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described her as an attractive woman of medium build and height. She had a slight accent and told friends that she was from Trinidad.
Aubrey Baker, her ex-husband, said he had custody of their three children — one girl and two boys — in an insurance. He declined further comment.
While living in Lawrence, Tamara Baker had moved three times in the past three years. In 1987, she lived adjacent to Laverna Hicks, 818 Louisiana St.
"She was really a friendly person," Hicks said. "She'd come outside and
barbecue with us. We'd have dinners and parties."
"Our kids played together," Lyles said. "We might sit around and have a cup of coffee together in the morning."
From May 1988 to August 1989, Baker lived next to Marsha Lyles, 255 North Michigan St.
Lyles said Baker visited her Halloween night, looking for his ex-wife who he said had gone out with some people she was not well acquainted with. He was worried because she had not come home.
"I believed that she was dead, and
that was in the first 24 hours." Lyles said. "In the year she lived next to me, she always came home."
Last August, Baker moved to an apartment above Shirley Glover, 1113 Connecticut St.
Glover said she was one of the last people to see Baker alive. She said the last time she saw her neighbor, Baker was upset about legal matters
"She didn't have any food, so I invited her down and fixed her a tuna sandwich and a glass of pop," she said. "We offered her some Hallowe candy, but she didn't want any. And then she just left."
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after receiving a $9,000 allocation
But Moseley said last night that he made the comment with fiscal responsibility in mind and that he was not targeting Blacks.
"You have to look at my role as a Finance Committee member," Moseley said. "I believe that we need some control over the budget. I was worried about the total appropriation.
"It wasn't the fact that it was Black History Month. I was looking at the total fiscal realm and was trying to decide how much was appropriate. That's the context I spoke in."
Five senators, spoke against Moseley, and four spoke in favor. Darren Fulcher, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said there was a
conflict about Moseley's character.
"We can't risk choosing an ASK director who puts his foot in his mouth," he said.
Moseley is rude, unapproachable and intimidating, said Ardra Tippett, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator.
"In the real world, this would not be tolerated," she said.
Jennifer Roth, off-campus senator, said Moseley should not be the scapegoat for recent racial flares on campus.
Before votes were cast on Moseley's nomination, Young said that he hated Moseley for the most part but thought he was qualified for the director's position. He said Moseley was at the forefront of
increasing awareness about minority issues.
In separate action, Senate unanimously approved a resolution condemning the Department of Defense policy that bans homosexuals from serving in the armed forces.
Pat Warren, Student Executive Committee chairman and co-author of the resolution, said the authors were protesting against the national policy, which the University ROTC program must follow.
Ethan Vaughan, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator who attended the U.S. Air Force Academy for two years before transferring to KU, said homosexuals created problems.
Suicides rock Arkansas town
The Associated Press
SHERIDAN, Ark. — The pines are tall, lines at cash registers are short and a phone call is still only a dime in this country town. People live here to get away from city and suburban pressures.
"It's terrible for a small town like this to have to wake up like this," said resident Carolyn Talbert.
But today, after a cluster of teenage suicides, residents are mourning the dead, and, in a sense, the town's loss of innocence.
The high school is flooded with psychiatrists, psychologists and counselors. Police track down absent students if phone calls home aren't
answered. Students try to make sense of the senseless.
Joe Wise Jr., mayor of the town of 3,230, said, "We're just getting a taste of some of the things that go on in larger towns."
On Monday, 17-year-old Thomas Smith went to the front of his fifth-period U.S. history class, professed his love for a girl, and shot himself with a .22-caliber gun as 23 horrified classmates watched.
About nine hours later, Thomas M. Chidester, 19, a close friend of Smith's, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head and a note saying, "I can't go on any longer."
saying. I can't go anywhere.
A third schoolmate, 17-year-old
Jerry Paul McCoil, killed himself Tuesday, authorities said. McCoil knew Smith and Chidester but was not a close friend.
Two days, three lives and few answers.
"I sure can't make any sense out of it," said Lisa Deal, 18, president of the student council at Sheridan's high school. "Even in a tragedy of this nature we must go on. We're all pulling together and trying to get over this disaster."
School officials immediately began summoning mental health help Monday from across Arkansas and contacted national crisis and grief experts.
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