2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY.AUG.28,2001
NEWSINBRIEF
CORRECTION
A story in yesterday's Kansan contained an error. The Kansas softball coach's name is Tracy Bunge, not Traci Bingham.
A cutline in yesterday's Kansan was incorrect. The protest on Massachusetts Street on Friday lasted about three hours, not one hour.
CAMPUS
“Surprise Patrol” busy handing out awards
The "Surprise Patrol" continued its mission yesterday, delivering two more Kemper Awards to Christopher Allen, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and William M. Tsutsui, associate professor of history.
The patrol delivered 13 awards last week, two yesterday and two more are to be delivered today, said Todd Cohen of the University Relations office.
"The professors are usually quite happy," Cohen said. "No one has turned them down yet."
The $5,000 W.T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching Excellence recognize outstanding teachers and advisers at the University of Kansas. The recipients are selected by a seven-member board, which is composed of students, faculty and alumni. They are delivered by Provost David Shulenburger; Mark Gonzales, Community Representative from Commerce Bank; and a representative from the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Courtney Craigmile
NATION Convicted killer claim his lawyer had drinking problem
RALEIGH, N.C. — A killer set to be put to death this week is seeking clemency, arguing that his lawyer was drinking 12 shots of rum a day during the trial.
Ronald Wayne Freye, 42, is scheduled to be executed Friday for the 1993 slaying of his landlord, Ralph Childress, who was stabbed repeatedly with a pair of scissors and robbed of $5,000.
His lawyers will argue at a closed clemency hearing today that attorney Thomas Portwood had a drinking problem that hindered his ability to handle Frye's case.
Portwood's co-counsel, Ted F. Cummings III, filed an affidavit that said he knew Portwood drank heavily. Portwood admitted in an affidavit for another case that he drank 12 shots a day at the time.
The state Supreme Court rejected an appeal last week.
Frye said he had never noticed the smell or effects of alcohol on Portwood, but he said the two hadn't talked much.
The North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers sent Gov. Mike Easley a letter supporting clemency. "We find the defense attorney's performance to be far below the minimum standards in a capital case," wrote Burton Craige, president of the academy.
A Missouri man was executed in April despite his contention that his lawyer was drinking heavily, ill and overworked during his trial.
NATION&WORLD
Flight attendant's lawyer tells jury Condit asked her to lie about affair
The Associated Press
MODESTO, Calif. — A lawyer for a flight attendant who claims she had an affair with Rep. Gary Condit asked a grand jury yesterday to indict the congressman on charges that he tried to coerce the woman into denying they had an affair.
In a rare legal procedure, James Robinson,
the lawyer for flight attendant Anne Marie
Smith, submitted a citizen complaint yesterday
directly to a Staminaus County grand jury.
Robinson also hoped to meet personally with the foreman of the grand jury and county prosecutor Jim Brazelton to urge them to bring perjury and obstruction of justice charges against Condit; his chief of staff, Mike Lynch; and Don Thornton, an investigator for a California lawyer who has represented Condit.
Condit is already under intense criticism at home and in Washington for his responses to questions about his relationship with missing intern Chandra Lew.
Smith said she and Condit had a 10-month affair. After Levy disappeared, she said, Condit called her several times and asked her to sign a statement denying they had an affair.
In a series of interviews last week, Condit said he never had an affair with Smith and never asked her to sign a statement.
"I didn't ask anyone to lie about anything,"
he said on ABC. "I did not ask Anne Marie not to cooperate with law enforcement. That's an absolute lie."
Federal officials have questioned Smith twice as part of their preliminary criminal investigation to determine whether Condit obstructed the investigation of Levy's disappearance.
Joleen McKay, a former Condit aide, also has spoken to investigators about her allegations that she had an affair with Condit and that Condit aides tried to pressure her to remain silent about it.
Condit ended a nearly four-month public silence and agreed to a series of print and broadcast interviews last week.
Condit repeatedly declined to provide details about the nature of his relationship with Levy, a 24-year-old from Modesto who disappeared May 1.
Levy met the 53-year-old Condit, who is married and represents Modesto, while in Washington for an internship at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
Police said Condit was not a suspect in the disappearance but have criticized him for not being more forthcoming earlier about his relationship with Levy.
Russia delays weapons reduction plan
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — A discussed U.S.-Russian plan to stop production of weapons-grade plutonium in Russia has been stalled by financing shortages, and the Russian government said yesterday it wanted the United States to agree to postpone its implementation.
The agreement, signed in September 1997 by Vice President Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, was hailed at the time as a big step in U.S. efforts to ensure that Moscow safeguards and reduces its vast nuclear stockpile.
It has already been delayed by disagreements about audits to ensure U.S. money would be spent properly. Now Russia wants to push back the schedule of the project to convert three plutonium-making reactors to production of uranium for civilian power plants.
The plan calls for two nuclear reactors in the Siberian city of Seversk to stop producing
plutonium in 2002 and 2003. A third reactor in Zheleznogorsk was to stop in 2004.
Russian Cabinet's information department said that Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov had ordered the Nuclear Power Ministry to negotiate an amendment to the deal with U.S. officials.
It said the Seversk reactors would keep working through 2005, and the one in Zheleznogorsk until the end of 2006.
The reactors also provide electricity and heat for residents of the cities, and the U.S.- Russian deal called for the two countries to share the costs of building replacement power facilities.
The proposed amendment also included a stipulation that the United States would help modify reactors or build alternative power facilities if money is available. The Russian government statement didn't say when the amendment was expected to be signed.
ON THE RECORD
A 25-year-old KU student's locked car was broken into between 11:30 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. Sunday in the 2100 block of West 28th St., Lawrence Police said. A radar detector, cell phone and 10 compact discs were stolen. The value of the items and window damage were $780.
A 20-year-old KU student's apartment was broken into between 9:30 p.m. Friday and 11:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1700 block of Vermont, Lawrence Police said. The victim returned to her home and noticed a storm window was damaged, but she couldn't find anything missing. Damages were estimated at $150, Lawrence Police said.
A 21-year-old KU student's car was burglarized between 9:30 p.m. Thursday and 2 a.m. Friday in the 600 room of Gateway Court, Lawrence Police said. A wallet, credit cards and a birth certificate were stolen. Items were valued at $140.
A 20-year-old KU student was slapped and pushed to the ground by her boyfriend between 11:30 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. Sunday in the 1600 block of Crescent Road, Lawrence Police said. The suspect has not been located, but police will file a report with municipal court for a summons on two counts of battery.
Two 19-year-old KU student's water ski-related items were stolen between 1:00 p.m. Thursday and 10:00 a.m. Saturday at 1700 N. 1325 Rd, Douglas County Sheriff's Office said. An unknown suspect cut the padlock on a trailer parked at a pond and entered an unsecured storage area. The items were valued at $3,655.
Exhibit remembers vibrant past of Jewish life, Holocaust
WORLD
BERLIN — With many places in Germany dedicated to remembering victims of the Holocaust, the director of Berlin's Jewish Museum said yesterday he hoped the museum would stand as a memorial to Jewish life in Germany throughout history.
The permanent exhibition at the Jewish Museum, which opens with a gala celebration on Sept. 9, will cover 2,000 years of Jewish history in Germany. Organizers do not want the vibrant past and the present to be overwhelmed by the Nazi massacre of 6 million Jews under Hitler.
"I find it very fitting that this is a place of memory, not only for those killed but also for life over many centuries," said Michael Blumenthal. The museum directorl, who fled Nazi Germany and later served as U.S. treasury secretary, spoke to a news conference yesterday.
"We don't want the visitors only to learn something about the history, but also we try to answer questions in the museum: What does it mean to be a Jew? What does it mean to be a Jew in Germany? What did it mean in early times to be a German Jew?" Blumenthal said.
He noted that several memorials in Germany and Berlin were dedicated specifically to the Holocaust, which looms large in many Germans' perception of history today.
The last section of the new exhibit concentrates on postwar Jewish history in Germany.
Reaching back into the past as well, 3,900 artifacts will include a 10th-century copy of a decree on loan from the Vatican establishing the existence of a Jewish community in 321 in what is now southern Germany.
The exhibition won't ignore the Holocaust. The Gallery of the Missing, designed by German artist Via Lewandowsky, will use sound and glass sculpture to encourage visitors to conjure images of Jewish artifacts that mostly disappeared in the Holocaust, said Ken Gorbey, a New Zealander who oversaw the exhibition's design. The evocative steel building designed by American architect Daniel Liebeskind is a major attraction in itself. More than 350,000 people visited the empty shell since it opened to the public in 1999.
The Associated Press
ON CAMPUS
The Office of Student Financial Aid is awarding federal work-study funds for the 2001-2002 academic year. Apply online at www.ku.edu/~osfa, visit the office at 50 Strong Hall or call 864-4700.
ET CETERA
The School of Journalism is sponsoring a journalism club forum today from 4-6 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium on the 4th floor of the Kansas Union. Representatives from all the journalism clubs will be on hand for any student interested in getting involved. Call Janice Davis at 864-4768 for more information.
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