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The Inside Front
Monday September 28,1998
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
NATION
Investigators say Clinton funds possibly illegal
WASHINGTON — House investigators have gathered evidence suggesting that the company of a major Democratic donor reimbursed its employees for donations they made to President Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign.
Federal law prohibits the use of corporate funds to make donations directly to candidates and also outlaws using 'straw donors' to disguise the real source of contributions.
Clinton: Investigations continue into fund-raising.
company headed by Mark Jimenez, received $1,000 bonus checks a few days before they wrote personal checks for the same amount to the Clinton-Gore campaign in 1995.
In an affidavit obtained by The Associated Press, one former employee told the investigators that Jimenez's assistant told her that Jimenez wanted to raise $20,000 from Future Tech employees for the Clinton campaign. She was asked to make a $1,000 contribution for which she would be reimbursed.
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Investigators for the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee have gathered payroll records suggesting employees of Future Tech International, a Miami computer
The employee, Daria Haycox, said she testified about the matter before a grand jury in February.
Neither Jimenez nor his company has been charged with any wrongdoing. The House panel subpoenaed Jimenez and some of his employees, but the company executive declined to testify, citing his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
INTERNATIONAL Serbian forces attack ethnic Albanian rebels
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia — Serbian forces have launched a new offensive in southern Kosovo against ethnic Albanian rebels, Serb and Albanian sources said yesterday.
Police units and specially trained elite troops have begun mop-up operations to purge the secessionist Kosovo Liberation Army from the area, 30 miles southwest of the province's capital of Pristina, a Serb police source said on condition of anonymity
The latest action followed a strong Serb offensive against KLA rebels in
central Drenica region. That offensive came as the U.N. Security Council demanded an end to the Serb crackdown and NATO finalized plans for air strikes unless the fighting stops.
In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Defense Secretary William Cohen repeated warnings that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic had only "a short period of time" to comply with international demands to end the conflict.
The separatists suffered defeats in southern Kosovo earlier this year but apparently have regrouped. Police sources said the rebels recently kidnapped two Serbs, which prompted the new action.
The Albanian-run Kosovo Information Center said Serb forces were attacking from three directions near the towns of Suva Reka, Urosevac and Stimlje, southwest of Pristina. The attack focused on 11 villages, three of which were on fire.
Australian plant burns creates gas shortage
MELBOURNE, Australia — Natural gas supplies to Australia's second most populous state were crippled yesterday after a series of explosions at a gas plant.
A blaze at the largest plant in the state of Victoria was extinguished late yesterday, but not before it had extensively damaged the 29-year-old plant, as well as pipes to two other plants.
At least five explosions and several fires ripped through the Esso plant on Friday near Sale, about 110 miles east of Melbourne, killing two maintenance workers and injuring eight others.
The damaged plant supplies 80 percent of Victoria's gas, and about 1.4 million homes and businesses have been ordered to turn off their gas. The blast has also shut down factories, forced hospitals to cancel elective surgery, and could halt the gas supply for cooking and water heaters for at least a week.
Gas from neighboring New South Wales state was being fed into Victoria's grid in an effort to keep it open and was supplying about 1.0 percent of normal requirements, the company said.
Labor Party elections set Blair's policies back
BLACKPOOL, England — Prime Minister Tony Blair was dealt a setback within his own party yesterday when leftists who opposed his centrist policies won several seats at governing Labor Party elections.
On the first day of the annual party conference, left-wingers took four of the six places chosen by rank-and-file members on the party's 32-member National Executive Committee.
Lefists in the party consider them selves the standard bearers of the socialist policies that Blair's "New
Blair: His party is being threaten by recent elections.
Labor" has ditched. Their victory was largely symbolic, however, because the committee is still solidly controlled by Blair supporters. Outside the Winter Gardens conference center in Blackpool, several thousand left-wing demonstrators chanted
"tax the rich" and "workers united will never be defeated."
Blair immediately warned Laborites against a return to the internal warfare that helped keep the party out of office for 18 years until his May 1997 landslide election victory over the Conservative Party.
Military fights rebels for Sri Lankan highway
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Government soldiers clashed with Tamil Tiger rebels yesterday in a battle for a strategic highway in northern Sri Lanka, leaving at least 49 fighters dead, the military said.
The dead included 40 rebels and nine soldiers in the fiercest fighting in the past two months, the military said. There was no immediate statement by the guerrillas.
The rebels attacked soldiers on defense lines near Paranthan, a town 175 miles north of Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital.
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Paranthan is close to a 45-mile highway passing through rebel-held territory that the military has been trying to capture for more than a year. Its control would open a road link to Jaffna Peninsula, a former rebel stronghold at the northern tip of Sri Lanka that was captured by the military two years ago.
tired by the military two years ago. Since then, the government has been airlifting or shipping food and other supplies to Jaffna's 500,000 people.
So far, government troops have captured nearly two-thirds of the highway, with a 15-mile stretch still controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Lawrence's annual Harvest of Arts festival will run throughout the week. The festival, which began yesterday, incorporates music, poetry, dancing and film. All events are free.
IN UDKI
ON THE RECORD
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A Lawrence man rear-ended a University of Kansas student's car at 6:15 a.m. on Thursday at 11th and Maine streets, the KU Public Safety Office said. The man said his brakes weren't working. The damage was estimated at more than $500.
A Lawrence man and a KU Parking Department employee were victims of an aggravated assault between 1:35 and 1:40 p.m. Tuesday in lot 72 east of Burge Union, the KU Public Safety Office said.
The top of a KU student's convertible was ripped open with a knife Thursday morning and less than a dollar in change was stolen from the car parked in the 1900 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was $1,000.
A KU student's CD player was stolen from his car parked in the 2000 block of Mitchell Avenue Thursday morning, Lawrence police said. The CD player was valued at $60.
A KU student's Les Paul guitar was stolen Sept. 17 from the 1100 block of Lawrence Avenue, Lawrence police said. The guitar was valued at $4,650.
The molding around the passenger window of a KU student's car was damaged Wednesday in the 1100 block of Louisiana Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was $250.
Puff Pant Prom fund-raiser held at Riverfront Mall
Friends of the KU Women's studies program held the Puff Pant Prom fundraiser Saturday in the food court of the Riverfront Plaza Mall.
The dance took place from 8 p.m. to 12 p.m. and about 75 people attended.
p.m. - 10:30 people
rank Yard Jazz, an eight-piece band,
provided music
The prom began in 1924 and ended in 1941.The women attended the event dressed as men or women. With the revival of the prom, both sexes were encouraged to attend dressed in costumes of the '20s or '30s.
Billie Archer, treasurer of the Women's Studies program, said that they broke even, but that donations could still be made to the program through the endowment foundation. Archer said she was pleased with the turnout.
"This is only the second annual prom, so our goal really was just to get the idea into people's minds," she said. "Next year we hope to return the prom to the original location, which is the Kansas ballroom. That would probably help with the turnout."
ON CAMPUS
—Melissa Russo
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship meets for prayer at 5 p.m. weekdays in Danforth Chapel. Call Susan Hines at 864-6503 for more information.
The University Career and Employment Services will have 30-minute presentations to learn about their services at 3:30 p.m. today, Wednesday and Thursday and at 2:30 tomorrow at 149 Burge Union. Call 864-3624 for more information.
Le Cercle Francais will meet at 7'p.m. tonight at Massachusetts Street Delicatessen. E-mail questions to franclub@classmain.clas.ukans.edu
OAKS, a non-traditional student organization, will have a brown-bag lunch from 11:45 am. to 1:15 p.m. Tuesdays at Alcove E in the Kansas Union. Call Simmie Berroya at 803-0074 for more information.
Jayhawker Campus Ministry will meet at 8 p.m. Mondays at Parlors A, B and C in the Kansas Union. Call Dave Diefendorf at 840-9469 for more information.
- The SUA Fine Arts Committee will meet at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow. The SUA Public Relations Committee will meet at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow. The SUA Special Events Committee will
The Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 p.m. on call at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union. Call 864-3984 for more information.
meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow. The SUA Forums Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. The SUA Feature Films Committee will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow. All meetings will be in the Kansas Union. Call the SUA box office at 864.3477 for more information or visit www.ukans.edu/~sua
HALO, the Hispanic-American Leadership Organization, will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Multi-Cultural Resource Center. Call Janell Avila at 864-HALO for more information.
The KU Meditation Club will meet at 6:15 p.m. Tuesdays at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Beng Beh at 864-7754 for more information.
College Republicans will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union. Call Ward Cook at 331-2705 for more information.
The University Christian Fellowship will have Bible study and worship at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Call Tim Watts at 841-3148 for more information.
Chi Alpha will have an open swim with the Pool Boys. An open swim is an evening of praise and worship, at 8:45 p.m. Tuesdays at Downs Auditorium in Dyche Hall. Call Mark Fleske at 832-6228 for more information.
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