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News in Brief
Tuesday September 2,1997
NEWS FROM AROUND CAMPUS, THE NATION AND THE WORLD
Final fellowships awarded to Med Center professors
KU officials awarded the final three W. T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching Excellence last week at the KU Medical Center.
Mary Carpenter, associate professor of hearing and speech in the School of Allied Health, Peter Smith, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, and Roma Lee Tauton, professor of nursing, received the awards.
Twenty KU professors in Lawrence and at the Medical Center now have received the fellowships which include $5,000 awards.
A seven-member committee, made up of KU faculty members, students, and a KU alumnus, chose the Kemper fellows from nominations submitted by colleagues and students.
The fellowships are funded by a $250,000 gift from the William T. Kemper Foundation. The KU Endowment Association provided $250,000 in matching funds.
Raven system goes down because of bad disk drive
The computer system Raven went down at about 3 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Any www.ukans.edu domain was rendered useless, including KUFacts and the KU homepage. Usenet News was also down.
A disk error was to blame.
Bill Pesek, manager of production services, said technical service switched out the malfunctioning drive with a spare disk drive from the inventory.
Pesek said the new drive was being rebuilt so that it would have the proper data, and under normal conditions, Raven should be up today.
Raven is backed up every night, Pesek said, and the malfunctioning drive was a system disk. He said no customer data should be affected.
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National Baptist leader admits sin, may lose convention post
DENVER — The humbled president of the nation's largest black denomination sought forgiveness as other ministers pressed for his resignation due to alleged personal and financial sins.
The board of the 8.5-million-member National Baptist Convention U.S.A. met late yesterday to take up allegations the Rev. Henry Lyons of St. Petersburg, Fla., used church accounts to buy expensive jewelry, a Mercedes-Benz and a $700,000 home with a woman other than his wife.
On Sunday night, a contrite Lyons bowed his head and thanked supporters at a packed prayer meeting where speakers praised him for admitting mistakes in his handling of church funds. He denied criminal wrongdoing.
"I think it's going to be the greatest hour
for spiritual redemption in the history of the Christian church," said the Rev. Acen Phillips of Mt. Glead Baptist Church in Denver, a church vice president and Lyons supporter.
However, a coalition representing 350 churches announced plans yesterday to fight for Lyons' ouster, even if the 200-member governing board allows him to stay on. The mechanism for overriding the board is unclear.
"As Christians, we are taught to love everybody and forgive," said the Rev. John J. Barfield of Philippian Baptist Church in Philadelphia, spokesman for the Coalition for a Better Convention. "At the same time, we cannot carry out and conduct business as usual."
Lyons, 55, was elected three years ago on a reform slate that promised to open the group's financial records to its members and move it in the politically active direction the Rev. Martin Luther King envisioned nearly four decades ago.
Tribes oppose legislation requiring income reports
WASHINGTON — By any measure, the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa in Minnesota is one of the most successful tribes in America. Casinos trimmed unemployment and welfare rolls and helped build new schools and a clinic.
Yet the tribal government still gets $1.4 million a year from the Bureau of Indian Affairs — roughly $1,000 for every tribe member.
Meanwhile, a few hundred miles west, some of the poorest Americans, South Dakota's Ogala and Rosebud Sioux, get about $200 per member from the BIA.
An analysis of the Indian agency's arcane funding systems shows wide disparities, with the richest, best-located tribes frequently the best funded, receiving up to $2,000 per member, while some tribes get less than $100 per member.
And the gap between tribes grows as annual funding increases are made at the same rate for every reservation.
BIA officials said it was politically impossible for them to redistribute the money. And distrustful tribes — rich and poor — don't want any change.
The Senate, nevertheless, will debate legislation this month that could lead to relatively wealthy tribes getting less of the BIA money flow.
"All tribes have needs but the tribes with the greatest needs and poorest situations should be, at the least, given some level of preference," said Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash.
Gorton inserted a provision in the Interior Department's 1998 appropriations bill that would require tribes to begin reporting their income to the BIA. It's a first step toward requiring the federal agency to fund tribs according to need.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has said he would recommend a veto of the appropriations bill if Gorton's provision stayed in.
Opponents such as Ron Allen, president of the National Congress of American
Indians, explained: "You can't come in and fix a problem like this overnight in such a blatant and callous way. It's fundamentally wrong."
International Princess Diana's chauffeur may have driven drunk
LONDON — Britain mourned its fallen princess yesterday in silent, patient and grieving lines and heard the latest from France with new dismay: Diana's driver
was loaded with alcohol when he roared off for her final ride.
A French judicial source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said driver Henri Paul's blood alcohol level was 1.75 grams per liter of blood more than three times France's legal limit. The 0.5-gram limit translates to a blood-alcohol content of about 0.065 percent.
Most U.S. states consider a driver legally drunk if the blood-alcohol content reaches 0.1 percent.
Diana: Funeral procession planned for Saturday
The black Mercedes-Benz sedan may have been hurtling along at more than 100 mph when it crashed in a Paris tunnel early Sunday, killing Princess Diana, her millionaire boyfriend Dodi Fayd, and the driver, a French source reported.
The news hit hard in a nation already coping with losing such a youthful icon so abruptly — and angered that celebrity photographers, who had chased the speeding vehicle, may have been partly responsible. A source close to the investigation said the Mercedes' speedometer was found stuck at 196 kilometers per hour — 121 mph — after the crash, a good indication of the speed at impact.
Buckingham Palace announced Diana's funeral will be at 11 a.m. (5 a.m. CDT) Saturday at Westminster Abbey — where kings and queens are christened and crowned, wed and buried.
Police have not yet been able to interview bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, who survived the crash with head, lung and facial injuries. He remained in intensive care yesterday in grave, but not life-threatening, condition.
The French prosecutor's statement also indicated at least some of the seven photographers detained would be placed under formal investigation. The statement implied it could be because the photographers did not help the victims of the crash — a crime under France's "Good Samaritan" law.
MOSCOW — Boris Yeltsin — Russia's first popularly elected president — declared yesterday that he would step
Yeltsin won't run in 2000; multitude vies for his spot
aside when his term expires in 2000, clearing the way for a pack of candidates already jockeying to succeed him.
Tetsui's recent neat two-term limit in the constitution already had appeared to rule out a third term for the Russian leader. But his sudden announcement at a Moscow school still caught many by surprise.
Yeltsin's recent health problems and a
"My term ends in
2001. I will not run anymore," Yeltsin told children and teachers on the first day of classes at School No. 1253.
Yeltsin: Age, term limits halt a third campaign
Looking upbeat and
smiling, the 66-year-old Yeltsin said younger, more energetic people were needed to run the country in the future.
"We have a very good team — a good, friendly and intelligent team," he said, suggesting that his preferred successor would come from within his own administration.
Yeltsin, who underwent heart surgery last year and suffered a bout of pneumonia early this year, returned to full-time duty several months ago. He appears in good health and no one questions his intention to serve out the final three years of his current term.
Yeltsin has kept up an active schedule, pushing the government to complete free-market reforms, while repeatedly locking horns with the communists and nationalists in Parliament.
There is already a large group of potential presidential candidates for 2000, although none could be considered a front-runner at present.
In Yeltsin's administration, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdyn may pursue the job, though he has never fared well in opinion polls. First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov is the country's most popular politician, according to several recent polls, though at age 37 some think he is too young and inexperienced.
Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, defeated by Yeltsin in presidential runoff election in 1996, is likely to run again. But most analysts view the Communist Party as being in decline because the majority of its supporters are elderly, and it holds little appeal for the young.
Zedillo delivers address to Congress in turmoil
MEXICO CITY — President Ernesto Zedillo has seen his annual address to the nation disrupted before — by hecklers, by banners demanding democracy and even by a congressman wearing a rubber pig mask.
But there was nothing like this weekend's rebellion by his own party's legislators, who briefly threatened to boycott Zedillo's state of the nation address late yesterday, the first in modern history by a Mexican president to an opposition-controlled Congress.
It took a presidential appeal to ruling party lawmakers — humiliated by their new minority role — to drop threats of boycoting the session.
For a time, they even talked of forming their own rump congress, a move that could have set off a constitutional crisis.
For the first time in seven decades, the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party — or PRI — lost its majority in the 500-seat lower house of Congress in the July 6 elections.
The speaker traditionally gives the official response to the president's state of the nation address, but never before have the two officials born.
the two officials been from opposing parties
Opposition deputies gathered Saturday in the congressional chambers, declared a quorum and named Porfirio Munoz Ledo, a fiery orator of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, as the speaker of the lower House.
from opposing parties. In past years, opposition deputies sometimes shouted challenges to the president from the floor, but they were generally drowned by calls from the PRI majority.
With the PRI unacustomed to being challenged, its mutiny against opposition control of Congress was short-lived but fiery.
Zedillo: Called for cooperation between parties
On the Record
A KU student's 1996 two-door Pontiac was damaged between 11 p.m. Thursday and 12:45 a.m. Friday, in the 1400 block of Tennessee, Lawrence police said. The damaged was estimated at $395.
A KU student's RCA color TV, checkbook and other items were stolen between 8:45 and 9:30 p.m. Thursday, from the 1000 block of Emery, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $1,303.
A KU student's window, window frame and front door were damaged between 3:45 and 3:55 a.m. Aug. 25, in the 2600 block of W. Sixth Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $400.
A white banner with "P1 Beta Phi" written on it was stolen at 3 a.m. Aug. 24, from the 1600 block of 15th Street, Lawrence police said. The banner was valued at $600.
A KU student's tan wallet was stolen between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, from the 2500 block of Allison Drive, Lawrence police said. The wallet and items it contained were valued at $52.
A KU student's 1988 Honda Accord tires were damaged at 1 a.m. Thursday, in the 1000 block of Mississippi, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $141.
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