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CRIME NOTES
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Car goes postal
WHERE: Hill Street Car-
port
WHEN: Wednesday at
11:20 a.m.
WHAT: A vehicle hit a post
in the parking structure
on its way out, University
Police reported. The car
was eventually towed away.
Can you hear
me in jail?
WHERE: Molecular &
Behavioral Neuroscience
Institute
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 2:40 p.m.
WHAT: A staff member
reported her cell phone
was taken from her office,
University Police reorted.
A 45-year-old person not
affiliated with the Univer-
sity later was arrested and
Where's wallet? Relaxation
WHERE: Thomas Francis
Jr. Building
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 3:05 p.m.
WHAT: A staff member
reported her wallet was
stolen from her unattended
purse, University Police
reported. A possible suspect
was identified, but could not
be located.
Chaaaarge
WHERE: 1700 block of
Cram Circle
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 4:30 p.m.
WHAT: A student was
walking on the sidewalk
when a man stole his cell-
phone from out of his hands
and jumped into a waiting
black Dodge Charger, Uni-
versity Police reported.The
workshop
WHAT: A seminar to teach
participants techniques to
reduce stress, such as deep
muscle relaxation and deep
breathing.
WHO: Counseling and Pys-
chological Services
WHEN: Today at noon
WHERE: Michigan Union,
room 3100
Dance show
WHAT: A performance by
Maya, a South Asian dance
troupe. This is the group's
7th annual show and will
feature 10 pieces. The
Friars, a campus a capella
group, and Awkward Pause,
an improv group will also
participate. Student tickets
cost $7 at the door.
WHO: Maya Dance Team
WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m
WHERE: Mendelssohn
Theatre
Addiction
lecture
WHAT: A lecture featuring
members of the Substance
Abuse Research Center fol-
lowed by a reception.
WHO: University Substance
Abuse Research Center
WHEN: Toady at 2 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham Gradu-
ate School, Assembly Hall
Student play
WHAT: "Cloud Nine," a
drama about sexual identity
and politics through the eyes
of a family will be perormed.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m
WHERE: Walgreen Drama
Center
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A woman traveling on an
international flight on
March 23 gave birth to
her baby onboard with help
from passengers and a flight
attendent, New York Daily
News reported. Helpers used
supplies on board to success-
fully deliver the baby.
Columnists Joel Bat-
terman and Leah Pot-
kin share their final
columns of the semester.
Learn to enage with others,
and how to get along with
them in close quarters.
>> FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4
3 Recent studies show
that feeling good
can actually lead to
increased gullibility, self-
ishness and make you less
successful, The Washington
Post reported. One scientist
claims too much happiness
can actually be a bad thing.
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Ban Ki-moon warns that
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crisis in Syria is worsening
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U.N. chief appeals
to Assad to stop the
violence
UNITED NATIONS (AP)
- Secretary-General Ban Ki-
moon said yesterday the crisis
in Syria is getting worse and
claiming more lives every day
even though President Bashar
Assad's government insists it is
withdrawing troops ahead of
a U.N. deadline to end the vio-
lence.
The U.N. chief appealed to
Assad "to show vision and lead-
ership" and keep his pledge to
pull troops and heavy weapons
out of cities and towns by April
10, and he urged the opposition
to be ready to stop all violence
if the Syrian government meets
the deadline.
"Cities, towns and villages
have been turned into war
zones. The sources of violence
are proliferating," Ban told the
U.N. General Assembly. "The
human rights of the Syrian peo-
ple continue to be violated....
Humanitarian needs are grow-
ing dramatically."
His comments came as activ-
ists reported that Syrian troops
attacked the Damascus suburb
of Douma, an assault they said
shows that Assad is intensify-
ing violence in the days before
the April 10 deadline. His crack-
down on the yearlong uprising
has left at least 9,000 people
dead, according to the U.N.
Earlier yesterday, a U.N.
team arrived in Damascus to
start technical preparations
for the possible deployment of
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U.N. monitors for any cease-fire
between Syrian troops and rebel
forces.
Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab
League envoy trying to end the
conflict, said Syria has informed
him of partial withdrawals from
three locations - Idlib, Zabada-
ni and Daraa - "but it is clear
that more far-reaching action is
urgently required."
"We must silence the tanks,
helicopters, mortars and guns,
and stop all other forms of vio-
lence too: sexual abuse, tor-
ture, executions, abductions,
destruction of homes, forced
displacement, and other such
abuses, including on children,"
he said.
Annan and Ban spoke to the
General Assembly minutes after
the U.N. Security Council called
on Syria to "urgently and vis-
ibly" fulfill its pledge to halt the
use of troops and weapons by
April 10. It called on the govern-
ment and opposition to stop all
violence within 48 hours if Syria
meets the pullout deadline.
The presidential statement
raised the possibility of "further
steps" if Syria doesn't imple-
ment the six-point peace plan
outlined by Annan, which Assad
agreed to on March 25.
The statement called on all
parties, including the opposi-
tion, to stop armed violence in
all forms in 48 hours after the
Syrian government fully fulfills
the measures.
"All points of the plan are
crucial, but one is most urgent:
the need for a cessation of vio-
lence," Annan told diplomats
from the 193 U.N. member states
by videoconference from Gene-
va. "Clearly, the violence is still
continuing. Alarming levels
of casualties and other abuses
continue to be reported daily.
Military operations in civil-
ian population centers have not
stopped."
Ban said despite the Syr-
ian government's acceptance of
Annan's plan, "the violence and
assaults in civilian areas have
not stopped."
Area resident Gary Crawford, center, and others wait for an auction of Buford, Wyo., yesterday in Buford.
Wyoming towu with single
resident sold for $900,000
Smallest town
in the country
auctioned off
BUFORD, Wyo. (AP) -
Buford is a small place for sure,
but so is the world.
A remote, unincorporated
area alongbusyInterstate 80 that
advertised itself as the smallest
town in the United States, Buford
was sold at auction for $900,000
on yesterday to an unidentified
man from Vietnam.
It's owner for the last 20
years, Don Sammons, served
with the U.S. Army as a radio
operator in 1968-69.
After meeting the buyer, an
emotional Sammons said it was
hard for him to grasp the irony
of the situation.
"I think it's funny how things
come full circle," he said.
The buyer attended the auc-
tion in person but declined to
meet with the media or to be
identified. Sammons and others
involved in the auction would
not discuss the buyer's plans
for Buford.
It will take about 30 days for
all the paperwork to be com-
pleted before ownership of the
place located almost equidis-
tant between Cheyenne and
Laramie in southeast Wyoming
changes hands, Sammons said.
The new owner will get a gas
station and convenience store,
a schoolhouse from 1905, a
cabin, a garage, 10 acres, and a
three-bedroom home at 8,000
feet altitude - overlooking the
trucks and cars on the nearby
interstate on one side and the
distant snowcapped mountains
in Rocky Mountain National
Park in Colorado on the other.
The town traces its origins
to the 1860s and the construc-
tion of the Transcontinental
Railroad. Buford had as many
as 2,000 residents before the
railroad was rerouted.
Sammons, who moved to the
Buford area in the late 1970s
from Los Angeles to get away
from the busy city life, bought
the trading post on Jan. 31,
1992. He plans to retire from
his unofficial title as "mayor"
and write a book about his
experiences in Buford, he said.
"I felt my time here has been
very happy for me, and hope-
fully the new owner will be able
to enjoy what I've enjoyed over
the years - conversations with
people, the uniqueness of the
area and so on - and keep the
history alive," Sammons said.
As workers boarded up the
windows of the convenience
store behind her, Rozetta
Weston, a broker with a Chey-
enne real estate auction compa-
ny that represented the buyer,
said the buyer was excited to
own a "piece of the United
States." But she declined to dis-
cuss the buyer's future plans
for Buford.
Weston said the buyer and a
companion arrived in Wyoming
- their first trip to the United
States - on Monday, touring
Cheyenne and the University of
Wyoming at Laramie before the
auction.
Williams & Williams Co.
of Tulsa, Okla., conducted the
auction on a sunny, windy day
outside the trading post, which
has been closed since Dec. 31.
The number of bidders was not
released.
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