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The Inside Front
Monday September 22,1997
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON: Republicans continue to insist Attorney General Janet Reno appoint an independent counsel to investigate White House fund-raising activities, suggesting recent discoveries prove she should have taken action months ago.
WASHINGTON: President Clinton's proposal that national tests in reading and math be administered to all fourth- and eighth-graders would offer a way to compare the progress of schools and students, but the proposal may not get through the House.
SANFORD, FLA.: Dorothy "Dot" Frost received a free car from a charity program that hopes to get welfare recipients off the dole by getting them into their own transportation.
SANTA ANA, Calif.: Getting drunk in the morning and gripping about bills, 77-year-old grandfather Ray Boeger decided to hop into his Cadillac and rob a bank. After taking $1,100, he could face jail time.
INTERNATIONAL
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: Many Serbs boycotted yesterday's elections, fed up with the hard times they have seen under Slobodan Milosevic's decade-long autocratic rule.
NEW YORK: A manuscript giving an Italian trader's account of a visit to China four years before Marco Polo is being published later this year, although some historians doubt its credibility.
NATIONAL
Republicans pressure Reno to investigate
WASHINGTON — Saying their persistent demands for a special investigation had been vindicated, senior Republicans yesterday insisted that Attorney General Janet Reno appoint an independent counsel to look into White House fund-raising activities.
There is sufficient and credible evidence sufficient for the appointment of an independent counsel, said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
"She could do that tomorrow." he said.
"She could do that tomorrow," he said. On Saturday, the Justice Department revealed that it had opened a 30-day review of President Clinton's involvement in campaign money-raising irregularities during the 1996 presidential campaign. During that time, Reno must decide whether to launch a more extensive 90-day review that could lead to her appointment of a special prosecutor.
Republicans have been pressing Reno to invoke the Independent Counsel Act that comes into effect when senior members of an administration are suspected of legal violations.
Other GOP lawmakers have urged that impeachment procedures begin against her if she fails to name a special prosecutor.
Testing methods pass Senate, fail in House
WASHINGTON — If President Clinton has his way, millions of fourth- and eighth-graders soon will sit down in their
classrooms to take tests measuring how well they can read or do math.
They'll fill out multiple-choice questions. They'll write answers: a few words, a sentence — sometimes longer. They'll show how they solved their math problems and might get some credit for using the correct approach even if the answer is wrong.
Clinton: Wants standardized testing for math.
As little as six weeks later, the grades will come back — a numerical score based on correct answers to the 90-minute tests, each given during two days.
Each child's skills and knowledge will be deemed basic, proficient or advanced in the subject — a judgment not made in the other widely used, commercially available tests now found in many American schools.
And if the Education Department can iron out technical problems, the math results will be compared with how students in other countries do.
Whether the voluntary tests are given in the spring of 1999 as planned depends on Congress. The House voted last week to block them. The Senate has given them the green light but only if an independent board takes control of testing from the
SANFORD, Fla. — Dorothy "Dot" Frost burst into tears and jumped up and down when she saw the 11-year-old, gold Ford Tempo parked on the dusty lot of Charity Cars.
Education Department.
Used cars priceless to welfare recipients
"At last. Thank you, Jesus. I am too happy," she said.
For Frost, who has a temporary job after spending a decade on welfare, a free car may be the ticket to a better life — or to finding permanent employment.
Florida officials hope to find more private benefactors to help them move 141,000 welfare recipients off the dole and into jobs.
Social workers say transportation is the biggest obstacle to training welfare recipients and finding them work. Many jobs are in the suburbs, while welfare recipients are concentrated in urban areas. Many must work nights or weekends, when public transportation is limited.
"You can teach a person to fish and feed him a lifetime, but if you can't get to the river, you're not going to fish at all," said Phyllis Busansky, executive director of the WAGES State Board, the body overseeing welfare reform in Florida. The acronym stands for Work and Gain Economic Self-sufficiency.
People getting off welfare are referred to Charity Cars by state social workers, although anyone can apply for a car.
Bills and beer drive grandfather to crime
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Getting drunk in the morning and gripping about bills with the guys prompted 77-year-old grandfather Ray Boeger to hop in his Cadillac and rob a bank.
Boeger, a businessman saddled with debts, used an unloaded gun and an old Halloween costume to make off with $1,100, he told the "Orange County Register."
Boeger is a former advertising executive who built a successful electric-car company. But bad business deals and medical bills left him hurting financially.
While downing four pints of English ale on Wednesday, Boeger discussed money troubles at a bar, the newspaper reported Saturday.
Later, he drove to the Huntington Beach branch of World Savings & Loan. He was armed with an unloaded pistol and wearing a fake mustache and beard.
Boeger left the bank with $1,108 in small bills, unaware that his haul contained an exploding dye packet that went off and splattered him with red ink when he got outside the bank.
A witness near the bank gave police his license plate number and he was arrested a few hours later.
Boeger was charged with armed robbery and faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. He had no prior criminal record.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Many Serbs boycotted yesterday's elections, fed up with the hard times they have seen
INTERNATIONAL Serb boycott unlikely to invalidate election
INTERNATIONAL
under Slobodan Milosevic's decade-long autocratic rule.
Although turnout was slow into the afternoon, the boycott — called by two of three main opposition leaders — looked unlikely to be strong enough to invalidate the vote. Those opposing the election describe it as a farce, heavily weighted in favor of Milosevic's ruling Socialist Party.
Milosevic: His election choices considered sure bets.
Milosev was constitutionally barred from running for a third term as Serbian president but has so much influence and maintains such firm control of the Serb media that his choices for president and parliament were considered sure bets. Preliminary results were expected today.
Nearly halfway through the polling election officials estimated that 25 percent of eligible voters had cast ballots. Independent radio station B92, which has supported the opposition, said that only 10 percent had voted.
The vote would be invalid only if 51 percent of the 7 million eligible voters failed to participate.
Trader detailed China before Marco Polo
NEW YORK — A manuscript that is supposed to be an Italian trader's account of visiting China four years before Marco Polo is being published later this year, the "New York Times" reported yesterday.
The manuscript details a six-month visit in the years 1271-72 by an Italian Jewish trader named Jacob. He went to the southeast Chinese port of Zaitun, from which the English word "satin" was derived, the newspaper said.
The first-person account describes a busy, harbor city; streets filled with carriages; a populace that included Jews, Muslims, Africans and other Europeans; presses with movable type that printed free newspapers; and a somewhat sexually permissive society where women dressed immodestly and argued for free love.
Little, Brown and Co. is publishing an English translation of the manuscript in November. The translator, David Selbourne, a British scholar who taught political philosophy at Oxford, said he cannot make the original text public.
The secrecy surrounding the source of the manuscript raises questions about its authenticity. But if it is for real, scholars consider it an immensely important discovery.
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's black Bridgestone mountain bicycle was stolen between 11:45 and 11:50 a.m. Thursday from the 1700 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police said. The bike was valued at $170.
A KU student's Alpine compact disc player, amplifier and compact discs were stolen between noon and 2 p.m. Tuesday from the 1900 block of Stewart Avenue, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $860.
A KU student's wall and front sidewalk were damaged between 7 and 8 p.m. Friday in the 400 block of California St., Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $150.
A KU student's navy blue backpack and other items were stolen between 12:30 and 9:30 a.m. Friday from the 1400 block of Kentucky Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $75.
A KU student's rear window was damaged between 1 and 4:30 a.m. Friday in the 400 block of West 14th Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $200.
A KU student's Kenwood compact disc player was stolen and dashboard damaged between 9 p.m. Sept. 15 and 7:10 p.m.
Sept. 17 in the 1300 block of West 24th Street, Lawrence police said. The items and damage were estimated at $295.
A KU student's passenger-side window was damaged between 12:10 and 9 a.m. Tuesday in the 1400 block of Apple Lane, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $200.
A KU student's money, jeans and other items were stolen between 1:53 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Wednesday from Bunchain Station, Lawrence police said. The items were estimated at $231.
A KU student's front passenger window was damaged and items stolen between 11 a.m. Sept. 12 and 9:30 a.m. Sept. 13 from the 1200 block of Mississippi Street, KU police said. The damage and items were valued at $885.
A KU student's Discover Card business letter was stolen between 9 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sept. 8 from lot 57, KU police said. The item was valued at $1.
A KU student's Acura remote control with two keys was keyed between 9 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sept. 8 from lot 57, KU police said. The items were estimated at $50.
A KU student's two parking permits were stolen between 5 p.m. Tuesday and 2 p.m. Wednesday from the lot of Ejayhawk Tower, KU police said. The items were valued at $12.5.
A KU student's Honda Prelude was damaged and Lazer Audio amplifier stolen between 4 a.m. Sept. 14 and 1:45 p.m. Wednesday from the lot southwest of McCollum Hall, KU police said. The items and damage were estimated at $2,000.
A KU student's parking permit was stolen between 5:30 and 7:40 p.m. Wednesday from the lot east of Jayhawker Towers, KU police said. It was valued at $75.
A KU student's parking permit was stolen between 1 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. Thursday from the lot south of Robinson Center, KU police said. It was valued at $75.
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