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Show Ad The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Wednesday, November 3, 1999 Seven Die USS. Poverty Rates Vary Widely; Utah Among Lowest In Hawaii Shootout widely across the nation, NB from the singledi: its throughout most of the Northeast to more than 20 percent in some pz reports. Just 6.2 per five-hour The gunfire erupted shortly ifter 10 a.m. MST in an industrial ection of Honolulu, from the Waikiki tourist district. Five victims were found dead in a confer: ence room and two other bodies ere found nearby, All had been 1996, according to a report to be eleased today in Utah, th number: are low er, with 9.8 in poverty, Cralg 7. Kolima/The Associated Press Byran Uesugi, suspected ofkilling seven co-workers, sits in a van Tuesdayin a residential neighborhood northeast of Honolulu as he negotiateswithpolice. After several hoursoftalking, he turned himselfin. tody in the afternoon. Police identified the gunman as 40-year-old Byran Uesugi, who joined Xerox Corp. in 1984, As a ice engineer traveled to various sitesto s¢ and repair printers and copiers, Xerox said ‘It appears as though it was a disgruntled employee who Mayor Jeremy Harris Police would not comment on a motive. Uesugi was a member of his high schoolrifle team and had up io 17 weapons registered in his name. “This could have been much, much worse,” the mayor uit By late morning in Makiki Heights, a residential neighborhood near the shooting scene, negotiators were talking with the suspect through a bullhorn. He could be seen pacing back and forth outside the van Police cordoned off a half-mile area around the vehicle, which is near the Hawaii Nature Center. About 60 fourth-graders and 12 chaperones were onanature hike whenpolice told them to get to higherground A school bus with two rifle toting police officers then took thestudents to safety A separate group of first graders on a field trip also were evacuated in the afternoon. About 10 homes were also evaeuated. | iborhood residents set up lawn chairs in the streets to watch the situation unfold. David Wallace was riding his motorcycle through —Makiki's winding roads when he spotted the standoff. the gunman headed that way All1 seven. victims were male Xerox employees who were shot d floor of the two: authorities said Ttie 'y ranged in age from ¢ 33 “It's a shock for all of Xer mployees were taken across the street from the build. ingto be questioned by police and helped by counselors. Another Xerox building, in downtown Honolulu, was evacuated in case us, We have such a sate communitywith lent crime,” the almost lo have someone he cops were about a $-iron away from the van,” he said were definitelyin the line of fire.” to 58. $ and murder seven just absolutely Xerox employs 92,700 people wide and 148 people in Honolulu was the latest of several workplace killings across the It United States this year. MayorBlasted for Plan to Deny Beds to Homeless Who Won’t Work year, In state court last week, city KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS NEW YORK Mayor Rudolph Giuliani paradedhis plan to deny helter to able-bodied homeless cople who refuse to work as“the h ighest form of compassion and ove" last week, but as dvocates r the homeless seeit, the mi “cruel and plan is nlikely to go into ee by Jan. i, the schemefe lawyers agi ay, pend ing aruling onthe legality of the plan by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Stanley Sklar. The pian aims to push the homeless toward independence by forcing them to find work or get job training. Those who refuse may bedenied shelter and other formsof public assistancc Giuliani's ’ said Peter plan to send the chil The administration is down playing such attacks. “No one wants to take children away.” Thomas Crane, the “ Ifa mother city’s chieflitigator loses her children, it would be for her conduct, We're talking about the kind of person who shouldn't be a parent.” drawn the Giuliani iministration. ihe administration has backed | plans to implement the policy ingle adults by the endofthe Sheldon Danzige! andpublic po oe of Michigan. Tr for example, has high immigi aes rates and a lary yumber of racial and ethn minorities, contributing to i below average performance, ziger said. About 18 percent of al Texans and 26 percent of {I ate’s inpoverty Ge s children| Danica veeducation. ar “We do not believe that the best way of helping homeless peo pleis by subjecting themto cruel But Gina Cornia of og group Utah Issues ures may be mislead. ing sine Utah's popwation has increased. ie “Not everyone enjoying Utah's economic boom, Cornia said “We know about 200,000 peo» in poverty.” ple in Utah ‘The poverty threshold differs by household, depend on the sizeo} fai the poverty line for a ) four was $16,036a year nationally andin Utah Natalie Gochnour, an econo: mist with the Governor’s € Office of Planning and Budget. I Utahfigures weresimilar to those collected in “It’s fai to interpret ours as ong theIc thecountr But low The levels of spending on s vices like schooling tendto be related pretty substantially The District of Columbia f the wors q -l percent of residents and ¢ 5.6 percent of cl dren living in poverty. The « trict, however, is an urban < comparable to othercitic states. Child-care advocates poin the figures to argue that gover ould spend more to hx cularlyfamilies we had s tin strong economic 1960s, child povertyra in haif,” said Arloc erty reseai herat the Child und, a liberal ad oc Defense hey have plat: est aus rates in nla, is ppi, have not spent “of poverty are ‘anites,advantage, espe. of Hs their federal welfare dollpee not always cially when it comesto receiving federal funding. To get moneyfor prog imslikeTitle1, toda 3 fig ures arelik y to worry state education offic Title 1 is designed to give extra money to schools withthe highest poverty rate “I can understand how some educators might be concerned about this,” € sochnour said. The Census Bureau r more recent poverty figures in Septemb but the numbers did not give state-by-state Sherman said. 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