Wednesday. November 8.2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 7
World
Flooding continues in Italy and Britain
LONDON — Relentless rains, already blamed for 19 deaths across Europe, triggered further flooding in Britain and landslides in northern Italy yesterday with no end to the bad weather in sight, officials said.
The Associated Press
In northern Italy, scores of people evacuated their homes as storms triggered floods and landslides. Three people, including an elderly man who drowned in his home, died Monday in Liguria, the area around Genoa hit hard by recent bad weather.
Britain, where 12 people have died since storms first struck last week, continued to bear the brunt of the rains, with 43 severe flood warnings of "imminent danger" to life and property in effect on 29 rivers. Thousands fled their homes.
Three others have died in France and one in Ireland.
France, and one in Ireland.
In Italy's center-southern Abruzzo region, a man was missing after his fishing boat went down in a storm off the coast of Vasto in the Adriatic Sea. Off the Tuscan coast, a merchant mariner from Cape Verde also was lost in rough weather.
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Officials scrambled to fortify flood defenses and evacuate those most at risk from flooding.
The driving rain was forecast to continue across much of Europe this week.
The worst-hit areas yesterday were northeast England and eastern Scotland, where several main roads were cut off. Officials said more than 5,000 properties have been flooded nationwide. More than 2,000 people were being evacuated from their homes in Yorkshire, northern England, yesterday evening.
The government will make 3,000 vacant Ministry of Defense homes available to displaced flood victims, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott announced late yesterday.
Britain's Environment Agency chief executive, Ed Gallagher, said that some flood victims may not be able to return to their homes for up to nine months because of polluted water seeping into wells.
In the northern city of York, one of the hardest hit by the floods, the River Ouse was receding from its Saturday peak, the highest since 1625, but officials feared the new rain could cause it to rise again and topple water-logged fortifications.
Yugoslavian inmates riot for change
The Associated Press
NIS, Yugoslavia — Protests at two prisons in Yugoslavia turned ugly yesterday, with shots fired, buildings set ablaze and a female inmate reporting an "orgy of rape" as Serbs went on a rampage to demand better jail conditions and amnesty for certain convictions.
The unrest, which began Sunday with a riot at a third prison, presented the latest challenge to new President Vojislav Kostunica. Even as his government tries to consolidate its authority, it faces a decade of pent-up discontent accumulated under the previous regime that now threatens to spill over into growing
The riots at Pozarevac, Nis and Sremska Mitrovica appear linked by demands focusing on an end to alleged ill treatment and inclusion of Serbs jailed for criminal activities into a proposed amnesty law that would free Kosovo Albanians.
anarchy.
Witnesses outside the prison in Pozarevac, about 50 miles east of Belgrade, saw flames shooting from at least four buildings in the compound yesterday and heard gunfire immediately afterward. The fires appeared to have burned out or been doused several hours later.
In the southern city of Nis, where inmates rioted Monday, a female prisoner told reporters the rioters
were raping and molesting the women inmates.
"They broke into our ward and it's now hell inside," said Bosiljka Sumas.
Sumas said one of her friends had smuggled her out of the prison, but gave no details.
"The ringleaders are forcing other prisoners into rape," she said. "They are also fighting among themselves." Later, corrections officials said four other women also managed to leave the prison, leaving three inside.
About 1,000 inmates at Nis began a hunger strike Monday in a show of solidarity with Serbian prisoners in the northern city of Sremska
Mitrovica. The inmates in Sremska Mitrovica began rioting late Sunday; they claimed they were beaten by guards and demanded an expansion of the proposed amnesty law.
The amnesty law, suggested Kostunina, is still at the discussion stage. It would affect ethnic Albanians arrested for activity in or support of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army, which disbanded after Milosevic's troops withdrew from the Serb province of Kosovo in June 1999 under a peace deal to end NATO's 78-day bombing campaign. Tensions have remained high between Serbs and ethnic Albanians, who constitute a majority of Kosovo's population.
Crane rips open Singapore Airlines plane in crash
The Associated Press
Taiwan
TAOYUAN, Taiwan
Investigators confirmed for the first time yesterday that it was the crane that ripped open the belly of the jumbo jet as it hurtled down the wrong runway. Eighty-two people died in the fiery takeoff attempt.
scattered pink and purple socks,
and a mangled construction crane.
One week after the deadly crash of a Singapore Airlines jetliner, the airport runway remains an eerie memorial of melted suitcases, crumpled shirts, a Hello Kitty doll,
Musical scores apparently left by passengers littered the runway and a makeshift Buddhist altar was arranged near the plane's nose.
"Bodies just began to fall out." David Lee, an investigator with Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council, told reporters at Chiang Kai-shek Airport during the first close public look at the runway wreckage.
Last week crash experts confirmed that the pilot picked the
wrong runway and there was a series of collisions as the plane speed down the airstrip.
Seconds after the jet began its takeoff, a front wheel hit a concrete barrier about 4,950 feet down the runway. Then the plane slammed into a crane that peeled open its underside. Lee said.
The question experts are trying to answer is why the pilot thought he was on the correct runway.
Kay Yong, managing director of the Aviation Safety Council, said
the probe is focusing on whether the closed runway — which was parallel to the plane's assigned runway — was improperly lit, inviting the pilot to make the fatal choice Oct. 31 during a storm.
Taiwan authorities ordered the pilot and two co-pilots to remain in Taiwan indefinitely to help with the investigation, Singapore Airlines said. Their movements have not been restricted and their passports have not been confiscated, the airline said.
A Recognition of Excellence BOCO Board Of Class Officers
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The H.O.P.E Award 2000 Finalists
Elizabeth Schultz (English)
Dennis Dailey (Social Welfare)
Mark Joslyn (Political Science)
Beverly Davenport-Sypher (Communications)
William (Bill) Tuttle (American Studies)
Tracy Russo (Communications)
In 1959, the Senior Class established the H.O.P.E. Award to honor an outstanding progressive educator at the University of Kansas.
Today, the award remains the only honor given to a faculty member by the Senior Class.
The Class of 2001 continues this tradition by recognizing a faculty member who enlightens and motivates students to succeed and who best exemplifies dedication to students and the educational process.
The 2000 H.O.P.E. Award will be presented in Memorial Stadium at the KU vs. Texas football game on November 11, 2000.
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