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Devastation Bomb shatters federal offices
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At least 31 dead; authorities say more bodies will be found
The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — A car bomb ripped deep into America's heartland yesterday, killing at least 31 people and leaving 300 missing in a blast that gouged a nine-story hole in a federal office building.
The dead included at least 12 children, some of whom had just been dropped off by their parents at a day-care center.
would seek the death penalty against them.
A police source, who requested anonymity, said FBI agents were trying to piece together a van or a truck that was believed to have carried the explosives. An axe of the
KNIGHT RIDDER-TRIBUNE
"Obviously, no amateur did this."
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which was the deadliest U.S. bombing in 75 years.
Frank Keating
Oklahoma governor
The death toll was certain to rise.
vehicle was found about two b lo c k s from the scene, the source said.
At least 200 people were injured — 58 critically, according to Fire Chief Gary Marrs — and several were feared trapped in the rubble of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building more than nine hours after the bombing.
"Our firefighters are having to crawl over corpses in areas to get to people that are still alive," Assistant Fire Chief Jon Hansen said.
Three people were rescued last night. Also, rescuers said they were talking to a woman trapped in the basement, who said there were two others down there. She didn't know if they were dead or alive.
Attorney General Janet Reno refused to comment on who might have been behind the attack.
President Clinton called the bombers "evil cowards," and Reno said the government
plaster emerged bloodied and crying from the building, which looked as if a giant bite had been taken out of it, with all the floors exposed.
Cables and other debris dangled from the floors like tangled streamers in a scene that brought to mind the car bombings at the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983.
Mayor Ron Norick said the blast, which left a crater 30 feet long and 8 feet deep, was caused by a car bomb. He said the car had been outside, in front of the building.
The explosion, similar to the terrorist car bombing that killed six people and injured 1,000 at New York's World Trade Center in 1993, occurred just after 9 a.m., when most of the more than 500 federal employees were in their offices.
"Obviously, no amateur did this," Gov. Frank Keating said. "Whoever did this was an animal."
Emergency personnel are dwarfed by the damaged A.P. Murp Buildings in Oklahoma City yesterday. A car bomb ripped through the nine-story federal building, killing more than 30 people. Death tools are expected to climb.
Bombing leaves impact on KU
Bv Paul Todd
Kansan staff writer
A former co-worker telephoned Paul Wenske, assistant professor of journalism, yesterday morning after the terrorist bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. The bombing killed at least 31 people, including at least 12 children, and injured more than 200 others.
"Aren't you glad you're not covering the federal beat anymore?" the co-worker said. "Haven't you seen the TV?"
Wenske, who covered the federal courts for the Daily Oklahoma in the late 1970s, found a television and watched as paramedics pulled bodies from the building where he used to report.
"It leaves you cold and numb," he said. "I got to know people in the agencies in the building."
violence from terrorism uncomfortably close to home.
Wenske said the federal building in Oklahoma City was filled with closely packed offices and cubicles.
"With all the things flying, they couldn't help but hurt so many people," he said.
For many KU students and faculty members, the terrorist attack in Oklahoma City brings the threat of
Jennifer Derryberry, Oklahoma City junior, called her family immediately after she heard about the bombing.
She said that her father worked in the federal building in nearby Norman, Okla.
Her grandmother, who lives about 25 minutes from the downtown area of Oklahoma City, heard the explosion and felt the ground shake when the bomb went off, Derryberry said.
"My dad said the security measures they took in his building after the bombing were that they locked their doors," she said.
"It's an overwhelming sense," she said. "It doesn't sink in — doesn't register."
"We in the Midwest assume that we are kinder and gentler than our fellow citizens on the west and east coasts," he said. "That is no longer true."
Felix Moos, professor of anthropology, has studied terrorist and fundamentalist movements. He said the Midwest's quiet image of tranquility and peace was false.
Moos said that the rapid rate at which technology was increasing, transportation was becoming more available and computer resources were becoming more accessible made terrorism a danger anywhere in the world.
But Moos said people should not start packing to leave the country yet.
"There's no more free lunch," he said. "We are paying for what we call progress and technology."
"I would caution against becoming paranoid," he said. "Tomorrow we will be back to the O.J. Simpson trial."
KU gets $15 million donation
School of Medicine to put money toward primary-care issues
By Robert Allen Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas yesterday received the largest grant in its history.
The Kansas Health Foundation, a philanthropic organization that seeks to improve the quality of health in Kansas, announced a $15 million donation for the education of primary care physicians in the School of Medicine. The Kansas University Endowment Association accepted the grant.
"This grant marks a tremendous financial commitment to the University," said A.B. Davis Jr., president of the foundation. "We look forward to working as partners with the school."
The five-year grant will be used to expand and improve the education of primary care physicians in Kansas. Charles Mengel, professor of medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center and interim executive director of the Primary Care Physician Education program, said that the grant would heighten awareness of the need for primary care in Kansas.
"At the present time, there are somewhere between 30 and 50 counties officially designated by national standards as under served," he said. "What primary care provides is an entry and access point for care."
The grant will be used to recruit students who are interested in primary care, enhancing the school's primary care curriculum, and recruiting faculty interested in teaching primary care.
"The project in essence is a very major shift in the culture and direction of this institution, putting primary care education as one of the centerpieces of the efforts of this institution," said Daniel Hollander, executive dean of the School of Medicine.
This is the largest single grant ever given by the foundation and the largest ever given to a university for primary care education.
"If not the eyes of the world, the eyes of the medical nation will be on us," Mengel said.
The foundation has made several contributions to KU in the past. The second largest grant given to KU was $10 million from the Lied Foundation in 1988 for construction of the Lied Center.
Last round
Kansas senior golfer Michelle Uher will end her lifelong dream to become a professional golfer when she graduates in May.
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GTA unionization voting results indicate majority
But the University will try to improve working relations
Administrators are having a hard time finding something good in this week's landslide victory for supporters of a graduate teaching assistant union.
By Virginia Marghelm Kansan staff writer
They said that although it was not the result they wanted, the administrators would do their best to work with the new union.
At least the turnout was good, they said. Sixty-six percent of eligible GTAs voted in the Monday and Tuesday election.
After the election, Christina Sharp, Lawrence graduate student and Western civilization GTA, said the GTAs had made their voice heard.
Of the 1,035 GTAs eligible to participate, 689 voted. Of those voting, 486 voted to affiliate with the Kansas Association of Public Employees/American Federation of Teachers; 202 voted for no representation. One ballot was void.
But how strong was the GTAs' voice?
The percentage of all potential voters participating in presidential elections usually ranges from 50 to 55 percent. Loomis said.
By the standard of most American national elections, the turnout was good, said Burdett Loomis, professor of political science.
But in comparison to the turnout for Student Senate elections, though GTAs flocked to the polls.
But people are more likely to vote when they have a direct interest in
Andrew Debicki, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, pointed out that voting was relatively easy. GTAs with offices in Wescoe Hall, for instance, only had to walk across the street to vote.
In this year's Senate elections, 3,834 students voted — out of 23, 490 eligible students. That's just slightly more than 16 percent.
Loomis said that even if all the GTAs who did not vote had voted — and voted no — the union would have lost only by a small margin.
the outcome, as they would in a union election, he said. The turnout might have been higher had there been organized opposition to the union.
GTA UNION ELECTION Number of voters eligible: 1,035 Number of votes:689 Percentage turnout: 66
Voters who turn out
The turnout for the graduate teaching assistant union election was much higher than the turnout for either the Student Senate elections or the April 4 city commission and school board elections.
STUDENT SENATE ELECTION
Number of eligible voters: 23,490
Actual voters: 3,834
Percentage turnout: 16
CITY COMMISSION AND SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION Number of eligible voters: 30,694 Actual voters: 11,406 Percentage turnout: 37
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