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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, October 4. 1999
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Fall 1999 Organizations and Leadership Lecture Series Sponsored by the Student Organizations and Leadership Development Center
6:30-7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 5, 1999
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Transforming Your Group to a Team
Ever feel that your organization lacks the bonds of teamwork? In this presentation Coach Williams relates his experience as a head coach of the men's basketball team to the challenges facing many organizations in building a cohesive team.
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Test ban treaty causes debate
Republicans call document flawed, express concern
WASHINGTON—As it presses for Senate ratification of a nuclear test ban treaty, the Clinton administration must overcome Republican anxiety about the CIA's inability to verify low-level underground nuclear explosions in other countries.
The Associated Press
The Clinton administration contends the shortcomings in the CIA's monitoring capabilities give reason to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Republicans who control the
Senate, disagree. They contend that the treaty, signed by 150 countries, is flawed in other ways and would amount to unilateral disarmament by the United States.
Republicans, who control the
Twice last month, U.S. intelligence saw signs of activity in Russia that could have indicated secret testing. The CIA was unable to say with certainty exactly what was happening.
"We don't know that there was any testing go on." White House Chief of Staff John Podesta said yesterday on CNN's "Late Edition."
"This is really an argument for the treaty," he said.
The treaty, a plank in the 1992 Democratic Party platform, went to the Senate for ratification in 1997. It languished there until last week, when Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., unexpectedly scheduled a full Senate vote for Oct. 12.
CIA Director George Tenet is scheduled to give secret briefings in Congress and testify in private hearings this week. He is likely to be grilled on the low-level testing question.
A U.S. intelligence official said yesterday the CIA repeatedly had discussed with lawmakers about the difficulty in monitoring such tests.
David Leavy, spokesman for the National Security Council, said ratifying the treaty would help the United States stop others from conducting nuclear weapons tests partly because of the political pressure that 150 signatories bring.
"The United States does not test and has no plans to," Leavy said. "This treaty prevents other countries. It is about preventing nuclear war."
Missile defense system on target
The Associated Press
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.—A prototype national missile defense system passed a critical test on Saturday, intercepting and destroying an unarmed missile on a 16,000-mph collision course over the Pacific.
"It was a successful intercept," said Sheryl Irwin, a representative for the Department of Defense. "It did everything it was supposed to do, and it did it perfectly."
It was the first test of the missile's ability to destroy a target by smashing into it.
An unarmed Minuteman missile carrying a dummy warhead and a decoy balloon was launched just after 7 p.m. from this coastal base on a flight over the Pacific.
About 20 minutes later, the missile, known as the kill vehicle, was launched from the Marshall Islands. The two missiles hurtled toward each other at a combined speed of about 16,000 mph.
"You saw it explode, and there was a loud roar — a very happy one that went up from the room. It proves that this technology is working and we can move forward with the program," she said.
"It looks like a great, big old bright flash," said Irwin, who watched from a Pentagon room crowded with anxious military observers.
Kill Vehicle, a 55-inch-long, 120-pound device carried aloft on a booster rocket.
The system is designed to destroy missiles launched by rogue states or terrorists, not a multimissile barrage from a major nuclear power.
The Minuteman's vapor cloud, lit in rainbow colors by the setting sun, could be seen for hundreds of miles.
The defender was the Raytheon-built Exoatmospheric
Some critics have faulted the test plan as unrealistic and too limited to use to make a sound decision, while peace activists who demonstrated outside the base a week ago denounced the testing as preparation for war.
The test is the first of three before a readiness review scheduled by the Pentagon for June. To proceed with broader testing, at least two of the tests must result in an interception.
The test comes as nations such as North Korea, Iran and Syria are, according to the CIA, developing long-range missiles that could hit the United States.
Ten minutes later, 3,000 miles from California and about 140 miles above the ocean, they met.
Dissected pig elephant dung draw thousands to art museum
Museum officials in turn sued Giuliani. The city responded by suing the museum in an effort to evict it from the city-owned building where it has resided for more than a century. Both lawsuits are pending.
Cora Ferrer said the furor also brought her to the show.
"The mayor did me a favor," she said. "If he kept his mouth shut, I never would have heard of this show. If I listened to him, I would have missed all the beauty inside."
The beauty included a dissected cow and pig, castrated male dummies lashed to a tree and the infamous painting "The Holy Virgin Mary" with its splash of elephant dung.
The controversy began Sept. 22 when the mayor announced that he was cutting off the museum's $7 million in annual funding unless the exhibit was pulled. Gluiani attacked the exhibit with escalating insults calling it sick, Catholic bashing and pedophiles on parade.
The crowd began queuing up three hours before the opening, which attracted scores of angry protesters upset by art that was deemed religiously offensive or pro-animal cruelty. Several museum visitors said that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's bitter opposition to the show had actually prompted them to attend.
The Associated Press
They did by the hundreds Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, where the much-maligned and megahyped "Sensation" exhibit drew an overflow crowd of art lovers, scene makers and the merely curious.
NEW YORK—If you build it — even with elephant dung, bisected pigs and a severed cow's head — and call it art, they will come.
More than 9,200 people toured the show, filling the space to capacity. Police remained on site until the museum closed at 11 p.m., though authorities said the scene was calm.
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The Lawrence Bicycle Club Presents
Many events, including:
Registration 8a.m.-7p.m. on Saturday at South Park Recreation Center
- Ride Start- 8:30am Sunay
The 30th Anniversary 80 mile tour of Northeastern Kansas,
with an optional 40 mile route available. Soup and sandwich
kush on the road at Tanoxanea. Fee $18
- For more information concerning events, lodging, and registration call Jim Turner between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. at 842-5174
- Registration 7 a.m. on Sunday at South ParkRecreation Center
  * The Tour De County- 9:30 a.m Saturday
    30 mile ride through pastoral Douglas County then return to Lawrence for lunch at Free State Brewery (optional). Departures South ParkRecreation Center - $51.
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"Writing Love Songs for Holly By Chris Nelson Directed by Will Averill
CARD TABLE THEATRE presents in conjunction with
"Croquet"
By Sam Ward Osterhout
Directed by Jeremy Auman
EAT
“...three guys shoot pool, shoot the breeze...and each other!”
“...three other guys shoot darts...and aim straight for the heart!”
$5 General Admission
Last Call
Two original one-act plays by KU students
8 PM Oct 7-9 • LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER (9th & Vermont) • Res. 864-3642 Associate Entries in the Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival