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The Inside Front
Thursday October 16, 1997
News
from campus, the state,the nation and the world
CAMPUS
A KU student told Lawrence police that she had been raped last June at a party in the 1000 block of Emery. Police are continuing to investigate the matter.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON — President Clinton was shown yesterday on videotape acknowledging he benefited from ads that weren't supposed to directly help his campaign.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's plutonium-powered Cassini space rocketed flawlessly toward Saturn yesterday.
INTERNATIONAL
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The seedling of democracy planted by President Clinton in Haiti is withering. Clinton defied U.S. opposition by sending troops, threatening to turn his foreign policy success story into a flasco.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Separatist rebels loosed an audacious attack on Sri Lanka's capital yesterday.
BORDEAUX, France — Maurice Papon gave a spirited defense of his wartime past this last yesterday.
CAMPUS
KU student reports rape; police still investigating
A KU senior told Lawrence police Oct. 8 that she was raped in June of this year at a party in the 1000 block of Emery Road.
According to the police, the 22-year-old student said she had attended the party the night of June 19 and had drunk four or five beers. She told police that she began to feel ill and decided to lay down in the back bedroom of the house between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m.
She said she woke up naked with bodily fluids on her. The woman could not clearly remember the incident. She told police that she thought someone had probably put something into her drink to make her ill or forceful.
While being interviewed about an unrelated case, the student told police about the rape.
Police have been unable to contact a suspect in the case. They are continuing to investigate the matter.
NATIONAL
Fundraising tapes released; question of legality at issue
WASHINGTON — With the veil lifted on nearly 100 hours of his fundraising videotapes, President Clinton was shown yesterday fraternizing with controversial Democratic donors and candidly acknowledging he benefited from ads that weren't supposed to directly help his campaign.
republican investigators huddled in their offices across the Capitol scouring the tapes for evidence of fundraising wrongdoings while reporters got their own narrated showing at the White House.
The long-sought tapes, which only recently turned up, show Clinton alongside Democratic fund-raisers whose activities in the last election thrust their party into controversy.
One clip immediately garnered attention — a May 21, 1996 dinner for Democratic donors inside the White House. The tape shows Clinton telling the audience that "many of you have been very generous, I thank you for it." He follows with a
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With its destination beckoning in a moonlit sky, NASA's plutonium-powered Cassini spacecraft rocketed off into space yesterday.
NASA launches spacecraft; plutonium arouses fear
veiled pitch for their continued support. Federal law prohibits soliciting donors in government offices.
Saturn appeared as a yellowish speck above the nearly full moon as the monstrous Titan 4-B rocket carrying Cassini thundered away before daybreak. Forty minutes later, Cassini shot out of Earth's orbit and was on its way to Saturn.
The journey to the ringed planet will take seven years and cover 2.2 billion miles. Once there, Cassini will spend four years exploring Saturn, its rings and its ice moons, especially the biggest, Titan.
Anti-nuclear activists, 22 of whom showed up at the last minute to protest, feared the worst if the rocket carrying Cassini and its 72 pounds of extremely poisonous plutonium exploded.
It is the most plutonium ever flown into space. It is also the biggest, most complex interplanetary probe and the most expensive, too — $3.4 billion for the whole mission.
Haiti's democracy crumbles; Aristide threatens system
INTERNATIONAL
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The seedling of democracy planted by President Clinton in Haiti is withering. Clinton defied U.S. opposition by sending troops, threatening to turn his foreign policy success story into a flasco.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives today in a country where democratic institutions are not working, and crime and frustration are on the rise. Many fear Haiti could soon head back toward dictatorship under the very man the United States once returned to power — former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Albright will meet President Rene Preval, whose 1996 election the United States had praised as key to ending the nearly two-century cycle of despots and
dictators. Preval was the first democratically-elected president to succeed an elected president in Haiti.
But Haiti has been without effective government since Premier Rosny Smarth resigned in June to protest a vote he said was rigged by a provisional elections council loaded with Aristide partisans.
Rebels terrorize Sri Lanka; group seeking own nation
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Separatist rebels loomed an audacious attack on Sri Lanka's capital yesterday, blasting a luxury hotel with a truck bomb, seizing a newspaper office and touching off gun battles that killed 18 people.
At least seven Americans were among more than 100 people injured in the day of violence by Tamil rebels, who want an independent nation in the north of Sri Lanka — formerly Ceylon — which lies at the southern tip of India.
Sri Lanka's largest Tamil rebel group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, denied responsibility for the attack, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported. But Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry spokesman Ravinatha Aryasinha blamed the group.
Last week, the U.S. State Department added the Tigers to its list of terrorist organizations, outlawing their activities and fundraising in the United States. The Tigers said the U.S. action would only escalate the war.
The rebels launched their attack yesterday morning with a truck bomb that exploded in the parking lot of a luxury hotel, with at least two other blasts soon following. Then a rebel band fled toward Lake House, headquarters of Sri Lanka's state-run newspapers. Army soldiers on patrol killed three of the rebels before they could enter the building, but three others holed up inside, where about 25 people were working.
Nazi official remorseful; carries guilt of Holocaust
BORDEAUX, France — Maurice Papon gave a spirited defense of his wartime past on Oct. 8. He told a French court he literally cried when a convoy of Jews was deported to Nazi death camps and insisted that he had always carried the sorrow of his Jewish compatriots in
his heart.
The remarks were a stunning reversal for the man accused of sending hundreds of Jews to their deaths while serving as a top official of the pro-Nazi Vichy regime during World War II.
Previously, Papon, 87, has sought to downplay the suffering of the Jews in the Holocaust. Yesterday, he not only publicly acknowledged their suffering for the first time, but also spoke of personal feelings of sorrow.
"I was torn apart to witness the Nazi repression against the Jews," Papon said. "I have never ceased to carry in my heart the sorrow of my Jewish compatriots and of foreign Jews."
Wednesday's comments came as the court was reviewing Papon's personal history, a routine phase before witnesses are called.
CORRECTION
A story in yesterday's "Kansan" incorrectly identified Natalie Sullivan as the treasurer of KU Environors. She is the fundraising coordinator.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's driver's side window and bass amplifier were damaged between 4:35 and 4:38 a.m. Tuesday in the 2100 block of Kasold Drive, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $130.
■ A KU student's window to a Nissan Altima was damaged between 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and 3:35 a.m. yesterday in the 4500 block of Wimbledon Drive, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $200.
A KU student's Sony cassette car stereo was stolen and dash board damaged between midnight and 3 a.m. Monday in the 1300 block of Kentucky Street, Lawrence police said. The item and damage were estimated at $500.
A KU student's ceramic bookend and front door were damaged and change was stolen between 6:15 a.m. Thursday and 11:30 a.m. Sunday in the 1900 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. The item and damage were estimated at $117.
A KU student's brown Schwinn men's 21-speed mountain bicycle was stolen between 7:45 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday from the 1500 block of lynch Court, Lawrence police said. The bike was valued at $800.
Volunteer group works to make students aware
Kansan staff writer
By Gwen Olson
Student volunteers are bringing awareness to social issues each month with programs that teach and entertain.
Kansas City rap artist Mike Ruiz will perform at Tunes at Noon today in front of the Kansas Union. The organization is bringing him to campus in honor of October being "Stop the Violence" month.
Concerned, Aware and Active Students is a program affiliated with the Center for Community Outreach that provides information about issues such as violence and homelessness to the Lawrence community.
Ruiz addresses issues of street violence through his music. The event is sponsored by the Center for Community Outreach, Student Union Activities and the Multicultural Resource
Center.
Kate Turnbull, Lawrence sophomore and co-coordinator for CAAS, said that she had hoped Ruiz' views on street violence would receive more attention if he performed during Tunes at Noon.
"It's one thing for students to come to a formal presentation about violence," she said. "Hopefully this will reach more students and they'll really hear the message."
Turnbull said that CAAS would have a table in front of the Kansas Union with information about how people can become involved in violence prevention programs.
The group has planned other activities
for "action months" later in the semester. The group has designated November "Hunger and Homelessness" month. Members are planning to hold a Hunger Banquet on Nov. 20 at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Road
"The Hunger Banquet shows the world food distribution by showing what people in most of the world get to eat everyday," said Erika Nutt, Eagan, Minn., junior and co-coordinator of the program.
The banquet is open to the public and features different meals for three groups representing the world.
Ten percent of the people sit at a table and eat a meal with several courses.
Thirty percent sit on crates and eat beans and rice, while the remaining 60 percent sit on the floor and eat only rice.
Nutt said that the group tried to incorporate other Center for Community Outreach programs to get the community involved.
"I really like CAAS because it gets the word out on volunteering," she said. "Some people really need to be pushed to volunteer. Our volunteers help with some of the more logistical stuff like getting out filers."
For more information about CAAS, contact Erika Nutt or Kate Turnbull at the Center for Community Outreach, 864-4073.
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