10A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2003
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Rene Frias, study abroad coordinator, said the University of Kansas only had one student in the affected areas at the University of Hong Kong.
"We have been in contact with
him, and he's doing fine," Frias said. "The student said that some people there were wearing surgical masks to protect themselves."
Frias said the department asked the student if he wanted to leave
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has also issued a warning. It encouraged anyone who has experienced unexplained severe respiratory illness on or after Feb. 1 with the following symptoms should seek medical attention.
"He's comfortable staying." Frias said. "He has not been in contact with anybody with the disease at the university."
n Fever (100.4 F or higher)
or difficulty breathing
n Recent travel to countries where the illness has been found (China, Singapore, Thailand. Vietnam, Switzerland and Canada).
n Cough, shortness of breath
n Close contact with person suspected of having SARS;
Myra Strother, chief of staff at Watkins, said there was one suspected case of SARS in Kansas, but it had not been confirmed.
According to a representative for the CDC, the disease had yet to be identified and there was no drug or antibiotic that has had success.
Based on currently available evidence, close contact with an infected person is needed for the
ineffective agent to spread from one person to another. There is no evidence to suggest this disease has a link with bioterrorism
For more additional information on SARS, visit www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars and who.int/csr/sars/en.
— Edited by Erin Chapman
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relies on the whistle to keep on schedule.
"It was nice to see people from the past who worked in Facilities. Operations monitoring the whistle and know how it has affected the University over the years," Connally said.
The whistle on display was installed in 1940. It came from a German freighter from World War II.
The Kansas Union obtained the whistle in January when irreparable cracks forced its retirement.
"We're happy and thrilled its here. We'll have some fun with this great tradition," said David Mucci, director of KU Memorial Unions.
The ceremony at the union marked the beginning of 10 additional panels that will make up the KU history gallery which will open the end of April.
The panels will feature items such as the history of KU basketball, football and the Rock Chalk cheer.
the newest KU whistle should arrive on campus the second week of April, said George Cone, assistant director of facilities operations.
Edited by Jason Elliott
India criticizes U.S., Pakistan after attack
The Associated Press
NADIMARG, India — India lashed out at Pakistan and the United States on Tuesday for doing little to contain terrorism after an attack in Kashmir killed 24 Hindus — mostly elderly villagers dragged from their homes and shot.
India's deputy prime minister blamed violence in Kashmir on "our neighbor," but did not directly accuse Pakistan of the latest attack in India's portion of the strife-torn region claimed by both countries.
"This is a cold-blooded massacre. Violence in Jammu and Kashmir is continuing because of our neighbor," Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani said. "These incidents are... ethnic
cleansing."
Police also said Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged fire along the frontier Monday, killing one Indian soldier. Such incidents are routine.
In one of the worst-ever attacks on Hindus in Muslimmajority Kashmir, about 10 men dragged villagers out of their homes in Nadimarg town Monday and shot them, police and witnesses said. The dead included 11 women and two children. Most of the adults were between 50 and 80 years old.
Indian police said they believed the gunmen were Islamic militants who have been fighting for Kashmir's independence from mainly Hindu India, or merger with Islamic Pakistan, since 1989. Police say the area is a
stronghold of the Pakistan-based Hezb-ul Mujahedeen rebel group.
India accuses Pakistan of training and arming the Islamic groups, a charge Islamabad denies. A cease-fire line divides Kashmir between the two countries.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri on Tuesday repeated Pakistan's condemnation of the massacre and offered condolences. But he also blasted the Indian government for blaming his country.
"The Pakistan government deplores the ... baseless allegations," he said.
Kasuri also called for a joint Pakistan-India probe into the incident.
Advani had said an earlier Pakistan condemnation of the attack meant little.
"In the case of Islamabad all that has happened is that the words have changed ... not the actions. On the ground their approach to cross-border terrorism continues as before," he said.
On Tuesday, suspected Islamic militants attacked an Indian army patrol elsewhere in Jammu-Kashmir state, killing a captain and a soldier, police said.
After India-Pakistan tensions worsened following a December 2001 attack on India's Parliament by suspected Islamic militants, Washington said it received assurances from Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that he would not allow Pakistan territory to be used for terrorist activity in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Musharraflater denied making such a promise.
Advani, when asked whether he thought Washington's attention was diverted by the war in Iraq, said, "Even before Iraq ... I do not think that insofar as cross-border terrorism is concerned Washington has imposed any great pressure on Islamabad."
Monday's incident was expected to further strain India-Pakistan relations. The nuclear-armed neighbors came to the brink of a fourth war after the Indian government blamed Pakistan for similar attacks a year ago.
He added, "We are disappointed with the United States' attitude toward cross-border terrorism in India."
North Korea claims to be next U.S. military target
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea claimed again Tuesday the United States may attack the communist state after the war in Iraq and spark a "second Iraqi crisis."
North Korea accuses Washington of inciting a dispute over the North's suspected nuclear weapons programs to create an excuse for invasion.
"No one can vouch that the U.S. will not spark the second
Iraqi crisis on the Korean Peninsula," North Korea's state-run Minju Joson newspaper said.
North Korea will "increase its national defense power on its own without the slightest vacillation no matter what others may say," the paper said.
On Monday, Pyongyang said Washington was using the war against Iraq as a test for military action against the North, labeled by President Bush part of an "axis of evil" with Iran and Iraq.
South Korean President Roh
Moo-hyun dismissed the allegation as "inaccurate and groundless" and said U.S. officials repeatedly have pledged to resolve the issue peacefully.
Early this month, President Bush said he believed the standoff could be resolved diplomatically, but noted it could be resolved militarily if diplomacy fails.
The standoff flared in October when U.S. officials said Pyongyang admitted having a secret nuclear program in violation of a 1994 pact.
Washington and its allies suspended oil shipments promised under that agreement and Pyongyang retaliated by taking steps to reactivate a nuclear facility capable of producing several bombs within months and by withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Tensions between the two Koreas are mounting over the nuclear crisis. South Korea is a strong ally of the United States, which has 37,000 troops based in
the South.
South Korean Foreign Minister Yoon Young-kwan will head to Washington on Wednesday to discuss the situation.
North Korea suspended a meeting with the South this week after Seoul put its military on heightened alert, fearing the North might use the distraction of the Iraqi war to attempt provocations.
Pyongyang said South Korea's move pushed the situation to "the brink of war."