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IFC and Panhellenic host the First ever Greek Tricycle Race In conjunction with Alcohol
Awareness Week.
When: Wednesday, October 17 at 4:00 Where: Behind Delta Upsilon and Kappa Sigma Fraternities
Sponsored by: KJHK, KLZR, McDonald Beverages, and Budweiser.
All students are invited to attend.
State approves Lawrence as site for juvenile center
TOPEKA — The state Advisory Commission on Juvenile Offender Programs yesterday approved four sites for proposed juvenile detention centers, but it delayed action on two additional sites.
The Associated Press
The centers would be built to meet a federal mandate that juvenile offenders cannot be housed in adult jails because they are
The panel also postponed until a Nov. 20 meeting making a decision on what to recommend for state lawmakers in the House to approve the bill.
The decision approved Lawrence, Hutchinson, Garden City and Girard as locations for four of six detention centers. The commission listened to objections from residents who had been located at the other two centers in WaKeeney and Salina.
The decision on where to put the proposed centers in the north-central and northwest districts was delayed until next month. Officials were concerned about the distance the counties would have to transport juveniles both when they were arrested and when they made court appearances.
Richard Mills, a former state corrections secretary who now heads a consulting firm called the Westridge
Group, said he would continue to talk with county officials in the north-central and northwest districts to see if agreements could be reached in time for the November meeting.
The commission also delayed a decision on how much of an estimated $560,000 expected annually from state funding would be given to the host counties of the new detention centers.
The commission assured the host counties they would receive 50 percent of the costs for the centers from the state, which would be about $367,500 a year. The rest of the $560,000 would be for operating expenses.
The 1990 Legislature passed a law imposing a $5 dockee fee on criminal cases, which is expected to generate the highest tax revenue in years.
Six large counties already have their own juvenile detention facilities and are not involved in the discussions over the proposed regional facilities. They are Sedgwick, Shawnee, Swainee, Douglas, Wyandotte and Johnson counties.
The commission sought comment after the Westbridge Group recommended locating the regional centers in Lawrence, Girard, Salina, Hutchinson, Garden City and WaKeenew.
Military efforts in drug war won't help, army officer says
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The U.S. military's stepped up efforts to stop drug trafficking in South America and help them escape from Leavenworth officer said yesterday.
"The whole idea of winning the drug war is absurd," said Army LT. Col. Steve Smallwood, a specialist in Latin American intelligence who spoke at a meeting of the Center and was not going to be a decisive victory."
He compared the problem to fighting the mafia in this country.
"How long has the mafa been in the United States? Have we ever gotten rid of them?" he asked. "We'll never get rid of (drug lords), but we can make it harder for them to do business until whatever time comes that the demand for drugs goes down."
He said demand in the United States — not supply from Latin America — was driving the drug market.
Smallwood stressed that the views he expressed were his own — not the Pentagon's.
Smallwood said that Mao-inspired guerrillas could take over Peru, a major drug supplier, in the next two decades.
He said that the Sendero Luminose, or "Shining Path," guerrilla movement in Peru was growing and moving to urban areas in cities with increasing effectiveness.
Smallwool recently returned from Peru on a mission to advise Peruvian officers, who he said were starting to show some signs of pessimism.
"It may be slowly dawning on them that the Sendero could actually win — not soon, mind you — but in the next 10 to 15 years," Smallwood said. Smallwood said U.S. advisors in Latin America had little power to curtail narcotics trafficking or revolutionary movements, and the problems were linked in countries such as Peru.
He said the "Senderistas," as the guerrillas are known, were in league with peasants who grow coco plants for dealers to process into cocaine without being trained. Without finding some way to replace peasants' cocoa income, U.S. officials
"Peru is faced with an insurgency that prevents the government from tackling the trafficking problem," he said. "The biggest threat to Peru is not traffickers, it is the Sendero Luminoso."
will see the drug trade grow, and peasant sympathies will continue to be with the guerrillas, he said.
Peru has been ravaged by economic decline and inflation for years, leaving the government weak to deal with the guerrillas, Smallwool said.
The Bush administration has promoted increased cooperation between the U.S. military and Latin American countries as a means of cutting the drug flow and bringing stability to the countries.
He said the Senderistas and members of another guerrilla group called Tupac Amaru sent letters to Peru's military leader, captain decapitating the lives of their relatives.
"If it were so bad in Peru that the only thing that will save it is outside intervention, then we already lost," Smallwood said. "I don't know of any South American government that would accept U.S. troops."