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The Inside Front
Wednesday September 23,1998
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
CORRECTION
An article on page 34 of yesterday's Kansas reported that Greg Lewis, Norfolk, Va., sophomore, was charged with aggravated assault Monday.
Lewis appeared at a bail hearing Monday and was released on his own recognition, a Douglas County Jail representative said. His arrangement is scheduled for 3 p.m. today.
Lewis was arrested Sunday night for allegedly driving a vehicle through an anti-abortion display, knocking down one sign and causing a worker to jump out of the way, the KU Public Safety Office said.
The Kansan apologizes for the error.
CAMPUS
Clue about car thefts found on Daisy Hill
A police officer from the KU Public Safety Office discovered potential evidence in the string of auto thefts on Daisy Hill.
According to a report released by the Public Safety Office yesterday, the officer was searching the area in and around the lots west of Lewis and Hashinger halls Friday. He discovered a bent metal antenna about 150 feet from a vehicle that had been burglarized.
The antenna was bent into an 'L', and the end was bent into a fish-hook shape, the officer said in the report. The item appeared to be a homemade "Slim Jim" — an item used to open locked cars through the window frame. Police still are investigating the burglaries.
— By Kelli Raybern
NATION
Marines to face more charges in Italy case
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Two Marine aviators whose jet clipped an Italian gondola cable, killing 20 people, waived their right to the equivalent of a civilian grand jury hearing on new charges in the case.
The additional charges of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice against Capts, Richard J. Ashby and Joseph P. Schweitzer will be included at their courts-martial on manslaughter and homicide charges, the U.S. Marine Corps said Monday.
The court-martial for Ashby, 30, of Mission Viejo, Calif., will be held Dec. 7-18, while the court-martial for Schweitzer, 30, of Westbury, N.Y., will be held Jan. 4-15. Both men will be tried at Camp Lejeune.
Ashby, the pilot, and Schweitzer, the navigator, will be tried on 20 counts of involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide, as well as dereliction of duty, destroying military property and
destroying civilian property. If convicted on all charges, they could be imprisoned for life.
Their jet temporarily was assigned to the U.S. base at Aviano, Italy, on Feb. 3, when the plane sliced the cable while on a low-level training flight in the Italian Alps.
Federal grand jury indicts extremist's ex-secretary
NEW YORK — A federal grand jury indicted the former personal secretary of Muslim extremist Osama bin Laden on charges he lied about his ties to bin Laden's terrorist organization.
Wadh El Hage, of Arlington, Texas, is charged with eight counts of perjury and three counts of making false statements
The grand jury also has been investigating whether his "international travels concerned efforts to procure chemical weapons" for bin Laden, according to the indictment handed down Monday.
FBI agents arrested El Hage, 38, last week while investigating bin Laden, the Saudi exile wanted by U.S. authorities for allegedly coordinating attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The federal indictment says El Hage perjured himself during testimony in 1997 and again last week before a grand jury investigating bin Laden and his organization, al Qaeda. El Hage was first subpoenaed last year after FBI agents identified him as a bin Laden cohort, the indictment says.
Deficit falls 68 percent gives way to surplus
WASHINGTON — With just a month left to go in fiscal 1998, the first federal budget surplus in 29 years looks virtually assured.
The Treasury Department reported yesterday a deficit of $11.2 billion in August, down 68 percent from a year ago. That put the surplus for the first 11 months of the budget year at $31.8 billion.
With quarterly tax payments flowing into federal coffers in September, the surplus for the full year should double that amount and surpass the latest government projections. The September surplus last year was $49.9 billion.
Analysts attribute the turn around to the tax increase pushed through Congress by President Clinton in 1993, the spending cuts agreed upon by Congress and the president in 1997 and until recent months - robust economic growth and a booming stock market.
Whatever the surplus, 1998 will mark the first year without a deficit since 1969 — Richard Nixon's first year in office. The deficit hit a record $290 billion in 1992 and shrank to a 23-year low of $22 billion in 1997.
Spending for fiscal 1998 through
August totaled $1.51 trillion, up 2.2 percent, or not much more than the inflation rate. However, revenue, at $1.54 trillion, is up 9.7 percent from the same period during the previous fiscal year.
Hurricane Georges expected in Florida
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Georges' 120 mph winds knocked out power and forced residents into shelters in the densely populated Dominican Republic yesterday, after plowing through Puerto Rico and leaving at least 10 dead in the northeast Caribbean.
Georges' powerful thunderstorms Monday left all of Puerto Rico without electricity and 80 percent of its people without water. The storm spawned tornadoes as it ripped through the island of 4 million people, turning trees into missiles, flipping small planes, exploding car windows and forcing tens of thousands into shelters.
As the hurricane headed west across the Caribbean, concern was growing in Florida — where Georges was expected late Thursday or early Friday. Tourists were advised to leave the Florida Keys, but there was no immediate estimate of how many people might do so.
Hurricane warnings were posted for Haiti, eastern Cuba, the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands, and a hurricane watch was in effect in parts of Cuba and the Bahamas.
Georges unleashed a landslide near San Juan that killed three people, civil defense officials said. Two people died of heart attacks in shelters, and one person was reported missing in another landslide.
WORLD
Another suspect found connected to bombings
MUNICH, Germany — A suspect arrested in Germany in connection with last month's U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa will be held in Munich until he can be extradited to the United States, according to a court warrant issued yesterday.
The United States has 40 days to complete extradition proceedings for the suspect, identified as Mamdouh Mahmoud Salim. The German Justice Ministry must approve the extradition
Saim is suspected of being an accomplice of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire wanted by the United States for alleged involvement in the Aug. 7 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
Salim was arrested last Wednesday at a car dealership near Munich on a tip from Interpol in Washington.
The Associated Press
ON CAMPUS
Academic Computing Services will be showing "High-Speed Communications: T1, T3, ATM, ISDN and ADSL" from noon to 1 p.m. today in the Computer Center auditorium. The video is part of the Lunch and Learn Video Viewing Session. Call JULIE at locs 843-0464 for more information.
Jon Larsen at 804-305-4944 for more information.
■ The African Studies Resource Center will be showing Kezia. The Heritage of the Griot, a Mali film, at 4 p.m. today at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Pia Thielmann at 864-3054.
**Career and Employment Services will hold a workshop, "Using the Internet in the Job Search" at 3:30 p.m. today in 149 Burge Union. The workshop will teach about how the internet relates in the job search process. Call Gina Eastman at 864-3624 for more information.**
Chi Alpha will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. Call Wendy Brown at 838-3984 or visit www.ukans.edu/~chiopla for more information.
more information.
The KU Libertarians will meet at 7 tonight at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union. Call Rodger Woods at 841-6195 for more information.
OAKS, a nontraditional student organization, will have a brown bag lunch from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. today at Alcove A in the Kansas University Call Simmie Berroya at 830 0074 for more information.
The Student Alumni Association will meet at 7 o'clock at the Adams Alumni Center.
The SUA Recreation Committee will meet at 6:30 tonight in the Kansas Union. Call the SUA office 864-3477 or visit www.ukans.edu/~sua for more information.
SUA Live Music Committee will meet at 7 tonight in the Kansas Union. Call the SUA box office 864-3477 or visit www.ukans.edu/~sua for more information.
The University Forum will present Lee Mann, professor of design at the University of Kansas, speaking on "Southwest Petroglyphs," from noon to 1 p.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Call Third Holcombe at 843-4933 for more information.
All literary submissions to Kiosk Art and Literary magazine are due by 5 p.m. Friday at the English office, 3114 Wescoe Hall. No late submissions will be accepted. E-mail questions or comments to kiosk@aven.cc.ukans.edu.
Amnesty International will meet at 7 p.m. Thursdays at Alcev D in the Kansas Union. Letter writing immediately will follow the meeting at the Glass Onion. Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351 for more information.
- Campus Crusade for Christ, an interdenominational Christian student organization, will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. The meeting is open to the public. Call Mike Markley at 838-4909 for more information.
The International Leadership Council will meet at 5 p.m. tomorrow at Alcove in the Kansas Union. The meeting is open to all international and internationally involved groups. Call Sandra Rainener at 841-6995 for more information.
KU Webmasters will have its fall organizational meeting from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union. Call Julie Loats at 844-0464 for more information.
The Pre-Law Office will have an information session with admissions representatives from the College of William and Mary School of Law from 3 to 4 p.m. and from 4 to 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Governor's Room of the Kansas Union. The times are two, separate one-hour sessions.
KU officials say access has advantages
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all a radical idea for 1999," he said. "More and more faculty members are depending on computers as a way of communicating with students."
Ed Meyen, chairman for the academic computing and telecommunications committee, said that the committee would discuss the proposal in future meetings.
"There are a number of people who think this is a very sound recommendation." Meven said.
Meyen said students with home computers had more advantages than students without home computers.
"With the amount of educational resources on the Internet, one needs access in order to be more prepared," Meyen said.
Individual schools, including the School of Engineering and the School of Architecture and Urban Design, already are moving to supply students with computer access.
This fall, the School of Architecture and Urban Design implemented a policy that highly recommended that all of its thirteenth architecture students own a computer.
John Gaunt, the school's dean, said the policy was flexible.
Gaunt said the policy enables students to prepare for a changing job market where computer literacy is becoming a requirement.
"The day is coming quickly where all students simply will come to school with their own computer," he said. "It is sort of like owning a telephone."
Carl Locke, School of Engineering dean, said an engineering committee was looking at ways of making computer ownership more accessible for its students.
He said that the ways could include supplying students with laptop computers at a discounted price.
ON THE RECORD
A CD player and several CDs were stolen early Saturday morning from a KU student's car in the 1500 block of 24th Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $770.
A CD player, 25 CDs and two 10" speakers were stolen Thursday evening from a KU student's car in a lot at I Gower Place, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $680.
A KU student's wallet was stolen Friday morning from a vehicle at 1 Riverfront Road, Lawrence police said. The wallet contained $281.
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