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Former KU student awaits confirmation to become judge
Senate vote expected within next few days
By Heather Anderson Kansan staff writer
Lawrence attorney John Lungstrum found out yesterday morning that he was one step closer to becoming a U.S. District Court judge.
Lungstrum's nomination to the position was approved by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, but the full Senate has to vote on his confirmation.
Lungstrum, who is a KU School of Law graduate, will be notified within the next few days about whether he is confirmed.
However, the whole process has taken longer than he expected. he said.
The confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court delayed the process of his own confirmation because the Senate Judiciary Committee devoted its time to Thomas' confi-
Lungstrum said that he traveled to Washing ton Oct. 2 to appear in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The interview process for U.S. district judges is not as intense as the process for Supreme Court justices, he said.
Lungstrum said the committee asked him routine questions about proper judicial temperament but did not ask him philosophical questions.
If the nomination is approved in the full Senate, Lungstum will be confirmed.
Lungstun said he was excited about his nomination because he had thought about becoming a U.S. citizen.
"Most lawyers who do trial-related work think about it at some point in their careers," be said.
He said that as a judge his role would change from being an advocate for clients to deciding what he should do.
Lungstrom, who received his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1967, earned his law degree from the University of Kansas in 1970. He has lived in Lawrence since December 1972.
He said that if he were confirmed for the position, he would commute to his new job in Kansas (Ch).
Robert Jerry, dean of the law school, said that Lungstrum's confirmation as a judge was almost certain.
"It's almost a slam dunk," he said.
Jerry said that Lungstrum had taught one class a semester at the KU law school for the last 12 years.
"He is fair, thoughtful, bright and he knows the law," he said.
Jerry said the last two judges who were nominated to U.S. District Court judge positions in Arizona have been appointed.
Shrilling
Jessica Huennekens, Yankton, S.D., junior, screams to try to win Student Union Activity movie tickets. The screaming contest and other activities were part of the Phantom of the Union Halloween celebration at the Kansas Union.
Behind tough talk,a hope for peace
Mideast leaders put aside differences at conference, debate future of region
The Associated Press
MADRID, Spain — They pointed and gestured in impassioned appeal. They used the word "peace" over and over. During three hours of talk yesterday, Arabs and Israelis reached out to each other, and sometimes, they managed to touch.
Addressing the delegates to the Middle East peace conference, Jordan's foreign minister made eye contact with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.
"Peace cannot be kept by force, only by understanding," said Kamel Abu-Jaber, quoting physicist Albert Ableman, theologist, and pointedly looking at Shamar.
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During Shamir's address, the Israeli leader raised a finger toward the chief Palestinian delegate and said that if Palestinians had accepted his advice, age, they already would have self-rules in the occupied West Bank.
by war and force," he said.
Shamir, for his part, said the focus of the conference should not be territory but Israel's right to exist.
"We appeal to you to renounce the jihad (Muslim holy war) against Israel," he said.
When the Palestinian delegation head, Haidar Abdal-Shafi, invoked the PLO, which Israel considers to be an enemy, he said Shamir averted his eyes.
The speakers did not applaud each
other.
Al Sharaa's speech, the harshest, mocked the Jews' right to immigrate to their biblical homeland.
"If the entire world would to adopt such claims it would have to encourage all Christians to emigrate to the Middle East. Muslims to holy Mecca," he said.
But the tough talk was laced with the word "peace." Everyone said they wanted it.
And hard-line Israelis made some contact with the other side. Elyakim Rubinstein, the Cabinet secretary, members of the Palestinian delegation
Claim followed claim, on and off the conference floor, as each side gave its version of the years of conflict.
"We're told we attacked Arabs in 1948," said Israel's deputy foreign minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. "We were attacked."
Netanyahu spoke at a rare news
conference with Arab reporters, who pelted him with questions about Israel's occupation of Arab lands and claims about the history of the Jews.
Netanyahu, articulate and fluent in English, fielded questions with relish
Although the atmosphere between the adversaries was stiff and impersonal inside the conference hall, a different pattern emerged among the hundreds of Israeli and Arab journalists crowding the center.
After Netanyahu's appearance, Israeli and Arab journalists compared notes on the proceedings.
Shamir's speech was merely a slick public-relations job, said Saeb Erakat, a Palestinian delegate, speaking to the reporters.
Not true, argued a Saudi reporter. Shamir had challenged Arabs to come to Israel and make peace, and then to insist on plainly their refusal to accept, he said.
Get out your sleds; first snow hits town
By Mauricio Rios
Kanean staff winter
Blame it on the storm.
Cold weather has come to Kansas earlier than usual, said Curtis Hall, instructor in meteorology. The outbreak could last from a few days to a week.
"A large storm is coming earlier than usual," he said.
Hall said that three inches of snow could hit Lawrence today. Temperatures during the next three days will be on the rise the day and will drop to the 20% at night.
Central and western Kansas will be most affected by the storm, with probably six to eight inches of snow, he said.
The next few days should be cloudy and rainy. Another storm could follow, but we haven't seen any yet.
The storm is likely to move northeast to North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska.
"It may not be average weather, but it is not that unusual." he said.
This is the kind of storm that is more likely to develop in December, he said.
Hall said a winter storm could form even earlier than October.
He also said that winter storm usually originated in Colorado. This week's storm formed on the east side of the Rocky Mountains in Texas, he said.
Weather should be back to seasonal temperatures by the middle of next week, he said.
Usual November temperatures are in the high 60s and the low 40s.
Joe Eagleman, professor of meteorology, said it was definitely a little early for a winter storm.
"We are getting an early blast of cold air." Eaglesman said.
He said the storm was probably caused by a shift in the position of the jet streams, swift air currents that travel at 70r 8mph.
The air is moving from a humid and warm state to a cooler and dryer state,
"It's going to be colder." he said.
Zambian KU student anticipates election news
By William Ramsey
Kansan staff writer
The short-wave radio popped and crackled as Rashid Zulu tried to tune in news about elections in Zambia.
"I'm excited," he said. "Is it anxiety? I just want to find out the results." Zulu, a graduate teaching assistant from Lusaka, Zambia, has stayed up into the early morning hours for the last few days listening to BBC London and the Voice of America broadcast from New York City, hoping to hear news about elections in the African country.
"We are hoping that with the (election), the international community will recognize our political maturity and then come invest." Zulu said.
The elections, which ended yesterday, were conducted for the first time in 17 years because of pressure on the bankrupt rioters at home and foreign creditors.
Zambia had been relatively prosperous until, among other things, the price of copper fell. Zulu said.
Zulu's unit is on the 88-person Central Committee that provides the framework for Kaunda's government.
Zulu is a member of Kaunda's party the United National Independence Party.
The small country in southern Africa then faced difficult economic times. This situation helped force the government to initiate multi-party elections, he said.
This system is in danger of being eliminated if Kaunda, who guided the country after it freed itself from Britain, does not win the election.
Rashid Zulu has been listening for election results from Zambia.
But Zulu said change was bound to occur in some form.
The idea of a multi-party election had been discussed earlier than this year, but leaders had feared tribal dissatisfaction and use violence during voting. Zulu said.
"I think that's very wonderful," he said. "Whoever wins, we will just support him."
Zulu, who has been in Kansas since 1965, said he also had called his family to receive news.
"Thank God, so far things have been going peacefully," he said.
Phone lines have been jammed with calls, he said.
"I just sit and try to hear what is going on because there will be a lot of changes." Zulu said.
"Real democratization, that is the will of the masses," said Surendra Bhana, associate professor of history and African studies.
Bhana is from Johannesburg, South Africa, and has been at the University of Kansas for four years.
He is waiting for the election results, which will be announced this weekend.
Zulu will not be the only one waiting. Voters yesterday gathered at thousands of polling booths in Zambia.
Corruption and inefficiency overtook the governments of many countries in Africa, he said.
"When colonial power left, they sim
ply handed the power over to an elite." Bhana said.
He said people who had never had a say in government before — not having been part of de-colonization — now wanted to make a change.
The trend toward establishing democratic governments in these countries is
Bhana said.
As for Zulu, he will be listening carefully this weekend to what happens in his own country.
"Ask me on Monday," he said.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Voting ends in Zambia's first multiparty election
The Associated Press
LUSAKA, Zambia — Voting ended yesterday in Zambia's first contested multiparty elections in 17 years, and the outcome will determine whether founding father President Kenneth Kaunda returns to power.
Pickup trucks, cars and canoes carried thousands of sealed ballot boxes to counting centers after polls closed in the latest African country to move toward Western-style democracy.
No incidents were reported, and results are expected to be announced this weekend.
Trade union leader Frederick Chiluba, the first to challenge Kaunda since he led Zambia to independence from Britain in 1964, said he expected to be sworn in as head of state in a few days.
Elections
For the first time in 18 years, Zambia holds democratic presidential elections.
Kaunda, 67, is a former
Kauda, equally confident, took to the links for nine holes of golf after voting with his wife, Betty.
"I expect to win the game and the election," he said with a grin.
While Kaunda drew a crowd of 10,000 at the last major rally on Sunday, Chiluba mustered 50,000 at the national wasteland on the outskirts.
schoolteacher who agitated against British colonial rule and spent months in jail.
Kaunda outlawed political opposition in 1973 and only grudgingly restored multiparty democracy in December under pressure from militant opponents at home and maitained donors abroad.
He became one of at least 14 African leaders forced the last two years, since the collapse of communism, to legalize opposition movements.
Chiluba,46,is one of hundreds of critics Kaunda has detained without charge.