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LAWRENCE FORECAST
Adam Smith and Colin Thompson KU atmospheric science students
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011
Thursday
HI: 53 Lots of sunshine. Winds
LO: 33 will be out of the southwest
between 5-15 mph.
The sun is calling your name, go bask!
Friday
HI: 60 Clear skies but breazy conditions with winds out of the southwest 15-20 mph.
LO: 46
Hold on to your hats.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Saturday
HI: 66 Partly cloudy skies especially in the afternoon with breezes out of the southwest 15-25 mph.
LO: 34
Great day to go to a movie.
HI: 47
L0: 35
Sunday
:47 Partly to mostly cloudy with the chance of a few sprinkles midday.
:35 20 percent chance of precipitation. Winds from the north at 10-15 mph
Today is the University's 10th Annual GIS Day. It is free and open to the public — anyone with an interest in maps and map ping can come. Check www.gis.ksu.edu.
Save your homework for today!
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NEWS AROUND THE WORLD
MEXICO CITY
The charismatic and combative leftist who paralyzed the streets of Mexico City after narrowly losing the country's last presidential election will make another run next year after winning an opinion poll released by his party on Tuesday.
A hugely popular candidate in 2006, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador now is seen as a long shot to stop Mexico's old Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, from regaining the presidency in 2012.
Enrique Pena Nieto, the telegenic leading candidate for the PRI, is far ahead of his potential rivals, topping Lopez Obrador by 23 points in an October poll. But Lopez Obrador has a core of passionate supporters who say he was cheated of victory in 2006 and who often refer to him as Mexico's legitimate president.
The Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, is the first of Mexico's three major parties to select a candidate for the campaign, which legally can't begin until February. Lopez Obrador's main rival for the nomination, Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, said he would support the results of the poll, which asked 6,000 voters of all parties which man they preferred.
Lopez Obrador, 58, said his first task would be to unify the country's array of left-leaning parties, something that should be easy since two of the main small parties have been openly promoting his candidacy with radio and television advertisements for more than a year.
PARIS
Six Somali men went on trial in a Paris court Tuesday accused of hijacking a sailboat in 2008, and holding the husband-and-wife crew hostage in the hope of a multimillion dollar ransom.
The trial is the first in France to judge alleged pirates, who have made a lucrative business of capturing foreign vessels around the Gulf of Aden and elsewhere.
French navy commandos raided the vessel two weeks later, killing one man and capturing six of the estimated 20 others on board.
The men — aged between 20 and 36 years old, who describe themselves as fisherman, electricians, students or jobless — have been brought to France for trial.
Jean-Yves and Bernadette Delane — now aged 63, and living in French Polynesia — were en route to France from Australia when their 16-meter (52.5-foot) sailboat, Carre d'As, was boarded Sept. 2, 2008.
Six other men will go on trial May 2012 charged in connection with the April 2008 sea hijacking of the 288-foot (88-meter) luxury sailyacht, Le Ponant, and holding its 30-member crew hostage. Six others escaped in that operation.
The couple were not present for the trial, expected to last until the end of the month.
Of the six men, three are charged with hijacking the vessel and all six charged with taking the couple hostage — "stopping, kidnapping and sequestering" — as part of an organized gang with the prospect of receiving a ransom. They risk life in prison if convicted.
BEIRUT
Army defectors ambushed dozens of Syrian troops and regime forces gunned down civilians during one of the bloodiest days of the country's 8-month-old uprising, which appeared Tuesday to be spiraling out of President Bashar Assad's control.
Up to 90 people were killed in a grusome wave of violence Monday, activists said. The extent of the bloodshed only came to light Tuesday, in part because corpses lying in the streets did not reach the morgue until daylight
As the bloodshed spiked, Assad's former allies were turning on him in rapid succession — a sign of profound impatience with a leader who has failed to stem months of unrest.
Turkey, Jordan and the 22-member Arab League all signaled they were fed up with Assad's response and were ready to pressure him to go.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday he no longer has confidence in the government led by Assad, a 46-year-old eye doctor who inherited power from his father 11 years ago.
"No regime can survive by killing or jailing," said Erdogan, who cultivated close ties with Assad before the uprising began in March. "No one can build a future over the blood of the oppressed."
Erdogan warned Assad that his brutal crackdown on opponents threatens to place him on a list of leaders who "feed on blood."
TEHRAN. Iran
Banners proclaiming Iran's "obvious right" to nuclear technology are draped over building facades. State media describe the head of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency as an American puppet and dismiss claims about nuclear weapons advances as made-in-USA falsehoods.
At Tehran University, a group of students started a petition urging Iran to withdraw from an international treaty regulating nuclear development.
There's no doubt Iran carefully stage manages much of its backlash to Western pressures over its nuclear efforts. But not all.
Iran's defiance remains one of the few patches of common ground in a nation with multiple divisions; Hard-liners against opposition groups; power struggles between the ruling clerics and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, infighting among various parliament factions.
"Iranians don't agree on much these days, but you could say the nuclear issue is one where they more or less speak in a common voice," said William O. Beeman, a University of Minnesota professor who follows Iranian affairs.
He said that gave some breathing room to Iran's ruling system.
"That's a big advantage," he said. "They can concentrate on the fight with the U.S. and others and — with this case at least — don't have to deal with internal tensions."
The next step comes later this week when the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency board meets in Vienna and could refer the report to the U.N. Security Council.
EMPLOYMENT
Kansan editor-in-chief business manager named
The Kansan Board has named Ian Cummings, a graduate student from Overland Park, as spring 2012 editor-
in-chief. Cummings is currently an assignment editor for The Kansan. Previously, he reported for The Kansan, covering volleyball last fall and science and technology last spring.
The Kansan Board also hired Garrett Lent, a senior from Wichita, as spring 2012 business manager. Lent is the current business manager. Lent has also held positions as a zone manager and account executive at The Kansan.
Applications for other spring positions will be posted on jobs.ku.edu within the next couple of weeks. If you have questions about editorial positions for the spring semester semester, email Cummings at icmumnings@
kansan.com. If you have questions about advertising positions, email Lent at glent@kansan.com.
— Kelly Stroda