Tuesday, October 26, 1999 The University Daily Kansan Nation/World Section A · Page 6 Payne Stewart dies in Learjet crash Golf champ killed with at least 4 others in South Dakota The Associated Press MINA, S.D. — A Learjet carrying champion golfer Payne Stewart and at least four other people flew a ghostly journey halfway across the country Monday, its windows iced over and its occupants apparently incapacitated, before noseliving into a grassy field. Everyone aboard was killed. The flight plan said two crew members and three passengers were on the jet, but there were reports a sixth person boarded the plane just before it took off from Orlando. Fla. The chartered, twin-engine Lear 35 may have suddenly lost cabin pressure soon after taking off for Dallas, government officials said. Air traffic controllers couldn't raise anyone by radio. Fighter jets were sent after the plane and followed it for much of its flight but were unable to help. The pilots drew close and noticed no structural damage but were unable to see into the Learjet because its windows were frosted over, indicating the temperature inside was well below freezing. Set apparently on autopilot, the plane cruised at a stable 45,000 feet or so, flying 1,400 miles straight up the nation's midselection, across half a dozen states, before it presumably ran out of fuel some four hours after it took off. "The plane had pretty much nosed straight into the ground," said Lesley Braun, who lives two miles from the South Dakota crash site. Stewart, 42, was one of the most recognizable players in golf because he wore traditional knickers and a tam-o'-shanter hat. He won 18 tournaments, including three major championships. In June, he won his second U.S. Open, prevailing against Phil Mickelson with a 15-foot putt on the last hole. "This is a tremendous loss for the entire golfing community and all of sports," PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem said. Stewart was on his way to Texas, first for a meeting on a proposed golf course near Dallas, then on to the Tour Championship in Houston for the top 30 on the PGA Tour's money list. Also killed were Stewart's agents, Robert Fraley and Van Ardan, and the two pilots, identified as Michael Kling, 43, and Stephanie Bellegarrigue, 27. The jet was operated by Sunjet Aviation Inc. Jack Nicklaus said Monday that he feared one of his golf course designers, Bruce Borland, 40. also died in the crash. Authorities could not confirm that Borland was aboard and officials at the crash site said they could not tell exactly how many people had been killed. Planes that fly above 12,000 feet are pressurized, because the air is too thin to breathe at that altitude. If a plane loses pressure, those aboard could slowly lose consciousness. The last communication from Stewart's jet was over Gainesville, Fla., said Tony Molinaro, an FAA representative in Chicago. Five fighter jets from Florida and Oklahoma went after the plane. Two F-16s had to make several passes to align with the plane, which was flying steady in the clear blue sky but was going slowly in comparison with the fighter jets. Stewart and his wife, Tracey, had two children, Chelsea, 13, and Aaron, 10. Lifelong Republican crosses party lines for 2000 election The Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Rallying followers to a new patriotism, lifelong Republican Pat Buchanan abandoned the GOP yesterday to run for the Reform Party presidential nomination. "Our vaunted two-party system has become a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation," he said. "Go, Pat, go," the crowd of at least 300 responded. "Neither (party) fights with conviction and courage to rescue God's country from the cultural and moral pit into which she has fallen," he said. The repeat presidential contender lent a sense of last-ditch urgency to his transformed campaign. "If we don't 'Go now,' he said, twin. Buchanan: spoke out against the two party system Pat.'" he said, trying to be heard despite cheers in a suburban Washington hotel, "every cause for which we have fought for seven years will die." "This year, I believe, is our last chance to save our republic before she disappears into a godless world order," he said. In the language of a scrappy revolutionary, Buchanan promised to shake up the 2000 race. "Let me say to the money boys and the Beltway elite, who think that at long last they have pulled up the drawbridge and locked us out forever, you don't know this peasant army," Buchanan heckled. "We have not yet begun to fight!" In a nod to the Reform Party's central issue, campaign finance reform, Buchanan sprinkled his speech with derisive references to money pulling the Democrats' and Republican's strings. "Both write laws with corporate lobbyists looking over their shoulder," he said. The conservative commentator's non-too-surprising announcement, which he'd hinted at for weeks and which was broadcast nationally on live television. A potential rival, New York tycoon Donald Trump, also quit the Republican Party today and registered as a member of the Reform Party's New York affiliate, the Independence Party. "The Republican Party has just moved too far to the extreme right," he said in a statement. "The Democrats are too far to the left. I believe the Reform Party can be the centrist party, which is in line with my beliefs." Military exercises reminders of Cold War battles in Korea the Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — It's the kind of thing that infuriates North Korean: images of U.S. and South Korean soldiers in training, crossing rivers and staring a mock amphibious assault. The two allies plan to launch their biggest annual military exercise today, another reminder that the Cold War remains deeply entrenched on the divided Korean peninsula. Still, tensions have eased since last month when the United States announced a partial lifting of economic sanctions against communist North Korea. The gesture was a reward for Pyongyang's agreement to forgo missile tests as long as talks continue with Washington. But it's hard to tell from North Korea's public statements that the poor, reclusive country is in the mood for dialogue. The North's foreign news outlet, KCNA, bitterly referred to the 11-day "Foal Eagle" military exercise as "one more preliminary war." About 500,000 South Korean soldiers and 30,000 U.S. troops, backed by tanks and helicopters, will train at sites south of Seoul, which is only 35 miles from the mine- and tank trap-laced border with the North. The USS Kitty Hawk, an aircraft carrier, is taking part, and the highlight will be a simulated amphibious assault at the southeast port of Pohang, the site of a major South Korean naval base. Most North Koreans are denied access to television broadcasts from the South. But government officials can watch the usually extensive coverage of such exercises on South Korean television. "Obviously, the North Koreans make a fuss about it, but they always do. It's the same kind of routine," said Narushige Michishita, a researcher at the state-run National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo. Michishita monitors North Korea's missile program, which was the source of regional worry this summer when Pyongyang appeared on the verge of test-firing a long-range missile. Last year, North Korea rattled nerves by firing a less powerful missile over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean. Fears over a missile launch have faded for now, but a host of other strains could jeopardize any significant easing of the Korean conflict, nearly half a century after the two sides fought the 1950-53 war that ended with only an armistice, not a permanent peace treaty. Release of photo angers Missouri senate candidate The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Furious about accusations of racism leveled at Sen. John Ashcroft, Missouri Republics contend that a 39-year-old newspaper photograph of Gov. Mel Carnahan in blackface shows Carnahan is not the progressive Democrat he claims to be. The 1960 photo unearthed by the state GOP shows Carnahan, who is challenging Ashcroft for his Senate seat in 2000, as part of a white quartet wearing black makeup in a minstrel show. The race issue emerged after Ashcroft successfully led efforts in the Senate on Oct. 5 to reject the nomination of Ronnie White, the first black member of the Missouri Supreme Court, to a federal judgeship. White's supporters said race was a factor, while Ashcroft maintains his concern was White's fitness for office, mainly his record in death penalty cases. Research turned up the photo in the Rolla Daily News, the governor's hometown paper, Missouri GOP executive director John Hancock said in an interview Sunday. A glossy print of the photograph and a copy of the clipping dated Oct. 12, 1960, were provided to The Associated Press by a Republican source on condition of anonymity. It shows Carranah, then 26; his brother, Bob; and two other men performing at a Kiwanis Club fundraiser. Carnahan released a statement today, apologizing for what he called an insensitivity of 39 years ago. The statement also said, "John Ashcroft has reached back almost four decades to try to find something to imply that I might harbor racist attitudes or would knowingly polarize our state. "Senator Ashcroft's innuendo notwithstanding, I'm proud of my long public record of fighting racial injustice, a public record that began almost four decades ago and continues through today. "Minstrely isn't lighthearted. It's one of the most degrading, derogatory mockeries of an entire race of people that has ever existed." Hancock said. "It bothers me when they inject race into politics, where it doesn't belong, when their own leader has this kind of sorry, sorry record." Hancock denied having a hand in the distribution of the picture. --- --- Win $100!! Could you use an extra hundred dollars? Enter the Rock Chalk Revue's annual poster contest... Your winning design will be featured on everything from sweatshirts to programs to, well, who knows what. Pick up an entry form in 400 Kansas Union. But hurry, the deadline to enter is November 5, 1999 @ 5 p.m. Questions? Call 864-4033, or e-mail kamm@eagle.cc.ukans.edu. Maximum discount of 35% (7 touchdowns). Does not include textbooks, special orders, computers, electronics, compact discs, clearance items, or cigarettes. Save 15% Off Today!!! STUDENT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SENATE Register to vote in the student union. 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