6A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 2006
He loves me,he loves me not
Lisa Liagvac/KANSAN
Hutchinson freshman Ginny Heitschmidt creates a Valentine card for her boyfriend at the Kansas Union. Student Union Activities set up a table where students could create valentines, make cookies and pick up a free carnation.
Guard helps six inmates escape
CRIME
BY TARA BURGHART
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — A Cook County jail guard told investigators he helped six inmates escape over the weekend in an attempt to influence the election for sheriff, newspapers reported Tuesday.
The guard said he was trying to embarrass outgoing county Sheriff Michael Sheahan and his chief of staff, Tom Dart, who is running for sheriff, The Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune reported, citing unidentified law enforcement sources.
Representatives for the sheriff's office, which controls the jail, did not immediately return calls Tuesday from The Associated Press.
No charges had been filed in the jailbreak as of midday Tuesday. All six inmates have been captured.
Also Tuesday, the Police Department said officers received a tip about an escape plot at the jail hours before the breakout.
and that someone involved in that case "had knowledge ... of what was going to occur," police spokeswoman Monique Bond
said. Officers followed proper procedure and reported the tip to sheriff's office, she said.
The sheriff's office did not return calls.
The guard initially said he had been overpowered by the inmates at the understaffed jail. But according to the reports, he changed his story and said he was trying to boost the campaign of Richard Remus, who is seeking for the Democratic nomination for sheriff.
Remus dismissed that theory. "An officer is going to sacrifice his life or family for political gain for somebody else? It's beyond my understanding of human nature — I can't see it." Remus said. "This sounds like Cook County politics at its finest."
Remus said he once was the guard's supervisor at the jail, but is not the man's friend.
The jailbreak was the third at the Cook County Jail in the past 10 months. No inmates had escaped in the previous decade.
It was at least the second time in recent months that the question of staff complicity has been raised.
INTERNATIONAL
Iran resumes use of uranium
BY ALI AKBAR DAREINI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has resumed small-scale enrichment of uranium, a senior Iranian nuclear negotiator said Tuesday — a defiant declaration in the face of global opposition to Iran's atomic program.
The resumption still leaves Iran a long way from reaching the stage the world fears most: large-scale enrichment of uranium — a process that can produce fuel for an atomic bomb.
Javad Vaeidi, deputy secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, in announcing the small-scale enrichment, also told reporters that Iran would resume negotiations with Moscow on Feb. 20 over its plan to enrich Iranian uranium on Russian soil — a proposal designed to allay fears that Iran will build nuclear weapons.
"The talks with Russia remain valid," Vaeidi said, adding that an Iranian delegation would go to Moscow.
The negotiations with Russia had been due to resume Thursday, but Iran said Monday they were postponed indefinitely.
Vaeidi gave no indication whether Iran was looking more favorably at the plan now that international pressure over its nuclear program was increasing. Iran has repeatedly said the Russian plan can be complementary to Iran's nuclear program but that Tehran would not accept any requirement to scrap uranium enrichment in Natanz.
Vaeidi said enrichment of uranium resumed last week at Natanz, the country's main enrichment plant, but that Iran had not resumed large-scale enrichment, as required for producing fuel for nuclear reactors.
In Israel, Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Knesset's defense and
foreign affairs committee, said Tuesday's announcement from Iran made it clear that "time is running out."
"If the Iranians will not be blocked, in due course they will obtain a nuclear weapon," he told The Associated Press. "This will be a devastating threat not only to Israel and the Middle East but also to Europe and the United States."
Later Tuesday, Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh said resumption of uranium enrichment work was very limited.
"It can't be used even at semi-industrial level. It's only on the laboratory stage for analyzing research activities. This sort of enrichment cannot be used (for producing nuclear fuel)," he said.
According to authoritative reports, Iran had 164 centrifuges in Natanz sealed by the IAEA in 2003. The seals were removed last month when Iran resumed nuclear research. And Iranian officials have indicated that Iran may possess up to 2,000 centrifuges.
For a large-scale enrichment of uranium, Iran has to build up to 60,000 centrifuges
Top Iranian officials have confirmed in the past that the Iranian military had built nuclear centrifuges for civilian use and that Iran was capable of mass producing them.
The world has long sought to stop Iran from enriching uranium, fearing that the process would bring it to the threshold of possessing nuclear bombs. On Feb. 4, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council and called on its government to suspend all enrichment-related activities.
Instead, Iran suspended certain aspects of its co-operation with the IAEA.
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