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The Inside Front
Tuesday October 6,1998
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
STATE
Flash floods kill seven in Kansas City area
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Seven people are dead and two are missing after fierce storms dumped six inches of rain on the Kansas City area Sunday.
Recovery teams found the bodies of Orlando Hudson, 27, and Bonita Black, 43, in Brush Creek — an 11-mile flood control waterway that flows through metropolitan Kansas City.
A third body was recovered yesterday afternoon from Brush Creek. The name of the victim was not immediately released.
A woman whose body was found on a creekside tennis court in Kansas City, Mo., remained unidentified, police said.
searchers worked all day in light rain to locate the two missing people. They took a final walk along the creek's banks before darkness set in. The search will resume this morning, said Brad Humston, public information officer for the Fire Department.
Two motorists also were killed in in the suburbs.
Police said Walter Knott, 83, was swept away by waterfowers at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday as he exited his stalled car on a street in Overland Park. His body was found three blocks away several hours later.
In nearby Lenexa, 27-year-old Kenneth W. Tucker Jr. was found about a half-mile from his car, which was in Mill Creek, police said.
A 9-year-old boy, John W. Parmerlee,
disappeared into a creek behind his home in Blue Springs, Mo., about 20 miles east of Kansas City.
The Associated Press
NATION
Clinton's chief of staff to resign this month
DURHAM, N.C. — White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles said he would resign when Congress adjourns this month and would focus his attention on whether to run for governor of North Carolina in 2000.
Bowles, who has been indicating for several months that he would leave the White House job, said Sunday that he would enter the governor's race only if he thought he could win with a positive, issue-oriented campaign.
Bowles is one of four Democrats looking to succeed four-term Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt. Lt. Gov. Dennis Wicker, state Attorney General Mike Eslay and state Transportation Secretary Norris Tolson are in the running.
Bowles also said he would campaign for Democratic candidates in this year's elections.
Bowles said he knew that the Clinton sex scandal had damaged him politically. "It can't help," he said. "If the election were today, it would hurt. It would hurt a lot.
"Nobody is more disappointed in what the president did than I am," Bowles said. "I'm angry with him. I'm disappointed. I think what he did was just dead wrong. At the same time, I know that none of us are all good or all bad. There are lots of things he has done as president that I'm proud to be part of."
Helicopter collision over Gulf of Mexico kills one
CAMERON, La. — Two helicopters collided over the Gulf of Mexico yesterday. One pilot was killed and the other was rescued.
There were no passengers aboard either helicopter. The accident happened about 107 miles southeast of Cameron, La.
The body of the dead pilot, who worked for Tex Air Helicopters of Houston, was pulled from the water late yesterday morning, the Coast Guard said.
A boat in the area rescued the other pilot, who worked for Petroleum Helicopters Inc. and was flying between two offshore rigs when the accident occurred. He appeared to have only minor injuries, but a medical helicopter was flying him to shore for a checkup, said Ed Gatza, company representative.
Kentucky teen pleads guilty to school shootings
PADUCAH, Ky. — A teen-ager yesterday pleaded guilty but mentally ill for opening fire on schoolmates who were taking part in a prayer session, killing three of them and injuring five others.
McCracken Circuit Judge Jeff Hines set a sentencing date of Dec. 16 for Michael Adam Carneal, the Paducah, Ky., 15-year-old charged with the shootings at Heath High School in West Paducah last Dec. 1.
Under a plea arrangement, the judge agreed to accept the pleas on condition that the maximum penalty — life in prison without possibility of parole for 25 years — would be imposed.
Defense attorney Tom Osborne said that Cameal suffered from paranoia and a schizophrenia-like personality disorder but that the mental illnesses were not affecting the defendant's decision.
Prosecutors and the victims' families had originally opposed the idea of having Carneal plead guilty but mentally ill. Such a murder plea carries a life term with the possibility of parole in as little as 12 years, while a murder conviction without the finding of mental illness carries a term of life with parole possible only after 25 years.
Carnal was charged as an adult with three counts of murder, five counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary. He allegedly stole the .22-caliber pistol used in the shootings and four other guns from a home.
With the plea agreement yesterday and its higher minimum sentence, none of the victims' relatives strongly objected to the agreement, the prosecutor said.
China signs U.N. treaty supporting human rights
WORLD
UNITED NATIONS — China signed a human rights treaty yesterday that calls for freedom of expression and religion, even as Beijing brought a prominent human rights campaign in for questioning.
Qin Yongmun's latest run-in with the authorities came as he tried for the second time in a week to register a human rights monitoring group.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights signed yesterday is one of two accords seen as fundamental to protecting human rights. China also has signed the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights but has not ratified it.
The treaty states that all people have the right of self-determination. It prohibits torture, cruel or degrading punishment and provides for freedom of movement, thought, religion and expression, among other things.
The treaty was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1966 and went into force a decade later. Since then, 140 countries have ratified it or accepted to it.
Israel reportedly making biological, chemical arms
LONDON — Israeli F-16 fighters have been equipped to carry chemical and biological weapons manufactured at a secret biological institute in a Tel Aviv suburb, a British newspaper reported.
Netanyahu: Says chemicals have industrial uses.
The Sunday Times also reported that the institute supplied the poison used in last year's assassination attempt on Khaled Meshal, a leader of the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas. Israeli agents in Jordan sprayed the poison into
Meshal's ear, but Israel supplied an antidote after Jordan threatened to put the agents on trial, the report said.
The Israeli government has said reports about the institute's production of chemical and biological weapons are inaccurate.
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office acknowledged that an El AI cargo plane that crashed in an Amsterdam residential area in 1992 was carrying a chemical that could be used to make sarin, a deadly nerve gas.
His office also said that the chemical had various industrial uses and that the shipment had been approved by Washington.
A KU student was arrested for driving under the influence, running a stop sign and driving left of the center lane at 2:52 a.m. Sunday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student had a blood-alcohol content of .129 and failed sobriety tests.
ON THE RECORD
The Associated Press
A yellow parking permit was stolen from a KU student's vehicle between 7 p.m. Sept. 29 and 2 a.m. Sept. 30 in the lot south of Robinson Center, the KU Public Safety Office said. The item was valued at $75.
A KU police officer responded to a medical emergency at 9:35 a.m. Friday at room 401 in the Kansas Union, the KU Public Safety Office said. A student was confused, disoriented and said she was a diabetic. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical treated the student, who refused to be taken to the hospital.
A KU student struck a legally parked vehicle at 12:35 p.m. Friday in a lot south of Memorial Stadium, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU employee's wallet, Visa card,
driver's license, ATM card, medical insurance
card and four Worlds of Fun passes
were stolen between 8:20 and 8:30 p.m.
Thursday from 4052 Wesca Hall, the KU
Public Safety Office said. The items were
valued at $95.90
A KU employee backed into a student's legally parked vehicle at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the parking garage north of Allen Field House, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A false fire alarm sounded at 3 a.m. Saturday in McCallum Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said.
Two KU students collided at 8:35 p.m. Saturday at Neismith and Schwegler drives, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the vehicles was estimated at more than $500.
A KU police officer responded to a medical emergency at 12:38 p.m. Sunday in McCollum Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. A resident complaining of a severe nose bleed was treated by Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical and refused to be taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
A KU police officer's car became stuck in mud at 3 p.m. Sunday at West Campus Road and Memorial Drive, the KU Public Safety Office said. The officer swerved to miss a truck driving in his lane and drove part of his car into a flower bed. Three officers tried to free the car and then called a tow truck. There was no damage to the vehicle.
A KU student's two snow tires were slashed Saturday morning in the 200 block of Summertree Lane, Lawrence police said. The tires were valued at $200.
A KU student's purse and its contents were stolen Friday evening from the 1400 block of Kentucky Street, Lawrence police said. The property was valued at $146.
The passenger side window of a KU student's car was damaged Friday evening in the 1000 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $200.
Full House will vote on inquiry
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with Monica Lewinsky but other matters as well. The committee would have the power to subpoena witnesses and conduct hearings.
In an hour-long presentation to the panel, the Republicans' lead investigator, David Schippers, broadened the counts set out by Starr to raise the possibility that Clinton took part in a broad conspiracy to cover up his actions.
Schippers also addressed the issue of Lewinsky's truthfulness, a key point because her testimony about some key details differs from the president's. "For the limited purpose of this report, we suggest that Monica Lewinsky's testimony is both substantial and credible." Schippers said.
The Democrats' top lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said the Republican staff had simply subdivided Starr's 11 charges without adding significant new allegations.
The committee acted as fresh polling evidence suggested the proceedings could help shape the outcome of mid-term elections a month away.
GOP sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a new survey conducted for the Republican National Committee indicated that bedrock Democratic voters have begun expressing greater interest in the election than they did only two weeks ago, but still not as much as Republican voters.
Clinton himself did not mention the proceedings unfolding 16 blocks away when he appeared briefly before reporters on the White House grounds.
Joe Lockhart, presidential spokesman said. "We don't believe there's anything here that reaches the level of an impeachable offense."
Nixon resigned before the full House could vote to impeach him in 1974. The only other president to face the threat of impeachment, Andrew Johnson, was impeached by the House but acquitted in the Senate by a single vote in 1868.
ON CAMPUS
OAKS — Non-Traditional Students Organization will have brown bag burgle lunchens from 11:45 am. to 1:15 p. in. today at Alcove E in the Kansas Union and at the same time tomorrow at Alcove A in the Kansas Union. Call Simmie Berroya at 830-0074 for more information.
■ The SUA Fine Arts and Public Relations Committees will meet at 3:00 p.m. today. The SUA Special Events Committee will meet at 6 p.m. today. The SUA Forum Committees will meet at 6:30 p.m. today. The SUA Feature Films Committee will meet at 7 p.m. today.
The SUA Recreation Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. The SUA Live Music Committee will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow. All meetings will be in the Kansas Union. Call the SUA box office at 864-3477 or visit
■ The Hispanic-American Leadership Organization will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Multicultural Resource Center. Call Jenilv Aellia at 84-HALO for more information.
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