Marine shoots officer,
wounds anotheron base
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.—
A Marine walked into his lieuten
ant colonel’s office and fatally shot
him in the chest Tuesday, then seri
ously wounded another superior
officer who came to investigate,
officials said.
Sgt. Jessie A. Quintanilla was
arrested shortly after the shooting
at the Marine Corps Air Station,
said Lt. Col. Jerry Broeckcrt, a
spokesman for Camp Pendleton
Marine Corps Base.
Both victims were high-ranking
officers of Marine Logistics Squad
ron 39, where Quintanilla was as
signed to the supply section.
Lt. Col. Daniel W. Kidd, the
squadron’s executive officer, was
pronounced dead at 3:28 p.m. at the
Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital.
Lt. Col. Thomas A. Heffner, the
squadron’s commanding officer,
was hospitalized in serious condi
tion, officials said.
The motive was unknown, ofifi
cials said.
Col. Bob Zimmerman, the air
station’s commanding officer, said
he wasn’t aware of any problems
between Quintanilla and the offic
ers.
Kidd “is the dad for the people
here,” said Broeckert. “He controls
their liberty, controls their work
hours.
“He touches the lives of many
people.”
Quintanilla allegedly walked
into Kidd’s second-story suite and
shot the executive officer.
When Heffner went to see what
happened, Quintanilla shot him, too,
Broeckert said.
“To think a Marine would do
this to another Marine really both
ers us,” Broeckert said.
With 600 Marines, the squadron
is the largest at the air station, which
has five flying squadrons.
Squadron 39 is a support unit
that repairs helicopters. The base is
about 30 miles north of San Diego.
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U.S. sends aid to Israel
WASHINGTON — President
Clinton sent highly sophisticated
bomb-detection equipment and tech
nical experts to Israel today to help
battle a deadly wave of terrorism.
Clinton said he took the action to
“support the fight against future ter
rorist attacks, to bring killers to justice
and to rally support for peace in the
Middle East.”
A planeload of equipment as
sembled by the CIA left for Israel
today. Officials were secretive about
the contents, saying they did not want
to tip off terrorists about what to ex
pect.
Clinton described it as “highly so
phisticated detection equipment.” An
administration official said the ship
ment involved nine units of equip
ment.
Additional equipment is being as
sembled from U.S. stocks and will be
shipped on an emergency basis in the
next few days, the White House said.
Bombings in Israel have killed at least
57 people and wounded more than 200
since Feb. 25.
“The United States has always stood
with the people of Israel through good
times and bad,” Clinton said in a speech
before the National Association of
Counties. “And we stand with them
today.” The audience applauded
loudly.
“I am sure that ail of you as Ameri
cans share my outrage at the campaign
of terror which is being directed at the
people of Israel,” the president said.
“These are desperate and fanatic
acts aimed not just at killing innocent
people, including innocent children,
but at ki lling t he growing prospects for
peace in the Middle East,” he said.
“They must not succeed.”
White House press secretary Mike
McCurry said the equipment and the
experts would help Israel and Yasser
Arafat’s Palestinian Authority add to
meir anti-terrorist arsenal.
Clinton also ordered the develop
ment of a comprehensive package of
training, technical assistance and
equipment to help improve coordina
tion among Israel, the Palestinians and
regional governments.
It will include communication
equipment, McCurry said.
Clinton authorized diplomatic ap
proaches to foreign governments to
rally support and assistance for Israel
and the Palestinian Authority.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole,
on a campaign stop in New York, said
that Congress might cut funds to assist
Palestinian’s efforts at self-rule if
Arafat doesn’t do more to combat ter
rorism.
“That’s not a threat, I’m just being
realistic,” Dole told a breakfast of civic
and business leaders.
The White House spokesman
brushed aside Dole’s statement.
“Sometimes in the heat of presiden
tial campaigns, candidates make mis
takes,” McCurry said. “Obviously that
type of assistance to combat terrorism
is critical.”
McCurry said Clinton will take ad
ditional steps in the near future. “We’ll
be assembling some more assistance
in the coming days.”
The United States also wants to
further isolate Iran, accused by Wash
ington of being a sponsor of terrorism.
“There’s no such thing as moderated
behavior when it comes to Iran,”
McCurry said.
Clinton repeatedly has promised
publicly to help Israel deal with the
risks it is taking in turning over control
of Gaza and much of the West Bank to
Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organi
zation.
Israeli troops have pulled back, and
while they still are responsible for pro
tecting 100,000 Jewish settlers, the
job of policing the Palestinians and
U.S.
assistance
suras taken by President
ton Tuesday to aid Israel in the
wed wake of terror bombings:
A team of technical experts
carrying bomb-detection
equipment for use at border
checkpoints was to leave
Tuesday for Israel.
Additional equipment to be
assembled from U.S. stocks will
be shipped on an emergency
basis in the next few days.
A comprehensive package of
training, technical assistance
and equipment is being
developed to help improve
coordination among Israel,
the Palestinians and regional
governments.
Diplomatic approaches to
foreign governments will be
used to rally support and
assistance for Israel and
Palestinian Authority.
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deterring terrorist attacks is assigned
to Arafat.
McCurry told reporters Clinton had
written to Arafat “to urge him to do
everydiing he can to break Hamas,”
the militant Palestinian group believed
responsible for a series of suicide
bombings.
Clinton also wrote Syrian President
Hafez Assad on Sunday, calling for
international condemnation of terror
ism, McCurry said.
“We believe the Palestinian Au
thority and Israel will make the most
effective fight possible against terror
ism,” McCurry said.
Senate passes bill to further tighten
sanctions on Cuba for downing planes
wamiunuiun — with a mes
sage that Fidel Castro must answer for
shooting down two American civilian
Elanes, the Senate decisively passed a
ill Tuesday that further tightens eco
nomic sanctions on Cuba.
The bill, aimed specifically at driv
ing foreign investors from the island,
moved to the House for certain pas
sage this week, and President Clinton
has promised to sign it. The Senate
vote was 74-22.
It also gives the force of law to
existing sanctions orders against the
Castro government to ensure that no
president can ease them without an act
of Congress.
In a statement, Clinton said the bill’s
passage would “send Cuba a powerful
message that the United States will not
tolerate further loss of American life.”
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole,
R-Kan. spoke of the bill’s “clear mes
sage that the time of Fidel Castro has
come and gone.”
Dole, facing a crucial primary next
week in strongly anti-Castro Florida in
his bid for the GOP presidential nomi
nation, interrupted his campaign Tues
day in New York and flew in for the
vote.
“The folly of appeasement and ac
commodation is now tragically appar
ent,” said Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison,
R-Tcxas. “Today we will act to restore
United States policy to its previous
and proper direction, to isolate the
Castro government, put a shield around
it and hasten the day it will fall.”
Called theLibertad bill, the Span
ish word for liberty, the measure was
passed in different versions last fall by
the House and the Senate.
White House opposition kept the
bill in legislative limbo until the Feb.
24 downing of two small planes near
Cuba, which killed four Cuban-Ameri
cans, galvanized anti-Castro senti
ments.
Clinton, facing a clamor for Castro
to be punished, agreed last week to
sign the bill and accepted a controvcr
sial provision giving people the right
to sue foreign companies that profit
from property confiscated during
Gastro’s 37-year rule. Clinton retains
aulhori ty to suspend the right to sue for
six-month periods.
Opponents argued that the bill was
being rushed through in the passion of
the moment, that it would tie up U.S.
courts with lawsuits, unnecessarily
antagonize U.S. allies and hurt the
Cuban people more than their govern
ment.
“If you don’t think we’re going to
get reprisals from this, a nightmare, a
quagmire, let me see what happens
when an Israeli business person is de
nied a visa” because he also does busi
ness in Cuba, said Sen. Christopher
Dodd, D-Conn., the bill’s leadingcritic.
Livingconditions in Cuba are bound
to worsen with the tightened sanc
tions, said Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I.,
another opponent. “Taken to its most
extreme, this bill could provoke seri
ous violence on the island,” Pell said.
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