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Thursday, April 11, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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INDIVIDUALITY: THE POWERLESSNESS OF STEREOTYPES-SEXUAL, CULTURAL AND PHYSICAL
A LECTURE
Thursday, April 11th, 1996 8:00 p.m., Alderson Auditorium
Spirituality transcends race, ethnicity, sexuality and creed.
Sponsored by KU Christian Science Student Organization
WHAT? A clinic offering evaluation of foot, ankle, knee, or hip problems of runners or aerobic exercisers, staffed by physicians and physical therapists. Clinic does not include aerobic stress tests.
WHEN? Tuesday, April 16, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
APPOINTMENTS PREFERRED
WHERE? Watkins Health Center —south entrance, outside (Inclement weather site—P.T. Dept., 2nd floor)
ATTIRE? Shorts and usual running/aerobic shoes
WHO? KU students, faculty, or staff
COST? Evaluation free, charge for supplies
To register call Physical Therapy:
= 864-9592
BABIES GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT!
Don't Miss Our Staged Readings of New One-Act Plays by KU Students.
The Final Four...
8pm Saturday April 13th
Vote for "Mascara" by Catherine Jackson,
or "Tips" by Michelle Dowdy
8pm Sunday April 14th
Vote for "Space Babies" by Jennifer Rocha,
or "My Science Fiction Twin" by Jim Cummings
8pm Monday April 15th The two winning babies get paired in one Final Performance!
100 Smith Hall - School of Religion ADMISSION FREE!
Directed by Paul Stephen Lim
...and More!
8pm Wednesday April 17th
Staged Readings of Plays
to Help Celebrate
Lesbigay Awareness Week:
"The Vigil" by Nicole Dolci
& "The Menage" by Alan Pierce.
Directed by Jeremy Auman
Brewster Auditorium
330 Strong Hall
ADMISSION FREE!
"Everybody was trapped," Bernath said from Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital. She was waiting to continue on to Dakar, Senegal, where a large international airport has many flights to the United States and Europe.
Civilians flee war-torn Liberia
MONROVIA, Liberia — The stench of rotting bodies filled the air yesterday as bands of armed thugs roamed the streets of Monrovia looting homes and shops and smashing cars and windows.
Hundreds of people lined up outside the U.S. Embassy in hopes of joining 270 Americans and other foreigners evacuated to neighboring country Sierra Leone amid the worst unrest in Monrovia in three years.
"I didn't feel like there was anything more I could do at the present time in Liberia," said Tanya Bernath, a 29-year-old relief worker from New York who was flown two hours to safety by U.S. helicopters.
The Associated Press
About 470 Americans live in Liberia, mostly in Monrovia, including 48 employed at the U.S. Embassy. American officials said no one had been ordered to leave but a team of 18 Navy SEAL commandos was flown to Liberia to reinforce security at the U.S. Embassy.
Navy Cmdr. Bob Anderson, a representative for the U.S. European Command, said about half of those evacuated late Tuesday and yesterday were Americans. An Egyptian official said only one-fourth of the evacuees were Americans.
The Pentagon also dispatched two warplanes to Sierra Leone to stand by in case of trouble.
The U.N. envoy to Liberia, Anthony Nyakyi, said a cease-fire was reached between government troops and rebels who have been holding hundreds of Liberians, Lebanese and
other foreign civilians hostage at a military base in the capital.
Paul Koulon, an official with the U.N. Development Program, said that tanks from the peacekeeping forces had moved into the Mamba Point neighborhood, where foreign embassies and U.N. offices are located, but that the troops were doing little to protect people or property.
Frank Akinola, a representative for the country's 12,000-member African peacekeeping force, said some of the force's troops were released yesterday along with some civilians. But he said the cease-fire was holding only in western parts of the city.
Knight-Ridder Tribune
He said dozens of peacekeepers in front of the U.N. offices just sat by
and watched as young men destroyed a half-dozen aid vehicles.
Lebanese businessman Peter Barbar said: "This is the rebels' livelihood; to loot and kill."
Exactly how many people have been killed since fighting broke out Saturday is not clear.
One Red Cross worker, James Jallah, said he counted 16 bodies when he went outside for the first time in five days.
Up to 600 others summoned the courage yesterday to line up outside the U.S. Embassy, hoping to be lifted out of the embattled city by military helicopters, said embassy representative Dudley Sims. It is the third time since 1990 that war has led U.S. authorities to evacuate Americans from Liberia.
The Associated Press
THE NEWS in brief
First voluntary euthanasia law to take effect
DARWIN, Australia — The world's first voluntary euthanasia law will take effect July 1 in Australia's Northern Territory, the state government announced yesterday. The law was passed.
The law was passed in May 1995,
and it requires that terminally ill patients seeking to die undergo a psychiatrist's evaluation to make sure they are not depressed. Patients would be euthanized by a lethal overdose of drugs.
The Northern Territory is the first government to legalize voluntary
euthanasia.
Doctors in the Netherlands may perform mercy killings within strict legal guidelines but euthanasia is technically illegal. In Oregon, voters approved a law allowing assisted suicide in 1995, but an injunction blocked it from taking effect.
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