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The Inside Front
Tuesday September 16,1997
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
A man masturbating in his car surprised a 19-year-old KU student last week while she was walking to her car on West 24th Street.
KANSAS
Topika: Legislature debated whether the state should pay to investigate allegations of criminal activity at American Indian casinos.
NATION
Washington: Gore was driven across Washington to the Democratic Party Headquarters to make phone solicitations in 1994, a recently obtained memo shows, casting additional doubts on his 1996 fund-raising practices.
Washington: William Weld withdrew his bid for the ambassadorship to Mexico on yesterday as he criticized Washington politics, especially those of Jesse Helms. Helms, a fellow Republican, blocked a hearing on his nomination.
WORLD
Windhoek, Namibia: Two days after German and U.S. military planes collided over Namibia's Skeleton Coast, no survivors or bodies have been found. Searchers yesterday found only airplane seats and a few papers.
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina: The ballots from the weekend's elections, although not fully counted, offer hope for the masses of refugees. Some 89 percent of voters registered to cast ballots in their prewar hometowns on Saturday and Sunday.
CAMPUS
Masturbating man exposes self to University student
A man exposed himself to a 19-year-old KU student last week after she walked to her car, which was parked in the 1600 block of West 24th Street.
The student was walking to her car at 5:50 p.m. Sept. 8 when she noticed a man sitting in a car parked next to her car, Lawrence police said. The man had exposed himself and was masturbating in the vehicle, police said.
—Kansan staff report
The student said the man was sitting in a black Honda Civic hatchback. She described the man to police as a 34-year-old white male with curly red hair wearing khaki pants and a blue KU hat. The student said she had never seen the man before.
STATE
Kansans' stakes may rise in casino investigations
TOPEKA — Should Kansas taxpayers help pay for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to investigate allegations of criminal activity at American Indian casinos?
That question was debated by the Legislative Budget Committee yesterday after it heard a proposal by the KBI to have those probes partly financed by the state general fund.
Kirk Thompson, KBI assistant director, said the agency needed a stable funding source for all its operations, and it doesn't charge other industries for criminal investigations when allegations are made.
But Rep. Melvin Neufeld, R-Ingalls, saw it differently. Neufeld asked the committee's staff to research the compacts, which set conditions for allowing Indian gaming, to see if they permit the state to recover the cost of criminal investigations. That report is due at the panel's next meeting on Oct. 22.
However, Senate President Dick Bond, R-Overland Park, suggested that the KBI increase its charge for background checks on people who work at the Indian casinos to cover the costs of criminal investigations as well.
At issue is whether casinos operated by three Indian tribes in northeast Kansas — with a fourth to be opened later this year — should pay the entire cost of criminal investigations. They now pay the entire cost of background checks conducted by the KBI on casino officers, managers and employees. The checks cost more than $800,000 a year.
NATIONAL
Memo shows Gore raised money legally in 1994
WASHINGTON — A year before making fund-raising calls from the White House that landed him in controversy, Vice President Al Gore was driven across
Gore made the three-mile jaunt from the White House to the Democratic National Committee on Oct. 28, 1994, at a time when he apparently did not have a political credit card to charge such calls, a Democratic Party official said yesterday.
town to Democratic Party headquarters to make telephone solicitations, a 1994 memo shows.
"These calls are to ask for donations to the DNC. You will ask for either $50K [$50,000] or $100K [$100,000] depending on the individual," says a briefing memo for the vice president that clearly notes the 1994 calls were to be made from the DNC chairman's office.
The 1994 calls stand in sharp contrast to the calls the vice president made from his White House office just 13 months later. Some of those calls were originally charged to taxpayers and only recently were reimbursed.
A legal expert said yesterday the contrast could affect the deliberations within the Justice Department about whether an independent prosecutor should be appointed to investigate Gore.
"This is not good news for Gore. The fact that he behaved differently two years before makes it hard to credit his claim of good faith in 1996," said Stephen Gillers, professor of legal ethics at New York University School of Law.
Weld says 'adios' to battle for ambassador position
WASHINGTON — William Weld gave up his battle to be ambassador to Mexico yesterday with a scathing attack on Washington politics and a defiant declaration that he would not "go on bended knee" before Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., or anyone else.
"I can go back to New England, where no one has to approach the government on bended knee to ask it to do its duty," said Weld, who resigned as governor of Massachusetts in July to pursue the Mexico City post. "I've had enough of Washington for the next little while."
"Washington sure is a funny town," Weld said during a White House news conference in which he criticized a Senate system in which a conservative fellow Republican could block a hearing on his nomination.
President Clinton accepted Weld's withdrawal during a meeting in the Oval Office and didn't try to talk him out of it, White House officials said. Instead, the president scored Weld's rejection without a hearing.
"At a time when we have been making strides towards a bipartisan foreign policy, the treatment that my nominee received reflected the divisiveness that does not well serve the American people," Clinton said in a statement.
Helms, the conservative chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, refused to hold a nomination hearing for the more moderate Weld. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., supported Helms and said Weld "didn't handle himself well."
The president did not appear at the news conference, but the former governor said Clinton had strongly supported him from the start.
"His conduct during this episode has been baffling to me," Lott said. "There's another agenda here I have not quite figured out."
U.S.-German plane crash still missing passengers
INTERNATIONAL
WINDHOEK, Namibia — Two days after nine Americans and 24 Germans dropped out of sight while flying off Namibia's Skeleton Coast, searchers yesterday found airplane seats and a few papers — but no survivors or bodies.
The Atlantic is 3,000 feet deep in the area where the American C-141 Starlifter and the German air force plane apparently collided and crashed Saturday, and some officials doubted much wreckage ever would be found.
Military officials from Germany, the United States and South Africa — which is responsible for sea-rescue operations in the area — met in Windhoek to coordinate the search. They also wanted to determine why there was a 24 hour lapse before rescue officials were told the planes were missing.
"We are about to hire some divers," German air force Matl. Gen. Gerhard Buck.
Searchers found seats from the German plane and papers in German in two areas of the sea yesterday near where the planes may have collided, about 115 miles west of Cape Fria on the Namibian coast.
American officials said they could not say why it took so long to initiate a search or what steps were taken when the U.S. plane did not arrive at Ascension Island from Namibia as scheduled.
"I cannot reconstruct that for you. We simply do not have that information. I'm not sure what the time line would be, but they would obviously inform people in the United States," said U.S. Army Col. Michael Mensch.
One key to keeping track of airplanes is the flight plan, which is passed on from one air traffic control point to another.
Namibian officials said they had not received the flight plan for the German plane, which vanished en route from Germany to Cape Town. South Africa.
"No departure signal, no flight plan. That's why we were not aware that the airplane was coming," said Jochen Sell, Namibia's chief air traffic officer.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Mounds of votes remained uncounted from the weekend's elections, but the masses of refugees who hoped the ballot box would give them a chance to go home permanently have already claimed partial victory.
"This is the first step back home," Enver Pilav said yesterday in Sarajevo. Originally from the mostly Muslim town of Foca, Pilav was a candidate for the local council for that town, renamed Srbinje by the Serbs who took it during the war.
Some 89 percent of voters registered to cast ballots for their prewar hometowns on Saturday and Sunday, including hundreds of thousands of refugees driven out before the fighting stopped in late 1995.
That suggested that the local elections could change the ethnic map carved in the Bosnian war. If majority Muslims driven out by Serbs elect a Muslim city council in a particular town, for instance, Muslims may start to return to that town.
The Serbian pressure against the refugees would be intense, but the Muslims hope the NATO-led peace force will throw its weight behind them.
On the Record
A KU student's Utah license plate was stolen between midnight and 12:15 p.m. Saturday from the 2100 block of Harvard, Lawrence police said. The plate was valued at $20.
A KU student's Pioneer amplifier and subwoofer were stolen and passenger side window damaged between 2 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Sunday in the 400 block of Greystone, Lawrence police said. The damage and items were valued at $630.
A KU student's Kenwood stereo compact disc player was stolen and passenger side window damaged between 7 p.m. Friday and 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1200 block of Mississippi, Lawrence police said. The item and damage were valued at $400.
A KU student's Clarion stereo compact disc player was stolen and back passenger side window damaged between 8 p.m. Sept. 3 and 7:45 a.m. Sept. 5 in the 1600 block of Indiana, Lawrence police said. The damage and item were valued at $300.
A KU student's PAC crossover, Sherwoid amplifier and Kicker subwoofer were stolen between 1:45 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday from the 1300 block of Westbrook, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $500.
A KU student's Cooustic crossover and two amplifiers were stolen between 11 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday from the 1300 block of Westbrook, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $630.
A KU student's Panasonic stereo faceplate was stolen between 1 and 1:1.5 a.m. Sunday from the 2500 block of W. 6th Street, Lawrence police said. The item was valued at $300.
A KU student's West Virginia license plate was stolen between 4 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday from the 900 block of Missouri, Lawrence police said. The plate was valued at $1.5.
Two computer compact discs were stolen between 7 p.m. sept. 5 and 6:30 p.m. sept. 9 from room 114 in Stauffer-Flint Hall, KU police said. The discs were valued at $90.
A KU student's yellow parking permit was stolen between 7 and 10 p.m. Sept. 7 from a parking lot by Learned Hall, KU police said. The permit was valued at $75.
A KU student's Sony cassette stereo and cassette tape were stolen between noon Sept. 1 and 12:30 p.m. Friday from the parking lot west of Jayhawker Towers, KU police said. The items were valued at $355.
A KU student's 1986 Ford Escort was burned on a parking lot on the KU main campus between 4:56 and 5:45 p.m. Friday. KU police said. The damage was estimated at $1,500.
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