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Figures show rising tide of racism
AMHERST, Mass. — Twenty
years after race riots tore up cities and
an assassin killed civil rights leader
Marlin Luther King Jr., a rise in
campus racial incidents is shaking
some of the nation’s ivory towers.
“Even from our crude figures we
can see a tremendous increase in the
number of reports of racial incidents
in schools,” said Eva Scars of the
Center for Democratic Renewal, a
Ku Klux Klan watchdog group in
Atlanta.
“We’re not talking about juvenile
jokes here. We’re talking about
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something that can have a horrible,
horribly vicious outcome,” she said.
The number of incidents logged
by the center has jumped from 14 in
1985 to 56 last year, she said.
They range from racist jokes on a
talk show at the University of Michi
gan last year to alleged beatings of
black students by whites at the Uni
versity of Massachusetts in 1986 and
earlier this year. Last spring, acarica
turc of a black man with a bone
through his nose was drawn on a
University of Wisconsin fraternity
lawn.
At the University of Pennsylvania
last week, campus police maintained
round-the-clock protection for a
black activist who reportedly re
ceived death threats. A school frater
nity was ordered to close for 18
months for sponsoring a strip show in
which white students jeered black
dancers.
“It was just a matter of lime before
things began erupting,” said Joseph
E. Lowcrcy, president of the South
ern Christian Leadership Conference
in Atlanta.
uunman opens nre
inside crowded church
EMrUKIA, Kan. — A heavily
armed man walked into a crowded
church Sunday and opened fire, kill
ing one person and injuring four
others before he was subdued by
church members, authorities said.
The gunman entered through the
side door of the Calvary Baptist
Church during services shortly after
11 a.m. and fired several rounds from
a semiautomatic handgun at the 100
people inside, police Chief Larry
Blomenkamp said.
“He had no particular target. He
just entered and started firing random
shots,” Blomenkamp said.
One witness told Emporia radio
station KVOE that the gunman
shouted “While supremacists!” be
fore firing at parishioners in the pre
dominantly white congregation. But
Blomenkamp disputed this.
“He said absolutely nothing. He
just walked in and began shooting,”
the police chief said.
The gunman was not a member of
the church, and no motive was
known, Blomenkamp said. The man
was taken to the Lyon County Jan,
but no formal charges were filed.
Police said they were trying to
confirm the name of the man, de
scribed as about 30 and of Oriental
descent. Police believe the man
drove a car with California license
plates.
A young woman who said her
father was killed in the shooting said
the gunman entered the rear of the
church, shouted at the congregation
and began firing.
“I thought it was a joke,” she said.
The woman declined to give her
name.
Parishioners scrambled for cover
under the pews. When the shooting
stopped, the woman said she “saw
blood everywhere” and discovered
her sister had been shot in the arm and
her father was gravely wounded.
One man was dead on arrival at
Newman Hospital about 11:15 a.m.,
nursing director Paula Wilson said.
Two people were reported in good
condition and a third was in serious
but stable condition, she said.
American helicopters in Persian Gulf attacked
MANA MA, Bahrain — American helicopters on a reconnaissance
flight escaped Sunday after drawing heavy machine gun fire from an oil
platform and several boats in the central Persian Gulf, U.S. officials
said.
Iran was believed to be behind the attack. No casualties were
reported. ,. ,
Theattack cameabout25 hours after a U.S, warship, on patrol further
north, fired at what were believed to be Iranian speedboats moving
toward one of the Navy’s offshore supply barges.
The two encounters shattered one of the longest periods of quiet in
the gulf since the gulfs so-called “tanker war” began four years ago.
| There have been no reported attacks on shipping by cither Iraq or Iran
since Feb. 12.
But the two warring nationscontinucd S unday to trade savage missile
attacks on each other’s cities.
Both sides reported civilians killed or wounded in the missile and j
bombing attacks, but gave no figures.
Man in wheelchair charged with drunk driving
GALLATIN, Tenn.—A man who rode his motorized wheelchair in
the path of a police car has been charged with driving under the !
influence.
James L. “Ironside” High, 29, of Gallatin, was arrested early Friday,
Assistan tPoltce Chief Wayne Brooks said. The incident occurred about
four miles from High's residence. He was not struck.
High, who uses the wheelchair because of a farming accident 20
years ago, said he drove his wheelchair in front of the police car to avoid
a ditch. Detective David Lame said High fell out of the wheelchair as
an officer tried to question him.
Air ambulance probe uncovers violations
PITTSBURGH—A federal investigation has uncovered about 120
violations of federal aviation regulations by the company that provides
helicopters and crews for one-thud of the nations civilian air ambulance
services, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Rocky Mountain Helicopter has been the target of a two-month
Federal Aviation Administration probe into company safety procedures j
and regulation compliance, according to a copyright story in Sunday’s
Pittsburgh Press. The company supplies aircraft, pilots and mechanics
to hospitals in 39 cities, including hospitals in Nebraska.
In January, a Rocky Mountain helicopter went out of control while
taking off from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The pilot
and a Bight nurse received minor injuries. Company officials said at the
time that an ice crystal in the hydraulic system may have caused the
crash.
Hospital spokesman Tom O’Connor said on Sunday that the FA A
reftort on the crash won’t be released for another 90 days.
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