The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, March 06, 1996, Page 2, Image 2
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. The Government Sl Non-Profit Career Fair Thursday, March 7 9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Career Fair: • Open to all Students & Alumni • Gather Career Information • Explore Career & Internship opportunities 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Workshops: ■ Criminal Justice & Law Enforcement Opportunities • Diversity in- Counseling Careers: A Panel Discussion lam CAREER SKKWQS You have your reasons. 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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. AP/Wm. J. Castellc 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. NetJraskan Editor J. Christopher Hain Night News Editors Rebecca Oitmans 472-1766 Melanie Brandert Imaging Editor Dpug Kouma Anne Hjersman Assoc. 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