FRIDAY,NOV.2,2001
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 7A
Pirate House: End of house not end of punk
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Strano said he thought their landlord, Betty Crow, was receiving pressure from local fire and zoning officials to clean up the house.
Last Sunday, Crow presented the house's tenants with a contract requiring that they not have any gatherers of more than 10 people, to remove the pirate flag and all handbills and other posters affixed to the front windows of the house, to clean
the overall outer appearance of the house and to even quit referring to the house as the Pirate House.
Strano said he and the other tenants of the house had a good relationship with Crow in the past. He said he wasn't sure why the situation had changed now, but he was considering moving, either to another house or outside Lawrence all together.
"I just feel like now our views and whatever we want to put on the windows are under constant
watch," he said. "One of the reasons I lived around this community was because to me, I thought it was open."
Strano said even if the Pirate House wouldn't hold any more shows, the spirit it helped nurture would survive.
"Punk didn't start or end in this house," he said. "This is just part of the community, and just because it's gone doesn't mean anything's going to be disrunted."
Chris Kellogg, one of Strano's
roommates, said he thought the city was trying to change the dynamic of the neighborhood.
"They want to to make it less of a bunch of kids living in houses into a bunch of apartments," Kellogg said. "Whether it's to make more money or to make it seem like a better place to live, I don't know."
Attempts to reach Crow yesterday afternoon were unsuccessful.
Contact Norton at 864-4810
Air strikes resume, hit front lines
The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan American warplanes raided Kabul yesterday for the first time in four days, striking targets on the northern edge of the capital. The strikes came after U.S. jets pounded Taliban front lines and other strongholds.
Three loud explosions, which appeared to be in the Khair Khana district, could be heard before midnight yesterday. Taliban gunners responded with bursts of anti-aircraft fire.
The targets under attack could not be determined because of a nighttime curfew, but Khair Khana includes a
number of air defense and weapons storage sites.
It was unclear why the United States was resuming the strikes on Kabul. The last attack on the capital occurred Sunday morning and was apparently aimed at Taliban targets to the north and east of the city.
The raids came as Turkey, a NATO member, became the first Muslim nation to commit troops to the U.S.-led coalition. The Turkish government said it would send a 90-member special forces unit to train the troops of the northern alliance.
In Washington, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said the Pentagon had several more teams of special forces
ready to go into Afghanistan to improve coordination with opposition forces.
opposition. Rumsfeld was joined at a Pentagon news conference by Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who reported strikes Wednesday on a cave complex near Kabul. The Taliban and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, he said, used these caves as secure locations for personnel, ammunition and equipment.
He said a large secondary explosion showed in a video clip "seems to indicate we may have hit ammunition or fuel in that cave."
In Afghanistan, opposition representative Waisuddin
Salik said U.S. jets struck a Taliban fuel and ammunition dump near the opposition-controlled Bagram air base on the Kabul front overnight, destroying three fuel tanks and two trucks.
It was unclear immediately whether he and Myers were referring to the same strike.
In other developments:
A statement attributed to bin Laden and broadcast yesterday on the Qatari-based Al-Jazeera satellite channel criticized the government of Muslim Pakistan for standing "under the banner of the cross" and called on Pakistanis to "make Islam victorious."
Lab seeking answer to anthrax attacks
The Associated Press
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — The Los Alamos National Laboratory, best known as the birthplace of the atomic bomb, is now conducting crucial biological detective work to solve the anthrax attacks wreaking havoc on the East Coast.
More than 1,200 strains are on file, with 100 more newly identified strains from nature and scientific programs added every year from around the world.
Using increasingly sophisticated DNA detection technologies, scientists here are working to identify the deadly microbe's biological fingerprints.
It's part of a $10 million program that combines years of work at universities, as well as at Los Alamos.
Today, Los Alamos is largely mum on its current anthrax mission. Officials will only discuss in general terms the esoteric DNA analysis going on.
It's not much different in principle from how crime labs use genetic fingerprinting to nab suspects or establish paternity in child custody cases, officials said. Just a whole lot more sophisticated.
The lab maintains the world's largest bank of genetic information on Bacillus anthracis, the organism that causes anthrax.
Until the current investigation, the lab's biggest anthrax cases were conducted after-thefact.
In 1994 Los Alamos helped provide some answers to one of the world's most perplexing biological warfare puzzles: Why did 68 people living near a weapons plant in the former Soviet Union die suddenly in 1979?
At the time, Soviet leaders blamed contaminated meat sold in the Russian city of Sverdlovsk
— now called Yekaterinburg. But in 1992, former Russian President Boris Yeltsin confirmed that anthrax was being weaponized there in violation of international agreements.
Two years later, Los Alamos researchers and others examined tissue from the victims. Tests confirmed that all were infected by an unnatural mixture of anthrax strains, indicating they probably inhaled spores released from the weapons plant.
The lab has highly advanced equipment, some of it able to run 100 times faster and 200,000 times more sensitive than conventional DNA testing. And it requires less than 2-trillionths of a gram of DNA to perform the analysis, lab officials said
"It's forensic analysis — helps you find the bad guy, or helps you find if it's natural or not." said jill Trewhella, Bioscience Division director.
The 1st Air Force, which is responsible for protecting continental U.S. airspace, fires constant patrols, watching for suspicious aircraft most of the planes are formed by Air National Guard pilots.
Fighter jets patrolling U.S. cities
United, Delta report huge third-quarter loss
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Crippled by the terrorist attacks, United and Delta — the nation's No. 2 and No.3 airlines — reported staggering third-quarter losses totaling more than $1.4 billion yesterday.
United's parent, UAL Corp. of Elk Grove Village, Ill., said it lost $1.16 billion for the three months that ended Sept. 30, the worst quarterly performance in the airline's 75-year history.
prices, further hurting profits.
Atlanta-based Delta reported a $259 million loss after earning $133 million during the same period last year.
The terror attacks in New York and Washington prompted a costly two-day shutdown of the nation's airspace and made many Americans afraid to fly. Since then, airlines have cut ticket
Only 64 percent of airline seats were filled during October, compared with more than 70 percent a year ago, according to the industry's main trade group. That is despite the fact airlines reduced their carrying capacity by about 20 percent after the attacks.
Even before Sept. 11, United was in deep financial trouble, suffering from the industry's highest labor and operating costs.
The airline has announced 20,000 layoffs and a 30 percent reduction in its flight schedule. United's new chairman and chief executive, John Creighton, who replaced James Goodwin on Sunday, said more cost-cutting is coming.
"Some tough compromises will be required from all of us in the short run," he said.
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The University of Kansas Theatre for Young People Presents
Afternoon of the Elves
adapted by Y York from the Newbery Honor Book by Janet Taylor Lisle
Directed by jeanne Klein Scenic and Costume Design by Elinor Parker Lighting Design by Patrick Carierre
7:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 3, 2001 Crafton-Preyer Theatre
General admission tickets are on sale through the KU ticket offices: University Theatre, 864-3982; Lied Center, 864-ARTS; SUA Office, 864-7469; and on-line at www.kutheatre.com; $6 public; $3 all students; $5 senior citizens; Visa and MasterCard are accepted for phone and on-line orders.
Afternoon of the Elves was voted Outstanding Play for Young Audiences in 1996 by ASSITEJ/USA; the national association of professional and university theaters for young audiences. It also received the 2001 Distinguished Play Award by the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.
The University Theatre is partially funded by the KU Student Senate Activity Fund for the Seattle Children's Theater.
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Afternoon of the Elfes was first commissioned and produced by the Seattle Children's Theatre **SENIATIVE**