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The Inside Front
Tuesday November 28, 2000
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
LAWRENCE
Police have no suspects in bomb-threat case
Someone called in a bomb threat to The Gap during the first official day of the holiday shopping season.
Lawrence police Sgt. Mike Pattrick said police did not know who made the call at 11:30 a.m. Friday. Employees of the store at 647 Massachusetts St. were given the option of leaving when the threat was called in, but only one employee left.
Patrick said police did not find a bomb. Police talked to the employees about trying to trace a call if someone called in the future with another threat. The incident still is under investiga-
The incident still is under investigation.
— Iauren Brandenburg
STATE
High school student found dead in vehicle
TOPEKA — A high school student found dead inside a crashed vehicle Sunday in Topeka had been shot, police said.
Police are investigating the death of Ontario Prince Johnson, 16, as a homicide. No arrests have been made.
Johnson was a junior at Highland Park High School and previously attended Topeka High School, where he played on the basketball team.
More research needed for Kansas City rail line
An autopsy is scheduled. A police report indicated Johnson was killed between 2:30 and 7:23 a.m. Sunday. He was Topeka's 16th homicide victim this year. The city recorded 15 in 1999.
OLATHE — A proposed commuter rail line between Olathe and downtown Kansas City will not operate until at least late 2003.
Supporters had said the line would be open next year, but that expectation was unrealistic, said Chuck Ferguson, commuter rail director for Johnson County Transit.
At a Johnson County Transportation Advisory Council meeting, Ferguson said the line required more data gathering than he had anticipated. He said it would take four to five more months to complete the first of three phases of the project, which includes determining if commuter trains would disrupt freight traffic.
Part of the delay also was caused by the MidAmerica Regional Council's decision to rework its computerized transportation model, a key to forecasting how many riders commuter rail would attract.
Demographics, land use, employment, housing and other factors are considered to estimate potential rider.
ship, said Steve Noble, the council's manager of long-range transportation planning. He said the development of the new model also slowed other projects in the area, including Kansas City's lightrail study and a major study looking at transportation from the Northland to downtown.
NATION
Few problems reported from holiday travel
CHICAGO — Despite bad weather and labor unrest, the nation's airlines got the job done as millions of Americans returned home after the Thanksgiving holiday with few hassles.
Results were mixed on the nation's roads and railways. Amtrak reported no trouble, but road conditions contributed to fatal accidents and highway closures from Maine to Washington state Sunday.
Major delays and cancellations at airports were scarce from Boston to San Francisco, even though the Air Transport Association expected a record 2.24 million passengers to take to the skies Sunday. No actual figures were available yesterday.
Plane crash claims lives of couple, son
RXFORD, Pa. — A small plane crashed in the woods of northwestern Pennsylvania, killing a couple and their teen age son.
The single-engine plane took off Sunday morning from Bradford, near the Pennsylvania New York state line and about 70 miles southeast of Erie. It crashed a few minutes later several miles from the airport.
The pilot had radioed that he needed to return to the airport, said Jim Peters, a Federal Aviation Administration representative.
Police were awaiting dental records to identify the victims, but Josephine Pavel of Olean, N.Y., said yesterday that her daughter's driver's license and her grandson's school papers were found in the wreckage.
Pavel said her daughter, son-in-law and grandson — JoEllen and Peter Sandek, both 49, and their 13-year-old son, Kyle — had left Olean earlier Sunday after a Thanksgiving visit to fly home to Atlanta.
Cross-border assault response to bombing
WORLD
KFAR CHOUBA, Lebanon — Israel, still engaged in violence with the Palestinians, faced fresh security problems Sunday in Lebanon, where it rained missiles and machine gun fire in retaliation for a Hebbollah bombing that killed one soldier. The assault was the
most serious cross-border retaliatory attack since Israel pulled its troops from southern Lebanon in May to end its 18-year occupation of a border enclave there. In early October, Israeli troops fired on demonstrators trying to scale the border fence at the Yarin crossing point, killing one person.
Serbs vow to fight to regain lost territory
BUJANOVAC, Yugoslavia — Serb police said they would use all available means, including heavy weapons, to regain territory lost to ethnic Albanian militants as a deadline approached last night for NATO to crack down on the rebels.
The new democratic government of Voijslav Kostunica thinks ethnic Albanian extremists operating from Kosovo launched attacks in southern Serbia, capturing four villages in the buffer zone between Kosovo and Serbia. Beilgrade threatened to launch counterattacks on its side of the border if NATO could not curb the infiltration by 7 last night. U.S. and other troops patrol the Kosovo side next to the buffer zone.
Mexico wants America to face drug problem
SAN CRISTOBAL, Mexico — Days before his historic inauguration as president, Vicente Fox said America should deal with its drug habit and pledged to join the United States and Canada in what he called "NAFTA-plus."
In an interview with The Associated Press before he takes office on Friday, Fox said the United States was too quick to write off Mexico as a corrupt haven for drug smugglers — and too reluctant to look in the mirror. Fox said the two countries needed to "sit down" and work this out together."
Exit polls show leftists likely to rule Romania
BUCHAREST, Romania — Leftists appeared headed to power again in Romania following elections that also produced a strong showing by a nationalist known for tirades against ethnic minorities.
Ex-communist lion iliescu, who led the country from 1990 to 1996, was first in a field of 11 presidential candidates with 36.5 percent of Sunday's vote, according to an exit poll of 23,000 voters. It estimated iliescu's Social Democracy Party had 39.6 percent of the parliamentary vote. Falling short of a simple majority of the 17.7 million possible votes, iliescu was likely to face a runoff Dec. 10 against ultranationalist Corneliu Vadim Tudor, who was second with 27.9 percent in the poll by the IMAS polling institute. Other exit polls produced similar results.
The Associated Press
A 24-feet-by-2-feet section of aluminum staging was stolen between 1 p.m. Nov.
21 and 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Sprague
Apartments, 1401 Lilac Lane, the KU
Public Safety Office said. The staging was
valued at $900.
ON THE RECORD
A vehicle struck another vehicle and left the scene at 8:40 a.m. Nov. 20 in the east Burge Union parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. No damages were listed.
■ KU employee's driver's side window was damaged between 2 and 2:05 a.m. yesterday in the 2200 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $200.
A KU student's laptop computer and other
A KU employee's CD player was stolen, and the dashboard and driver's side window were damaged between 12:30 and 7:30 a.m. Sunday in the 1300 block of East 16th Street, Lawrence police said. The CD player was valued at $250, and the damage was estimated at $300.
items were stolen between 4 p.m. Nov.
21 and 11 p.m. Sunday from a room in
Naismith Hall, Lawrence police said. The
items were valued at $2,460.
ON CAMPUS
The NAMES Project AIDS memorial quilt will be on display from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at the Central Court in the Spencer Museum of Art. Call Carolyn Chinn Lewis at 864-4710.
A KU student's cell phone was stolen between 10:30 p.m. Saturday and 12:30 a.m. Sunday in the 800 block of Missouri Street, Lawrence police said. The phone was valued at $100.
Alcoholics Anonymous will have a Campus Serenity meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933
Kung Fu Club will practice Tai Chi at 12:30 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Igar Shkolnik at 841-2080.
KU Running and Jogging Club will meet for an afternoon run at 4:30 p.m. today at the oak tree by the east entrance to Robinson Center. Call Michael Roessler at 312-3193 or Keith Marshall at 840-0704
Amanzoa will meet at 5 p.m. today at 204 Stauffer-Flint Hall. Call Shannon at 864-4744
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship will pray at 5:15 p.m. today at Danforth Chapel.
Call Daniel Wong at 312-3172.
KU Traditional Karate Club will practice from 6:30 to 8:30 tonight at racquetball court 15 in Robinson Center. Call Rachel Fuller at 312-1990.
University Christian Fellowship will have Bible study at 7 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Rick Clock at 841-3148 or e-mail rshs@ukans.edu
Student Alumni Association will meet at 7 tonight at Adams Alumni Center. Call Palvih Bhana at 312-3432.
Students for a Free Tibet will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Call Ben Burgen at 312-3191.
United Methodist Campus Ministry will have Bible study at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Heather at 841-8661.
KU Hillel will present Kansas City Kolle
speakers at 8 tonight at Hill House, 940 Mississippi. Call Matt Kanter at 312-8218.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will have a University Forum, "Women and Islam," from noon to 1 p.m. tomorrow at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Holcombe at 843.4933.
Compulsive Eating Anonymous will meet at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Watkins Memorial Health Center, Call 312-1521.
KU Women's Lacrosse Club will practice from 5 to 7 p.m. tomorrow at North Shenk Field, Call Jessie Bird at 830-9486.
Pre-Nursing Club will meet from 5:30 to 7 p.m. tomorrow at the second-floor conference room in Watkins Memorial Health Center, Call Ullian Sherwood at 312-7633
Student Senate Executive Committee will meet at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union. Student Senate will meet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Call Kim Fuchs at 864-3710.
KU Chess Club will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Kyle Camarada at 749-3934 or e-mail chessclub@lal.engr.ukans.edu.
KU Queers and Allies support group meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. Call KU Info at 864-3506 or Headquarters at 841-2345 for location.
Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship will meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow at 100 Smith Hall. Call Steve Swanson at 542-1101
Ichthus University Ministries will meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Daisy Praise will meet at 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Hashinger Hall theater. Call B.P. at 312.1066 or visit www.daisypraise.com
Applications for Student Senate media board are available today through Jan. 31 at the Student Senate office, 401 Kansas Union, Call Branden Bell at 830-8602.
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