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"People can get there from other towns such as Leavenworth," he said.
Linda Finger, director of city planning, said growth in North Lawrence, where resident population is around 2,000, had been static in recent years.
Finger said the biggest plans for North Lawrence included an extension of the waste water treatment plant towards the Lawrence Municipal Airport. The plan has been in the works since 1995.
She said this might lead to a growth of airport-related businesses.
Jim Mayo, Urban Planning Chair at KU, said that, historically, North Lawrence had not been anything other than an eyesore at times, and an area of lower income.
He said growth in Lawrence had always been on the southern side of the bridge, and flooding in North Lawrence was a major reason for that growth.
However, there are a few places other than Johnny's that students cross the bridge for.
Gran-Daddy's BBQ Pit shares a building with Bada Bing, 913 N. Second St., a strip club frequented by students. Courtee Smit, co-owner of Gran-Daddys, said he saw a fair amount of student customers.
"I see some students every now and then; a lot of student athletes come here." Smit said.
He said most student customers came because they heard
about the restaurant by word of mouth.
Smit did not think the fact that they were next to Bada Bing contributed to their business because the latest they closed was 8 p.m.
There are two tepees. One is often used for fraternity and sorority functions, and the other one is a gift shop.
Tepee Junction, 1459 Highway 40, was built in 1929, said owner Cliff McDonald, Lawrence resident.
Carolyn Broadway, Chicago junior, said she had been to the teepie a few times for date parties, but that was all.
"Driving over that bridge is a major deterrent," she said.
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-izens and the shutting down of charities for suspicion of terrorism.
"Civil liberties are typically eroded during wartimes," Epp said. "This is certainly no exception."
Epp accused the government of using racial profiling to track potential terrorists.
"The Justice Department has, by intent, targeted these people on the basis of their race and ethnicity," Epp said.
When asked how to express opposition to the war, Strikwerda suggested having an alternative, such as waiting for the
self-destruction of Saddam Hussein's government.
"Waiting is not a heroic policy, but in some ways it's the most sensible thing to do," Strikwerda said.
"It's nice to hear academics say, 'There are options. Let's take a second and look at this,'" Baker said.
Rowland criticized the over-simplification of the conflict by the government and the public. The dismissal of Saddam Hussein and the citizens of Iraq as "a bunch of terrorists" had been used to justify going to war with them, he said.
"It's not an aetion movie." Rowland said. "You don't just go in there and take somebody out."
Stephanie Wilkinson, Wichita senior, attended the discussion to become better informed about the conflict with Iraq.
"I wanted to learn a little bit more and have more interesting discussion about it," she said.
Yesterday's discussion was the first part of a two-day forum on the conflict with Iraq. It focused on domestic issues. Another discussion will address international issues of the conflict at 4 p.m.today at at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
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The Associated Press
KUWAIT — Friends and relatives of two Kuwaitis who attacked U.S. Marines on a Persian Gulf island said yesterday that the cousins had been to Afghanistan — long a training ground for Muslim militants — and acted to avenge the killings of Palestinians by Israelis.
U. S. officials said they were investigating whether al-Qaida had any links to the gunmen, who killed one Marine and wounded another before other troops shot them to death.
U.S.suspects al-Qaida in Kuwait shooting
The Pentagon identified the slain Marine as Lance Cpl. Antonio J. Sledd, 20, of Tampa, Fla. The wounded Marine was not identified.
Kuwait authorities said yesterday that they had detained four people as suspected co-conspirators in Tuesday's attack, two U.S. defense officials said in Washington.
Kuwait called Tuesday's attack on a training exercise on Failaka island a "terrorist act" and detained more than 30 people in a search for accomplices of the gunmen.
Two gunmen drove up in a pickup truck and opened fire on Marines engaged in urban assault training. The attackers then drove to a second location and attacked again before being killed by
Marines.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the United States had not ruled out that the gunmen were linked to al-Qaida. "The investigators will have to look at any possible connection with terrorist groups," State Department spokesman Richard Bouchersaid.
Anas al-Kandari, identified by Kuwait as one of the gunmen, had "chosen to walk in the footsteps of Osama bin Laden," Mohammed al-Awadi, a Muslim cleric who said he was a friend of the two cousins, said yesterday.
Al-Kandari spent 18 months in Afghanistan, and his cousin Jassem al-Hajiri, identified as the other gunman, joined him there for six months, al-Awadi said.
Also yesterday, a U.S. serviceman fired his weapon at an unidentified civilian vehicle that was overtaking his Humvee in Kuwait after someone inside pointed a gun at him, U.S. officials in Washington said.
The officials said that after the shots, U.S. servicemen in the Humvee saw the other vehicle veer off the roadway. It was unclear whether anyone in the civilian vehicle was hit by the U.S. gunfire.
Al-Kandari was very moved by footage of Palestinians killed in the days before the attack, the cleric said. An Israeli raid Monday in the Gaza town of Khan Younis that left 16 Palestinians dead and more than 100 wounded has been heavily covered by Arab television.
"Every Muslim believes Americans are helping Jews, and he was burning to do something to help," Al-Kandari's brother, Abdullah, said.
Al-Kandari was born in 1981, his cousin in 1976, according to the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry.
The two attackers were buried yesterday.
A member of al-Kandari's clan, though not a close relative, is among 12 Kuwaitis held by U.S. forces in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said Khaled al-Oda, who heads a non-governmental group campaigning for the prisoners' release.
Several Kuwaitis have been tied to Osama bin Laden, whose group is blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks — most notably, al-Qaida spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who was stripped of his Kuwaiti citizenship in 2001, and Kuwaiti-born Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who is suspected of being a Sept. 11 mastermind.
On its Web site, the U.S. Embassy urged Americans in Kuwait to be vigilant.
Kuwait has been a Washington ally since a U.S.-led coalition liberated the emirate from Iraqi occupation in the 1991 Gulf War.
Two Palestinians killed in Gaza
The Associated Press
Sharon warns 'clouds of war are gathering
JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians in a clash in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, and in the West Bank soldiers started dismantling illegal Jewish settlement outposts.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned, meanwhile, that "clubs of war" were gathering over the region, a reference to a possible U.S. attack on Iraq.
The Gaza clash developed in a place where there are daily confrontations — the Gaza-Egypt border, which is patrolled by Israel under the largely ignored interim peace accords. Palestinian witnesses said soldiers in tanks opened fire with
machine guns at Palestinians throwing rocks at them from the Rafah refugee camp, killing two and wounding 17. The Israeli military said soldiers returned fire after gunmen shot at them.
In the 1991 Gulf war, Iraq fired 39 Scud missiles at Israel. Under intense U.S. pressure, Israel did not retaliate. This time, Israeli leaders have said they would hit back if the country suffered many casualties from an
Sharon visited an Israeli army base in the south of Israel and praised soldiers for defending "against the Palestinian and Arab terror."
In a reference to the growing likelihood that the United States will attack Iraq, Sharon said, "There are clouds of war that are casting a shadow over our region." Reading from a prepared text, he said, "I hope they won't reach us. But we have to know that if Israel is attacked, it will protect its citizens."
Settler leaders accused Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer of targeting the outposts for internal political reasons. Ben-Eliezer faces a tough battle for re-election as party chief in November, and his detractors allege that he moved against the outposts to win votes from the dovish wing of the party.
Iraqi attack.
Dozens of outposts have been established by settlers on isolated
Palestinians charge that all the settlements are illegal encroachments on land they claim for a state.
Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers dismantled two illegal Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank, angering settlers but not satisfying critics, who say that there are more than 100 illegal points on hilltops all over the West Bank. Officials said a third outpost was taken down, but it could not be confirmed. All the sites were uninhabited.
As foreign minister in 1998, ata time when his government was engaged in land-for-peace talks with the Palestinians, Sharon encouraged settlers to grab more hilltops.
West Bank hilltops since 1998, in hopes of thwarting the transfer of land to the Palestinians in a future peace deal.
The enclaves are typically a few miles away from established settlements and usually consist of shipping containers, mobile homes, a generator and a water tank. Soldiers have been deployed to guard the populated enclaves.
The Settlers' Council said dismantling the outposts was a "reward for terror." Many were set up at sites of Palestinian attacks on Jewish settlers.
The army has given settler leaders a list of dozens of settlement outposts the Defense Ministry has ordered dismantled. The ministry dismantled 11 outposts on June 30.
The Associated Press
LONDON — A voice recording of Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaida's fugitive second in command, appears to be genuine and to have been recorded in the last few weeks, a U.S. official said Wednesday. In the statement, he threatens the United States and its economy.
Audio tape suggests al-Oaida official alive
References to current events in the recording — obtained Tuesday by Associated Press Television News — are a clear sign that al-Zawahri is alive, the official said in Washington on condition of anonymity.
The voice recording would be the first proof that al-Zawahri survived U.S. bombing in Afghanistan launched a year ago. U.S. officials say they don't know if al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is alive, but in recent months U.S. troops
have been scouring the remote border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Al-Zawahri probably recorded the statement in the last few weeks, but it could have been made as early as August, the official said, adding that the recording was still being analyzed.
Al-Zawahri refers to a July 1 U.S. bombing in Afghanistan and speaks about the United States' campaign against Iraq, accusing Washington of seeking to subjugate the Arab world on behalf of Israel.
The recording was obtained by APTN in the form of a video compact disc. On the disc, an interview with al-Zawahri is played against a video backdrop with English subtitles of the conversation, along with scenes from the Sept. 11 attacks and other news footage.
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