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Students protest alleged U.S. involvement in civilian killings by Sang-Hun Choe Associated Press Seoul, South Korea — Waving signs and chanting, a South Korean stu dent group rallied in downtown Seoul on Sunday, demanding that the United States punish those responsible for the alleged mass killings of civilians by U.S. forces at the start of the Korean War. It was the first public reaction from South Korea’s largest student group, called Hanchongryon and known for its anti U.S. views, regarding last week’s news report on the alleged killings in July 1950. “The U.S. government must punish people responsible for the massacre!” a group of 40 students chanted, pumping their clenched fists into the air. Last week, The Associated Press re ported accounts by American veterans, corroborating those of South Korean vil lagers, that their unit killed a large number of civilians at No Gun Ri, /o < • t South Korea, during the early days of the Korean War. The villagers say 400 died. The AP also found once-classified documents showing that U.S. comman ders ordered their troops to shoot civil ians as a defense against disguised enemy soldiers. At the rally in Seoul’s main railroad plaza, the students demanded that the United States apologize to South Korea and the victims’ families. Riot police stood around the protesters but did not intervene. No clashes were reported. “Americans are beasts wearing masks of human beings!” the group said in a statement. Hanchongryon has led violent street protests in the past, but its influ ence has decreased sharply imecent years. The government outlawed the group because it supported the withdrawal of 37,000 U.S. troops based in South Korea as well as other key demands made by communist North Korea. The group says the U.S. military presence increases ten sion on the divided Korean peninsula. Aging South Koreans who said they survived the killings said Friday that they would not allow anti-American sentiment to affect their search for the truth behind No Gun Ri. They said they recognized the im portance of friendly relations between Washington and Seoul and understood the .valuable security role the United States plays in deterring threats from the com munist North. The two Koreas are still technically at war because no peace treaty was signed at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. Their border is the world’s most heavi ly militarized. After the AP report, the U.S. and South Korean governments promised thorough investigations into the No Gun Ri killings. Both governments had pre viously dismissed the survivors’ claims. /■ » t A student shouts slogans during a protest rally Sunday in Seoul, South Korea Many Koreans want the U.S. to punish those responsible for the alleged mass killings of civilians by American forces during the Korean War in No Gun Ri. rz—:-----:---:—i sensation opens to an overiiow or an lovers by Larry McShane Associated Press New York — If you build it — even with elephant dung, bisected pigs and a severed cow’s head — and call it art, they will come. They did by the hundreds Saturday at the Brooklyn Mu seum of Art, where the much-maligned and mega-hyped “Sen sation” exhibit drew an overflow crowd of art lovers, scene makers and the merely curious — all at $9.75 a head. By 7 p.m„ more than 7,000 people had toured the show, filling the space to capacity. The lines persisted through the pvpnimr and nnlirp nlannpd remain on sitR until the museum closed at 11 p.m., though authorities said'the scene was calm. The crowd began queuing up three hours before the opening, which attracted scores of angry protesters upset by art that was deemed religiously offensive or pro-animal cruelty. Several museum visitors said that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s bitter opposi tion to the show had actually prompted them to attend. “Rudy got me here,” Marvin Schnei der said after checking out the controver sial British show. “I was interested in see ing this after what he said.” The controversy began Sept. 22 when the mayor announced that he was cutting off the museum s $7 million in annual funding unless the exhibit was pulled. Giu liani attacked the exhibit with escalating insults: “sick” “Catholic bashing,” and finally “pedophiles on parade.” Museum officials in turn sued Giuliani. The city respond ed by suing the museum in an effort to evict it from the city owned building where it’s resided for more than a century. Both lawsuits are pending. Cora Ferrer, 54, said the furor also brought her to the show. “The mayor did me a favor,” she said. “If he kept his mouth shut, I never would have heard of this show. If I listened to him, I would have missed all the beauty inside.”’ The beauty included a dissected cow and pig, castrated male dummies lashed to a tree, and the infamous painting “The Holy Virgin Mary” with its splash of elephant dung. A police sergeant somberly stood watch alongside the paint ing by artist Chris Ofili. The exhibit, which consistently stopped visitors in their tracks, was also protected by a plastic screen. “What if this was done to your mother?” asked a sign held by a protester outside the museum, which has generally kept a much lower profile since opening in 1823. The exhibit opened promptly at 11 a.m., with ticket buy ers passing through just-installed metal detectors as the sound . oi protesters reciting me nan Mary echoed across the museum’s plaza. A sign outside the museum cautioned, “Sensation. Be Warned.” The line to get inside stretched past the museum’s prop erty, with a steady stream of visitors pour ing inside. About 200 supporters of The Catholic League protested the opening, singing hymns and praying the rosary. League Pres ident William Donohue handed out com plementary “vomit bags” to people waiting to see the exhibit. “This is hate speech, people,” Dono hue told his troops. “This is not art.” f” rirAth DrAiun /lir ArrrAA/1 T-Trt AnniA with his 7-month-old son, whose stroller carried a small sign reading, “Pro-art, anti-Giuliani.” “Art should provoke discussion and controversy, and this does,” Brown said while waiting in line. “Controversy is not a bad thing.” Museum director Arnold Lehman opted not to dump fuel on the fire Saturday. “There has been a lot of comment on all sides over the past few days,” Lehman said. “Today’s the day to let the art speak for itself.” ‘‘Art should provoke discussion and contro versy, and [the ‘Sensation' exhibit] does.” Gareth Brown Brooklyn Museum visitor U Perfect Part-Time Job! 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Larry Agenbroad concedes that cloning the animal is unlikely. Still, he says biologists remain optimistic and he is excited about the project Agenbroad is part of an international team of scientists whose first task is to cut the cloning candidate — the likes of which roamed the earth about 23,000 years ago — from a Siberian ice field. The adult male mammoth, estimat ed to be about 40 years old when it became frozen, was found by a 9-year old nomadic reindeer herder in 1997. It’s been named Jarkov, after the boy’s family. “To feel the skin and touch the flesh of the mammoth will be quite spec tacular. It’s the closest I’ve gotten to an animal I’ve been chasing for more than 30 years,” said Agenbroad, sitting in Mammoth seepages World Briefs Italian town, ski lift company seek damages Trento, hwy (AP) —The town of Cav alese and the ski lift company that oper ated a cable car clipped by U.S. Marine jet have filed nearly $25 million in damage claims, an Italian news agency reported Sunday. The town has asked for $9 million and the lift company for $16 million, ANSA reported Sunday. The 20 people aboard the cable car were killed when a Marine jet from a nearby military base sliced through the cable. The requests for damages were sub mitted to the Italian Defense Ministry under an international convention that permits claims to be paid out by the NA TO nation where the damage occurred. Under the same agreement, the host coun try and the country responsible then di vide the costs. The pilot, acquitted by a U.S. mili tary court of manslaughter, was sentenced earlier this year to six months in prison and dismissed from the Marines for help ing destroy a videotape of the flight. The navigator of the EA-6B Prowler anti-radar jet was also dismissed from the Marines. Student sent to principal’s office escapes on a plane Fairfax, Va. (AP)—A 12-year-old boy sent to the principal’s office for misbe having walked out of the school and made his way to the airport where he boarded a plane without a ticket and flew to St. Louis. No one knew where Christopher Peregory had gone until he called his mother from the St. Louis airport later that day. “He was practically hysterical,” said his mother, Renee. She said he had nev er run away before. “He’s a very good child. It was just an adventure.” Peregory walked out of Belle View Elementary School on Wfednesday, hopped a Metro train to Reagan National Airport and picked the Trans World Airlines flight to St. Louis at random. 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