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The Inside Front
Friday September 1, 2000
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
LAWRENCE
Doctor may resume abortion practice soon
Lawrence's only abortion provider's practice was put on hold last month, but she may be able to resume practice in a few days.
the Board of Healing Arts ruled earlier this month that Kristin Neuhaus could not use conscious sedation, which eases pain but does not interfere with a patient's respiration, on her patients until she demonstrated that she could abide by national standards for anesthetics.
Though her records show no documentation of complaints or emergencies during her practice, the records were not adequate to the board, said Donald Strole, her attorney.
Strohe thinks that Neuhaus will be able to submit more detailed records that can prove to the board that she is capable of handling emergencies.
The board was not expected to meet again for two months, but Strole said he would submit a request for a hearing officer to move up the hearing date.
"Hopefully we can get the order modified, and get her back in business by the end of the week," he said.
in the meantime, Strole said Neuhaus would have to refer patients that wanted conscious sedation to other doctors, which could force her to shut down her practice because of lack of business.
Melissa Davis
Lawrence police develop new community Web site
The Lawrence Police Department has a new Web site with answers to frequently asked questions and other information.
Lt. David L. Cobb said the site contained department phone numbers, history of the department and community links.
The site also has information about crime prevention, education and awareness, different crimes, parking, public involvement and Crimestoppers.
The site can be accessed a www.lawrencepolice.org.
Lauren Brandenburg
STATE
ACLU sues treasurer for religious motto
TOPEKA — Shawne County Treasurer Rita Cline and the American Civil Liberties Union are going to court over signs in Cline's office that proclaim "In God We Trust."
The ACLU is asking a federal court to force Cline to take down the signs. She has responded by hiring a "religious liberties law firm" from Orlando, Fla., to help her fight the action.
In a petition filed Wednesday morning
in U.S. District Court in Topeka, the ACU accused Cline of inappropriately using her office to push her religion on numerous occasions.
The ACLU contends that last April, Topeka resident Mary Lou Schmidt, who says she is a pagan, telephoned Cline's office to object to the display of the "In God We Trust" sign.
The signs go beyond the message of the national motto, according to the ACLU.
NATION
Drug use falls with teens, rises with young adults
WASHINGTON — Teenagers are continuing to shun illegal drugs, with reported use falling for a second consecutive year.
Though young adults are reporting drug use, federal health officials and interest groups said a survey shows that anti-drug messages are nipping lifelong abuse in the bud.
The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse was released by McCaffrey and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala.
Use among young adults, 18-to-25 yearsold, continued its steady rise, according to the household survey of 67,000 people ages 12 and up.
Political parties unite to nominate Hagelin
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Announcing an alliance between his Natural Law Party and a faction of the Reform Party that favors him over Pat Buchanan yesterday, John Hagelin called the new partnership "a marriage made in heaven."
Hagelin, an Iowa physicist, made the announcement at the Natural Law Party's convention, where he accepted the presidential nomination. The convention was attended by about 400 people, about half of whom were delegates.
Hagelin and his running mate, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Nat Goldhaber, assured the crowd that a general election victory was possible. They cited the Minnesota victory by former wrestler Jesse Ventura, and Hagelin said he had hired a former Ventura aide as his campaign manager.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A student who had just been dropped from a graduate program bought a box of bullets less than an hour before walking into his adviser's office at the University of Arkansas, shooting him three times and killing himself, police said.
Autopsy results suggest student shot teacher
Autopsy results released Wednesday determined that James Easton Kelly killed English professor John Locke Monday and then shot himself in the heart.
A receipt for a 50-round box of ammunition was discovered Wednesday in Kelly's rental car, parked near the English department's offices.
continuing rains help
douse Montana fires
RED LODGE, Mont. — Widespread light rain, high humidity and cooler temperatures put smiles on a lot of faces at Montana's multiple wildfires yesterday.
Wings were going well enough at the state's second-biggest fire, between Helena and Bozeman, that managers released some firefighters — sending them home for at least a brief rest.
LOS ANGELES — A man suspected of putting out a bogus press release that sent a high-tech company's stock plummeting last week has been arrested. The FBI said he made nearly $250,000 on the scheme.
Man arrested for writing phony press release
Federal prosecutors scheduled a news conference yesterday afternoon on the arrest of the El Segundo man.
The phony release, issued last Friday, said that the chief executive of Emulex, a Costa Mesa maker of fiber-optic equipment, had quit and that the company was restating its quarterly earnings from a profit to a loss.
Emulex's stock plunged as much as 62 percent in the minutes after several financial news services ran stories based on the fake release.
WORLD
U.S. appeals to rebels to release sick hostage
ZAMBONGA, Philippines — U.S. officials appealed to Muslim rebels yesterday to release an American they are holding in a southern Philippine jungle, saying he's seriously ill and should be freed immediately on humanitarian grounds.
U. S. officials have talked with Jeffrey Schilling's family and leamed the American kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf guerillas has serious medical problems and needs regular prescription medicine, according to U.S. Embassy representative Thomas Skipper.
Abu Sayyaf rebels announced Tuesday they had abducted Schilling, of Oakland, Calif., and threatened to behead him if the United States rejected their demands.
The group, which says it is fighting for an Islamic state in the impoverished southern Philippines, is still holding 18 other hostages on Jolo island after releasing six Westerners this week.
The Associated Press
Clinton visits Colombia to deliver $1.3 billion aid
The Associated Press
CARTAGENA, Colombia — President Clinton ended his visit to Colombia dancing and clapping his sweaty hands to the beat of folk music, but not before he urged other nations to assist the country in its battle against recession, drug-trafficking and a 36-year-old civil conflict.
Dancers holding candles and twirling brightly colored skirts entertained Clinton in a historic plaza, the last stop on his 12-hour visit Wednesday to the hot, humid Caribbean port city of Cartagena.
He returned to Washington in the predawn hours yesterday.
Clinton made the trip to symbolically deliver $1.3 billion in U.S. military and social assistance to President Andres Pastrana's plan to fight the drug trade, stimulate the economy and reform the judicial system.
Before nightfall, Clinton visited a freshly painted community justice center in a dusty, low-income neighborhood where he encouraged the international community to help finance Pastrana's $7.5 billion initiative. Colombia is spending $4 billion on the plan. The United Nations, international financial organizations, Norway, Japan and Spain are among other contributors. The European Union said it would lend support, but no amount has been decided.
declined.
"We can all implement the 'Plan Colombia' and those people who haven't contributed yet can give us a little more money," Clinton said at the center before wandering across the street to greet Colombians, who stood outside homes with peeling paint and shouted "Clin-TON! Clin-TON!"
At a news conference earlier in the day, Pastrana called Clinton a "steadfast friend." Still, he was careful to emphasize that the plan was developed by Colombians, for Colombians. The U.S. assistance, he said, recognizes that drug-trafficking is a global problem in need of a global response. Ninety percent of the cocaine in the U.S. market and two-thirds of the heroin on the East Coast come from Colombia.
Clinton said the U.S. assistance will help Colombian forces eradicate poppy and coca crops, destroy drug labs, block drug shipments and train government security forces on protecting human rights, a sticking point for some members of Congress and human rights organizations that think Colombia should correct human rights offenses before receiving the U.S. aid.
The president also answered those who believe America is being led into Colombia's ruthless insurgency between leftist guerillas and paramilitary groups, which led to 2,500 kidnappings last year and 35,000 deaths in the past decade.
"This assistance is for fighting drugs, not making war," Clinton said. "The civil conflict and the drug trade go hand-in-hand in cultivating misery for the people of Colombia."
The U.S. aid targets the drug problem, but Clinton stressed that the support included social and economic development assistance to help farmers grow legal crops and strengthens the judicial system in a nation the State Department says is one of the most violent in the world.
There were reminders of that label during Clinton's brief visit. Colombian police said they discovered and deactivated a 4.4-pound bomb five blocks from the poor neighborhood Clinton visited. A U.S. Secret Service official, speaking on condition of anonymity, insisted that only materials for explosives were found, not a bomb.
ON THE RECORD
A KU Academic Computing Center staff member's red parking permit and license plate from his silver Volkswagen Bug were reported stolen at 12:37 p.m. Monday in the Academic Computing Center parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said. The permit was valued at $95.
A 25-year-old man was arrested for two
outstanding warrants at 1:34 a.m.
Wednesday in the north Haworth Hall parking lot, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU student's Pioneer car stereo was stolen from a car parked in the 1300 block of Ohio Street between 12:01 a.m. and noon Aug. 30, Lawrence police said. The stereo was valued at $200.
ON CAMPUS
The Office of Student Financial Aid has applications for child care grants today through Sept. 22 at 50 Strong Hall. Call Cindy Stanhill at 864-4700.
Applications for Alternative Weekend breaks are due at 5 p.m. Sept. 7 at the ASB office, 410 Kansas Union. Site leader applications for the winter break trips are due at 5 p.m. Sept. 8. Applications are available at the office or at www.ukans.edu/~albreaks. Call 864-4317.
KU RUNNING and Jogging Club will meet for a run at 8:30 p.m. Sunday and Monday at the oak tree by the east entrance to Robinson Center. Call Michael Roessler at 312-3193.
- The eastern Kansas branch of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society needs volunteers for the MS 150 Bike Tour Sept. 16 and 17, including volunteers to unload bikes and luggage and to prepare food.
Call 1-800-745-7148.
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