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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NEWS 864-4810
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1997
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SECTION A VOL. 103, NO. 141
(USPS 650-640)
U.S. government accused of experimenting unethically
WASHINGTON — The United States is paying for experiments in poor countries that could allow 1,000 babies to die of AIDS unnecessarily by withholding a protective drug from HIV-infected pregnant women, the patient advocacy group Public Citizen charged Tuesday.
The government says the studies are ethical because they are the only way to find affordable new HIV protections for poor countries. Pregnant women in developing countries today do not get the AZT therapy that American AIDS patients use to protect their unborn children.
But in a letter signed by prominent bioethicists and Dr. Wilbert Jordan, head of the Black Los Angeles AIDS Consortium, Public Citizen compared the research to the Tuskegee experiment in which the government withheld syphilis treatment from poor black patients.
Jury is nearly complete after final questions
DENVER — The jury in the Oklahoma City bombing trial was nearly finalized yesterday, with the judge using a bingo-type of numbering system to further obscure the identities of the potential panelists.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers exhausted 22 peremptory challenges to reduce the jury pool to an unknown-sized panel of people whose identities, backgrpnds, attitudes, races and even genders were kent secret.
Both sides had one more challenge after the remaining panelists underwent a second round of questioning about whether they have been exposed to publicity since the first time they were questioned.
A panel of 12 jurors and six alternates will hear the case against Timothy McVeigh, a 28-year-old Gulf War veteran charged in the worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil: the April 19, 1995, bombing of the downtown Oklahoma City federal building. The bombing killed 168 people and injured hundreds more. Opening statements are set for tomorrow.
Private plane crashes on Interstate 35 ramp
The pilot, Michael Bates of McAlester, Okla., was hospitalized yesterday in serious but stable condition at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Federal investigators yesterday were looking into the cause of a private plane crash on a highway exit ramp after the pilot attempted an emergency landing.
His plane had mechanical trouble as it approached Downtown Airport in Kansas City, Mo., about 3:30 a.m. yesterday, said Sgt. Steve Jensen of the Kansas Highway Patrol.
Bates put the plane down on an Interstate 35 exit ramp in Johnson County. Emergency workers cut him out of the plane debris, Jensen said.
The National Transportation Safety Board was investigating.
Citadel instructs cadets to respect women peers
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Citadel canceled classes yesterday so its 1,700 cadets could learn how to get along with the women among them. Cadets were taught everything from avoiding demeaning language to not barging into the women's barracks.
Diversity Awareness Day, used for sensitivity training about the women cadets, was ordered as the formerly all-male military college reels from allegations that two female cadets left because they were hazed and harassed.
The Associated Press
Ron Kuby speaks in front of Strong Hall during a freedom of speech rally in 1980. What began as a protest of the Endowment Association's investment in South Africa turned into Kuby's life-long calling for the defense of unpopular cases.
Ron Kuby, former KU student and activist, was known as a troublemaker at the University of Kansas. After numerous protests and one arrest as a young KU student, he found himself in New York City defending the rights of the underprivileged.
Liberty and the law
"Justice, we want justice," says Ron Kuby as he walks into the Bronx Courthouse in New York. His client's family greets him with smiles, more like a family friend than an attorney.
Kaby is defending Thomas Tocco, who is on trial for selling cocaine to an undercover cop. He is going to use an enforcement defense and will argue that the police forced Tocco into dealing cocaine.
"We want the police to stop crime, not start crime. We want the police to bring out the best in us, not the worst in us," says Kuby in his opening argument to the jury.
Story by: Umut Bayramoglu
Kuby, 40, is a big man with a long black ponytail streaked with gray and a friendly face. He was the foremost disciples of William Kunstler, the now deceased radical lawyer who defended high profile clients like the World Trade Center bombers and American flag
Kuby came to the University in 1974 to study anthropology after developing an interest in the different cultures of the Virgin Islands. He was the typical 1970s student — getting stoned, studying anthropology while staying at a commune at 345 Michigan St., and earning a living picking marijuana plants.
bumers. He also pleaded 1970s left-wing cases for the Black Panthers.
"When the undercover cop showed up at Mr. Tocco's house for more cocaine, Tocco said 'Leave me alone,'
During his jury presentation, Kuby tears the prosecutor's argument into pieces.
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Now Kuby has come into his own. He has been profiled by The New York Times, and he often is seen on national television. But in the late seventies, Ron Kuby was just a troublemaker at the University of Kansas.
leave me alone.' The cop told Mr. Tocco "You're not doing the right thing, Tommy, you're not doing the right thing," recites Kaby from taped conversations between his client and the police officer. "Indeed my client was doing the right thing. And at my summation, I'll come back to you and ask you to do the right thing, which is to find him not guilty."
Kuby throws his notes on the prosecutor's desk and turns to his client. There is dead silence in the courtroom. Kuby has just won the first round.
Kuby always has had a flair for the dramatic. In 1979, he helped a group called the KU South Africa Committee out of obscurity. The committee opposed the KU Endowment Association's $7 million investment in corporations who had
Punishment for coalition announced
By Dave Morantz
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate elections commission announced punishments against the Unite coalition last night for exceeding their spending limit in their successful campaign and conditionally certified the results of this month's Senate elections.
The Unite coalition exceeded its budget by more than $80 because of previous discrepancies in their expense reports and missing expense receipts.
For the violation, the Union coalition must put together an elections resource notebook to be used by students in future elections.
However, the commission did not estimate the campaign services of former KU student Travis Harrod, nor did it include his services in Unite's budget because the coalition was already over its budget.
The commission will certify the results with the provision that Scott Sullivan and Mike Walden, president- and vice president-elect, make arrangements by 5 p.m. today to begin paying more than $1,200 in fines resulting from various campaign violations.
Scott Sullivan
Dede Seibel, McPherson freshman,
also must pay a $10 fine b 5. m. for
a ticket.
Mike Walden
her involvement in the unauthorized distribution of campaign material in Gertrude Sears Pearson-Corbin Hall.
Becca Kelley, Englewood, Colo., junior, submitted a letter of apology to the commission Friday. Her apology to the student body for her involvement in voter fraud will appear in a quarter-page advertisement in The University Daily Kansan next week, said Audrey Nogle, Abilene law student and elections commission chairwoman. Kelley must pay for the $160 advertisement. The coalition was assessed an additional $160 fine for this violation.
The commission also altered its previous decision to require Sullivan and Walden to pay for a full-page advertisement in The University Daily Kansan in which the commission would list Sullivan and Walden's violations and the punishments for failing to report Harrod's services.
Instead, the commission will use the $600 that would have paid for the advertisement to finance an advertisement next year to educate students about Senate elections.
Sullivan and Walden still will have to pay fines of $230 each.
Nogle said the punishments for exceeding the spending limit and the changes in last week's punishments resulted from the commissions opinion that an editorial was the best way to educated the student body and that Sullivan and Walden had already been assessed enough fines.
"The deterent has been put in place, and we just want to get on with our jobs," Sullivan said of the campaign and punishments.
Walden said the coalition would comply with the provisions for certification, allowing him and Sullivan to accept their offices at tonight's joint Senate meeting.
During the meeting, Chad Perlov, Englewood, Colo., senior, resigned his position as elections commissioner because of the commission's decision to reopen discussion of last week's punishments effective immediately.
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After four months, hostage crisis in Peru concludes
The Associated Press
Forces storm mansion;
1 captive, 2 soldiers die
LIMA, Peru — In a bloody lightning assault, Peruvian troops stormed the Japanese ambassador's mansion yesterday, freed dozens of hostages and ended a four-month standoff with leftist guerrillas.
Local radio reported that the 150-man military strike team rescued all 72 captives. However, President Alberto Fujimori said one captive, Supreme Court Justice Carlos Giusti, and two soldiers died.
All the rebels — believed to number 15 — were reported killed.
Peru's foreign minister, hostage Francisco Tudela, was carried out on a stretcher. Morihita Aoki, the Japanese ambassador, also was wounded but smiled and waved from the ambulance that carried him away.
Japanese television said eight Japanese company executives and one other embassy official survived the attack, some of them slightly injured.
The Bolivian ambassador also was among the freed hostages.
Less than an hour after the raid, President Alberto Fujimori strapped on a bulletproof vest to make a victorious entry to the compound.
The heavily armed guerrillas stormed the residence on Dec. 17 during a cocktail party marking the Japanese emperor's
Until yesterday, no one had died in the standoff.
When soldiers stormed the compound yesterday afternoon, sporadic explosions rocked the compound for more than an hour, and smoke billowed from the roof.
Talks to peacefully end the crisis broke down March 12 because of the rebels' demand that Peru free their jailed comrades. Roman Catholic Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani, one of the mediators in the crisis, met Monday with Fulimori.
birthday and took almost 500 hostages. They quickly released most of them but held 72 men to press their demand for the release of their jailed comrades.
Later, he said the standoff was causing suffering on all sides, from the families of the hostages to the families of the rebels.
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