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Doctor in jail for taking his patients' painkillers
WILKES-BARRE, PA. — A drug-addicted anesthesiologist was sentenced to prison yesterday for stealing powerful painkillers from his patients, leaving them aware of the agonizing pain of surgery.
Dr. Frank Ruhl Peterson was sentenced to 10 to 23 months in jail, plus nine years of probation and ordered to undergo treatment for his addiction.
Hospital officials had become suspicious after Peterson's patients complained they got no pain relief from anesthesia. Laboratory tests of two intravenous bags Peterson prepared found just a trace of the medication they should have contained, police said.
Peterson, 45, was arrested in August, several days after being suspended from Hazleton-St. Joseph Medical Center.
The Pennsylvania Medical Board is deciding whether to suspend or permanently revoke his license, which expired in December, said representative David Hixson. Peterson has already lost privileges to practice medicine in West Virginia and Ohio.
Mexican official, drug lord ties hinder war on drugs
WASHINGTON — Administration officials acknowledged yesterday that just-revealed ties between Mexico's ousted anti-drug chief and narcotics kingpin hinder the fight against drugs, a battle President Clinton plans to spend $16 billion waging next year.
But the arrest last week of Mexico's newly installed anti-drug official, Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, because of his links to a major drug trafficker "belied previous assumptions that corruption was largely limited to the police," said Robert Gelbard, assistant secretary of state for narcotics affairs.
By March 1, the administration must certify whether foreign governments are cooperating fully in the war against drugs. If they are decertified, some of their foreign aid will be withheld, and in the case of a close neighbor like Mexico, that could lead to an uproar there.
But Gelbard interspersed his criticism of Mexico's corruption with praise for President Ernesto Zedillo's quick action in firing the anti-drug leader.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike are urging the president to decertify Mexico to demonstrate U.S. impatience with the lack of cooperation in the drug war.
Senate votes to release family-planning money
WASHINGTON — The administration scored a major success for its international family-planning policy yesterday when the Senate voted to release funds without imposing new restrictions on groups involved in abortion activities.
The 53-46 vote in the Senate guaranteed that on March 1 the government can begin releasing $385 million slated for overseas family planning. Previously that money had been frozen until July 1
Advocates of family planning estimate that a 35 percent cut in the planning budget since fiscal 1995 has resulted in 2 million more abortions worldwide, and that premise appeared to convince some strong anti-abortion lawmakers.
Eleven Republicans joined 42 Senate Democrats in supporting the administration bill. The House approved the measure on Feb. 13 with a vote of 220-209, and Senate passage sent it to Clinton for his signature.
Miles from his home town of Iola, Dave Toland works as an intern in Washington, D.C.'s defender service. In a metropolis known for violent crimes, Toland has learned that even those who seem guilty deserve a fair chance in court.
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IN SEARCH OF JUSTICE
Dave Toland, Iola sophomore, spends much time investigating crimes in the crime-ridden northwest side of Washington, D.C. Toland is an intern in the office of the city's defender service.
WASHINGTON —The shooting death of a Washington, D.C., police officer Feb. 5 called a community to action and Dave Toland to Superior Court.
As he drove to work that morning, Toland, lola sophomore and an intern for the city's defender service, had wondered how he would investigate such a high-profile case.
Toland, who had been working in the city for only a few weeks, had been assigned to investigate a crime that shocked Washington, a place often numb to frequent blood-shed. The slain officer was the 46th homicide victim in the city this year.
When he arrived at the courthouse, he found out.
cameras in Gibson, 27, was killed while he sat in his patrol car at a red light on the corner of Georgia Avenue N.W. and Missouri Street. Police said Dean, the accused man, had been bounced from Ibex nightclub, 5832 Georgia Avenue N.W. Police said he walked down the street, took a gun from a car, approached Gibson's car and shot him through the driver-side window.
Story and Photos by Nicole Kennedy
The shooting occurred at 3 a.m. Gibson was pronounced dead at 5:52 a.m. at Washington Center Hospital.
In the following days, vigils were held; his patrol car, draped in black cloth, was parked in front of the fourth district police department where he had worked; and outraged community members discussed the city's crime problem. U.S. senators proposed a bill that would make killing a Washington police officer a federal crime.
Dean pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Feb. 6.
The judge called the crime cowardly and
"The judge got up on her bully pulpit and just dragged him through the mud," Toland said. "She had already made up her mind that this guy was guilty."
Toland's client, Marthell Nathaniel Dean, 23, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Brian T. Gibson, a six-year veteran of the police force.
told Dean that she could not let him back on the streets. Gibson's fellow officers cheered in the courtroom.
After the arraignment, Toland and the attorney he works for, Claudia Crichlow, were bombarded by reporters. Television camera crews were staked out in front of the courthouse.
101and and Crichlow sneaked out the back.
Toland spent 10 days investigating Gibson's death before Crichlow removed herself from the case for personal reasons.
Self-discovery is part of the ioh
Toland is sure he wants to study law. He said it was in his blood — his father is an attorney, and there is a federal judge in the family.
Although Toland said he may not want to work in public defense after law school, he has a new respect for those who do.
This semester, Toland works with 75 attorneys and 60 investigators. These attorneys come from high-caliber law schools to work 60 hours a week for a $30,000 paycheck, he said.
"They have a dedication to legal defense that is truly amazing," he said.
Confronted with the workaday world, students examine their career objectives, Loomis said.
burdett Loomis, director of the political science department's Washington, D.C., internship program, said that what Toland was discovering in his work was what the internships were about.
"I honestly think that self-revelation is the biggest part of the internship," he said. Students also work as interns for senators' and representatives' offices on Capitol Hill, at the White House, with interest groups, in press offices or for news networks.
Toland is one of 18 inters working in Washington through KU's program.
See TOLAND, Page 5A
Rapist poses as magazine peddler
Woman assaulted after inviting man in
By Kevin Bates Kansan staff writer
A 25-year-old Lawrence woman was raped around 6:30 p.m. yesterday in her apartment in the 800 block of Michigan Street., Lawrence police said.
Police said the woman was approached as she was stepping out of her car in the parking lot next to her apartment by a man who said he was selling magazines. The man began a casual conversation with the woman about the magazines and they went into the woman's apartment.
Police said that the woman and man spent about an hour talking inside the woman's apartment before the rape occurred. The man left immediately after, and the woman called a friend, who took her to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
The man was approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall and 170 pounds, police said. He had shoulder-length blond hair worn in dread-
Sgt. Susan Hall said that all solicitors in Lawrence must have a license issued by the city and that anyone approached by a solicitor can ask to see the license.
The man told the woman he was selling magazines to go on a trip to Amsterdam, police said.
iocks, tan skin, blue eyes and a muscular build. He was wearing a gray-white t-shirt with curvature writing on the front, tpleated pants and black hiking boots.
"College women are in much more danger of being raped by a friend or a friend of a friend than by a stranger, but it doesn't mean that it never happens," Lee said.
Lee said that rape is the most prevalent, violent crime on college campuses and also one of the most underreported crimes. She said that about 25 percent of all college women have been the victim of sexual assault.
Rachel Lee, graduate assistant at the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said that while about 90 percent of rapes are by acquaintances, women should still be aware when around someone they don't know.
Trust your instincts." Lee said. "If you feel threatened by an acquaintance or by a stranger, don't hesitate to get out of the situation."
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Candidate's web page altered by a hacker
By Mark McMaster
Kansan staff reporter
Former Lawrence city commission candidate Bob Cutler learned an embarrassing lesson in Internet security on Monday, unintentionally angering many students.
Cutler's web page, which he used to promote his candidacy, was altered by an unauthorized user sometime during the last week, he said.
The content of the page was erased and replaced with a criticism of the Lawrence community.
At the same time, someone helping Cutler with his campaign sent a promotional mailing to a number of Lawrence residents, including many KU students, via e-mail.
Bryce Walter, Overland Park senior, was annoyed by the unsolicited mailing and decided to investigate its source, the e-mail address corn@idir.net, which belongs to Cutler.
Walter then found Cutler's web page, http://www.idir.net/-corr/, which already had been altered, and was shocked by what he saw.
Seeing the page further angered Walter, who assumed it was created by Cutler. Walter copied the text of the page and mailed it to the recipients of the first message sent to him.
The message on the page, which contained expletives and misspellings, complained that how the "tiny town" of Lawrence "just makes me sick" and is full of fools, "heelbent on spreading gossip, rumores , lies and deceit, rather than creating anything of real value artistically, socially, culturally, or musically."
"I did kick up some dirt about it, but I was taken aback when I saw stuff like that up on their web page," Walter said.
Some students who received Walter's emails responded, saying that they were also offended by the web page. Cutler, who on Monday discovered the page had been altered, said that the situation was embarrassing for him.
"I would certainly never put a rant like that up on the Web page, running for public office," he said. "I'm a little bit smarter than that."
The web page since has added a disclaimer stating that the content which had appeared earlier was "the work of someone who had the obvious intention of slandering Bob's name."
Cutler suspects that someone with access to his password, which he did not keep private, used it to gain access to his account and alter the page.
"I have several computer-geek friends," he said. "I have no idea what their motives would be. It was probably someone in the music scene, because a number of references were made to that."
Bryan Andregg, a representative of Internet Direct Communications, the Internet service provider used by Cutler, said that the unauthorized user could not be identified because he logged onto the system as Cutler. This was the first time the company had a problem with web page security, Andregg said.
Despite the negative publicity, Cutler said that the the incident might accomplish some good.
"If students actually went to the web page, and if they were shocked, perhaps it will bring a few of them into what's going on in Lawrence politically," he said. "That's sort of what my campaign has been about."
he said he didn't think it seriously affected his chances of winning yesterday's election.
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