low as -4 Fahrenheit.
Elsewhere in Europe the situation has been much worse, with hundreds of people — most them homeless — dying in the cold, and many cities and towns being trapped by much deeper snow.
In Romania, officials on Friday reported 13 more deaths and rounded up about 220 homeless to shelter them from the deep freeze at night. Huge chunks of ice were blocking navigation on the Danube River in Romania, one of Europe's key waterways.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Earthquake survivors stand next to destroyed houses in Van, eastern Turkey. The harsh winter in decades has added to the woes of more than 140,000 quake survivors.
AFRICA
Leader of Christmas day church bombing in Nigeria arrested
ABUJA, Nigeria — The alleged mastermind of a radical Islamist sect's Christmas Day church bombing
geria after escaping police custody and hid for about a month before finally being apprehended Friday, author-ries said.
The arrest of Kabiru Sokoto by Nigeria's secret police and military
Sokoto
comes after his escape led to national embarrassment amid the increasingly bloody attacks carried out by the sect known as Boko Haram. Though President Goodluck Jonathan fired the nation's top police official, the nation's weak central government still appears unable to stop the sect from attacking at will and disappearing into the shadows.
Officers from the State Security Service and soldiers raided a home early Friday morning in Mutum Biyu in Tarabae state where they suspected Sokoto was hiding, said Marilyn Ogar.
a spokeswoman for the secret police agency. They found Sokoto hiding behind a rack of drying laundry, Ogar said.
Authorities did not say how they found Sokoto, though secret police have in the past tracked suspects using the signals from their mobile phones. Ogar said Kabira was hiding in a suspected accomplice's home, but it wasn't clear what his plans where. He initially fled to Nasarawa state, which borders Abuja, then to Taraba state, which borders Cameroon, she said.
ASIA
Tibetan nun protests Chinese government, sets herself on fire
BEIJING — An 18-year-old Tibetan nun has set herself on fire in western China in the latest such protest against Beijing's handling of the vast ethnic Tibetan regions it rules, an overseas activist group said Sunday.
Free Tibet said in a statement that the nun set herself ablaze Saturday and was believed to have survived. The young woman, identified as Tenzin Choezin, was a nun at the Mamae Nunnery in Sichuan province's Aba prefecture, the statement said
It said Chozin shouted slogans of protest against the Chinese
government before setting herself on fire at a junction close to the nunnery.
"Soldiers and police came immediately and took her away," the statement said. "Soldiers then surrounded the nunnery and sealed it off."
More than a dozen monks, nuns and ordinary Tibetans have set themselves on fire over the past year, and Free Tibet says at least 11 died from their injuries.
the return of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetans' spiritual leader who fled from the Himalayan region to India amid an abortive uprising against Chinese rule in 1959.
Activist groups say the self-immolations are a protest against China's policies and a call for
Government and police officials reached by telephone in Aba said they knew nothing about any selfimmolation and hung up.
A statement by two Tibetan monks exiled in India, Losang Yeshe and Kanyag Tsering, distributed by the London-based International Campaign for Tibet said Choezin was the eldest of four children and a good student.
CRIME
Killer helps find more remains
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — Authorities searching with the help of a convicted serial killer found more human remains Saturday — the first bones discovered at an abandoned well on a cattle ranch where a death row inmate claimed 10 or more victims may be buried, authorities said.
The discovery marked the third straight day that remains were found with a map prepared by Wesley Shermantine. He and his childhood friend, Loren Herzog, were called the "Speed Freak Killers" for a methamphetamine-fueled killing spree that had as many as 15 victims.
Two sets of remains had been found Thursday and Friday near property once owned by Shermantine's family about 60 miles south of Sacramento.
The latest remains were found after crews dug slowly through 30 feet of soot and debris at the well near Linden, Calif., said San Joaquin County sheriff's spokesman Deputy Les Garcia.
It was not clear whether they belonged to one or more people, and Garcia said they had not yet been identified.
The search was called off after dark Saturday, but was set to resume Sunday.
Dental records identified remains found Thursday in Calaveras County as those of Cyndi Vanderheiden, 25, Garcia said. Authorities were awaiting the results of a DNA analysis to confirm the identification, Garcia said.
Cyndi Vanderheiden's father, John Vanderheiden, said he was almost sure the remains are those of his daughter, who disappeared in 1998.
"There will be closure after that," he said.
The remains found Friday have not been identified, but Chevelle "Chevy" Wheeler's
parents believe they are those of their 16-year-old daughter. Wheeler's parents said they were notified that the remains were found in a spot where Shermantine said their daughter was buried after she disappeared in 1985.
"They said they found her wrapped in a blanket," Paula Wheeler, the girl's mother, told The Associated Press by phone from the family's home in Crossville, Tenn. "This is a happy day. We can finally have some closure."
Shermantine recently agreed to disclose the locations of bodies in return for a bounty hunter's offer of $33,000.
He is giving hand-drawn maps to authorities, who are focusing on the spot where Saturday's remains were found, though layers of backfill were making excavation difficult.
Shermantine was convicted of four murders and sentenced to death. Herzog was convicted of three murders and sentenced to 77 years to life in prison, though that was later reduced to 14 years. An appeals court tossed his first-degree murder convictions after ruling his confession was illegally obtained.
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Herzog was paroled in 2010 to a trailer outside the High Desert State Prison in Susanville. He committed suicide outside that trailer last month after Sacramento bounty hunter Leonard Padilla told him Shermantine was disclosing the location of the well along with two other locations.
Padilla has promised to pay Shermantine as much as $33,000 to disclose the locations of the bodies. He said he hopes to collect on rewards being offered by the state of California
for information about several missing persons suspected of being victims of Herzog and Shermantine.
Shermantine has said he wants the money to pay off an $18,000 restitution order that prevents him from buying the limited luxuries like candy bars that immates with money in their accounts can afford. He also said he want to buy headstones for his deceased parents.
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