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The Inside Front
Thursday February 19,1998
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
Police arrest two Lawrence residents in connection with five hobby store burglaries.
On CAMPUS:
In the NATION:
SUA will hold the semester's first free Jay Bowl concert at 9:30 tonight. Local bands Sunbarrow and Einstein will perform.
Clinton's foreign-policy team visited Ohio to make a case for U.S. military action against Iraq.
Since the death of reformist patriarch Deng Xiaoping, corruption remains rampant in China.
The Irish Republican Army resists attempts by the British and Irish governments to expel it from peace talks.
Police arrest suspects in hobby-store burglaries
Lawrence police arrested two Lawrence residents Tuesday afternoon in connection with a string of recent hobby store burglaries.
Anne Marie Speicher and Brian Rogers, 1900 W. 31st St., were taken into custody about 245 p.m. Tuesday at HobbyTownUSA, 2016 W. 23rd St., on outstanding municipal warrants for failure to appear in court.
Speicher and Rogers were interviewed at the Lawrence police station and booked into Douglas County Jail on three counts of burglarizing Hobby Town USA and two counts of burglarizing George's Hobby House. 1411-B.W. 23rd St.
Det. John Lewis said, "We believe this clears up five different burglaries."
Lewis said Speicher and Rogers were in HobbyTown USA trying to sell remote-controlled vehicles to the store when clerk Jason Moss recognized them and became suspicious.
"We had gotten the description of the suspects in the George's Hobby House burglaries, and when he came in, I knew it was him." Moss said.
Moss said the suspect was a heavy-set, 6-foot-tall white male with medium-length blond hair. Moss discussed the products with the suspects, then went to the back of the store and called police.
Lewis said they had searched the suspects' residence and recovered several stolen items.
"I don't know what all property we've recovered, but a whole lot." Lewis said.
- Ronnie Wachter
SUA concert series ready to bowl fans over tonight
Student Union Activities will hold the first Jay Bowl concert of the semester
tonight on the first floor of the Kansas Union. The event is free.
Sunbarrow and Einstein, two local bands will play at 9:30 p.m. The concert will finish at midnight.
SUA held two Jay Bowl concerts last semester.
John Orcutt, Hutchinson senior and SUA live music coordinator, said that he expected more than 200 people to attend.
"We're going to try to have one of these concerts every two weeks," Orcutt said.
- Marcelo Vilela
Case for attack on Iraq evokes mixed reactions
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Facing tough questions from America's heartland, the Clinton administration's foreign-policy team tried to make the case yesterday for U.S. military action against Iraq. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called Iraq's disputed weapons arsenal the greatest security threat the United
Speaking louder than persistent jeers at Ohio State University, Albright said President Clinton preferred a diplomatic way out of the crisis.
"It must be a true, not a phony, solution," Albright said.
Joining Albright on a red carpeted stage in the center of a basketball arena were Defense Secretary
William Cohen and National Security Adviser Samuel Berger. They were interrupted several times by chants from a noisy audience that included students as well as uniformed members of the military and veterans.
It is Saddam's refusal to permit unrestricted U.N. inspections of his nation's
weapons arsenal that is at the heart of the dispute. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was heading to Baghdad on Thursday to try to reach a diplomatic settlement.
Some of the protesters held aloft a banner that said, "No War," but one caller identifying himself as a U.S. soldier on duty in Germany said he supported Clinton's approach.
"If a soldier's life needs to be lost, let it start with mine," the soldier said by telephone. His remark drew a round of applause from the arena audience.
When one questioner said as many as 100,000 Iraqi civilians could be killed in an attack, Albright replied, "I'm willing to make a bet that we care more about the Iraqi people than Saddam Hussein does."
Albright: Faced jeering crowd at Ohio State
Deng Xiaoping's reforms still affect China's reform
BEIJING — Since the Feb. 19, 1997, death of reformist patriarch Deng Xiaoping, the unintended effects of his two-decade effort have worsened. Corruption remains rampant, gaps between the newly rich and bedrock poor are widening, unemployment is soaring and social ills such as prostitution and drug abuse are spreading.
"Deng Xiaoping was the architect, but he solved only the problems of the first period of reform. He left behind a lot of other ones for his successors to solve," said Wang Shan, an author and political commentator.
A man of Deng's revolutionary credentials and achievements commands influence even in death, and his political heirs in the ruling Communist Party are not letting today's anniversary of his passing go quietly.
In ways solemn and kitsch, China is celebrating the man and the statesman. Stamps, video compact discs and books bearing his likeness and words are being
produced. Symposiums on his policies are being held. Even an exhibition of portraits done in needlepoint embroidery has been staged.
Unemployment, already as high as 15 million in the cities, could double during the next two years, a once unthinkable event in a society that promised lifetime jobs. At the same time, 130 million peasants, freed from land-bound toil by Deng's end to collective farming, are looking for work, many of them in the cities.
Sinn Fein remains at talks despite binational protest
DUBLIN, Ireland — The Irish Republican Army's political allied clung to its place in Northern Ireland peace negotiations yesterday, resisting attempts all week by the British and Irish governments to expel it for recent killings blamed on the IRA.
The other six participating parties gave up and went home after three days of talks in Dublin Castle without a single word of real negotiations being uttered.
Sinn Fein blocked a joint government verdict on its expulsion by pursuing its own injunction from the Irish High Court.
The court action prevented negotiators from discussing the intended topic of new governmental structures between the British-ruled north and independent Irish Republic, a key part of any peace settlement.
"I'd just like to express the sense of disappointment I'm sure we all feel that the last three days spent in Dublin have been overwhelmed by discussions on the position of Sinn Fein within the talks," said Mo Woollam, Britain's minister responsible for governing Northern Ireland.
Mowlam, who on Monday accused Sinn Fein of violating the principles of nonviolence that govern the talks, said that it had been necessary to preserve the integrity of the process.
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Today: IN HISTORY
1473 . Nicolau Copernicus (astronomer) was born in Poland.
1864. The Knights of Pythias' first lodge was formed in Washington D.C.
1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph.
1945 - Brotherhood Day.
1945·Marines land on Iwo Jima.
1977 - President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose").
1983 - Rollie Melanson's only Islander shut-out win -
Montreal 5-0.
Plan to finance Kansas Union renovations to go to Senate
By Brandon Coppel and Marc Sheforgen
bcopple@kansan.com
msheforgen@kansan.com
Kansas staff writers
The plan would redesignate a student fee of $18.50 for the renovation project. The fee, which had paid for the 1992
A plan to renovate the Kansas Union using student campus fees will be presented to a Student Senate subcommittee next week.
Union renovation, is set to expire by 2000. The fee proposed by the new plan would last for 12 years.
"It seems like every year there are new organizations forming on campus. Somebody is going to get left out if we don't address this."
Plans for the new renovation project are directed at connecting the Union to a new parking garage, which will be located north of the Union, and at alliviating cramped conditions throughout the Union. Jim Long, Union director, said plan
specifics were not available.
Nick Gilliland, Arkansas City sophomore, said the Union could use more office space.
"It it seems like every year there are new organizations forming on campus," he said. "Somebody is going to get left out if we don't address this."
Gilliland said that he was not aware that a fee existed but that he did not mind paying because he thought the Union was a good investment.
Redesignating the fee would not require the approval of the student body. However, the plan must be approved by the Senate Campus Fee Review Subcommittee, the Senate Finance Committee and Student Senate.
Joshua Mermis, Houston senior, is the Student Union Activities representative on the University Memorial Corporation Board, which developed the plan. He said this would be a good opportunity for students who had concerns or questions about the fee to contact student senators.
Mermis, who serves on the Programs and Building Concepts subcommittee of the board, said he was impressed with Union management's preparation.
"They're trying to make sure they're not wasting students' money frivolously." he said.
Long said Union management began putting the plan together because of the approaching expiration of the student fee and the addition of the parking garage.
The parking garage will be located directly north of the Union. It is estimated that the garage will open about 1,000 spaces to faculty, staff, students and visitors.
Parking department revenue will finance the construction of the parking garage.
"It is important to give thought and planning to this project right now." Long said. "The garage is being developed, and we should look at the Union development at the same time."
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