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2A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
TUESDAY, DEC. 11, 2001
CORRECTION
A column in yesterday's Kansan needs correction. David Kerr was not officially responsible for $800 million in tax cuts. Kerr is chairman of the budget committee. Tax cuts go through the tax committee.
CAMPUS
University NAACP chapter is collecting toys for families
The University of Kansas chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will have a toy drive from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today through Thursday on the fourthfloor in the Kansas Union.
Timothy Lambert, Overland Park senior and organization member, said the group wanted to adopt three single-parent families. He said members worked with the Ballard Community Center, 708 Elm St., to adopt the families.
The organization is also accepting canned goods and money, Lambert said.
He said the group needed to raise $150 each day to adopt the families. Lambert said members would wrap the toys and deliver them to the center Friday.
J. R. Mendoza
STATE
Mother sentenced to prison for burning daughter in water
WELLINGTON — A Wellington woman who held her 4-year-old daughter in a tub of scalding hot water for misbehaving has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison.
Miranda Fields pleaded no contest to aggravated battery Friday before Judge Thomas Graber in Sumner County. She received the standard sentence under Kansas law.
The incident happened in Wellington during the Fourth of July weekend. Fields and Ramon McGraw then took the girl to a Wichita motel, where police officers were tipped off by someone familiar with the incident.
The girl was hospitalized for several days with burns on her legs, buttocks and genital areas.
She and a younger sister were taken from Fields a short time later. Fields then gave birth to a third daughter while awaiting trial in the county jail. Her attorney, Elaine Esparza, said a fourth child, a son, lives in Arkansas.
Armored car is department's new crime-fighting apparatus
OSKALOOSA — You won't see Sheriff Roy Dunnaway cruising around Jefferson County in his department's new armored vehicle. But if his officers are ever imperiled by an armed suspect, the Peacekeeper will be at the ready.
A piece of military surplus equipment, the car, which was given its nickname by the Air Force, cost the Northeast Kansas sheriff's department $5,000 last summer.
"I hope we never have to use it," Dunnaway said recently.
An armored vehicle allows officers to get close to an armed suspect.
The vehicle was purchased courtesy of money from drug dealers. State and federal laws allow some of the money law enforcement agencies seize in drug investigations to go back to the investigating agency.
The Associated Press
U.S., Afghan fighters batter al-Oaida in mountains
NATION&WORLD
The Associated Press
TORA BORA, Afghanistan — Afghan tribal fighters battled their way through mortar and machine-gun fire yesterday and pushed Osama bin Laden loyalists from a strategic mountain valley leading to an underground complex where the terror suspect may be hiding.
B-52s and other American warplanes battered al-Qaida mortar positions on the mountaintops as the Afghan fighters — helped by U.S. special forces — seized caves in the Milawa valley in the White Mountains. A commander said forces loyal to bin Laden had been pushed to the main complex at Tora Bora a mile away.
U. S. Marines intensified their hunt for Taliban leaders and members of the al-Qaida terror network around the southern city of Kandahar — the other region where Afghan and American officials think bin Laden may be hiding.
Marine "hunter-killer" teams in armored assault vehicles and backed by combat helicopters set up a staging ground at the foot of a jagged mountain 12 miles outside Kandahar, from which officials said they could intercept
In Washington, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said that although the Taliban have fallen, the military faced the tough task of tracking down bin Laden and eliminating al-Qaida. "Large numbers of al-Qaida terrorists are still at large. It's going to be a very long and difficult job," he said.
fleeing fighters on the roads.
Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has disappeared since the Taliban abandoned Kandahar, their birthplace and last major city on Friday. Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai said there would be no amnesty for the cleric.
Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that intelligence reports indicate bin Laden is in Tora Bora, a complex of caves and tunnels in the White Mountains near the border.
Osama bin Laden claims on a videotape seized in Afghanistan last week that he calculated in advance how many casualties "the enemy" would suffer on Sept. 11, according Bush administration descriptions. The tape could be released publicly in the next two days.
Other attack news:
Memorial honors three fallen soldiers
U. S. Attorney Guy Lewis declined to say whether the alleged disclosure jeopardized the ability of investigators to gather evidence at Simpson's home or any of the other nine locations searched in Miami.
MIAMI—A federal grand juror was charged yesterday with leaking information about a drug investigation that included a search of O.J. Simpson's home last week.
John Acosta was charged with obstruction of justice for tipping a friend who was later charged in the investigation. Prosecutors say the Ecstasy ring is also suspected of money laundering and satellite TV equipment theft.
He also would not comment on Simpson's alleged involvement or how Simpson's attorney got advance word about the search warrant for the former football star's home in suburban Miami.
Federal grand juror charged with interfering in drug case
Special Forces Group at Fort Campbell, 50 miles north of Nashville, Tenn.
NATION
Petithory will be buried Thursday in his hometown. Davis was also to be buried near his home; arrangements were incomplete yesterday. Prosser was to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
The Associated Press
The three were killed and 19 American servicemen wounded when a U.S. bomb missed its target Wednesday. Five Afghan fighters also were killed in the explosion.
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Three soldiers killed last week in Afghanistan were hailed yesterday as heroes who helped free an oppressed nation.
A separate service at the 5th Special Forces Group headquarters took place earlier in the day, and two other memorials have taken place in Afghanistan, Hudson said.
Yesterday, more than 300 people filled Memorial Chapel, and about 200 others watched nearby via closed-circuit television.
"Secretly lies at the heart of the federal grand jury system," Lewis said.
"Children are able to laugh, play and sing because of what they did." Lt. Col. Frank Hudson said during a memorial service at Fort Campbell, Kv.
The American servicemen's boots, berets and dog tags were displayed in the chapel for the hour-long ceremony.
Yale Galanter, Simpson's attorney insisted his client had nothing to do with the investigation.
During a final roll call, family members and comrades of the dead wiped their eyes as the men's names were each called out three times to no reply: Master Sgt. Jefferson "Donnie" Davis, 39, Watauga, Tenn.; Staff Sgt. Brian Cody Prosser, 28, Frazier Park, Calif.; and Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Petitthory, 32, Cheshire, Mass.
The men were members of the Army's 5th
Federal agents have arrested 11 people as part of Operation X. Simpson was not among those taken into custody.
According to the FBI, Acosta heard testimony and saw evidence about the drug ring and later alerted defendant Zenaida Galvez about the investigation.
Officer sentenced for setting police dog on homeless man
GREENBELT, Md. — A former police officer was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday for setting her police dog on an unarmed homeless man.
Stephanie C. Mohr, a one-time member of the Prince George's County force in suburban Washington, received the maximum sentence.
Mohr was unrepentant, saying she was doing her duty when she allowed her dog to attack Ricardo G. Mendez outside a Takoma Park building in 1995. Mendez's leg was severely gouged.
Mendez and another homeless man were sleeping on the roof when police, suspecting them of trying to break in, made them come down. The two were then confronted by officers, including Mohr, who let her dog attack Mendez.
Mohr had two trials in the case. Last spring, she was cleared of conspiracy, but the jury could not reach a verdict on whether she had violated Mendez's civil rights.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A 19-year-old KU student discovered a fire in a trash can in Ellsworth Hall between 5:50 and 5:52 a.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The fire was accidental. There was no damage.
A KU staff member reported harassment by phone at the KANU radio station between 8 a.m. Wednesday and 1 p.m. Thursday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The staff member said a
A. D. Jones Painting and Construction reported a theft and criminal damage to property in the West Housing Warehouse parking lot between 7:45 and 8 a.m. Friday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A magnetic sign was damaged, and a magnetic sign was stolen. The damages were estimated at $160.
person called multiple times.
ON CAMPUS
Asian-American Student Union will meet at 7 tonight at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union.
Contact Jerry Wang at 550-5061 or at asu@ku.edu.
Hispanic-American Leadership Organization will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union. Contact Michael Luna at 760-4852 or Sarah Zaragoza at 312-2134.
■ KU Men's and Women's Ultimate Frisbee clubs will meet at 3:0 p.m. today at the Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets. Contact Clay or Taty at 843-7099 or at clayed@ku.edu.
the Walnut room; Public Relations meets at 7 at the Oread room; Special Events meets at 7:30 at Alcove D. Contact SAU at 864-7469.
Student Union Activities committees will meet tonight in the Kansas Union. Live Music meets at 6 at the Walnut room; Forums meets at 6:30 at the Oread room; Feature Films meets at 6 at Alcove D; Fine Arts meets at 6 at Alcove B; Spectrum Films meets at 7 at Alcove B; Recreation meets at 7 at
KU College Republicans will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Kristy at 312-1271.
Students for a Free Tibet will meet at 8 tonight at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Contact Ryan Pratt at 838-9858.
University Christian Fellowship will have a Bible study at 7 tonight at the basement in Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Contact Rich at 841-3148.
KU Environs will meet at 6:30 p.m. today on the fourth-floor lobby in the Kansas Union. Contact Sam Lane at 312-1395.
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