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The Inside Front
Monday January 26,1998
News
from the nation and the world
In the NATION:
Clinton: Lewinsky's attorney said the former White house intern would tell all she knows to Whitewater prosecutors in exchange for immunity
Cuba: Pope John Paul II ended his five-day visit to Cuba yesterday.
The dollar: The Asian crisis has increased the value of the U.S. dollar.
ABC reports that eyewitness saw Clinton with Lewinsky
WASHINGTON — Anxious to cut a deal for immunity, the lawyer for Monica Lewinsky said yesterday that his 24-year-
old client would tell al that she knew to Whitewater prosecutors.
"The chips will fall as they may," he said.
Attorney William Ginsburg said that he had verbally indicated to investigators what Lewinsky would tell them in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
Lewinsky
"I will remain in Washington as long as it takes to see that the truth in every detail, wherever it may fall, comes out," Ginsburg said. Negotiations of such a sensitive nature could take weeks.
President Clinton talked this weekend with heavyweight advisers brought back to
Washington to help him through the crisis incited by the allegations of a sexual relationship with Lewinsky and attempts at a cover-up. One of them, one-time Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor, said his help was lawyerly in nature. "I have my legal hat on, not my political hat," he said.
In the first hint of an eyewitness, ABC reported the president and Lewinsky were caught in an intimate encounter in a private area of the White House in the spring of 1996, shortly before the White House intern was moved to a job at the Pentagon.
Pope condemnns capitalism in final Mass of Cuban trek
HAVANA — Pope John Paul II, ending a historic spiritual journey to a dispirited land, called Cubans to new paths of reconciliation Sunday, but warned them against embracing the blind market forces of global capitalism.
"The wealthy grow ever weatlier, while the poor grow ever poorer," the pope declared to explosive applause from hundreds of thousands in the grand Plaza of the
Revolution.
It was the climax of a five-day pilgrimage by the aliling 77-year-old pope, a difficult mission on which he had to balance criticism of Cuba's communist system with the need to foster the Cuban church.
Front and center in yesterday's throng
Pope John Paul II
hearing the pope's sharp attack on capitalist neoliberalism, was the fervent anti-capitalist Fidel Castro, who had urged his people to pack the open-air Mass.
Poor Asian economy boosts dollar in global trade market
NEW YORK — In Thailand, hotels are quoting room rates in dollars, and foreign airlines want to do the same with airfares. In Singapore, businesses are turning local bank accounts into dollars. And in Russia, even maids and mechanics hoard dollars as
informal savings accounts.
The turbulence in Asia that has rocked financial markets around the globe has boosted the dollar, giving it more prestige than it has had in many years and making it the currency of choice.
"The dollar is king," said Allen Sinai, chief global economist at Primark Decision Economics.
That's a big change from the late 1980s and early 1990s when the Japanese yen and German mark were higher than dollar. Americans traveling overseas found that their dollars bought little, and imported goods were often priced out of reach. It was less than three years ago that the dollar fell to a post-World War II low against the Japanese yen.
Now, with the U.S. economy winding up its seventh year of expansion, inflation running at a slow pace and unemployment at a 24-year low, the buck is riding high.
The Associated Press
ON CAMPUS
KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in Burge Union. Contact Beng Beh: 864-7754
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate Mass at 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Contact Fr. Vince Krische. 843-0357.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate Mass at 12:30 Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Danforth Chapel. Contact Fr. Ray May: 843-0357.
KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday and Wednesday and from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Friday at 207 Robinson. Contact Adam Capron: 842-912-81.
The Office of International Programs
KU Environs will meet for vegetarian lunches from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday.
Contact Shannon Martin: 842-7170.
will hold and International Seminar for Faculty: "Reconstructing the Nation State: Ethnicity, Identity and State Formation in the British Isles" from 3:30 to 5 tonight in the Western Seminar Room. Art History Library, Spencer Museum of Art. Contact Terry Weidner: 864-4141.
■ KU Habitat for Humanity has a spring break opportunity. Travel with other KU students to Denver during spring break for a building collegiate challenge. Contact Jeff. 832-1307.
Delta Force will hold brown bag lunch discussion of fall break at 12:30 Wednesday in the fourth lobby of the Kansas Union. Contact Seth Hoffman: 864-1701.
OAKS will have brown bag lunches
from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Tuesday at
Alcove E and Wednesday at Alcove A in
the Kansas Union. The business meeting
will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Wheat Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Susan Randall: 864-7317.
The Feminist Union will meet at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Joan Benefiel: 840-9739.
ECM will hold an alternative spring break informational meeting at 7:15 p.m. Sunday at ECM Center, Contact Thad Holcombe; 843-493-1.
University "orum" Graduate Teaching Assistants Organizing at KU: Local and National Implications." will meet from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the ECM Center. Contact Thad Holcombe: 843-4933.
- KU Democrats will meet for an Executive Board Meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union.
Contact Robert Choromanski: 864-1719.
Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 Wednesday at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Contact Wendy Brown: 838-3984.
St. Lawrence Orthodox Christian Fellowship will hold a prayer service at 1 p.m. and Discussion on "Finding time for God in a busy world" at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the ECM. Contact Victoria Foth: 749-5478.
HALO will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union.
Contact Cipriano Medina: 864-1020.
■ Free Job Search Workshops will be offered again this week about:
Resume/Cover Letter Writing at 1:30 p.m.
in 428 Summerfield Hall and Interviewing Skills at 1:30 p.m. in 2009 Learned Hall.
Contact Ben Kruse: 864-5591.
Online patrol: KU police join superhighway
By Laura Roddy
loddy@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas Police Department patrols the information superhighway as well as campus streets.
Internet surfers can check on the police department at its Web site, http://www.ukans.edu/~kucops.
COPS ONLINE University of Kansas Police: http://www.ukans.edu/ukops
"The origina-
reason it was
there was the
same reason
we do community
presentations," Sgt.
Chris Kearay
said. "It's
another opportunity to get information out."
University of Kansas
Medical Center Police:
http://www.kumc.edu/
service/police
Keary set up the site in November 1995 after taking an HTML workshop with several other officers through the University's Academic Computing Services. Keary serves as the Webmaster. Another sergeant, Troy Mailen, has agreed to help him run the Website.
Lesley Simmons, Norman, Okla., sophomore, said she wasn't aware the KU police operated a site, but she thought it was a good idea.
Keary said the site's police activity log was updated weekly and allowed visitors to find out what had happened on campus. Each entry is logged according to date and time.
"That is the one thing we have kept up on," he said. "It shows the things the KUPD does on a daily basis."
The site also features a crime map. A user can click on a particular building or parking lot and learn what criminal activity occurred there between Aug. 18, 1996 and June 28, 1997.
Kearay said "Ask A Cop," another feature of the site, provided students with the opportunity to ask officers questions. The questions can be submitted anonymously, he said.
The frequently asked questions posted on the site deal with topics ranging from parking to rape and marijuana use.
Keary said crime alerts were periodically posted on the site and campus crime statistics also were available.
ET CETERA
The University of Kansas Medical Center Police Department operates its Web site located at www.kumc.edu/service/police.
The University Daily Kansan is the student newspaper of the University of Kansas. The first copy is paid through the student activity fee. Additional copies of the Kansan are 25 cents. Subscriptions can be purchased at 119 Stauffer Flint Hall.
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Postmaster: Send address changes to the University Daily Kansan, 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall, Lawrence, Kan. 66045.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student suffered domestic battery between 11 and 11:15 p.m. Thursday night in the 1800 block of Naismith Drive.
The right window of a KU employee's car was smashed about 9 p.m. Wednesday night in the 3100 block of West 19th Street, and an AM/FM radio, a CD player and a crossover equalizer were stolen from the car, totaling $800 damage.
A KU student suffered a criminal threat at 500 block of West 14th Street at 1:30 a.m. Saturday.
The side mirrors and sunroof wind deflector of a
KU student's car were destroyed between 10 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday in the 100 block of Gower Place, causing $450 damage.
The rear window of a University of Kansas Athletic Corporation employee's car was shattered between 5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Saturday in the 600 block of Connecticut Street, and an AM/FM stereo CD player and cellular phone car adapter were taken from it, causing $420 total damage.
A KU student's down coat was stolen between 11 p.m. Thursday and 1 a.m. Friday in the 900 block of West 23rd Street The jacket was valued at $200.
Kansan staff report
City to offer artists money
Art grants worth up to $500 will be offered to local artists and organizations by the Lawrence Arts Commission beginning in March.
"We want to encourage new programs and artists," said Dorothy Stites, a commission liaison for the Lawrence Percent for Art Program.
"The focus is to help someone do something artistic that is related to the community." she said.
In the past, grants have been awarded to groups such as the Lawrence Chamber Players and the Lawrence Children's Choir, Stites said.
Applications are available at the following locations:
Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.; Lawrence Arts Center, 200 W. Ninth St.; Lawrence Art Guild and Riverfront Gallery and the City Management Office on the fourth floor of City Hall, 6E. Sixth St.
Applications P. uay also be obtained by sending a self- addressed, stamped envelope to Dorothy Stites, City of Lawrence, P.O. Box 708, Lawrence, KS 66044. The submission deadline is Monday, March 2.
Grant money may be used for materials, equipment, rent, travel or publications.
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