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News in Brief
Thursday August 21,1997
NEWS FROM AROUND THE CAMPUS. NATION AND WORLD
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A KU student's purse was stolen between 10 p.m. Aug. 16 and 2 a.m. Aug. 17 from the 900 block of Massachusetts Street, Lawrence police said. The purse and items it contained were valued at $35.
U.S. trade deficit shrinks; China, Japan still ahead
WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit narrowed as exports hit an all-time high and imports shrank for the first time in eight months. But deficits with Japan and China rose sharply, drawing a rebuke yesterday from the Clinton administration.
The Commerce Department said the nation's overall trade deficit narrowed 14.5 percent in June to $8.16 billion, compared to a $-$4.9 billion trade gap in May.
But even with June's improvement, the deficit for this year is still on track to be the worst showing in a decade as trade continues to be the major weak spot for the U.S. economy.
President Clinton, who vowed to make trade a key component of his foreign policy, has seen the deficit rise every year he has been in office. This has provided critics a target. They contend that the administration's high-profile free trade agreements and market-opening deals with Japan and China have failed to reap benefits for American workers.
The administration is particularly sensitive to that type of criticism, given that Clinton will launch an effort next month to win congressional approval for the authority he needs to expand the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada to the rest of the Western hemisphere.
While the overall deficit was declining in June, America's trade gap with China jumped 15 percent to $4.3 billion. A flood of Chinese clothing, shoes and toys pushed the monthly trade gap with China above that with Japan for only the fourth time on record.
America's deficit with Japan also was up substantially, rising by 11.6 percent to $4.1 billion. Imports of Japanese cars and automotive products rose while American automotive sales to Japan fell.
Commerce Secretary William Daley said the performance of China and Japan in lowering trade barriers to American products had been disappointing. The administration released a letter to the Japanese government written by Daley and U.S. Trade Representative Charlene
Barshefsky, complaining about Japan's slow pace in opening up the market for auto part sales.
'Megan's Law' is upheld in federal appeals court
TRENTON, N.J. — A federal appeals court upheld Megan's Law yesterday. The court called for some technical changes but ruled that it was not unconstitutional for authorities to notify residents about the presence of sex offenders in their midst.
"The court has agreed with the state's position that notification is not punishment." New Jersey Attorney General Peter Verniero said. "It is a very good day for families and children in New Jersey."
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia rejected claims by the New Jersey public defender's office that community notification amounted to the tacking on of additional punishment after offenders completed their prison sentences.
The law was passed in response to the slaying of 7-year-old Megan Kanka in 1994. Jesse Timmendequas, a neighbor with a criminal record for sex offenses against children, was convicted of luring the Hamilton Township girl into his home, raping her and killing her.
The crime led to laws across the nation that require community notification when a convicted sex offender moves into the neighborhood.
In New Jersey, the law requires authorities to assess the likelihood that a convicted sex offender will commit another offense when out of prison. If the risk is judged to be moderate, schools and other institutions in the area are notified of the ex-offender's presence, but not the general public. If the risk is judged to be high, neighborhood residents are notified directly.
The appeals court said that there must be changes in the procedures that permit sex offenders to challenge their risk assessment and the community notification plan.
Sex offender notifications have been placed on hold since March 1996 as federal appeals proceeded.
New Jersey gunman dies after killing four others
COLEBROOK, N.H. — A man who apparently held a long-standing grudge against a judge killed her, two state troopers and a newspaper editor Tuesday during a wild three-hour rampage that ended when he was shot to death.
Four other law enforcement officials were wounded, three of them as they pursued the gunman through the small towns and wooded areas of rural New Hampshire and Vermont. The man, identified as Carl Drega, was killed in a firefight with nearly two dozen officers.
The slain judge, Vickie Bunnell, had once gotten a restraining order against Drega, 67. Her troubles with him dated to at least 1991 when, as an official in the small town of Columbia, she had him removed in handcuffs from the town hall because of a zoning dispute.
Tuesday's rampage began about 2:45 p.m. when troopers traveling in separate patrol cars pulled over Drega's red pickup truck for an unspecified violation, said New Hampshire Attorney General Philip McLaughlin. Drega, wearing a bullet-proof vest, shot both troopers dead with an assault rifle.
He then fled the scene in a patrol car, driving to a building housing the offices of Bunnell, a part-time District Court judge, and the weekly "News and Sentinel" of Colebrook.
vickie screamed and ran through our offices: It's Drega. He's got a gun," reporter Kenn Stransky said. "He shot her in the back. She died instantly."
Stransky said the paper's editor, Dennis Joos, was shot to death when he struggled with the gunman.
Everyone else in the building fled out the back.
Stransky said Bunnell, 44, had gotten a restraining order against Drega several years ago.
Lethal injection ends life of convicted rapist, killer
"She said he was a time bomb," the reporter said.
POTOSI, Mo. — A man convicted along with his uncle in the slaying of a 12-year-old mentally handicapped girl was executed by injection yesterday.
In his last words to prison officials, Andrew Six said: "They can take my body, but they can't take the love of the one person I've found."
Six, 32, a high school dropout from Pershing, Iowa, did not specify whom he was talking about, prison officials said.
According to court records, Six and his uncle, Donald Petary, showed up at the trailer home of Donald and Janet Allen in Ottumwa, Iowa, in April 1987. They claimed they wanted to look at a pickup truck the Alens were selling.
Six admitted that the men robbed and terrorized the family. Authorities said Six raped the Allens' pregnant 17-year-old daughter and later slit Janet Allen's throat with a butcher knife. Both women survived. Six denied the assaults.
The men then reportedly abducted the Allens' mentally handicapped daughter, Kathy.
With Petary and Kathy in the back seat, Six drove to Missouri in his car, which had a bumper sticker that read: I'm the person your mother warned you about.
Kathy's body was found in a ditch near Greentop, Mo., about 20 miles south of the Iowa border. She bled to death after her throat was slashed.
Six claimed he didn't kill the girl! Petary said he drank a case of beer that night and blacked out.
Petary, 60, is also on death row. His execution date has not been set.
The Allen family made the seve-
h hour drive to witness the execution.
"It's awful hard for me to relive," Janet Allen said. "He tried to kill me. They're both guilty."
War criminal's supporters shut down by NATO
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — NATO-led troops took over police headquarters and barracks and seized truckloads of weapons yesterday from police loyal to indicted wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, moving deeper into a growing dispute among Bosnian Serbs.
Western powers are intent on weakening Karadzic and eventually sending him to an international tribunal to face genocide charges. As long as Karadzic is at large and pulling the levers of power, there is little chance that the Bosnian peace agreement signed in 1995 can work.
NATO's intervention comes at the request of Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, and could push the Serb republic — which accounts for 49 percent of Bosnia — closer to a break-up.
About 350 British and Czech soldiers, 50 armored vehicles and helicopters went into action yesterday after an appeal from Plavic to U.S. envoy Robert Gelbard.
They sealed off Banja Luka police headquarters, the police academy, a special police barracks and three district police stations.
Plavisc is politically weaker than Karadzic and his loyalists, who include the Serb member of Bosnia's three-man presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik. However, she has started a campaign against Karadzic and Krajisnik, accusing them of getting rich off smuggling while ordinary Serbs struggle with poverty and unemployment.
Plavski called for elections in an attempt to replace the pro-Karadzic Bosnian Serb assembly, but the Bosnian Serb Constitutional Court ruled against her Friday. The dispute has since escalated, and a well-equipped special police unit loyal to Plavski moved in Sunday to the main Banja Luka police station.
Israel exacts retribution for attacks by terrorists
JIYE, Lebanon — Stepping up hostilities in a week of escalating violence, Israel jets struck deep inside Lebanon yesterday, bombing a guerrilla base and a power plant in retaliation for rocket attacks on northern Israel.
The only known casualties in yesterday's raids were two children who were injured when the roof of their house collapsed under Israeli bombardment in eastern Lebanon.
The attack was the latest in a series of violent exchanges that have killed at least nine Lebanese civilians and wounded dozens of people in southern Lebanon and northern Israel since Monday. It marked the first time this week that Israeli forces have retaliated directly, rather than their allies in southern Lebanon.
The growing violence threatens a 16-month-old agreement meant to halt attacks on civilians in the deadly violence between Lebanese-based guerrillas and Israeli forces. The international committee that oversees the U.S.-brokered agreement held an emergency meeting yesterday in Naqoura in southern Lebanon. The committee was expected to again appeal to all sides to spare civilians.
Israel made clear the bombing raids were to punish Lebanon for guerrilla rocket attacks Tuesday.
Arafat meets with rivals to foster unity, strength
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hugging and kissing his Islamic militant rivals, Yasser Arafat appealed yesterday for Palestinian unity and warned Israel that a new Palestinian revolt was possible.
Arafat's threat came at the start of a two-day national dialogue with opposi-
including Hamas, the militant group blamed for a double suicide bombing that killed 16 people last month in Jerusalem.
Arafat suggested Israel's tough policies could trigger a new Palestinian uprising like the one from 1987 to 1993.
Arafat: Worms Israel of a new Palestinian revolt
"We can't forget that the majority of the Palestinian people voted for peace," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that Arafat crush Hamas, and a top Netanyahu alide blasted Arafat for meeting with Hamas militants.
He apparently was referring to his election in January 1996.
The State Department said that the United States considered the Palestinian leader to be a partner in the pursuit of Mideast peace.
"We have received a series or assurances from Chairman Arafat... that he will assist in the fight against terrorism, that he will assist in the renewal of security cooperation (with Israel)." State Department representative James P. Rubin said.
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