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The Inside Front
Wednesday, March 28, 2001
News
from campus,the state the nation and the world
STATE
Keg-tracking bill sinks after House tabling
TOPEKA — A proposal to require liquor stores to track who buys beer kegs resurfaced and sank yesterday in the Senate.
The Senate passed the proposal two weeks ago,but a House committee tabled it last week — most likely preventing it from passing this year.
Sen. Jim Barnett, its main sponsor, tried unsuccessfully to revive the issue.
Barnett, R-Emporia, offered the beer keg proposal as an amendment to a House bill to make it illegal to administer the ingredients of the drug gamma hydroxybutyric acid without a prescription. The drug is known as the "date rape" drug, and its use without a prescription is illegal, but not the use of its separate ingredients.
His amendment would have required retailers to record a keg purchaser's name and address before giving them a tagged keg, making it easier for police to track a keg back to its buyer — and to apprehend adults who provide alcohol to minors.
NATION
Lawyer in killings asks public for open minds
CONCORD, N.H. — A lawyer for one of the teen-agers charged with killing two Dartmouth College professors says the public should postpone making judgments until incriminating evidence is independently reviewed.
Tulloch and James Parker, 16, both of Chelsea, Vt., are accused of stabbing the Zantops to death in their Hanover home Jan. 27.
Authorities investigating the slayings of Half and Susanne Zantop found one victim's blood on knives discovered in the bedroom of Robert Tulloch, 17, according to court documents released Monday.
Investigators said they were unsure of a motive for the killings or a possible connection between the German-born professors and the suspects.
Initiative to celebrate Kansas City minorities
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two nationally-known African-American performers will be in Kansas City in April to promote an effort to attract tourists to minority-related attractions inside the urban core.
The initiative, called the Cultural Congress, was unveiled last year as a project of the Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City inc.
On April 6, the group will sponsor a performance by pop singer Gladys Knight during a national broadcast of radio personality Tom Joyner's morning show from Kansas City. The show will include several pitches to radio listeners to visit the city, especially attractions and businesses that specialize in Black heritage, culture, food and other interests.
"Somebody might be looking for soul food, but they have no idea where to get it," said Anita J. Dixon, the Black Chamber's director of tourism.
The Congress will provide networking opportunities and the ability "to showcase what we have to offer," Dixon said.
Certain soldiers exposed to Gulf War nerve gas
WASHINGTON — Up to several dozen U.S. Special Forces soldiers may have been exposed to nerve gas when they secretly went into Iraq ahead of the Gulf War ground campaign, the Pentagon said yesterday.
The Department of Defense released a report on air strikes between Jan. 19 and Feb. 24, 1991, as coalition forces hit an Iraqi weapons storage site at Muhammadiyad. Among Iraqi munitions in the depot were bombs filled with mustard agents and the nerve agents sarin and cyclosarin.
"With the possible exception of a few forward-deployed Special Operations Forces in Iraq, U.S. forces were definitely not exposed to chemical warfare agents as a result of the bombing," the department said in a statement. For those few, it said, "exposure is characterized as indeterminate from the facts available."
Disney prepares for cuts throughout company
NEW YORK — The Walt Disney Co. said yesterday it was eliminating 4,000 full-time jobs, or about 3 percent of its global work force.
The media and entertainment giant cited the "increasingly pressing challenges of the softening economic environment."
It said it would try to achieve the cuts through a voluntary program within the next month, but layoffs could be needed.
The cuts will come across all operating areas, including the company's corporate staff in Burbank.
Disney employs 120,000 people worldwide, with the greatest concentration — 55,000 — in Orlando, Florida.
Calif.. Disnev said.
Disney representative John Dreyer said the cuts would result in $350 to $400 million in annual savings.
WORLD
Russia's vow ties score Americans must leave
MOSCOW — Russia followed through yesterday on its vow to retaliate for a U.S. decision to expel four Russian diplomats, naming four American diplomats who must leave Moscow.
Representatives for Russia's Foreign Ministry and the U.S. embassy declined to give the employees' names or other details.
U. S. officials were still studying the list, State Department representative Richard Boucher said in Washington. He called the expulsion order "unwarranted and unfortunate," refusing to rule out retaliatory action.
Moscow's move follows the announcement last week that four Russians were being told to leave the United States within 10 days in connection with a spy scandal, and that 46 more Russians would be told to leave by summer.
The statement said the employees were ordered to leave for "activities incompatible with their diplomatic status," a phrase usually used for allegations of spying.
Macedonian president
touts country's success
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SKOPJE, Macedonia
Macedonia's president declared yesterday his country had vanquished ethnic Albanian rebels, arguing the military offensive restored confidence among
Macedonians and proved the country was able to defend its fragile democracy.
President Boris Trajkovski signaled, however, that negotiations for constitutional changes demanded by ethnic Albanians could take place now that insurgents claiming to fight for greater rights had been pushed from a position of strength near Macedonia's second-largest city, Tetovo.
The Associated Press
"I'm really convinced that it was not only the victory of democracy but also of Macedonians who, in these difficult times, were able to prove their unity and strength," he told The Associated Press in an interview. "This is a victory for all citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic background."
State late-term abortions rising
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Although the state appears to have succeeded in stopping one type of late-term abortion, some lawmakers are still upset by the overall number of abortions performed late in pregnancies last year.
Not a single abortion of the type defined in state law as "partial-birth" was performed in Kansas last year, compared with 182 in 1999, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said.
The number of so-called "Digoxin/Induction" abortions rose to 628 in 2000 from 366 the previous year, according to KDHE.
Republican Sen. Jim Barnett of Emporia, who is a physician, said the procedure involved injection of the drug Digoxin into the fetal heart to end its life and was often used to terminate late-term pregnancies.
In a separate statistical category, KDHE said late-term abortions — those performed
after 22 weeks of pregnancy — increased from 574 in 1999 to 639 in 2000.
Legislators and a state official said the shift in procedures may be the result of a shift in the interpretation of the state's abortion laws.
Under a 1998 law, abortions on a viable fetus are banned, except to save a woman's life or prevent an impairment of a major bodily function.
A separate 1998 law bans partial-birth abortions, except to save a woman's life or to prevent a serious mental or physical health problem.
Critics have said because the partial-birth law contained the specific mental health language, doctors were encouraged to perform the procedure, under the theory it represented the only way a doctor could do a late-term abortion to preserve a woman's mental health.
But Gov. Bill Graves said repeatedly the late-term ban must be read as containing an implied mental health exception. A U.S. Supreme Court
ruling last year in a Nebraska case was consistent with that interpretation.
The KDHE's 1999 statistics specified that all 182 partialbirth abortions were performed to protect the mental health of the woman.
The 2000 statistics show only that all 380 late-term abortions performed on a viable fetus protected the mother from impairment of a major bodily function. None were performed to prevent the mother's death.
Sen. Susan Wagle called the statistics "disturbing."
"The top priority in the Legislature should be banning abortions on viable infants," said Wagle, R-Wichita.
But Rep. L. Candy Ruff said the law should be left alone because the women who received the late-term abortions did so only with great reluctance.
"I'm not in those women's shoes and I'm not going to pass moral judgment," said Ruff, D-Leavenworth.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student reported a black Fender acoustic guitar stolen from her room on the seventh floor of Hashinger Hall between 3 p.m. Thursday, March 15 and 6 p.m. Sunday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The guitar was
valued at $150.
A KU student reported being harassed by telephone in her seventh floor Hashinger Hall room between 10:45 p.m. Monday and 12:55 a.m. Tuesday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor the University forum, "Through my Sight: A Soldier's Record of the WWII Invasion of Europe," from noon to 1 p.m. today at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
The School of Fine Arts and the Kansas Union will present Brown Bag Classics at 12:30 p.m. today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Drinks will be provided. Call the SUA box office at 864-SHOW.
KU NonTradts will have a brown bag lunch at 1 p.m. today at its cubicle in the Organizations and Leadership Office, room 400 in the Kansas Union, Call Michael or Deena at 864-7317.
The Diversity Peer Education Team will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the Multicultural Resource Center. Call Santos Nunez at 864-4350.
■ KU Water Palo will practice at 7 tonight at Robinson Natatorium. Call Jason Blazer at 312-2277.
KU Chess Club will meet at 7 tonight at the
Daisy Hill Room in the Kansas Union. Call Matt Miller at 832-0733.
The United Methodist Campus Ministry Fellowship dinner will be from 6:30 to 7:30 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Heather Hensarling at 841-8661.
ACT in Faith will meet at 7 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave, Call Gray Bartholomew at 841-8661
Latin American Solidarity will meet at 8 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Rebekah Moses at 312-1985.
WomanSpace will meet from 8 to 9 tonight in the upstairs at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Call Heather Henslaring at 841-8661.
Ichthus will meet at 8 tonight at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union
DaisyPraise will meet at 9 tonight on the first floor of Hashinger Hall. CBP.B. at 312-106-6.
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Women's Leadership Conference
Sign up
s Leadership Conference Make it Happen!
Sunday, April 8, 2001 12:30-5:00 p.m. Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union
At the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center by Wednesday, April 4, 2001.
(Fee waivers may be made available. For information, call the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center at 864-3552.)
$10 Registration fee includes a conference t-shirt
Is from 12:00 to 12:30 pm.
Sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center 22 Strong Hall, University of Kansas
more information call 864-3853
free computing classes
All classes are FREE for KU students, staff, and faculty and don't require registration UNLESS otherwise noted.
Register at acsworkshop@ku.edu or 804-0494
Class descriptions and schedule:
www.tku.edu/ucs/training
Dreamweaver: Introduction Prerequisite: None. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Tues., April 3, 9 a.m.-Moon, Computer Center South Lab.
**Filemaker Pro: Intermediate Prerequisite:** FileMaker Pro: Introduction. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Tues., April 3, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Computer Center South Lab
Directions & map:
www.ku.edu/sce/
directions.ahml
**Outlook:** Message Management (Windows) Prerequisites: A KU Exchange account and **Outlook:** Introduction. Wed. April 4, 1:30-3 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium
Unix Prerequisite: None. No registration. Wed. April 4, 9 a.m.-Noon, Computer Center South Lab
Migrating from Eagle/Falcon/KUHUB Prerequisite: KU students, faculty or staff with email service on Eagle, Falcon, or KUHUB. Wed. April 4, 5-6 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium
Outlook Message Management (Windows) Prerequisites: A KU Exchange account and Outlook: Introduction. Wed. April 4, 1:30-3 p.m., Computer Center Auditorium
Excell Introduction Prerequisite: None. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Thurs. April 5, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Computer Center South Lab
PowerPoint Intermediate Prerequisite: None. Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Thurs, April 5, 9 a.m.-Noon, Computer Center South Lab
SAS IntrNet Prerequisite: A working knowledge of SAS and an account on Lark. (See your department fund administrator to set up a Lark account.) Requires registration for all and a $75 fee for non-KU. Thurs. April 5, 2-5 p.m., Budig Hall Lab
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