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iraq says U.S. attacked again, hitting Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Anti-aircraft fire lighted the skies of Baghdad last night, hours after the United States fired a new round of cruise missiles into southern Iraq, destroying an iraqi radar site that was preparing to attack an American F-16 fighter jet.
Detonations reverberated throughout the capital for 15 minutes, and air-raid sirens blared as the anti-aircraft batteries fired.
Officials in Washington insisted there had been no American, allied or other military operations in the area last night, although an Iraqi military statement accused the United States of attacking Baghdad directly.
It was not clear whether the gunners hit, or even had, specific targets in Baghdad, or whether the barrage was a government attempt to make Baghdad's residents feel under siege.
Whitewater partner won't testify before grand jury
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Taking dead alm at President Clinton, Whitewater prosecutors had Susan McDougal held in contempt yesterday for refusing to say in front of a grand jury whether the president lied at her trial.
If McDougal, the president's former Whitewater partner, does not answer questions by Monday, she could be sent to jail for up to 18 months.
U. S. District Judge Susan Weber Wright held McDougal in contempt after prosecutor W. Ray Jahn called her a recalcitrant witness and said that she had violated the judge's order to test she.
Democrats push to ban gay job discrimination
WASHINGTON — Key Senate Democrats say they are optimistic they will get enough votes to add language outlawing job discrimination against gays into a broader bill banning federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., Sen. James Jeffords, R-Vt., and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said they hoped the Senate would pass the measure as part of the bill defining marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman.
People for the American Way Action Fund still are lobbying against the bill — called the Defense of Marriage Act — even though they expect Congress to pass it by a wide margin.
Group members have said they hoped that if the bill passed, it would include the anti-discrimination measure.
"We want to shift the debate away from anti-gay distribes toward a discussion about ending discrimination against gays and lesbians," the group said.
Netanyahu breaks vow meets with Arafat
JERUSALEM — It resembled a shotgun wedding.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, driven into the arms of his archemy by double-barreled pressure from the United States and Egypt, looked uncomfortable.
He avoided eye contact and didn't smile as he grasped Yasir Arafat's hand for a few fleeting seconds. Even so, yesterday's meeting was a symbolic breakthrough.
a symbolic breakthrough.
Netanyah had vowed never to meet with Arafat so as not to reward the violence Arafat had persecuted.
"Hopefully, this will be a turning point for a more realistic view by the government," said Uri Savir, Shimon Peres' ambassador of peace who led Israel's negotiations with Palestinians.
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Leaders plan for future
Officials set forth ideas for leading University into the 21st century
By Lindsey Henry Kansan staff writer
Two optimistic, not fearless, leaders are ready to take the University of Kansas into the 21st century.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Provost David Shulenburger presented the University's plans for the coming century at the annual faculty convolution yesterday afternoon in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Quoting Oscar Wilde, Shulenburger told the audience of about 200. "The basis for optimism is sheer terror."
This administrative terror stems from challenges to higher education, such as lower state and federal funding and the notion that students are ignored by faculty in research universities, Shulenburger said.
"We encountered hard times in our search for better compensation for faculty and staff." Hemenway said. "A 2.5 percent (salary) increase deferred for six months is not enough to meet family obligations."
Hemenway said improving compensation had to be a priority for the Board of Regents and Gov. Bill Graves (R)
On a positive note, Hemenway announced the launching of the University's site on the World Wide Web. He also announced 69 National Merit Scholars enrolled with the University this fall, more than double all other Kansas institutions combined.
He urged the faculty and staff to continue to seek
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Chancellor Robert Hemenway speaks to a group of faculty members at the Chancellor's faculty convocation address. The speech was given yesterday afternoon in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Tony Daly, Los Angeles junior, and Lindsay Murphy, Minneapolis, Minn., freshman, hang out and try to study on the grass in front of Watson library.
Magazine reports students are becoming more monogamous
Story by Megan Jordan Photo illustration by Chris Hamilton
College students are moving away from promiscuity and are more likely to have a steady sexual partner, according to a college sex survey published in Playboy's October issue.
The study, compiled from responses of more than 1,000 students from universities across the nation, said that 57 percent of men and 71 percent of women had only one sexual partner in the past school year.
KU students and faculty had different opinions about the survey results.
Janine Gracy, health educator at Student Health Services, said the Playboy findings were wishful thinking. If students were having sex with only a single partner, Gracy said, the number of sexually transmitted diseases, HIV diagnoses and unplanned pregnancies would be decreasing. Instead, that number is holding steady, she said.
Many students agreed with Gracy and said that college was a time to experiment sexually.
who have had one-night stands. People start drinking and they don't know what they're doing. Go to the bars for one night, and you'll see what I mean."
"I can't believe that's true," said Toby Jones, Manhattan sophomore, about the survey result. "I know so many people
Russell Coleman, Haven senior, said the average student jumped from relationship to relationship and had sex each time. In other words, the average student practices serial monogamy, Coleman said.
"They just don't sleep around with a lot of people at once," he said.
Gracy echoed Coleman's opinion by saying that the average couple had sex three weeks after they meet.
Although Gracy and others call the Playboy survey inaccurate, some students said the poll is right on track. They believe that fear of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases have made their peers more likely to curb promiscuous behavior.
Jessica High, Brunswick, Maine, senior, said her generation was becoming increasingly aware of the risks involved with multiple sexual partners.
"I think we're seeing people our own age getting sick," she said. "This isn't
something that just happens to older people."
Ryan Grimes, Wathena junior, said today's college students were lucky because they have a greater knowledge of STDs. That knowledge has decreased wild sexual behavior, he said.
"We are one of the first generations to have solid sex education in middle school and high school," he said.
High said that most of her friends only had one partner.
"I don't have many friends who sleep around," she said. "We've all gone through the period where you want to have fun. I know a lot of girls who have high goals and don't want to be tied down with unplanned pregnancies. It's just not worth it right now."
Dennis Dailey, a professor of social welfare who teaches a class in human sexuality, said that although the Playboy survey reflected students' attitudes toward sex, it was not all-inclusive.
"I if you're talking about a general trend, I think that's true," he said. "But it certainly doesn't rule out that other business."
Suspect's friend testifies at hearing
Man recalls events surrounding shooting
By Andrea Albright
Kansan staff writer
Damon McCray spent several hours in a Douglas County courtroom yesterday while one of his best friends testified against him in a preliminary hearing that may lead to a first-degree murder trial.
McCray is accused of killing Onnie Branch, who was shot in the head at 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 24 outside of Langston's nightclub, 806 W. 24th St.
Christine Tonkovich, Douglas County district attorney, and Dan Dunbar, assistant district attorney, questioned police officers, detectives, a forensic pathologist, and one of
McCray's best friends, trying to submit enough evidence linking McCray to the crime.
Damon Hall, a friend of McCray's since the ninth grade, testified for almost two hours about the events that led four Topeka men to Lawrence in search of women but ended in Branch's death.
During the afternoon of Aug. 14, Hall,
McCray, Glenard Hays, and a man known only
as "Nook" decided to go to Langston's, Hall
said.
As the men waited for McCray to change his clothes, Hall noticed a small black handgun on McCray's dining room table. Hall testified.
"When I asked him about it, he put it in his waistband and pulled his shirt over it," Hall said.
The men arrived at Langston's about 11 p.m., but the dress code prevented Hall from being admitted, Hall said. The men decided to drink beer in the parking lot, where they ran into Cory Johnson, Danny Thompson and several
other friends from high school, Hall testified.
Johnson and Thompson came up to the car and asked the four men if they had any marijuana, Hall said. The men lied and said they did not. Hall said.
A few minutes later, Hall drove his car to another spot in the lot where the four men smoked a blunt — a cigar with marijuana in it, Hall testified.
McCray then got out of the car to talk to some friends and confront the people in Johnson's car, Hall said.
The next thing Hall heard was arguing and four gunshots from the direction McCray had walked, Hall said. About 30 seconds later, McCray came around the other side of the building and got back into Hall's car, Hall said.
Hall said that when he asked McCray who had fired the shots, McCray had replied, "Who do you think?"
Hall drove to the Kansas turnpike and attempted to drive to Kansas City but became
too sick because he was nervous, he said. McCray then drove the men to Kansas City and back to Topeka, Hall testified. Hall said he had not seen the gun since the shooting.
Hall, who was in the process of moving to Texas, came to testify when his mother told him the Lawrence police wanted to question him, Hall said.
Johnson, the driver of the victim's car,
turned himself in to the Douglas County sheriff's office yesterday and oeing held on a $10,000 bond to ensure his appearance as a state witness.
Detectives testified about the methods used to gather evidence against McCray. The district attorneymitted photographs of the bullet holes in the victim's car and slides of fingerprints that match McCray's from a van parked next to the victim's car.
1 tonkovich will call at least four more witnesses, including Johnson, when the hearing continues today.
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