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The Inside Front
Monday October 27,1997
News
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CAMPUS/AREA
The Chancellor's Club gave awards to two University of Kansas professors and recognized the 1.0 freshmen at the University with scholarships Friday.
Assistant journalism professor Linda Davis was chosen to receive the 1997 H.O.P.E. Award by the University of Kansas Board of Class Officers. Joy Benedict, senior class president, said that they had chosen Davis because of her approachability and outgoing personality.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON: Chinese President Jiang Zemin will get a full picture of how Americans feel about China's human rights record, both from protest demonstrations outside and tough talk inside the White House, Madeleine Albright said yesterday.
WASHINGTON: Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin pledged U.S. support for troubled Southeast Asian economies yesterday but warned not to expect a Mexico-style bailout by the United States.
WASHINGTON: As a Nov. 7 adjournment approaches, political wringling continues to hold back congressional progress. An Internal Revenue Service overhaul bill, a challenge to President Clinton's veto of a ban on certain late-term abortions and a bill to implement the tobacco-litigation settlement already have been deferred.
OMAHA, Neb. Particularly bountiful corn, wheat and groundbean crops are piling on the soil because a railroad traffic jam between the nation's fields and key grain ports on the Gulf of Mexico has spread along the rails of the newly enlarged Union Pacific.
INTERNATIONAL
BOGOTA, Colombia: Amid heavy security, Colombians voted for state and local offices yesterday in elections marred by a rebel sabotage campaign that has killed dozens of candidates and scared thousands more into withdrawing.
CAMPUS/AREA
Chancellor's Club awards top professors, freshmen
The Chancellor's Club awarded teaching and research awards to two University of Kansas professors and named 10 freshmen students Friday night.
scholars Friday night.
The group, which consists of donors of $1,000 or more to the University, selected David Morrison, professor of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology, for its 1997 research award. The group selected Marilyn Stokstad, professor of art history, for its 1997 career teaching award.
Hemenway: His club awarded some of the brightest.
Both professors
resolved $5,000 in addit
Both processors received $5,000 in addition to the award.
received $5,000 in addition to the award.
Ten University freshmen were named
1997-98 Chancellor's Club Scholars and
received scholarships.
The five Kansas recipients were: Scott Clark, Wichita, Amy Hubert, Concordia, Addie Schroeder, Lenexa, Jonathan Williams, Manhattan, and Nathan Willis, Sterling.
Out-of-state recipients were: Jessica Ostrom, Independence, Mo., Robert Reddig, Kansas City, Mo., Michael Newman, Ponca City, Okla., Kathryn Anderson, Tulsa, Okla., and Amanda Smith, Crooks, S.D.
H.O.P.E. Award bestowed upon assistant professor
Linda Davis, assistant professor of journalism, receive the 1997 H.O.P.E. Award.
The award recognizes an Honorable standing Progressive Educator and is given annually by the Board of Class officers.
Davis was chosen because of her approachability and outgoing personality, said Joy Benedict, Lawrence senior and class president.
"We had a lot of respect for her because she seemed very personable," Benedict said. "She seemed like the kind of professor that people could talk to outside of class."
Davis' 11-year-old son, Jed, accepted the award on her behalf at the football game Saturday. Davis was out of town.
Seven award finalists were chosen by the Board of Class Officers and presented at the football game. Other finalists were: Allen Ford, professor of business; Theodore Johnson Jr., professor of French and Italian; Craig Martin, professor of botany; Felix Moos, professor of anthropology; Tom Volek, associate professor of journalism and Kim Wilcox, professor of speech language and hearing.
-Kansan staff reports
NATIONAL
China president's visit to U.S. sparks protests
Jiang Zemin will get a full picture of now Americans feel about China's human rights record, both from protest demonstrations outside and tough talk inside the White House, Madeleine Albright said yesterday.
Jiang, who arrived yesterday in Honolulu to begin the first U.S. visit by a Chinese leader in twelve years, is expected to face protest rallies at each of his stops in Williamsburg, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Los Angeles.
Christian groups were to kick off the demonstrations Sunday with a prayervigil across from the White House to protest religious persecution in China and that country's abortion policies.
"Everywhere he goes in the United States, President Jiang Zemin is going to meet with protesters. He's going to see and hear American voices on this. I can't think of anything better than that," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., on CNN's "Late Edition."
WASHINGTON — Chinese President
U.S. promises to support failing Asian economies
Jiang, who rose to power in the Chinese Communist Party hierarchy in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, meets Clinton Wednesday for talks expected to cover trade, weapons proliferation, Taiwan, drug trafficking and the environment as well as human rights.
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin pledged U.S. support for troubled Southeast
Asian economies yesterday but warned not to expect a Mexicostyle bailout by the United States.
Speaking days after tumult in the Hong Kong
stock market shook the financial world, Rubin said outside help must be directed mainly through multinational agencies. He stressed the key to a lasting solution lies in the region.
"The countries themselves have to reestablish sound policy regimes," he said on ABC's "This Week."
Thailand was forced to devalue its currency in July, and since then other nations in the region have experienced plunging currency values. Last week, a sharp rise in interest rates in Hong Kong prompted a sell-off that shook markets around the world.
The sell-off at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday and Friday hit companies that do business in Asia especially hard and left the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 130 points.
"I think the world community is clearly strong enough to overcome this problem," Rubin said. But he said more money from international financial agencies financed by the United States and others may be needed.
Already deferred are an overhaul bill for the Internal Revenue Service, a challenge to President Clinton's veto of a ban on certain late-term abortions and a bill to implement the tobacco-litigation settlement.
People are getting anxious to quit for the year even if that means postponing action on politically appealing items.
Political wrangling slows congressional progress
Fast-track legislation, which would give President Clinton renewed authority to negotiate trade deals with a minimum of congressional involvement, is hanging by a thread.
track trade authority to a campaign finance bill.
The campaign-finance bill looks dead for the year. Lott so far has refused to allow the Senate to vote on it.
In the House, GOP leaders also refuse to bring it up. Supporters are circulating a so-called discharge petition to force a vote but so far haven't gotten the necessary 218 votes.
"You can proceed with your discharge petition, and we will proceed with the business of the House, and we will see if either of us will get to something," Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, testily told House Democratic Whip David Bonior, D-Mich., in a floor exchange Friday.
INTERNATIONAL
Guerrilla threats weaken Colombian voter turnout
BOGOTA, Colombia — Amid heavy security, Colombians voted for state and local offices yesterday in elections marred by a rebel sabotage campaign that has killed dozens of candidates and scared thousands more into withdrawing.
WASHINGTON — Republican congressional leaders can recite a litany of remaining "must-do" items, from fast-
More than 200,000 police and soldiers guarded voting stations, but rebels seized and burned ballots in several isolated villages, blew up electrical towers and kidnapped 10 election officials in one north ern town, authorities said.
Obeying leftist guerrilla orders to boycott the ballot and stay off highways, tens of thousands of Colombians in the countryside outside state control were expected to stay away rather than risk rebel retribution.
Nationwide, police said road traffic was down 80 percent — an indication people were heeding the rebel "armed strike" advertised in leaflets and by word-of-mouth. Some roads were dynamited, apparently by rebels.
In their stiffest challenge to the government in more than 30 years of fighting, leftist guerrillas have badly embarrassed President Ernesto Samper's scandal-plagued administration.
More than 100 candidates and elected officials have been murdered this year, most by guerrillas but some by the rebels' paramilitary foes, and more than 2,000 candidates withdrew under death threats, dozens after being kidhapped.
Samper, who released a dove on Bogota's main square in a symbolic gesture, predicted Colombians would vote in 95 percent of municipalities. However, election officials expected no balloting in more than 100 of the country's 1,072
municipalities.
In major cities, where rebels are not a serious threat, a relatively high turnout was expected.
"Ihope Colombians exercise their right to preserve democracy," the president said after voting in Bogota. "Ballots are the guns of democracy, and votes are the bullets."
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's 1992 Gec storm was damaged between noon Wednesday and 2:39 a.m. Thursday in the lot east of Templin Hall, KU police said. The damage was estimated at $60
■ A KU student's yellow parking permit was stolen between 6:30 and 8 p.m. Wednesday from the lot south of the Military Science Building, KU police said. The permit was valued at $75.
A KU student's rear passenger-side window and dashboard on a Honda Accord were damaged and other items damaged and stolen between 5 p.m. Wednesday and 10:30 a.m. Thursday in the 2000 block of Stewart Avenue, Lawrence police said. The damage and items were valued at $1,405.
A KU student's driver-side mirror was stolen between 7 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m.
Thursday from the 2400 block of West 24th Terrace, Lawrence police said. The mirror was valued at $150.
A KU student's driver-side window, rear window and console were damaged between 11 p.m. Wednesday and 2:30 a.m. Thursday, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $500.
A KU student's Kansas driver's license was stolen between midnight Oct. 16 and 4:30 p.m. Oct. 20 from the city at large, Lawrence police said. The license was valued at $5.
A KU student's glass window was damaged between 8:50 and 9:10 p.m. October 11 in the 1300 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $50.
A KU student's front windshield and passenger-side window were damaged and other items damaged and stolen between 8:30 p.m. Oct. 13 and 8:15 a.m. Oct. 14 in the 3100 block of West 22nd Street, Lawrence police said. The damage and items were valued at $1,119.
A KU student's Pioneer compact disc stereo was stolen between 4 p.m. Oct. 13 and 8 a.m. Oct. 14 from the 2400 block of Via Linda Drive, Lawrence police said. The stereo was valued at $650.
A KU student's driver-side rear window on a Honda Accord was damaged between 8 p.m. Wednesday and 10:30 a.m. Thursday in the 2000 block of Stewart Avenue, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $300.
A KU student's 1995 Lee Wrangler was stolen between 2 and 10 a.m. Thursday from the 1700 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police said. The Jeep was valued at $15,000
A KU employee's dashboard was damaged and Alpine car stereo and other items stolen and damaged between 10:30 p.m.
Wednesday and a p.m. Thursday in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street, Lawrence police said. The damage and items were valued at $2,388.
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