WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2002
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 17
STATE Candidate promises to trim office budget if elected
TOPEKA (AP) — If elected Secretary of State, Sen. David Haley promised to trim 10 percent from the office's budget and work to guarantee accurate and accessible elections.
Haley, D-Kansas City, said Tuesday he would challenge Republican incumbent Ron Thornburgh for the post. If elected he would be only the second Democrat in state history to hold the office.
Playing off the title of his uncle Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Roots, he asked voters to give him a chance.
"Kansas voters should give our roots and our desire to ensure fair and equal elections a chance," he said.
Haley, 43, has spent eight years in the Kansas Legislature. He served three terms in the House and was elected to the Senate in 2000.
His father, George Haley, was the first black elected to the state Senate in 1964. A Republican, the elder Haley went on to serve in the administration of five presidents and was the ambassador to the Republic of Gambia under President Clinton.
NATION
Lawmakers say tobacco company violates law
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's largest smokeless tobacco company is violating a 1998 legal settlement by targeting children in its ads, lawmakers who cited a study by Massachusetts health officials said.
U. S. Smokeless Tobacco Co. spent $9.4 million last year on advertising in magazines that have substantial number of young readers, up from $3.6 million in 1997, according to the report released Tuesday by the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program.
"These results are troubling and indicate to us that UST is not in compliance with the agreement it signed with the state attorneys general," Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Sen. Richard Durban, D-III., said in a letter sent Tuesday to the National Association of Attorneys General. UST Inc. is the holding company for U.S. Smokeless Tobacco.
The lawmakers urged the attorneys general to take legal action against the Greenwich, Conn.-based company, which makes the snuff brands Copenhagen and Skoal.
Richard Verheij, the company's general counsel, said he was confident the manufacturer had not violated the agreement it signed in 1998.
Residents view the wreckage after fire destroys 20 homes
CANON CITY, Colo. (AP) — Dozens of families headed back into the charred foothills Tuesday to search for remnants of their lives after a 4,400-acre wildfire destroyed more than 80 homes.
Fire officials began allowing the residents into the area after cooler weather and scattered rain helped slow the fire
The fire broke out in a foothills area where modest homes and mobile houses are scattered on small lots among stands of fir and pine.
Hundreds of families were evacuated when the fire broke out in dry timber and brush west about 110 miles southwest of Denver. Besides the homes, the blaze destroyed a general store and several other structures. Royal Gorge Park closed temporarily but reopened Tuesday.
Middlemiss said the blaze may have been started by an outdoor barbecue grill. There were no suspects.
Former Tyco chairman resigns pleads innocent to tax evasion
NEW YORK (AP] — Dennis Kozlowski, the dealmaking titan who built Tyco International into a huge conglomerate, was charged Tuesday with illegally avoiding more than $1 million in sales taxes on paintings, including works by Renoir and Monet.
Kozlowski, who resigned as chairman and chief executive Monday amid news of the investigation, pleaded innocent Tuesday and was released on $3 million bail. Kozlowski would not comment outside court, but his lawyer, Stephen Kaufman, said, "The charges are unsubstantiated."
Kozlowski, 55, was charged with sales tax violations, tampering with evidence and falsifying business records on roughly $13 million in paintings.
Prosecutors said he and others agreed to create phony invoices and shipping documents to make it appear as if the artwork was to be shipped out of state and was therefore not covered by New York state sales tax.
Each of the 11 felony counts is punishable by up to four years in prison; Kozlowski also faces a misdemeanor conspiracy charge.
Deliberations begin in murder trial of Kennedy cousin
NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Michael Skakel's fate went to the jury Tuesday as deliberations began on whether the Kennedy family cousin beat his 15-year-old neighbor to death with a golf club in 1975.
The jury ended for the day after about six hours of deliberations.
Deliberations began the morning after prosecutors closed their case by displaying a projected photo of a smiling Martha Moxley that dissolved into a grim crime scene photo.
Skakel, 41, is accused of killing Moxley when they were 15-year-olds living in a wealthy gated community in Greenwich. The golf club was matched to a set owned by Skakel's mother. Skakel is a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy. A murder conviction is punishable by 25 years to life in prison.
Skakel's defense maintained that he was at a cousin's house when Moxley was murdered.
Shuttle launch rescheduled NASA hopes for good weather
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After nearly a week of delays, NASA hoped for a break in the weather Wednesday that would allow it to launch space shuttle Endeavour to the international space station.
Endeavour will drop off a new crew at the orbiting outpost and bring home the three men who have been living there for the past six months. The shuttle's astronauts will also repair the space station's robot arm.
Forecasters on Tuesday put the chances of acceptable weather at just 40 percent. Thunderstorms remained a threat, in addition to thick clouds and possibly gusty wind.
As part of the space agency's post-Sept.
11 anti-terrorism measures, NASA kept the 5:23 p.m. launch time a secret until 24 hours in advance.
NASA tried to launch Endeavour on the 12-day flight last Thursday but was thwarted by thunderstorms that ultimately pushed liftoff to Monday. Then a pressure valve had to be replaced, and the launch slipped to Wednesday.
WORLD
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP)—Responding to growing U.S. pressure to fight terror, Yasser Arafat presented CIA Director George Tenet with a plan Tuesday for restructuring the unwieldy Palestinian security apparatus. Israel called the proposals "worthless."
The Palestinian leader appointed a 73-year-old general to head the new security array, but Israel said the proposed changes are largely cosmetic because Arafat, who has done little to rein in militants in the past, remains in charge. Some Palestinians also were skeptical, because the reform would still leave six different security branches.
Arafat proposals to fight terror with denied by Israel
Signs suggest situation in Kashmir calming down
Efforts by Russia, China and other nations failed to get Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to hold face-to-face talks Tuesday.
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Pakistan's president traded angry accusations with his Indian counterpart Tuesday, but Indian officials said they saw signs the situation in Kashmir was becoming calmer.
"In any case, both leaders expressed their interest in direct contacts, even though they still see the conditions for organizing such meetings differently, but both sides have the desire for such contacts," Putin said after meeting separately with Vaipayee and Musharraf.
But Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to see progress toward such negotiations.
"No less important, both leaders of both states underlined that they do not intend to use force to solve their problems," Putin said.
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