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The Inside Front
Wednesday October 14, 1998
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
LAWRENCE
Police investigate string of felony car burglaries
Four Topeka men were arrested yesterday morning in connection with at least seven car burglaries in west Lawrence, police said.
Lawrence police said the men, ages 17,18,19 and 20, were suspected of burglarizing several cars near Wakarusa Drive.
Police did not yet know how many cars were broken into, nor did they have any estimates of the property loss or damage to the vehicles.
The men were arrested at 4 a.m. and placed in the Douglas County jail on charges of conspiracy to commit a felony, aiding and abetting a felon, auto burglary and theft.
The men were arrested when the last car burglary victim, who lives in the 1000 block of Columbine Court, heard someone break his car's window.
"He then came out of the house with a handgun," said Lawrence police Sgt. George Wheeler.
Wheeler said the man saw the suspects drive away and called the police, who arrested the men in the surrounding neighborhood.
Police still are investigating.
— By Keith Burner
Police still are investigating.
—Bv Keith Burner
STATE
Greece to buy planes from Raytheon Aircraft
WICHITA — Raytheon Aircraft Co. has found a second foreign buyer for its military trainer airplane.
The defense ministry of Greece has placed an order with the Wichita-based company for 45 T-6A Texan II trainers, the single-engine aircraft developed for the U.S. Air Force and Navy.
Earlier this year, Bombardier Aerospace placed an order for 24 T-6As to train Canadian military pilots.
Although final contract terms are being negotiated, the Greek contract could be worth more than $200 million to Raytheon Aircraft, including spare parts, factory training for initial flight crews, maintenance and technical personnel.
The TGA is a single-engine, turboprop aircraft developed by Raytheon that was chosen to be the next primary trainer for the U.S. armed forces. The Defense Department plans to buy more than 700 of the planes through 2014 to train Air Force and Navy pilots
So far, the United States has placed firm orders for 46 production models of the aircraft, plus the initial development aircraft. The proposed fiscal 1999 federal budget would authorize the purchase of an additional 22 airplanes.
The first T-64 will be delivered to the U.S. Air Force early next year, under
revised contract terms. Deliveries of the Canadian and Greek aircraft also will begin in 1999.
NATION
Searchers find last body from Brush Creek flood
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An exhausting week-long search through the difficult and muddy terrain along Brush Creek ended Monday with the recovery of a body thought to be the metropolitan area's 11th and last remaining victim from the deluge.
City workers discovered the body, the seventh lost last week in the city's trou blesse waterway, in about 10 feet of murky water and tangled up in debris.
The body is thought to be that of Justin Clark. The medical examiner was checking fingerprints and dental records before confirming it was the body of the 18-year-old Clark.
His brother, Charles Clark Jr., 19. also was a victim of the storm that dumped 7 inches of water on the area in a matter of hours.
The Clark brothers were among the victims swept away when they were trapped by a flash flood that stormed down the creek through the city's east side.
Three bodies had been recovered Monday, two more were found Thursday and a sixth was recovered Saturday.
Near St. Joseph, the Missouri State Highway Patrol gave up the search for Warren L. Akins, 56, whose car was pulled into a Buchanan County creek the night of the storm.
We feel like we've done all we know to do," said Lt. Randy Beydler of the patrol.
WORLD
Fireworks explosion kills 10 people in Mexico
TULTEPEC, Mexico — A pile of gun-powder used to make illegal fireworks exploded just north of Mexico City today, flattening two blocks and killing at least 10 people. A paramedic said he counted 14 bodies and that 45 people were injured.
Mexico state Gov. Cesar Camacho Quirio said at least 10 people died and 27 were wounded in the explosion in Tultepec, 20 miles north of Mexico City. He said 16 houses were destroyed.
In Tultepec, a crater indicated where the explosion occurred, and all the houses in a two-block area were reduced to rubble. Streets were covered in shattered glass blocks away.
The differing casualty counts could not immediately be reconciled.
Neighbors blocked rescuers and journalists trying to get near the site of the explosion. Angry crowds said a gas tank had exploded, but the smell of gunpowder was strong and television images taken from a helicopter
Fires cause residents to evacuate in Israel
showed nearby piles of gunpowder.
JERUSALEM — Forest fires raged for a fourth straight day in northern and central Israel yesterday, temporarily closing a major highway and forcing thousands of people from their homes.
Fires in the Carmel forests blazed out of control near the northern port of Haifa, and residents of three nearby villages were evacuated from the area, some for the second time in two days. In the Western Galleie, fire destroyed 25 acres of forest. Israel radio said.
25 acres of forest, Israel radio said. In the hills near Jerusalem, fires smoldering since Monday intensified yesterday, sending thick clouds of smoke toward the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway and briefly forcing the closure of the major thoroughfare.
Hundreds of firefighters, soldiers and civilians worked to control the blazes. U.N. peacekeepers deployed north of the border with Israel have used helicopters to drop water on the fires.
In Lebanon, fires have destroyed 675 square miles of pine forest and olive and citrus groves.
The blazes began this weekend in the wooded hills of Batroun in northern Lebanon, spreading quickly to areas that were unusually dry due to a recent heat wave.
About 150 fires have been reported in areas ranging from the outskirts of Tripoli, 50 miles north of Beirut, to villages south of the port of Tyre, 60 miles from the capital.
Palestinian militants kill one man in Israel
ORA, Israel — In a shooting attack police blamed on Palestinian militants, one Israeli man was killed and a second critically wounded today as they swam in a spring near Jerusalem.
The attack came two days before Israeli and Palestinian leaders were to meet in Washington in hopes of concluding an agreement on a West Bank troop pullback.
In the past, Palestinian militant groups have carried out shooting and bombing attacks on Israelis in attempts to wreck Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Jerusalem Police Chief Yair Yitzhakl said two assailants used pistols to fire at the bathers from close range. The attackers escaped in the car of the dead man, he said, and the car was found abandoned a short distance away, near the border with the West Bank.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for today's attack near Ora, a cooperative farm southwest of Jerusalem.
Yitzhaki said the assailants apparently ran into Palestinian-controlled territory.
ON THE RECORD
The Associated Press
A KU student's cellular phone was stolen Monday between 8:30 and 11:59 p.m. in the 1000 block of Kentucky Street, Lawrence police said. The phone was valued at $2,50
A KU student's leather purse was stolen Monday at 11:50 p.m. in the 800 block of Garfield Street, Lawrence police said. The property was valued at $30.
A KU student's cellular phone was stolen Thursday at 4 p.m., in the 1000 block of Emery Road, Lawrence police said. The phone was valued at $100.
A KU employee struck a legally parked vehicle at 9 a.m. Oct. 7 in a lot south of the Military Science Building, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU police officer was dispatched at 6:21 p.m. Oct. 11 to Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall, where a resident fell in the hallway, the KU Public Safety Office said. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical transported the student to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
A Lawrence man backed out of a parking stall into a KU student's vehicle at 10:50 p.m. Oct. 11 in a lot on Sunnyside Avenue north of Robinson Center, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at more than $500
A KU student's handlebars, front fork with shoulders, seat, front and rear brakes, rear tire and trim were stolen from the student's bicycle between 9 p.m. Oct. 3 and 8:30 a.m. Oct. 12 from a rack outside Stouffer Place building number 10, the KU Public Safety Office said. The items were valued at $235.
Interracial dating gives chance to learn
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senior, said the term interracial dating had a negative connotation because society had labeled it.
Jones said he had dated within his race, but his partner's American culture was different from his island culture.
"If society has a problem dealing with something, they put a label on it," he said. "Interracial dating is no different. It's just dating. You go into it with the understanding that there are differences, but you appreciate them. You don't consider them barriers."
Lou Williams, Green Bay, Wis., junior, said he enjoyed learning about the differences in people. Williams, who is part Native American, said it helped him to appreciate his own ethnic background.
"When I first came to the States, I dated an African American woman, and people said, 'Oh, that's just two black people together,'" Jones said. "I don't consider myself African American in the cultural sense. Our religion, upbringing and values were different."
"My father is full-blooded Iroquois, and my mother is white," he said. "I am just getting to know the people of my reservation, and the more I learn about my heritage, the more I am proud of it."
"Christmas is such a major thing for her family, and my family really doesn't do much," he said.
Hector Marin, LeoTi freshman, said his girlfriend sometimes had trouble understanding his Hispanic culture and the way Hispanics celebrate holidays.
and my family really doesn't too much, he said.
On the other hand, Marin said Hispanics could throw a great party but that his girlfriend saw it from a different perspective.
"At Mexican parties, people get in fights, and there are bottles everywhere," he said. "My brother would always come home with blood on his shirt. I'd tell her, 'Hey, this is fun.'"
ON CAMPUS
University Forum will present "The Kansas River Corridor" from noon to 1 p.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Charles Benjamin will be the featured speaker. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933 for more information.
The SUA Recreation Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. today. The SUA Live Music Committee will meet at 7 p.m. today. All meetings will be in the Kansas Union. Call the SUA box office at 864-3477 or visit the SUA Web site at http://www.ukans.edu/~sua for more informatio
KU Liberators will meet at 7 p.m. today at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union. Call Rodger Woods at 841-6195 for more information.
■ Greek Impact will meet at 9 onstage at the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, 1405 Emery Road, to discuss Biblical issues and how they relate to Greek life. The group meets every other week. Call Jim Farrar
■ Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 p.m. today at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union, Call Wendy Brown at 838-3984 or visit the Chi Alpha Web site at http://www.ukans.edu/~chialpha for more information
at 830-7134 for more information
- Proponents of Animal Liberation, KE Environs and Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a vegetarian luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow at the ECM. Donations will be accepted. Call Laura at 841-2588 for more information.
The Latin American Solidarity will present "Students and Violence: How U.S. Taxpayers Fund the Training of Assassins at the School of the Americans," at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. A free rice and beans dinner will be served. Call Megan Hope at 331-2403 for more information.
Amnesty International will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Letter writing will immediately follow at the Glass Onion. Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351 for more information.
The Proponents of Animal Liberation will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at Alove F in the Kansas Union. Call Karl Hardy at 830-9295 for more information.
nternavity Graduate Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at Alcev F in the Kansas Union. Call Steve Swank at 841-5211 for more information.
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