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EAGLE, Colo. — Searchers found what could be wreckage of the missing warplane sticking out of a snow-covered mountain yesterday, the Air Force said.
Searchers may have found plane's wreckage
The A-10 Thunderbolt has been missing since April 2, when Capt. Craig Button took off from a Tucson, AZ., base on a routine training mission and veered north, heading to Colorado with four bombs aboard.
"Searchers have discovered what we believe is possible wreckage," said 2nd Lt. Keith Shepherd, a spokesman for Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona who was at the search headquarters in Eagle, Colo.
Shepherd said that the site was within the primary search area and was consistent with visual sightings about the time the warplane disappeared.
Three days after Button, 32, disappeared, the search shifted to Colorado, where faint radar signals were detected in the central Rocky Mountains.
Israel's prime minister not indicted in scandal
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu escaped indictment in an influence-peddling scandal yesterday. Prosecutors said they lacked evidence to try him on.
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Attorney General Elyakym Rubinstein said evidence provided by police did suggest that.
charges of fraud and breach of trust despite his "puzzling" conduct.
Netanyahu might have appointed Ronl Bar-On as attorney general to satisfy a coalition ally who is facing a corruption trial.
North Korean official defects to South Korea
Netanyahu admitted yesterday that he had made mistakes and vowed to clean up the process of wheeling and dealing that had surrounded the appointment of senior officials.
SEOUL, South Korea — The highest-ranking North Korean ever to defect arrived yesterday in South Korea, declaring the communist system he helped build has failed and warning that the increasingly poor and hungry country may resort to war.
Hwang Jang Yop, a former confidante of North Korean leader Kim Jong II, flew in from the Philippines, ending a 67-day odyssey to reach South Korea and bringing an information bonanza on the secretive Pvongvang government.
Hwang, 74, said he defected to his homeland's enemy to tell the world that North Korea could start war while its people "went without clothes and were starving."
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The Medicine Wheel, above, is the site for many Native-American religious ceremonies. Native Americans say their religious rights are being threatened by the South Lawrence Trafficway, which is proposed to run near the Wheel, increasing noise and interfering with their prayer. The Wheel is located south of Haskell Indian Nations University, near 31st street.
In 1978 Native Americans finally gained legal religious rights. But in 1997, they are still fighting to PRAY IN PEACE
Story by: Paul Eakins Photos by: Eric B. Howell
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A small group walks down a dirt road and into a field on the south side of Lawrence. They enter the Medicine Wheel, a crop art circle with four paths quartering the compass, each leading to the clearing in the center. At a campfire in the middle of the Wheel, the
group sits in a ring, following traditions far older than the town they live in.
The people moving in the glow of the fire are going to church.
There may not be four walls or a roof. There's no organ. No lectern. But to these "churchgoers,"
place is no less holy. Here they pray. Here they sing their songs, make their music, find inner peace and make contact with a higher being.
They are Native Americans, and this place of worship is being threatened, they say.
Broken Promises
It is an old and familiar story to Native Americans. The government wants to build a road.
The eastern leg of the South
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Greeks dish out contribution
Seniors,chapters receive awards
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By Harumi Kogarimal
Kansan staff writer
KU fraternities and sororites donated $4,000 to the Jubilee Cafe last night at the Lied Center during Greek Recognition night.
The University's Fraternity and Sorority Foundation, a philanthropy organization, presented the $4,000 check to Joe Alford, executive director for Jubilee Cafe.
Brett Young, Wichita senior, speaks during the presentation for the Order of Omega awards during the 8th annual Greek Recognition Night at the Lied Center.
Alford said he was extremely pleased with the contribution.
Jubilee Cafe opens every Tuesday morning, serving breakfast to needy people in the parish center of the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011 Vermont St.
Alford said the cafe will spend all of the donation on food services. He will put aside the money that he normally raises to hire a coordinator who can help with raising more money so that they can be open twice a week.
The money comes from 5 percent or $100, whichever is higher, of the money raised by each chapter through its philanthropy. Last year, the foundation collected $5,000 and donated a computer system to Rape Victim Support Services.
alumni and Greek members selected Jubilee Cafe among 20 applicants for outstanding services for needy people.
A committee consisting of a faculty member, Lawrence residents,
Outstanding Greek members were also awarded during the night.
Sixteen different types of awards were given to greek chapters and to individual members who made accomplishments in a variety of categories.
Lindsay Lundholm, Omaha, Neb., junior, and Panhellenic Association vice-president for Interfraternal Relations, said committees consisting of faculty, alumni, students and house mothers reviewed applications.
For Outstanding Greek Senior Men and Women, the committee conducted specific interviews with applicants, Landholm said.
J. P. Claxton, Hutchison senior, Interfraternity Vice President for Fraternity Affairs and Outstanding Senior, said he had not expected to receive an award.
Ann Eversole, Associate Dean of Student Life, and James Kitchen, Dean of Student Life, presented the award to 10 greek seniors.
"I was in charge of presenting awards, and nobody told me I was receiving the award." Claxton said. "It was a complete surprise."
excellence awards were presented.
At the end of the ceremony, chapter
Can Omega, Delta Chi and Kappa Alpha Theta received the Chapter Excellence Award, and Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi and Pia Beta Phi won the Award of Special Commendation for Chapter Excellence. Sigma Chi and Sigma Nu were given the award of honorable mention for chapter excellence.
--audience of about 100 people in Woodruff Auditorium.
Brower talks about changing values,acts
Speech emphasizes rethinking daily tasks
"In my opinion, Wall Street badly needs therapy," Browner said to an
By Ed Miller Special to the Kansan
Corporate America needs to rethink and restructure its value system, said David Brower, one of the founders off the environmental movement, in his speech at the KU Environs' 1997 Earth Week Lecture on Saturday night.
Brower, who was the first executive director of the Sierra Club, said greedy investors were responsible for today's profit-driven corporations and that media and advertising dollars controlled investor decisions,
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He said the influence media and advertising had on today's corporations made it difficult for them to pursue environmentally friendly solutions when faced with a possible decrease in profits.
Brower said America needed to move toward environmental capitalism and away from the strictly profit-driven, economic standards of assessing value.
"Right now, the value of a tree is measured by pulp and 2-by-4's," Brower said. "The market simply refuses to acknowledge the value a tree has on the environment, how it protects the soil and produces oxygen, something we've all grown rather fond of. Why can't the marketplace shape up?"
Brower said the marketplace hadn't charged its value system because of the drastic effects it could have on the country's economic structure.
“It’s not ‘What is it going to cost if we do it?’ It’s ‘What will it cost if we don’t do it?’—This is the question we need to ask.’ Brower said.
One of Brower's suggestions for getting corporations to change their thinking was to have their products returned to them for disposal.
"When you get tired of a TV set from Sony, it should go back to Sony. They would know exactly what is in it, including what is easy to recycle and what isn't. Eventually, I'll bet they'd make something more recyclable."
Brower said some of the greatest single environmental accomplishments had been developed by rethinking how we do everyday things.
"Think of the beer-can tab that now folds into the can instead of being thrown away or toilets that flush with only a gallon and a half of water instead of three. These were from just one person rethinking something that we take for granted." he said.
Brower, 84, closed his speech by encouraging his audience to follow the example he and other key individuals have set over the past half century.
"The power of one can be so influential," Brower said. "Maybe you don't teach magic here in Lawrence. But you've got it in you, so you let it out."
Matt Caldwell, Overland Park junior and a member of Environs, said that Brower didn't need to shout or gesture to motivate people. He also said that he appreciated his cerebrally motivating message.
"I thought what he had to say was impacting. He was realistic and talked about things that could be done and could be visualized." Caldwell said.
After his speech, whose $5,000 fee was sponsored by Environs, Student Senate and many other campus organizations, Brower signed copies of his books in the Centennial Room, including his latest entitled Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run.
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