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Crazed man attacks,
five children dead,
gunman shoots self
STOCKTON, Calif. - A man
fired several dozen shots from an
automatic rifle in an elementary
school Tuesday, killing five children,
wounding at least 35 other people and
then fatally shooting himself in the
head, authorities said.
Bruce Fernandez, spokesman for
the county office of emergency serv
ices, said six people had died.
Ellen Rich at St. Joseph’s Medical
Center said eight victims were being
mealed there, and said the total, in
cluding those being treated at other
ho;.pitals, was 35 wounded.
“We have at least 30 people that
we’ve sent out to area hospitals,”
said Police Chief Jack Calkins.
The attack at Cleveland Elemen
tary School came shortly before
noon. Other children were kept in
their rooms, said John Klose, Stock
ton Unified School District informa
tion officer.
Police Sgt. James Monk said his
office learned that a “man went ber
serk with an automatic weapon and
we have several (people) down.”
“Several dozen shots were heard
from an automatic rifle,” said Monk.
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Violent surge erupts in
Miami minority area
MIAMI — Police cordoned off a
largely black neighborhood Tuesday
after a six-hour melee of shooting,
burning and rock-throwing that was
touched off by the fatal shooting of a
black motorcyclist by a white police
man.
Mayor Xavier Suarez declared the
situation in the Overtown neighbor
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and called for an investigation.
Police surrounded the neighbor
hood and allowed only those with
legitimate business into the area, said
a police spokesman. Officer Angelo
Bitsis. Schools in the neighborhood
were closed.
The riot erupted on the night of the
federal holiday for slain civil rights
leader Martin Luther King Jr. and as
national attention was focused on the
city as the host of Sunday’s Super
Bowl. It also rekindled memories of
Miami riots in the early 1980s.
“It just exploded’’ said City
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy as
she prepared to enter the 1 1/2
square-mile area with a police escort.
“People have been celebrating Mar
tin Luther King’s birthday all day.
Maybe they were drunk. We just
don’t know.”
The riot began about 8 p.m., about
two hours after the death of motorcy
clist Clement Lloyd. Lloyd, 21, was
shot in the head as he was being
chased for an alleged traffic viola
tion, said Sgt. Michael Mazur, an
other police spokesman.
At least two officers were pursu
ing the motorcyclist for alleged er
ratic driving when they passed a third
officer, William Lozano, who was
stopped by the side of the road in an
unrelated incident, police said.
Lozano, who is white, shot Lloyd
as the motorcycle came toward him,
said Assistant Police Chief Don
March.
The motorcycle crashed into a
moving car, seriously injuring
Lloyd’s 24-year-old brother, who
was a passenger. The brother, whose
name was not immediately released,
was in critical condition today, ac
cording to Jackson Memorial Hospi
tal officials.
Within minutes of the shooting, at
least 100 blacks began throwing
rocks and bottles at police, who
called for reinforcements. About 125
officers cordoned off the area, au
thorities said.
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WASHINGTON ~ President
elect George Bush labored Tues
day to Jrim the first speech he witt
deliver as president into more
semonette than sermon, while the
capital and an estimated 30OJDOO
celebrants made ready for an man
eatioo exuavaganza that won’t
w much else to moderation.
Congress, meanwhile, ac
corded a warm reception to Bush’s
closest confidant and senior Cabi
net appointee, James A. Baker III,
who at confirmation bearings
pleaded for a partnership between
the executive and legislative
branches in the conduct of Amer
ica’s foreign policy.
Baker, sure to win approval as
Secretary of State, said the lira
order of business should be “a
of our minds on how to
with the Soviet Union.”
task, he said, “is to arrange
affairs so that whatever the out
come of perestroika, a more re
sponsible, constructive foreign
policy will remain in Moscow’s
interest.”
Elsewhere in the capital, thou
sands of performers, from Holly
wood figures to high-school ma
lurciua, iciit-ni scu iui swivs ui
inaugural events. The f rst will be a
twilight pageant at the Lincoln
Memorial on Wednesday.
The leading man remained in
the cutting room, trying to reduce
the length of the address he will
deliver Friday at noon, upon taking
office as president. He aims at
“something in the range of 15
minutes or less,” said spokes
woman Sheila Tate. *
The speech was dratted by
Peggy Noonan, the principal au
thor of Bush’s Republican conven
tion acceptance speech last sum
mer and a contributor to President
Reagan’s nationally broadcast
farewell last week.
Bush could do worse than aim
for brevity when he mounts the
Capitol's West Portico Friday to
take his oath beneath the winter
skies. One president, William
Henry Harrison, droned on in an
icy downpour for nearly two hours,
caught pneumonia and died.
George Washington delivered
the briefest inaugural address after
taking the oath for his second term.
It totalled 135 words.
Wednesday’s opening for the
five-day inaugural whirlw ind, an
outdoor affair, is to he attended by
Bush and Vice President elect Dan
Quayle. It will feature a wingtip
to-wingtip flyover by 21 Navy F
14 Tomcats, in a salute to a new
fcommander-in-chief who flew 58
combat missions over the Pacific
for the Navy in World War II.
The show also will include
music from the Gatlin Brothers
and the 3each Boys and will cul
minate in a massive fireworks dis
play lighting the sky with I,(XX)
electric-white bursts, in keeping
with the “thousand points of
light’’ theme of Bush’s campaign.
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Later in die evening, matters
turn far more pricey - and exclu
sive - for the Bush faithful, with
three black-tie dinners going at
$1,500 per seaL
Baker tokl the Senate panel
Tuesday that “bipartisanshipdocs
not mean that we must always
agree” on foreign policy. “But
eventually we must proceed, and
when we do so together.”
Baker was cordially received,
and got a strong introduction and
endorsement from Sen. Lloyd
Bentscn, a fellow Texan and the
Democratic candidate for vice
president last fall.
Senate Majority Leader George
Mitchell, D-Maine, said that
Baker and other cabinet appoint
ees “arc generally experienced,
hopefully pragmatic people, and
we won’t have the rigid ideology
of the first Reagan term.” He
added that ”1 am trying very hard
to establish from our side an at
mosphere of cooperation and bi
partisanship ”
Favoritism toward Wedtech Corporation
shows Meese in violation of ethics
WASHINGTON - Former Auor
ney General Edwin Mccse III vio
latcd federal ethics standards by act
ing at the request of a close friend tc
assist scandal-plagued Wedtecf
Corp. and a proposed SI billior
Middle East oil pipeline, a Justice
Department report concluded today.
A department statement said nc
further action against Mccse is war
ranted because he is no longer a gov
emment employee. Mccse left the
administration last summer to join
two conservative research organi/a
lions.
The report’s findings on ethic:
questions arc based in large measure
on evidence gathered in a 14 month
criminal investigation of Mcesc by an
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not address ethical questions and
ended with a decision not to prose
cute.
Bakker pleads
innocent in court
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former
PTL leader Jim Bakker pleaded inno
cent today to federal charges of di
verting millions of dollars in dona
tions from his followers and using the
money to support his lavish lifestyle.
Bakker made no comment during
the hearing, but defense attorney
George T. Davis asked U.S. Magis
trate Paul Taylor to impose a gag
order in the case.
Davis read parts of an interview
published Jan. 2 in which retired U.S.
Bankruptcy Judge Rufus Reynolds,
who presided over the PT'L bank
ruptcy case, called the founder of the
religious broadcasting empire a
“sawed-off little runt.’”
Davis also said Reynolds dc
wnbed Bakker as ‘ ‘a thief.
Meese s lawyers called the find
ings by the Justice Department’s
Office of Professional Responsibility
i a “travesty of justice.’’
At the White House, spokesman
Marlin Filzwaicr said that President
Reagan believes “this report was
unnecessary, partly because Mr.
i Meese has not been in the office for
some lime and partly because it was
unwarranted.’’
Fitzwater said that Reagan still
believes his longtime friend did noth
ing wrong. “That’s the way he feels.
I talked to him and I know whereof I
speak,” the spokesman said of the
president.
The investigators said that if
Meese were still atinmev aencral
“we would recommend (to the next
ranking department official) that the
president take disciplinary action."
The Justice Department said in a
statement that because Mccse is no
longer associated with the depart
ment, no further disciplinary action is
warranted in connection with matters
raised in the report.
In a statement, the department
said Attorney General Dick Thorn
burgh has reviewed and accepted the
report and considers the matter
closed.
Thornburgh addressed the portion
of the report that found that Mccsc
had violated the executive order and
the department’s standards of con
duct by participating in matters in
volving the Bell companies while
holding stock in them.
“It appears to me that Mr.
Mccsc’s failure to fully dispose of his
financial interest in the regional Bell
operating companies resulted from a
failure to obtain or act upon adequate
legal advice rather than an intent to
violate ethical standards,” said
Thornburgh.
In a 16-page statement prepared in
response to the report, Mocsc’s law
yers contend that ‘ ‘ there is absolutely
no basis for criticizing his conduct."
The report said Mccsc’s “actions
were inconsistent with the highest
standards which the American people
demand of not only every other attor
ney in the department, but especially
the attorney general who must set the
highest standard of behavior for the
department and for the government.
Contents of the 61-page report
were first disclosed by The Washing
ton i\)st in Tuesday editions.
company sola cnemicals to Libya
rRANKrUR r, West Germany - ihc plant’s construction at Rabia,
West Germany’s Merck chemical Libya.
company told the government Tues- A transport company in Cologne
day that it shipped 19 tons of a them l- said federal officials seized some ol
cal solvent to Libya last year. It said its records in conjunction with the
the destination may have been the growing Libyan investigation,
plant Washington says can produce The acknowledgments add to the
poison gas. growinglistofWestGcrmancompa
A Frankfurt company reported it nics that were or may have been in
provided expensive ventilation volved in providing materials for the
equipment to a now-defunct Frank plant, although they may not have
fort firm reportedly at the center of known ft at the time.