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Thursday November 6,1997
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CAMPUS/AREA
A masturbating man exposed himself to two KU students Monday morning in the parking lot of Perkins restaurant. The man, 40 to 50 years old, was sitting in a silver or gray Honda. Police do not have a lead in the incident.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON: President Clinton recommended patience yesterday in dealing with Iraq, but Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stressed there would be no negotiations with Saddam Hussein about U.N. overflights. She said the flights would resume next week.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.: In a bizarre Whitewater discovery, a repair-shop owner opened the trunk of a tornado-damaged car and found a cashier's check for more than $20,000 payable to Bill Clinton from his former partner's savings and loan, grand jury witnesses say.
WASHINGTON: Off-year elections produced runaway GOP victories with critical lessons for candidates in 1998: raise money aggressively, pledge to cut taxes and try not to rile the religious right.
WASHINGTON: Long a stepchild in American medicine, the ancient Chinese needle therapy acupuncture got a limited endorsement yesterday from federal experts for treatment of some types of pain and nausea.
WASHINGTON: Standardized reading and math tests will be given to American schoolchildren under a tentative agreement reached yesterday by President Clinton and congressional Republicans. But the tests may not be the ones Clinton wanted.
INTERNATIONAL
PARIS: Striking truckers uprep up their first barricades in Paris yesterday, briefly disrupting traffic in the French capital, while unions and owners held talks aimed at ending the 3-day-old strike.
CAMPUS/AREA
Masturbating man reveals himself to two KU students
A masturbating man exposed himself to two KU students Monday morning in the parking lot of Perkins Restaurant.
A 20-year-old student and her 23-year-old friend, also a student, were leaving the restaurant, 1711 W. 23rd St., at 10:27 a.m.
They noticed a man between 40 and 50 years old sitting in a silver or gray Honda. The man had exposed himself and was masturbating, the students told police.
The man's car had been backed into one of the Perkins parking lot stalls. The women called the police, but the man had gone before officers arrived. Police do not have a suspect in the incident.
Kanson staff report
NATIONAL
Hussein continues to bar U.S. inspectors from Iraq
WASHINGTON — President Clinton recommended patience yesterday in dealing with Iraq, but Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stressed there would be no negotiations with Saddam Hussein on U.N. overflights. She said that the flights would resume next week.
Hussein has barred U.S. members of an international inspection team three times from entering the Persian Gulf country to look for biological and chemical weapons ingredients.
Three U.N. diplomats were in Baghdad yesterday and met for two hours with Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and other senior Iraqi officials. Albright said that their mission was limited to telling Saddam he had to fulfill his obligation to the United Nations and permit the search to proceed — including American monitors.
Clinton said inspecting Iraqi facilities required long-term patience and discipline.
"Let's try to hold onto this inspection regime because that is the most peaceful way of dealing with this and permitting everyone to go on with their lives." he said.
The United Nations, meanwhile, postponed flights of U.S. U-2 surveillance planes until tomorrow while the diplomats from Algeria, Argentina and Sweden were in Baghdad.
Clinton warned Iraq earlier in the week that any interference with the resumed surveillance would not be tolerated.
Found check may link Clinton to Whitewater
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — In a bizarre Whitewater discovery, a repair-shop owner opened the trunk of a tornado-damaged car and found a cashier's check for more than $20,000 payable to Bill Clinton from his former partner's savings and loan, grant jury witnesses said.
The discovery this spring of the 1982 check and thousands of other documents missing for a decade has opened a new line of inquiry. Prosecutors now question
whether Clinton testified accurately about his relationship with James and Susan McDougal and their failed Arkansas &JL
The president swore under oath last year that he never borrowed any money from the McDougals' failing Madison Guaranty S&J
Witnesses said markings on the cashier's check, which bears no Clinton endorsement, suggest that the source of the funds was McDougal's S&L and that the proceeds may have been deposited in one of two Arkansas banks where the Clintons did business.
The president's private lawyer scoffed at the discovery yesterday.
"Documents found in the trunk of an old and long-abandoned used car may have the authenticity and credibility of a newly-discovered and freshly-written Elvis autobiography," attorney David Kendall said.
Kendall's statement, however, onered no explanation why a check for such a loan would have been made out to Clinton.
WASHINGTON — Off-year elections produced runaway GOP victories with critical lessons for candidates in 1998; raise money aggressively, pledge to cut taxes and try not to rile the religious right.
Republican candidates sweep off-year elections
Republicans retained their grasp on governor's offices in Virginia and New Jersey, New York's city hall and the sole congressional seat up for grabs Tuesday night.
Yesterday, GOP leaders were licking their chops at the thought of the next election cycle, when all 435 House seats, 34 in the Senate, and 36 governorships will be up for grabs. Democrats had only wounds to lick
His counterpart among Democrats, Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, acknowledged, "We must do better."
"Can't wait 'til' 98." declared Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
Jim Gilmore carried Virginia Republicans to an unprecedented sweep of the state's top executive branch offices. New Jersey Gov. Christine Whitman barely eked out victory, casting a cloud on her national ambitions.
In New York, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani wiped out his opponent and became the first Republican mayor to win a second term since Fiorello LaGuardia in 1941. New York City Councilman Vito Fossella kept Staten Island's seat in Congress in Republic hands.
Chinese acupuncture is endorsed by experts
WASHINGTON — The stepchild of American medicine, acupuncture, got a limited endorsement yesterday from federal experts for treatment of some types of pain and nausea.
A committee of medical experts selected by the National Institutes of Health cited clear evidence that acupuncture effectively treats pain after surgery or dental procedures and controls nausea and vomiting caused by cancer chemotherapy or pregnancy.
David J. Ramsay, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore and chairman of the NIH panel, said that the treatment did work for those limited uses.
According to the committee report, evidence has been found that acupuncture also works in some patients for tennis elbow, muscle pain and menstrual cramps, but the studies lack convincing proof. The report recommended more research.
"I view this as a beginning to a better integration of acupuncture into traditional Western medicine and to start to take it seriously," Ramsay said.
"For the first time, there is a public statement from the Health and Human Services that acupuncture might have a role in treating certain health problems," said Helga Well-Apelt, a physician who uses Chinese medicine in her Sarasota, Fla., practice.
President, Congress reach standardized-test accord
WASHINGTON — Standardized reading and math tests will be given to American schoolchildren under a tentative agreement reached yesterday by President Clinton and congressional Republicans. But the tests may not be the ones Clinton wanted.
Clinton agreed with House Republican leaders on a compromise that would delay test availability until 2000. But he cautioned that more work would be needed to make the deal final. And the chief House negotiator, Rep. Bill Goodling, R-Pa, a number of details remained to be worked out.
Clinton said that the agreement should accomplish his goal of ensuring that fourth-graders are tested in reading and eighth-graders in math using identifiable national standards.
"My concern was to have some sort of clearly accepted standard of excellence that all our children would be expected to meet in reading and math," Clinton told reporters after meeting at the White House with Goodling, chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee.
Under the agreement, the government may continue limited development of the voluntary national tests it wanted to give starting in 1999. However, no field trials of the new tests would be allowed.
Instead, the independent National Academy of Sciences would conduct a study to determine whether existing state tests and widely used commercial tests can be adapted and compared for the same purpose.
INTERNATIONAL
French truckers strike, block commercial traffic
PARIS — Striking truckers threw up their first barricades in Paris yesterday, briefly disrupting traffic in the French capital, while unions and owners held talks aimed at ending the 3-day-old strike.
Union leaders expressed optimism as they went into the talks, and owners reportedly made a concession on the way work hours are calculated.
Strikers have built about 150 barricades since the strike began Sunday night — in most cases letting private motorists through while halting commercial traffic. Gasoline stations were dry along much of
France's Atlantic Coast, and irritation was increasing in neighboring countries. Food and fish were starting to spoil, garbage was going uncollected in at least one major city and some factories were short of parts.
On the British side of the English Channel, up to 400 trucks were waiting for ferries overnight, with 10-hour delays common.
Up until now, Parisians largely had been spared. But yesterday, a few truckers blocked the highway around the capital, snarling rush hour traffic for an hour. Police persuaded the truckers to dispense
New contract talks offered hope of an agreement. For the first time since the strike began, the Union of Transport Federations, which represents 80 percent of the nation's trucking companies, agreed to take part.
Before dawn, hooded men with steel bars and baseball bats attacked a group of striking truckers in the southern city of Vitrolles, injuring three people, one of them seriously.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's Rolex sterling silver watch was stolen between 12:02 p.m. Oct. 13 and noon Oct. 20 from the city at large, Lawrence police said. The watch was valued at $2,000.
A KU student's JVC compact disc stereo was stolen and driver's side door damaged between 9 p.m. Oct. 22 and 8 a.m. Oct. 23, Lawrence police said. The item and damage were valued at $450.
A KU student's blue Schwinn men's bike was stolen at 1 p.m. Saturday from the 1800 block of Alabama Street, Lawrence police said. The bike was valued at $150.
A KU student's wood door jam was damaged between 5:30 and 9 p.m. Monday in the 500 block of California Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $100.
A KU student's door was damaged between 11:45 p.m. Sunday and 10 a.m. Monday in the 4700 block of Ranch Court, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $100.
A KU student's door was damaged between 5:30 p.m. Sunday and 10 a.m. Monday in the 4700 block of Ranch Court, Lawrence police code. The door was broken.
A KU student's blue 1977 Jeep was stolen between 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Saturday from the 500 block of West 22nd Street, Lawrence police said. The Jeep was valued at $500.
A KU student's Sony compact disc player was stolen and driver's side rear window and door frame damaged between 7 p.m. Oct. 30 and 9 a.m. Friday, Lawrence police said. The item and damage were estimated at $200
A KU student's right side passenger window was damaged between 2 p.m. Oct. 28 and 11 a.m. Saturday from a parking lot behind Sellards Scholarship Hall, KU police said. The damage was estimated at $1.50
A KU student's convertible top was damaged between 8:30 p.m. Monday and 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in a lot behind Joseph R. Pearson Residence Hall, KU police said. The damage was estimated at $600
■ An antique glass medicine bottle with a "Heroin" label on it was stolen between 5 p.m. Oct. 27 and 9 a.m. Friday from room 2056 Malet Hall, KU police said. The item was valued at $50.
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