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Chest pains send Cheney to hospital
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney, who has had four heart attacks, suffered chest pains yesterday and was taken to a hospital where doctors inserted a tube to examine arteries for possible blockage. President Bush called it a "precautionary measure."
Adviser Mary Matalin said Cheney was undergoing a cardiac catheterization at George Washington University Hospital to determine what was causing the chest pains. "They're going in to take a look," she said. "Details to follow."
Cheney, 60, suffered a heart attack in late November but quickly resumed a full schedule after an operation to fix a blocked artery. One of his heart arteries was 90
percent blocked, so doctors implanted
a wire scaffolding-like device
One of his heart arteries was 90
called a stent to push away the blockage and prop open the artery walls.
It was his fourth heart attack since he was 37. In 1988, Cheney had quadruple bypass surgery to clear clogged arteries.
Aides said Cheney who
was working at the White House yesterday, told Bush in the morning that he was experiencing discomfort in his chest and planned to be examined by a doctor.
Cheney: experienced chest pains yesterday
One aide to Cheney said he headed to the hospital about 3:30 p.m. The aide said he appeared normal, even cheerful, all day.
Matalin said Cheney checked himself into the hospital "for a repeat cardiac catheterization after experiencing two brief, mild episodes of chest discomfort. This is a non-emergency precautionary procedure. An EKG obtained at the White House this afternoon was unchanged from one obtained last Thursday."
Cheney is an unusually active and influential vice president. He headed Bush's transition team, played a major role in Cabinet and top personnel selections and has helped Bush forge foreign policy as well as a national energy policy. White House officials say Cheney is the adviser Bush most relies upon to
make sure his agenda is carried out.
In a telephone interview, Matalin said the EKG last week was part of a normal follow-up to the heart attack Cheney suffered late last year.
Cheney, who has declined to release his full medical records, seemingly has lost some weight since then, but aides won't say how much — or how much he now weighs. He exercises regularly on a treadmill and has been skipping sweets, aides said.
The Constitution requires Congress to confirm a new vice president if that office should become vacant. The 25th Amendment, ratified in 1967, has been invoked twice, when Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned in 1973 and again after President Nixon resigned in 1974, elevating Vice President Gerald Ford to the presidency.
High school shooting kills 2, injures 13
Associated Press
SANTEE, Calif. — A 15-year-old boy who had been picked on and had talked about shooting classmates allegedly opened fire in a high school bathroom yesterday, killing two people and wounding 13 in the nation's deadliest school attack since Columbine.
One student said the boy had a smile on his face as he fired away with a pistol at Santana High School in suburban San Diego.
The boy, a freshman whose name was not released, surrendered in the bathroom, dropped his gun and said he acted alone, telling officers: "It's just me," according to sheriff's officials. They said he will be charged as an adult with murder, assault with a deadly weapon and gun possession.
Both of the dead were students, and at least one of the victims was a
campus supervisor, Sheriff William Koender said.
Fellow students and an adult acquaintance said they had heard the boy's threats over the weekend but thought he was joking and did not report him to authorities.
"He was picked on all the time," student Jessica Moore said. "He was picked on because he was one of the scrawniest guys. People called him freak, dork, nerd, stuff like that."
Student John Schardt, 17, was in a nearby classroom when the shooting started about 9:20 a.m. in a boys' restroom and spilled into a quad.
"I looked at the kid, and he was smiling and shooting his weapon," Schardt said. "It was total chaos. People were trying to take cover."
Schardt said he took photos of victims and another student videotaped the gunman's arrest, but authorities confiscated the film and the tape.
Andrew Kaforey, a 17-year-old
"I looked at the kid, and
he was smiling and shooting his weapon. It was total chaos. People were trying to take cover."
John Schardt
Santana High School student
senior, said he ran into the bathroom with a security guard after hearing what sounded like a firecracker or a gunshot. "He pointed the gun right at me but he didn't shoot," Kaforey said.
As he and the guard ran out, the gunman shot the guard in the back, Kaforev said.
Investigators said the boy used a 2.2-caliber revolver, stopping once to reload, and retreated after the shooting into the bathroom.
The attack was the nation's deadliest school shooting since the April 1999 bloodbath at Columbine High in Littleton, Colo., where two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before committing suicide.
"This is my worst nightmare," Principal Karen Degiescher said. She said that the campus will be closed today and that counselors were called in to help students.
Classmates and acquaintances of the boy described him as skinny and the subject of constant harassment. Students said he boasted about owning a gun.
Over the weekend, the boy "was joking on and off that he was going to come to school and shoot people," said Joshua Stevens, 15, a friend of the boy. "He had it all planned out, but at the end of the weekend he said he was just joking and he wasn't really going to do it.
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