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Show A4 FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1999 THE DAILY HERALD. G . Uh BRIEFING Senate votes gun curbs on day of new violence Sports Illustrated can cover INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indianapolis Motor Speedway went into reverse Thursdayandissued press credentials to a Sports Ilhustrated writer who had been rofused the right to cover the Indy 500 because the magazineranacritical article and a grisly By DAVID ESPO Associated Press Writer The photo ofa wreck. The speedwayrelented after a boy- cott of the race by other news organizations beganto take shape. Speedway President Tony George remained bitter but said Sports Illustrated's senior auto racing writer, Ed Hinton, will be allowed to cover the May 30 event Mutineer requests pardon : WASHINGTON (AP) — A black ilor court-martialed for WASHINGTON Propelled bya shocking outbreak of school violence, the Senate passed legislation Thursday night to require fety devices with handguns and expand stem of background for firearms purchasers. The vote . and camea few hours afterVice President Al Gore eagerly broke 50-50 tie in favorof a politically popular gun control amendment that most Republicans opposed Passage sent the measure “What we have seen todayis for the first time ina major kind of gun control issue, rejection of the National Rifle Association and a vote for commonsense.” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. to the House, where Speaker Rifle Association and a vote strongly enforced. Dennis Hastert, R-II], has for common Edward M. Kennedy, D- A triumph bygun control advocates in the Republican- restrictions Mass., controlled signaled support for fresh on guns. Republican and Democratic lers werediscussingplans to bring the sense,” Sen. said as the bill neared final passage. Senate e to the Trent Majority Lott, R-Mi is a goodpolitical issue and that will solve everything. I is for thefirst time in a major kind of gun control issue, A shooting at an Atlanta- it without a ( n ¢ t be sold with handguns. But y the measurealso extendslia- ¢ continues current gun law measure. briefly earlier in the day. is oneof two known surviv55 years ago orders to resumeloading ships after an explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine near San Francisco.All ' Associated Press Writer Gaming Commissionofficials said Thursday, More than90percent ofthe 310 tribal casinos nationwide have some sort of independent tribal gambling commission, but only onehaspetitionedfor national certification from the commission, officials said. press statement. Thechildren, most between the ages of six and12, left the town of Marcovia, on the Salvadoran border, after Hurricane Mitch devastated the area in October, Hurricane Mitch hit Honduras in late October and early November, killing more than 5,000 people and oe RICKY CRUMBLEY The Associated Press Studentinjured: Injured Heritage High School student Drake Hoy, 18, waits for medical attention in Conyers, Ga., on Thursdayafter a tenth grade student with two guns opened fire at the high school. Hoy, one of six injured students, was treated and released from Rockdale Hospital Younger children most vulnerable victims By TRACEY A, REEVE Knight RiederNewspapers Jackie Sea s was elated when her daughter announced she was going to write a book. Then the 8-year shows in the form of ques- Psychologists tragedy. In others, it means nightmares, stomachaches, heada hes, attention prob in tions to parents about mortality and the likelihood of Bethesda, Md. “It’s that they’ reseeingit old outlined the plot over andover again.” In the old days, children might have been frightened news reports showing body kid isn't what it used to be,” All in the mafia family The book, said the girl, would detail how her idyllic life with her parents and two BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) A nephewof Pablo Escobar, thelate Medellin cocainecartel boss, was shot to death in a health club Thursday by five gunmen Jorge Roberto Escobar, a 20-year “old computer student, was killed in the gym where he exercised every morning in'the upscale El Poblado neighborhood of Medellin, Colombia's second largest en. Alfredo Salgado, opera: «ctor for the National Police. Salgado said there was no clear motivefor the killing of Escobar, whose uncle was boss one of Colombia’s most feared criminal ma anddied in a December 1993 gunfight with police. brothers had been ripped apart by shootings similar to the ones that shattered high schools JOSE (KRT)— A SanJose apist who terrorized the city's Israel QuintanaTorres, faces 145 yee yearsto life whenheis sentenced attacks on the 3-year-old, an8-year-old, two 13- last month in Littleton, Colo., and just by graphic ti higher poll fc in i ‘I violencealso grew. i school shootings in Conyers, Ga., and was released Thursday as President Clinton traveled to Littleton, Colo., to observe' the one-month anniversary of the nation’s worst school shooting. That attack Sk th w oF its teen-agers, more and more experts suggest the spotlight be widened to include youngerchildren. Distress singly, child advo: children under age 12 are becoming distressed, evenill, a result of viewing I'm rights of gun owners, hi ye or 80 an sa me talk around the country about just how tuned in ing up thinking that violence ago. scl and the Atlanta-area high school. In what is becoming a adults are to grade-schoolers’ emotional well-being and whether resources gen- lems. “It's called a numbing of Meanwhile, just over!half of Republicans, 53 per-! cent, said gun control was wi wl more important, while 42 tor is the wayto resolve probthe senses,” said Dwyer. “And is suspected of opening fire erally reserved for older it’s bad because it reduces empathy, which everybody kids, such as school counsel classmates ing and conflict resolution, needs. percent said protecting the gun owners’ rights priority. Six years ago, 47 percent of Republicans sh is percent picked protecting gun owners’ rights, a sta- Gi earlier grades can watch violent images of picked gun control and 45 lent images is that they have not yet learned to put danger in perspective “The youngerthechild, the less logically they think eco Polland, a Texas sc! man-madeandnatural disas- “Young children don’t know that when they see a tornado or a shooting on TV, they are probably looking at the footage over and over again said Joanne Cantor, professor of communication ¢ at the Anxiety For some children, anxiety — should also be required in thologist. we'reseeing these young kids stressing out about shootings and bombings.” Dr. Paramjit Joshi, director of clinical services at Johns Hopkins University’s division of child andadolescent psychiatry in Baltimore, said it’s impossible to know how many youngsters are having difficulty with the disturbing images. But a problemis evi- dent client ji from list her burgeoning and a parents’ To be sure, most children ters and experiencefew problems,ifany,child experts say, It’s the vulnerable children — theintrovertedones, those GOP sentiment in the poll. GOP womensaid in the new and generally regressing in their behavior, “Those are the ones we need to keep an eye on, so that they don’t windup being the aggressor or numb to +h che Republican women were key to the shift in overall kids who feel like misfits — who could be at risk. They nig tistical tie.i who have experienced tragedy or a family death, may end up wetting their beds, clinging to their parents mi took One reason youngchildren have problems with the vio- happening to them are very slim.” something different,” said “Mommy, book Desensiti zing Even more worrisome for child expertsis the thought of Senate approved a proposal? *, to slap fresh restrictions on gun purchases at gun shows and pawn shops, a move pushed by Senate Democrats and opposed by most Senate Republicans. ne Three-quarters Democrats in the poll said gun control is more important than protecting the difficult to escape the kindof violencethat struck Littleton guns, ne of whom he threatenedto kill 1998 you don’t knowif anyof this is ever going to happen to them.” = L increase from the two-thirds who felt that way six years understand that theoddsofit ar-olds and a 78-year-old woman, author of the can’t tell them, ‘Don't worry,’ because the reality is that two Also on Thursday, thet! tive to the violence or grow- endlessly repetitious televi ters, “It’s not that they're seeing said Cantor, s for help. ee these kids who can’t sep and are afraid to go to school,” said Joshi. “Yet you somekids becoming insensi- ied or dead from bombs and destroyed in weather disas- but being a red.” sion footage of people bloodbuildings claimed 15 lives, including Indeed, the fright factor in young kids has stirred University of Wisconsin in Madison. “And if they do know, chances are they don’t and sad to reque: , ‘w For today’s youngster hour news coverage makes it familiar scene, a 15-year-old troubling “It's en in thestreets. ‘Thursde y, injuring six ofhis As the nation tries to sion, experts say. bags from Vietnam or civil rights protesters being beat- scared to death. The book must have been her way of calming herself.” understand what's lems and increased aggres: but limited n't even knowshewas think ing about Littleton. She wa: Rapist faces 115 years st Side over six monthsin 1997 arid 1998 was foundguilty Thursday offfive sexual assaults Pew the suicides of the assailants. Kevin P. Dy r, presidentelect of the National Association of School 90 miles south of the capital, ‘Tegucigalpa. El Salvador suffered less damage in the hurricane. causing heavy damageto Marcovia, slightly a Thelatest Pew poll was taken prior to Thursday’ sentanofficial delega- dispatched a government was in December 1993. Thepercent- TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — bus Wednesdayto bring the kids back, thefederal prosecutor's office said in a Press than a Ke C n w ageof people whofeel television news contains too much Bringing back children left their flood-damaged Honduran townto beg on the streets of San Salvador. c poll, including three out of four women, say increasing restrictions on guns is more important than protecting the rights of Americans to own them. Support for gun control in the poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the lishing regulatorybodies that meet ral approval, National Indian tion to neighboring El Salvador to bring back about 100 children who c thirds of Americansin a new SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tribes can c a s n WASHINGTON — Two- provetheyareto able monitor their own gambling operations by estab- ua] v By WILL LESTE wereconvicted, Tribes to regulate gambling ; f Poll: Most | Americans support gun restrictions ing membersof a group of black naxt monthfor his sexual t ‘ area high school earlier in the Freddie Meeks, 79, said he hopes to clear his name. Honduras hk and whose gun is stolen and that majority Republicans daygavefresh impetus to the had succeeded in changing laws on military prosecution was rac Hondurashas undergoing there” that should be more refused to load live ammunition during World War II asked for apresi- Meeks to pawn a gunandreclaim check. “Secure gun storage or safety devices” would have to marked shift in public opin- usedin a crime. ion. In addition, the measure dential pardon Thursday,arguing the sailors court-martialed for defying white offic loophole that allows anyone the books that are already say wegot all these rejection of the National was ( sales at gun shows. It also would close what gun control advocates said was a improbable at best until the bility protections for a gun shootings in a Colorado high owner whous afety lock schoo! a month ago caused a Democrats “think gun control House floor as soon as midJune. “What we haveseen today Senate The legislation, requires background checks for all ‘ Almost three-fourths of poll that controlling gun ownership was more impor-, , tant, about the samepercent+ age as all women whofelt* that way. In 1993, about half of GOP womensaid control- ling guns was more important, while just over four-in- these kinds of events,” said 10 said it was important to protect the rights of gun Joshi owners, Pa | i x34 Bt} att |