2A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWSINBRIEF
MONDAY,OCT.29,2001
STATE
Joint Chiefs chair visits K-State to reminisce, watch football
MANHATTAN Gen. Richard Myers the Kansas State graduate now serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff paid a weekend visit to his alma mater.
Myers had been in western Missouri on Friday for a stop at Whiteman Air Force Base, home of the B-2 stealth bombers being used in the U.S. and allied assault against the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan.
ship in Argentina Myers came on to Manhattan later Friday, making a stop that evening at the Meadowlark Hills retirement complex.
Accompanied by his wife, Mary Jo, a driver and a military aide, and often attired in a leather jacket, open collar shirt and jeans, the general took in a number of sites around the town where he went to school. Myers got a mechanical engineering degree in 1965 from Kansas State, and entered the Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program.
Corps program He had lunch on Saturday with Army and Air Force ROTC cadets and attended the football game in which Kansas State broke a four game losing streak by beating Kansas 40-6.
After the game, Myers dined with Kansas State president Jon Wefaldo.
Bodies of two missing men found in Norton reservoir
NORTON — The bodies of two men missing since their boat capsized two weeks ago have been recovered from the Keith Sebelius Reservoir in this northwestern Kansas town.
The body of Somnuck Amphphonephong, 54, was found Saturday afternoon, and his son, Kittikone Xaiyarath, 23, was pulled from the lake Thursday, said Norton County Sheriff Troy Thomson.
The bodies were both found in the Cement Cove area of the reservoir.
Cement Cove area of the resort A third man, Sombath Phanalith, 41, also of Garden City, was with Xiyarath and Amphonephong at Sebelius Reservoir that weekend. His body was recovered two days after the men were last seen.
Authorities continue to investigate. But it is believed gusty winds caused the boat to capsize when the men drowned Oct. 13.
NATION
Small quakes, aftershocks rattle Los Angeles area
LOS ANGELES — A magnitude-3.7 earthquake rumbed through much of the Los Angeles area yesterday morning and was followed by a series of smaller aftershocks.
There were no reports of damage or injuries from the temblors. The shaking was felt from Compton 25 miles north to the San Fernando Valley.
The first quake struck at 8:27 a.m. and was centered four miles southeast of Inglewood and nine miles south of the Los Angeles Civic Center.
It was followed at 8:29 a.m. by a magnitude-3.0 aftershock centered just a mile away.
More than a dozen aftershocks were recorded. One, a magnitude-2.8 temblor, struck at 9:21 a.m. in an area one mile north of the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
USGS seismologist Sue Hough said the earthquakes were all related and could be followed by more seismic activity.
NATION&WORLD
Inhalation anthrax case diagnosed in New Jersey
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed yesterday that a female New Jersey postal worker had inhalation anthrax, the most serious form of the disease that has claimed three lives and prompted thousands to take antibiotics.
prompted thousands to wait
CDC spokesman Tom Skinner stressed it
was not a new case of the disease but one that
had already been listed as suspected anthrax
had already been at least five New Jersey postal workers have suspected or confirmed cases of anthrax. Anthrax-tainted letters sent to Washington and New York originated there.
and New York originated the work. The diagnosis came as tests continued at postal and government offices in the nation's capital and elsewhere. Officials were seeking to determine whether other tainted letters were still in the mail system.
being urged to take precautions.
Despite the strain on the system, postal vice president Deborah Willhite vowed the mail would go through.
were still in the mail system Thousands of postal workers and others who dealt with large amounts of mail were being urged to take preventive antibiotics.
Dr. Ivan Walks, Washington's public health director, said no new anthrax had been found in the city since contamination was discovered Friday at a Supreme Court mail-handling facility.
Two postal employees from a facility that
Two others, as well as a State Department mail room worker, have been hospitalized with the inhaled form of the disease. All three remained in serious condition yesterday.
processed a letter, addressed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and containing a highly potent form of anthrax, have died.
remained in serious condition by the Walks and Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health said the antibiotic doxycycline was now being recommended for treatment because it had fewer side effects and was less costly and more available than Cipro, which had been prescribed at first.
Willhite said postal workers were being switched to doxycycline at the suggestion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Willhite said devices could sanitize the mail and detect contamination and postal engineers were working with the Defense Department on how that equipment could be used by the mail.
the man.
On Friday, the post office signed a $40 million contract to buy eight electron-beam devices to sanitize letters and packages. The equipment will be used first in the nation's capital.
Some 68 tons of mail is being trucked from the capital to a plant in Lima, Ohio, to be decontaminated with electron beams normally used to sterilize hospital equipment.
United Airlines executive resigns
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — United Airlines chief executive James Goodwin resigned yesterday, saying it was time "for a new leader to guide the organization" that has struggled greatly since the Sept. 11 attacks.
the Sept. 14th attack Goodwin's resignation came two weeks ago after a letter he wrote to employees was made public. In it, he predicted the troubled airline could perish unless its fortunes were reversed.
Two unions representing United employees called for Goodwin's resignation and the company's stock fell more than 20 percent last week.
week. Union leaders accused Goodwin of panicking customers and workers unjustifiably. They claimed his remarks were made to get contracted employees to agree to lower wages, gain negotiating leverage or get more government assistance.
in assistance.
In a statement released yesterday, Goodwin said he was "proud to have contributed to the tremendous growth of United during my 34 years... United is a great company and it is the right time for a new leader to guide the organization through the challenges that lie ahead."
John W. Creighton was elected to replace Goodwin by a unanimous vote of the company's board of directors. Creighton has been a member of UAL's board of directors since 1998. Earlier, he served as president and chief executive officer of Weyerhaeuser Company from 1991 through 1997.
United already was in deep trouble before the terrorist attacks. It suffered severely from the downturn in business travel, which it depends on more heavily than other airlines.
lines. The airline has laid off about 20,000 of its 100,000 employees since the attacks caused a drop-off in air travel. It also is trimming its daily schedule to 1,654 flights as of Oct.31, down about 30 percent since the attacks.
WORLD
U.S. freezes charity account, claims groups fund terrorists
CAIRO, Egypt An organization of Islamic charities denied yesterday that its members could be funneling money to terrorists, and urged the United States to give evidence to back up its suggestions that they are doing so.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States has frozen assets of one Saudi charity, the Wafa Humanitarian Organization, and U.S. officials have said Islamic charities are a key source of fund-raising for Osama bin Laden and his terrorist organization, al-Qaida.
"We dare anyone to prove that any Islamic charity organization is involved or has supported any terrorist body," said Hamid bin Ahmed al-Rifai, head of the Saudi-based International Islamic Forum for Dialogue.
Riots erupt at Belfast road, officers injured by violence
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Rioting flared yesterday in a divided section of Belfast as Northern Ireland headed toward a crucial legislative vote. More than 20 police officers were injured.
Catholics and Protestants fought along Limestone Road, a common flashpoint for sectarian violence, a Royal Ulster Constabulary spokesman said.
One civilian was taken to a hospital with facial injuries believed to have been caused by a pipe bomb, he added.
Several homemade grenades were thrown at police and army lines during fighting that continued all day, police said. They said 23 officers were wounded, and several security force vehicles were damaged.
vehicles were taken Protestants are split over the importance of the destruction of an arms cache last week by the Irish Republican Army.
Ukraine's presidents promises compensation for plane crash
KIEV, Ukraine — President Leonid Kuchma has promised that Ukraine will compensate the families of Israelis killed when a Ukrainian missile accidentally shot down a Russian passenger jet, officials said yesterday.
class said yesterday. The Sibir Airlines Tu-154 crashed into the Black Sea on Oct. 4 on its way from Israel to Novosibirsk, Russia, killing all 78 people aboard. Most of the passengers had recently emigrated from Russia to Israel.
to Israel.
Kuchma promised compensation during a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Saturday, presidential spokesman Ihor Storozhuk said.
In Israel, Cabinet Secretary Gideon Saar said Sharon "said that Ukraine has to find a way to compensate the families."
ON THE RECORD
A 22-year-old KU student
A 24-year-old KU student reported a theft from a vehicle between midnight Tuesday and 12:45 a.m. Wednesday in the 100 block of Brittany Place, Lawrence police said. A CD player, tape adapter, cigarette lighter adapter and a CD were valued at $130.
reported criminal damage to a 1998 Mercury Cougar between 5 p.m. Oct. 17 and 2 p.m. Oct. 22 in the 3500 block of Quail Creek Drive, Lawrence police said. Damage was estimated at $200.
An 18-year-old KU student was arrested Friday morning on charges of driving while intoxicated, first offense, and not having proof of insurance. Lawrence police said. He was released on $500 bond.
The Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 on the tionere Room in the Burge Union. Contact Mark Duoree at 864-3984.
ON CAMPUS
KU Info reported a criminal threat in an e-mail received at 5:36 p.m. Oct. 15. The e-mail contained a bomb threat for Lindley Hall for Oct. 15. The e-mail was not opened until after the date of the bomb threat.
The Tae Kwon Do club will meet from 6:30 to 8tonight in 207 Robinson Center Contact Greg Iseac at 749-4649.
O. A.K.S., the nontraditional students organization, will have a brown bag lunch from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. today in the Burge Union. Contact Joan Winston at 864-7317.
KU Green Party will meet at 8 tonight at the regional Room in the Kansas
Union. Contact Sarah Hoskinson at 838-9063 or Dalyn Cook at 312-2090.
Karate Kobudo Club will have practice from 8:30 to 10:30 at racteball court No. 15 in Robinson Center. Contact Hannah Reynolds at 312-3491.
ET CETERA
- Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform will present On Separation of Church and State with Paul Haughley on cable channel 19 from 7:30 to 8:30 tonight.
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