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The Inside Front
Wednesday November 18,1998
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
LAWRENCE
indiscreet observer sits on student's roof
A 23-year-old Lawrence man looked out his window Sunday night and saw another man sitting on his roof and looking into his house.
Poeice said the peeper was able to see into the house, in the 1600 block of Rhode Island Street, through the window because part of the roof sloped down in front of the man's bedroom window.
Police said they did not know if the peeper was looking in through a ground level window or a higher one.
Lawrence Police Sgt. George Wheeler said that the man reported that at 10:40 p.m. he had gotten tired after watching television and decided to go to bed.
"He opened his bedroom window to get some fresh air, when he saw a man sitting outside his window," he said. "The man screamed at the suspect, who fled in an unknown direction."
At 10:45 p.m., the man called the police, who determined that, in his rush to get off the roof, the suspect had bent the house's gutter and had broken some lattice work, causing $300 in damages.
Woman reports rape theft during weekend
Police are looking for a white male in his thirties with a slender build and dark curly hair. He was last seen wearing glasses.
A Lawrence woman reported to police that she was raped early Sunday morning in her Pennsylvania Street home.
Lawrence police said that the incident began at 4:45 a.m. when an acquaintance of the 22-year-old victim knocked on her door.
Wheeler said when the man left the woman's home, he took $245 from the top of her dresser.
"She let him in," said Lawrence Police Stg. George Wheeler. "He pushed her into the bedroom and forced her to have sexual intercourse with him."
Police have yet to contact the 28-year-old Kansas City, Mo. suspect, but they believe him to be in the Kansas City area.
The man faces charges of rape and theft.
Lawrence High School reports missing items
Lawrence High School officials reported two pieces of electronic equipment missing Nov. 11. The items were last seen Oct. 15.
A school employee discovered an
LCD power projector used to project images from a computer screen, a VCR and the metal cart they were both chained to were not in the school's library computer room.
"They put a note up on the bulletin board saying it was missing, but nobody has returned it yet," said Lawrence Police Sgt. George Wheeler.
Police are investigating the report as a legitimate felony theft, but Sgt. Wheeler said that he was not completely sure that the items were stolen.
"It could be that someone has borrowed it but just hasn't returned it yet," he said.
By Keith Burner
NATION
Police honor officer who ended rampage
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Sgt. Billy Paul Milter raised his .45-caliber pistol, ducked out from behind the corner of a grocery store and fired.
He had shot a suspect once before, but this was different. The gunman crouching 145 feet away on a church lawn had already fired hundreds of rounds from an assault rifle and now had his sights trained on a group of police officers.
Three passersby had already been wounded, and, a block away, Officer Bradley Am lay in his police cruiser, dying of a bullet wound to the head.
Miller's shot found its mark. William E. Lattin Jr. fell dead, his rampage ended.
"From 145 feet away, under fire, he stopped this crazed individual," Police Chief Jim Montgomery said.
Am'rs widow and 2-year-old twin daughters were among the crowd packing the Council Chambers at City Hall as Miller received the Medal of Honor.
Federal Reserve moves to protect U.S. economy
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve today reduced short-term interest rates by one-quarter of a percentage point.
It was the third time in seven weeks it had acted to inoculate the U.S. economy against spillover from world financial turmoil.
Rates on a variety of consumer and business loans, from credit cards to auto loans, were expected to fall in response to the Fed's action. The largely symbolic discount rate, which the Federal Reserve charges on its own loans, also was reduced by a quarter
The central bank's monetary policy panel voted to move the benchmark federal funds rate, charged on overnight loans between banks, to 4.75 percent, from 5 percent.
point, to 4.5 percent.
The federal funds rate reduction, to the lowest level in four years, was the third since Sept. 29, when rates were cut for the first time in three years. The rates dropped again Oct. 15.
Tapes of former intern released to U.S. public
WASHINGTON — Americans got their first earful of Monica Lewinsky's voice yesterday. She comes through on the Linda Tripp tapes by turns earnest, girlish and matter-of-fact about her relationship with President Clinton, the man she jokingly calls "the Creep."
The voice of the former White House intern, now 25, is at times playful and enthusiastic. The older friend who secretly recorded their telephone conversations, Tripp, offers a deeper, throatier counterpoint.
The words on the 37 tapes — 22 hours worth of conversation — aren't new. The House Judiciary Committee released transcripts of the tapes Oct. 2. With release of the audio, immediately broadcast on radio and television, nuances of voice and inflection were added to the mix.
Tripp volunteered her tapes to Independent Counsel Kenneth Stair in January, triggering his 10-month, $4.4 million investigation of the president's relationship with Lewinsky and their efforts to conceal it even as it became an issue in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit.
WORLD
Ex-Chilean dictator may be tried for murder
LONDON — A judge yesterday ordered Gen. Augusto Pinochet to appear before a London court on Dec. 2 — unless the former Chilean dictator wins a legal battle for immunity.
Pinochet has not been seen in public since his Oct. 16 arrest on a Spanish warrant seeking his extradition to face charges he was responsible for genocide, murder and torture during his 1973-90 rule. The warrant alleges Pinochet's victims included Spanish citizens in Chile.
During an extradition hearing, Alun Jones — an attorney for Spanish prosecutors seeking to overturn a High Court ruling that Pinochet has immunity from arrest — said "information we have is that he is fit enough to be discharged from the hospital."
In a separate hearing, Judge Andrew Collins altered Pincotet's bail conditions. Now he can leave the Grovelands Priory hospital.
The Associated Press
ON CAMPUS
OAKS — Non-Traditional Students Organization will have a brown bag luncheon from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. today at Alcove A in the Kansas Union. Call Simmie Berroya at 830-0074 for more information.
Student Union Activities will sponsor "Turkey Daze" from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today and tomor row in front of Wescoe Hall.
University Forum will present "Lawrence Memorial Hospital" from noon to 1 p.m. today at Eucanenical Christian Ministries. Dr. Gene Meyer, Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, will be the featured speaker. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933 for more information.
Africana and African American Studies and the Langston Hughes Centers will sponsor "Research in Critical Anthropology" from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. today at the International Room in the Kansas Union, as part of the Africana Faculty Seminar Series. Visiting professor Issiaka-Proper Laleye will be the featured speaker. Call Pia Thielmann at 864-3054 for more information.
University Career and Employment Services will have orientation programs at 3:30 p.m. today and tomorrow at 149 Burge Union. Call 864-3624 for more information.
Kansas University Gamers and Role Players will meet from 6:30 to 10:45 tonight at The Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union. Call Melanie Leatherman at 843-5361 for more information.
Amnesty International, Latin American Solidarity, and Students for a Free Tibet will sponsor letter-writing at 7 tonight at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351 for more information.
KU Libertarians will meet at 7 tonight at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union. Call Radger Woods at 841-6195 for more information.
Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Wendy Brown at 838-3984 or visit http://www.ukans.edu/~chialpha for more information.
- Jayhawker Campus Ministry will meet at 8 tonight at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union. Call Dave Diefendorf at 840-9469 for more information.
The SUA Recreation and Live Music Committees will meet today in the Kansas Union. Call the SUA box office at 864-3477 or visit http://www.ukans.edu/~sua for more information.
Geography activities put students on map
By Melady Ard
Kansan staff writer
Dots on a map are not the only aspect of geography.
Garth Myers, assistant professor of
Students from Free State High School will be on campus today listening to presentations and doing some hands-on experiments with different aspects of geography.
At least that is what the University of Kansas Geography Department wants to impress upon visiting students today
Garth Myers, assista geography and African studies, will make a presentation to the students about his cultural geography research in Tanzania.
"I would like to see
"I would like to see more American students get excited by geography early," Myers.
Ratna Radhakrishna and Mark Carper, graduate teaching assistants, organized the event in conjunction with the national Geography Awareness Week.
"This is the first year we have organized something for geography week, so we are starting off slow," Radhakrishna said.
The idea was developed by Carper, who initially wanted to include University students in the event.
Radhakrishna and Carper put together a display in the Kansas Union near the Student Union Activities office for University students.
"I am new to KU, and my old university had an open house," he said. "We were unsure how many people would go, so we arranged a meeting with a captive audience."
ON THE RECORD
A KU student and a KU employee collided while driving at 2:05 p.m. Friday in Lot 9 southeast of Memorial Stadium, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU employee's lost parking permit was stolen between 8:20 and 8:35 a.m. Monday on West 15th Street, the KU Public Safety Office said. The man told police the permit blew out his window while he was driving to work. He and an officer searched the area and could not find it. The permit was valued at $150.
A KU student's vehicle was scratched on the trunk lid between 8 p.m. Sunday and 1 p.m. Monday in Lot 103 west of Hashinger, Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the student's vehicle was estimated at $200.
The student's vehicle was estimated KU police responded to a fire alarm Monday in a Stouftner Place apartment, the KU Public Safety Office said. The alarm went off when someone was cooking and had shut itself off before officers arrived.
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