Purdue student kills
dorm counselor, himself
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP)
—A Purdue University student shot
and killed another student who was
a dormitory counselor Wednesday.
The counselor, an upperclass
man who acts as a resident supervi
sor in the dormitory, had discovered
cocaine in the younger student’s
possession Tuesday, said university
spokeswoman Ellen Rantz.__
The counselor told campus po
lice, who searched the student’s
room and car and confirmed the
drug possession, Rantz said.
Police surrounded the dormitory
for more than two hours, after the
gunman locked himself in his room.
Officers fired tear gas inside, en
tered the room and found the stu
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Fans killed at World Cup
At the qualifying
match, more than 44
people died in a stam
pede.
GUATEMALA-CITY (AP) —
Fans trying to squeeze into a soccer
stadium crushed and suffocated one
another at a World Cup qualifying
match Wednesday night. Between 44
and 80 people were killed and more
than 150 were injured, local radio said.
The accident occurred about 45
minutes before a soccer game between
Guatemala and Costa Rica at Mateo
Flores National Stadium. About
45,000 people, including the presidents
of the two countries, were in die stands.
Radio stations gave death tolls as
small as 44, but Radio Emisoras
Unidas reported at least 80 people were
killed.
Apparently, too many tickets were
sold for the match. Fans who were not
allowed in tried to pass through a small
stadium entrance into a general seat
ing area, witnesses told local radio.
Witnesses said the accident oc
curred in a concrete causeway about
15 yards long and two or three yards
wide.
Security forces could not stop them
and the crowd surged through the gate,
trampling or suffocating people inside.
Radio reports said dozens of bod
ies were laid out on the field.
Guatemalan President Alvaro Arzu
said that “one of the largest tragedies
in our country has happened tonight.”
“I appeal to the maturity of the
people of Guatemala,” Arzu said. “I
have taken the decision to suspend this
match.”
Stampedes have occurred at emo
tionally charged soccer matches around
the world.
The worst in recent history include
the April 15, 1989, disaster at the
Sheffield, England, soccer stadium,
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when 95 people were crushed to death.
On Jan. 13, 1991, at least 40 people
were trampled and crushed at an
Orkney, South Africa, stadium when
fan&tried to escape fights that broke
out in the stands.
On June 16, a stampede at a World
Cup qualifying match between Zam
bia and Sudan in Lusaka, Zambia,
killed nine people and injured 78.
Davis used m pro-death penalty ads
across California as election nears
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The
sullen, bearded face of killer Richard
Allen Davis slowly “morphs” on the
TV screen into the unsmiling image of
Rep. Vic Fazio.
The stunning commercial is from
Tim LeFever, a Republican challeng
ing Democrat Fazio. And it’s not the
only campaign in California to make
political use of the public’s revulsion
toward the man condemned to die for
the murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas.
At least three Republican congres
sional candidates from Sacramento
hundreds of miles south to Santa Bar
bara are using Davis’ name in ads to
attack their opponents on the death
penalty.
“It’s a good strategy because sup
. port for the' death Penalty. has been at
the 70 percent level and above since
1978,” said Bruce Cain, a political sci
ence professor at the University of
California at Berkeley.
It took less than two weeks after the
Sept. 26 sentencing for the first Davis
ad to appear. The third appeared last
week.
The ad from freshman Rep. Andrea
Seastrand opens with a shot of children
in a playground, and tells viewers that
two people were disappointed with
Davis’ death sentence: Davis and
Seastrand’s opponent in the district
covering San Luis Obispo and Santa
Barbara counties, Democrat Walter
Capps.
The ad labels Davis “The Mur
derer” and Capps “The Liberal.”
Then there’s the ad from Rep. Frank
Kiggs, a Kepuoncan wnose Nortn
Coast district includes Klaas’ home
town of Petaluma.
It shows footage of Davis and de
scribes Riggs as a death penalty sup
porter. Then Democrat Michela
Alioto’s face appears, covered by a red
question mark. She is heard saying, “I
am not in favor of the death penalty.”
LeFever, who criticizes Fazio for
voting against California's death pen
alty in 1977, noted that his ad does not
mention Polly by name.
“We’re talking about the death pen
alty,” he said. “We’re talking about Vic
Fazio’s record on the death penalty, and
we’re talking about what we are going ,
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Mexican drug Kingpin convicted
Cartel leader may face life
in prison for trafficking and
money laundering.
HOUSTON (AP)—Mexican drug kingpin
Juan Garcia Abrego was convicted today of
charges that he masterminded the transportation
of tons of cocaine into die United States and
laundered millions of dollars in drug profits.
Garcia Abrego looked stem and one of his
hands seemed to twitch as the verdict was an
nounced. He feces up to life in prison. No sen
tencing date was set.
The verdict against the 52-year-old drug car
tel leader came after nearly 12 hours of delib
erations that began Thursday in U.S. District
Court.
Garcia Abrego went on trial Sept. 16 on 22
counts of trafficking nearly 15 tons of cocaine
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and the illegal laundering of some $10.5 mil
lion.
Garcia Abrego was once on the FBI’s “Most
Wanted List,” and prosecutors charged that he
was making $2 billion a year before his capture
in January.
He reportedly doled out millions of dollars
in bribes to high-ranking Mexican officials to
have them look the other way. Among Garcia
Abrego’s alleged associates was Raul Salinas,
the elder brother of former Mexico President
Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
The verdict was followed by a property for
feiture hearing at which U.S. District Judge
Ewing Werlein Jr. instructed jurors to deliber-#
ate on an amount to be seized by the govern
ment as coming from illegal drug profits.
Prosecutors told jurors the seizure could
reach $1 billion.
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