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The Inside Front
Thursday August 26,1999
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
LAWRENCE
KU employee recovering from stabbing incident
Aron Guthrie, victim in Saturday morning's stabbing at 1147 Ohio St., has been released from the University of Kansas Medical Center, hospital authorities said.
Guthrie was being treated for possible nerve damage to his jaw. He had been stabbed multiple times above the waist with a four and three-quarter inch knife.
City Commission plans for more bicycle paths
The Lawrence City Commission took another step toward making Lawrence more bicycle-friendly at its meeting Tuesday night.
Aaron Bartlett, city transportation planner, presented the commission with the Bicycle Compatibility Index report and the Draft Bicycle Work Program.
The BCI report was prepared by TransSystems Corp., a national traffic consulting firm, and suggests ways that Lawrence can become more compatible with bicycle traffic.
Recommendations include developing a network of bicycle routes, designing new roads with bicycle lanes and paths in mind, retrofitting some existing roads as they are resurfaced or repaired and sending a consistent message to drivers and cyclists about traffic rules.
Existing roads that the report suggests are compatible for bicycle lanes include Naismith Drive from Iving Hill Road to 23rd Street, Louisiana Street from 19th Street to 31st Street, and Vermont Street from Seventh Street to 11th Street.
Derek Prater
NATION
Martin star collapses enters three-day coma
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.—Actor Martin Lawrence collapsed while jogging and lay in a coma for three days before regaining consciousness, hospital officials said Wednesday.
Lawrence, 34, who starred in TV's Martin and the movies Life, Bad Boys and Nothing to Lose, was listed in serious condition yesterday at Los Robles Regional Medical Center.
The cause of the collapse was not disclosed.
His girlfriend opened their front door on Sunday after he had gone out for a jog and found him keeled over the doorstep, moaning and having trouble breathing, hospital representative Kris Carraway.
Lawrence arrived at the hospital with a temperature of 107 degrees and had lanced into a coma. Ms. Corm
lapsed into a coma, Ms. Carraway said.
He didn't regain consciousness until Tuesday, she added.
"He's suffering from kidney distress
right now, but that's very typical in cases like this," Carraway said.
WORLD
Annual tomato tossing draws crowds to Spain
BUNOL, Spain — Drenching themselves in thick red mush, thousands of revelers pelted each other with 140 tons of ripe tomatoes yesterday in Spain's sloppiest summer festival.
The warriors were given free wine before the battle to get them in the mood, as well as safety goggles, masks and helmets to protect them from the juicy ordinance. Seven tomato-laden trucks disgored the day's supply of red ammunition, and it was everyone for themselves.
Residents of Calle San Luis, the street where the battle was fought, covered buildings with plastic sheets to keep them clean.
Participants screamed for spectators enclosed in balconies to shower them with buckets of water. Onlookers were only too happy to oblige.
Authorities in Bunol, 25 miles north of Valencia on Spain's east coast, said the decades-old tradition this year drew more than 30,000 people, some of them from as far away as Japan and Argentina.
Mayor Minneva Gomez said the town bought 100 tons from a farm cooperative, which threw in another 40 for good measure, free of charge.
Gomez said it takes about three hours to hose down the town and leave it good as new. "Not a trace of tomato, anywhere," she said.
Truck bomb explodes near Afahistan ruler
KABUL, Afghanistan—A powerful truck bomb exploded near the home of the leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement, killing seven people, including three bodyguards, Taliban officials said yesterday.
The explosion, shortly after 1.0 p.m. local time Tuesday in southern Kandahar, shattered windows and doors and sent frightened residents scurrying for cover.
The truck was parked three houses away from Mullah Mohammed Omar's home, said Taliban representative Abdul Hai Muttain.
The Taliban religious army, which rules 90 percent of Afghanistan, is fighting an opposition alliance that has been restricted to northern Afghanistan.
No one took responsibility for the explosion, but Muttman blamed the Taliban's enemies.
Omar was not at home at the time of the explosion, which slightly damaged his walled compound, officials said.
Tuesday's truck bomb was the first attack on the Taliban in their stronghold of Kandahar, hundreds of miles from the fighting.
Muttmain said the Taliban, who have been under pressure from the United States to hand over accused terrorist Osama bin Laden, suspect the United States was involved in the bombing.
Pakistan won't have arms race with India
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Nuclear weapons are an indispensable part of Pakistan's security, but the country won't embark on a tit-for-tat nuclear arms race with hostile neighbor India, the government's defense committee said yesterday.
The number and types of weapons Paki stan will possess will be determined by "our minimum nuclear deterrent capability," which is an "indispensable part" of maintaining the nation's security, a government statement said.
The nation's defense committee condemned India's policy advocating the development of nuclear weapons and the retaliatory use of them. The committee's members include the army chief of staff, his naval and air chief as well as ministers of foreign affairs, finance and information
Pakistan and India both exploded underground nuclear devices last year and declared themselves the world's newest nuclear powers.
The international community urged the Asian rivals to open talks, most notably on the 52-year-old territorial dispute over Kashmir. India and Pakistan have fought three wars.
A sluggish negotiation process that began earlier this year collapsed when Pakistan-backed Islamic militants gained control of territory in Indian-held Kashmir in May. The dispute threatened to escalate into an all-out war, generating fears of a nuclear conflagration.
Stolen paintings found after long investigation
HELSINGOER, Denmark—Two suspects who were negotiating to sell stolen paintings by Rembrandt and Giovanni Bellini have been arrested, Danish police said yesterday.
The artwork was found late Tuesday, slightly damaged but in good shape, said Deputy Criminal Inspector Kjeld Agerskov.
A seven-month investigation led investigators to a suburban basement where they found Rembrandt's 'Portrait of a Lady' and Bellini's 'Portrait of a Young Man in a specially made box apparently made for their transportation.
On Jan. 28, two men store the paintings from the private Nivaagard Collection museum in nearby Hoersholm, 15 miles north of Copenhagen.
The suspects held several meetings with potential buyers. Aeskerskov said,
Despite their immense financial and artistic value, the paintings were not protected by sensors, surveillance videos or alarms at the museum.
The Associated Press
United States, Somalia refuse to sign U.N. treaty
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS—Dozens of ambassadors and a top U.N. official called yesterday for all governments to ratify treaties to protect children of war and to cease enlisting soldiers younger than 18 to fight.
At an open meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the plight of children in war, delegates voiced alarm at the increasing numbers of children killed or maimed in wars or actively recruited to fight in them.
"Children neither start wars nor perpetrate them. They should not pay the price for adults' wars," said the deputy British Ambassador Stuart Eldon in announcing more than a half million dollars to support U.N. projects for children affected by wars.
U. N. figures show more than 300,000 children under 18 are known to be under arms around the world, in places such as Sudan, Colombia, Angola, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. In most of these countries, children under 15 — and even as young as seven or eight — have reportedly been taking part in armed conflicts.
In the last decade, 2 million children have been killed, 1 million orphaned, 6 million seriously injured or disabled and 12 million made homeless because of war.
The U.N. Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Olara Otunnu, made a pointed appeal yesterday for the ratification and worldwide application of the Geneva Conventions, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court.
His call was backed by ambassadors from Malaysia, Argentina, Canada, the Netherlands and Russia, among others. Several ambassadors including those from Slovenia and Britain also backed Otunnu's plea to raise the age limit for the recruitment of soldiers from the present 15 to 18.
The United States, however, opposed the move because it wants to retain the ability to recruit high schoolers for the military.
The U.S. is also the only country aside from Somalia that hasn't signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child. And it was one of seven countries that refused to sign the statute creating the world's first permanent international criminal court, and has been trying to curb its reach to protect U.S. civilians and military from political prosecutions.
Deputy U.S. Ambassador Nancy Soderberg referred indirectly to the U.S. positions on the touchy subjects, saying the council shouldn't be distracted by the debates on the margins.
ON THE RECORD
A student's CD car stereo and Oakley sunglasses were stolen between 6:30 p.m. Monday and 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at lot 103 at Hashinger Hall, the Public Safety Office said. The items and damage were valued at $490.
A student's Eclipse CD car stereo, 24 CDs and Oakley sunglasses were stolen between 9 p.m. Monday and 5 a.m. Tuesday at KU Lot 300 at the Lied Center, the Public Safety Office said. The items were valued at $900.
A student's purse and Kansas driver's
license, KUID, bus pass, checkbook and Visa card were stolen from the Learned Hall bus stop between 9:30 a.m. and 9:50 a.m. Aug.19, the Public Safety Office said. The items were valued at $188.
A public safety officer was dispatched to Jayhawk Towers Building A at 2:39 p.m. Monday for a report that a man was harassing a student, the Public Safety Office said.
A student's backpack, purse and other items were stolen between 12:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the 2500 block of West Sixth Street, Lawrence police said. The merchandise was valued at $207.
ON CAMPUS
Amnesty International will meet at 7 p.m.
Thursdays at Alcove D in the Kansas Union.
Call Kyle Browning at 842-1351 for more
information.
- The Center for Community Outreach will sponsor a volunteering information session
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries and KU Environs will sponsor a vegetarian luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at the ECM. Call Thad Holcambe at 843-4933 for more information.
at 8 tonight at the Partors in the Kansas Union. Information about volunteer opportunities at the University of Kansas will be available. Call CCO at 864-4073 for more information.
The Office of Student Financial Aid is awarding Federal Work-Study funds for the 1999-2000 academic year. To apply, access the online application at www.ukans.edu/~ofsa. Call 864-4700 or stop by 50 Strong Hall for more information
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Academic Computing Services presents:
FREE COMPUTER TRAINING for the KU Community
Week of August 30-September 3,1999
All ACS classes are FREE to KU students, staff, and faculty and don't require registration UNLESS otherwise noted. Register at acswshop@ukans.edu or B64-0494. Some classes are $75 for non-KU as noted. The complete ACS class schedule is at www.ukans.edu/aacs/trraining or in Driver's Ed for the information Supernurway available at the Computer Center. Training questions to training@ukans.edu or B64-0446.
Y2K Do you have the bug? You've heard so much about the Y2K problem, but do you know if your hardware or software will have problems after December 31? In this panel presentation, consultants from the Computer Center will discuss how the Y2K problem might affect your personal computer, how to tell if your computer will be affected, and what do to if it is? Mon., August 30, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium
Connecting to the Internet — Get a basic overview of the Internet how it works, how to establish a connection,and the software that helps you use Internet services. Fri., Sept. 3, 11 a.m.- Noon/ Computer Center Auditorium
SPPS: Introduction—With SPSS for Windows or Mac OS you don't need to know the command language to perform statis cal analyses. To learn to enter, save and retrieve data, request analyses, and create graphs. Prerequisite: Experience in a Windows or Mac OS environment. Fri., Sept. 3, 1-4 p.m. / Computer Center Auditorium
UNIX introduction — Learn the basics of UNIX, the operating system on FALCON, EAGLE, LARK, RAVEN, and HERON
Fri., Sept. 3, 1-4 p.m./ Computer Center PC Lab. Room 202A