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The Inside Front
Monday March 5,2001
News
from campus,the state, the nation and the world
CORRECTION
The Kate Campbell CD review in Thursday's Jayplay should have been attributed to Richard Gintowt.
NATION
Science City battles falling attendance
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Falling attendance at Kansas City's newest large-scale civic attraction has Science City officials mulling ways to change the museum.
Possibilities, officials say, include adding Internet-access computers, partnering with scientific institutions to rebuild exhibits and constructing a new entrance.
Including the museum and its three companion theaters, attendance reached 877,545 during 2000. But attendance totals have steadily dropped, with the last four months of the year being the museum's worst. Fall attendance was less than half of what it was in the spring or summer.
Bush vows to veto high spending bills
WASHINGTON — President Bush will veto any annual spending bill that costs more than he wants, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday, warning Republicans not to stray from the administration's budget priorities.
Only days ago, budget writers in the House and Senate questioned whether they could stay within the budget levels Bush has proposed — a 4 percent increase for discretionary programs, which constitute everything the government does, except automatically paid benefits like Medicaid.
Families gather to bid loved ones farewell
HONOLULU—As the Navy prepared to convene a rare court of inquiry into the collision between a nuclear attack submarine and a Japanese fishing boat, the families of some of the nine men and boys lost at sea gathered yesterday to bid farewell to their loved ones.
Today, family members are expected to attend a formal investigative hearing by the Navy that seeks to explain why the USS Greeneville rammed the Ehime Maru while demonstrating an emergency surfacing drill for 16 civilian guests.
The ship, carrying 35 people, was on an expedition to teach teen-agers how to become commercial fishermen when the Greeneville plowed through its hull while surfacing. Four high school students, two teachers and three crewmen were never found
Flights canceled as storm moves into Northeast
Worried shopper grabbed groceries from store shelves and airlines started canceling flights yesterday as the Northeast prepared for a major storm that threatened to strike with coastal flooding and more than a foot of snow.
A mixture of rain, sleet and snow started moving into the region yesterday, but warm air from the ocean was expected to delay the changeover to all snow along the coast, complicating forecasts. Winter storm watches remained in effect from West Virginia to Maine, the National Weather Service said.
Delta, Continental and other airlines canceled dozens of flights into the New York metropolitan area's LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark airports, said Ernesto Butcher, chief operating officer of the Port Authority, which runs the region's airports.
WORLD
Recession leads to moves in Argentina's Cabinet
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina President Fernando De la Rua began reorganizing his Cabinet yesterday by naming a U.S.-trained economist to head the influential Economy Ministry, moving to ease a three-day political crisis.
Ricardo Lopez Murphy, a fiscal conservative who is popular on Wall Street, was to be sworn in Monday as economy minister. Jose Luis Machinea, who crafted economic austerity measures that have come under fire, quit Friday.
The government is confronting a 32-month recession and De La Rua said more changes were likely in the coming days. He did not elaborate.
Israelis killed as Sharon prepares to take power
NETANYA, Israel — A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up and killed three Isrealis at a bustling intersection yesterday, the second lethal explosion in four days as militant Islamic groups vowed more attacks against Israel's incoming government.
With Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon preparing to assume power, possibly this week, the bombings have shown that Israel remains vulnerable despite sealing off Palestinian areas in a bid to keep out militants.
The Palestinian attacker detonated the bomb just before 9 a.m.at a corner in the coastal resort town of Netanya. The force hurled a car into the air, shattered shop windows and crumpled street stalls in the central market area.
"We know very well that the most loyal forces of (Palestinian leader Yasser) Arafat are involved in attacks," Sharon said. He did not directly link Arafat loyalists to Sunday's bombing.
Guerrillas kill and kidnap in weekend of violence
BOGOTA, Colombia — Leftist guerillas killed six people and kidnapped several others while bomb attacks in two major Colombian cities leveled a bank in a nationwide wave of violence during the weekend, authorities said. In Cali, Colombia's third-largest city, three bombs exploded simultaneously yesterday near a military base and the house of a lower-ranking army officer, police Gen. Alfredo Salgado told The Associated Press.
The explosions injured three people and damaged surrounding buildings. Police arrested two people with explosives immediately after the attack, but it wasn't immediately clear if they were members of an armed group.
A bomb also exploded Sunday in Cartagena, a popular tourist spot on the Caribbean coast. No one was injured, but the explosion destroyed a nearby bank. Salgado said it wasn't known who carried out the attack.
Foot-and-mouth outbreak spreads, worries officials
LONDON — A foot-and-mouth outbreak has spread to a huge national park in southwest England, officials said yesterday, while Belgium shut down its two largest zoos and Denmark quarantined seven farms.
While no cases have yet been confirmed in continental Europe, 69 separate outbreaks have been reported in Britain and Northern Ireland. About 45,000 animals — sheep, cows and pigs — have been destroyed in an effort to stop the ailment from spreading.
An outbreak inside Dartmoor National Park raised fears that wildlife could spread the disease to other livestock. Hiking and horseback riding have been restricted on the moor, where about 46,000 cattle and sheep graze.
Since the first cases were discovered Feb. 19 at a slaughterhouse in southern England, authorities have banned exports of British milk, meat and live animals. At outbreak sites, herds are being destroyed.
The Associated Press
Plane crash kills 21 in Georgia
The Associated Press
UNADILLA, Ga. — Military officials battled slick, muddy conditions yesterday as they worked to recover the remains of 21 National Guard personnel killed when their twin-engine C-23 Sherpa crashed in a field in heavy rain.
Officials weren't sure how long the recovery would take because of deep mud in the area, which had nearly 4 inches of rain over the weekend.
"It's a quagmire," said Lt. Col. Deborah Bertrand, aRobins Air Force Base representative.
Three Army personnel and 18 Air National Guard members were killed when the transport plane crashed Saturday morning south of Macon and burst into flame.
Officials said there were two debris fields: one 400-feet-by-400-foot and a smaller one about a quarter-mile away. Yesterday, skies were overcast and winds were strong as about 150 workers searched slowly through the wreckage.
"They're far more concerned
with safety at this point than speed," said Maj. Randy Noller, spokesman in National Guard Bureau in Washington.
In-flight data and voice recorders have been found, but investigators don't know yet if they were working, said Col. Dan Woodward, an Air Force spokesman.
Officials have not determined the cause of the crash, which is being investigated by the Army Safety Center at Fort Rucker, Ala., with the help of the National Transportation Safety Board.
Air Force officials yesterday escorted reporters and photographers past dozens of muddy all-terrain vehicles and Humvees to a command post about a half-mile from the main crash site. The area could be reached only by a dirt road marked by gullies carved by the heavy weekend rains. Water stood in ditches and fields that had been plowed 3 feet deep in preparation for spring planting.
The Lakeland, Fla-based plane, assigned to the Florida National Guard, 171st Aviation Battalion.
took off without any problems from Huriburt Field near Fort Walton Beach, said Air Force Capt. Carol Kanode, a field representative. The aircraft was headed to Oceana Naval Air Station, Va.
All 18 passengers were members of a Virginia-based military construction and engineering crew on a routine training mission. The plane's pilot and two other crew members were members of the Florida battalion.
"Military service involves great danger, in times of peace as well as war, and this accident provides stark proof of that." Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said. In Virginia, Gov. Jim Glmore ordered state flags to be lowered to balftail.
Families and friends of the 18 passengers — all members of the 203rd Red Horse Unit of the National Guard — were gathered at Camp Pendleton State Military Reservation in Virginia Beach.
"It's a real bad situation when everyone on that list is someone that you knew," said Angelo Holley, 36, a member of the 203rd. Staff Sgt. Ronald Elkin, one of the victims, had been among his closest friends.
ON THE RECORD
A KU student reported being harassed by phone in his Lewis Hall room between midnight Feb. 1 and 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, the KU Public Safety Office said.
A KU parking department sign was damaged in the Kansas Union parking garage between 3 p.m. Feb. 23 and 7:30 a.m. Feb. 25, the KU Public Safety Office said. The sign was valued at $250
A plastic Commerce Bank sign was stolen from the Burge Union between 5 p.m. Feb. 23 and 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, the KU Public Safety Office said. The sign was valued at $1,000.
A KU student's Sony Playstation II, controllers and "knock-out Kings" game were stolen
between 12:30 and 1:30 a.m. Thursday from a room in Naismith Hall, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $399.99.
A KU student's front door frame was damaged between 3:30 and 3:40 a.m. Saturday in the 3900 block of Overland Drive, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $150.
A KU student's black leather purse, keys, green bag, lipstick, pill box, camera, billfold, cell phone and driver's license were stolen between 2 and 3 a.m. Saturday in the 1100 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police said. The items were valued at $645.
ON CAMPUS
Black Student Union will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Kansas University. Call Courtney Bates or Cassandra Young at 864-3984
The KU Student Auxiliary of Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform will present The University Under Fire, an interview with the Rev. Heather Hensaling from 7:30 to 8 onight on channel
The KU Baha'i 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
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State representatives Barbara Ballard and Troy Findley will speak at the KU Young Democrats meeting at 8 oncth at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. Call Julie Merz at 838-3797.
The International Film Series will present Time Regained at 7 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Call Leslie Heusted at 864- SHOW
KU Greens at 8 tonight at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. Call Sarah Hoskinson at 838-9063 or Galen Turner at 838-3498.
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