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The Inside Front
Thursday October 21,1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
New candidate enters 3rd District primary
A third Republican has announced his candidacy for the 3rd District U.S. House of Representatives seat occupied by Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Lenexa
State Rep. Phill Kline, R-Shawnee,
made the announcement yesterday. Kline
has been the 18th District representative in
the Kansas House since 1992.
He joins surgeon Jeff Colyer and city council member Greg Musil, both of Overland Park, in the Republican primary race.
"I think I'm the only person with proven legislative leadership," Kline said. "Mr. Moore's voting record has not been representative of the people and their concerns in this district. What he's demonstrated is that he is not the independent voice he's claimed to be."
Kline said that if he was elected he would work on financial issues such as downsizing the $5.7 trillion federal deficit, reducing taxes and limiting government spending.
"The government is too harsh, too burdened." he said.
Mark Wilson, Moore's press secretary, said he did not know when Moore would announce his candidacy for re-election.
"When the time is right, the congressman will present his vision to the public," Wilson said. "He's concentrating 100 percent on doing a good job for Kansas."
Kilne, 39, is the host of a radio show syndicated throughout the state. He is a 1987 alumnus of the University of Kansas School of Law.
Chris Borniger
Motel employee charged with murders at Yosemite
MARIPOSA, Calif.—A motel handman who investigators say confessed to killing three Yosemite National Park sightseers in February was charged yesterday with their murders.
change year. Cary Stayner, 38, was charged with three counts of murder that could bring the death penalty.
Investigators said Stayer confessed in late July to killing Carole Sund, 42, her daughter Juli Sund, 15, and their Argentine friend Silvia Pelosso, 16, while the three were visiting the park in February.
He also allegedly confessed to beheading Joie Ruth Armstrong, a 26-year-old Yosemite naturalist, on July 21.
The Sunds and Pelosso were last seen alive at the Cedar Lodge motel where Stayner worked. Stayner was also charged with burglary, robbery, forcible oral copulation and attempted rape.
Stayner was arrested at a nudist camp two days after Armstrong's slaying and was later charged with
her murder.
Investigators said they waited to charge Stayner in the sightseers' slayings until ruling out the possibility that he had accomplices.
Graffiti cleaned off grave of child beauty queen
MARIETTA, Ga. — Graffitil protesting the lack of indictments in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey was cleaned off the 6-year-old girl's grave on yesterday.
Someone had scrawled "No Justice in U.S.A." in red marker on the plain marble slab covering the grave at St.
Ramsey: graffiti was written on her gravestone
James Episcopal Church
Cemetery, police
Lt. Rick
Townsend said
The vandalism was reported Monday, five days after a grand jury in Boulder, Colo., ended its 13-month investigation of the killing without indicting anone. A panel
appointed by Colorado Gov. Bill Owens is now considering whether a special prosecutor should be appointed.
The child beauty queen was found dead in her family's Boulder home the day after Christmas in 1996. Her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, buried JonBenet in Marietta, northwest of Atlanta, and have since moved to the Atlanta area.
The couple has insisted they had nothing to do with their daughter's death, although Boulder police have said they remain under an umbrella of suspicion.
Townsend said police are investigat ing the vandalism at the grave, have no leads.
Woolly mammoth flown by helicopter to cave
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A woolly mammoth preserved in ice has been excavated in Siberia and airlifted by helicopter to a cave where it will be kept frozen and studied by scientists.
The scientists, including Northern Arizona University mammoth expert Larry Agenbroad, recently excavated the nearly perfectly preserved adult male mammoth from the permafrost.
The mammoth was found in 1997 by a 9-year-old nomadic reindeer herder. By studying its teeth, scientists determined the 11-foot-tall mammoth to have been 47 years old. The lifespan of a mammoth is about 60 years.
Encased in an ice block, the mammoth was flown 200 miles by helicopter Sunday from the Taimyr
Peninsula in Siberia to the city of Khatanga. The Discovery Channel, which is covering the expedition, released footage of the transport on Monday.
The mammoth will be kept frozen there in an underground tunnel. Besides analyzing dirt, pollen, and even its stomach contents, a primary task is to extract DNA for cloning.
After studying the fossilized remains of mammoths for more than 30 years, Agenbroad called the experience of petting the hair of the mammoth fantastic. He said it may take months to determine cloning prospects.
Other scientists not involved in the project have said it is unlikely the cloning will succeed.
Japanese diplomat named UNESCO director
PARIS — Koichiro Matsuura, a Japanese diplomat, was nominated yesterday to become the director of UNESCO.
WORLD
The executive board of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization selected Matsuura following a campaign for the post that laid bare some regional rivalries.
Matsuraa, Japan's ambassador to France since 1994 and current head of the U.N. World Heritage Committee, is almost certain to be confirmed as UNESCO's director-general by the agency's General Conference on Nov. 12.
His main U.N. experience was with the heritage committee, which designates and seeks to protect areas of historical and natural value.
Matsura was picked from a field of four candidates in a third round of voting by the Paris-based UNESCO board. He got 34 of 58 votes, winning out against contenders from Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
The other finalists included Ghazi Algosaibi, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Britain and Ismail Serageldin of Egypt, vice president of the World Bank.
Outgoing UNESCO Director- General Federico Mayor had said he wanted to see somebody who was independent lead UNESCO. But he also told reporters that qualified candidates from Asia, the Arab world or eastern Europe would have preference.
Some of those candidates creat ed Web sites to promote their views on issues ranging from human rights to the empowerment of women.
The Associated Press
Reno report criticizes clemency
Senators ask why victims of FALN were not notified
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Just a month after President Clinton offered clemency to 16 Puerto Rican separatists, a report from Attorney General Janet Reno said that the nationalist groups they had been aligned with posed an ongoing threat to national security.
that left six dead.
"Factors which increase the present threat from these groups include ... the impending release from prisons of members of these groups jailed for prior violence," Reno's September 1999 report said.
The report was made public yesterday at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the controversial grant of clemency Clinton made to Puerto Rican separatists, most of them associated with the terrorist group FALN. The group was responsible for a wave of bombings in the late 1970s and early 1980s
Clinton: criticized by Reno's report on clemency
Also unveiled at the hearing was the transcript of a phone conversation one of those
in prison.
freed from prison by Clinton had while he was incarcerated, in which he appeared to show little remorse.
Matos did not mention violence specifically but added that his resolve for his cause had grown while
"I don't have to ask for forgiveness from anybody." Adolfo Matos said. "I have nothing to be ashamed of or feel that I have to ask for forgiveness."
Republican senators at the hearing and Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, scolded the Justice Department for falling to contact victims of FALN violence.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's Visa card was stolen between 12:01 a.m. June 1 and 11:59 p.m. Sept. 13 from a mailbox at McCollum Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The item was valued at $1.
A KU student's debit card was stolen between 12:01 a.m. Aug. 1 and 11:59 p.m. Sept. 30 from a mailbox at McCollum Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The item was valued at $1.
A KU student's car top was dented by an unknown person between 12:45 and 1:10 p.m. Sunday at lot 104 east of Ellsworth Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The damage was estimated at $500.
■ A KU student's car stereo was stolen between 3 p.m. Oct. 13 and 8:29 a.m. Oct. 14 from a car parked at lot 111 by Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The stereo and damage were estimated at $400.
A KU student's moped was stolen between 10 p.m. Oct. 15 and 1:30 p.m. Oct. 16 at the 900 block of Indiana Street, Lawrence police said. The moped was valued at $800.
A KU student's cellular phone, camera and currency were stolen between 11 p.m. Saturday and 12:45 a.m. Sunday at the 800 block of West 24th Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $733.
A KU student's walkman and CDs were stolen between 9:30 p.m. Monday and 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at Candlem Manor, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $350.
ON CAMPUS
A KU student's radar detector was stolen between 8 p.m. Monday and 8:50 a.m. Tuesday at Camden Manor, Lawrence police said. The detector was valued at $150.
Svetozar Stojanovic, a leader in the Serbian opposition movement, will speak at 4 p.m. today at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union. His presentation will be titled, "Serbia, Kosovo and the NATO World Order."
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries and KU Environs will have a veggie lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave.
- Call Tullah Halcombe at 843-4933.
The University Governance meeting has be rescheduled. The meeting will be at 3:30 p.m. today.
■ KU HorrorZontals ultimate frisbee team will practice at 5 p.m. today at Shenk Complex. Call Will Spots at 841-0671.
The Center for East Asian Studies will show Princess Mononoke by Miyazaki Hayao as part of its Anime Festival at 5 p.m. today at 308 Dyche Hall. There will be no substitutes. Call 664-3849
KU Meditation will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. Call Pannir
at 864-7735
Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Kyle Brownin at 842-1351.
Queers and Allies will meet at 7 tonight at the parlor in the Kansas Union. Call Matthew Skinta at 864-3091.
The department of humanities and western civilization will show Monty Python and the Holy Grail at 7:30 on 3139 Wescoe Hall. Call loel Morton at 864-3013.
■ KU Yoga will meet at 8 tonight at the Sunflower Room in the Burge Union. Call Kristy at 838-3789.
OAKS, the non-traditional students organization,
will have a Friday morning coffee from 8:30 to
9:30 a.m. tomorrow at Wescoe Terrace. Call
Simme Berroya at 830-0074.
KU Badminton will practice from 6 to 10:30 p.m. tomorrow at rooms 211 and 212 in Robinson Center. Call Tee or Kevin at 843-2267.
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