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"I really just wanted to be outside for spring break. It's just a cheap way to get out of town for awhile," she said.
Isaacson paid $180 for the trip. She and several other people are driving the 19 hours to Utah where they will stay in churches and buy groceries to save on costs.
The office of Organization and Leadership has been coordinating alternative spring break trips for KU since 1995. Travelers in the Alternative Spring Break program spend about 35 to 40 hours working on service projects. This year they are sending 140 students to 19 locations in the U.S. The office spends the students' travel money on van rental, groceries, and donations to the sites they visit.
Brooke Smith, Overland Park senior, works for the Center for Community Outreach and organizes spring break trips. She said students should know what they're getting involved in before they leave.
"People would be highly disappointed if they went because of the cheap trip since they have to work so much," Smith said.
Contact Shuman at mshuman@kansan.com. This story was edited by Gillian Titus.
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Austin, Texas. She said one of the reasons they chose Lawrence was because of its central location.
The Green Party also has a large representation in Lawrence, said Sarah Hoskinson, co-coordinator of KU Greens. In the 2000 presidential election, Ralph Nader received 9.63 percent of the vote in Douglas County, one of the highest county percentages nationwide.
"It was a pretty big accomplishment, especially in a state that's mostly republican," Hoskinson said.
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The convention will most likely take place in the Kansas Union and the Lied Center. KU Greens will have to find lodgings for all attendees, and they have already gotten permission to rent rooms from Naismith Hall.
"Student housing said we couldn't have people stay with them just because of the time of year the conference would be here," Hoskinson said.
To contact Campus Greens about the convention, go to www.campusgreens.org. For more information on the convention, e-mail KU Greens at kugreens@ku.edu.
Contact Boyer at cboyer@kansan.com. This story was edited by Brooke Hesler.
In attack aftermath civilians want answers
CHOKER KARAIZ, Afghanistan — The stricken old man could barely walk through the rubble of his village. The vision of the torn bodies of women and children was still too real in his mind's eye.
"Every time I walk through here, I see the scene all over again," Mohammad Qasin said yesterday.
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"We don't know. God knows," survivor Aziz Ahmed said yesterday when asked why U.S. pilots might have attacked this tiny, mud-walled place one night in late October.
Villagers say 52 people, mostly women and children, were killed in the bombing and strafing four months ago that obliterated this isolated hamlet, a few houses ringed by irrigated wheat fields among miles of semidesert emptiness in southern Afghanistan.
The government of Kandahar province alone has filed more than 70 compensation cases involving U.S. airattacks with the central government in Kabul, provincial spokesman Yusuf Pashtun said Wednesday.
Now the case of Choker Karaiz is one of dozens of U.S. air attacks for which survivors have filed claims for compensation.
"Hamid Karzai said send them to the Ministry of the Interior," Pashtun said, referring to Afghanistan's interim national leader.
Pashtun said four cases involved multiple deaths in Kandahar villages, with the biggest being Choker Karaiz, 25 miles east of Kandahar city. The rest were cases of single deaths or limited damage here and there in the province, he said. Others. "hard to prove," were not forwarded to Kabul, he said.
The provincial spokesman said he had no information on how the compensation process will work. It could not be learned immediately whether the U.S. government would consider such claims, or whether they would be handled exclusively by the Afghan government or by a joint commission.
Maj. Brad Lowell, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said yesterday he was unaware of any process for Afghans to make claims against the U.S.military.
The Pentagon has said civilians were never deliberately targeted during the bombing in Afghanistan but has acknowledged that some bombs went astray.
Last month, however, the Pentagon acknowledged that U.S. Army forces killed 14 or more Afghans who were neither al-Qaida nor Taliban members during a raid in Uruzgan province in January.
Provincial Gov. Jan Mohammed delivered $1,000 to $2,000 to each dead man's family, as well as a verbal apology relayed on behalf of high-ranking U.S. officials he declined to identify.
The Taliban took a group of foreign reporters to the village in November and claimed 92 people died there. Reporters at the time counted about 15 graves.
Peter Bouckaert, a researcher with the New York-based Human Rights Watch, independently interviewed people in Choker Karazin in an effort to establish a civilian casualty toll.
"We believe that at least 25 and possibly as many as 35 civilians died in this bombing raid. Often times civilians give random numbers that tend to be too high but we try to confirm as many as possible and we were able to confirm at least 25 here."
Briton gives first Western testimony in Milosevic trial
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A former British envoy to the Balkans testified at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic yesterday on how he watched through binoculars as the Yugoslav army indiscriminately shelled Kosovo Albanian villages in 1998.
Paddy Ashdown, the first Western leader to appear in the 5-week-old trial, said he was shocked as he watched the Serb forces from a distance of about a mile during a trip to northern Albania in 1998.
Ashdown's testimony, which was to continue today, was expected to provide the most extensive insight so far into the politics behind Milosevic's reign and the Balkans' descent into bloodletting.
Lord Ashdown said the army was pounding the villages with tanks and mortars. "There was no return fire. I saw these units engaging, it appeared to me, indiscriminately, in a way I could not relate to military objectives.
Ashdown, whose nomination as U.N. High Representative in Bosnia is awaiting approval by the Security Council, was the 19th prosecution witness in the case against the former Yugoslav president, accused of war crimes and genocide in Kosovo, Croatia
and Bosnia during Yugoslavia's bloody breakup in the 1990s.
He recounted meeting Kosovo Albanian refugees who fled the rebellious southern Yugoslav province, arriving in the Tropoja and Bajram Curri regions in northern Albania. He said he talked with some 50 refugees of all ages who had been "driven over the mountains by what was going on in Kosovo."
"Many arrived in a very harrowing state, women, young children," he said. "I also saw some who had been wounded by shells, gunfire.
"They all had the same or similar stories to tell, that they were ordered out of their villages by army or police," Ashdown said. "If they stayed, they were subjected to small arms fire later to tank fire, artillery and mortar fire.
later to take the airborne.”
“This caused the population to leave and embark on an extremely difficult journey through forest and mountain passes, in the course of which they said they were constantly shelled,” he said. “Some died on the way. The final decent into Albania was very precipitous.”
In his testimony, the former leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats cited diaries he had Kent over the years.
He also described intense rebel activity under way in the lawless Albanian border region, which he compared to an "arms supermarket."
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Zimbabwe's elections draw mixed reaction
HARARE, Zimbabwe - As another international observer group condemned Zimbabwe's presidential election yesterday, Western countries and African countries exposed a deep divide in their reactions to the vote.
Analysts said some African leaders were supporting a liberation hero, protecting their own undemocratic regimes and trying to maintain regional stability.
in their reactions. A host of European countries decried the weekend elections as violent, chaotic and blatantly tilted in favor of President Robert Mugabe — who was declared the winner.
But many African leaders praised the elections, with the Organization of African Unity observer mission calling them "transparent, credible, free and fair."
But they also criticized the West for ignoring the most flawed elections on the continent — including one this weekend in the Republic of Congo — and focusing only on the vote in a nation with a significant white population.
"That sense of double standards can't be emphasized enough," said Salih Booker, director of the advocacy group Africa Action.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change asked yesterday for "a significant expansion" in the sanctions to cover more government and ruling party officials and businessmen whose wealth stems from their association with the party.
EU leaders are expected to discuss the situation at a summit in Spain this weekend and White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said the United States was in discussions with other countries to decide what action to take.
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien announced yesterday that Canada was cutting off aid to the country because the elections were flawed.
Norwegian election observers, a mission of legislators from southern Africa and independent Zimbabwean observers condemned the election as deeply flawed because of its violent campaign, a series of restrictive laws that hurt the opposition and chaotic voting that did not allow thousands of urban residents to vote.
At some polling stations in the opposition stronghold of Harare, police shot tear gas at people waiting to vote as polls closed.
closed. The 54-nation Commonwealth of Britain and its former colonies, which includes 19 African countries, criticized the elections as well Thursday.
Nevertheless, Mugabe's return to power has won broad support from African leaders.
The observmission from South Africa declared the election legitimate. The Nigerian observers said nothing that happened threatened the integrity of the poll. Namibia called the election successful.
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