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kansan Weekend Edition
Friday
January 23,1998
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Vol.108 No.84 Saturday & Sunday
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wandering the Web
If you still haven't heard enough about the Clinton investigations, check out these sites. If you have heard enough, don't go near your radio, television, or computer.
http://www.cnn.com
CNN has lots of info in an easy to use format. There are audio and video files, and you can even view Monica Lewinsky's resume online.
http://www.msnbc.com MSNBC's site is equally saturated with information. You can opt to take the poll that asks if you believe the president.
http://www.washingtonpost.com
The Washington Post was the first print publication to break the Clinton story. The site includes some excerpts from the tapes.
http://www.nytimes.com
As always, *The New York Times*
has extensive coverage from all angles.
(USPS 650-640)
http://www.chicago.tribune.com
This site has the latest on the indefinite delay of Monica Lewinsky's deposition.
CONCERTCALENDAR
Toniaht
Lawrence Concert Calendar for today and tomorrow:
Bambino's Italian Cafe: Bill Thompson, Kathy Forest
The Bottleneck: The Schway
Hi linx: Swing 39
The Jazzhaus: The Band that Saved the World
Milton's: Bill Crahan and John Lomis
Tomorrow
Bambino's Italian Cafe: Scott Goodman
The Bottleneck: Danger Bob & TV50
Hi-Jinx: Key West Jazz Quartet
Correction
Because of a graphic artist's error, yesterday's Kansan reported the Kansas Research and Education Network has a cable modem Internet connection. Sunflower Datavation is the connection provider.
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Index
News ...2A
Feature ...8A
Sports ...1B
Television ...2B
Coupons ...3A
Horoscopes ...2B
Classifieds ...7B
Movie Listings ...5A
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Above right: Scott Wallish, St. Louis sophomore, and Katie Ramsey, Leavenworth sophomore, run the KU Students for life table at the Kansas Union. The table was part of the Information Fair and offered students a chance to get involved in the organization. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
Hangers found in trees next to Jayhawk Boulevard may have been hung in response to a protest planned by KU Students for Life. A member of KU Pro-Choice Coalition denied that the coalition was responsible for the hangers. Photo by Roar Nomer/KANSAN
Abortion display goes unclaimed by campus group
By Sara Anderson and Gerry Doyle
gdayle@kansan.com
sanderson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writers
A collection of wire clothes hangers strewn in the trees greeted students walking to class yesterday morning.
Pieces of paper with "Never Again" and "Pro-Choice" accompanied the hangers, which were spread across campus sometime before 6:30 a.m., said Wayne Reusch, assistant director of facilities operations.
Jenni Curry, Lenexa sophomore and a member of the KU Pro- Choice Coalition, said the coalition was not involved.
"It was in no way part of the coalition or a coalition activity," Curry said. "It was an individual act."
Sarah Page, Prairie Village senior and co-coordinator of the KU Pro-Choice Coalition, said the hangers represented times when women had to resort to extreme measures to have an abortion and often died because of it.
See PRO-CHOICE on page 2A
Armed men steal car, hold hostages
Kansan staff writer
Bv Ronnie Wachter
One of the largest hostage situations in Kansas history developed yesterday morning in southeast Douglas County.
Law enforcement officers from several departments surrounded a farmhouse at the intersection of 1100 North Highway and 1500 East Highway, where two suspects held a husband and wife hostage.
Although the names had not been confirmed by police, the husband and wife were held hostage were believed to be Ralph and Leila Leary.
Officiers from Kansas law enforcement agencies secure the area surrounding a hostage situation in southeast Douglas County. The standoff began about 8a.m. yesterday at a residence near 1500 East and 1100 North highways. Photo by Geoff Krager/KANSAN
The female hostage was released at 8:27 p.m. appearing to be unharmed. Shortly after, one of the suspects surrendered to authorities. That suspect was taken into custody. At press time, the second man, still believed to be armed with a handgun, remained in the house with the male hostage.
Lella Leary is a licensed practical nurse and a member of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission.
Douglas County Sheriff Loren C. Anderson said the situation began at approximately 7:50 a.m. yesterday at an undisclosed house just south of Lawrence. A high-school-aged girl went outside to warm up her car when two men, one said to be 20-25 years old, attacked her. The two men
tied her wrists together with duct tape and taped her mouth shut, Anderson said.
One of the suspects knocked on the door. When the girl's father opened the door the suspect pointed a handgun at his head. The man slammed the door shut and had his wife call 911, Anderson said.
The call was received at 7:58 a.m. and Douglas County deputies were dispatched to the scene. When the man looked outside his window, he saw the two suspects knock his daughter to the ground and drive south in her blue Chevy Cavalier.
The man pursued the suspects in his car, but lost sight of them, Anderson said.
As he passed by the farmhouse about a mile southeast of his house, he saw his daughter's car parked in the driveway. He called the sheriff's department again and told them of the location of the stolen car.
By 10.15 a.m., a perimeter one mile in diameter had been established by several cooperating law enforcement agencies, including the KU police department.
A control center was established in the 1100 block of Leary Road, where about 40 officers from the Lawrence and University police departments as well as the Kansas Highway Patrol and the Kansas Bureau Of Investigation patrolled the scene.
In the late afternoon, law enforcement officials began evacuating homes within 250 yards of the house, but residents were allowed to stay if they wished.
"It became suspicious to us that the residents may have been in danger." Anderson said.
Negotiators from several departments made contact with the suspects early in the morning, and maintained contact regularly throughout the day.
He credited the negotiation team with the successful capture of the first suspect and the safe return of the female hostage. Family members of at least one of the suspects aided in the negotiations, he said, but their identities were not released.
"This is just about as close to volatile as you want to be," Anderson said.
The condition of the male hostage could not be confirmed.
Police moved lights to the hostage scene to make sure the remaining suspect didn't escape in the dark.
"We can wait forever," Anderson said.
Power of Spice
See page 8A
Spice World, which opens at theaters today, is dicey, but lacks intellectual spice. Don't tell us you're surprised.
What's in a grade?
The SenEx Committee proposes a change in the definition of letter grades. A's now mean outstanding, and C's are now acceptable. Just try that one on your parents.
No Chiefs for you!
The Denver Broncos will try to dethrone the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXII. The game will begin at 5 p.m. Sunday in San Diego. The game will be televised by NBC (Channel 8).
See page 5A
See page 8B
KU students, professors shocked by sex scandal
By Brandon Coppie and Aaron Knopf
bcoppe@kansan.com
aknopf@kansan.com
Kansan staff writers
Kansan staff writers
University of Kansas senior Julie King worked as an intern for Vice President Al Gore, and all she got was a pen.
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky possibly received much more.
According to conversations on tapes revealed Wednesday by Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr, Lewinsky had an affair with President Bill Clinton. Starr also asserts Clinton urged Lewinsky to lie to prosecutors about the affair.
King, a Lansing senior and University Daily Kanson news editor, said it would be unusual for an intern to have a close relationship with the president. As an intern in the vice president's press office last spring, she said she rarely saw Gore.
"Occasionally we'd see him walking in the hall," she said. "We'd stick our heads out the door and say 'Oh, there's Al.'"
Two University students are interning at the White House this semester. One of these interns, Jennifer Pechar, Overland Park senior, said the White House press office instructed her not to speak publicly about the Lewinsky matter.
King worked as an intern in the spring of 1997 as a part of the political science department's Washington internship program, which places students in government offices for college credit. King was one of 30 interns working for Gore, and one of about 200 working at the White House.
Burdett Loomis, professor of political science and director of the internship program, said the situation was disturbing because it potentially involved an abuse of power by the president.
"Whenever you're an intern, whoever your boss is, you're in a power situation," he said. "I'm not aware of a situation like this with one of our interns, but it's something we're conscious of because it's a very delicate power balance."
Loomis said the allegations against Clinton were the most serious leveled against any president since Watergate.
"If Paula Jones is a six on the Clinton Richter scale, and Whitewater is a four, then this a nine or a nine and a half," he said. "And if you look at the evidence that's coming out, there's some flesh on these bones — this is not some arcane land deal in Arkansas, this is tampering with a federal witness."
KU law professor Roscoe Howard is in Washington working as an associate independent counsel prosecuting a former member of Clinton's Cabinet.
Howard said a prosecutor, such as Starr, working as an independent counsel frequently encountered people in power who attempt to influence the testimony of witnesses.
"We prosecute Cabinet-level officials," he said. "These are people who are used to getting their way."
Howard also said he was not surprised special prosecutor Starr would bring these allegations against the president. Starr was appointed to investigate the Whitewater land deal.
"As you look into these things, the investigation will take you outside of your mandate," he said. "But as a prosecutor, your job is to ferret out criminal activity."
Howard said he thought Starr proceeded properly by taking the Lewinsky information to the Department of Justice, which authorized his further inquiry into the affair.
Supporters of President Clinton are more skeptical of Star's motives.
"I think a lot of this is Ken Starr trying to keep his name in the paper," said Chris Gallaway, president of KU Democrats.
Gallaway acknowledged the accusations, if true, would create serious problems for the president. Gallaway also said the members of KU Democrats are not ready to give up on the president.
"The news is shocking, but I think they hope that these latest allegations are just a publicity stunt." he said.
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