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Monday, August 21. 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Leg may belong to missing man
McVeigh's lawyer suggests limb is 'real' bomber's
The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — A leg found in the bombed-out federal building but not yet matched to any known victim may belong to a man who was last seen at the building shortly before the blast, his mother said Saturday.
Roberta Bennett said she was told her son Sidney Aaron McCallum was dropped off at the building's Social Security office the morning of the April 19 explosion.
Scientists say the leg probably came from a man about 30 with dark hair and fair skin, a description that matches the 29-year-old McCallum.
The leg also had on a military-style boot, said the state medical examiner, Freed Jordan. Bennett said that the last time she saw her son, about three weeks before the bombing, he was wearing military boots.
Bennett was told about her son's disappearance by one of his acquaintances about three days after the bombing, which killed at least 168 people.
Bennett, who did not go to police,
said at first she just assumed her son
had gone off without telling anybody,
as he has done in the past.
DNA tests on the leg at an FBI laboratory in Washington are expected to be completed within a few days. If
testing fails to turn up a match to any of the known victims, then there is little hope of identifying the leg Jordan said.
The death count will probably be raised to 169 if the tests fail to turn up a match, he said.
A spokesman for the medical examiner said the office will ask police to look into Bennett's report. It was not immediately clear whether she would be asked to provide any samples that could help in the DNA tests.
The lawyer for bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh has suggested that the leg may belong to the "real" bomber.
Meanwhile, an Army buddy of McVeigh's from Nebraska testified before the grand jury that indicted McVeigh earlier this month, the
Omaha World-Herald reported Sunday.
"We were good buddies," John Kelso told the newspaper.
But Kelso said he was not sympathetic to extremist views reportedly held by McVeigh. "I don't hate anything. It just so happens I know the guy," he said.
Kelso would not say what he knew about McVeigh, his political views or his activities before the bombing.
A call was made from McVeigh's Junction City motel room to Keloo two days before the bombing, but Keloo was not home and a message was left on his machine, the newspaper said. Phone records led FBI agents to Keloo.
Terry Nichols, another former Army buddy of McVeigh's, is also charged in the bombing.
Funding of Czars exhibit scrutinized
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Gov. Bill Graves said state financial support for the Treasures of the Czars exhibit in Topeka was an appropriate use of tax dollars.
The governor on Friday dismissed criticism of the Kansas Department of Commerce and Housing for providing a $100,000 grant for out-of-state advertising.
"I do think it's appropriate," Graves said during a Statehouse news conference. "The whole story is a little ridiculous, to tell you the truth."
Commerce and Housing also loaned $250,000 to the Kansas International Museum to help bring the exhibit to Topeka. The Kansas International Museum was formed to sponsor the display of more than 250 artifacts from Russia's Romanov dynasty.
Some Democratic lawmakers have criticized the state's involvement in providing funding for the exhibit.
Questions have also been raised because the daughter of Commerce and Housing Secretary Gary Sherrer is working as a press representative for the exhibit
Nancy Sherer is one of two media persons at the Kansas International Museum. She works for Bill Hoch and Associates, a Kansas City, Mo., public relations firm that contracted with the museum to handle publicity. Hoch once was chief of staff to former Gov. John Carlin.
One function of the Department of Commerce and Housing is to promote tourism in Kansas.
Graves said he believed the $250,000 loan to the museum will be repaid after the exhibit closes on Dec. 31.
Gov. Bill Graves
in the first two weeks since it opened Aug. 2. Visitors have come from all 50 states and more than 40 countries, they said.
"I can't argue with tourists from 50 states and however many foreign countries that are going to be coming to Kansas because
of this," Graves said.
State Rep. Henry Heigerson, D-Wichita, has said department officials misled the Legislature about state support for the exhibit. The
$250,000 loan came from the Kansas Economic Opportunity Initiatives Fund, while the $100,000 grant came from the department's operating budget.
He cited a memo from the Legislative Research Department that stated no one had a recollection that "any art exhibition was indicated as a funding recipient of increased KEOIF funds during conference committee action" last session.
However, the money for the exhibit was mentioned during debate on the House floor, and several legislators from Topeka referred to the Czars money in an explanation of their votes that was recorded in the House Journal.
"We consider state support of the exhibit to be totally appropriate," said John Glassman, chief executive officer of the Kansas International Museum.
"While it is unfortunate that this controversy has arisen, in the final analysis it is not ours to resolve," he said.
Battle continues at The Citadel
Alternative program to face court challenge
The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Although Shannon Faulkner is no longer in the fray, the battle continues over women in the all-male corps of cadets at The Citadel.
Faukner announced Friday she was withdrawing as the first female cadet in the military college's 152-year history because of the stress of her 2 1/2-year court fight to and in her isolation among 2,000 male cadets.
Faulkner, 20, said Saturday that she finally felt relief that her ordeal was over.
"No one ever said anything, but I felt like I was not treated the same way" as other first-year cadets, she told CNN. "I could feel that I was alone."
Faulkner said she had no regrets. "Whether I succeed in The Citadel or not ... the law was on my side and I had the right to go," she said.
One of her foes, South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon, told The Associated Press that the cheering from cadets was wrong.
Faulkner said she was hurt by the spontaneous celebration at the campus after she announced she was leaving.
"They were celebrating her failure. I think she's to be commended for trying." he said.
She did more than try, said John Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington University. "She did get in" to The Citadel, he said.
The barrier is broken, the egg
cracked and there is no way to unscramble it," he said.
It was Banzhaf who originally filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department about The Citadel's all-male policy. In that case, the department said it could not bring a lawsuit because no South Carolina woman had complained.
But in 1993, Faulkner sued, and the Justice Department intervened. And since the government is still a plaintiff, the case continues with or without her.
Banzhaf also filed a complaint on behalf of an unidentified Virginia woman that led to the government's challenge of the all-male admissions policy at Virginia Military Institute, the nation's only other state-supported, all-male military academy.
Both schools are proposing alternative women's programs as a way to keep women out, and the U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to consider both cases.
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, an Emory University women's studies professor who helped designed the two alternative programs, said Faulkner's brief stay at The Citadel shouldn't have much of an impact.
The real question, she said, is whether there is a place for single-sex education.
Citadel attorney Dawes Cooke said Faulkner's withdrawal won't affect a court trial in November on whether South Carolina's proposed $10 million alternative women's leadership program at Converse College in Spartanburg is comparable to the men's program at The Citadel.
"It doesn't change any part of the case at all," he said.
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