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The Inside Front
Tuesday December 1,1998
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
WORLD
Guards continue search for death row escapee
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Investigators found a hacksaw blade they believe was used by convicted killer Martin Gurule to begin his escape from death row, prison officials said yesterday.
Gurule remained free for a fourth day despite the efforts of 500 prison guards and 70 tracking dogs who crisscrossed heavily wooded and swampy areas around the state's death row.
"We're going to go on the assumption he's still here until we find evidence he's not," said Sgt. Tommy Freeman, who manages the dog teams at the prison.
Freeman and his dog teams have been searching since late Thursday when Gurule and six other condemned killers likely used the hacksaw blade to cut through a recreation yard fence at Ellis Unit about 85 miles northeast of Houston. They made it onto the roof, but six of the inmates were caught after guards starting firing.
Gurule, 29, went on to scale two fences topped with razor wire and dashed across a grassy area to disappear into heavy fog. He's the first inmate in 64 years to escape from the state's death row.
Previous week's gains wounded in Dow slide
NEW YORK — The Dow industrials dropped 216 points yesterday, a week after returning to record levels, in the first real wave of profit-taking since the stock market rebound began almost two months ago.
The selling was heaviest among the computer-related and internet-related names that have led the turnaround, particularly in the Nasdaq market.
The Dow Jones industrial average sank 2.3 percent, or 216.53 points, to 9,116.55, recording its first one-day loss of 200 points — or even 100 points — since Oct. 1.
The Nasdaq composite index fell
66.00 to 3.23 percent.
The drop more than wiped out last week's 173-point gain and left the Dow about 257 points below the record close of 9,374-27 set Nov. 23.
68. 90, or 3.5 percent, to 1,549.54 While most analysts said the fears that dominated the market through early autumn were exaggerated, some also worried that Wall Street's recovery would prove too exuberant with a weak global economy still pressuring company profits.
"They were due," said Charles Pradilla, chief investment strategist at SG Cowen Securities, noting the speculation among relatively unknown companies selling their wares on the internet. "They were way overdue."
Group accuses Yeltsin of neglecting military
MOSCOW — A parliamentary commission seeking to impeach Boris Yeltsin debated yesterday whether the president, as commander-in-chief, was
stunning decay of Russia's once-mighty military. Lawmakers accused Yeltsin of neglecting the armed forces, which have been crippled by a chronic shortage of cash.
They failed to reach a conclusion yesterday and said it would be hard to prove the decline of
Yeltsin: Faces threat of impeachment regarding military.
the military was a premeditated action and an impeachable offense.
The president himself remained in a government hospital for the ninth straight day, receiving treatment for pneumonia — the latest in a string of illnesses.
The impeachment panel set up last summer already has accused Yeltsin of three offenses they say are grounds for impeachment: instigating the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union; using force against lawmakers holed up in parliament in 1993; and launching the botched war on separatist Chechyna in 1994.
Previous impeachment attempts have failed, and this one also appears to have little chance of removing Yeltsin.
Supreme Court upholds murderer's conviction
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday rejected the appeal of a Missouri killer who says he was denied a chance to make sure the jury that sentenced him to death was not biased.
The justices let stand Alan Nicklasson's murder conviction and death sentence for the 1994 killing of Richard Drummond, a "good Samaritan" who offered Nicklasson and two other men a ride when their car broke down along interstate 70.
The Missouri Supreme Court previously had upheld Nicklasson's sentence by a 4-3 vote.
In the appeal acted on yesterday, Nicklasson contended that the refusal violated his Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment because it created the possibility that some jurors automatically would vote for the death penalty if he were convicted.
The state judge who presided over Nicklasson's trial refused to let his lawyer ask any follow-up questions when he asked prospective jurors about their views on the death penalty.
In a series of decisions during the last 30 years, the nation's highest court has required exclusion of jurors
who automatically would vote for or against imposing the death penalty.
unilean dictator able to exit London hospital
LONDON — The London hospital where Gen. Augusto Pinochet is being held under police guard said yesterday that the former Chilean dictator no longer needed special medical care and should find another place to stay.
The statement by the Grovelands Priory appeared to be a new blow to any hopes Pinochet had of fighting extradition to Spain on grounds he is unfit for trial.
Chilean Foreign Minister Jose Miguel Insulza飞 to Madrid today after four days of trying to persuade Britain not to extradite Pinetoch to Spain to face charges of murder, genocide and torture by secret police during his 1973-90 rule.
Pinochet, who underwent back surgery Oct. 9, is now due to appear in court Dec. 11.
Insufa said that Pinochet may be tried in Chile if he was allowed to go home. Pinochet has immunity from prosecution in Chile. Critics say that if this were lifted he would appear before a military court packed with his supporters.
Home Secretary Jack Straw has until Dec. 11 to decide whether to permit extradition proceedings to begin.
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened yesterday to walk away from the Mideast peace
Arafat remark spurs Netanyahu warning
agreements if Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat unilaterally declared statehood in May.
The warning came a day after Arafat said in Washington that "I hope that this (coming) year will be the year of the independent Palestinian state."
Palestinian negotiator Hassan
Alaw said the Pal
Netanahya: Threatens to abandon peace agreements.
estinari们 are paying no heed to Netanyahu's threats.
The new acrimony came more than a week after the implementation of stage one of the land-for-security agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
The Palestinians say the agreements do not prevent Arafat from declaring statehood on May 4, 1999, the day the five-year period of Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza strip ends.
Netanyahu described Arafat's latest remarks concerning statehood as a violation of the Oslo peace accords.
Netanyau warned he would respond by annexing parts of the West Bank.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's vehicle was hit by an unknown vehicle between 3 p.m. Nov. 22 and 3:35 p.m. Nov. 24 in Liat 100 east of Stephenson Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU employee's laptop computer was stolen from the employee's office between 5 p.m. Nov.
25 and 10:30 a.m. Nov. 26 in Wescoe Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The stolen item was valued at $1,389.57.
A KU student's vehicle was damaged between 7 and 3:00 p.m. Nov. 19 in Lot 37 north of Haworth Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at $2,000.
A KU police officer met with a KU student who said he was being harassed at 3:03 p.m. Nov. 27 in McColm Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student said that another student claimed he owed him $200. The officer contacted the student who claimed to be owed the money. He said he was filing a civil suit. The officer told him not to contact the McColm resident
A KU police officer met with a student and a facilities operations employee at 2:05 p.m. in Wescoe Hall. The student had requested that the employee cut a broken padlock off of his locker so that he could access his term paper inside.
A Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall desk clerk found two fake driver's licenses between 12:01 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Nov, 24, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A computer, keyboard, mouse and speakers were stolen between 4:15 p.m. Nov. 20 and 8:20 a.m. Nov. 23 from an office in Howorth Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
The central processing unit of a computer was stolen between 4 p.m. Nov. 20 and 8 a.m. Nov. 23 from Summerfield Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A fence was damaged and lumber stolen between 6:15 p.m. Nov. 20 and 6:30 a.m. Nov. 21 at a construction site at Memorial Stadium, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at $15. The stolen lumber was valued at $275
A Hashinger Hall resident was cited for possession of marijuana and paraphernalia between 11:15 and 11:45 p.m. m. Nov. 20 in Hashinger, the KU Public Safety Office said.
Holiday ritual receives boot from officials
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sing Christmas carols and hold candles as they make their way to the main level.
Although this is how the event always has taken place, the department is concerned with the prospect of 49 open flames.
Nicole Kirby, Kansas City, Kan., Junior and Watkins Hall resident, said the residents did not want to change the winter traditions in any way.
"We discourage candles or any type of open flame that could be dangerous; that's our policy." Stoner said. "We're not telling them to stop the event; we're just encouraging them to use battery-type candles that could be clicked on and off."
In fact, she said that all 49 women signed a petition saying they would not remove the candles.
"I've lived here for three years, and I want to keep the traditions," Kirby said. "A lot of girls are prepared to use candles anyway."
Watkins Hall has 24 residents who have lived in the hall for at least three years and have participated in the event. Camille Lauer, Lawrence senior and Hall president, said these women especially did not want to alter anything.
"The girls feel like they're being patronized," she said. "She's so stupid. The department is putting a negative aspect on the whole tradition and the holiday. I can't even believe it an issue."
Stoner said that using candles clearly was prohibited in the housing policies. Page 22 of the rule book says that "candles, incense and open flame decorations are fire hazards and are prohibited."
He said that, like other disciplinary actions for breaking policy, the women could be written up if they chose to use candles.
"One violation won't get us all kicked out." Lauer said. "The department has 24 hours to write up all violations. If they want to write up 49 women in 24 hours, then fine. We don't care."
ON CAMPUS
OAKS will have a brown bag junction from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. today at Alcove E in the Kansas Union, and at the same tomorrow at Alcove A. Call Simmie Beravta at 8300 074 for more information.
SUA committee will meet today. Call the SUA box office at 864-3477 for more information.
The Hispanic-American Leadership Organization will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Multicultural Resource Center. Call Ilan Kellner at B64-HALO for more information.
- The KU Environers will meet at 6 p.m. today at the International Room in the Kansas Union. Call Matt Dunbar at 864-7325 for more information.
The KU Meditation Club will meet at 6:15 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Bena Beh at 864-7754 for more information
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. will have AKA-
cademic Study Group from 7 to midnight tonight at the lower level in Ellsworth Hall. Call Erica Hawthorne at 864-8684 for more information.
Haworth Academy of 884-8504 for more information
The Diversity Dialogue Series will present "Lifting the
The Office of New Student Orientation will have an orientation assistant information session at 7 night at the English Room in the Kansas Union. Any student interested in representing the University of Kansas for the upcoming year is invited to attend. Call Heidi Shrantt at 864-4270 for more information.
Clouds: Exploring Religious Sterotypee 'from 7 to 9' tonight at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas University
University Christian Fellowship will meet at 7 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Call Tim Watts at 841-3148 for more information.
The Environmental Studies Student Association will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union. Call Todd Simmons at 838-4673 for more information.
The Student Alumni Association will meet at 8 tonight at Adams Alumni Center. The Kansas-Kentucky game will be viewed and yearbook pictures will be taken. Call Jennifer Muller at 864-9779 for more information.
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