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The Inside Front
Friday October 31,1997
News
from campus, the state,the nation and the world
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON — Confronting some of his harshest critics, Chinese President Jiang Zemin defended Beijing's human rights record yesterday amid blunt questions about allegations of forced abortions, religious persecution and the sale of organs from executed prisoners.
WASHINGTON — For more than a year, the White House kept documents from Congress that said President Clinton wanted a computer database built with federal money to include his contributors and be integrated with the Democratic Party.
ROBY, III. — An apparently deranged woman who held police at bay for more than five weeks was captured yesterday when she ventured outside her home, ending an armed standoff that right-wingers had dubbed "Roby Ridge."
CARLISLE, Iowa — For at least four months, the folks of Carlisle had kept a little secret: Their own Bobbi McCaughey was expecting seven babies.
INTERNATIONAL
BOGOTA, Colombia — Taking a page from ancient Greek drama, Colombia's military commander is asking the lovers of this country's guerrillas to on move: no sex until a peace treaty is signed.
KAJIADO, Kenya — After 13 years of abuse,
Agnes wilyiankoi, a 30-year-old Maasai woman defied the tradition that she silently submit: She took her husband to court. The case is rare in a country where wife-beating is not only prevalent but also largely condoned.
Memorial scheduled for student service director
A remembrance service for Gerald Harris, director of International Student Services, is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Monday at Room 130, Budig Hall.
Harris died Oct. 2 from a heart attack.
Daphne Johnston, interim director for the office, said the service would be a time for people to get together and express their appreciation for Harris.
"People' need a way to say goodbye." Johnston said.
Chinese president defends record on human rights
WASHINGTON — Confronting some of his harshest critics, Chinese President Jiang Zemin defended Beijing's human rights record yesterday amid blunt questions about allegations of forced abortions, religious persecution and the sale of organs from executed prisoners.
Winding up a two-day visit to Washington, Jiang told members of Congress that since China opened to the world in the 1970s, "The Chinese people have enjoyed a much better life, and it has intensified efforts to improve democracy and the legal system."
From Capitol Hill to the White House, Democrats and Republicans closed ranks to raise candid concerns about China as Washington and Beijing end eight years of diplomatic estrangement.
House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Jiang was "very vigorous in defending some positions we don't agree with."
"He got it from the president and now he got it from Congress," said Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle a day after Jiang heard a lecture about human rights from President Clinton.
Jiang, the first Chinese leader welcomed in Washington since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, headed from Washington to Philadelphia to visit such symbols of American democracy as the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. Today, Jiang will be in New York, where he will step into the heart of American capitalism and ring the opening bell at the stock exchange.
Unlike Wednesday when hundreds protested in Lafayette Park, only a handful of demonstrators shadowed Jiang's stops yesterday in Washington. Protest leaders said they were focusing their efforts on rallies in Philadelphia.
Addressing American trade concerns, Jiang pledged to "open China still wider to the outside world."
Jiang, in his speech, said China had improved human rights and ended slavery in Tibet, comparing Beijing's action to "the liberation of black slaves in American history." After China's intervention, the people of Tibet are "living and working in happiness and contentment," the Chinese leader said.
White House database contained Clinton donors
WASHINGTON — For more than a year, the White House kept documents
from Congress that said President Clinton wanted a computer database built with federal money to include his contributors and be integrated with the Democratic Party.
The documents produced this week also include typed notes from a high-level White House meeting suggesting some alds did not think putting donor information in a government database was appropriate.
White House officials said those notes were written by one of the aides who helped build the database. They say that even though donor names were put in the database, built with at least $600,000 in federal money, it was never misused.
"In fact, it was used the way that every White House used lists of names and computer lists to organize accurate lists of people who the White House wanted to invite to official and social events," White House representative Barry Toiv said yesterday.
But the chairman of the House subcommittee that has investigated the issue angrily accused the White House of obstructing justice by withholding the documents for more than a year after they were discovered.
ROBY, III. — An apparently deranged woman who held police at bay for more than five weeks was captured yesterday when she ventured outside her home, ending an armed standoff that right-wingers had dubbed "Roby Ridge."
Deranged woman submits after five-week standoff
"She came out on the back deck in the back of her house," Sheriff Dick Mahan said. "She walked out far enough out that roopers were able to grab her."
Shirley Allen, 51, was taken to St. John's Hospital in Springfield, about 20 miles west.
No one was injured, Mahan said.
"She's safe and in the care of medical professionals," said State Police representative Pam Wieties.
The standoff in this small central Illinois town began Sept. 22 when Allen brandished a shotgun as her brother and sheriff's deputies tried to take her in for a court-ordered evaluation.
Allen's relatives said they had requested the exam because the retired nurse was depressed and paranoid after her husband died of pancreatic cancer in 1989, and her condition had gotten worse recently. She was even refusing to see or talk to her mother and brother.
The standoff became a rallying point for those who compared it to Ruby Ridge and Waco as an example of overseeable law enforcement. Others questioned the cost of the standoff — more than $20,000 a day, according to state police.
Police said Allen showed by her actions — which included shooting and wounding a police dog sent into her home Sunday, and talking to herself about suicide — that she was dangerous to herself and others.
She fired several shots during the stand-off, but the dog was the only casualty.
Over the weeks, police had tried to get her out of the green-frame farmhouse
She had fought off tear gas fired into her home by police by smearing her face with petroleum jelly and withstood bean bag bullets by wearing heavy layers of clothing. Allen had stepped out on her porch briefly earlier in the standoff, but not long enough for troopers to move in.
with tear gas, pepper spray and Barry Manilow music, along with a visit from a favorite stepdaughter.
Small-town gossip leaks seven-baby pregnancy
CARISLELE, Iowa — For at least four months, the folks of Carlisle had kept a little secret: Their own Bobbi McCaughey was expecting seven babies.
But when the pregnancy for the 29-year-old stay-at-home mom entered its 28th week — when doctors believed the fetuses had reached a viable stage — lips started to loosen in this Des Moines bedroom community of 3,200.
"I imagine at least half of the town knew and kept quiet," said florist LaVena Owens, who sent flowers to McCaughey's home and hospital room with discreet delivery men, leaving her name off the cards that were stuck in the arrangements. "These aren't just people, these are friends. That's the way our town operates."
Word leaked to local media Wednesday, and by nightfall the world knew of the pregnancy, a rare event. There are no known living sets of septuplets in the world; the last septuplet birth in the United States was in 1985.
While McCaughey's due date is not until mid-January, the babies could come at any time. She went into the hospital Oct. 15, and husband Kenny said they could be delivered next week.
"We didn't mean to be ornery, but we had to get them to the 28th week," Ms. Owens said. "We got to that magic 28th week, the whole town could take a sigh of relief. That's how it leaked out."
The McCaugheys are well-known around town through church activities and civic events.
INTERNATIONAL
No sex for soldiers until a peace treaty is signed
BOGOTA, Colombia — Taking a page from ancient Greek drama, Colombia's military commander is asking the lovers of this country's guerrillas to go on strike. No sex until a peace treaty is signed.
No sex until a peace treaty is signed.
"I think that by December they'll be tamed and they'll propose peace out of desperation," Gen. Manuel Jose Bonett, an armchair philosopher, said in tongue-in-cheek remarks broadcast yesterday by the Radleton network.
The idea comes from the Greek satirist Aristophanes, in whose "Lysistrata" Greek women decide to collectively deny their mates sex until they quit fighting the Peloponnesian war. Eventually, the Greek men could stand it no longer and signed a peace treaty.
Bonett said his proposed sex strike
would not apply to police or government soldiers. "We're not the agents of violence," he said.
Leftist guerrillas, fighting the Colombian government for more than three decades, have recently stepped up attacks and are posing their stiffest challenge ever.
They have refused a new peace initiative from President Ernesto Samper, whom they have called illegitimate because of the scandal linking him to contributions from drug cartels.
On Oct. 2, rebels tried to kill Bonett with a roadside bomb that dented his armored vehicle but left him unscathed.
Kenyan defies society by suing abusive husband
After 13 years of abuse, the 30-year-old Maasai woman defied the tradition that she silently submit: She took her husband to court.
KAJIADO, Kenya — Agnes Siyiankoi's husband used a wooden club the last time he beat her. She had to be carried to the hospital.
But far from being confined to the Maasai, wife-beating is a practice that cuts across class lines in Kenya, without regard to cultural, economic or educational differences. Although the practice, like any other form of assault, is illegal, women who complain face intense social pressure to conform.
The case is rare in a country where wifebeating is not only prevalent but also largely condoned.
Siyiakoi is a member of the Maasai, a southern Kenyan tribe that views women as property, first of their fathers, then of their husbands. Traditionally, the tribe's men use force to assert their authority, usually without protest from the women.
"When I run to my father's house after every severe beating, my mother comforts me and tells me to return to him," Siyankoi said.
In a recent survey by the Women Rights Awareness Program, a Kenyan advocacy group, 70 percent of the men and women interviewed said they knew neighbors who beat their wives. Nearly 60 percent said women were to blame for the beatings. Just 51 percent said men who beat their wives should be punished.
"Even in the few cases taken to court, most victims are pressured by relatives and friends to drop the charges, or settle the case out of court, or change the charge to that of minor assault," said Millie Odhiambo of the Kenyan branch of International Federation of Women Lawyers.
On The Record
A KU student's $100 and Porter cable plunge router were stolen between 5 p.m. Oct. 24 and 11 a.m. Saturday from room 217 in the Art and Design building, KU police said. The items were valued at $100.
A KU student's Kenwood amplifier was stolen between midnight and 3 p.m. Feb. 17 from the parking lot east of Sellards Scholarship Hall, KU police said. The amplifier was valued at $250.
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