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Hundreds of refugees flown home to Rwanda
KISANGANI, Zaire — The United Nations flew 236 children home to Rwanda yesterday after rebels unexpectedly dumped truck—and trainloads of sick and hungry refugees on unprepared aid workers in Kisangani
After weeks of balking at U.N. plans for the biggest refugee airlift ever attempted in Africa, the rebels are now pressing to complete the operation in 60 days.
The first flight of 186 refugee children reached Kigali, the Rwandan capital, yesterday afternoon, followed by a second flight of 50 more children. Workers hoped to fly 1,200 more refugees home today.
The rebels, who have taken control of the eastern half of Zaire in a seven-month campaign to oust President Mobutu Sese Seko, have given the United Nations a 60-day deadline to get the 80,000 Rwandan refugees south of Kisangani home.
Doctors may prescribe marijuana, judge rules
SAN FRANCISCO — The federal government cannot take action against California doctors who recommend marijuana to their patients unless doctors try to help patients obtain the drug, a federal judge ruled yesterday.
U. S. District Judge Fern Smith issued a preliminary injunction that was somewhat narrower than her temporary restraining order of April 11. That order prohibited federal action — criminal prosecution or withdrawal of prescription licenses — against doctors for recommending marijuana.
Calling Clinton administration policy on medical marijuana vague and contradictory, Smith said today she would draw the line at criminal conduct, such as aiding or conspiring in the possession or cultivation of marijuana.
Stanford is the location for Chelsea's education
WASHINGTON — Chelsea Clinton chose Stanford University, putting 3,000 miles between her and the iron gates on Pennsylvania Avenue.
The elite California university, with its sunny campus in the foothills south of San Francisco, had received 16,840 applications for just 1,610 freshman slots.
"Planes out run there and phones work out there," President Clinton said with a sigh. "E-mail works out there, so we'll be all right."
Chelsea, 17, toured the mission-styled campus with her mother in September and returned for a final look by herself last weekend. Its world-class medical school may have been irresistible to the aspiring doctor.
As a freshman, she will live in a dormitory. Tuition, books, room and board will set the Clintons back more than $31,000 a year, and they are unlikely to get a break. Stanford scholarships are reserved for low-income students and athletic recruits.
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Traci Kesterson is one student athlete who is unable to play soccer for Kansas because the NCAA Clearinghouse said she did not meet a high school math requirement.
The NCAA Clearinghouse has left some athletes feeling
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--minor bumps and bruises, neither Shaw nor Smith were hurt in the accident.
Traci Kesterson figured that the NCAA Clearinghouse letter must have been a mistake.
It was the only explanation.
The soon-to-be freshman planned to attend the University of Kansas in the fall and had received a scholarship to play for the Jayhawks' soccer program.
The May 1996 letter that said she had not been cleared didn't make sense. Kesterson, who had graduated with a grade point average higher than 3.0, made the SAT and ACT cutoffs and had taken all the classes that her counselors at Olathe East High School had recommended, was an academic non-qualifier? Ineligible to play or receive scholarships at any NCAA Division I or II school?
"Mistake," she thought to herself.
Officials at her high school reassured her. The Clearinghouse must have made a mistake. It would be just a matter of time before everything was resolved.
Now three appeals, thousands of dollars in lawyer fees and nearly a year later, Traci Kesterson has yet to play a game as a Jayhawk.
To understand why is to understand the complaints surrounding the Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse.
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The Clearinghouse is in over its head, coaches and college administrators say.
They don't doubt the good intentions or the principles behind the Clearinghouse, but, they say, in practice it gets bogged down in paper work, delays and miscommunication.
The NCAA says that it has done everything possible to remedy the bugs in the system and that those who complain are the disgruntled players who couldn't meet the academic requirements. The NCAA offers little consolation for those who can't take the field.
In 1993, at their annual convention, NCAA member institutions established what is now known as the Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse.
Created to evaluate required high school courses, student test scores and proof of graduation, the Clearinghouse is the world's central agency in charge of deciding collegiate eligibility.
Before the introduction of the Clearinghouse, individual member institutions were responsible for making sure that their own athletes had met the proper NCAA academic requirements.
Under the old system, however, member institutions were accused of improper activities in the clearing process. Eventually, the schools decided that a level playing field was necessary. Either you qualify for all schools, or you don't qualify.
The sheer volume of paperwork facing the Clearinghouse is immense. Every high school student who wants to play at a Divi-
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Students involved in car accident
Nobody injured after vehicle flips in late-evening sun
By Kevin Bates Kansan staff writer
Three KU students were involved in a two-car accident at 7 p.m. last night at the intersection, of Ninth and Tennessee streets.1
Thad Smith, Overland Park sophomore; Brian Beggs, Leawood sophomore and David Shaw, Emporia freshman, were traveling south on Tennessee Street in a black Isuzu Trooper when they were struck by a white Buick going west on Ninth Street.
Beggs was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital because he said he felt faint and that his ribs hurt, Shaw said. Beggs was treated and released. Other than
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The Buick struck the Trooper in the left side near the rear of the vehicle, Shaw said. The Trooper then flipped and slid to a stop about 50 feet from the intersection.
Lawrence police officer Terry Haak sweeps debris off the road after a wreck at the corner of Ninth and Tennessee streets. Three KU students were riding in the Isuzu Trooper when it overturned.
The occupants of the Buick also were not injured.
"I assume they couldn't see the lights because of the sun," Shaw said of the Bulck. "They hit us, and then the car was on its side. We must have hit the curb and the next thing I know we're upside down. I can't believe no one was really hurt."
The Trooper was overturned on Tennessee Street, the roof was crushed mostly above the front passenger seat where Beggs sat. Books and clothes were strewn about inside the car.
Shaw said the traffic light had been green when the Trooper entered the intersection. He said that Smith had been driving
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about 30 to 35 miles per hour when the collision happened.
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None of the passengers in the Trooper were wearing seat belts.
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