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] . Seattle residents told not to be fearful of gunman by Rebecca Cook Associated Press SEATTLE—Authorities told Seattle residents Thurs day not to be overly fearful as authorities searched for a camouflaged gunman who killed two employ ees at a boat repair shop and wounded two others before vanishing into the city. The attack, which came one day after a Xerox Corp. employee allegedly shot seven co-workers to death in Hawaii, prompted a massive manhunt Wednesday through leafy streets north of downtown. The crime appeared to be deliberate and calcu lated, Police Chief Norm Stamper said. The attack er made no statement to his victims, he said. # “We do not know the identity of the shooter orchis whereabouts,” the chief said. However, he said the nature of the attack made it unlikely that the killer posed an immediate danger to the neigh borhood. “We are confident that this individual is not a threat to the community as such,” he said. “In other words, this is not an individual who is going to repeat the act” that happened Wednesday. On Wednesday, schools were locked down and residents uiged to stay indoors. Today, schools opened as usual, Seattle Public Schools spokesman Bill South ern said. No unusual absences were reported. Stamper said officers had received hundreds of calls and tips. “We have a handful that look pretty good at this point,” Stamper said earlier on NBC’s “Today” show. Police said the gunman walked into the shipyard building before heading directly to a small back of fice and opening fire. “He walked in and started shooting. That’s all we know,” said Pam McCammon, a police spokeswoman. Police said survivors told them that the man said nothing before shooting seven to nine rounds with a 9 mm handgun. A 19-year-old man who survived with a gunshot wound in his arm told police the gunman didn’t work at the shop and he had never seen him before. The man was described as possibly in his 30s, with brown hair and wearing an overcoat, camouflage cloth ing, a baseball cap and sunglasses. Late Wednesday, authorities detained a man in nearby Tacoma who matched the description. But he was released after about an hour. The shooting happened in an industrial area on the edge of Lake Union, a few blocks from the Wallingford neighborhood, a popular area of older wood-frame houses with small, tidy yards and porch es dotted with Halloween pumpkins. As night fell, Mayor Paul Schell asked the public to be careful. “Check on your neighbors, check on senior citizens, check on your premises,” he said. The King County medical examiner’s office identified the dead as Russell J. Brisendine, 43, and Peter Giles, 27. Brisendine was a marine engi neer who worked on boats’ electrical systems. Giles, nephew of the shop’s owners, was the general man ager. Outside the Northlake Shipyard building Thurs day morning, Chris Dean brought two bouquets of flowers to the doorstep shortly after sunup. He said he knew the victims. Beside his flowers lay a note from someone else, in black marker on yellow lined paper. It read, “Pete—You will always be with us! ” and was signed, “the gang.” Giles “was just a super young fellow,” his grand father, Richard Kelly Sr., told KIRO-TV. “Who would expect for a-decent, law-abiding, wonderful citizen to get just shot in cold blood?” The other survivor, a 58-year-old man, was in serious condition today with a gunshot wound to the chest, hospital officials said. In Honolulu, the suspected gunman fled but sur rendered after a five-hour standoff. The nation has been struck by a series of workplace and school related shootings over the past year. “To have it so close is very unsettling,” said Scott Pierce, owner of a boat dealership across the street from the crime scene. “It brings you back into the reality of the world we live in today. Wfe need to fig ure out a way to get it stopped.” President Clinton on Wednesday offered feder al help to officials trying to solve both of the latest shootings, and said the country has been plagued for too long with gun violence. “Our nation continues on this day to be reminded of the horrors of gun violence. We need to do more to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and children,” Clinton told reporters in the White House Rose Garden. “Congress needs to send me com jnonsense [gun] legislation,” Russia tests a missile A Topol-M inter continental ballis tic missile is launched from the Plesetsk cos • modrome Friday. Russia’s military has been making a rare show of its nuclear forces as Moscow denounces U.S. calls to amend the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty to allow both nations defenses against limited nuclear attacks. Germany fears change in American Strategy by David Briscoe Associated Press Washington — Europe is fearful that the Senate vote against the nuclear test ban treaty could signal a change in Amer ican strategy as the world’s only super power, Germany’s foreign minister said today. “This would make us all very un happy,” Foreign Minister Joschka Fisch er told reporters at the German ambas sador’s residence before meeting with administration officials and members of Congress. Fischer also called for consideration of a lifting of sanctions against Yugoslavia even before democracy is established as long as it would help the opposition and not Yugoslav President Slobodan Milo sevic. ---1 He praised the Clinton administra tion for its efforts to bring peace and sta bility to the Balkans, the Mideast and the Aegean Sea. He said all three efforts hold promise. He sharply criticized the Senate’s re jection of the nuclear test ban treaty, say ing it sends a bad message to other nu clear states. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has written world leaders giving assur ances that the United States will observe the treaty that failed in an Oct. 13 Sen ate vote, 51-48 — 18 short of the two thirds needed. President Clinton strongly supported it, but Republicans said it would hurt U.S. security interests. “We hope this is not reflecting a shift in the basic strategy of the United States,” Fischer said. “This would be very seri ous. We need a strong United States with a leading role in the world of tomorrow.” . Non-nuclear states are looking to America to provide “some sort of order” in a nuclear world, he said, adding that some Americans are seeking 19th cen tury answers to 20th century challenges. On the Balkans, Fischer said peace can only come when the policy of Milo sevic of trying to establish a greater Ser bia is rejected. If he hadn’t been stopped in Kosovo; the next war would be just around the comer, he said. Fischer said the West cannot defeat Milosevic with the dual strategy of al lowing him to create a besieged fortress and, at the same time, trying to open up Serbian society and foster democratic op position. “Both won’t work,” he said, but he planned to discuss the second goal as an option with U.S. officials. World Briefs ■ Company to move windmills away from condors’ flight path Houston (AP) — Enron Corp. has dropped plans to build 53 windmills in an area north of Los Angeles populated by California condors, an endangered _ species. There are believed to be only 49 con dors left in the wild. The birds have 9 foot wingspans and can glide 150 miles in one day. Environmentalists had said the turning blades of the eneigy-produc ing windmills 200 feet above the ground would have been a deathtrap for the birds. Enron Wind Corp., a subsidiary of Houston-based Enron, agreed to abandon the site in the Tehachapi Mountains near Gorman, Calif., 60 miles north of Los Angeles, in exchange for a lease on land about 20 miles away. The decision came after the Nation al Audubon Society raised objections. “After they reflected on it, they saw the benefit of finding an alternative site,” said Dan Beard, Audubon’s senior vice president. “Companies will now think twice before they consider building near condor habitats.” ■ Medical student opens fire in theater, kills two Sao Paulo, Brazil (AP) — A medical student opened fire in a movie theater during the screening of the film “Fight Club,” killing two and wounding four, police said Thursday. The shooting occurred Wednesday night at a theater in the Morumbi Shop ping mall in Sao Paolo, where about 30 people were watching the movie, police said. Mateus da Costa Meira, 24, was be ing held in connection with the shooting. 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