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The Inside Front
Monday November 2,1998
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
CORRECTION
An article on Page 10C of Friday's Kansas misidentified Megan Bahm and Lyle Dohl. They are desk assistants at Hashinger Hall.
CAMPUS Ryun ends campaign tour at Memorial Stadium
U. S. representative Jim Ryun finished a 25-count campaign tour in Lawrence Saturday.
Ryun and his family spent the last 10 days visiting each county the Republican represents to spread information about his goals.
The tour ended at Memorial Stadium
Ryun: Finished campaign at University.
before the football game between the University of Kansas and Kansas State University. Kathyn Ryun, the Congressman's daughter, said that the tour had been a success and that the constituents had responded to Ryun with enthusiasm.
John Potter, a representative for Ryun, said Ryun had a chance to speak with Chancellor Robert Hemenway earlier that morning. Ryun's campaign workers spread out around the stadium to hand out filers to fans.
Kathyn Ryun told passers-by, "My dad would appreciate your vote on Nov. 3." Ryun is running against Democrat Jim Clark.
Carolyn Mollett
Kathyn Ryun said her father would spend today, the last day before the election, in Topeka.
Lawrence man arrested for third drug charge
Lawrence police arrested a 24-year-old Lawrence man Oct. 26 for possession of illegal substances less than an hour after releasing him from jail.
Police arrested the man at 11:41 a.m. at 11th and New Hampshire streets, in front of the police station, with substances they thought to be hashish, LSD and Clonazetan, a type of the depressant Valium, said Lawrence Police Set. George W.
Once Sgt. George Wheeler Shortly after releasing him from jail, police discovered the man had a warrant for his arrest from Lenexa. He was then apprehended for the third time in two weeks on drug charges.
Earlier Oct. 26, he was found with 70 small pieces of paper police thought contained LSD and a bag of mushrooms.
On Oct. 19, police arrested the man for possession of what they thought to be 6.2
ountes of individually packaged mushrooms and three grams of marijuana.
In his second arrest on Oct. 26, he was jailed on charges of possession of LSD, possession of hashish and having no tax stamp.
Keith Burner
STATE Heavy rains in Kansas cause emergency state
WICHITA — Heavy rains in southeast Kansas have caused severe flooding and has forced the evacuation of dozens of homes, officials said.
A state of local emergency was declared yesterday in Butter and Sedgwick counties, where more than eight inches of rain had fallen since Friday.
The hardest-hit areas were Whitewater, Augusta and El Dorado in Butler County and Wichita and Colwich in Sedwick County.
No injuries were reported.
Some unofficial rainfall gauges detected as much as 11 inches of rain in the northern part of Butler County, said Jim Schmidt of the county emergency management office.
About 100 homes were voluntarily evacuated throughout Butler County. Most of the evacuations were in Augusta and near low-lying areas in Andover, Cassoday and El Dorado, Schmidt said.
The evacuations began about 9:30 p.m. Saturday and continued through yesterday morning, said Jack Kegley, deputy director of the Sedgwick County Emergency Management office.
NATION Medical licensing easier for doctors in military
DAYTON, Ohio — Not all military doctors are required to meet the same standards as their civilian counterparts, despite the efforts of Congress and the Defense Department, a new study says.
As many as a dozen states have set up special licensing procedures for military doctors that free them from meeting all the requirements demanded of civilian doctors, the newspaper said.
Most safeguards protecting civilians from medical malpractice do not exist for members of the military or, in many cases, for their spouses and children, the study reported.
Military doctors usually cannot be sued by their patients, are not required to have malpractice insurance and do not have to be licensed in the states where they practice, the newspaper said.
WORLD Protestant gang admits to killing man in Ireland
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — A new Protestant gang opposed to Northern
Ireland's prevailing cease-fires claimed responsibility yesterday for killing a Catholic civilian.
A caller representing the Red Hand Defenders told the British Broadcasting Corp.'s office in Londonderry that the group shot 35-year-old Brian Service as he walked home alone early Saturday on Beafall's rough north side. The caller also claimed responsibility for another gun attack at a pub in Catholic west Beafall in which nobody was hurt.
The killing demonstrates a new dissident threat to discipline within the ranks of Northern Ireland's outlawed pro-British groups: the Ulster Defense Association, Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando.
Pro-British paramilitary groups have killed more than 900 people in a three-decade campaign designed to match violence committed by the Irish Republic Army.
SEOUL, South Korea — An Army vehicle plunged off a bridge into a river in South Korea on Saturday, killing four American servicemen and a South Korean soldier, the U.S. military command said.
Four Americans killed in car accident in Korea
Two American soldiers were injured in the incident, which occurred Saturday night on a bridge over the Injin River, 25 miles north of Seoul, the military said.
The soldiers were returning from a training support mission when their M981 Fire Support Vehicle plunged into the river, the command said.
The names of the dead and injured soldiers and other personal details were not released, pending notification of next of kin, the command said. The soldiers were all assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division at Camp Hovey.
Vigil to protest against freeina Chilean dictator
LONDON — Dozens of campaigners staged a vigil outside Parliament yesterday, urging Britain not to free former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
The 82-year-old Pinochet was arrested Oct. 16 at a London clinic on a Spanish warrant seeking his extradition on charges of murder, kidnapping and torture during his 17-year rule.
Britain's High Court ruled last week that the arrest was illegal because, as a former head of state, Pinochet is immune from prosecution.
ON THE RECORD
A report by Chile's democratically elected government says more than 3,000 people were killed or disappeared during Pinochet's rule.
A judge on Friday granted bail to Pinochet, who underwent back surgery Oct. 9. He remains under police guard.
The Associated Press
A 53-year-old Overland Park woman was arrested at 12 a.m. Friday at 16th and Tennessee streets, the KU Public Safety Office said. A KU police officer saw the woman approach her illegally parked car in the 1200 block of Jayhawk Boulevard and told the woman he needed to speak to her about the violation. She got in her car and started it. The officer told her to roll down the window. She said she didn't want to talk and drove away. The officer pursued the vehicle, with his lights and sirens on, to 16th and Tennessee. The woman was arrested for her parking violation and attempting to elude arrest.
A KU student's purse, glasses, KUID, bus pass,
credit card and $14 cash were stolen between
9:30 and 10:30 p.m. Thursday from the first
floor of Murphy Hall, the KU Public Safety Office
sid. The stolen items were valued at $264
A KU student's purse, coin purse, checkbook, driver's license, billfold and $5 cash were stolen between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. Thursday from the first floor of Murphy Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The stolen items were valued at $226.
A KU student reported being criminally threatened between 8:05 and 8:10 a.m. Thursday in Lot 91, southeast of Memorial Stadium, the KU Public Safety Office said.
- The windshield of a KU student's car was broken between midnight and 7:20 a.m. Saturday in the 1200 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was $200.
Both tail lights of a KU employee's car were broken between 4 p.m. Friday and 7:10 a.m. Saturday in the 4600 block of West Sixth Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was $200.
A TV and a VCR were stolen from a KU employee between 7:20 a.m. and 5:20 p.m.
Wednesday in the 1500 block of Lindenwood Lane, Lawrence police said. The property was valued at $369
A KU student's car was damaged and stereo equipment was stolen from it between 7 and 9 p.m. Thursday in the 1600 block of Edgehill Drive, Lawrence police said. The damage to the car was $300, and the equipment was valued at $750.
source: National Civil Defense Jason Benavides/Mannan
Victims of hurricane found in Nicaragua
The Associated Press
Authorities feared that many more bodies would be found in 10 communities at the foot of the Casitas Volcano in northern Nicaragua.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Rescue workers recovered hundreds of bodies yesterday from communities buried when a lake in a volcano crater overflowed and sent tons of mud and rock hurtling down villages below. The finds boosted the death toll from former hurricane Mitch to 978.
Mitch was one of the most violent hurricanes to hit the Caribbean, causing heavy rain and floods as it cut a fatal path along the coasts of Honduras, Nicaragua and other Central American countries.
The first army rescue helicopters to reach the volcano yesterday found widespread destruction, army spokesman Capt. Milton Sandoval said. Rescue workers recovered 360 bodies in four villages near Posoltega, about 50 miles north of Managua.
A river of mud and rubble collapsed on the villages Friday after a crater lake near the volcano's peak overflowed and caused part of the mountain to crumble. Sandoval said.
In Honduras, at least 231 deaths have been blamed on Mitch, the National Emergency Commission said.
ON CAMPUS
Only 92 of the estimated 2,000 area residents were found alive, some injured, and the remainder were listed as missing. Sandoval said.
Students for a Free Tibet will meet at 8 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Erik at 841-4670 for more information.
The St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate an All Souls Requiem Mass at 7 tonight at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road. The Mass will feature sung Liturgy, including Gregarian Chant and Paletinta's Missa pro defunctis to commemorate members of the St. Lawrence Center and family members that have died in the past year. Call Marie Rubis Bauer at 843-0357 for more information.
The Diversity Dialogue Series will present "It's Not Where You Park Your Car: Exploring Stereotypes Among Living Groups" from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Kansas Room in
the Kansas Union.
Students in Communication Studies will present "Career Planning" from 7 to 8 p.m. tomorrow at the English Room in the Kansas Union. Francis DeSalvo, Jr., director of Counseling and Psychological Services and acting director of the University Career and Employment Services, will be the featured speaker. Call Laura Baker at 842-6192 for more information.
University Career and Employment Services will sponsor an interviewing strategies workshop at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union. Employers from Hallmark, UNUM, and Primedia Intertech will discuss strategies for interviewing success. Call Gina Eastman at 864-3624 for more information.
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