Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 4. 1991
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Nation/World briefs
Hartford, Conn.
Keg party causes riot
About 1,000 students at the University of Hartford rioted early yesterday when police tried to kidnap the authorized keg party, authorities said.
Students pelleted police with rocks and beer bottles after spilling out of an on-campus apartment to a nearby common.
Seven police officers and nine students suffered cuts and bruises. Twelve students were arrested on charges of first-degree riot, which is a felony, breach of peace and interfering with police.
"They were met by a very large, angry crowd out there," said Hartron police Sgt. Cary Gilbert. "It was definitely a rid."
At its height, about 100 officers from four cities and the campus safety force were called to the melee, which began when campus officers arrived about 1:30 a.m. to confiscate a beer keg, said school counselor Matsky. The students had not received permission for a keg party.
A few of the 40 students at the party started pushing and shoving the officers, who called for assistance from city police.
"It it was total mayhem," said sophomore Darren Champion, 22. "Basically none of this would have started if the police didn't show up.
If the police didn't come wielding billy clubs, it would have been over quickly."
Belfast
Pub shooting kills four
Gummen killed four people in a pub yesterday night, police said. The bar was popular with Catholics and the gunmen were believed to be loyalists, the news agency, Press Association, reported.
A representative for the Royal Ulster Constabulary said at least one other person was injured in the shooting at Boyles pub in the village of Cappagh, about 50 miles west of Belfast.
The loyalist paramilitary groups rooted in Northern Ireland's majority Protestant community oppose the government, people they claim are members of Irish Republican Army or other groups opposed to British rule.
The IRA's military campaign is supported by a minority of Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland. It grew out of the Catholic civil rights protests and violent clashes of the 1960s. The IRA has attacked police and army units in its effort to end British rule in the province, and it has killed people it claims were Protestant paramilitaries, informers or collaborators with British rule.
From The Associated Press
United plane crashes kills 25; no survivors
The Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A United jetliner with 25 people on board crashed in flames as it approached the Colorado Springs airport early yesterday. There are survivors, authorities said.
"We can't even find a chair," said El Paso County Sheriff Bernie Barry. "There's not a great deal of that airplane left."
United Flight 385 en route from Denver crash at 9:55 a.m. four to five miles south of the airport, the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, D.C. said. There were 20engers on board and a crew of five.
The FAA and United said all aboard apparently were killed. The Boeing 737-200 narrowly missed houses and apartment buildings. At least one person on the ground was injured.
Dick Meyer of the FAA's public information office in Seattle and Chicago-based United said there did not appear to be any survivors.
The United States Olympic Committee said two committee employees and a coach with the U.S. Cycling Federation were aboard the plane. United officials said a list of victims probably would be released today.
"All obviously are presumed dead." said Sat. Dean Kelso of the
El Paso County sheriff's office.
Meyer said there was no communication from the pilot to the airport control tower indicating any problem before the crash.
The airplane was last inspected yesterday at Denver and had no history of problems, Lawrence Nagin, United's senior vice president, said at a news conference at company headquarters.
A witness, Army Command Sgt. Maj. Leo Martinez, said that the airplane shot sharply, veered and then crashed virtually nose first.
"I watched and it went vertically into the ground," he said. "There was a huge fireball, black smoke and orange flame.
Sheriff's lt. Bill Mistretta said the airplane crashed in an unincorporated residential area called Widefield. The airplane crashed in a park surrounded by houses and apartment buildings.
"You can see tires burning. I don't think there's a part larger than a suitcase. You can't see any wings . . . or anything."
"It's a long and narrow park." Martinez said. "If he (the pilot) did this on purpose, no one in Iraq and Saudi Arabia could have done a better job of flying. It is the only place he could have taken it in."
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