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Bush 'a little sore' after jogging accident by Mike Crissey Associated Press Austin, Texas—Republican presiden tial candidate George W. Bush said Tues day he was “a little sore” a day after div ing for cover while jogging to avoid a truck trailer that overturned and spewed debris in his path. The Texas governor scraped his right leg and hip in the Monday incident, and a member of his security detail also was injured. “All I did was get a strawberry — as' we say in sports.... I’m a little sore but feel great,” Bush said today on CBS’ “The Early Show.” Bush told reporters Monday that the accident won’t deter him from jogging on public streets. “I intend to go jogging [again] on the very same spot,” Bush said. Police were investigating the Mon day afternoon accident that sent Bush diving behind a bridge support as the trail er turned over and spilled chunks of con crete and tree branches on a downtown road and jogging trail. Bush said he was finishing a three mile run when he “looked back, saw it start to tip and my instincts were to dive. ” Austin police spokesman Kevin Buch man said police have not chaiged the truck driver and are investigating whether the trailer was overloaded. Police would not release the driver’s name because chaiges have not been filed. In a statement, Longhorn Disposal, a subsidiary of Houston-based Wiste Man agement, Inc., which operated the truck, said the driver has worked for the com pany for 13 years and has a good driving record. Cherie Rice, a spokeswoman for Whste Management, said the truck “experienced a shifting of waste material.” She added that the companies “regret this unfortu nate incident and offer sincere apologies Bush see page 7 National Guard F-15 lands safely after losing missile, fuel tank Staff Reports Associated Press Portland, Ore.—An Oregon Air Na tional Guard F-15 jet fighter landed safe ly after losing a wing tank and a small dummy missile just north of Tillamook on the Oregon coast. The pilot of the jet, which was train ing with another F-15, described a loud explosion when the objects fell at about 12:45 p.m. Monday. “I saw a couple of bright flashes in the sky,” said Marshall Decker. “It looked like something that shouldn’t have been happening — a couple of flaming objects falling off an aircraft. ” Decker declared an emergency but returned to the base at the Portland In ternational Airport without incident, said Mona Spenst Jordan, Air National Guard spokeswoman. No one was injured. The tank and dummy missile remained missing. Jordan warned that even though the training missile contains no explo sives, the fuel tank assembly that attached it to the wing contains explosives used to jettison the tank in an emergency. 7 killed in Xerox shootins by Bruce Dunford , . Associated Press Honolulu—An employee opened fire at a Xerox Corp. building Tuesday, killing seven co-workers before fleeing in a com pany van, authorities said Two hours lat er, the mayor said police had surround ed a suspect. The seven were found dead at the building on North Nimitz Highway, a few miles from downtown, after the shootings erupted shortly after 8 a.m. “There are seven fatalities in the building, in various areas of the build ing,” Richard Soo of the city fire de partment told MSNBC. Ambulance teams that went into the building found a “gris ly” scene, he said. A suspect fled in a Xerox company van, police said Police identified him as Byran Ue sugi, describing him as an employee in Xerox’s technical services division. Sam Anoulack, another Xerox employee, said Uesugi had worked in the building for around 10 years. Honolulu Mayor Jeremy Harris said police surrounded the suspect as he sat in a vehicle in Makiki Heights, a resi dential neighborhood northeast of the shooting scene. It was not immediately clear if the van was the same one that was used to flee. “We are hopeful we’re going to be able to negotiate a peaceful settlement,” Deputy Police Chief Mike Carvalho said. He said all seven victims were men, Xerox employees who were shot on the second floor of the two-story building. No other people were injured. “It appears as though it was a dis gruntled employee who snapped, ” Har ris told MSNBC. “It’s a shock for all of us. We have such a safe community with almost no violent crime. To have someone snap like this and murder seven people is just absolutely appalling,” the mayor said. Another Xerox building, in down town Honolulu, had been evacuated as a precaution in case the gunman headed that way. The site of the shootings is miles horn the Waikiki tourist district. Calls to Xerox headquarters in Stam ford, Conn., were referred to Rochester, N.Y., where company manufacturing plants are located. “This is a tragic event,” the compa ny said in a statement. “Our foremost concern is for the safety and security of our employees and for the comfort of the families of the victims.” It was the latest of several workplace killings across the United States this year. In Pelham, Ala., Alan Miller, 34, was charged with killing two co-workers at their office Aug. 5, then killing a third person at a company where he used to work. Just one week earlier, frustrated in vestor Mark Barton, 44, killed nine peo ple and wounded 13 others at two bro kerage firms in Atlanta, then killed himself. He had earlier killed his wife andtwo children. 1 U.S. releases Air Force Base to Panama ^—1 Special to The Gamecock Presidential guard Eliecer Moreno (center) holds the Panamanian flag Monday In preparation to fly it over Howard Air Force base. The transfer of the U.S. military base to the Republic of Panama brought to a close decades of U. S. military aviation in the country. Nation Briefs ■ Florida boater gets 85 years in prison for crash that killed 6 Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP) — A wealthy developer got 85 years in prison Tuesday for a drunken boating accident that killed six men. Stanley Cameron’s racing-type speed boat, the Merrymaker, rammed the vic tims’ slow-moving cabin cruiser in the dark in 1997 along the Intracoastal Wa terway. His blood-alcohol level was near ly three times the legal limit. Other boaters said they saw Cameron’s 45-footer streaking along at up to 60 mph on a dark, narrow stretch of water with hundreds of confusing lights along the shore. Cameron, 58, was convicted of drunk en-driving manslaughter. ■ WWF doll pulled from Wal-Mart shelves Ahania (AP)—A doll depicting a World Wrestling Federation wrestler carrying around a woman’s head has been pulled from Whl-Mart shelves following a com plaint that it makes light of violence against women. John Bisio, a company spokesman, said Monday that complaints from Sabre na Parton, assistant professor of com munications at Kennesaw State Univer sity, and from the manager of a Whl-Mart in Cartersville spurred the company to pull Summer Slam ’99: Road Rage A1 Snow. The toy is modeled after A1 Snow, a WWF competitor who carries a female mannequin’s head into the ring. The doll comes with a woman’s head with “Help me” scrawled backward across her forehead. “Our management has decided it is at least a questionable item,” Bisio said from ^-Mart’s Bentonville, Ark., head quarters. “So we are removing it from the shelf, probably permanently.” Jim Byrne, WWF vice president for marketing, defended the doll. “This is the first complaint we’ve had about the toy, ” he said from WWF head quarters in Stamford, Conn. “ A1 Snow’s -^ 4MMMI TVf-MHW to benefit Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital Children's Cancer Center Thursday, Nov. 4, 9am -3pm Visit our tubs on Greene St. or the Pickens St. Bridge iO QqO q 0Q 0o OoO (AO° Ooo o o( _o ® q ®q q°°^Q °q Qo q°° © °q|o Solomon-Tenenbaum Lectureship in Jewish Studies 1999 Wednesday, November 3, in Russell House Theater Screening of the film “Nasty Girl** 1:30 p.m. Followed by: Panel Discussion 3:00 p.m. Panelists: Anna Rosmus (subject of the film), Prof. Alfred Nordmann (PHIL), Prof. Natalie Kaufman (GINT), Prof. Stanley Levine (FREN, USC- Aiken) Samuel Tenenbaum; Prof. Kevin Lewis (RELG), moderator. Thursday, November 4, in Gambrell Hall Auditorium: “MY JEWISH MISSION: A GERMAN WOMAN’S SEARCH FOR TRUTH” ANNA ROSMUS Solomon-Tenenbaum Lecturer 8:00 p.m. v* \ *