FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2003
NEWS IN BRIEF
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NATION
Maryland student heals after being shot in head
WASHINGTON—When University of Maryland sophomore Elizabeth Meejung Lee arrived at Washington Hospital Center on April 25, doctors had little hope that she would survive through the night. Her former boyfriend, George Washington junior Ki-Seong Kim, shot her in the head before killing himself in a College Park parking garage.
Lee, 20, has completely lost her vision and for most of the weekend relied on a breathing tube, but she regained consciousness over the weekend and is expected to recover, her family said Tuesday. Lee's condition was upgraded from critical to good Wednesday afternoon, and she has begun to talk with her family and friends, said Elizabeth's aunt, Carolyn Lee.
Friends and family described Lee as a quiet, gentle woman with an interest in art and classical music.
Karen Kyungmi Min, a Maryland sophomore and friend of Lee's since middle school, said Elizabeth met Kim, 21, while doing community service at church.
Min said Kim and Lee had a three-year relationship that ended in late March when Lee
told Kim she didn't want to see him anymore.
In the days following the breakup, Min said Kim would follow Elizabeth between classes and constantly called her cell phone.
Min also said Lee asked her to accompany her to her car out of fear that Kim would be waiting for her in the parking lot.
But after several weeks, Kim ceased this behavior, leading Min to believe he had gotten over the breakup.
Kim's friends said he seldom talked about his relationship with Lee and didn't exhibit any signs of emotional anguish in the weeks before the shooting.
Min said although Kim was angry over the breakup, there was never any indication that he would turn violent.
— The GW Hatchet of George Washington University via U-Wire
Television station pulls episode about club fire
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Providence-area CBS affiliate won't air an episode of CSI: Miami that deals with a nightclub fire out of respect for the victims and survivors of the West Warwick blaze that killed 99 people.
The episode, scheduled to air Monday, focuses on the criminal investigation of a fire at a Miami
nightclub that was caused by pyrotechnics.
Officials believe a band's pyrotechnic display sparked the Feb. 20 fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick. Flames quickly spread through the one-story wooden building, and 99 people died as they scrambled for the exits. Nearly 200 other people were injured.
The station will air excerpts of a nightclub benefit concert that took place April 22 in Providence. Donation information will be included in the show for viewers who want to contribute money to fire victims.
Chris Ender, senior vice president of communications for CBS, said local affiliates rarely pulled episodes of network programming, but it's not unprecedented.
Ender said the idea for the upcoming episode was already
in the works before the deadly fire in Rhode Island.
A WPRI photographer was at The Station the night of the fire, gathering bar scene footage for a story about safety in public places.
The reporter was Jeffrey Derderian, co-owner of The Station. WPRI officials say Derderian's club was not to be a focus of the story, but journalism experts have said the arrangement violated conflict of interest standards.
Report shows California smog problem worse
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California cemented its notoriety as the smoggiest state by having nine counties and six metropolitan areas listed among the worst polluted areas of the nation, according to American Lung
Association rankings released yesterday.
The California counties of San Bernardino, Fresno and Kern retained the top three positions as reported last year. The metro areas of Los Angeles-Riverside- Orange County, Bakersfield and Fresno also reprised their top rankings.
With its sunny skies, warm temperatures and reliance on the automobile, the Golden State has historically been the smoggiest place in America.
Nationwide, nearly half of Americans are living in counties with unhealthy smog levels, the association reported. While 93 counties improved their marks from last year, 26 counties received lower grades this year
The report gave 28 of California's 58 counties failing marks for air quality. Although nine counties improved their grades, the ALA said 33 million of the state's 35 million people were breathing dirty air. That number has increased by nearly 4 million people from last year's report.
Some experts, however cautioned that the report is based on deceptive methodology that can give failing grades for entire regions based on a few air monitoring stations that register violations, while others in the area
record safe smog levels. The report is based on EPA data from 1999 to 2001.
The findings do not take into account a pollutant that's consid ered more dangerous than smog: tiny particles of soot that can lodge deep in the lungs and cause heart problems and even death.
Driver arrested after chase at Hoover Dam
LAS VEGAS — A motorist crossing Hoover Dam failed to stop at two security checkpoints early yesterday and led police on a high-speed chase 60 miles into Arizona.
David Hamer, 29, of Las Vegas, was stopped near Kingman, Ariz., and arrested after officers broke a car window and pulled him from the vehicle, said Rich Melim, Hoover Dam police chief. Hamer was returned to Las Vegas, where he is being held in federal custody. He has not been charged; an arraignment was set for Friday.
The car hit spike strips set by Arizona highway patrol officers across the highway near Kingman, but didn't stop until it ran out of gas, Melim said.
The chase started just after 1 a.m., at times reaching speeds of more than 100 mph.
WORLD
Rescuers still searching for children in rubble
CELTIKSUYU, Turkey — Pausing now and then to listen for small voices, rescuers frantically searched for dozens of children buried in the rubble of their dormitory after an earthquake struck southeastern Turkey yesterday. At least 100 people were killed and 1,000 iniured.
Search teams were in contact with four of the children, state-owned TRT television reported from the scene, but there was little sign of 83 other children trapped in the collapsed four-story building.
The Associated Press
Some of the parents were giving up hope. Cevriye Bartir, the mother of missing 15-year-old Sinan, sat on the step of a fire truck wailing, "My dead son, let me be sacrificed instead."
The 198 students in the dorm ages 7 to 16, were asleep when the tremor hit early yesterday morning and collapsed the building. At least 15 were killed, along with a teacher. But 96 others were pulled out alive.
Steel bunk beds and steel closets helped hold up some of the walls of the school, saving many lives, rescuers said.
In Bingol, a bridge and at least 25 buildings collapsed, Mayor Feyzullah Karaaslan said. Damage could be seen throughout the city, where the streets were filled with terrified residents.
Many said that officials had not learned any lessons from past earthquakes because shoddily constructed buildings like the dormitory were allowed to stand in the quake-prone region
Thousands of buildings collapsed when two massive earthquakes struck western Turkey in 1999 and killed about 18,000 people.
10 Palestinians killed in Gaza Strip gunbattle
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli troops raided a Hamas stronghold and exchanged fire with dozens of masked gunmen yesterday, a day after the militant group set off a suicide bomb in Tel Aviv and mediators
presented a new Mideast peace plan. Ten Palestinians were killed, including two boys ages 2 and 13.
It was the most intense gunbattle in Gaza in 31 months of fighting. Separately, two Palestinians were killed in an exchange of fire with soldiers in the West Bank.
The fighting occurred as Israeli and Palestinian leaders voiced conflicting interpretations of the long-awaited "road map" peace plan, the latest attempt by international mediators to end the violence.
HAVANA — Hundreds of thousands of Cubans poured into the country's main plaza yesterday for a May Day celebration that aimed to defend the island's socialist system against criticism from abroad.
The Israeli military did not link the raid to Wednesday's bombing in a Tei Aviv pub, in which three Israelis were killed and 55 were wounded.
Cubans hit the streets to celebrate May Day
"Long live May Day! Long live
socialism! Long live Fidel!" declared Pedro Ross, secretary-general of the Cuban Workers Confederation, as the event began.
Organizers said 1 million people were expected at the Havana rally, including more than 900 union leaders from around the world — 160 of them from the United States.
Smaller gatherings were being held in other Cuban cities.
"We workers are gathered here to tell the American empire that we are not afraid, in spite of their lies," said Jose Rego, a 66-year-old gardener in a straw hat, shortly before the ceremony began at Havana's Plaza of the Revolution.
Waving a poster of a young Fidel Castro in one hand and a red, white and blue Cuban flag in the other, Rego declared, "The Cuban people know how to defend the just cause of the working class."
Cheers erupted as Castro, wearing his typical olive green uniform and cap, arrived and took his place alongside other communist leaders.
Soldiers in compound wounded by attackers
FALLUJAH, Iraq — Attackers lobbed two grenades into a U.S. Army compound yesterday, wounding seven soldiers just hours after the Americans had fired on Iraqi protesters in the street outside, a U.S. intelligence officer reported.
The incident came as President Bush prepared to address to the American public from a homeward-bound aircraft carrier, declaring that major combat in Iraq is finished.
None of the injuries to soldiers of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Fallujah was life-threatening, said Capt. Frank Rosenblatt.
The troops inside the walled compound opened fire on men fleeing the area, but no one was captured or believed hit, said Rosenblatt, whose 82nd Airborne Division is handling over control of Fallujah to the Armored Cavalry. Officers said the attackers' identities were unknown.
The Associated Press
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