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The Inside Front
Thursday October 1, 1998
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CORRECTION:
A campus brief in Tuesday's Kansas stated that University phone books cost $1.50 with a KU ID and $3 without. The correct price is $2 with a KU ID and $4 without. Bill Getz, assistant manager of the Kansas Union and Burge Union, said the Mt. Oread Bookshop in the Kansas Union began selling the phone books Tuesday.
CAMPUS
Alcohol plays a part in fatal car accident
Alcohol was a factor in the high-speed chase that killed an 18-year-old Lawrence man last week, Lawrence police said.
Police released information yesterday confirming that alcohol was present in the car and that it contributed to the accident that killed Jance Blanco.
Police said they did not know his blood-alcohol content because the coroner's report had not been completed.
The accident occurred the morning of Sept. 23, after police observed Blanco driving west erratically on Ninth Street.
driving west critically injured. Police tried to stop the car in the Village Square parking lot, 850 Avalon St., but it drove away.
Officers then pursued Blanco west on Ninth Street.
During the pursuit, Blanco ran a stop light and a stop sign and drove through a construction site before loosening control of the car and hitting two trees, police said.
Blanco was dead on the scene. His passenger survived.
- By Keith Burner
Police said that they reached a speed of 50 mph in the chase, but that they didn't know how fast Blanco was going.
Lawrence man shoots bullet into apartment
Merrival also was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.
A Lawrence woman and her five-year-old son were awakened Saturday morning by a bullet passing through the ceiling of their apartment in the 2300 block of Ridge Court
Michael Merrival Jr., an 18-year-old Lawrence resident, was arraigned in Doug las County District Court Monday on charges of criminal discharge of a firearm and criminal damage to property.
Lawrence police said Merrival was in an upstairs apartment and had fired a gun through the floor at 5 a.m.
"The suspect went to a party upstairs, got into an altercation, removed a pistol from his pocket, fired it into the floor and left," said Lawrence police Sgt. George Wheeler.
Police said that after the woman, 26, and her son were awakened, they went into their living room, where they discovered two small holes in the ceiling.
Police said that there was only one shot fired but that the bullet probably broke into pieces as it traveled through the floor and ceiling.
Merrival was arrested at 2 a.m. Sunday and jailed. He has since been trans ferred to Jackson County Jail for other unrelated charges.
By Keith Burner
No one was injured in the shooting.
— By Kryte Burner
Police officer struck by man at Burrito King
A 35-year-old Lawrence police officer was assaulted and battered by a Lawrence man Tuesday evening in the 900 block of Illinois Street.
The incident occurred at Burrito King 900 Illinois St., when the officer responded to a call that a man was passed out in the drive-through lane.
Lawrence police said the man had been consuming alcohol.
"We found the individual on the ground next to the menu board, lying partially in the drive-through lane," said Lawrence police Sgt. George Wheeler.
The officer was talking to the man and trying to get him to stand up when the man struck the officer in the chest with his left hand, police said.
The officer was not injured, and the man was arrested and jailed for assaulting a law enforcement officer.
The man has been arrested on alcohol-related charges before.
— By Keith Burner
STATE
Former Jayhawk found dead in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Authorities on Wednesday identified a man who had been shot to death last week as a former University of Kansas football player
Kansas City, Kan., Police believe Warren Shields, 32, was shot several times Sept. 24, likely in the same location where his body was discovered Tuesday
Police are investigating Shields' death as a homicide.
Shields graduated from Summer Academy High School in Kansas City, Kan., and played as a linebacker and fullback for Kansas in the mid-1980s.
WORLD
Arab leader supports U.S. claim in bombing
CAIRO, Egypt — A Sudanese pharmaceutical factory the United States destroyed last month could have been used to make chemical weapons, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in an interview published yesterday.
"We know that this plant was for medicine but it is possible that it produced agents that are used in manufacturing chemical weapons," Mubarak said.
Mubarak's comments in the government-run Al-Ahram newspaper are the first by an Arab leader supporting the Clinton administration's claim that Sudan was using the plant for military purposes.
He said Sudan also has another chemical plant close to the pharmaceutical factory.
He said Sudan also has another chemical plant close to the pharmaceutical factory. Cruise missiles destroyed the factory Aug. 20 in retaliation for the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The bombings killed 258 people and wounded thousands.
President Clinton has said the factory was linked to an international terrorist ring led by Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the embassy bombings.
Mubarak's remarks contradict Egypt's endorsement earlier this month of an Arab League resolution supporting Sudan's claim that the plant was only producing medicine.
Sudan has called for a United Nations investigation to prove its claim. The United States has rejected such a probe, saying American intelligence has supplied enough evidence to back its position.
South Korea acquits American of murder
SEOUL, South Korea — An American teen-ager sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of a South Korean college student was acquitted Wednesday when an appeals court concluded his Colorado friend was probably the killer.
Edward K. Lee, 18, of New York City,
was convicted in January of fatally stabbing the South Korean man in a fight at a Burger King restaurant in Seoul.
But the country's Supreme Court ordered a retrial in April, saying there was not enough evidence.
On Wednesday, the Seoul Criminal Appellate Court ruled Lee innocent, saying it was likely that Lee's friend, Arthur Patterson, 18, of Colorado Springs, Colo., committed the murder.
Patterson was given a 1.1/2-year prison term in January for possessing a dangerous weapon and destroying evidence in the case. He was released in August in an amnesty marking Korea's Liberation Day.
Patterson was ordered not to leave the country until all court proceedings are finished.
Fire in Australian state forces food rationing
MELBOURNE, Australia — Stores began rationing bread yesterday in Australia's second most populous state, where a fire at a natural gas refinery has idled bakeries, dairies and many other businesses.
Safeway, the state's biggest supermarket chain with 138 stores, limited consumers to three loaves of bread on yesterday. Other supermarket chains were considering rationing bread and milk.
The plant supplied more than 80 percent of the natural gas for Victoria, in southeastern Australia. Esso has so far been unable to determine the cause of the blaze.
Some 1.4 million households also have been affected by the fire that killed two people and extensively damaged Esso's gas plant in the state of Victoria. The cutoff could last weeks.
ON CAMPUS
Rationing has not been seen in Victoria since World War II.
- The University Career and Employment Services will have a presentation about their services 3:30 p.m. today in room 149 at the Burge Union. Call 864-3624 for more information.
The Ecumenical Christian Ministries, KU Environs and Proponents of Animal Liberation will sponsor a vegetarian luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Call Laura at 841-2588 for more information.
The Proponents of Animal Liberation will meet 6 p.m. today at Alcove F in the Kansas Union. Call Karl Hardy at 830-9225 for more information.
The First Nations Student Association, will meet Z
Indian, at the Multicultural Resource Center.
Alternative Spring Break will have a meeting 7:30 p.m. today at the Parliars in the Kansas Union. Call E.J. Reedy at 864-1717 for more information.
Campus Crusade for Christ will meet 7:30 p.m. at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Call Mike Markley at 838-4909 for more information.
Intervarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship will meet 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Alcove F in the Kansas Union. Call Steve Swank at 841-5211 for more information.
Queens and Allies will have a featured speaker on transgender issues 7: 30 p.m. today at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. Call Jack Shay at 864-3091 for more information.
Today:IN HISTORY
— 1961, Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run.
— In 1896, the U.S. Post Office established Rural Free Delivery...
— 1908, Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile to the market.
— In 1949, Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung raised the first flag of the People's Republic of China during a ceremony in Beijing.
— 1962, Johnny Carson succeeded Jack Paar as a regular host of NBC's "Tonight" show.
— regular host of NBC's "Vigilant TV" 1968, the cult horror movie "Night of the Living
— 1968, the cut it out movie Night of the Living Dead" had its world premiere in Pittsburgh.
— In 1971, Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Fla.
City to decide closing time of The Hawk
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She said city and neighborhood leaders stood outside The Hawk one night and observed the rowdy bar crowd.
Hixon said what wasn't tolerable were noisy patrons who walked home after 2 a.m. urinating in front lawns or throwing away beer cans and bottles.
"It was that bad." she said.
"They're not out on the street disturbing your sleepings," she said.
Since The Hawk began closing at midnight this year, Hixon said that bar patrons' conduct had become more tolerable.
John Nalbandian, city commissioner and professor of public administration, said that the commission would discuss neighborhood bars in future meetings.
"I think it would be a good idea to look more broadly at neighborhood bars." he said.
At the last city commission meeting, Commissioner Erv Hodges also suggested the possibility of a neighborhood bar review.
Nalbandian said that there was a possibility the commission would establish a definition of a neighborhood bar and then would enact laws specific to bars that fit in that category.
He said that the commission would have to determine how many bars qualified as neighborhood bars before any special regulations would be passed.
"The question that comes to mind here is:
Are we opening a nest's nest?" he said.
ON THE RECORD
A KU employee's $90 was stolen Monday from the 900 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said.
The driver's side door of a KU student's 1997 Nissan was damaged and two tires were slashed Monday morning in the 300 block of West 18th Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $220.
The passenger window of a KU student's car was smashed and a CD player and other stereo equipment were stolen from it Monday in 200 block of West 6th Street, Lawrence police said. The loss was $1,125.
A KU student's backpack and its contents were
stolen Tuesday from the 2400 block of Alabama Street, Lawrence police said. The property was valued at $205.
A KU student's credit card was stolen Tuesday in the 200 block of West 12th Street, Lawrence police said. The card was valued at $35.
The front left fender of a KU student's car was damaged Tuesday in the 1100 block of Indiana Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was not reported to police.
An 18-month-old dog was stolen from a KU student Tuesday in the 1800 block of Brook Street, Lawrence police said. The dog was valued at $250.
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