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Show AHON & WORLD A4 THE DAILY HERALD (wwwJlarkTheHerald.com) SUNDAY. MAY 28. 2000 L. .r I 1 (Dtow iniiir: Negotiations begin WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Scores of grieving chil- (AP) TALIPAO, Philippines (AP) dren, parents and colleagues brought flowers and notes Saturday to the middle school . where a popular English teacher, was fatally shot on the last day of Sitting barefoot in a circle on the . floor of a mosque, government negotiators and Muslim rebel leaders held thpir first talks Saturday on the freedom of 21 hostages who have been held in a Philippine jungle for more than a month. They did not discuss the imme diate release of any of the tiOBteges7tnchidinga'"GernsaT woman suffering from high blood pressure, said chief government negotiator Robert Aventajado. Aventajado quickly rejected two of the Abu Sayyaf rebels' main ; X classes. In a courtroom across town, a judge ordered that Nathaniel Brazill remain in cus- wnemer 1L me. nonor siuaent should be tried in Barry Grunow's death. had been The seventh-grade- r sent home by an assistant principal Friday around I p.m." for throwing water balloons in class. According to police, he rode his bicycle back to school about two hours later with a pistol in his pocket. The ptitol a compact, model called a Raven was loaded with four bullets he had stolen from his grandfather's dresser drawer a week before, Police Chief William Smith said. Brazill was trying to talk to 1 demands an independent Islamic state and a commission to investigate the treatment of -Filipinos in neighboring Malaysia. Nevertheless, the rebels were "very reasonable and I am optimistic that an agreement would be reached pretty soon," he said. 1 1 1 semi-automat- Guerillas clash FREETOWN, Sierra Leone Guerrillas clashed with forces at a stratecrossroads Sierra Leone, in gic even as the rebels released more U.N. hostages, U.N, and army officials said Saturday. (AP) 1 ic two girls in Grunow's class. When the teacher told him to leave, r : A group of 180 U.N. peacekeep- ers was handed over Friday to authorities in Foya, a border town 1 I T' V r g I 4 t The Associated Press Show of support: An unidentified teacher from another school and his daughter bring flowers to the gate of Lake Worth Community "" Middle School. police say, he pulled out the gun and shot Grunow in the head. Grunow, 35, was the father of two and had worked at the school for seven years. WASHINGTON (AP) Embarking Monday on perhaps his last official trip to Europe, President Clinton is running out of time as he scans the globe in search of a major tri- umph in arms control, peacemaking or to mark his place crisis-solvin- -- ,M,.nr ii MARY ANN CHASTAINThe Associated Press move., Ch Gckout inssiis irash College dorm cleanup draws charities, trash haulers ' By ARLENE LEVINSON AP National Writer anti-viru- sofas and bicycles. Used shoes and faded fashions. Stereo TV sets. speakers, Collections of beer bottles. The occasional street sign, And miles and miles Battered Students hospitalized The U.S. Food j ized. The Internet auction operator, eBay, said Friday it will cooperate with authorities and provide the names of sellers, bidders and buyers. An eBay spokesman said the company found five online sales of the drug in the past month, but he didn't know if the students were among the buyers. The drug, dextromethorphan hydrobromide, or DXM, is a common ingredient in cough medicines, but in large quantities, it can produce a hallucinogenic high and cause vomiting, unconsciousness and, in some cases, death. assisting the ground battle. So far, the fire has remained in wilderness areas, but residents in Williams and Parks awoke to a haze of thick smoke lingering in their towns Saturday morning. ""TfcHni Messy Marvin: Bailey Player looks up as he cleans out his dorm room at Furman University in Greenville, S.C. His mother, Sandra Player, background, helps with the looking for a job. The virus is spread called "Killer Resume" through ermail systems using the Microsoft Outlook program, FBI officials said. They refused to elaborate on the investigation. The virus could spread as businesses open overseas on Monday and in the United States on Tuesday, after Memorial Day. FBI spokesman Rex Tomb said the long holiday weekend could give corporations and computer users s time to update their before resuming normal programs week. this operations wildfire continued to tear through the Kaibab National Forest Saturday while" firefighters could do little to slow its advance. About 600 people were battling the fire about 20 miles northeast of Williams. It has now burned more than 4,100 acres and fire- fighters have been able to cut lines around only 5 percent of the blaze. Three air tankers dropping red fire retardant and four helicopters making water drops were g in history. With only eight months left in Clinton's final term, however, some experts consider it more likely that he will be remembered not as a bold architect of War diplomacy but as a president who, distracted by domestic policy and impeachment, was cautious on international affairs. "He probably won't be viewed as a foreign policy president," said Miles Kahler, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego. "What is striking is, particularly as compared to most if not all Cold War presidents, is how little foreign policy seemed to interest him in any deep way." post-Col- d ' KAIBAB NATIONAL FOREST, A lightning-cause- d Ariz. (AP) characters. Students said he regularly joined them in pickup bas1 ketball games after school. foreign iriymph virus pursued yet another Saturday, this one using a guise of a woman's work resume to threaten the world's computers. Unlike an earlier bug that claimed to be looking for love, the new threat was discovered Friday Arizona fire rages methods, like reading J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" aloud in class with different voices for the Clintoii seeking omputer experts and the FBI over-the-count- er well-like- "It is too premature,' we need to spend more time with our client," said lawyer Damon Amedeo. Brazill is being held at the Palm Beach Regional Juvenile Detention Center in West Palm -C- and Drug Administration is investigating the online auction of a cough medicine ingredient that left four boarding school students hospital- I An elderly man answered the; door and said the family was not t yet ready to comment. "As far as I know, he was real good," said Jackson, Brazill's neighbor. "They were supposed to us last night. We're still in shock." Outside Lake Worth Middle School, a memorial of flowers and sectiori posters covered a of the school's fence. Parents and children hugged, cried and trie(p to console one another. Many of the messages were addressed to "Shaggy," a nicki name given to Grunow because of his hair. Students, parents and school a officials said he was and known for unconventional 40-fo- their client. starts hunt NEWARK, N.J. (AP) . khaki iail uni- form, his wrists shackled, appeared before Palm Beach County Circuit Court Judge Jorge LaBarga and a courtroom packed withcameras and reporters. His parents were visibly distraught, but the boy's expression was obstructed from view. He was flanked by' two public defenders, who said they are, still working on how to best represent . WASHINGTON (AP) parents. two-piec- e in" nmcrhhnrinor " T.ihprin nrrnrrlincr0 to a government statement released in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. Liberia said fewer than 100 of the original 500 hostages remained in rebel hands. By Saturday evening, 102 of the released hostages had been airlifted from Foya to Monrovia and on to Sierra Leone, U.N. spokesman David Wimhurst said. An additional 30 freed captives were still waiting for transportation from Monrovia. FBI drawn-Saturda- wear- ine a rw i Beach. The grand jury has to t review the case by June 17. were Curtains at the home of Brazill's Police say the boy rode away on his bicycle, but flagged down a police officer about a quarter of a mile from the school and surrendered. He told investigators he .liked Grunow, "Everybody's talking about the gun, but we need to try to figure out what made him do that," said Corey Jackson, a pastor and neighbor of Brazill s. of carpeting. It's an annual rite of college life: The trash and treasure that students leave as they check out, whether for summer or for good. And across the nation this spring, college officials at some 1,700 schools with residence halls are rolling up their sleeves. . "It's beyond comprehension how much stuff comes out of those rooms," says Gary Schwarz-mueller, executive direc- tor of the Association of College and University .Officers Housing in International Columbus, Ohio. What underclassmen don't store for the sum; mer and what graduating seniors don't take with them goes into and sometrash bins times to donation boxes, to staff and to scavengers. r Until 1992, was housing director at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. During two decades of orientations, parents would ask: "What should I bring?" And he'd advise: "As little as possiSchwar-zmuelle- ble!" Schwarzmueller often went unheeded. "I used to get the biggest laugh out of seeing in." ls come And go out pickup trucks, SUVs, family cars chock-ful- l at year's end. Deborah Tyson," assistant director of housing . at 14 dorms, Furman posted two trash receptacles on campus. One sits 20-fo- behind Piper's office. "We keep an eye out," she says. " , With bins in each University of Denver, has dorm, Furman also colworked in student houslects for charity, as do ' ing at five schools. many schools. San Jose She's seen students State University, largely a abandon broken TVs, commuter school where street signs, plus "a lot of many students travel on collections of alcohol bottwo wheels, has an auctles, with colored water tion every summer of that glows in the dark, bicycles abandoned in and anything they've spring. ; Besides charity, recyprobably stolen along the way." She even spotted a cling is a popular cure for car bumper in a dorm an often costly headache. A decade ago, the hallway. Her current posting at University of Michigan a private school in Denver paid some $26,000 to is more sedate. The 1,400 dump student leftovers in students in campus hous- landfill. Now, with 9,400 students in dorms, the ing are more apt to abandon clothing or small elecschool pushes recycling tronics, she says. Bu not with a convert's zeal. This much gets left. Resident year, the landfill fee was assistants visit every stu- $16,000., dent to nudge the Before school ended in cleanup. Leaving any- late April, bins popped thing behind draws a $25 up in dorms across the Ann Arbor penalty. campus. Spring exodus turns Some 225 campus staff many ' campuses into relayed the castoffs to a food bank, a women's giant Lily Piper, the housshelter and Purple coordinator at Heart, an agency aiding ing Furman University in military veterans. Greenville, S.C, knows a Lumber from dismantled good deal. beds attracted loft She spotted a student builders and throwing out a bookshelf. in the community "What's wrong with this?" and students hankerPiper asked. The student ing to make their own lamented: No room in her beds. car. Total donated: 5,500 The shelf, joined Piper's pounds of clothes; 1,417 growing pile: carpeting, a pounds of shoes; 956 wheeled cart, a slab of pounds of food; 262 corkboard - all so her pounds of pillows, rugs husband can spruce up and towels; 120 pounds of class- - toiletries. Plus 32 pounds his fourth-grad- e room. of metal hangers to be With 2,300 students in sold for scrap. operations the. sets out Clinton to meet Monday night with European Union officials in Portugal, chat with world leaders at an informal gathering in Germany and hold his with summit first Russia's new president, Vladimir Putin. White House expectations are modest. Sandy Berger, Clinton's national security adviser, said the Moscow visit will no break' produce throughs in arms control or in Russian objections to a U.S. missile defens system. Clinton has no plans to visit Europe again, but he will see Putin several more times at international meetings before leaving office in ' January. Presidential historian Henry Graff said Clinton will be remembered for his earnestness, his openness and "his marvelous persuasive tongue" in dealing with world leadi ers. But there were no really big successes and probably will not be, Graff said. 'They all look for theif place on postage stamps and coins at this stage" Graff said. "But I don't really think he can, do much." ; where Clinton stepped in the Middle East, the Balkans, conNorthern Ireland tinue to frustrate him, standing as missions Many areas unaccomplished. In Saddam Iraq, in remains Hussein power after defying the United States and sending U.N. weapons inspectors packing. Haiti, another trouble spot, still is plagued by corruption, violence and poverty. . grab-bag- s. Aide: Israeli president getting ready to resign JERUSALEM (AP) Israel's ' beleaguered President Ezer Weizman will resign within six weeks, his top aide said Saturday, three days after the attorney general said he that improperly accepted gifts while in public office. Weizman has informed Prime Minister Ehud Barak of his decision, the aide, Arieh Shumer, said. Weizman, 76, has said he will resign sometime this year, citing ill health and the implications of a police investiinto over gation $300,000 in gifts that he took from French milEdouard lionaire Sarousi between 1988 and 1993, while he was a legislator and Cabinet minister. The president says the money was a personal gift. General Attorney Elyakim Rubinstein on . Wednesday announced that he was closing the investigation, but only because the - on bribery charges had run out, and police did not find enough to evidence indict Weizman for malfeasance in office. Rubinstein, however, said "there was clear impropriety in receiving the money." Calls for the president's resignation reached a crescendo folRubinstein's lowing report. Weizman, a former air force commander and defense minister, is serving his second five-yeterm, due to expire in 2003. He said he had planned to retire May 10, is which Israel's Independence Day, but postponed that decision until Rubinstein issued his final report. statute-of-limitatio- . ar ' |
