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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.
Ben Whlker, 16, and Mikael Nick
olauson, 17, died.
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Special to The Gamecock
A photograph of teen murder suspect Kip Kinkel
is viewed Monday by Chinese schoolchildren at
an exhibit on juvenile crime in Beijing.
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