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WEDNESDAY,OCT.3,2001
CAMPUS Former 'Chicago Hope' actor to speak at University today
Mandy Patinkin, a Tony and Emmy award-winning artist and KU alumni, will return to the University tomorrow.
Charla Jenkins, public relations director for the University Theatre, said Patinkin would perform a concert tomorrow night at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo., and he asked Jenkins if he could come back to the University for a visit.
Patinkin will speak to the public today from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
"He's going to talk and just interact with the students." Jenkins said.
Patinkin attended the University from 1970 to 1972, but left Lawrence to attend the Juilliard School of Music in New York City.
Patinkin received a Tony award for his Broadway performance as Che in Evita. He has appeared in major motion pictures such as The Princess Bride and Dick Tracy, and he won an Emmy award in 1995 for best actor in a drama series for his role on the CBS series Chicago Hope.
Patinkin has also released four solo albums since 1989.
— Eve Lamborn
students to distribute ribbons information on breast cancer
If Wescoe Beach is awash in pink today, it's to raise awareness among students about breast cancer.
Students from Jayhawk Communications will distribute pink ribbons and information about breast cancer from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will continue through tomorrow.
The Breast Cancer Awareness campaign is a part of Lee National Denim Day on Friday, a nationwide campaign to benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
"Students can put on a ribbon in support of a friend or a family member who may be affected by breast cancer," Bietka said.
The tables at Wesco and also at the dining halls will accept donations, but Kelly Bietka, a member of Jayhawk Communications, said the ribbons and information were free.
Donations will go toward research funding and education, as well as breast cancer screening and treatment projects. Last year, KU students raised $1,300.
— Paul Smith
LAWRENCE
Woman's death at Clinton Park attributed to alcohol toxicity
The death of transient Rachelle Conrad has been ruled accidental, Sgt. Mike Patrick said.
The results of an autopsy showed she died from alcohol toxicity. Her blood alcohol content was 0.5 at the time of her death. The legal blood alcohol content in Kansas is 0.08.
Dr. Eric Mitchell, a Shawnee County coroner, performed the autopsy.
Conrad, who was in her late 30s, died Sept. 7 at Clinton Park, 901 W. Fifth St.
— Courtney Craigmile
NATION & WORLD
NATO confirms evidence pointing to bin Laden
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium — The United States, seeking the full moral backing of its 18 NATO allies, provided "clear and compelling" evidence yesterday of Osama bin Laden's involvement in terror attacks on New York and Washington. NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson said.
He said the allies have determined that the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were directed from abroad and thus are covered by NATO's Article 5 — which says an attack on one member is an attack on all.
"The facts are clear and compelling," Robertson told reporters after a top U.S. counterterrorism official gave NATO's ruling council a classified briefing. "The information presented points conclusively to an al-Qaida role in the Sept. 11 attacks.
"We know that the individuals who carried out these attacks were part of the worldwide terrorist network of al-Qaida, headed by
Osama bin Laden and his key lieutenants and protected by the Taliban" government in Afghanistan.
The allies had already declared their full backing for the United States in its war against terrorism.
Invoking Article 5 merely adds political weight. It is morally, but not legally binding. A country may still decline to take a specific action.
In Washington, President Bush welcomed Robertson's statement.
As Ambassador at-Large Francis X. Taylor, head of counterterrorism at the State Department, was briefing the allies, Bush again threatened the Taliban, who he said are harboring bin Laden and other members of his network.
"I have said that the Taliban must turn over the al-Qaida organization living in Afghanistan and must destroy the terrorist camps," Bush said. "They must do so, otherwise there will be a consequence. There are no negotiations."
Klan leader opts for guilty plea
The Associated Press
AUBURN, Ind. — A Ku Klux Klan leader pleaded guilty to a conspiracy count in connection with charges he held a television news crew hostage after he became angry during an interview.
Jeff Berry agreed to the deal with prosecutors Monday, the day before his trial was to begin. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit criminal confinement with a deadly weapon, said Monte Brown, DeKalb County prosecutor. Three other charges were dropped.
The charges were filed against Berry, imperial wizard of the DeKalb County-based American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, after the confrontation with reporter George Sells IV and camerawoman Heidi Thiel of WHASTV in Louisville, Kv.
The two said they interviewed Berry at his home in Newville in 1999, but he became angry when he learned the story also would include comment from a Klan critic.
He decided he no longer wanted to be part
of the story and refused to let them leave until they surrendered the video of the interview with him, they said. Another man, who carried a gun, locked the door.
Berry took two tapes from Thiel's camera before allowing the two to leave, they said.
Sentencing was set for Dec. 3. If the judge accepts the plea, Berry,48, faces up to 10 years in prison under sentencing guidelines,Brown said.
WHAS-TV news director Maria Reitan said the station was pleased with the guilty plea. Sells and Thiel won a $120,000 civil judgment against Berry this year in federal court. An appeal of that judgment is pending.
Berry's attorney, Robert Love, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Brown said no one else was ever charged in the case. Police were not able to identify the man with the shotgun. A woman who allegedly had a minor role in the confrontation locking up some television equipment in a closet -was not charged.
NATION
Weekly steroids may harm, not benefit premature babies
CHICAGO - Giving pregnant women weekly steroid shots to reduce complications in premature infants offers little or no benefit in most cases and may even lead to brain damage in newborns, researchers say.
While a single set of shots given two to seven days before childbirth can reduce the risk of lung ailments and death in premature babies, women should probably not be prescribed repeated doses, the researchers reported in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
At issue are corticosteroids, drugs that simulate adrenal gland hormones and can reduce inflammation and help premature babies mature.
A National Institutes of Health panel in 1994 recommended a course of steroid shots for women at risk of giving birth between the 24th and 34th week of pregnancy. That led many doctors to give women repeated doses.
While weekly shots in very premature infants studied reduced the risk of severe respiratory distress syndrome, a lung disorder common in prematurity, the researchers stopped the study early for safety reasons.
North Carolina governor cuts inmate's death sentence to life
RALEIGH, N.C. — Gov. Mike Easley commuted the death sentence of an inmate who had argued that Easley should not hear clemency pleas because he once advocated capital punishment as a prosecutor.
Robert Bacon Jr.'s sentence was reduced to life in prison. He had been scheduled to die by injection Friday for the 1987 stabbing death of his lover's husband.
Prosecutors argued that Bacon's lover, Bonnie Clark, plotted the killing of her husband, Marine Sgt. Glennie Clark, for a share of a $130,000 life insurance policy. Mrs. Clark received a life sentence for the murder.
Bacon's attorney, Gretchen Engel of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, has also argued that the jury in Bacon's case was racially biased. Bacon is African American and Bonnie Clark is Caucasian, and a former juror said in an affidavit that jurors made negative comments about interracial relationships.
Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
An 18-year-old KU student reported theft from a Jayhawk Tower's apartment between 9 p.m. Sept. 26 and 3:37 p.m. Monday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A leather wallet, Oregon driver's license and KUID were stolen. The items were valued at $45
A 22-year-old KU student reported a theft from his residence between 10:30 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 a.m. Sunday in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $1,191.
A 21-year-old KU student reported a theft from his residence between 10:00 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 a.m. Sunday in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $619.
valued at $500. The student's age was not available.
A KU student reported damage to and a theft from a vehicle between 10:30 p.m. Sept. 23 and 8 a.m. Sept. 24 in the 3700 block of Clinton Parkway, Lawrence police said. Damage was estimated at $400. Items were
A 23-year-old KU student reported damage to a window between 11 p.m. Thursday and 7 a.m. Friday in the 2500 block of West 31st Street, Lawrence police said. Damage was estimated at $75.
A 19-year-old KU student reported the theft of a bicycle between 10 p.m. Saturday and midnight Sunday from a residence in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The bicycle was valued at $350.
A 21-year-old KU student reported theft from a vehicle between 6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday from the 1400 block of Brighton Circle, Lawrence police said. One DVD and 104 CDs were included in the missing items, which were valued at $2,330.
ON CAMPUS
Icthus will meet at 8 tonight at the Big 12 room in the Kansas Union. Contact Marietta Liebengood at 979-1353.
Circle K International will meet at 7 tonight in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union. Contact Shondell Lister at 838-3405.
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 734-7317.
at749-3934.
KU Chess Club will meet at 7 tonight at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union. Contact Ateshi Shellore
Environmental Studies Student Association (ESSA) will meet at 8 tonight at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Clare Fuchs at cfuchs@ku.edu or visit wwwku.edu/kuens and
www.ku.edu/~kuesp and click on the link, ESSA.
The Tae Kwon Do club will meet from 6:30 to 8 tonight at 207 Robinson Center. Contact Greg Isaac at 749-4649.
Undergraduate Anthropology Association (UAA) will meet at 5 p.m. today in 633 Fraser. Contact Ethan Fosse at 312-1746.
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