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■ Two killed in shooting at apartment building I by David Goodman The Associated Press Lincoln Park, Mich. —A tenant at a senior-citizen apartment house opened fire with a rifle Tuesday after he was sum moned to a meeting because of neigh bors’ complaints about his vulgar lan guage, authorities said. Two women were killed and a third woman was critically wounded. The man was taken into custody about 3:20 p.m. when police stormed his apart ment, police officer Lt. Donald Gentner said. The man did not resist and was not injured, but was on narcotics and taken to the hospital for observation, he said: He was in fair condition. The suspect’s name was not released, and no immediate charges were filed. Police had spent several hours search ing the 14-story building for the gunman after the noon shooting. Other tenants were told to stay in their apartments dur ing the search of the high-rise, and young sters on the playground of an elementary school nearby were hurried inside and kept there until parents arrived to pick them up. One of the victims was Marilyn Hig gins, 64, a former city council member and a longtime Lincoln Park Housing Commission member, Fire Chief Ernie Moon said. The identity of the other woman killed, a resident of the building, was not released Charles Higgins said he and his wife were delivering day-old bakery goods to needy residents of the building. They were in a meeting room when the gunman en tered, he said “One of the residents from the tower came down into the break room and started shooting with a rifle and killed my wife,” Higgins told the Detroit Free Press. “We were all looking at him, when 1 realized he was shooting,” Higgins said. “I went to a room where I thought 1 could get to a phone, and my wife came down the hall after me. She started hollering at hinr to stop doing that, and he .just shot her.” Apartment officials had summoned the man to a meeting after other residents complained of inappropriate language, said Phyllis McLenon, deputy director of the Housing Commission in the sub urb 10 miles south of Detroit. McLenon did not explain what she meant by inap propriate language. At the meeting, the man “was very dissatisfied and making threats.... He kept saying he wouldn’t have this character assassination and that he would take care of it,” she told WDIV-TV. “He was very upset, and was very upset with some of the ladies who were complaining about him.” The man said he had a continuing problem with the women, she said. McLenon said die man left the meet ing and was gone for about 10 minutes, and then the building’s maintenance man warned by radio that the man was com ing back shooting. One woman was shot in the face in the building office and another was shot. in the doorway, McLenon said. Some people ran to a bathroom or scrambled under a desk to hide. “He came in looking for us,” she said. Chris Sullivan, who lives on the 13th floor, said he had heard some women complain about the man’s language. “I never heard him use foul language, but a lot of the ladies complained he was vul gar,” Sullivan said. Police officers did not say if the women who were shot were the ones who had complained. In addition to the two women who were killed, a woman was hospitalized in critical condition. High court struggles with death row appeals by Richard Carelli The Associated Press Washington — The Supreme Court made it harder Tuesday for federal judges to overturn tainted convictions and sen tences in state courts, in a decision that potentially affects more than 3,600 death row inmates and hundreds of thousands of other prisoners nationwide. The justices, struggling to clarify their own past rulings and a 1996 law enact ed by Congress, left in doubt their ulti matelntent. “We have to wait and see how low er courts utilize this ruling,” Texas Tech law professor Timothy Floyd said. “It’s now harder for state defendants to get in to federal court, but it remains to be seen how much harder.” At issue was the effect of the Anti ‘Today’s ruling doesn’t shut the courthouse door. Some state inmates will win.’ Larry Yackle Boston University law professor Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, a 1996 law aimed in part at cutting the time between sentencing and exe cutions in capital punishment cases. For centuries, people convicted in state courts have had the right to appeal to federal courts, contending in pro ceedings known as “habeas corpus” that their prosecution violated some federal ly protected right. “This decision makes clear that the writ of habeas corpus is not be used as a device to go judge-shopping, running the same matginal claims past multiple sets of judges,” said Kent Schedigger of the conservative Criminal Justice Legal Foun dation. But Larry Yackle, a Boston Univer sity law professor who filed a friend-of the-court brief for the American Civil Liberties Union, said: “Today’s ruling doesn’t shut the federal courthouse door. Some state inmates will win.” A series of Supreme Court decisions limited federal court access for state pris oners, and the 1996 law further restrict ed federal judges’ second-guessing of state Court sec pages News Briefs ■ McCain might speak about flag today Arizona Sen. John McCain returns today to South Carolina, a key early loss in his failed Republican presidential campaign, and one supporter expects him to say the Confederate flag should be moved from atop the Statehouse. The flag was an issue that dogged Mc-< Cain and Texas Gov. Geoige W. Bush as they campaigned here in early February, with both men saying it was best left to South Carolinians to decide. McCain, who seemed to have momentum after coming out of New Hampshire with a win, lost much of it here with a deci sive loss to Bush. Officially, McCain is to speak to the South Carolina Policy Council about the conservative agenda. However, state House Majority Leader Rick Quinn, a Columbia Republican who helped lead McCain’s South Carolina campaign, said “I think he’s going to say he supports moving it to the soldier monument.”^ ■ Gingrich says Bush’s campaign ‘not quite up to speed’ Richmond, Va. (AP) — George W. Bush’s staff of advisers are “not quite up to speed yet” in running a presidential campaign, according to fellow Republi can and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Speaking to a sold-out audience Sat urday night, Gingrich said Bush’s team “still has a little bit oTAustin in their style” and isn’t fully prepared for a na-^ tional operation. He said that, in contrast/ the team advising Vice President A1 Gore is “a more professional and tougher team.” Bush and Gore are all but certain to be the presidential nominees this year. Gingrich also said first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had “a very good chance” of beating New York City May or Rudolph Giuliani in the New York Sen ate race. “If I were guessing right now, I would say she probably has the edge to win,” Gingrich said. ■ Vermont Senate gives preliminary approval to ‘civil unions’ for gays 0 Montpelier, Vt. 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