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The Inside Front
Wednesday September 24,1997
News
from campus, the state,the nation and the world
NATIONAL
NEW YORK: Japan and the United States agreed yesterday to expand military cooperation and told a suspicious China that there was no reason to be anxious.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.: A man was shot and killed by a campus police officer at the University of Michigan early yesterday. The man stabbed his student girlfriend to death outside their apartment.
WASHINGTON: To meet tax-collection quotas, IRS agents are targeting lower- and middle-income taxpayers who cannot afford to fight back, the chairman of a Senate committee said yesterday as he began hearings about reports of tax-collection abuses.
RALEIGH, N.C.: A proposal to build an animal slaughterhouse capable of killing more than 300,000 animals a year at North Carolina State University is getting bogged down with neighbors' concerns and activists' complaints.
WASHINGTON: To protect the Grand Canyon's ecosystem, the Sierra Club suggested at a congressional hearing yesterday to drain Lake Powell, a 252-square-mile manmade lake on the Colorado River that attracts 2.5 million tourists a year.
INTERNATIONAL
ALGIERS, Algeria: Armed men raided an Algerian village yesterday, looting homes as they shot or stabbed to death at least 200 people and wounded 100 others, survivors and hospital sources said. It was one of the worst massacres since Algeria's Islamic insurgency began五年 ago.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland's main pro-British party faced the IRA's political allies for the first time in negotiations yesterday — but only long enough to demand that the Sinn Fein party be kicked out of the process.
NATIONAL
United States, Japan expand cooperation
NEW YORK — Japan and the United States agreed yesterday to expand their
and told a suspicious China there was no reason to be anxious.
The accord was reached by senior American and Japanese Cabinet officials.
Defense Secretary William Cohen said Japan's role would include providing support for U.S. military operations, search and rescue efforts and evacuations.
Cohen: Worked on agreement between U.S., Japan.
According to the United States will help defend Japan if it is threatened.
"The alliance is going to be the cornerstone of peace in the 21st century." Cohen said.
China is suspicious of the new arrangement. "If it interferes with a third party, it will disrupt the peaceful situation" in Asia, a representative of China said in Beijing.
Cohen said the agreement was not aimed at any third nation, and Japanese Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi said Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto had explained the agreement on a trip to Beijing.
Man shot by campus police after killing girlfriend
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A man was shot and killed by a campus police officer at the University of Michigan early yesterday. The man stabbed his student girlfriend to death outside their apartment.
The officer, responding to numerous 911 calls, drove into a campus parking lot shortly after midnight and found Tamara Williams, a 20-year-old senior, lying on the ground, being repeatedly stabbed by boyfriend Kevin Nelson. 26.
Campus public safety Director Leo Heatley said the officer fired after Nelson immed orders to stop.
Investigators followed a trail of blood back to the apartment, where the attack began, and found Williams' 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Kiera, asleep in her room. Kiera was put in protective custody. Nelson, who was not a student at the school, is not the girl's father.
Two years ago, Nelson was convicted of
Nelson began attacking Williams in the basement of the two-story duplex where police found blood. The couple ended up outside, about 200 feet from the apartment's back door.
domestic assault against Williams and sentenced to 18 months probation.
WASHINGTON — To meet tax collection quotas, IRS agents are targeting lower- and middle-income taxpayers "who can't afford to fight back," the chairman of a Senate committee asserted yesterday as he began hearings into reports of tax-collection abuses.
IRS accused of targeting poor to meet tax quotas
Sen. William V. Roth Jr., R-Del., said a six-month investigation by his Finance Committee also had found that tax assessments were being levied to raise the individual statistics of an IRS employee and that there was a commonplace use of tax collection quotas to rate agents or officers.
The Internal Revenue Service denied that it targeted lower-income families and small businesses for audits. The IRS also said agency statistics prove it. The tax agency said collection quotas were outlawed in 1988.
Slaughterhouse issue stirs debate on campus
RALEIGH, N.C. — A proposal to build a laboratory and classroom that include a slaughterhouse at North Carolina State University is getting bogged down with neighbors' concerns and activists' complaints.
"Dumb ideas come and go around the Triangle, but the winner in recent years has to be the request by NCSU to construct a slaughterhouse adjacent to the vet school ..." began one weekly newspaper's editorial.
Across the country, more than 20 land-grant universities with slaughterhouses report few, if any, protests about the research that goes on inside.
A survey by The Associated Press shows that more than 44,000 animals are slaughtered on 20 campuses each year, with poultry taking up the majority of those deaths.
The Sierra Club's proposal was heard by Congress yesterday, but lawmakers were anything but supportive. They called it silly and monumentally dumb.
Lawmakers reject proposal to drain manmade lake
attracts 2.5 million tourists a year.
The Clinton administration said it has no plans even to consider paying for an environmental-impact review. The cost of draining the lake, one of the most popular recreation sites in the federal park system, could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, although administration officials declined even to speculate.
Last November, the board of directors of the 600,000-member Sierra Club caught even other environmental groups off guard when it unanimously called for draining Lake Powell, the country's second largest manmade lake created 20 years ago by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam. It took years to fill the lake and no one would speculate how long it might take to drain it.
WASHINGTON — A plan to protect Grand Canyon's ecosystem proposes to drain Lake Powell, a 252-square-mile manmade lake on the Colorado River that
INTERNATIONAL
ALGIERS, Algeria — Armed men raided an Algerian village yesterday, looting homes as they shot or stabbed to death at least 200 people and wounded 100 others, survivors and hospital sources said. It was one of the worst massacres since Algeria's Islamic insurgency began five years ago.
The predawn raid in a suburb of Algiers sent hundreds of panicked villagers fleeing toward the capital.
Militants kill at least 200 in raid on Algerian town
The official government news agency APS said 85 people were killed and 67 people wounded. The government, which has long pledged to stamp out the violence, often underreports the death toll of such attacks. The hospital sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the toll was higher: at least 200 people killed and 100 wounded.
Yesterday's attack took place in the Bentalha neighborhood in Baraki in the southeastern suburbs of the Algerian capital — the same place where a bombing in mid-July killed about 20 people. Soon after the massacre was discovered, the army sealed the area, allowing only ambulances and official vehicles to enter.
Ulster Union negotiates accords with IRA's allies
BELFAST, Northern Ireland —Northern Ireland's main pro-British party faced the IRA's political allies for the first time in negotiations yesterday—but only long
enough to demand that the Sinn Fein party be kicked out of the process.
Apparently harboring little hope of success, Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble already was talking about how his party would deal with Sinn Fein in the weeks ahead.
Nonetheless, the session marked a milestone in the long effort by the British and Irish governments to get all of Northern Ireland's parties to the table to negotiate a settlement acceptable to Protestants and the Roman Catholic minority.
"We are not there to negotiate with Sinn Fein and there is no obligation for us to be present the whole time. We will negotiate with the government and other parties. We can pick and choose bilaterals," Trimble told reporters.
Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam, the senior British official in the province, must decide whether to accept or reject the unionist challenge.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's vehicle tag was stolen between midnight and 4 p.m. Saturday from the 1300 block of West Campus Road, Lawrence police said. The hat was valued at $10.
A KU student's radar detector, cellular phone battery adapter and car adapter coupler were stolen between 11:30 p.m. Sunday and 8:15 a.m. Monday from the 1600 block of Tennessee Lawrence, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $300.
A KU student's 1992 Pontiac Sunbird convertible roof and compact disc player were damaged between 5:30 p.m. Sunday and 10:45 a.m. Monday in the 1700 block of West 19th Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $375.
A KU faculty member's parking permit was stolen between 8:15 a.m. and 4 p.m. Friday at the parking lot east of Memorial Drive, KU police said. The permit was valued at $90.
A KU student's right side tires were damaged between 4 p.m. Friday and 6:50 p.m. Sunday in the 1300 block of Jayhawk Boule vard, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $100.
A numeric sign bearing the number 3 was stolen between 7:15 and 7:30 p.m. Sept. 17 from the Ekdahl Dining Commons, KU police said. The same value was at $156
police said. The sign was waved at $100.
■ A wall was damaged between 8 a.m. Aug.
15 and 4 p.m. Sept. 4 in the Shafer-Holland Strength Center, KU police said. The damage was estimated at $100.
CORRECTION
A story in yesterday's "Kansan" erroneously stated that Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority was founded in 1986. It was founded in 1990.
Bicyclists confront city commission about lack of safe riding lanes following Hermes' death
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Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. He said that bicycling in Lawrence was dangerous and that the city should address safety issues and create bicycle lanes.
"The city is going to have to spend some money on this," Curtis said. "It's not a simple process, but it's a good solution."
Bicycle lanes run directly beside automobile traffic lanes and are separated from car traffic by painted lane markers or by cement dividers.
Curtis also said the city should look to bicycling as an alternate form of transportation that would ease traffic and pollution.
"Bicycles are safe technology," Curtis said. "This is the kind of technology that the city should be promoting and supporting."
Bianca Storlazzi, Lawrence resident, said that Lawrence needed to educate both
"I find I'm biking less here because it scares me too much," Storlazzi said.
cyclists and car drivers on traffic safety.
"I find I'm biking less here because it
the group rode east on Ninth Street to Vermont Street, south to 11th Street, east on 11th to Massachusetts Street and then north on Massachusetts Street to City Hall. Many of the cyclists attended the meeting and commented about the safety of bicyclists.
Zak Sears, a West Junior High School student, told the commission that he wilt
nessed Hermes' accident. He asked that the commission consider bike lanes because he did not feel safe riding his bike on the streets.
The city commission responded to the bicyclists and said that they would address the problem with the bicycle advisory committee and commission staff.
"I am not unsympathetic with the idea that we need more bike lanes," commissioner John Nalbandian said.
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