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Thursday, January 18, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Student Senate will debate election rules in special session
By Matt Taylor
By Matt Taylor
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate again will consider new election rules at a special session on Monday night.
A proposal submitted by the Rights Committee was tabled before the holiday break and will be debated at the session scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Big Eight Room in the Kansas committee chairman and any new cases probably would not affect elections in April.
The bill would create an Elections
Commission that would be responsible for ensuring fair and honest Senate elections. A commissioner, whose pay would not be determined by Senate, would be hired by the University to administer all policies.
The current Senate Election Committee does not have a commissioner.
The proposed commission would have three undergraduate students, one graduate student, one law student, one faculty member from the division of political science, one professor of law, and two representatives from the division of student
affairs, one of whom must be from the Organizations and Activity Center.
The current committee comprises members at large.
Eleanore Macnish, Senate Election Committee chairman, said she thought it was too late in the school year for any new rules to affect Senate elections in April.
"I don't see any way possible we can have a commission by April," Macinn said. "The entire interviewing process for the commissioner and the selection of members would take too long."
William Sanders, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, said the special session should serve as a quick fix to the election rules that were broken last spring when Common Cause, the winning coalition, exceeded its campaign spending limits.
the winning candidates, B. Jake White, a North Platee, Neb., senior, and Jeff Morris, a Salina senior, said they thought Article 6 of the Student Senate Rules and Regulations allowed them to spend $35 a senate candidate instead of $35 a coalition within each school.
The Senate Election Review Board ruled against White and Morris and fined them $150.
Senate redirected the election bill to the Rights Committee last semester, which was charged with developing a new plan to ensure fair elec- tion. The committee submitted an amended bill to Senate Bill 5, and it has been tabled since then.
Aaron Rittmaster, Rights Committee chairman, said that if Senate returned the bill to his committee it would be willing to hear another amendment.
last time that we will not rehear the bill," Rittmaster said. "We've been busy on this since August, and I think it's ready to go. I'm really happy about the bill."
Sanders said the Rights Committee was finished with bill revision and that Senate would debate the proposal.
The Elections Committee also wrote a similar bill that included An elections Commission, but that bill was killed last semester.
Morris said there was no deadline for passage of the bill.
Bank guilty of concealing cocaine cartel's cash
The Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — An international bank that pleaded guilty earlier this week to cocaine-related money laundering charges, agreed to forfeit a record $14 million and agreed to help prosecutors who say the case has ties to former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega.
U. S. District Judge W. Terrell Hodges accepted pleas from two divisions of the Luxembourg-based Bank of Credit and Commerce International and found them guilty, but has not set a date for formally imposing the sentence.
The plea did not affect codefendants in the $23 million money-laundering case, including six top BCCI banking officers and two Colombians that the government claims were part of the Medellin cocaine cartel. Their cases opened with pretrial motions Tuesday in a trial expected to last five months.
Under the agreement signed Tuesday, BCCI, S.A. and BCCI Overseas Ltd. will forfeit $14 million in assets
frozen earlier by the government. Prosecutors claim that sum represents profits made from the sale of cocaine in U.S. cities and laundered in a series of complicated worldwide banking transactions.
The banks also will receive suspended fines and five years probation supervised by the Federal Reserve.
The cash forfeiture was the largest ever by a financial institution in the United States, said Dave Runkel, a spokesman for the U.S. Justice Department in Washington.
"I think it's a good deal," said Bonnie Tschier, head of the U.S. Customs Service in Tampa.
A two-year sting operation called Operation C-Chase began in Tampa in 1988 after an undercover agent connected his way into an international money laundering network. After that, agents helped direct profits from cocaine sales in U.S. cities to Colombia through Panama eventually building a global laundering operation worth an estimated $32 million,
investigators said.
investigators' salaries.
Some 30 charges against the two bank entities included tax fraud, laundering activities and failing to report currency transactions over $10.000.
In return for the plen, the government agreed to waive any future charges against the bank that its investigation might uncover.
Hodges approved a gag order to prevent parties in the case from talking to the media, and bank officials and attorneys refused to comment after the agreement was announced.
"I'm going to let the documents speak for themselves," U.S. Attorney Robert Genzman said after leaving the courtroom.
In December 1987, some officials at BCCI in Panama, which was the bank used to pass funds to Colombia, contacted undercover agents and arranged a meeting to suggest alternate banking methods such as Certificates of Deposit rather than checks to avoid being caught, prosecutors said.
The agents said BCCI bankers
taught them how to use cash to buy CDs, then use the CDs as collateral for loans. The loan proceeds then would be wired into accounts controlled by an agent or smugglers, prosecutors said.
Altogether, more than 80 people were accused of taking part in drug-related money-laundering schemes in Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, New York and Tampa and in London and Paris.
The Luxembourg bank is one of the largest privately held institutions in the world with operations in 73 countries.
Facing trial is Amjad Aawan, assistant division director of BCCI for Latin America in Miami, who claimed he used to be Noriega's banker and managed a secret...account that held up to $25 million.
Awan told Senate investigators that he managed a secret account Norgiea opened at the bank's Panamanian branch in 1982. Awan said Norgiea was the only one who could authorize withdrawals from the account.
East German family returns World War II ID tag to vet
The Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Carroll Witten received a memento of his days as a World War II prisoner of war from an East German family — thanks to the historic opening of the Berlin Wall.
In 1945, a year after his B-17 bomber was shot down over Germany, Witten and about 40 other POWs were marched from Poland to a POW camp at Bad Muskau, near the German-Polish border.
During an overnight stop at a barn, Witten lost his brass POW identification tag.
The tag bore only a four-digit POW number and the words "Oflag Luft 3," a designation for a
The Sunday after the Berlin Wall was opened on Nov. 9, an East German family visiting West Berlin for the first time approach U.S. Army Capt. James Allen and gave him a tarnished brass tag.
prison camp for air officers.
Allen said the family told him that they had found the tag in the rubble of their old barn.
Using Red Cross archives, Allen traced the number to Witten, now 65.
Witten said that Allen had telephoned him in early December from Berlin and that, when asked, he could clearly remember his prisoner number.
"I said, 'Sure, I couldn't forget it . 4854. '." Witten said.
Just before Christmas, Allen routed himself through Louisville on a flight from West Germany and gave Witten the lost tag.
"It was a funny feeling when I held this tag in my hand again," Witten said. "Unbelievable."
Witten said that Allen has promised to get the exact address of the family who found the tag so that he could get in touch with them.
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