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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
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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
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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
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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.
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