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Monday, September 26, 1994
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Haiti gun battle takes 10 lives
The Associated Press
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti — If history turns on a moment, that moment may have come when Lt. Virg Palumbo halted the men of 2nd Platoon, Echo Company, along the yellow stucco wall of the police barracks on the corner of J and 20th streets as dusk fell on Cap-Haitien.
Palumbo, 24, an intense Naval Academy graduate who speaks in superlatives of his men, his superiors and the Marine Corps, had led his platoon on foot patrol past the barracks earlier Saturday, pausing with great drama to pull a notebook from his flak jacket and take notes.
The Haitian police standing in the doorway watched with barely contained resentment.
"Borjour," Palumbo said pleasantly.
"Bonjour," the Haitians answered, faces impassive.
Palumbo's act of intimidation is known in Marine parlance as "pulling their punk card," a job he clearly relished. He was clearly looking forward to taking his men back to the barracks later that night.
"We're not here for a fight," he said, his sharp hazel eyes peering out from the shadow of his helmet. "We just want to show the military and show the people we're here."
Palumbo's moment in history came hours later as an angry Haitian military policeman raised his weapon at the Marines and a taunting civilian crowd. Palumbo
shot the man, and in a vicious five minutes his men exchanged fire with the Haitian force.
When gunfire gave way to silence, eight Haitians lay dead on the ground, their blood spattered against the yellow walls and gathering in pools in the street. In the intersection, illuminated by the light of an armored personnel carrier, lay a black derby with a red feather, a costume worn in voodoo ceremonies.
Two more Haitians inside the barracks died of their wounds. Another seriously wounded man was taken to the USS Wasp for treatment. Five other Haitians were taken into custody.
Colonel Tom Jones, the Marine commander at Cap Haitien, praised Palumbo's decision to fire.
"The lieutenant acted prudently and rapidly, like he was supposed to," he said yesterday.
The fight sparked an event of larger significance. Twelve hours after the gun battle, the police and their subalterns, long feared by the 75,000 people of Cap-Haitien, abandoned their stations, outposts and barracks, chastened by what had happened the night before.
"They are scared," said Jones.
"And for good reason."
military campus, gathering under the mango and palm trees to honk on the trombones and tubas that had been the property of the army band.
The people poured into the oncehated buildings, grabbing weapons, uniforms, identity papers, furniture, even a skull with a bullet hole. They rushed to the Marines, surrendering the weapons, then ransacked the main
In retrospect, the firefight at the barracks seemed inevitable. Despite unopposed landings by 1,900 Marines on Tuesday, troubles with the police increased through the week.
There were incidents of police attacking individuals. On Wednesday they waded into a crowd of demonstrators, leaving one man badly injured. There were reports of gunfire and threats aimed at Marines, whose positions were shadowed by the plain clothes in their new automobiles.
Palumbo's Saturday morning patrol was shadowed by one of the trucks.
Despite repeated warnings by Jones to Lt. Clau. Claudel Josephat, the local Haitian commander, the incidents continued.
"It was clear he had lost control of his people," Jones said.
Stationed next to the city's hospital, the men of Echo 2nd saw the results of the violence, a 12 year old boy kicked and beaten with an electrical cord until his arms and wore a mass of raised welts, another young boy with machete wounds to his head.
"The Marines are the toughest fighting force in the world. But when my guys see kids hurt, it really gets to them," Palumbo said as he gave a quick tour of the hospital.
U.S. visit to spark investing in Russia
The Associated Press
BRIZE NORTON, England — After a relaxed weekend in the English countryside, Russian President Boris Yeltsin headed yesterday for the United States, where he will try to convince Americans it is safe to invest in Russia.
Yeltsin insists that Russia is ready to do business, dismissing the complaints of critics who say investing in Russia is risky because of organized crime, conflicting legislation and unpredictable taxes.
Yeltsin is to meet President Clinton and address the U.N. General Assembly today in New York. He also will meet in Washington with political and business leaders.
Yeltis wraps up his trip Thursday in Seattle, where he will tour a Boeing Co. facility, take a turn on a yacht and spend time with an American family.
At a joint news conference yesterday, Yeltsin and Great Britain's Prime Minister John Major said they still could not believe how much things had changed since the end of the Cold War.
"I don't think as little as two, three, four, let alone five years ago, there would have been the possibility of such a meeting," Yeltsin told reporters.
He flew to New York from Brize Norton, a Royal Air Force base 55 miles northwest of London.
The two leaders and their wives spent the weekend at Chequers, the prime minister's country residence, north of London. They went for a walk in the woods and dropped in at a pub.
Selection of jurors delivers unexpected hardships
The Associated Press
"People have a personal involvement in this case. Some of them may have been out there on the freeway that Friday afternoon," said Loyola University Law School professor Laurie Levenson.
LOS ANGELES — After three months of endless publicity in the O.J. Simpson murder case, 1,000 people must look inward and decide whether they can be a fair juror.
But as the first stage of jury selection begins today, lawyers on both sides know that no hope exists of finding jurors unaware of the case. Nor would they want such a jury, Levenson said.
"You want someone on this jury who's at least heard about the case, because you want a functioning member of society," she said.
At a minimum, prospective jurors will know that Simpson, a former football star whose fame extended into show business, is charged with the slashing murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
They will also know that Simpson has declared himself "absolutely 100 percent not guilty" and that he has the best team of lawyers money can buy.
jurors who want to get on the case because of its notoriety and the chance they will become rich and famous as a result.
Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, the jury consultant working for the defense, has pinpointed a new phenomenon in the Simpson case:
"I've never seen it before," Dimitrius said. "In this case, they're coming up to me on the street asking, 'How do I become a juror on the O.J. case?'
Now, Levenson said, many prospects may be facing the reality that they can't afford the time to serve. Of the 1,000 people summoned by Superior Court Judge Lance Ito, more than 700 have already returned one-page questionnaires discussing their availability to serve in a trial which could stretch into 1995.
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