2A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS IN BRIEF
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5, 2001
The Today Show to donate toys to Lawrence children
The Today Show will donate some toys from its annual holiday toy drive to the Center for Community Outreach so the center can distribute them to Lawrence youth at a non-denominational holiday party.
Children can meet Santa, play games, do crafts and eat treats at the party, which will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11 at the Kansas Union Ballroom. Children will receive toys donated by The Today Show, students and Lawrence residents. Last year, the center distributed 700 toys
Anyone who wants to donate a gift can drop off a new, unwrapped present until Dec. 10 at the center's office, room 428 in the Kansas Union. People interested in volunteering to wrap gifts and parents planning to bring children to the party should e-mail the center at cco@ukans.edu or call 864-4073.
—Lauren Brandenbure
New Jersey judge sends 23 more teachers to jail
FREEHOLD, N.J. — Dispensing a lesson in the ABCs, a judge went down a list of names in alphabetical order and jailed 23 more striking teachers yesterday for defying his back-to-work order.
That brought the total jailed to 27.
that brought the total jailed to 27. "You are holding the keys to the jail," Superior Court Judge Clarkson S. Fisher Jr. said in handing Middletown Township teachers one-week jail sentences. "Any time you want to come out, let me know and you are out."
know and you
More than 700 teachers in Monmouth
County's largest school district walked
out Thursday, unwilling to continue
working without a new contract. The old
contract expired June 30.
Fisher ordered them back to work Thursday, but nearly all defied him, setting the stage for the first jailing of New Jersey teachers in 23 years.
Jersey teacher she
On Monday, the judge started with
names beginning with the letter A. Yesterday, he started on the letter B.
A few teachers were excused because of medical problems or pressing family issues, such as sick or elderly relatives. But most defiantly told the judge they would not return to work in the 10,500-student district without a contract.
"When you give in, you are saying,
'Keep stepping on me,'" striker Barbara
Bacmeister told the judge. "Sooner or
later you have to stand up for what's
right."
Some students were eager just to get back to class.
"This is ridiculous. Our coaches are in jail," said Rob Stockley, 18, a member of the Middletown South High School state championship football team. "I just want to go back to school."
Laborer admits to helping terrorists obtain IDs
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A man pleaded guilty yesterday to helping two of the Sept. 11 hijackers illegally obtain Virginia identification cards.
Herbert Villalobos, 35, admitted that Abdulaziz Alomari and Ahmed Alghamdi paid him $50 to drive them to a northern Virginia law office, where they fraudulently completed forms used to obtain ID cards from the Department of Motor Vehicles.
NATION&WORLD
Forces hunt for bin Laden, battle toward Kandahar
The Associated Press
JALALABAD, Afghanistan — Anti-Taliban troops hunting for Osama bin Laden said they clashed yesterday with al-Qaida fighters near their mountain hideouts in Afghanistan. Elsewhere, Taliban forces pushed tribal fighters back from the airport near the former ruling militia's last bastion, Kandahar.
militia's last bastion. Re-engage in
In Germany, Afghan factions negotiating a
post-Taliban government agreed to form a 29-
member council to run the country and set to
work on the difficult task of determining who
will take the major posts.
Hundreds of anti-Taliban fighters piled into trucks and set off yesterday for the White Mountains south of Jalalabad, where local officials believe bin Laden and hundreds of his al-Qaida fighters are hiding. Provincial security chief Hazrat Ali said he was assembling a force of about 3,000 fighters to join the hunt for bin Laden.
for his Laken.
"This fight has just begun." Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, said in Washington.
Ali said a patrol of about a dozen men clashed briefly with a group of al-Qaida fighters, who abandoned a tank and scurried off to higher ground. There were no casualties.
Mohammed Zaman, defense chief in Nangarhar province, estimates up to 1,200 alQaida fighters are hiding in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan, which include the Tora Bora cave complex.
Ali said days of intensive bombing have driven al-Qaida fighters from the main Tora Bora complex and into the higher mountains, where they have split up into groups with as few as 10 men.
lew to 10 men.
Zaman claimed an airstrike Monday killed bin Laden's finance chief, known variously as Ali Mahmoud or Sheikh Said, and injured bin Laden's chief lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahri. U.S. officials were skeptical of the claim.
U. S. officials were skipped Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said the Americans "have been actively encouraging Afghan elements to seek out" al-Qaida leaders.
Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of U.S. forces in the Afghan conflict, has confirmed that the search for bin Laden, sought in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, has focused on the mountains south of Jalabad and around Kandahar.
The Taliban have vowed to defend the city, where their movement was organized nearly a decade ago.
Agents search Simpson home
The Associated Press
MIAMI—The FBI searched O.J. Simpson's home for more than six hours yesterday as part of an investigation into an Ecstasy drug ring also suspected of launder money and stealing satellite TV equipment.
Nine people were arrested in Miami and two in Chicago as part of Operation X, FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said. Simpson was not among those arrested, and the FBI refused to discuss why he was involved.
Simpson's attorney, Yale Galanter, said no drugs or large amounts of money were found at the home and that his client had done nothing wrong. He said two boxes were removed from the home that contained legal satellite television equipment.
"I can assure you Mr. Simpson does not have enough money in his pocket or in his bank account to be involved in a money laundering ring." Galanter told reporters.
during ring.
He said Simpson's only connection to the case is that his name was mentioned in a phone conversation involving some members of the ring that was taped by federal authorities. He said Simpson had no involvement in
mentioned. Nine other homes in Miami were also searched by authorities.
the ring, didn't think he knew the people involved and didn't know why his name was mentioned.
Simpson was at home when agents arrived at about 6 a.m. In video shot by a helicopter, the former football star could be seen in his back yard, wearing a white bathrobe and playing with his dogs during the search.
Orthiuela said the drug ring imported Ecstasy from Holland and stole equipment used to counterfeit cards that activate satellite TV receivers. She said the ring laundered about $800,000 and that a suspected ring-leader remains at large, probably in Brazil.
About two hours later, Simpson left alone in his sports utility vehicle without speaking to reporters. He later declined comment.
Simpson moved to Florida from California after civil court jury ordered him to pay $33.5 million for the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles. He had earlier been cleared of criminal charges.
Man stuffs wife in freezer, guilty of attempted murder
JACKSON, Mich. — A man whose wife says he beat her, bound her in duct tape and stuffed her in a freezer has been convicted of attempted murder.
Prosecutor John McBain said he will push for a life prison term for Michael D. Johnson at sentencing Jan. 17. He was convicted Monday.
victated Monday. Jennifer Myles-Johnson testified that her husband moved out of their house in March and returned April 17. She said they argued and he punched her repeatedly in the face.
Johnson then bound her wrists and mouth with duct tape, kicked her down a staircase, stuffed her in a chest freezer and closed the lid, she said. As she struggled to keep the lid open, he repeatedly slashed her with a knife on the hands and legs, she said.
Johnson piled about 200 pounds of weights on the freezer lid to keep her from escaping. McBain said.
from escaping, McBain said.
Myles-Johnson spent about five hours in the freezer before her daughter found and freed her. She needed about 170 stitches.
switches. Defense lawyer George Lyons said Johnson was a "victim of emotional terrorism." He said Myles-Johnson battered and belittled her husband and bragged of having numerous affairs during their 16-year marriage.
AUBURN, Ind. — A Ku Klux Klan leader convicted of conspiring to hold a television news crew hostage in his home was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Klan leader gets sentenced for holding of TV crew
Jeff Berry was sentenced Monday in a courtroom where sheriff's deputies checked everyone with hand-held metal detectors.
detectors. Berry, imperial wizard of the DeKalb County-based American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, pleaded guilty Oct. 1 to conspiracy to commit criminal confinement with a deadly weapon. Prosecutors agreed to drop three other charges.
Reporter George Sells IV and camerawoman Heidi Thiel of Louisville, Ky., television station WHAS interviewed Berry at his home in northeastern Indiana in November 1999. They said he became angry when he learned the story also would include comments from a former Klan member.
Berry acknowledged in testimony Monday that there was a confrontation, but he said it happened when he learned the station was not going to pay him $500 he said it had promised for the interview.
Berry refused to let them leave until they surrendered the video of the interview with him, they said. Another man, who carried a shotgun, locked the door.
The Associated Press
A 22-year-old KU student reported a theft at the Kansas Union between 11 and 11:55 a.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A cellular phone valued at $40 was stolen.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries (ECM) will have a University forum from noon to 1 p.m. today at the ECM building, located at 1204 Drea, one block north of the Kansas Union. The forum will be about diversity in KU international students. Contact Thad Hollombe 843-4933.
Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) will meet at 8tonight at 100 staffer-Flint Hall. Contact Kara Ryckman at kryck-
ON CAMPUS
A 21-year-old KU student was cited for assault, battery and disorderly contact at 1:35 p.m. Monday at Carruth-O'Leary Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The incident occurred Friday in the 1500 block of Louisiana.
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lctus will meet at 8tonight on the Big 12 room in the Kansas Union. Contact Marietta Liebennord at 979-1353.
O. A.K.S. Non-Traditional Students will have a brown bag lunch from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. today at Alcove C in the Kansas Union. Contact Joan Winston at 864-7317.
KU Chess Club will meet at 7 tonight at the Frontier Room in
the Burge Union. Contact Ateshi Shellovre at 749-3934.
The Tae Kwon Do club will meet from 6:30 to 8 onight at 207 Robinson. Contact Greg Isaac at 749-4649.
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Think Facilities Don't Count? Look What They Did for Art!
You like to be an artist? It's not so easy. But KU has become a heavyweight in university art circles. The Spencer Museum of Art will soon be 25, and the Lied Center is 10. Both are now marvelous state assets considered to be among America's finest artistic venues.In art, as in science, facilities count.
But success creates challenges. Today, the Spencer cannot display a large portion of its collection, including the works of significant Kansas artists.And the Lied Center cannot accommodate the
range of performing arts inherent in a university community. What's more, the Hall Center for the Humanities has outgrown its quarters. So we're brushing off our building plans.
Through KU First, KU Endowment seeks to raise $500 million by 2004. $28 million will expand facilities for the arts and the Hall Center for the Humanities and will enhance endowments for programs at the Lied Center.
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