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The Inside Front
Tuesday January 20,1998
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
In the NATION:
The first female cadet to officially enroll in the Virginia Military Institute withdraws.
Five college students on an educational tour of Guatemala are named by four alumni.
The Associated Press takes a poll about abortion 25 years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling.
Israel's Cabinet delays a decision about how much land to give up in a West Bank withdrawal.
Cuban officials insist that Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba this week will not improve hostile relations between Cuba and the United States.
WORLD
Israel Cabinet withholds decision about land pullout
JERUSALEM — Israel's Cabinet on Sunday
about how much land to give up in a much-awaited West Bank withdrawal until after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returns from a meeting with President Clinton today.
The United States had been pressing Israel to announce a speedy and significant pullout at the White House meeting. But deny defense
Netanyahu: Will meet with President Clinton today.
minister Silvan Shalom said the Cabinet ministers had not made any decision about percentages at Sunday's meeting.
A Cabinet statement said that after Netanyahu returned, the Cabinet would set a ceiling about the maximum amount of West Bank land it would give to the Palestinians in the promised withdrawal.
The statement added that the withdrawal only would take place if the Palestinians fulfilled their obligations.
The Cabinet last week issued a 12-page list of demands, most dealing with security, that it said the Palestinians would have to meet before Israel continued the withdrawal, promised in an accord signed by Netanyahu's government.
The Palestinians have accused Israel of trying to evade its U.S.-backed pledge to carry out three withdrawals by mid-1998.
Cuban officials say visit by pope not political
HAVANA — Cuban officials said that Pope John Paul II's journey to Cuba this week
was not likely to improve 38 years of hostile relations with the United States.
And they ridicule suggestions that the pontiff's five-day visit will produce changes on this socialist island.
"Many people have tried to politicize the visit and use it against the revolution," President Fidel
Pope John Paul II:
Will spend five
days in Cuba.
Castro complained in a weekend television appearance.
Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, head of the U.S. section of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, said that the pope's visit has nothing to do with the bilateral conflict that Cuba has with the United States.
Some Cuban exiles in the United States
and even White House officials — have suggested the pope, scheduled to arrive tomorrow, might somehow inspire changes in Cuba.
During his television appearance, Castro himself said many people think "the pope is coming to Cuba to meet with that demon Castro in the last bastion of communism, and the hope is that this will be the end of the Cuban revolution."
NATION
First female to enter VMI drops out after a semester
LEXINGTON, Va. — The first female cadet to enroll officially at the Virginia Military Institute has withdrawn from the school.
Beth Hogan, Junction City, Ore., who went to the formerly all-male military school with dreams of becoming a Navy pilot , dropped out of the school Friday, institute representative Mike Strickler said Saturday.
Hogan, 18, is the fifth woman to withdraw since 30 women enrolled in August, ending the school's 158-year, all-male tradition.
Sixty-five men also have quit, and a sixth woman was suspended for two semesters for striking an upperclassman.
Hogan returned to the institute after Christmas break. Three days later, she told school officials that the institute's rigorous testing of its freshmen was not for her.
Hogan made history by becoming the first woman to sign her name into the institute's leather-bound matriculation book. The signing of the book, an institute tradition since 1839, signifies official enrollment in the school.
College students raped by gunmen in Guatemala
ST. MARY'S CITY, Md. — Five college students on an educational tour of Guatemala were raped after their bus was ambushed by four gunmen, a college representative said.
Three staff members and 13 students from St. Mary's College were returning to Guatemala City Friday afternoon when a pickup truck stopped the bus and four men with semiautomatic weapons forced everyone into a nearby field, spokesman Torre Meringo said.
"The bus was held down by four armed bandits who proceeded to rob each of the individuals," he said. "Then they sexually assaulted five of the women, all students."
The gunmen held the group for 1 1/2 hours, the college said in a statement.
Guatemalan authorities had one man in custody, said a State Department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Guatemalan authorities would not confirm the attack.
The students who were raped were treated at a Guatemala City hospital and returned to the United States Saturday night. The remaining students returned to Washington's Dulles airport Sunday night and were met by the college's president,
acting provost and dean of students.
"Our first concern is for the well-being of the students, faculty and their families," said Jane Margaret O'Brien, college president.
Poll finds opinion of abortion changes with circumstance
WASHINGTON — Twenty-five years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling, an Associated Press poll finds about 80 percent of Americans say abortion should be legal in some circumstances. But much of that support evaporates if a woman wants to end her pregnancy solely because she does not want a baby.
The poll portrays an ambivalent American public. On one hand, 83 percent said abortion should be allowed in at least some cases. But only 47 percent said they favored the 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling, in which the Supreme Court ruled a woman could have an abortion at any time during the first three months of pregnancy. Forty-three percent said they opposed the ruling, with the rest either uncertain or not answering.
The ambivalence applied to opponents as well.
In one question, 21 percent said abortion should not be legal in any circumstances. But in a follow-up question, more than four in 10 of those all out opponents said abortion should be allowed in at least one of the following circumstances: when the health of the mother is seriously endangered, when the baby is likely to be born with serious defects, when a woman becomes pregnant through rape or when a woman does not want the baby.
But a majority, 56 percent, said abortion should not be legal in a case where a woman decided she did not want the baby. Thirty-six percent said abortion should be allowed in such a case.
One in four respondents said abortion should be legal in all circumstances.
The Associated Press
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That part of the bargain already has turned off a few.
Other students who live off campus found the service fee a small price to pay for the convenience offered.
"I don't spend that much on utilities anyway," said Jonathan Helm, Rolla, Mo., graduate student. "I don't think my bills ever get that high."
ON CAMPUS
St. Lawrence Catholic Center will celebrate Mass at 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Contact Friar Vince Krische, 843-0357.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate Mass at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Dentorth Chapel. Contact Friar Ray May.
■ 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. Friday at 207 Robinson Center, Contact Adam Carron, 842-9112
KU Environs will meet for vegetarian lunches from 11a.m. to 1p.m. Thursdays.
Contact Shannon Martin. 842-7170.
- Interactions will meet from 5 to 7 p.m.
Sunday. Contact Thad Holcomde. 843-493-393.
The University Forum will meet from noon to 1 p.m. tomorrow. Contact Thad Holcomde. 843-4933.
KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. Monday in the Daisy Hill Room at the Burge Union. Contact Beng. 864-7754.
KU Democrats will meet at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Parlors Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Allison Bernard. 842-5104.
The Feminist Union will meet at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Joan Benefiel, 840-9739.
Free job-search workshops will be presented this week about the following topics:
Interviewing Skills, 2:30 p.m. today, 119 Summerfield Hall; and Resume & Cover Letter Writing, 2:30 p.m. Thursday, 2029 Learned Hall.
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