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March 7 Self Hypnosis I uesdays CO March 14 How Addictive Behaviors Affect Stress 3:00-4:30 2 March 28 Biofeedback Room 338 ft* April 4 Open Discussion Nebraska Union 9 April 11 Preparing for Finals ^ April 18 Handling the Stress of Finals Schuyler plant has shootings, immigration raid over weekend SCHUYLER (AP) — A man who failed to show up in court on a charge that he assaulted his es tranged girlfriend shot the woman and ner new boyfriend to death be fore killing himself in the parking lot of a meatpacking plant. The shootings happened about half an hour after the second shift ended at 10 p.m. Friday at the Excel Corp. plant, company spokesman Mark Klein said. The killings also came hours before federal immigration officials were scheduled to raid the plant with the help of Excel’s manage ment. Forty INS agents and 30 other police officers converged on the plant Saturday morning. About 125 workers were taken by bus and van to the Columbus armory for pos sible deportation, said Michael Went, deputy director of the Immi gration and Naturalization Service’s regional office in Omaha. Few people were in the parking lot at the time of the shootings but no one else was injured, Klein said. Carmen Panameno, 40, and Jose M. Martinez, 41, were shot as they left the plant after finishing their shifts, said Colfax County Attorney Richard Seckman. They had worked there less than two years, co-work ers said. The gunman, Edwin A. Escalera, 41, then used the handgun to kill himself, said Seckman, who de clined to release further details be cause police still had witnesses to question. Each was shot once in the head, said Seckman, who calling the shootings an apparent double mur der and suicide. Autopsies will be done Monday in Sioux City, Iowa, to confirm the cause of death, he said. Escalera was not one of the 1,600 employees of the plant on the edge of this small town 60 miles west of Omaha. Escalera and Panameno once considered themselves common law husband and wife, but Panameno was now living with Martinez in a white stucco home across the street from the Colfax County Courthouse, officials said. Escalera had a history of vio lence against Panameno. He had served 90 days in jail on a third degree assault charge for beating her in 1993, Seckman said. When he was released on probation, Escalera violated a court order that he stay away fFom Panameno as a condition of probation, Seckman said. He was sentenced to another 90 days in the county jail, Seckman said. On Jan. 12, Escalera was ar rested again on third-degree assault on Panameno, but was released on bail, Seckman said. When he failed to appear at a court hearing, a war rant was issued for his^arrest, he said. The shootings were unrelated to the immigration raids, Seckman, company and immigration officials said. About 800 second-shiftworkers were asked by their supervisors to report for a shortened, four-hour shift Saturday even though the meat processing plant was not scheduled to be in operation, Klein said. He said the company had worked with the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service for at least a month and the plant employees were ordered to work as part of the planned raid. The raid followed an INS audit of Excel records that determined about 200 workers had lied about their U.S. citizenship or used fraudulent documents to gain em ployment, Went said. Whoever said "the best things in life are free" probably bad a trust fund. ■■■■"’ r" : • ’ It's everyv^riere ■you. "watit to Toe.® ©;yis* U.S.A. Inc. .1995 Rwandan governor killed NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The governor of Rwanda’s southern prov ince of Butare was assassinated in an ambush, the prime minister said Sun day. He blamed soldiers of the de feated Hutu-led government living in neighboring Zaire. Pierre-Claver Rwangabo was shot Saturday night near the town of Butare, the provincial capital near the border with Burundi, Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu said by telephone from Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. Rwangabo’s son and driver also were killed, Rwandan radio reported. The prime minister said the killing of Rwangabo, a moderate Hutu, is believed to have been carried out by soldiers of the defeated Hutu-led gov ernment who have sought refuge in Zaire. An estimated 30,000 former soldiers and 10,000 allied militiamen are among some 1 million Rwandan refugees in the camps. But a U.S. human rights group of ficial said extremist Tutsis were more likely suspects. They had accused the governor of being too soft on Hutus accused in the massacres of a esti mated 500,000 people, mostly Tutsis, from April to June last year. After defeating the Hutu-led gov ernment last year, Tutsi-led rebels formed a government that includes moderate Hutus, such as Twagiramungu and Rwangabo. Rwandan radio said the governor was returning home from Kigali when the assailants stopped his car by blocking the road with a tree. More than five gunmen in civilian clothes opened fire. Woman found in lions’ pen, cause of death undetermined WASHINGTON (AP) — The medical examiner was still trying to determine Sunday what killed an uni dentified woman whose partially de voured body was found in the lions’ pen at the National Zoo. And police said they were working on figuring out how the woman got over the 9-foot wall and 26-foot moat that separate zoo visitors from a pair of African lions. “All information about the au topsy results will be released by the medical examiner and the medical examiner only,” said police spokes man Sgt. Joe Gentile. “Anything from any other source is not an offi cial cause of death.” , A spokesman for the medical ex aminer said no information would be released before Monday. The Washington Post reported Sun day that the victim appeared to be in her mid- to late 20s and was carrying identification showing she was from Little Rock, Ark. Homicide Detective Sgt. Clarence Muse confirmed that identification was found on the body, but said police had not determined whether it belonged to the victim. He said he could not con firm it was issued in Arkansas. A zookeeper going to feed the two lions housed in the compoundfound the victim’s mutilated remains around 7 a.m. Saturday. The death was the zoo’s second = lion-mauling incident. In 1958, a 2 1/ 2-year-old Canadian girl, Julie Ann Vogt, was mauled and decapitated as ' a caged lion pulled the girl through the pen’s vertical bars. Nebiraskan FAX NUMBER 472-1761 The Daily NebraskanfUSPS 144-080} is published by the UNL Publications Board. 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