The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 75, No. 55, Ed. 1 Friday, November 2, 1990 Page: 1 of 14
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posite drawing of a man they believed
to have been in the area after the
abduction.
He is believed to be a white male 5
feet 6 inches tall with light brown,
over-the-collar hair.
The witness is 18 to 20 years old
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The Norman Police Department
Thursday released a composite draw-
ing of a man they believe is responsi-
ble for the abduction and assault of a
10-year-old Norman boy Oct. 22.
The latest drawing “strongly resem-
bles” an earlier “witness composite”
of a man seen near the crime scene
the day of the attack, Lt. Leonard
Judy said
However police are not convinced
the composites are the same man.
The suspect and the potential wit-
ness wore different colored shirts, a
related report said.
The witness composite had an ear-
ring while the suspect picture does
not.
Also, a man and a boy noticed the
witness at a time that would not lend
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
ORLANDO, Fla. - President Bush sharply at-
tacked Saddam Hussein from the campaign trail on
Thursday, saying that Iraqi brutalities in the Persian
Gulf rivaled those under Adolf Hitler and pledging
anew to “see his aggression turned back."
“I don’t think the status quo can go on forever,”
Bush said. “I don’t know how long is long enough"
to depend on sanctions alone to force Iraq’s with-
drawal from Kuwait.
Bush said, “I’m not trying to sound the tocsin of
war.” His spokesman said the president was speak-
ing out “to prepare the American people for any
eventuality.”
Marlin Fitzwater said, “If we do have to take
NATION:
McDonalds dumping plastic
CHICAGO (AP) - The plastic foam boxes
that cradle millions of Big Macs and other sand-
wiches - boxes an environmentalist called “a
huge symbol of the throwaway society” - are be-
ing eliminated, McDonald’s said Thursday.
Under pressure from environmental groups,
which say the clamshell boxes add to the nation s
overflowing garbage crisis, McDonald Corp.
President Edward Rensi said the company had
decided “to do what’s right.”
“Although some scientific studies indicate
that foam packaging is environmentally sound,
our customers just don’t feel good about it,
Rensi said in a telephone interview from the com-
pany’s suburban Oak Brook headquarters. So
we’re changing.”
A number of U.S. towns and cities have
banned the use of polystyrene, saying it not only
contributes to the growing shortage of landfill
space, but also is made with chemicals that harm
the atmosphere’s protective ozone layer.
Arkansas official convicted
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - State Attorney
General Steven Clark was convicted Thursday of
abusing his expense privileges.
“Obviously, I’m very disappointed,” Clark
said after the verdict was announced. “As I’ve
said all along, it was never my intention to de-
fraud or deceive.”
Judge Perry Whitmore fined Clark $10,000
but did not sentence him to jail, which Clark’s
lawyer said would be a death sentence for Ar-
kansas’ top legal official.
The corruption trial went to the jury earlier
in the day after a prosecutor compared the attor-
ney general’s ambitions to a runaway train fu-
eled by state money.
“The General was feeding that train. And as
he was feeding that train, to keep his gubernato-
rial campaign alive, he’d throw coal in. That
coal is your money,” prosecutor Chris Piazza told
jurors in closing arguments.
WEATHER:
Gusty and warm
Today: Partly cloudy. Windy and warm with
a high in the upper 70s. South wind 20 to 30 mph
and gusty. Tonight: Mild with a 20 percent
chance of a thunderstorm. Low in the lower 60s.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy and not as warm with
a 60 percent chance of thunderstorms. High
around 70.
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This is the newly-released composite drawing of the man police believe Is responsible
for assaulting the Kennedy Elementary School student Oct. 22.
“We had to move slowly with the
boy on the suspect drawing because he
tired easily as he recovered from his
injuries,” Judy said. “But we got to-
day’s (Thursday) picture in one sitting;
we believe it matches with his earlier
remarks.”
On Oct. 24, police released a com-
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By Andrea DiCastro__
STAFF REPORTER
The Allenhurst Neighborhood
Watch Association annual meeting
usually attracts about 15 people, but
Thursday night’s attendance was al-
most quadruple that number.
Since the Oct. 22 attack of the Ken-
nedy Elementary School boy, the in-
terest in the neighborhood watch pro-
gram has grown enormously,
Allenhurst co-chair Jayna Walker
said. “The main purpose of this meet-
ing is to promote the start-up of the
neighborhood watch program,” Allen-
hurst told the group.
The purpose of a neighborhood
watch is to limit the opportunity for
people to become victims, she said.
“Individuals are always looking for
a victim,” said Lt. Dean Vassilakos of
the Norman Police Department. “You
don’t need to be overly afraid, (but)
just be aware of what is going on
around you.”
When the opportunity for victimiza-
tion is denied, the individual will move
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downplays
changes
By Jonathan Nicholson________
ADMINISTRATION REPORTER
Proposed changes in the university
structure will not be noticeable to stu-
dents, faculty or even college deans,
said OU President Richard Van Horn.
Also, they may not require OU Board
of Regents approval.
“Don’t expect highly visible or sig-
nificant changes,” Van Horn said. “1
think the changes are very small. I
think they will have a long-run
impact.”
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ing changes, including making area
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chief administrative officer, although
the HSC’s vice president for adminis-
trative affairs also can report to Van
Hom.
While Van Horn did not disclose
specifics, he said most of the changes
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up the decision-making process.
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vost sent out the letter setting guide-
lines for the Fiscal Year 1991-92 bud-
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1 some colleagues brought back from the
national meeting of the Society for Profes-
sional Journalists in Louisville.
During a seminar on “Conflicts of Inter-
est: Where do journalists draw the line?,”
the panel was asked about the ethics of
running front-page editorials.
Felix Wintemitz, editorial director for
Cincinnati Magazine and a member of the
panel, expressed surprise that anyone still
ran these archaic opinion pieces and asked
who still does. The person asking the ques-
tion said, “The Daily Oklahoman.”
“Then I’d say they’re pretty crummy
journalists,” Winternitz replied.
And Edward L. Gaylord’s paper has been
doing everything it can of late to live up to
its reputation for slanted coverage.
Negative article after negative article
about David Walters graces the front page,
no matter how minor the story, while the
relatively few critical articles about oppo-
nent Bill Price are buried. These editorial
decisions, while not a reflection on the
writers of the stories, cast aspersions on
The Oklahoman’s own reporters because of
the stories’ placement.
However, the biggest reason The Daily
Oklahoman has hurt its credibility is that
it runs editorials like this on the front
page; be it on their front page or ours,
editorials don’t belong there.
The practice makes the entire newspaper
look biased. Not every employee of the Ok-
lahoma Publishing Co. subscribes to its
editorial philosophy, but their work suffers
by the suspicion of prejudice that those
front-page editorials cast upon their work.
Besides, opinion and editorial comment
should be reserved for the editorial page —
that’s why it was created. The front page is
a place for news and the space on it is too
precious to waste with mere opinion.
Scott Schuldt
Editor-m-Chief
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The victim, who is listed in stable
as being of heavy build in his late
teens to late 20s.
He told police the man is of medi-
um height with dark, over-the-collar
length hair.
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would be to make the campus organ.- during the attack which criti.
cally injured the Kennedy Elementary
fourth-grader, a related report said.
The assailant had asked the boy to
as leading more toward a “matrix” or- help him look for a lost dog as the boy
ganization, wherein a division head walked home through the Colonial Es-
would report to different people de- tates Park, Judy said.
Volunteers found the boy about
8:30 p.m. He had sustained a punc-
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genitals'and a concussion.
Thursday’s composite remains con-
sistent with the boy’s tentative de-
scription of the assailant.
ceming the pending crisis in the gulf, he should
transmit that information from the White House,
not from the campaign trail,” Obey said.
The president told reporters at a late-afternoon
news conference, “I want to have a peaceful resolu-
tion” to the Gulf crisis. He said: “I am not ruling
out further options, and I am not trying to prepare
our country for war.”
Earlier, in Mashpee, Mass., Bush said Saddam s
tactic of using American civilians as “human
shields” against attacks on military targets was
“brutality that I don’t believe Adolf Hitler ever
participated in.”
Asked at a Florida news conference whether his
comparison might be overdrawn, the president re-
plied, “I don’t think I’m overstating it."
growing impatient with Iraq
dramatic action, we want them to know why.”
Bush spent his day campaigning from Massachu-
setts to Florida to Ohio for Republican candidates
in next week’s elections.
At his news conference in Orlando, Bush said it
was a “little bit awkward because we are a few days
before an election and I want to continue to work
for Republican candidates.”
At the same time, he sa;d he wanted to keep the
An erican people informed about his feelings in the
Persian Gulf, where more than 200,000 American
forces are deployed.
“If the president wants politics to end at the
water’s edge, he has an obligation to leave events
beyond the water’s edge out of campaign politics,”
sail Rep. David Obey, D-Wis.
“If the president has important information con-
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