Four Wounded in Shooting WASHINGTON (AP)—A Gunman Opened Fire on a Crowd of Students Outside a District of Columbia High School Thursday, Wounding Four, Police Said
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The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 Vol. XCII No. 64 The University of Connecticut Friday, January 27,1989 Four wounded in shooting WASHINGTON (AP)—A gunman opened fire on a crowd of students outside a District of Columbia high school Thursday, wounding four, police said. The incident apparently erupted because of a dispute earlier in the day. One witness said the man "knew where he wanted to shoot, and then he just started shooting at random." Police said the assailant seemed to have targeted the students involved. There were no immediate arrests, but authorities were said to be searching for three men. The shooting "seemed to be the result of an altercation that had taken place earlier in the day," said Capt. Robert L. Gales of the District of Columbia police. School system spokesman Charles Seigel said two "outsiders" entered the school about noon and were involved in a "verbal altercation" with students. The students agreed to fight after school, Seigel said, and were on their way to the site when the shootings occurred. "Students here are obviously very upset," he said "Obviously we're shocked." When asked if any of the victims knew the assailants. Gales said, "I think some of the victims know who was involved." The shootings at Wilson High School in affluent northwest Washington occurred about 2:30 p.m., moments after the students were dismissed for the day. None of the injuries was thought to be Robert Sorgel and Brain Peck take time out of their busy schedules to tahfc in life-threatening, although police said at least one of the victims front of Alumni Quad (Dena Levenson photo). was seriously injured. Doug Hill, a weatherman for WUSA-TV, said he was driving in front of the school when he heard what he believed was automatic Guerrillas may participate gunfire and screams as the students dove for cover. "I was in my car right in the middle of the high school students and there was enough panic that they were running to my car to get in El Salvador elections away," Hill said. "When the gunfire stopped and I looked up... SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP)—A can Nationalist Alliance, or Arena, rejected the there were a dozen or two dozen kids crouching down on the ground leftist coalition on Thursday accused the govern- rebel proposal as unconstitutional. looking for cover." ment of hiding behind the constitution to prevent The constitution says presidential elections Hill said about 200 to 250 students were outside the building. the Marxist-led guerrilla movement from taking must be held no later than two months before the Stacy Karageorgo, age 15, a sophomore at Wilson High School, part in the March presidential election. end of the five-year presidential term. Duarte's said she was looking out a window of the school when she saw a "This is the moment for the political parties to term ends June 1. man with a gun climb out of a dark-colored jeep. demonstrate whether they want peace or bones," 'The constitutional problem involved by some "He stood out of the jeep and aimed first. He knew where he Guillermo Ungo, presidential candidate of the seems to us no more than a pretext to prolong wanted to shoot, and then he just started shooting randomly," she Leftist Democratic Convergence, told a news the war and impede the advent of peace," the said. conference. Democratic Convergence said in a communique. She said school was dismissed at 2:15 p.m. and the shooting The guerrillas, who have been fighting the Ungo and Ruban Zamora, another Democratic occurred shortly afterwards. Students have been going through U.S.-backed government for nine years, offered Convergence leader, presented a constitutional midterm exams. Tuesday to take part in elections if certain condi- solution to the election quandry. It was not immediately clear how many assailants were involved. tions were met. The rebels previously have boy- "The problem is not constitutional, it is one of Police indicated there was one gunman, but Miss Karagcorgos said cotted all five elections held in this decade. lack of political will," said Zamora. there were other people in the jeep. She said it had sped away after The insurgents' proposal dropped their long- Convergence members said parties contesting the shot were fired. standing insistence on sharing power in a transi- •he elections could force a postponement by A student identified as Miriam Kenyon said she saw an armed tional government, the major stumbling block in withdrawing from March balloting. man flee the scene. three rounds of unsuccessful peace talks between "The constitution exists to serve the people, as The shootings came a week after a shooting incident outside a 1984 and 1987. an instrument providing for peace and coexis- school in Stockton, Calif., in which five children were killed. The guerrillas main condition for participation tence_not to impede peace and coexistence," said In the California shootings, a young drifter wearing combat was postponement of presidential elections from Ungo. fatigues opened fire Jan. 17 with an assault rifle at children in an March 19 to September. Zamora said the Christian Democrats and elementary school yard. Five children were killed and 30 people President Jose Napoleon Duarte, a Christian rightists (are using the constitution as a skirt to were wounded before the gunman shot himself to death Democrat, and the tightest opposition Republi- hide behind." TODAY IN Army and civilians stop Arab uprising THE DAILY CAMPUS JERUSALEM (AP)- Army Thursday, soldiers shot and bomb attack in September. demolished or sealed during the FEATURES troops razed or sealed seven wounded 12 youths in clashes The two-story house razed there uprising. This weekend will mark Palestinian houses Thursday to with stone-throwers and shut belonged to Mohammed Last week, officials the third anniversary of ry to quell the Arab uprising, down tow schools where rocks Haloub, who has had one son announced that house the challenger disaster ind Jewish settlers said they were thrown, Arab reporters deported during the 13-month demolitions previously used for and the residents of vould punish stone-throwers and hospital officials said. Palestinian uprising and three firebomb suspects-could now Concord New Hampshire hemselves because the army The army said it had reports other sons jailed, Arab reports be directed against suspects in remember one of its vasn't doing its job. of four shooting injuries in said. stone-throwing attacks that most famous, Christa "We are not satisfied with Gaza and the West Bank city caused damage or injury. The United Stales and human McAuliffe. Page 8 he security situation, even of Nablus, and was checking rights organizations have criti- The move was included in with the new decisions," said other reports. cized such house destructions, measures introduced in a re- SPORTS settler official Uri Ariel, It also reported troops saying they violate interna- newed effort to stop the Senior Dan Donigan has referring to the army's tough, demolished five houses in the tional law because the suspects "infadeh," the Arabic word for been named adidas player new policy that includes firing West Bank that belonged to ire not tried. "uprising" that is used for the of the year. plastic bullets at fleeing rioters families of Palestinian suspects Israeli officials maintain that revolt against Israel's occu- See back page or protesters blocking roads. in firebomb attacks on Israeli nouse demolitions are legal. pation of the West Bank and INDEX Elyakim Haetzni, another cars or soldiers. They are carried out under Gaza Strip. Arts pages 9.12,13 settler leader, said settlers Four homes were bulldozed emergency laws adopted by the At least 369 Palestinians would begin making their own in the village of Aqraba, one the British rulers of mandatory have been killed in the Comics page 16,17 arrests of Palestinians and was blown up in Tulkarem, Palestine in 1945 when Jews rebellion, most by army Classifieds pages 15-17 might shoot at those who and one house also was sealed were fighting for the right to gunfire. Fifteen Israelis also Editorials pages 19-11 stone Jewish cars in the in each of the two places an establish their own state. have died. Features pages 6-8 occupied West Bank and Gaza army spokeswoman said. An army official said The growing casualty rate News pages 1-5 Strip. In Tulkarem, she said, two Wednesday that more that 200 Sports pages 14,18-20 In the occupied lands soldiers were would in a fire- Palestinian homes have been See Page 5 Around the World South African judge Accountant turned vagrant Could cost $600 million may face impeachment reappears 10 years later to shut down Yankee SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP)—Theft charges have been nuclear power plant JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP)—A dropped against a former Syracuse accountant who member of Parliament said Thursday she will seek the MONTPELIER, VL (AP) - An attempt by th estate turned up last year as a vagrant in Miami after being to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant impeachment of a judge for his lenient treatment of a missing for ten years. white farmer who tied a black man to a tree and beat would send Vermont into uncharted legal territory and Onondaga County Court Judge William J. 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