THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2007
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2007
NEWS
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KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD
Unit trains for Kosovo task
BY JOHN MILBURN ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA — A Kansas National Guard division is making its second deployment to Kosovo in the past four years, taking another turn at keeping the peace in the Balkans region.
Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting said Thursday that about 200 soldiers of the 35th Division, based at Fort Leavenworth, will deploy later this year to become the headquarters unit for a multinational peacekeeping force. Soldiers will leave for Camp Atterbury, Ind., in July and for
Kosovo in the fall.
The division has soldiers from Kansas, Missouri and Illinois. It is the third significant recent deployment for the division, including the first trip to Kosovo in 2003, Bunting said.
"Domestically, they served as the headquarters down in Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina, where they managed more than 15,000 soldiers and airmen from a number of National Guard units," Bunting said.
During their upcoming year in Kosovo, the division's soldiers will become part of Balkans Nine, a task force of approximately 1,500 soldiers from the Army, Army Reserve and
National Guard.
Other Kansas units will continue to train and head to Iraq in the coming months.
Two other units have also been placed on alert, though details and unit names haven't been released.
The 35th Military Police Company's 170 soldiers was alerted it would be deployed, leaving in the next few months for training at Fort Dix, then to Iraq.
About 850 Kansas National Guard soldiers are serving in Iraq, but none in Kosovo. The Guard has about 5,600 soldiers and 2,100 airmen, for a total strength of 7,700.
》NAVAL ACADEMY
Student faces assault charges
BY STEPHEN MANNING ASSOCIATED PRESS
The woman told jurors at Kenny
Ray Morrison's court-martial that she tried to resist Morrison but that he carried her to a bed, removed her clothes and had sex with her during the night of Feb. 3, 2006, and early the next morning.
year. The Associated Press does not identify people in sexual assault cases.
"I continued to say, 'No, you
Morrison's attorney, William Ferris, said during an opening statement that the former backup football linebacker will testify later that the sex was consensual.
can't do this," the woman, now a senior at the Annapolis military school, told the seven Marine and Navy officers during the first day of testimony at the Washington Navy Yard.
Morrison, 24, of Kingwood, Texas, was charged with indecent assault and conduct unbecoming of an officer in each case. He was scheduled to graduate last spring, but remains a midshipman while his legal case continues.
The woman is one of two female midshipman that prosecutors say Morrison had sex with against their wishes on different occasions last
He originally faced more serious charges of raping the women with the aid of "date rape" drugs, but those counts were dropped after questions arose over the accuracy of tests that Navy prosecutors used to prove the women
were drugged.
Morrison's attorney, William Ferris, said during opening statements that the former backup football linebacker will testify later that the sex was consensual. Sitting at the defense table in his blue uniform, Morrison showed little reaction as the woman testified.
On Thursday, the woman testified that shed had nine drinks the night she claimed she was assaulted, starting at an Annapolis restaurant and later at a Washington nightclub. She began to feel ill and went back to a nearby hotel where midshipmen were staying in several rooms. The woman fell asleep, but awoke to find Morrison standing over her, asking her to have sex with him. She kissed him, but said she didn't want to have sex.
She said Morrison had sex with her three times over the next several hours.
The woman said she felt dizzy during the night, going in and out of sleep. She told jurors that she did not flee or cry out because she felt embarrassed and didn't know what to do. At one point, she tried to reach for her clothes on the floor, but testified that Morrison pulled her back into the bed.
The second woman, now a Marine officer, testified in a pretrial hearing that Morrison gave her a beer at an Annapolis bar the night of April 21. She said her next memory was waking up next to Morrison, naked.
Prosecutors said Thursday that there was evidence that Morrison had sex with her that night, but Ferris said Morrison will testify that the woman "invited sexual activity."
Traveling sandman
Schalk van Zuydam/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Muslim man walks past a Mosque at the desert town of Chinguetti, Mauritania, on Tuesday. Throughout Mauritania, a desolate, dune-enveloped country twice the size of France, men and women wage a daily battle against the sand. Dunes are said to be shifting at an estimated rate of 3 to 4 kilometers (about 4 to 6 miles) per year, according to government data.
WALL STREET
Stock market closes for Good Friday
BY JOE BEL BRUNO ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Wall Street ended a winning, holiday-shortened week with a quiet advance Thursday as investors awaited the release of March employment figures and remained cautiously optimistic after their recent buying streak. For the week, the major indexes showed gains each day and returned to positive territory for the year.
There was a subdued tone to trading Thursday as investors adjusted portfolios ahead of a three-day weekend; the stock market is closed for Good Friday. Investors were particularly careful because they won't be able to trade on Friday's Labor Department's employment report until the stock market reopens Monday morning.
There was little reaction to the department's report that first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose to their highest weekly level since March 3, which indicated companies might be struggling to cope with sluggish growth in the national economy.
Thursday marked the Dow's sixth straight session of gains, its biggest streak of advances since November. The blue chip average spent the first half of Thursday's session in negative territory before moving higher at about midday.
"The market went up on fumes this week," said Philip S. Dow, managing director of equity strategy at RBC Dain Rauscher. "Nobody has any wild expectations to the positive for the jobs report. But, barring some kind of negative report, I still think we'll see the market tread water."
The Dow rose 30.15, or 0.24 percent, to 12,560.20.
Broader stock indicators also make gains. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 4.39, or 0.31 percent, to 1,443.76, and the Nasdaq composite index advanced 12.65, or 0.51 percent, to 2,471.34.
For the week, the Dow rose 0.78 percent, the S&P 500 gained 1.8 percent and the Nasdaq composite index advanced 2.3 percent. The Dow added more than 100 points Tuesday after a stronger-thanexpected report on sales of existing homes helped shore up investors' confidence in the economy.
Bonds fell ahead of the employment report; the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 4.68 percent from 4.65 percent late Wednesday. The bond market will be open for an abbreviated session Friday.
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