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SECTION A VOL.103.NO.29
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2.1996
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President Clinton uses executive privilege again
WASHINGTON — Defying a House panel again, the White House claimed executive privilege yesterday concerning a memo to President Clinton from FBI Director Louis Freeh said to be critical of the administration's anti-drug policy.
White House counsel Jack Quinn, in a letter yesterday to Rep. William Zelliff, R-N.H., chairman of the subcommittee, said, "The president has instructed me to inform you that he invokes executive privilege with respect to this document."
In the memo, Freeh complained to Clinton about the lack of any leadership in fighting the influx of heroin and cocaine, according to a report in Newsweek magazine in August.
Perot denied inclusion in presidential debates
WASHINGTON — A federal judge rejected Ross Perot's bid to be included in Sunday's presidential debate yesterday, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction for such events.
U. S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan rejected efforts by Perot's Reform Party and the Natural Law Party to force the Presidential Debate Commission to include their candidates in the two presidential debates.
Hogan said the complaints belong with the Federal Election Commission.
Although Perot's attorneys said they would appeal, Hogan's dismissal of the complaint dealt a serious blow to Perot's hopes of being included in Sunday's debate in Hartford, Conn.
States may get power to ban assisted suicides
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide whether states may ban doctor-assisted suicides, setting the stage for a momentous ruling on citizens' right to die.
Six years after recognizing a constitutional right to refuse lifesaving treatment, the court said it would decide by July if doctors could be barred from giving life-ending drugs to mentally competent, terminally ill patients who no longer wanted to live.
Most states have such laws, but lower courts this year stuck down assisted-suicide bans imposed by New York and Washington state. By reviewing those two rulings, the justices are expected to set national guidelines.
U.N. to lift sanctions against former Yugoslavia
The U.N. Security Council voted yesterday to lift sanctions imposed against Yugoslavia in 1992.
After suspending sanctions last year, the council said the measures would be formally lifted 10 days after free and fair elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Elections took place Sept. 14.
The United States insisted the council wait until the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe certified the elections as free and fair.
Certification came Sunday. Yesterday, State Department representative Nicholas Burns said the United States was satisfied the conditions had been met.
Russian Ambassador Sergey Lavrov said the action was positive and long overdue.
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KU students comment on the future of Israel...
Peace or Pieces?
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
For years, people of differing religious viewpoints in Jerusalem have not been able to stop killing each other.
The most recent occurrence of this feud started last week when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to open a portion of a tunnel that runs under the Temple Mount in the city. The area is considered holy to Palestinian citizens, and many have clashed with
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime minister
Political positions:
Conservative; has not removed Israeli soldiers from Hebron in the West Bank
Current position:
Stands by his decision to open tunnel at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, which spurred this week's violence
"He negated all of it."
Israeli police about the incident. Nearly 80 people, most of them Palestinians, have died as a result of the conflict.
"Netanyahu opened it knowing that it would cause all sorts of protests and uprisings," said Baha Safadi, a member of the board of trustees for the Muslim Students Association, 1300 Ohio St., and a 1981 graduate of the University of Kansas.
"It was with disregard to the Muslim people in general."
Safadi, a U.S. citizen originally from Jordan, said Netanyahu had damaged severely the peace process Palestinians and Israelis had been working for since he was elected prime minister last May.
"He comes in and throws one more wrench into the peace process, which is already in
Though Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met to talk yesterday in Washington, D.C., Safadi said that he was not optimistic about the outcome of the talks.
"Before he came to the States he said that the tunnel is not negotiable," Safadi said of Netanyahu. "Talk is nothing, and we need action now."
Iris Rosenthal, Buffalo Grove, III, junior and president of HAWKPAC, the University of Kansas organization representing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said she understood why Palestinians were upset about the opening of the tunnel.
"They think that the Israelis will take away the rights of the Palestinians," she said. "If I were a Palestinian, I'd be concerned."
Though Rosenthal said she didn't think that the Israeli government would go as far as taking over Palestinian terri-
PALESTINIAN CONTROLLED TERRITORY
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ISRAEL
Palestinian Authority
Current position:
Has encouraged demonstrations by Palestinians; wants tunnel closed
Political positions:
negotiated peace accord with Israelis;
wants Israeli government to fulfill promises of 1993 peace accord
Ciashes in Jerusalem
Graphics by Andy
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Inset map and photos by
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University plans to start repairs next semester
By Lindsey Henry Kansan staff writer
The first phase the Crumbling Classrooms campus renovation will begin next semester because of the Board of Regents' recent approval of the University's planning list for government bond money.
Several construction crews will be constant companions for the University of Kansas during the next three to four years.
Signed by Gov. Bill Graves in May, the Crumbling Classrooms bill allocated $161,130,000 in government bond money for improvements to the state's six Regents' institutions. The University is slated to receive $42.2 million, which is the largest amount of any university.
Bud Stallworth, assistant director of design and construction management at the University, said that the money would cover everything from electrical wiring and fire codes to enhancing media outlets and repainting classrooms.
"This money is very important for upgrading the teaching facilities," Stallworth said. "The sizable amount of money is extremely important."
Stallworth said the administration had surveyed campus buildings to determine which ones needed immediate attention. Learned, Dyche, Summerfield and Blake halls and the Art and Design building are among the first buildings to be repaired.
"we are trying to do as much with the money as we can," Stallworth said.
But for some buildings, the money allotted to them may not be enough.
Bruce Bublitz, associate dean of business, said that the $150,000 given to Summerfield Hall only would renovate four classrooms.
"Id like to see a heck of a lot more done for the building," Bubble said. "It's not that Summerfield needs to be a palace; we just want to be less embarrassed by the facility."
Bublitz said he was concerned that the renovations from Crumbling Classrooms would be the only repairs to campus buildings for a while.
"I guess this is it for us for the next 10 to 20 years," he said. "That is worrisome."
Chancellor Robert Hemenway said he did not think that was true.
"We might not be able to accomplish everything with the Crumbling Classrooms money, but other funds will be allocated for additional repairs," Hemenway said.
The administration, as well as design and construction management, now face the challenge of scheduling a large number of construction projects around next semester's class schedules. Stallworth said.
we are trying to inform the people who use these buildings of the schedule so there can be alternative arrangements for class schedules," he said.
Hemenway said he hoped everyone on campus could put up with a few construction barricades, some dust and a little noise in the coming years.
"I hope everyone understands the classrooms come first," Hemenway said. "We want the learning environment to be top priority."
Ending the crumbling
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Child-care may be financed by students
Construction of new center relies on extension of fees
By Spencer Duncan
Kansan staff writer
The future of a campus child-care center relies on a student fee Student Senate is examining.
A $2 student fee instated in 1993 will help finance construction of a child-cure center.
Yesterday, a Student Senate subcommittee discussed what should happen to the fee after 2000, when it will end. The current recommendation is to extend it until 2014.
Scott Sullivan, subcommittee chairman,
said the committee would make a recommendation to Senate.
Total cost is estimated between $4 and $5 million.
"We will determine if the fee needs to be increased, decreased or maybe even abolished, if that is the right step," Sullivan said.
Pat Pisani, Hilltop program director, said Senate money was important to the center's future.
The center has been in development for more than three years. University of Kansas officials have said the University will provide $210,00 for construction.
"The money Senate provides is essential in helping progress toward getting the center built," she said.
Hilltop has struggled in soliciting contributions or finding a center donor, which amplifies the importance of Senate financing, said Martha Langley, Hilltop financial
administrator.
"We would like to see the fee extended," Langley said. "That money would help us make up for places where there is not money to be found."
Hilltop, 1314 Jayhawk Blvd., provides for 146 children. The center would teach up to 300 children.
The center will use the same structure as Hilltop, which provides care for children of students, faculty and some Lawrence residents.
The committee questioned whether a center used by faculty and students should be financed solely by students, and the idea of a faculty fee was mentioned.
However, Langley disagreed with that suggestion.
"I'm not in favor of a faculty fee and a
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