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---- Is By Dave Ivey Associated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A 19 year-old woman with a Mohawk hair cut spread out a tarp in the middle of the Penn State University campus Tuesday and opened fire with a rifle, killing one student and wounding an other before she was tackled while try ing to reload. Jillian Robbins was hospitalized in serious condition with a stab wound suffered in a struggle with the student who came to the rescue and knocked her down after she began shooting. No immediate charges were filed against Robbins, who is a longtime resident of State College but not a stu dent. Police gave no motive for the shoot ing and said Robbins did not know her victims. 4 Robbins positioned herself in front of the student union and fired off at least five shots from her rifle, a Mauser with a telescopic sight, around 9:30 a.m., police said. Hundreds of fright ened students and teachers scattered across the lawn outside the Hetzel Union Building, one of the campus’ busiest areas. A book in one student’s backpack stopped a bullet. Aerospace engineering student Brendon Malovrh noticed smoke, ran over and tackled Robbins as she was putting in a second ammunition clip, police said. As the two struggled, Robbins pulled a knife from her purse and tried to stab Malovrh, stabbing herself in the leg instead, police said. Malovrh quickly took off his belt and fashioned a tourniquet on Robbins. In front of them lay a dead Melanie Spalla, 19, of Altoona. Nicholas Mensah, 27, of Philadelphia, had been shot once in the abdomen. He was in stable condition. “This is a higb-traffic area, where lots of people ride their bikes. It’s freaky to know this happened here. But I guess this is where you want to do it if you want to kill someone,” said Jes sica Ohrum, 20, of East Berlin. Acquaintances who spoke on the condition of anonymity said Robbins had a history of mental problems, once spending time in a mental hospital. They said she had been married and divorced in the past year and had tried to commit suicide last month. Friends said she hoped to become an artist. Fellow employees at a diner-bak l--- ' ery where she had worked a year ago called her “Crazy Jill*” an acquaintance said. Campus Police Chief David Steamer said Robbins had Army Re serve training, and a friend said she liked to hunt. About 40,000 students attend the university in State College, a town of about 40,000 permanent residents in the center of the state. There has been only one other slay ing on campus in the school’s 186-year history: In 1969, a graduate student was stabbed in a library. Her killer was never found. ——— -1 U.S. troops headed for Kuwait Clinton says warnings, pressure on Hussein necessary to keep peace WASHINGTON (AP)—In moves designed to “keep Saddam Hussein in a box,” President Clinton dispatched 3,500 Army soldiers to Kuwait and warned the Iraqi leader of new attacks should he threaten his neighbors or U.S. forces. The warning to Saddam will remain in effect indefinitely, the State Depart ment said. “It’s obvious that he’s always push ing the envelope,” Clinton said Tues day. “We didn’t want to.create a pre cedent that would lead him to believe he could take further action. We didn’t want there to be any ambiguity at all.” After congressional leaders met with Clinton at the White House, Democratic senators said Clinton had not hesitated in sending the troops to Kuwait. Although plans to send 5,000 sol diers were announced on Friday, re ports emerged Monday the decision was being reviewed. “We’re doing it because the Ku waiti government feelsthreatened,” Defense Secretary Wiliam Perry said of thedeployment. The 3,500 soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas, would join 1,200 others conducting exercises in Kuwait by the end of the week, he said. Perry flatly rejected speculation the Kuwaiti government initially was un willing to accept additional U.S. faces, or that the U.S.-led coalition that mounted the 1991 war against Iraq had been fractured during the past two weeks of confrontation with Saddam. “The bottom line is, the coalition is alive and well,” Perry said. He had returned early Tuesday from two days ofconsultations with Gulf and Euro pean allies. Senate Republican leader Trent Lott of Mississippi expressed satisfac tion after attending the meeting with Clinton, although he termed it “some what belated.” He said he hoped “there will be no basis” for the troops to go into action, but added that would depend on whether Saddam threatens U.S. forces or his neighbors. Before departing for a three-day campaign swing in the Midwest and West, Clinton said his actions were “designed to improve the strategic po sition of the United States and our al lies to keep Saddam Hussein in a box and limit his ability to threaten his neighbors.” The actions are designed to tell Saddam “the box you are in is now a tighter box,” Clinton said. Perry, asked at a Pentagon briefing what Iraqi steps actions would prompt renewed U.S. strikes, replied: “We will not tolerate any threatening actions against our air crews.” Should any be taken, he pledged, “we will respond very sharply.” Interviewed later on PBS’ “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” Perry said the Iraqis also have to deploy their ground forces differently from how they’re situated now. “They understand very clearly what they have to do and what they have to refrain from doing, and we wiil be watching very, very carefully to see that they follow those,” he said. Agency says air bags kill children WASHINGTON (AP) — Passen ger-side air bags are killing children, federal safety experts said Tuesday. They recommend children ride in the back seat and say air bags triggered at higher car speeds and with less power may help those up front. “Unfortunately, sometimes with the best intentions, you get unintended consequences,” National Transporta tion Safety Board Chairman Jim Hall said of the 26 child deaths in recent years attributed to passenger-side air bags. His agency issued a score of rec ommendations addressing the prob lems of air bags and child restraint sys terns. The recommendations went to local, state and federal agencies, auto manufacturers and the makers of child restraint systems. The action concluded two years of analysis in which safety board staffers studied 120 accidents involving 207 children. It found two major problems — youngsters being injured and killed by passenger-side air bags and while riding in improperly attached child re straint systems. “What we’re finding is a majority of children are in the wrong restraint for their age, height and weight—and the majority of restraints are being used improperly,” said Elaine Weinstein of die safety board staff. There are more than 50 types of child seat, booster seat and cither re straint systems c» the market, each with its own attachment system, and many are so comply that many permits can not install them properly. One recommendation called for simplified restraint systems “so it doesn’t take a Harvard degree to un derstand how to get the seat into and out of a car ” said Hall. Board member John Hammerschmidt noted that a traffic check by the Fairfax County, Va., police found 138 child restraint seats improperly installed, among 149 checked. Commission denies Perot, parties argue his inclusion WASHINGTON (AP) —* In a decision cheered by Republicans, a nonpartisan commission recom mended Ibesday that Ross Perot be denied a spot in this frill’s presiden tial debates. An outraged Perot vowed to sue, and the Democrats continued to ar gue that he. should share the stage. The Commission on Presidential Debates said Perot should be ex cluded because he had no realistic chance of winning the White House. Its non-binding recommenda tions are now the subject ofnegotiations between the Dole and Clinton campaigns, which met for three hours Tuesday without reaching agreement. The Clinton campaign sug gested two two-hour presidential debates, with Perot to be invited to one. Republican Bob Dole wants four debates—all without Perot. The gulfbetween the two camps made it appear certain that the first debate would not occur next week as proposed by the commission. The panel said its purpose in recommending the exclusion of Perot and Reform Party running mate Pat Choate was to provide a forum for candidates “from whom the American people actually will choose the next president. “Participation is not extended to candidates because they might prove interesting or entertaining,” said the panel of five Democrats and five Republicans, which has played host to the fall debates since 1987. Choate denounced the commis sion process as a “corrupt little game.” Dole’s campaign, pinning its come-from-behind strategy on a boost from the debates, hailed the decision. “They assume there was no re alistic chance that anyone but my self or the president would be elected,” said Dole, campaigning in Arizona. “I’m prepared. We’re ready to go.” The Clinton campaign, which thinks including Perot would help its cause, called the ruling regret table and pledged to continue to push for Perot’s inclusion. “I enjoyed having him in there in 1992,” Clinton, campaigning in Michigan, said of Perot. “I’m not afraid of any debate.” The commission’s non-binding recommendations in recent elec tions have served as the starting point for negotiations between the presidential campaigns. Negotiators forthe Clinton and Dole campaigns met inprivate Tuesday afternoon to discuss the number, timing and for mat of the debates. Emerging from the meeting, Dole’s lead debate negotiator, former South Carolina Gov. Carroll Campbell, said the two sides were “a few days away from agreeing.” Talks were to resume Wednes day morning. Russell Vemey, national coordi nator of Perot’s Reform Party, re jected the commission vote as a “very subjective decision that was made by the Republicans and Democrats to protect the two-party system.” Some White House aides pre dicted that decision could anger voters and trigger a backlash against Dole for advocating Perot’s exclu sion. More than 60 percent of Americans in public opinion polls say they favor his inclusion. “Martyrdom is not what we’re seeking,” Choate said. “Office is what we’re seeking.” Editor: Doug Kouma 472-1766 Managing Editor: Doug Peters Asaoc. 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Subscription price is $55 for one year. Postmaster Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0448. Second-class postage paid a! Lincoln, Neb. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1996 DAILY NEBRASKAN Child molesters face new penalty ■A California passes chemical castration law for repeat sex offenders. LOS ANGELES (AP)—Gov. Pete Wil son signed a law Tuesday making California the first state to require chemical castration of repeat child molesters. Similar efforts this year failed to become law in Texas, Massachusetts and Wisconsin. California's bill won final legislative ap proval last month. Under the measure, molesters who com mit a second crime against a child under 13 must receive weekly injections of the drug Depo-Provera, which dampens sexual desire, Offenders could choose to be surgically castrated instead under the law, which goes into effect Jan. 1. Unlike surgical castration, the injections wear off. “As long as it prevents one predator,” Wilson said, “then keeping it cm the bodes is worth every ounce of criticism its opponents can muster.” Backers cited the experience of European countries where the procedure is used, say ing the repeat-offender rate dropped from almost 100 percent to just 2 percent. The American Civil Liberties Union has called the procedure barbaric, and therapists and other experts have questioned its effec tiveness, saying that some child mdesters are driven not by sexual desire but by a need for power and control.