Violence erupts
at Swedish disco
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) —
Gunmen fired on a trendy nightclub
in the capital early Sunday, killing
three people and wounding 21. Po
lice believe the killers were looking
for revenge alter being turned away
from the club.
The slayings were the latest in a
string of murders that have shocked
Sweden, which once experienced very
little violent crime.
Police raided the apartment of one
suspect in a working-class neighbor
hood south of Stockholm, but no one
was there. Police said two other men
also were involved in the shooting.
The gunmen, dressed in military
camouflage jackets, fired an auto
matic rifle through the doors and win
dows of the Sture Company disco
theque at 5:15 a.m., about an hour
after a dispute with the club’s door
men, said police spokesman Walter
Kegoe.
“Several people were turned away
by the doormen earlier and a scuffle
broke out. They came back later,”
Kegoe said.
People inside the central
Stockholm disco said the shooting set
off a panic.
“As I walked down the stairs, I saw
blood spurting everywhere,” one man
told Swedish television. “Then I saw
people just fall everywhere, and then
1 heard people say Run,’ so we ran
back into the club.”
Another man said he dropped to
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the floor and covered his head when
the shooting started. “There was to
tal panic. When the firing stopped
after about 15 seconds, people started
to yell and cry.”
A doorman and two women were
killed, police said. At least two of the
wounded were in critical condition.
Sweden has seen an alarming in
crease in violent crime recently. In
June, a 24-year-old army officer
opened fire near a barracks in cen
tral Sweden, killing seven people.
Last month, two teen-age brothers
were charged with beating a 15-year
old friend to death.
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Man sustained on pig liver
receives transplant Sunday
OMAHA (AP) — An Omaha
man hooked up for two days to a
pig’s liver to stay alive as doctors
searched for a suitable liver to
transplant underwent surgery Sun
day.
Eric Sternberg, 22, had been in
a coma and in critical condition
before surgery, University of Ne
braska Medical Center spokesman
Tim Kaldahl said.
In only five weeks, a type of
hepatitis probably caused by a vi
rus had destroyed Sternberg’s liver.
Friday morning, doctors began
using a pig liver to help Sternberg
survive. His blood was circulated
out of his body and into the
animal’s liver in hopes it would
remove toxins.
That pig liver failed Saturday,
and a second one was attached.
A suitable transplant organ be
came available Sunday, Kaldahl
said. A national shortage of organ
donors made the search difficult,
Kaldahl said.
Sternberg is the father of a 21
month-old daughter, Presley. He
and his fiancee, Danielle Baker,
had tentatively picked Februaiy for
their wedding.
A second patient at the medi
cal center was hooked up to a pig’s
liver Saturday as he waited for a
suitable liver. He was still waiting
Sunday, Kaldahl said.
Sternberg and the second pa
tient were only the third and fourth
patients at the medical center to
be placed on external pig livers in
attempts to sustain them.
The second patient’s name,
age, hometown and condition
weren’t released Sunday because
the family asked that they not be
made public, Kaldahl said.
Sternberg’s father, Thomas
Sternberg of Blair, pleaded Satur
day for people to consider organ
donations.
“We understand that we can’t
beg just for a liver for Eric,” he
said. “But we figure if we can en
courage enough liver donations,
maybe Eric will be lucky and get
one*
The national organ donor act
forbids direct solicitation of an
organ for a specific person.
More crime shrinks jury pools
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five
dozen citizens reporting for jury duty
in a murder trial here were asked by
the judge if they had lost a relative or
close friend to homicide. One-fourth
of them stood up.
It was a graphic illustration of
what years of killings have done to
the people of the nation’s capital.
One of those potential jurors had
lost two people, one in 1992 and one
in 1993.
Another lost a college roommate
18 months ago. He was driving down
a street and got caught in the cross
fire of an argument he knew nothing
about.
A third lost a relative who was shot
in the head after her hands were
bound with duct tape, an apparent
execution.
Having one-quarter of a random
group of potential jurors acknowledge
losing someone to homicide is not
unusual, said Assistant U.S. Attorney
David Schertler, chief of the homi
cide section. The U.S. attorney’s of
fice prosecutes all such cases in
Washington, where four people, in
cluding a police detective and two
FBI agents, were slain at police head
quarters last month.
“The city in the last three to four
years has had the highest murder rate
per capita, and it’s a city with a fairly
small population,” Schertler said.
“That means that you’re going to
have more people here who have been
affected by homicide than you are in
other places.”
So how does one find a fair jury to
hear murder cases?
The question about homicides was
just one of many as the judge tried to
ferret out whatever knowledge, preju
dice and emotional baggage the ju
rors were bringing to the courtroom
where one young man was accused
of killing another in a drug dispute.
Most of the 14 people who ac
knowledged losing someone they
cared about said they believed they
could be fair jurors.
It is a major issue for defense law
yers.
Attorney Frances D ’ Antuono, who
since 1988 has defended only accused
murderers, adamantly keeps such
people off her juries.
“1 try to exclude them no matter
what,” she said. “What’s one of the
most powerful experiences you can
have in life, to have someone close
to you murdered.”
Generally, jurors with slain rela
tives or friends are summoned to the
judge’s bench. There, the judge, pros
ecutor and defense attorney privately
question the jurors to try to learn their
true feelings.
If the judge won’t throw out a ju
ror for cause, prosecutors or defense
attorneys can use “peremptory” chal
lenges to reject a juror for no reason.
In a felony case in Washington,
each side gets 10 such peremptory
challenges. When those are gone, the
attorney is stuck with the people sit
ting in the jury box.
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Former restaurant becomes
Nebraska’s first Hindu temple
By John Fulwldf
Staff Reporter
Almost three years of planning and hard
work came to an end on Saturday, when the
Nebraska Hindu community celebrated in
Omaha the transformation^ a former Ital
ian restaurant into the first Hindu temple
in the state.
The celebration began at 10:30 a.m. with
the “Devalaya Pravesam,” or entiy into the
temple, led by children. Then the “puja,”
or prayer ritual, began. The guest priest,
Vbdamurthi Gajanan Joshi, traveled from
San Jose, Calif., to attend the opening.
The day was filled with different Hindu
religious ceremonies. Later in the afternoon,
the temple’s president and others spoke
about the history and future of the temple.
The Rev. Norman Leach of the Lincoln
Interfaith Council was the chief guest
speaker. He said members of the temple ini
tially might be viewed with suspicion and
distrust by their neighbors who feared the
unfamiliar.
But, he said, the temple would positively
impact the community by erecting a “vil
lage of kindness” in Omaha, Lincoln and
throughout the state of Nebraska.
“The Hindu temple will be a welcome
addition in helping us build bonds of friend
ship m Nebraska,” he said.
Ram Bishu, chairman of the temple’s re
ligious committee and associate professor
of industrial and management systems en
gineering at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, said in an interview that the
temple’s purpose was to cater to the reli
gious, spiritual, social and cultural needs
of the Hindu community.
About 600 Hindu families live in Ne
braska, he said, with about 400 in Omaha,
100 in Lincoln and the remaining 100
spread throughout the rest of the state.
Bishu said the idea for the temple came
in January 1992, when the need for atemple
to serve Nebraska, western Iowa and south
ern South Dakota was recognized. The clos
est Hindu temple at that time was in Kan
sas City, Mo.
The biggest obstacle to building the
temple was money.
“It’s a question of raising funds,” he said.
“The will, the mind, eveiything was there.
But the money wasn’t there.”
The first phase of the temple project, of
ficially completed on Saturday, cost
$400,000. The first phase included a com
mon prayer hall, kids’ corner, library and
temple office.
Another obstacle was the condition of the
building. Located near 132nd and Center
streets, it had housed S.P. Ghetty’s restau
rant. The interior of the building, vacant
for five years, literally was torn apart. Bishu
said all 600 families worked hard for four
months to renovate the building.
Bishu said he expected the second phase
of the project to be completed in the “near
to distant future.” It will include a larger
prayer hall and the conversion of the old
prayer hall into a social hall.
Bishu quoted Winston Churchill to sum
up his thoughts about the temple’s open
ing.
“This is not the end; this is not even the
beginning of the end. This is the end of the
beginning.”
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