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Police mistake sunflowers for marijuana
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEL AIRE The police thought they'd found marijuana plants growing in a former mayor's back yard, where his wife sometimes entures members of the senior citizens' group she leads.
senior citizens group showed
Officers took pictures. They
showed them to an assistant
district attorney, who took a search
warrant application to a judge,
who signed it. And when police in
this Wichita suburb went back to
Harold and Carolyn Smith's house
for a closer look, they found...
Sunflowers.
Kansas is, of course, the Sunflower State — which made the error even more baffling, the Smiths' attorney said.
The couple had grown the plants from seeds given to them by their son, a wildlife biologist.
"That plant on our state flag is not a marijuana plant, but a sunflower," said the attorney, Dan Monnat, of Wichita.
Monna, of Winnipeg,
Bel Aire Mayor Brian Withrow,
an associate professor of criminal
justice at Wichita State University,
has hired a consultant — a
university colleague, Michael Birzer
— to look into the Sept. 6 search
On Birzer's list of questions to answer, Withrow said, is the obvious: "How did we make this mistake?"
and the events that led up to it.
take? The Smiths have hired him to do the same thing, Monnat said.
"These are very community-oriented people who have been active in their community affairs for years," he said. "I think it's probably fair to say they care much less about the idea of a lawsuit than they do about assuring the citizens of Bel Aire that they have competent police officers who will protect the rights of everyone."
During the search, Monnat said, at least 10 officers went through the Smiths' house, checking drawers and closets and videotaping everything. The tape has not been returned, Monnat said.
Withrow said the plants weren't blooming at the time, but Monnat said some were — and noted that police would have had to drive past many other sunflower plants on their way to the home to search it.
Harold Smith served as mayor from 1991 to 1998, leaving office before serving all of his fourth and final term.
Korean nuclear talks in 'endgame'
BY BURT HERMAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING - International talks seeking to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program were in their "endgame" Monday, the top U.S. negotiator said, before delegates met to consider a Chinese proposal for resolving the standoff.
U. S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said the talks would wrap up in a matter of hours.
of the proposal. Russia's envoy said earlier that it acknowledged North Korea's right to a peaceful nuclear program after disarming — but it was not known if that draft had been revised.
"We're at the endgame," he said as he left his hotel early Monday.
draft had been rejected Washington had previously allowed North Korea any atomic program, saying its decades of relentlessly pursuing a nuclear bomb means it couldn't be trusted.
Hill said North Korea "has some demands and the question is whether anybody accepts those demands."
those demands.
"I think we have a pretty good arrangement on that, but I have to see what it looks like finally," he said.
South Korea's main envoy, Song Min-soon, said Monday that it was "time to make a decision."
He added that a resolution depended on all six countries at the talks — China, Japan, Russia, the United States and the two Koreas.
the left his note here Hill declined to reveal specifics
"It is not a situation where just one party decides whether to accept." Song said.
The night before Hill said he was leaving at the end of Monday no matter what happened at the meeting for all six delegations to state their positions.
Hill described the proposal before the talks as "a good effort to try to bridge the remaining differences."
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Walesa is the first international recipient of the Dole Leadership Prize. Rudy Giuliani, New York's former mayor, received the prize in 2003. George McGovera, a former senator and Democratic presidential nominee, was last year's honoree.
There are 1,900 free tickets available to the public.
Walesa served as president of Poland until 1995. While president, Poland changed from a Communist country influenced by the Soviet Union to an independent democracy with a free-market economy. Poland held its first parliamentary elections in 1991.
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School of Medicine in Wichita
Jensen said the University wanted to develop a center for basic cancer research on the University's West Campus, a basic research facility at the KU Medical Center, and a clinical research building at the KU
The University wants to take advantage of the research going on at all KU campuses and turn that into new drugs that for cancer patients, Jensen said. He said a strong element was the KU School of Pharmacy.
"Their drug development and delivery expertise is world class." Jensen said.
cancer prevention and control.
The University currently has three different cancer research programs: cancer biology, experimental therapeutics and
Cancer biology involves understanding what causes cancer, how cancer cells are different from normal cells and the differences in cancer cells that can be exploited for targeted therapy.
therapy The experimental therapeutics program coordinates drug discovery and development on the Lawrence campus. Cancer prevention and control looks for new ways to prevent cancer, primarily in populations
at high risk for certain types of cancer.
Jensen said there were about 100 people involved in cancer research at the University.
research at this center. Developing a cancer center at the University has been discussed since the mid-1970s, Jensen said. He said the project was given renewed importance by Barbara Atkinson, who became executive vice chancellor of the KU Medical Center in 2002.
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