NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 31, 1992
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Bus hijacker killed in driveway
Bus hijacking's twc-state odyssey
SOURCE: News reports
Lori Rondinellii, Knight-Ridder Tribune
The Associated Press
COLTON, Calif. — A man apparently desperate to return home to talk to God hijacked a Greyhound bus, taking eight people on a 320-mile dash before police killed him yesterday in his driveway, authorities said.
Reynaldo Andrade Gonzales, 33, described as experiencing religious hallucinations, commandeered the bus late Wednesday in Phoenix and careened west on Interstate 10 for about 4 hours with police in pursuit.
The passengers, seven adults and a child, were not hurt in the chase, which reached speeds up to 80 mph and included a collision with a California Highway Patrol car.
The bus crossed over several lanes to take out the car, said patrol dispatcher Bill Brown.
"The passengers said he didn't seem to know how drive the bus and he even asked them for help," said Liz Dunn, representative for Dallas-based Grayhound Lines Inc.
Butneighbor Mark Trimble. 18. said
Gonzales had worked for a charter bus company and had driven him on school field trips.
Police set out four different sets of spikes to puncture the bus's tires, but the bus did not stop despite several flat tires.
"The good guys and the bad guy came together," said Sgt. Terry Dunn of the San Bernardino County sheriff office.
The chase ended when Gonzales turned down a residential street in this blue-collar community 50 miles east of Los Angeles and pulled up in his driveway.
Gonzales, who was unarmed, was shot to death at 3:45 a.m. by a Colton officer after a struggle with officers in his driveway, said Sgt. Dennis Casey of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
A small group of neighbors gathered around a TV truck after the shooting to watch a videotape showing Gonzales leaving the bus. After he walked off camera, there was a sharp crack of gunfire.
NATION/WORLD BRIEFs
Scandal forces leader to resign
Prime Minister Charles Haughey, a four-term leader and battle-scarred veteran of Irish politics, said yesterday that he would resign to end the strife stirred by an old scandal.
The small Progressive Democratic party, reacting to charges that Haughey had lied about his role in wiretapping journalists' telephones in 1882, had threatened to bring down the government if Haughey did not resign.
"I have decided that to end the present political uncertainty, the time has come for me to hand over to a new leader, who will have the opportunity to further advance the best interests of the country," Haughey said in a statement.
Lawmakers from Fianna Fail, Haughey's party, will meet next week to choose a new leader. The leader would be confirmed as prime minister on Feb. 11.
Finance Minister Bertie Ahern, 40, and former Finance Minister Albert Reynolds, 56, have emerged as the leading contenders to succeed Haughey as leader of Ireland's dominant politi-
Yeltsin discusses wife, alcohol, bombs on TV
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Russian President Boris Yeltsin says he likes to drink, though not in excess, and that although his wife is free to express her own opinions, she does not listen to them in making political decisions.
Yeltsin, in an interview in Moscow with ABC's *s-20*
for the former Soviet Union working in Latvia.
The Russian president also said he was a afraid that his three grandchildren might be kidnapped.
"Ihaverceived information saying th' may happen.
Yeltsin said, providing no details.
In contrast to Mikhail Gorbachev — who went against highly patriarchal Russian traditions by openly seeking the advice of his wife, Raisa — he did not talk about political matters with his wife.
Naina Yeltin is not even mentioned in the *International Who's Who* envoy on Yeltin.
Rumors of excessive drinking have dogged Yeltsin since he was reported to have been drunk in a visit to the United States two years ago.
However, he told Walters through an interpreter, "athletic activity and alcohol are two things that are incompatible with each other.
"I'm very actively engaged in sports, an hour and a half every Tuesday and Saturday, athletic exercise morning and night, a cold shower and very intensive work for 19 to 20 hours a day.
"Of course, we have some holidays that we celebrate in our family. I am not an ascetic, but I am cat-loving."
responding to interviewer Barbara Walters. "... Although, of course, my wife has a view of her own, and she is free to express it."
ween, in our family I'm the boss." Yeltsin said.
Yeltsin also said he was trying to prevent nuclear proliferation.
In the midst of the price increases Yeltsin authorized, many of the most knowledgeable nuclear weapons scientists are working for wages so low that the danger of them selling their services to other
The Federal Election Commission approved yesterday nearly $3 million in government matching funds for nine presidential candidates.
The candidates will receive the money next month.
From The Associated Press
Candidates' funds are certified
Washington
More than $1 million will go to President Bush, bringing his total matching funds to $3.6 million. His challenger, Patrick Buchanan, will receive $100,000.
The FEC said it has now certified more than $9.3 million to the candidates.
Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton led the Democratic field with $821,234 for a total $1.4 million for his 1992 campaign, Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerry will receive $288,767; Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, $251,931; former California Gov. Jerry Brown, $158,122; former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas, $99,910; and Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder, $90,711.
Lenora Fulani, a New York psychologist also running for president, will receive $139,430 for a cumulative total of $763,928.
The council's new high profile was underlined last year by its role in the Persian Gulf War. The summit was spurred by changes in the wake of the Cold
Britain is president of the council this month, and Major proposed the summit
U.N. Security Council meets to coordinate peace policies
British Ambassador Sir David Hannay said: "The Security Council is more and more the focus of all the work that is being done in collective security against terrorists against threats to international peace and security."
Ambassadors of the 15 council nations reached general agreement yesterday on the text of the nonbinding communique, to be issued by the leaders today, and sent it to their respective governments for approval. Hannay and U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering said.
■ Reaffirms the commitment to the use of U.N. collective security measures to deal with threats to peace and to reverse acts of aggression.
The Associated Press
The proposed text of the statement to be adopted by the council members includes the following:
UNITED NATIONS - President Bush and the world's other top leaders gathered yesterday for an unprecedented Security Council summit to coordinate policy on peacekeeping, disarmament and quelling aggression.
British Prime Minister John Major will preside over today's summit, the first of its kind in the council's 46-year history. Thirteen heads of state or governor are expected. Major at the circular table in the council's chamber.
War'send
Endorses current efforts in disarmament and arms control, and calls the spread of a threat in the region.
Notes that tunituitive change in recent years, however welcome, has brought new risks for stability and mobility.
- Urges the secretary-general to prepare recommendations by July to increase the U.N.'s capacity for preventative diplomacy, for peacemaking and for peacekeeping.
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