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Show 11~ THE N ATION Four Arkansas schoolgirls killed The school bas about 250 students in sixth and JONESBORO, Ark. [AP) - Two boys in eamouflage lay in wait in the woods behind a sevent h grades. Jonesboro is a city of 46,000 about 130 miles northeast of Little Rock. school, then opened fire with rifles on students and teachers wh en t hey came out during a false Th e two boys, wearing camouflage shirts, pants and hats, were caught near the school. fire alarm yesterday. Four girls were killed and Officer Terry McNatt said they offered n o 11 o ther people were wounded, including two resistance and teachers. said lit tle. T wo T h e boys rifles and other ages 11 and 13 weapon s were were caught recovered. The trying to run away shortly boys w ere being after the m idday held at the county jail. ambush at t he Authorities Westside Middle wouldn't say School, police whether they said. Police were ~ were students looking for a l:: at the school. third boy who El President allegedly pulled ~ Clinton, on a the fire alarm. ~ visit to Broadcast ~ Kampala, reports said more than a dozen ~ Uganda, said in _ __ _. a statement shots were fi red. Emergency personnel rush an unidentified injured student to that be and the Students said an ambulance at Westside Middle School near Jonesboro, first lady were they thought Ark. yesterday. " deeply they were fi recrackers at shocked." " We don't know now and we may neve r fully fi rst, but when they saw that people had been unders tand what could have driven two youths hit, they started screaming and running back to deliberately shoot into a crowd," he said. inside the school. Youngsters cried as they waited for emergency wo rkers. "Our thoughts and prayers a re with the victims, " We had children lying everywhere. They had their families and the entire Jonesboro com munity." all been shot," said paramedic Charles Jones. It was at least the third fa tal shooting rampage Sherill Dale Haas cried as recounted the in a school in the past five m onths. shootings. U.S. DIGEST QUESTIONS RAISED ABOUT EFFORT TO CLAIM EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE FOR FmST LADY: Legal scholars voiced skepticism and critics saw Nixonian abuses yesterday in the White House effort to use executive privil<!~e to shield aides from questio ns about conversations with Hillary Rodham Clinton. President Clinton himself refused to discuss the issue w hen asked about it during his Africa trip. But sources familiar with the Monica Lewinsky investigat ion back hom e said the admi nistration was to claim t he privilege to prevent testimony related to discussions with the first lady. FORMER FBI AGENT SAYS PAPERS INDICATE CONSPIRACY IN KING ASSASSINATION: After 30 years of silence, 1 a former FBI agent said yesterday that papers he took from James Earl Ray's car after the assassination of Manin Luther King Jr. s upport claims of a con spiracy. Donald Wilson, who worked in the FBT's Atlanta office when King ,._D_o_>JJ_a~ld...__ _, was s lain in 1968, showed copies of the Wilson documents yesterday to Fulton County District - - - -Attorney Paul Howard. Ray contends he was set up by a shadowy gunrunner named Raoul, a man whose existence has never been verified. , BIG MOVIE ABOUT A BIG SHIP MAKES FOR BIG OSCAR NIGHT IN RATINGS: Titanic, which won a record-tying 11 Academy Awards on Monday, mcluding Best D irector for James Cameron and Best Picture, swept the telecast along in its wake, making it the most-watched Oscar ceremony of all time, ABC said yesterday. Other top awards went to Jack Nicholson for Best Actor and Hele n Hunt for Best Actress, both for As Good As It Gets, to Kim Basinger for Best Supporting Actress in L.A. Confidential, and to Robin Williams as Best Supporting Actor in Good Will Hunting, which also won Best Screenplay for stars Mau Damon and Ben Affleck. THE WORLD Yeltsin's shakeup muddles picture for Russia's 2000 presidential race MOSCOW [AP) - While Russia awaits a new government, the large r question looms of who will replace President Boris Yeltsin when his te rm ends in 2000. The political tunnoil created this week by Ycltsin's s urprise government shake up has spurred the speculation. At least five men appear likely contenders, but aJI have major weaknesses. Ye ltsin, wa ry of becoming a lame duck, coyly declines to say whom he favors. "As of today, nobody can play the role of official h eir to the throne," said Boris Makarenko, a political analyst with the Center for PoHtical Technologies. It is widely expected that the " party of power" - a tenn encompassing Ye lts in, his allies, and the country's business e lite - will settle on a single candidate and lavish him with campaign resources. But if an election were he.Id now, opinion polls indicate it would be a wide-open affair and the "party of power" candidate might not be the favorite. Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, ex general Alexander Lcbed and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, a YeltStn ally, all could be in the race. Yeltsin, 67, has made contradictory comments about his plans but his questionable health and the Russian constitution all rule out n lhird term. Prune Mm1ster Viktor Chernomyrdm's WORLD DIGEST TORNADO KILLS MORE THAN 100 IN EASTERN INDIA: A tornado driven by w inds of up l<) 115 mph ripped through several villages in eastern India yesterday, killing 105 people as it flattened hundreds of hom es, dom estic news agen cies repo rted. The dead included 16 children who were crushed when a school building collapsed, they said. Another 500 p eople were missing, and the death toll was expected to rise, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Paramedics and rescuers w ere providing food and medicine and setting up camps to accommodate the ho me less. U.S. LOWERS GOALS FOR ALLIED PRESSURE ON MILOSEVIC: Faced w ith resistance from som e of its allies, the United States lowered its s ights yeste rday on pressure tactics designed to force Yugoslavia to restore autonom y to ethnic Albanians in troubled Kosovo province. Prepared to act alone, or in combinalion with a mix of European nations, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright took the Madeleine mostly symbolic step of signing a n order tha t Al bright w ill prevent 16 Yugoslavian officials from entering the United Stales. Russian First Deputy Prim e Minister Boris Nemtsov speaks to reporters in this file photo. POLICE PATROL STREETS TO QUELL ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN PAKISTAN: Hundreds of police presidential hopes may have been dashed Monday when Yeltsm fired him along with the rest of the Cabinet. Boris Nemtsov - The young, liberal rcfom1er was fired Monday as a first deputy prime minister, but he is likely tQ get a senior post m the new government. He became the most popular politician in Russia after he joined Yeltsin's Cabinet last year, but his star faded a bit when his economic initiatives ran into resistance. brandishing automatic rifles patrolled Karachi's troubled neighborhoods yesterday after ethnic violence killed 21 people in two days. Meanwhile, warring factions vowed revenge and mourned their dead in funeral processions that wound their way through the city's restive eastern district. The killing began when a gunman, disguised as an Orthodox Muslim woman, attacked the office of the smaller Haq1q1 faction. The fighting contmued through the night and for much of yesterday, killing members of both factions, police and witnesses reported |