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Show National Thursday, September 27, 1990 The Daily Herald. Provo. Utah A, Standoff ends when gunman shot - A BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) heavily armed gunman invaded a residential hotel and opened fire, killing one young man, wounding seven and taking up to 15 hostages before police shot him to death today. The man, described by witnesses as an Iranian in his early 30s, was shot when he "got close enough to a window that we were able to take him out," Berkeley Police Capt. Phil Doran said. "He was apparently very confused," said Doran. "Deranged is not a bad description." The man, who was not identified, was naked and bleeding when he was put into an ambulance and taken to Highland Hospital. He was dead on arrival, hospital spokeswomen Phyllis Brown said. Shots were heard about 7:20 a.m., then hostages who had been sitting in windows, apparently as shields, raced into the street to safety. Doran said offered no clear motive for the attack. "We really don't know, except that he is apparently upset because he didn't get a student loan," he said. The standoff began shortly after midnight, when the man, armed with a weapons including handguns and rifles, stormed half-doz- in. Officials at the University of California campus, just a block from the beseiged hotel, said classes would be held as scheduled. Counselors were available to help those traumatized by the ordeal. The gunman shot six people after entering the Durant Hotel, Doran said. Police reported two other people were shot during another round of gunfire about 3:15 a.m. in Henry's Bar and Grill on the hotel's second floor. Witnesses said the shooting was punctuated by the gunman screaming: "When is it going to Briefs Sudan seeks aid, tries to bomb food - food shipments The Su(AP) dan has asked the United States for $150 million in food, aid at a time when the Sudanese Air Force has been attempting to bomb existing food shipments earmarked for rebel areas, U.S. officials say. WASHINGTON at the same time are asking for more food assistance," said Andrew Natsios, they head of the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance. Natsios and other officials said bombs have rained down on Bor and other towns where international relief programs are in operation. They are run by the World Food Program, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the The officials said one target of the raids is a food barge donated by the Norwegian government to the International Committee for the Red Cross. The barge has been located in the Nile River adjacent to the southern Sudan town of Bor, a main transit point for relief supplies, they said. "I think it's almost unimaginable that a government facing a (famine) disaster of epic proportions would have the audacity to bomb International Committee for the Red Cross. According to Natsios, the areas which have been subject to air raids recently all had been desigto offensive milinated as tary operations by the government and had been regarded as safe for the relief operations. ts Goetz's version of shootings differs - NEW YORK (AP) Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz, contradicting the defense that got him acquitted in 1987, conceded he stuck his gun in a wounded teenager's ribs and shot him, telling the victim: "You don't look too bad, here's another." Goetz, in a deposition released Wednesday, also undercut defense attorney Barry Slotnick's assertion at trial that the gunman never hesitated between shots when he opened fire on four young men in a subway car in 1984. Goetz, who is white, also acknowledged making racist comments before the day he shot the black teen-ager-s. The deposition is part of a $50 million lawsuit filed against Goetz by one of his victims, Darrell Cabey, 22. Jury urges life - murderer." d answering questions under oath Monday for the first time about the shootings. Goetz said he was on the subway less than 30 seconds before opening fire with his revolver. er sentence for cult killer A PAINESVILLE, Ohio (AP) man who helped his father ritual-isticall- y kill a family should receive a life sentence, a jury has recommended, saying he was not a "cold-bloode- "I hope the jurors in that trial wake up screaming in the night when they read this,' said attorney William Kunstler, who questioned Goetz for Cabey. Cabey was left paralyzed and brain damaged by Goetz. The three other youths recovered and were later arrested on various criminal charges. Goetz asserts he fired because the four were about to mug him. Goetz, 42, was acquitted of attempted murder, assault and other charges. He served 8 months in jail for a weapons offense. He never testified at his trial, Prosecutors had asked the jury to recommend the death sentence for Damon Lundgren, 19, who wept when he told jurors he does not want to die. After about four hours of deliberation Wednesday, the jury recommended life without chance of parole for 20 years on each of four aggravated murder counts. It did not specify whether the sentences should run consecutively or concurrently. "I definitely believe he was fearful and dominated by his father," juror Joyce Fiorito said. "I do not believe he was a murcold-blood- derer." Lundgren will be sentenced Oct. by Lake County Common Pleas Court Judge Paul H. Mitrovich, who cannot impose a more severe sentence than the one the jury recommended. 5 end? How long? How long?" Doran said one hostage escaped at the onset of the second shooting spree and did not require medical attention. The gunman, who periodically sent hostages outside with messages for police, threatened to execute a hostage if authorities did not turn off outside lights. But those hostages were not freed and were ordered to return. He also closed the drapes and rearranged furniture, police said. John Sheeye, 22, died at 2:35 a.m. of a gunshot wound to the chest during surgery at Eden Hospital in Castro Valley, said hospital spokesman Thomas McGarry. Graduate student Chris Hobbes, 20, was in fair condition with a gunshot wound to the leg, said McGarry. Hobbes was scheduled for surgery this morning. The English pub-stybar, located in a residential neighborhood a block from the University of California, Berkeley campus, le was crowded with about 35 to 40 students when the gunman rushed inside, witnesses said. About 20 were able to flee periodically during the confusion, witnesses said. One escaped hostage, who gave her name only as Rebecca, told a local television reporter that the gunman instructed all the blonde women in the hotel to "take off your pants." Another woman who managed to flee said the gunman then "had them do something sexually perverse," but she did not elaborate. i A bar patron who escaped after about 20 minutes in the bar said the gunman initially fired blanks, then injured a hostage. Sheeye apparently was killed before the threat to execute the hostages was made, officials said. . Police Sgt. Ron Barela was grazed by a bullet when he arrived at the scene, Doran said. Barela was treated at a hospital and released. AP Laserphoto Hostages sit in front of the windows of the hotel bar early today before police shot the gunman holding them hostage. Bush blasts Democrats for budget snag - WASHINGTON Presi(AP) dent Bush resumed his attack on congressional Democrats today, saying they had delayed a budget deal that would avoid deep spending cuts. Congressional leaders, however, expressed optimism that a compromise may be near. "There may be senior citizens wondering why their Social Security checks are late," Bush said, referring to one effect of federal cuts that will otherwise be triggered Monday. "We can't afford business as usual. The American people deserve better." While Bush spoke at a campaign breakfast for Republicans in Min- neapolis, leading lawmakers said progress was being made in the budget negotiations. "We're a little bit in the precincts of reaching a conclusion, rather than at the wrap-u- p stage," said House Speaker Thomas S. "A good deal has Foley, been agreed to tentatively." "They're basically there outside of capital gains," said Rep. Silvio "Get rid of that Conte, darned thing, we're home free." Bush has tempered his demand for a lower capital gains tax rate, which has been the major obstacle to a budget pact. Should no action be taken by Monday, the start of the 1991 fiscal year, government spending will be slashed by $85 billion and many of its 2.4 million civilian workers will face payless days off as the' Gramm-Rudma- n deficit-reductio- n law takes effect. Wednesday's bargaining session capped a day in which participants said Bush was moving toward defusing the prickliest issue remaining between the two sides: whether tax rates on capital gains should be dropped. But the president and Democratic congressional leaders also traded accusations that the other side was jeopardizing the negotiations. "If and when the ax falls, the Democratic Congress knows that it will be held accountable," Bush told a Republican campaign rally in Akron, Ohio. House Speaker Thomas S. Foley, and Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, fired back, saying the remarks could damage the talks. Survey: MIT most expensive college in nation - NEW YORK (AP) Massachusetts Institute of Technology has replaced Bennington College of Vermont as the nation's most expensive college, with total expenses nearly $23,000 a year, a survey shows. Overall, college costs this fall rose an average of 5 percent to 8 modpercent, continuing a six-yeerating trend, according to the annual College Board survey released Wednesday. But with a possible recession and resurgent inflation, some college officials fear tuition may climb more sharply in the next few ar years. The survey found that fixed charges at private institutions, including tuition, fees, four-ye- U.S. ar room and board, average $13,544 an 8 percent increase from last year's $12,557. The increase a year ago was 9 percent. The priciest such school, MIT, costs an estimated $22,945, counting tuition, fees, room and board, books and supplies, transportation and other expenses. a small, selective Benninglcw, liberal arts college, had been the most expensive private college every year since the 1985-8- 6 school year; MIT was tops for the three years before that. This year, Bennington is fifth at $22,550. Yale University is second at $22,900, New York University third at $22,775 and Brandeis University fourth at $22,690. Rounding out the top 10, in order. are Harvard and Radcliffe colleges, Boston University, Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University and Stanford University. All cost more than $22,000 a year. Several of the highest-price- d schools, however, posted some of their smallest tuition increases in years. Columbia's rates were up just 5.7 percent, Stanford's 5.25 percent. At four-yepublic universities, fixed costs including room and board average $4,970, up 5 percent from $4,715. . ar At two-ye- ar private colleges, fixed costs including room and board average $8,484, up 7 percent from $7,912 last year. Tuition and fees at two-yepublic institutipns average $884, up 5 ar percent from last year's $841. Few such institutions provide room and board. The survey's ar chamber secretly campaigns for Nobel Prize - WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce pushed for the Nobel Peace Prize in a secret campaign so brash it embarrassed even some of its own employees. The business federation nick- named its campaign "Special Project." It courted U.S. lawmakers, world leaders and a former prize winner to get itself nominated for the award, according to chamber documents. The award, worth $653,000 this year, will be announced on Oct. 15 in Oslo, Norway. Candidates may be nominated by previous laureates, members of parliaments or political science faculty members of selected universities. The chamber's pitch was that it has helped bring democracy and a free enterprise economy to Eastern Europe and Third World countries. Nominations closed on Feb. 1. The chamber was nominated by David A. Morse, a New York attorney who was director general of the International Labor Organization, which won the prize in 1969; and Sen. Richard Lugar, "I'd be embarrassed if I were promoting myself that much," said Barry King, the organization's media relations director until June. "It seems to me the people who have won it didn't need to toot their own horn so much." d. But Milt Mitler, chamber vice president for public liaison, said Wednesday, "It was not a campaign. We were nominated for the prize by Sen. Lugar and Mr. Morse. We had to give them both liiGloric information on what the chamber does or has done." 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