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The Inside Front
Wednesday October 1, 1997
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS/AREA
A one-car accident last night injured one woman and her four daughters near the Douglas-Jefferson county line.
KU Police and the Office of New Student Orientation officers are continuing to investigate more than $4,000 in deposits that is missing.
A KU Student witnessed a man masturbating outside Chi Omega sorority last night.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON — Shaken by stories of IRS abuse, the Clinton administration scrambled yesterday to relieve taxpayers' anxieties and prevent Republicans from capitalizing on an easy target. President Clinton promised improvements but said, "We should not politicize it."
WASHINGTON — North Korea proposed using Texas billionaire Ross Perot as an intermediary to address questions about Americans living there, some of whom may be captured United States servicemen from the Korean War, according to people familiar with the talks. Administration officials have since persuaded Perot not to get involved.
NEW YORK — In a groundbreaking pastoral letter, United States Catholic bishops said homosexual orientation is not freely chosen and parents must not reject their gay children in a society full of rejection and discrimination.
CHICAGO — The Hooters restaurant chain, known for its scantily clad waitresses, agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle a sexual discrimination lawsuit brought by men turned down for jobs because of their gender. The settlement allows Hooters to continue luring customers with an exclusively female staff of Hooters Girls.
INTERNATIONAL
JERUSALEM — A day after Secretary of State Madeleine Albright coaxed a promise from Israel to consider a "timeout" in Jewish settlement construction, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that building on disputed land will continue.
CAMPUS/AREA
Car wreck leaves mother, four daughters in hospital
A one-car accident injured one woman and her four daughters about 9:30 p.m. last night on Highway 24/59 just north of the Douglas/Jefferson county line.
Witnesses said the woman was traveling west on the highway when her pickup truck rolled over into the gate and sign of the North Lawrence Division Hamm Quarries. Police said some of the passengers had been ejected from the cab of the truck.
Edward Hardy, 37, was driving his semitruck west on 24 when he saw a cloud of dust.
"The lady driving the truck ran out in the street in front of me waving her arms," he said. "I pulled over and got everything I could out of my truck to try and help them. One little girl was really hurt. I was trying to make sure they were warm."
Hardy said another witness had used a cellular phone to call police, while he tried to contact people on his CB.
Two of the children, about 5 and 10 years old, were taken by Lifelight helicopter to Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. police said. The 10-year-old was in critical condition. The mother and the other two daughters, about 9 and 12 years old, were taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital in stable condition, police said.
The family's hometown was not known, but the pickup truck had a Douglas County license plate.
Orientation office still looks for missing money
The Office of New Student Orientation and University of Kansas police still are investigating missing bank deposits valued at more than $4,000, although no significant progress has been made.
Mary Ryan, director of the orientation office, would not comment about whom police had interviewed or why the money had disappeared.
Ryan said that office employees had discovered the discrepancy. New Student Orientation officials then reported the missing money to authorities, she said.
KU police said they were continuing to investigate the matter but had no new information. Police had earlier interviewed a former employee regarding the missing deposits.
Dennis Moss, supervisor of the Office of Internal Audit, said he could not comment on the specific case involving the Office of New Student Orientation. Moss did, however, explain how his office generally handles records discrepancies.
"If we find a difference in University records and bank records, we talk to the person who runs the office," Moss said. "I usually recommend that they request an investigation by the University police."
Moss said the police department also could request an investigation by the internal audit office. Aside from direct requests, the frequency of internal audits into University
KU police received information about the missing deposits in June. Subsequent investigations showed a total of $4,437 missing from the New Student Orientation office.
office records varies depending on the offices' size. Moss said.
Ryan said the office was working to keep the situation from happening again.
"Right now, there is no change in the status of the investigation," she said.
Masturbating man surprises woman outside Chi Omega
A KU student answering the phone for her sorority was surprised by a man masturbating last night.
The woman was sitting at the telephone desk at 9:30 p.m. in the Chi Omega sorority house when she heard a knock on the window. She looked through the window and saw a man masturbating with his right hand. She described the man as a white male, '5'8", 150 pounds, wearing dark clothing and a hat.
Kansan staff reports
Amid stories of IRS abuse Clinton promises changes
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON — Shaken by stories of IRS abuse, the Clinton administration scrambled to relieve taxpayer anxieties and prevent Republicans from capitalizing on an easy target yesterday. President Clinton promised improvements but said, "We should not politicize it."
House Speaker Newt Gingrich responded with a verbal shot at Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, saying Rubin's attendance at financial meetings overseas last week during the Senate's tax hearings showed he was too busy to administer the IRS.
From Congress to the White House to the Treasury Department, the charges and countercharges grew hotter. Clinton was left in the difficult position of defending an unpopular agency and promising to make it better — while rejecting a bipartisan proposal for a citizen oversight board.
Questioning Clinton's priorities, Gingrich said the IRS had 10 times more staff than government agencies battling illegal drugs or immigration problems.
But Clinton said, "I believe the IRS is functioning better today than it was five years ago. I think it has to improve more. And I think we should not try to sweep any of these problems under the rugs."
Rubin, in a news conference following Gingrich's attack, defended his oversight of the tax-collection agency. He also announced the IRS would start conducting problem solving days at offices across the country to help taxpayers.
Perot will not be 'all ears' in Asian talks, Clinton says
WASHINGTON — North Korea proposed using Texas billionaire Rex Roset as an intermediary to address U.S. questions about Americans living there, some of whom may be captured U.S. servicemen from the Korean War, according to people familiar with the talks.
The Clinton administration concluded that the offer, which was communicated through a third party and never officially negotiated, was an empty gesture. Administration officials persuaded Perot not to get involved.
This episode, which neither side made public at the time, left U.S. officials no closer to unraveling the mystery of just how many Americans are living in North Korea. Four U.S. soldiers
who deserted their posts in South Korea in the 1960s are known to be in the Norin. Numerous U.S. intelligence reports cite evidence of perhaps several other men, possibly servicemen captured in the Korean War or even the Vietnam War.
The North Koreans raised the matter of Perot last December in an unofficial setting in New York in the midst of
Perot: Will not be involved in talks.
negotiation about a public apology by North Korea for sending a spy submarine into South Korean waters three months earlier.
North Korea wanted Perot to go to Pyongyang, the capital, to discuss the Americans. It is not entirely clear what the North Koreans expected Perot to do or how far they were willing to go in clarifying the status of the Americans.
When the North Koreans made the proposal, U.S. officials asked them what Americans were included. Officials at the North Korean mission to the United Nations replied that in addition to the defectors there could be up to seven others who voluntarily came to North Korea after the 1960-53 Korean War, according to a Clinton administration official privy to the discussions. The official spoke on condition he not be identified.
NEW YORK — U.S. Catholic bishops are advising parents of gay children to put love and support for their sons and daughters before church doctrine that condemms homosexual activity.
Catholic bishops accept gays, condemn doctrine
In a groundbreaking pastoral letter, the bishops say homosexual orientation is not freely chosen and parents must not reject their gay children in a society full of rejection and discrimination.
"All in all, it is essential to recall one basic truth. God loves every person as a unique individual. Sexual identity helps to define the unique person we are," the bishops say. "God does not love someone any less simply because he or she is homosexual."
The document, titled "Always Our Children," was approved by the Administrative Board of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops early in September and released yesterday, with an early copy provided to The Associated Press.
In the last two decades, with almost every other church struggling with gay ordination or efforts to ease condemnary church doctrine, the Roman Catholic Church has stood firm, teaching that homosexual activity is morally wrong.
In two high profile cases in the 1980s, the Vatican disciplined Seattle Archibishop Raymond Hunthausen for allowing a group of gay Catholics to meet at St. James Cathedral and revoked Charles Curran's license to teach
moral theology at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Curran had said homosexual acts are sometimes morally acceptable.
But the mounting turmoil and pain felt by Catholics torn between church teaching and love for their gay children prompted several bishops to request guidance from the bishops' Committee on Marriage and Family. The committee began studying the conflict in 1992.
Hooters still can bar men from working cs servers
CHICAGO — Patrons of Hooters won't find a muscleman in sexy T-shirts and shorts asking for their order.
The restaurant chain known for its scantily clad waitresses agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle a sexual discrimination lawsuit brought by men turned down for jobs because of their gender.
The settlement allows Hooters to continue luring customers with an exclusively female staff of Hooters Girls. The chain also agreed to create a few other support jobs, such as bartenders and hosts, that must be filed without regard to gender.
So women hoping for the same vicarious sexual recreation offered by Hooters Girls can forget it. There will be no Hooters Boys.
"Our business is on the female sex appeal side," Mike McNeil, a spokesman for the restaurant, said yesterday.
Under the agreement, signed earlier this month, the restaurant chain agreed to set aside $2 million as compensation for men who were turned away from jobs because of their gender. Lawyers will get an additional $1.75 million. The agreement is subject to U.S. District Court approval.
INTERNATIONAL Construction continues despite Israel's promise
JERUSALEM — A day after Secretary of State Matele丽明 Albright coaxed a promise from Israel to consider a timeout in Jewish settlement construction, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that building on disputed land will continue.
"There is an agreement to discuss the concept of the timeout, and each side will submit its ideas," Netanyahu told reporters. "We are building in the settlements, and making natural growth of the settlements possible, and I
don't intend to change our policy."
Netanyahu: Will not halt construction.
our policy.
Netanyahu has consistently used the mantra of "natural growth" to justify expansion of settlements, which his own constituency demands.
breaking an impasse of several months
But his words showed how hard it will be for Israel and the Palestinian to bridge their differences, despite Monday's agreement to resume peace talks on Oct. 6.
Monday's accord deferred the toughest issues, including Palestinian demands that Israel stop building in the settlements.
The Associated Press
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