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Nation & World Albright pledges U.S. won't test nukes by Barry Schweid Associated Press Oslo, Norway — Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has Written Russia, China add other key governments to as sure them the Unit ed States will observe the nuclear test ban ALBRIGHT treaty that the Senate declined to ratify. In a letter sent last week, Albright said the U.S. would not test nuclear weapons and was determined to seek Sen ate approval of the accord, which the Sen ate rejected 51-48 on Oct. 13. A two thirds vote is required for ratification. “To test, we would have to first re pudiate the treaty,” State Department spokesman James P. Rubin told The As sociated Press from Washington. . While the Senate did not affirm the landmark accord, he said, it is interna tional practice to adhere to agreements that are signed, as the United States signed the test ban treaty. President Clinton and Albright had already said that, despite rejection of the treaty, they would extend the moratori um on underground weapons tests first declared by former President George Bush. Rubin said it is proper to adhere to the treaty’s terms, since the intent still was to “seek the advice and consent of the Senate” on the pact, which 51 na tions have ratified. Besides a ban on un derground testing, the accord sets up a complex monitoring system to guard against any possible cheating. Senate opponents of the treaty con tended the system was inadequate, and that the United States should continue to set off nuclear explosions to make sure the American nuclear arsenal is up to date. Albright, testifying in favor of ap proval, argued that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had unanimously endorsed the treaty, and tests were not required to preserve U.S. nuclear superiority. Defeat of the treaty was a serious set back to Clinton’s foreign policy objec tives. Congress also has sharply cut Clin ton’s request for funds for overseas programs. Ten stowaways die in ship fire Staff Reports Associated Press Patra, Greece—A fire aboard a Greek ferry headed for Italy killed 10 people, all thought to be stowaways, the coast guard said Tuesday. The victims were hiding on the Su perfast III when a fire broke out late Mon day, forcing the evacuation of 307 pas sengers and most of the ferry’s 106 crew members onto other vessels. The dead were believed to be Iraqi Kurds who died of smoke inhalation, of ficials said. On Sunday, six Iraqi Kurds were killed when they entered a mine field after illegally crossing into north ern Greece from Turkey. The ferry fire apparently broke out in a parked truck about 45 minutes af ter the ship left Patra for Ancona, Italy. The blaze was put out by about 40 crew members who stayed aboard. Arizona State student apologizes for death threat Staff Reports Associated Press Sammamish, Wash.—An Arizona State University student was playing a prank when he made an Internet chat-room death threat that shut down a high school in this eastern Seattle suburb, a King County sheriff’s spokesman said. “He is mortified, absolutely mor tified, that this happened. It was just a big joke. He apologizes to the com munity up here,” spokesman John Urquhart said Monday. Classes resumed today at Eastlake High School after being canceled on Monday. On Friday night, someone logged in a chatroom as “Phantom,” and re ferred to Monday as “doomsday.” A faculty member in the chat- , room notified the school’s co-prin cipals and classes were canceled. The suspect, an 18-year-old Arizona State freshman, has never been to the Pacific Northwest, Urquhart told parents at a Monday night meeting. Urquhart said issuing such a threat was a Class C felony that could be prosecuted from where it was sent or received. The King County Prose cutor’s Office will determine whether there is cause to obtain a warrant and extradite him from Arizona. Kinkel journal read at trial by Jeff Barnard Associated Press Eugetc, Ore.—Kip Kinkel lay with his head in his arms at the defense table Tuesday as a detective read an entry from his journal about how he felt “evil” and wanted to shoot up a school pep rally and die. The sentencing hearing for 17 year-old Kinkel opened with testi mony from Lane County sheriff’s De tective Pamelia McComas, who read from the journal and described find ing the bodies of Kinkel’s parents. McComas said evidence indicat ed that Kinkel’s father, Bill, had been sitting at the kitchen breakfast bar when he was shot once in the head. Kinkel’s mother, Faith, was shot at the bottom of a stairway leading to the basement garage, then dragged across the floor to a position next to a boat. Kinkel’s journal contained recipes for bombs along with ramblings about death and violence, McComas said. “I sit here all alone. I am always alone ... I try so hard... In the end, I hate myself for what I’ve become... I hate every single person on this Earth,” Kinkel wrote. “I am so con sumed with hate all the time could I ever love anyone?” By pleading guilty to murdering his parents and a shooting rampage that left two classmates dead and 25 wounded, Kinkel spared victims and the community a detailed rehashing of his crimes. Both sides are under a gag order, but Kinkel has the right to make a statement in court, as do his victims. The journal included repeated threats: “I am so full of rage... Blow ing the school up or walking into a pep assembly with guns... that is how I will repay all you... They won’t laugh after they are scraping pieces of their mothers and sisters off the wall of my hate.” Kinkel referred to himself as evil and wished for death: “My guns are the only things that haven’t stabbed me in the back. Kill me, oh God, I don’t want to live. I am evil, I want to kill and do pain with out cost and there is no such thing. If there was a God, he wouldn’t let me feel the way I do. There is no God, only hate.” Prosecutors hired the nation’s most sought-after forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Park Dietz of Newport Beach, Calif., to examine Kinkel. His findings have not been released, but he told the San Francisco Chronicle last year that many of the string .— -- -— of school shootings were copycat crimes brought on by kids watching the news on TV. Kinkel seems aware of his place in the sad lineup of Paducah, Pearl, Jonesboro and Conyers. After last spring’s Little ton, Colo., shooting that left 15 people dead, court papers show Kinkel told a psychologist he blamed himself for the copycat crime. In his plea bar gain, Kinkel agreed to serve 25 years for four counts of murder. Lane Coun ty Circuit Judge Jack Mattison, how ever, can decide how Kinkel must serve the 7 1/2 years the prosecution has recommended for each of the 26 attempted murder counts. Obsessed with guns and bombs for years, Kinkel was expelled May 20, 1998, from Thurston High School for having a stolen pistol in his locker. Af ter he was taken home, he shot and killed his parents, then spent the night planting booby traps around the bod ies of two teachers. The next morning, he walked in to Thurston High’s cafeteria dressed in a long trenchcoat, pulled a .22-cal iber semiautomatic rifle and emptied a 50-round clip at the kids around him. 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