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Thursday October 30,1997
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CAMPUS/AREA
An 18-year-old KU student reported an on-campus rape to KU police Monday. This is the fifth rape to be reported on campus this year.
STATE
LEAVENWORTH: it talked to the dog, ate mashed potatoes from a plate and even was pretty handy with the toothbrush. But then one day, Tilford, a 3-year-old African Grey congo parrot, flew away!
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON: American business stands to gain the most from President Clinton's meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin. The world's most populous country, bent on capitalism while paying lip service to communism, beckons for investments beyond the $15.7 billion in American money already at work there.
WASHINGTON: Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress yesterday that the stock market's sharp drop may well prove "a salutary event" and should help extend the economy's 61/2-year expansion.
GRIFIN, Ga.: Faced with outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli, scientists are developing a better way to protect food: killing deadly bacteria in the bowels of chickens and cattle before the animals even leave the farm.
INTERNATIONAL
BAGHADD, Iraq: Iraq delivered a new challenge to the United States yesterday, barring Americans from the U.N. disarmament effort in Iraq — a move that outraged the chief weapons inspector and prompted him to suspend inspections.
ZUWARAH, Libya: Returning to Libya for his second visit in a week, Nelson Mandela presented South Africa's highest award for a foreigner to Moammar Gadhafi yesterday, praising the Libyan ruler as "my dear brother leader."
CAMPUS/AREA
Student reports fifth on-campus rape of year
An 18-year-old KU student reported an on-campus rape to KU police Monday.
The student told police that an acquaintance had raped her between 2:30 and 3 a.m. Saturday in Oliver Hall. The student said she would not testify, and police could not comment about the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape.
—Kansan staff report
This is the fifth rape to be reported on the KU campus this year.
STATE
Parrot's disappearance ruffles owners' feathers
LEAVENWORTH — It talked to the dog, ate mashed potatoes from a plate and even was pretty handy with a toothbrush. But then one day, Tilford, a 3-year-old African Grey Congo parrot, flew away.
"I'm constantly out there looking for this bird," says Kim McDonald, 39. "I feel like he's somewhere out there still alive. I've gotta be out there looking to make myself feel better and so I can sleep."
Tilford, a predominantly gray bird with white around the eyes and a red tail, took flight from the McDonalds' back yard Oct. 10 and has not been seen since. The couple, who paid $400 for the bird in 1994, has offered $1,000 for its return. Tilford has a black identification bracelet on her left leg.
Tilford had made a habit of walking around the house, summoning Kim McDonald when she summoned "Mommy, I'm starving" — or greeting the couple's German Shepherd and Rottweller dogs with, "Hi, how are you doing' I'm Tilford."
While the dogs are pets, "The bird's our child," McDonald said.
Not only was the parrot chatty, but she had become quite handy with toothbrushes and utensils. Her favorite foods included mashed potatoes, pasta, peanuts and spaghetti sauce. She often liked to startle her owners by mimicking the ringing of the telephone.
"At first, we would get up to answer the phone, it sounded so much alike," Tim McDonald said. "She would get down off her perch, come down the hall to our bedroom, pull the covers off of us."
Tilford flew away after the McDonalds let her feathers grow. A veterinarian suggested that the bird was chewing its feathers because of nerves or frustration that she could not fly.
NATIONAL
Summit has little effect on rights policies in China
WASHINGTON — American business stands to gain the most from President Clinton's meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin. The world's most populous country, bent on capitalism while paying
lip service to communism, beckons for investments beyond the $15.7 billion in American money already at work there.
Christians said to be oppressed may not fare so well. There were no known releases timed to Jiang's visit, though three prominent American religious leaders were invited to visit China.
Pro-democracy activists in prison and Chinatown
"China has more Christian prisoners and detainees than any other country in the world," said Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom
House. She spoke amid demonstrations across from the White House where Clinton hailed Jiang at the first U.S.-Sino summit in 12 years as having lifted millions of Chinese from poverty.
Zemin: American business may gain the most from his meeting with Clinton.
Clinton, who had accused his predecessor, President Bush, of "codling" China despite human rights violations, appealed yesterday on the White House lawn for treating people with dignity — permitting them to express their beliefs and practice their faith. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, underscoring her own commitment to human rights, observed: "In our relations with China, engagement is not the same as endorsement."
Clinton's tack now is that the United States must deal with China and that to foster isolation would produce harmful results all around. He also hoped the meeting would mark a turning point in U.S.-China relations.
"On so many issues, China is on the right side of history," Clinton said, but not on human rights. "We have profound disagreements."
Jiang gave no ground, calling at a joint news conference for "mutual respect" and "noninterference in each other's affairs."
Stock-market drop could be blessing in disguise
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress yesterday that the stock market's sharp drop may well prove beneficial and should help extend the economy's 61/2-year expansion.
Are stocks still overpriced? "Things are less out of line, certainly, than they would have been," he said as Wall Street's rebound continued.
After months of warnings extending back to his December talk of "irrational exuberance," Greenspan put a positive spin on Monday's wrenching 554-point decline followed by Tuesday's 337-point rebound in the Dow Jones industrial average.
"It is quite conceivable that a few years hence we will look back at this episode, as we now look back at the 1987 crash, as a salutary event," he told Congress' Joint Economic Committee.
In 1987, the 22.6 percent Black Monday crash — slightly more than triple Monday's decline in percentage terms — neu
Greenspan said that Monday's drop, provided markets settled down, should help prolong the business expansion experienced during the past 6 1/2-years. By leaving investors less wealthy, the stock decline should dampen consumer spending, which has fueled unsustainably fast job growth that could lead to inflation.
tralized inflationary excesses then burning in the economy, he said.
New method prevents food contamination sooner
GRIFFIN, Ga. — Faced with outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli, scientists are developing a better way to protect food: killing deadly bacteria in the bowels of chickens and cattle before the animals even leave the farm.
"We've concentrated on the end product of food so long when we should be looking at how to stop it from being contaminated in the first place," said Lester M. Crawford, director of the Center for Food and Nutritional Quality at Georgetown University in Washington.
Salmonella, campylobacter and toxic forms of E. coli all get started in animals' intestines. These can spill out in the slaughterhouse and get into food.
Now, chickens are sprayed with chlorine and quick-chilled to retard bacteria. Inspectors touch, sniff and sometimes test animal carcasses for contamination. Another method, in which bacteria are killed with zaps of radiation, has proved too controversial for widespread use in this country.
In a lab in this Georgia town, food scientist Michael Doyle looked inside a cow's stomach for a way to kill E. coli 0157:H7, the mutant microbe blamed in the recall of 25 million pounds of ground beef this summer
Doyle found that several types of bacteria inside the cow make a repellent against E. coli 0157. So he took those bacteria from cattle droppings and tissue, grew the bacteria in the lab and fed the bacteria to calves in the calves' milk.
The bacteria not only wiped out E. coli 0157 in one group of calves within three weeks but also kept it from invading a second group, said Doyle, who runs the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety and Quality Enhancement.
INTERNATIONAL
Iraq bans United States from disarmament efforts
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq delivered a new challenge to the United States yesterday, barring Americans from the U.N. disarmament effort in Iraq — a move that outraged the chief weapons inspector and prompted him to suspend inspections.
The 10 American weapons inspectors, who are among 40 inspectors now in Iraq, are being told to leave within a week. Iraq also asked the United Nations to stop using U.S. reconnaissance planes to monitor Iraqi compliance in eliminating the weapons.
Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said Americans must not participate in the inspections "until America reconsiders its oppressive policy and its aggressive behavior to the people of Iraq, and its policy of espionage and intervention."
The United States and Great Britain, allied against Iraq during the 1991 Persian Gulf War and afterward in insisting that Baghdad destroy its weapons of mass destruction, were outraged. Richard Butler, Australian chief inspector, said U.N. employees would continue office work but conduct no field operations.
"I'm not prepared to have this work continue on the basis that Iraq can say to us which person from which country is or isn't acceptable," Butler said. "Who's next? Today the United States, tomorrow the United Kingdom? This is wrong."
Gadhafi receives award during South African visit
The meeting, coming so quickly after the last one, prompted speculation that the South African president was trying to mediate an end to the 5-year-old U.N. sanctions against Libya.
ZUWARAH, Libya — Returning to Libya for his second visit in a week, Nelson Mandela presented South Africa's highest award for a foreigner to Moammar Gadhafi yesterday, praising the Libyan ruler as "mear brother leader."
Mandela was accompanied by foreign reporters, so his visit gave Gadhafi a platform to heap scorn upon the United States. As with his previous stop in Libya and earlier visits to Cuba, the trip demonstrated Mandela's willingness to risk U.S. ire in maintaining close relationships with old friends.
Libya and Cuba were among the countries that backed Mandela's African National Congress early in its underground struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
At a brief welcome ceremony with bagpipes, a guard raised a red Scottish tartan-plaid umbrella over Mandela's head yesterday to shield him from the sun. The two leaders linked hands as they walked toward a tent for a five-minute meeting.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's 1998 Kansas license plate was stolen between 12:30 and 9:30 a.m. Tuesday from the 800 block of Michigan Street, Lawrence police said. The plate was valued at $5.
A KU student's specialized Rockhopper Sport mountain bike and other items were stolen between Aug. 15 and Aug. 21 from the 900 block of Arkansas Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $1,935.
A KU student's Kicken box with unidentified items and a compact disc case with compact discs were stolen and jeep rear window was damaged between 3 and 4:10 a.m. Monday in the 1100 block of Louisiana Street, Lawrence police said. The items and damage were estimated at $1,490.
A KU student's parking permit was stolen between 9 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. Oct, 23 from lot 9, KU police said. The permit was valued at $35.
A KU student's parking permit was stolen between 10:30 a.m. Sunday and 10 a.m. Monday from lot 101, KU police said. The permit was valued at $75.
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