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The Inside Front
Monday April 2, 2001
News
from campus, the state the nation and the world
NATION
Teen to be charged in Indiana shooting
GARY, Ind. — A teen-ager accused of fatally shooting a student outside a high school was scheduled to be formally charged with murder today.
Police Chief John Roby said Burt "didn't give a motive" for the killing.
Investigators said Donald Ray Burt Jr., 17, a former student at Lew Wallace High School admitted shooting sophomore Neal Boyd, 16, on Friday.
Detective Keith Richardson told The Times of Northwest Indiana that Burt "wanted to tell us the situation, but his parents advised him not to say anything."
Donald Ray Burt Sr. said his son did not kill Boyd, describing the teenagers as best friends. Burt shot at people who were about to assault him and Boyd, the father said.
Warning was issued before Aspen crash
ASPEN, Colo. — Crews yesterday prepared to remove the wreckage of a charter jet that slammed into a hillside, killing all 18 people aboard, as investigators looked into why air traffic controllers were unaware of new landing restrictions.
The Gulfstream III approached the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport on instruments in bad weather Thursday night when it crashed near the runway.
Two days earlier, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a notice saying planes should not make instrument landings at the airport at night, said Carol Carmody, the National Transportation Safety Board's acting chairwoman.
"I find it troubling, no question," Carmody said.
Carmody said pilots leaving other airports for Aspen had received the notice, but controllers at the Aspen airport had not, and were not warning incoming pilots.
McVeigh tells his story in book about bombing
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Driving down a street with fuses already lit and their smoke filling the cab of his rented Ryder truck, Timothy McVeigh was prepared to crash his mobile bomb right into the Oklahoma City federal building if necessary.
"If I needed to, I was ready to stay in the truck and protect it with gunfire until the bomb blew up," McVeigh says in excerpts from a new book, American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing, in the April 9 issue of Newsweek.
Instead, McVeigh says, he breathed a sigh of relief when he arrived at the
building on April 19, 1995, because no cars were sitting in front to block his chosen parking spots. When the truck bomb exploded, it killed 168 people.
McVeigh, 32, is scheduled to be executed May 16.
WORLD
Milosevic pleads innocent to charges of corruption
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — A haggard Slobodan Milosevic pleaded innocent yesterday to corruption charges linked to his dictatorial 13-year rule as authorities questioned the former president and ordered him jailed for 30 days.
Although the Yugoslav government says it intends to try him at home for ruining the nation, the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, stepped up pressure for Milosevic to be handed over to face prosecution over alleged atrocities in Kosovo.
Milosevic's lawyer said the 59-year-old ousted leader, now in Belgrade's Central Prison, was exhausted and had been sedated after a 26-hour armed standoff in his besieged villa and a stormy night of negotiations that ended with his surrender to police before dawn Sunday.
Suspicious package investigated in Toronto
TORONTO — Police evacuated three floors of a Toronto office building and sealed off a major downtown street Friday after suspicious-looking gray powder spilled from a package. As in a similar incident last week, the powder turned out to be harmless
Police said an anti-pollution group that sent out mailings containing powder meant to represent air pollution might be responsible.
Workers in the Emst & Young Tower who may have come in contact with the powder had to undergo decontamination — their clothes and bodies were showered with water. Fire trucks and other emergency vehicles filled Bay Street, in the heart of Toronto's financial district, jamming traffic in all directions.
Police said they have responded to similar calls five times in recent weeks.
Strike in Bangladesh erupts into violence
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Violent clashes in Bangladesh killed one man and injured 200 yesterday during the start of a three-day general strike intended to force Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation police said.
A truck driver was killed in a bomb
attack blamed on strikers in Fenitown, 80 miles east of Dhaka, the capital, police said.
More than 1,000 opposition activists paraded through the empty streets of Dhaka in small groups, chanting "Down with the corrupt government!" They accuse Hasina's government of corruption and harassment of political rivals, and are demanding early elections. Police arrested 120 opposition activists on rioting charges.
Boat of Iraqi Kurds runs aground in Greece
ATHENS, Greece — A boat trying to smuggle 447 Iraqi Kurds to Italy ran ground on an island near Athens in rough seas yesterday after being pursued by the Greek coast guard, authorities said.
The fishing boat, which departed from Turkey, grounded on the southern tip of the island of Evia, 57 miles east of Athens.
About 50 of the would-be illegal immigrants were being taken to a hospital for observation, while the rest were heading to sports and municipal facilities on the island, where they would be held, police said. Among the passengers of the Medine were 39 women and 40 children.
Three Turkish crew members were arrested, police and the merchant marine said.
Tens of thousands of people from the Middle East, Asia and eastern Europe sneak into Greece each year, despite efforts to bolster the coast guard and border patrols.
Greece often is used as a transit point for reaching other European Union countries.
Israeli man arrested for plot to rob armory
JERUSALEM — An Israeli Jew has been arrested on suspicion of killing a village security officer in a plot to rob the village armory and sell dozens of assault rifles to the Palestinians, police said yesterday.
Israel media identified the suspect as Jean Eliaz, 42, from Kiriyat Ata in northern Israel, a subcontractor working near Kibbutz Manara, a collective village on the Lebanese border.
The body of Yitzhak Kwartat was found March 19, the same day that 60 automatic rifles were discovered missing from the village armory.
At a news conference, police said Eiraz headed a ring with six Israeli Arabs from the village of Kfar Salem, who sold most of the rifles to the Palestinians.
All seven suspects have confessed, police said. Elraz has been arrested, but no charges have been filed.
The Associated Press
U.S. plane collides with Chinese jet
The Associated Press
BEIJING — A U.S. Navy surveillance plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet sent to intercept it over the South China Sea yesterday and made an emergency landing in China. The Chinese government said the fighter crashed and its pilot was missing.
China quickly blamed the U.S. aircraft for the collision off the southern Chinese island of Hainan. But the commander of U.S. Pacific military forces said the slower U.S. plane was more likely to have been hit by the nimble Chinese fighter.
"It's pretty obvious who bumped him," said Dennis. Dennis
Blair in Hawaii.
The collision comes at an uneasy time in U.S. Chinese relations. The Bush administration has taken a warier attitude toward Beijing, and the president is reportedly leaning toward selling Taiwan many of the high-tech weapons it seeks — a sale bitterly opposed by China.
The American EP-3 plane landed at a military airfield on Hainan. None of the 24 crew members was injured, said Col. John Bratton, a spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii. The status of the crew and control of the plane on the ground were unclear.
Chinese officials assured the
United States the crew was safe, and American diplomats were going to Hainan to see them, said U.S. Ambassador Joseph Pruecher. He said he had talked several times with Secretary of State Colin Powell. President Bush was briefed on the episode yesterday morning, an administration official said
The U.S. plane was on a routine surveillance flight in international airspace when two Chinese fighters intercepted it, said Bratton. In Honolulu, U.S. Pacific Command officials showed a map that put the collision about 80 miles southeast of Hainan, well outside the 12-mile territorial sea and airspace.
ON THE RECORD
A 20-year-old KU student was arrested Friday on charges of operating a vehicle while under the influence, the KU Public Safety Office said. The student was traveling near 19th Street and Anna Drive at 2:33 a.m. when he was pulled over for driving 57 miles per hour in a 30-mph zone, according to the police report. The student failed several field sobriety tests, including standing on one leg and being unable to recite the alphabet. He was arrested and taken to Douglas County Jail, where he registered a .15 blood-alcohol level — the legal limit in Kansas is .08.
A KU student's cell phone was stolen between 10:30 p.m. March 14 and 9 p.m. March 15 in the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. The phone was valued at $250.
A KU student's cell phone was stolen between 8 p.m. March 21 and 9 a.m. March 22 in the 1000 block of Missouri Street, Lawrence police said. The phone was valued at $250.
A KU employee's Taurus wheel covers were damaged between 10 p.m. Wednesday and 7:15 a.m. Thursday in the 800 block of Canterbury Lane, Lawrence police said. The estimated damage to the four wheel covers was unlisted.
A KU employee's rear window was damage between 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and 7:30 a.m. Thursday in the 3300 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police said. The damage estimate was unlisted.
A KU student's diamond ring, diamond earrings, Sony CD player and $85 were stolen between 12:01 a.m. March 21 and 1:13 p.m. March 26 from a residence in the 1900 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $1,035.
A KU student's Suzuki moped was stolen between 8:30 a.m. March 20 and 8:30 a.m.
Thursday in the 1600 block of Kentucky Street, Lawrence police said. The moped was valued at $300.
ON CAMPUS
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Kansas Union. Call Courtney Bates or Cassandra Young at 864-3984.
The Center for Community Outreach will sponsor Into the Streets Week today through Sunday. Call Melissa or Maureen at 8644073 for more information.
■ McColllum Hall and Campus Crusade for Christ will sponsor the nationally known band X-Nelo at 6:30 p.m. today at McColllum's front lawn. Call Marc Brooks at 749-2890.
Heusted at 864-SHOW
The Kansas and Burge unions will present Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train at 7 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union as a part of the international film series. Call Leslie
The KU Bohai' Club will meet from 7 to 9 tonight at the Regionalist Room on the fifth-floor of the Kansas Union. Call Justin Herrmann at 830-8912.
KU Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform will present The University Under Fire: The Explanation for 'Killer Kids' No One Will Talk About, from 7:30 to 8 tonight on Cable Channel 19.
The department of music and dance will present a trumpet duo at 7:30 tonight at the department of music and dance. Call 864-4401.
■ KU Greens will meet at 8 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas University. Call Sarah Hoskinson at 838-9063 or Galen Turner at 838-3498.
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