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Show J L NfflGN & WORLD A4 '.SATL'RiyW. APRIL THE DAILY HERALD (www.HarkTheHerald.com) ). GLOBAL BRIEFING Troops take stronghold ZAMBOANGA. Philippines (AP) Philippine troops battled Saturday to gain complete control over a Muslim rebel stronghold, alter tailing to find the hostages. . 'mostly children, held t here for nearly. six. weeks. Defense Secretary Orlando Mercado said Saturday that the was- t:;.:'!!::! "bunker to bunker. Philippine Air Force bv inch"- Soldiers found shallow graves believed .to contain the bodies of about Abu Sayyaf rebels, and suspected -') other bodies were hidden in the camp's network of foxholes, blinkers and tunnels. Deputy Chief of Staff Jose ('alimlim said Friday. Rescue raises fears .VVNVUJ. liana mas (AP) .'than 2110 ship- - ' - More wrecked Haitians rescued in a dan gerous 'nighttin mission bv the U.S. ( 'oast Guard ' '.arrived in Nassau Friday. with manv saying they had been trying to reach Florida. Haitian emigrants They were .among 2SX boat people, many weakened or uncoii- - '. s(,'iou from exposure and dehydra- tion. stranded, on a deserted '.' 1'ahaihian island. The shipwreck highlighted fears' ,::' that the Bahamas and the United Stj.it.es could face a new flood of Haitians headed for their shores. e from the group discovered at: Flamingo Cay. another 122 Haitians landed Wednesday on Hiagua, the southernmost Bahamian island just 1(10 miles from Haiti's .north coast. On April 21. 224 ."Haitians, arrived,. , ' "A.-id- . Chains agree to cut idling " SACRAMENTO. Calif. (AP) Three major grocery store chains, in settling a lawsuit, have agreed to reduce diesel exhaust from idling t rucks near distribution ' centers aero.-:- California. Albcrtsoii'Iaicky. Ralphs Grocery Co, and SafewavVons agreed' .. Tliursday to cut idling time to three nunute.v As part of the settlement with the California 'attorney general and -- everal environmental groups, '.cham will also add 150 clean-- , iaei trucks over the next three years a; fivelistribution centers. At three renters, they will build refueling station.- thai provide natural gas to big ' I'igrv .The chains will also issue health English and Spanish ". aboui he presence of diesel exhaust to nearby reidents as well as truck warninu,-'- m (in vers. ' Chief bears responsibility ' SKATTI.K (AP) Law enforce-;nei;- t experts hired by 'the mayor to .determine what went wrong when 'massive protests disrupted, last year's World 1 rade Organization meeting former Police Chief Norm Stamper should bear the brunt of the blame. Hut in their, report released Friday, the experts. K..M. McCarthy and and Robert Louden, also pointed a finger at Mavor Paul S.'ia ::. .Wi-i'i-- .t Police Chief Ed Joiner and all government agencies involved in security planning, as well - the demonstrators and the media. "Chief Norm Stamper was virtually absent !iom any role of leadership or direti ion Hated. to the preparation and planning for the World Trade Organization conference." the report saiti, citing documents and inter- views. -a a- Two '...''.' arrested in explosions TUBA CITY. Ariz. (AP) Two stu- dents were charged Friday with setting off two stink bombs whose fumes - sent six people at a Navajo Reservation high school to the hospi-- ' tal. .... An FBI spokesman described Thursday's explosions as a prank, though the school canceled classes Friday. "I'm sure this is a serious matter to the school." said Ed Hall, an FBI spokesman in Phoenix.. To me. it's more like a prankster trying to cause problems more than somebody trying to cause harm." f Killings thought racially motivated black man allegedly yelled By TODD SPANGLER Associated Press Writer racial epithets and killed three white men. , "Not again. Those are the first words that come to McKEES ROCKS. Pa. -- A white man opened fire in sevmind. Not again," Gov. Tom eral suburban Pittsburgh Ridge said Friday night in communities Friday, killing Pebble Beach, Calif., where five people and critically he was speaking to a wounding a sixth in what Republican group. "Across police called a racially motiPennsylvania, and particuvated shooting spree. The in southwestern larly man was taken into custody. Pennsylvania, we are strugTne' shootings" tookplace" gling to make sense of what within a range appears to be yet another through suburbs surrounding brutal racist rampage." Pittsburgh during about an Witnesses described the hour span Friday afternoon. shooter as appearing calm as The gunman fatally shot a he climbed into a Jeep to person of Indian descent at drive from place to place. an Indian grocery store, two Police received first word employees at a Chinese of the shootings shortly restaurant and a black man before 2 p.m., with reports of at a martial arts school. A two Indian men being shot at Jewish woman who lived a grocery store in Carnegie. A next door to the suspect's relman was killed atives was found dead in her and a man was home. wounded. Witnesses told The suspect, Richard radio station KDFCA that the Baumhammers, 34, smirked gunman fired through an at onlookers as he was led open door. into a magistrate's office in Kent Kretzlef, who owns a Beaver Falls on Friday night travel agency next ta the grosaid , " he wearing a bulletproof vest. cery, saw Baumhammers, a lawyer Baumhammers walk out of from of Mount Lebanon, was the store wearing a sport coat and tucking his gun into his charged with criminal homicide and. reckless endanger-men- t holster or waistband. "He very calm or collected in the martial arts school shooting. He was being walked another 40 yards or held without bail. so to his car," Kretzler said. The shooting spree was the "He got in and sat for maybe second of its kind in the five or ten seconds without region since March, when a , doing anything, and just very . r - . rr U s 0' l -- 4 r J -- - -- 1 , if : V ' rM 20-mil- e .j -n ' . , ft it KEITH SKAKOCIC The Dailv Herald Alleged killer: Shooting spree suspect Richard Bauhammers, 34, center, is escorted from the Center Township (Pa.) Police Department on Friday. ;' ;. calm and collectedly pulled if pulling out after buying a bag of groceries. Shots were fired at two nearby, synagogues shortly afterward,' but no one was injured, police said. A swastika and the word "Jew" had been sprayed on one synagogue, police said. The woman found dead in her home belonged to one of the temples. Next, firefighters responding to a fire alarm found the body of Anita Gordon, 63, in her home. They extinguished a carpet fire in a back bedroom that had been intentionally set, Mount Lebanon police said. "She was an angel" said her husband, Sanford, adding that Baumhammers' family lived next door since the suspect was a child. "(They were) pillars of the community." out as Fifteen minutes in a McKees Rocks, shopping plaza. Vinh Truong, a cook at the Ya Fei Chinese Cuisine restaurant at the Plaza at Robinson Town Centre, said his brother-in-lawas one of the two shot and killed there. Truong was in the kitchen when an employee ran from the front of the restaurant, telling everyone to escape. Instead, he left the kitchen arid saw his brother-in-laon the floor. later, police received a call reporting two employees had been shot at a Chinese restaurant Miami in turmoil after police chief resigns mnmHiimiiB By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated ". , .... '.: v. , "We're in very sad Press Writer . W?'S' ' .si.'. ' Mk; , c;-- - h .nW'C' " S3 4 M ,,' " ' .;:( mavor." O'Brien had an hour's advance notice of Saturday's 0:1 3 a.m. raid at the home of Elian's Miami relatives. He has said he didn't want to tip off the mayor, who unlike O'Brien is and had openly sided with the relatives. ROBtRIO KOLIl Ih. Daily Herald Head to head: Miami City Manager Donald H. Warshaw, left, listens to Police Chief William O'Brien's emotional resig nation came less than 18 O'Brien during a City Council meeting Thursday. O'Brien resigned Friday. hours after Carollo fired the Donald them while they protested would not affect the city's orderly. But the manager, city departure of Warshaw, during a heated the raid. the city's two top professional ability to ensure that a masO'Brien and Warshaw said sive hearing at which dozens of Elian protest on managers leaves Miami once residents said police abused their pending departures Saturday would be safe and again in political turmoil. IT n .N ' McCainVietnam trade angry words CHI MINH CITY. Vietnam (AP) John McCain. on a journey meant to heal old wounds, said Fridav the wron? side won the Vietnam War, adding to earlier comments that accused the communists of torturing POWs. HO try- ' The fallout from the Elian Gonzalez raid sank the city government deeper into chaos Friday, with the police chief resigning a day after the mayor fired the city manager. In stepping down, Police Chief William O'Brien lashed out at Mayor Joe Carollo who had criticized O'Brien for failing to notify him about the raid. "I refuse to be the light ning rod ot divisiveness in this community," O'Brien said. "I refuse to be the chief of police in a city that has someone as divisive and destructive as Joe Carollo as MIAMI Cuban-America- and ing times in the city of Miami," said city commissioner Johnny Winton. Carollo wanted Warshaw to fire the police chief, because in Miami, only the city manager can fire department heads. When he' Carollo fired refused, Warshaw, but the mayor maintains his decision had nothing to do with the raid. He claimed Warshaw had been turning other officials against him. When O'Brien announced his resignation at the Miami Police Department, scores of officers cheered and applauded. Some cried. "They wanted to know again who gave the order and who was responsible, I want to say again, I gave the order and I am the one who is responsible," said O'Brien, a Miami police veteran and Vietnam-erfighter pilot. James the Goldman, and Immigration Naturalization Service agent who led Saturday's raid, called O'Brien a "hero of this mission." "He did what we asked him to do to maintain operational security, not tc reveal the nature of the search warrant," he said. a Gore wants school 1 earlier comments in which the Arizona senator said he did not forgive his former captors for torturing and killing fellow prisoners of , f - accountability plan - DALLAS (AP) v jx $ i , war. Hanoi dismissed the allegations as untrue, accusing bv Irritated McCains the United States of bringing remarks about torture, Hanoi the war upon the Vietnamese accused the United States of and committing "horrendous "horrendous.crimes." crimes." McCain is in Vietnam to "It runs counter to the mark the 25th anniversary of norms of morality that those the wars end and to help people who brought bombs boost U.S. ties with its former and shells to sow death enemy. But that has not kept among our people and wreak the former Navy pilot from havoc with a country now sharply criticizing the compass themselves off as having munist government's conduct the right to criticize their in the war, during which he Foreign was shot down and spent 5 12 Ministry spokesman Phan years in a Vietnamese prison., Thuy Thanh said in a stateThe Vietnamese government made available Friday. ment responded angrily to McCain shrugged off the 25-ye- X Smiling now: United States Senator John McCain, appeared in an interview for in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. . W. -- CHARLES DHARAPAKThc Daily Herald the 'Today Show," filmed Campaigning on George Bush s home turf, Democrat Al Gore called Friday for withholding federal education money from government statement and criticized the oppression he said followed the communists' victory in Vietnam. states that fail to improve ' MP aigo student test scores, redirecting the money to help failing schools. The plan echoes one by the Texas governor, who has made accountability the centerpiece of his education- plan. But Bush, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, would - redirect federal money to vouchers that could be used to attend private schools something Gore sharply opposes. "We need to invest more and demand more not aim too low, invest too little and drain resources away from public schools with private school vouchers," Gore said in a speech to the National Conference of Black Mayors. Vice President Gore would also give bonuses to states that improve test scores and reduce dropout rates. "I propose a plan with clear financial incentives for states and school districts that suc cessfully narrow the achievement gap and there will be clear financial consequences for those that don't," he said. |