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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Student stabbed during Halloween costume party
CRIME
A University student suffered non-life-threatening injuries after being stabbed at a costume party late Saturday, according to Lawrence police.
Lawrence Police Sgt. Bill Cory said the 20-year-old student was attending a party at a residence near 13th and Ohio streets when he became involved in an
incident with another man at about 11 p.m. The suspect attacked the victim with a knife, causing a laceration to the student's arm. The victim was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital by friends, where he received medical attention for his injury.
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AWARDS Daily Kansan wins its third Online Pacemaker in a row
The University Daily Kansan won an Online Pacemaker this weekend from the Associated Collegiate Press. This is the third year in a row The Kansan has won the award.
The suspect had not been apprehended as of Sunday afternoon.
The Kansan also won on-site awards at the National Collegiate Media Convention, of which the Associated Collegiate Press was a host.
Former Kansan reporter Ryan McGeeney won third place in the Pacemaker contest for Story of the Year for his story "Ghost World," which ran in The Kansan
- Brenna Hawley
on Dec. 10, 2008.
The Wave took Best of Show in the special sections category. The Kansan's daily paper took third in Best of Show. All winners in the Best of Show contest can be found at http://studentpress.org/acp/winners/f09bs.html.
China to attend forum on relations with Africa
INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — China will set the future direction of its ties with Africa at a multinational forum in Egypt this month, Foreign Minister Yang Ieichi said Sunday.
Premier Wen Jiabao plans to attend the Nov. 8-9 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Yang said in an interview with the official Xinhua News Agency.
No details were given, but at the last forum in 2006, China pledged
to double assistance to Africa by 2009, provide $5 billion in preferential loans and credits, cancel debts and establish a $5 billion fund to encourage Chinese investment.
Yang said those goals had all been met, while the upcoming meeting marks "another important occasion to boost China-Africa friendship and cooperation."
China's trade with Africa has soared by a factor of 10 since 2001, passing the $100 billion mark last year.
NATIONAL
No survivors expected after crash
U. S. Coast Guard pilots prepare a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter before taking off on a search mission at the San Diego Coast Guard Station Friday in San Diego. The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy were searching early Friday for as many as nine people off the Southern California coast following a collision between a Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter officials said.
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LOS ANGELES — The search for nine people missing since a U.S. Coast Guard plane collided with a Marine Corps helicopter over the Pacific Ocean is now a recovery mission, officials said Sunday.
Petty Officer First Class Allison Conroy said there was little chance of finding survivors among the seven military personnel aboard the Coast Guard C-130 and the two in the Marine Corps AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter.
"We always hold out some hope, but at this point the Coast Guard has suspended the active search for survivors," Conroy said.
The two aircraft collided Thursday evening as the Coast Guard was searching for a missing boater. The Marine helicopter was flying in formation with another Cobra helicopter and two transports on a nighttime training exercise.
The Coast Guard has begun its investigation into the cause of the crash, Conroy said.
Kenneth Claiborne, the father of one of the missing crew members on the plane, said Sunday that his son, Marine 1st Lt. Thomas Claiborne, had been declared deceased. He declined to comment further and referred calls to a Marine spokesperson.
Rear Adm. Joseph Castillo said Saturday evening that the chance for finding survivors would be
"Miracles do happen," Nina Bryant said Sunday. "Miracles every day."
But the mother of Lt. Adam W. Bryant, 28, of Crewe, Va., who was a co-pilot on the Coast Guard plane, said she hadn't given up hope despite the Coast Guard's announcement.
slim, even though the servicemembers had access to heatretaining drysuits and were in excellent physical shape. Water temperatures were in the low 60s at the time of the collision.
"We don't ever want to suspend the case prematurely, when there may be someone out there," Castillo had said. "But hope gets less every day. My hope today is..."
Debris from both aircraft was found, but there was no sign of the crew members.
what it was yesterday."
All seven aboard the Coast Guard plane are stationed at the Coast Guard Air Station
"Miracles do happen. Miracles every day."
The Coast Guard search for the missing boater, David Jines, 50, was called off Saturday evening.
in Sacramento,
Calif. Among the other missing crew members on the plane were Lt.
Cmdr. Che Barnes,
35, of Capay, Calif.
Chief Petty Officer
John F. Seidman,
43, of Carmichael.
Nine aircraft searched over a 644-square-mile patch of ocean in waters about 2,000 feet deep.
Calif.; Petty Officer 2nd Class Carl P. Grigonis, 35, of Mayfield Heights, Ohio; Petty Officer 2nd Class Monica L. Beacham, 29, of Decaturville, Tenn.; Petty Officer 2nd Class Jason S. Mozetzky, 26, of Norristown, Pa., and Petty
Officer 3rd Class Danny K, Kreder II, 22, of Mott, Texas.
Maj. Samuel Leigh, 35, of Belgrade, Maine, was the other crew member on board the Marine Corps helicopter.
"These brave men and women dedicated their lives to ensuring our safety, and today we are tragically reminded of the dangers they face while protecting our state and nation." California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a statement Sunday. "Maria and I join all Californians in expressing our respect and gratitude for their service and sadness over their deaths."
The investigation will be conducted jointly by the Coast Guard and the Marine Corps, Petty Officer Henry Dunphy said Sunday.
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Sudanese leader calls for secession
Salva Kiru's first-ever call for the mostly Christian, oil-rich south to split off from the Muslim north could increase tension with the Arab-led northern government and further strain the fragile 2005 peace agreement that ended the more than two decade long north-south civil war and left more than 2 million dead.
KHARTOUM, Sudan — The leader of southern Sudan called on his people to vote for secession in an upcoming referendum if they do not want to end up as second class citizens, as voter registration began Sunday for elections across the country.
"If you want to vote for independence so that you are a free person in your independent state, that will be your own choice and we will respect the choice of the people," he added, according to a recording of the event obtained by the Associated Press.
"When you reach your ballot boxes the choice is yours; you want to vote for unity so that you become a second class in your own country, that is your choice," Kiiir told worshippers Saturday at the cathedral in the southern capital ofuba.
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The civil war ended with the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that set up a national unity government, established an autonomous south and stipulated the holding
The agreement also calls for all Sudanese parties to work for unity prior to the referendum. But the partnership has been rocky, mostly because of mutual distrust between the former rivals.
of a 2011 referendum to determine the future of the south.
Last week, Kiri, who is vice president in the transitional government, accused the Khartoum of never making "unity an attractive option" for the southernners and of failing to fully implement the peace agreement.
"What has been said is contradictory to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which calls for favoring the option of unity," he said, according to the official state news agency.
Mandour al-Mahdi, a member of the ruling party's political bureau, expressed regret over Kuir's statements, calling them not befitting of someone holding the position of vice president in the republic.
Southern Sudan's vice president, Riek Machar, said the Kiir's statements were not a change in southern policy but rather a way of saying that the northerners have not made unity attractive, leaving southerners angry.
"It is an expression of how south Sudanese people are getting frustrated," he told Associated Press. "People want to see the peace dividends, the country reconciling and development."
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