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The Inside Front
Monday November 10, 1997
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS/AREA
A transient man remained in Douglas County Jail yesterday following a shooting on Friday that sent two Lawrence residents to the hospital.
STATE
WICHITA: Big crop yields and rising farm income have the value of Kansas farmland going up — a trend that has farmers feeling bullish in an industry that not long ago was a gamble.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON: President Clinton appealed again yesterday for the votes to squeak trade legislation through the House. He reassured Democrats he won't trade a matter of principle in the search for Republican votes.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.: If Theodore Kaczynski is convicted as the Unabomber, he will have painstakingly crafted the prosecution's most damaging weapons himself.
SALEM, Ore.: Now that Oregon voters have upheld the state's assisted-suicide law, doctors face some vexing questions.
INTERNATIONAL
BAGHDAD, Iraq: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declared yesterday that his country had to choose between sacrifice or slavery, suggesting that a confrontation with the United States might be inevitable.
CAMPUS/AREA
Suspect remains in custody for shooting friend, father
Two Lawrence residents were hospitalized Friday following a domestic dispute at 1725 Tennessee St.
Margaret Kimball, 30, was listed in fair condition yesterday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and Maurice Kimball, 55, was released Friday night after being treated for gunshot wounds.
Margaret KImball was shot in the left wrist, and Maurice Kimball was shot in the left arm.
Bobby Riley, a 27 year-old transient and former acquaintance of Margaret Kimball's, was charged Friday afternoon in Douglas County Court with two counts of attempted first-degree murder and felony possession of a firearm. He is being held in the Douglas County jail on a $200,000 bond. As of last night, Riley was still in jail.
Sgt. Susan Hadl of the Lawrence police said the dispute had occurred while Maurice Kimbala was helping his daughter move. Hadl said Riley allegedly entered the apartment, argued with the two and then shot them.
Lawrence police received a call from Margaret Kimball's neighbor about 11 a.m.
When Lawrence police arrived, Riley fled the scene and was pursued on foot for about 15 minutes. Hadi said.
He was apprehended between the University's Computer Services Facility and Robinson Center, she said. Riley was not carrying a weapon when police apprehended him.
Lawrence police are offering a $100 reward to anyone who finds the weapon allegedly used in the assault.
Kansan staff report
STATE
Farmland value grows with yields and income
WICHITA — Big crop yields and rising farm income have the value of Kansas farmland going up, a trend that has farmers feeling bullish in an industry that not long ago was a gamble.
Just 10 years ago, buying farmland wasn't considered a savvy financial move. Land prices dropped in half during the farm financial crisis of the mid-1980s, cutting the value of the primary asset owned by most farmers and ranchers.
Now, land values are on a 10-year run of nearly continuous increases, fueled most recently in Kansas by spectacular crop yields and a corresponding surge in farm income.
The 1997 survey of land values by Kansas Agricultural Statistics shows an average increase of 4 percent from 1996.
Monty Meusch, vice president of Farmers National Co. in Omaha, the nation's largest farm management firm said many buy farms as an alternative to stocks and bonds.
"It's not big corporations coming in and
'it's not肥up farms. It's individuals who
already own a 160- or 320-acre farm, they've got cash to invest, and they like being in farmland," Meusch said.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — If Theodore Kaczynski is convicted as the Unabomber, he will have painstakingly crafted the prosecution's most damaging weapons himself.
Journals may shatter defense for Unabomber
NATIONAL
The journals the former mathematics professor so meticulously kept are at the core of the government's evidence. They are attempting to prove Kaczynski carried out a deadly, 17-year bombing spree that, at its height, disrupted air travel and the U.S. mail.
Those writings alone might come close to carrying the prosecution case. But investigators found a treasure trove of other evidence in his cabin along with the journals:
The original manuscript of the Unabomber manifesto
Unabomber-style explosive device
The nine-digit code known only to the Unabomber and to those he corresponded with
a DNA saliva match on stamps taken from two Unabomber letters.
Kaczynski, 55, faces trial Nov. 12 for four bombings that killed two Sacramento men and maimed two San Francisco Bay-area academics. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.
Oregon voters rescue law for assisted suicide
SALEM, Ore. — Now that Oregon voters have upheld the state's assisted-suicide law, doctors face some vexing questions: How can they determine whether someone has fewer than six months to live, as the law requires? Can they say with certainty that a patient is free of depression and able to make a rational decision to ask for suicide pills? Will the terminally ill feel pressure to end their lives because they lack adequate care?
“This is new for everybody,” said James Kronenberg of the Oregon Medical Association. “Would the typical physician be prepared to proceed with this today? I think the answer is probably no.”
Three years ago Oregon became the first state to approve a death-by-prescription law, but legal challenges had kept the law from being used. The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a challenge to Oregon's law, and last week voters defeated a measure to repeal it. The state claims the law is in effect.
The law says terminally ill people can ask their doctors for prescriptions for lethal medicine. A 15-day waiting period is required between a patient's first request for the drugs and the time the pills can be obtained from a pharmacist.
The law specifically forbids lethal injections, a provision that sponsors included to make sure voters didn't see assisted suicide as a form of euthanasia, or so-called mercy killings in which one person
BAGHADD, Iraq — Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declared yesterday that his country had to choose between sacrifice or slavery, suggesting that a confrontation with the United States might be inevitable.
takes another's life.
INTERNATIONAL Confrontation looms as Hussein's threats escalate
His strident comments came as Iraq barred U.N. weapon inspection teams that included Americans for a seventh day and sent its deputy prime minister to argue its case before the U.N. Security Council.
More ominously, the statement came as Iraq has threatened to shoot down an American U-2 spy plane scheduled to resume flights over the country today.
Saddam said Iraq had been put in a position where it had to choose either to live honorably and with dignity or to face all the possibilities.
Films of the U.N. inspection teams' activities in Iraq showed how much material and psychological harm the people of Iraq have endured, according to a statement on Iraqi television, carried also by the British Broadcasting Corp.
—The Associated Press
ON CAMPUS
The Tae Kwan Do Club will practice from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. today, Wednesday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and Friday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. All practices are in 207 Robinson.
Contact: Adam Capron, 842-911-721
The KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow in the Sunflower Room,
Burage Union, Contact Pamir: 847-736-3
The KU Roller Hockey Club will have a team meeting and practice 9 p.m. Oct. 28 at Sport 2 Sport. Contact: Sean Cosgrove, 864-8243 or Stu Costlow, 749-4557.
The Feminist Union will meet at 1 p.m. Sunday in the Governor's Room, Kansas Union. Contact: Jan Kelner. 331-2514.
**Proponents of Animal Liberation will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Oread Room, Kansas Union. Contact: Michael Schmitt, 838-4369.**
The Native American Student Association will meet at 7 p.m. tonight in the Multicultural Resource Center. Contact Lori Hauwell, 841-5852 or Regina Grass, 832-2569.
OAKS will have Brow Bag Lunches from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union in Alcove E on Tuesday and in Alcove A on Wednesday. A Halloween Party for JTTA, SNA and OAKS members on Friday in the ARC and Courtyard will include children's activities from 5 to 7 p.m. and adult fun from 7 to 9 p.m. Contact: Susan Randall at OAKS office 864-7317.
The Christian Science Organization will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Alcove A, Kansas Union. The topic of discussion is protection from contagious diseases.
Student television KUU will te
"Speak Your Mind" between 1 and 3 p.m. tomorrow in the fourth-floor lobby of the Kansas Union. Contact: Hilary Johnston, 749-1478.
The International Student Services and the University Placement Center will hold Career Employment and Job-Seeking Skills, A Workshop for International Students at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the Daisy Hill Room of the Burge Union. This will include tips for successful cover letters, resumes, job applications and interviews. Contact Lyme Vaughan. B4-3617
The Office of International Programs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Center for Russian and East European Studies will meet from 4 to 6 p.m. tonight in the Centennial Room, Kansas Union. The lecturer will be Yuri Shapoval, Historian Institute of Archaeography, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiew; and Major General Volodymyr Pyristykhe Deputy Director, Ukrainian Security Service. Contact: Bette Luther, 864-4236.
Student television KUJH will tape
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's Motorola cellular phone was stolen between 8 p.m. Wednesday and 11 a.m. Thursday from the 900 block of Vermont, Lawrence police said. The item was valued at $400.
A KU student's driver's side exterior mirror was damaged at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 3 in the 4400 block of W. 24th Place, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $100.
A KU student's driver's side window was damaged and Alpine three-disc changer compact disc player and other items stolen between 5 p.m. Oct. 20 and 10 a.m. Oct. 27 from the 1400 block of Tennessee, Lawrence police said. The damage and items were valued at $2,100.
A KU student's dashboard was damaged and Pioneer compact disc player stolen between 1 a.m. Nov. 3 and 11 a.m. Tuesday from the 2400 block of Ponderosa, Lawrence police said. The damage and item were valued at $700.
A KU student's Pioneer cassette car stereo, speakers and other items were stolen between 10 p.m. Oct. 10 and 2:15 a.m. Oct. 11 from the 700 block of New Hampshire, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $347.
A KU student's Columbia ski coat, key ring and three keys were stolen between midnight and 2 a.m. Thursday from the 600 block of Massachusetts, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $170.
A KU employee's parking permit was stolen between noon and 1 p.m. Thursday from the 3500 block of Clinton Parkway, Lawrence police said. The permit was valued at $25.
- The hood of a KU student's red 1991 Pontiac Sunbird was damaged between 10 p.m. Wednesday and 8:15 a.m. Thursday in the 1400 block of Ohio, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $500.
A KU student's driver's side mirror was damaged between 3 p.m. Oct. 29 and 8 a.m. Wednesday in the 1500 block of Vermont, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $145.
A KU student's Panasonic compact disc player stereo and other items were stolen between 11 p.m. Oct. 30 and 7 a.m. Oct. 31 from the 1100 block of Ohio, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $695.
A KU student's Motorola cellular phone was stolen between 4 and 7 p.m. Oct. 19 from the 900 block of Iowa, Lawrence police said. The item was valued at $150.
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