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Show L r - ; ! A4 THE DAILY HERALD (wwwieraldextra.com) TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 2000 CIC" Tragedy hits again with Littleton deaths 'V LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) Two Columbine High sweethearts were found dead early Monday after a shooting at a sandwich shop within sight of their school compounding the heartbreak in the community that suffered the worst school shooting in US. history. The bodies of Nicholas Kunselman, 15, and Stephanie Hart, 16, were discovered inside the Subway shop where worked. Kunselman disclose not did a Investigators motive but ruled out murder-suicid- Romania passes 1 BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) Romania said Monday it would not pay compensation to any other by a cyanide spill that a spill contaminated two rivers in that one States United the rivaling cost $170 million to clean up. e;' Romania said it, too, suffered damage when a dam at the Australian-- . owned Baia Mare gold mine in northwest Romania overflowed Jan. 30, sending cyanide pouring into streams that eventually carried the poison west into Hungary ftnd Yugoslavia. "Romania had to suffer the most damage from the polluting company and thus it is entitled to get compen- sation, as Hungary and Yugoslavia are," said Gabriel Dumitrascu of the Romanian Ministry of Environment. coun-tryaffect- e. ; Flag plan introduced Gov. Jim COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Hodges introduced his plan Monday for moving the Confederate flag from the Statehouse dome, saying it should be placed at a Confederate monument on the Capitol's grounds. "It is clear that an overwhelming majority of South Carolinians want to bring closure to this issue," Hodges told reporters. Even before the announcement, the South Carolina Council of Conservative Citizens called Hodges a liar, saying he promised during his campaign that he would stay neutral on the issue. Only the Legislature can remove the flag from the dome. Jefferson County sheriffs spokesman, Steve Davis said the cause of death had not been determined, and he said he did not know whether a weapon had been found. Investigators were reviewing a videotape from a surveillance camera inside the restaurant. 1 hope it was just a robbery" said one of Kunselman's J.J. Hodack, 22. Tve had more than enough of this. This stuff needs to stop." The shooting was the latest in a string of tragedies that have hit the Denver suburb since" teen-aggunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold e killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine on April 20 and then committed suicide. Classes remained in session Monday, but at least 100 stu- dents stayed away. Students said some of those who did attend could be seen crying in the hallways. At least 25 counselors were kept busy most of the day, said Betty Fitzpatrick, health services director for the school district. "It reminds me of everything. It's just like flashbacks," said Nathan Vanderau, an senior who knew some of the victims of last year's shooting as well as Monday's victims and is in counseling. but had won the manager's confidence and often was assigned to close the restaurant at 10 p.m., Hodack said. "Obviously, our boss trusted him.- He's a good worker," he Among the other incidents that have added to the unease in the community: In October, the mother of a student partially paralyzed in the massacre shot herself to death. On Feb. 1, the body of an 1 boy was found in a trash bin within blocks of the school. No arrests have been made. Last week, a Florida man pleaded guilty in Denver to sending a Columbine student an Internet message threatening to finish the massacre. The threat prompted officials to close the school for the Christmas holidays two days early. He faces up to five years in prison. Friends said Hart enjoyed sports but was quiet and didn't go out much except to stop by the sub shop to see Kunselman. He had worked at the sub shop for only a month eete - said. A Subway employee driving past the store noticed a light inside the store about 1 a.m. Since the business was supposed to be closed, the woman stopped, went inside and discovered the bodies. As investigators worked inside the shop about two blocks from the high school, Columbine students and relatives of the victims gathered in the parking lot, placing bouquets just outside police lines. They also wrote chalk memorial messages. "Every week, there's something that happens here," said Daniel Baker, who brought three friends to deliver flowers. "This is supposed to be a nor SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Talking tougher, Bill Bradley accused Al Gore Non Monday of employing "scare tactics" to discredit his health care plan and said the vice president's leadership on the environment has been little more than "window dressing." Gore, a continent away, focused on education and black voters. He promoted his ideas for college tuition help in Rochester, N.Y., then headed to Brooklyn to address students at pMedgar Evers College, named for the slain civil rights leader. In San Francisco, Bradley called Gore's latest charges against his "the worst use j health care proposals f of scare tactics I've seen in years." V; . . Clinton supports bill WASHINGTON (AP) Jumping on la politically popular cause, President I Clinton said Monday he would sign a ', Republican bill to repeal the Social t Security earnings limit for hundreds of thousands of Americans aged j "It's the right thing to do, let's just do it," Clinton said. House J Republicans already were introducing a repeal bill and promised to put it on J a fast track for a vote, likely in March. 65-7- 0. Party 'shattered' WASHINGTON (AP) .: ;' ; ; ' . y Crash inspection finishing up p four-yea- WASHINGTON (AP) Suspect parts removed from the tail sections of several MD-8series airplanes were in government hands Monday as the urgent inspection program for the planes wound dov The jackscrews used to move the stabilizers were replaced in a number of planes after inspections revealed grit or metal shavings in their lubri- cant, Federal Aviation Administration .officials said. ' The Associated Press Big rock: The asteroid Eros is shown in a photo taken by the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft 1,609 miles WASHINGTON (AP) It promising new immunother- started with symptoms that Michael Locher just couldn't shake. Then an lump ballooned on his jaw, and his doctor knew the New York man was a victim of the nation's baffling rise in lymphoma. Even as many other types of flu-lik- e egg-shape- d cancer have leveled off or even this "mysterious dropped, immune-systecancer has been making a. stealthy but astounding rise; rates have nearly doubled since the 1970s. Is diet to blame? Pesticides? ' Air Viruses? pollution? Obesity? Nobody knows. Cancer experts are launching major studies worldwide to find what's behind this cancer's march. But there is good news: Doctors are testing highly apies for the worst type, lymphoma. They include a potent but still "monoclonal experimental non-Hodgki- antibody" called Bexxar that carries radiation straight to cancer cells to zap them without hurting healthy tissue. "This is just amazing," said Locher, a New York City Transit Authority engineer whose tumors vanished last fall after he took Bexxar in a medical experiment. "The results have looked very, very promising," says Dr. Wyndham Wilson of the National Cancer Institute. "What's even more exciting is that there are now a whole number of different rnono- clonal antibodies coming forward" to attack numerous varieties of lymphoma. love you," outside the shop. She said Hart was not at Columbine the day of lat year's shooting. 3 A school spokesman confirmed both victims attended Columbine last year but did not Know il eitner was mere when the massacre occurred." News of another shooting in Littleton resonated in the Statehouse in Denver, wheije the House debated gun restrictions that were drafted in part because of the Columbine massacre. , "It's horrifying to me," sail House Minority Leader Ken sored some of the who snon -I "We are not getting measures. it done. We are not protecting the people of the state." away!' we are ever called on to deflect one coming at the . Earth," said NASA's Carl Pilchet Although Eros itself poses no threat to Earth, a danger- - i ous asteroid could be discovered at any time, Cheng said. "This is something human- ity needs to be concerned? about," said Cheng. "It has happened before on Earth."-I1989, an asteroid a quarter-mile wide missed the Earth by just 400,000 miles. Astronomers said the space ' ' ,l.,,--,---- Plus, NCI scientists are developing experimental vaccines customized to patients' cancers in hopes of prevent-- ; ing hidden lymphoma cells from staging a comeback rock and Earth passed the same point in "space just, six hours apart. Scientists also hope to learn more about the formation of planets, such as Earth, since Eros may be leftover material from the creation of the solar system. Eros is 21 miles long and eight miles wide; by comparison, New York's Manhattan Island is about 13 12 miles long "and 2 12 miles wide. Like Earth, Eros orbits the . sun. . Some 62,300 Americans will be diagnosed this year with lymphoma, in which vital immune cells stored in the lymph system become malignant. Over 27,000 will die this year. - , It's a cancer that doesn't make many headlines lung, prostate, breast and colon cancer strike more often. Yet v some 450,000 Americans are estimated to already be living with lym' phoma, one of the few cancers still rising, and unlike many other cancers, doctors can offer no advice on preventing early-detectio- n About 7,400 of the new cases will be the often curable Hodgkin's disease. rest are lymphoma, The non-Hodgki- Non-Hodgkin- g 's Lymphoma Society. i norse anu nuer m ciuse pursuit. After catching the calf, the cowboy ties three of the animal's legs together with "pigging string." In steer wrestling, the contestant, assisted by another cowboy on horseback, grabs the steer by the horijs and twists its neck until trie steer falls on its side. ,4 . San Francisco has been holt to just two rodeos in the past 03 century, according to Leno. was a Juneteenth Rodeo put on by black cowboys last year in Golden Gate Park. The other was a gay- - and lesbian-themerodeo held in the early 1990s;, In addition to banning the d be outlawed, calling such practices inhumane. Eric Mills of Action ,far Animals attended the meeting with several opponents, of rodeos. Mills said the calves used in the events are often killed roping or paralyzed by the jerk of cowboys' rope around their necks. "They're on their way to the slaughterhouse anyway," Milk, said. "This is just a detour to the slaughterhouse." The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association conducts 700 rodeo events throughout the United States with an annual prize purse of $28 million. The association supports the Juneteenth Rodeo event. Its members are concerneti that a ban in San Franciscb could hurt events in other cities. ld a catchall term that encompasses some 30 cancer subtypes whose prognosis and treatment all differ. Some are so that patients survive many years, cycling between therapy and remission and yet more therapy. Others are highly aggressive and rapidly fatal. Still others fall in between. lymphoma is the type rising so dramatically not just here but in most industrialized countries, said Dr. Marshall Lichtman of the Leukemia & slow-growin- In calf roping, the calf js a head start with the roping and wrestling eventp, the city's Animal Welfare and Control Commission had recommended that greased pig contests and cattle prods also tests. after chemotherapy. me." i v lymphoma arid have no cultural tradition in this, but jt looks like animal brutality Jp given Good news may counter lymphoma rise m 0 1 t Donald Trump said Monday that he would not run for president because the Reform Party is too shattered to sup- port a White House hopeful. "The Reform Party is a total mess," Trump said on NBC's "Today." "I will not be running." The New York real estate tycoon, who had flirted for months with the prospect of running on the third-partticket, said he made his decision in large part because his ally, Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, had split from the party on Friday. d SAN FRANCISCO (AP) City supervisors wrangled with rodeo supporters Monday, but postponed a vote on whether to outlaw calf roping and steer . o V wrestling. Supervisor Mark Leno sponsored the proposed ordinance, which would bar all events that are inhumane to animals and would require that a qualified veterinarian be present at all rodeos. "From videos Tve seen, the calf roping and the steer wrestling uu serious uuoutge w these animals," Leno said. 1 appreciate that there is some p ; jst bouquet of flowers with a banner reading, 1 heart-shape- - confirmed. They broke into man-mad- Bradley toughens up ld , de and high-five- s applause was clear that NEAR when it asteroid had reached its target." around the Eros,' e first becoming the Farquhar said the rocket of asteroid. The an satellite firing aimed for an Eros orbit craft now starts a yearlong' of about 200 by 299 miles and close-ustudy of the potato-shape- d the craft hit that target withspace rock, hoping to in 30 to 40 miles. This is condetermine its origins and sidered excellent "shooting" for such a small object that is help scientists mount a strat160 million miles away. Eros from to Earth egy protect boulders from outer space. is so far out that a radio sigA short rocket firing on nal takes 14 12 minutes to Monday changed the orbital reach Earth. Project scientist Andrew path of ' the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Cheng said the success spacecraft to allow it to settle thrilled scientists eager to get into an orbit of Eros. The an unprecedented close-umaneuver successfully com- view of an asteroid and gathr pleted a, odyssey er data with five different that included a failed instruments. be Valentine's rendezvous to with "Today may attempt; the rock last year. Day for most people, but its "The JEAR spacecraft is Christmas Eve for me and attV in orbit around the asteroid the presents are piled about, mission director waiting to be opened," said Eros," Robert Farquhar announced Cheng. 7 NEAR will spend a year minutes after engineers received a signal that a rockorbiting Eros, dropping in et had fired with an error of stages to lower orbits. It will less than 1 percent. gather basic research that "We are very happy and one day may help humans defend the Earth against a very excited," said Farquhar. Automatic instructions "killer asteroid" like the one stored aboard the craft trig- thought to have wiped out ' gered the rocket firing at the dinosaurs 65 million 10:33 a.m. EST and engiyears ago. neers waited tensely in "Understanding the physiMission Control for almost 20 cal characteristics of asterminutes before success was oids will be very important if j Courtney Scott, an cousin of Hart, placed San Francisco supervisors wait on rodeo event vote nap wRh Emos NEAR craft in orbit as first man-masatellite of asteroid LAUREL, Md. (AP) With near flawless precision, a spacecraft slipped into orbit mal community." 1 it 51 |