News Digest Stillwater mourns players' deaths THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STILLWATER, Okla. — This was supposed to be a day of Super Bowl revelry in this college town, with the only worry being whether stores would run out of popcorn, beer and peanuts. Instead, the mood Sunday was as cold and dreary as the rain soaking the streets following the crash of a small airplane bringing people home from Oklahoma State’s basketball game against Colorado. “It’s like a part of the school died,” said Justin Battista, a fresh man walking in the rain toward Sunday morning Mass. Ten people were killed in Saturday’s crash in a field 40 miles east of Denver, including two reserve basketball players and six staffers and broadcasters. The pilot and co-pilot were also killed. There was no distress call from the crew before the crash, said Arnold Scott of the National Transportation Safety Board. At Eskimo Joe's, a normally rowdy off-campus hangout, one student couldn’t keep from crying as she seated the few customers who came in on the quiet morn ing. At a bagel shop near campus, there was no laughter. “Everyone is pretty melan choly,” freshman Chris Shumake said. “They’re just walking around like zombies, sort of. You hear of airplane crashes like in Europe and overseas, but you never think of it hitting home.” The hostess at Eskimo Joe’s, student Crystal Kelso, knew the two playjers who died, Dan Lawson Jr. and Nate Fleming. “Nate, he was that walk-on that everybody wants to see get in the game,” she said. “I just remem ber chanting his name a couple weeks ago so they would put him in the game.” Kelso said Fleming planned to help her start a community out reach program with other student athletes. Fleming, who also excelled academically, was going to talk to young athletes about staying out of trouble. She said Lawson was a good friend, even though they didn’t always get along. “Everyone is pretty melancholy. They’re just walking around like zombies, sort of.” Chris Shumake OU freshman “It’s always hard when you didn’t get a chance to say goodbye, or didn’t get a chance to say sorry for yelling at you a day ago or whatever,” she said. Katie McCollon, a high school senior who also attends Oklahoma State, said she and her parents knew many of those killed. “I grew up in Stillwater,” she said. “OSU is like three blocks from my house. It’s really close to home. OSU basketball is one of the highlights of the year for my family.” The school’s game at Texas Tech on Tuesday night was post poned indefinitely. The Big 12 Conference said no decision has been made on other Oklahoma State games. Sports information director Steve Buzzard said he expected the other players would spend die day in seclusion. Barak gets blame for turmoil ■ Both Arafat and Sharon denounced concessions the prime minister made. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli politician Ariel Sharon rarely agree, but on Sunday both harshly criticized Israel’s beleaguered Prime Minister Ehud Barak, blaming him for the current Middle East turmoil Barak had hoped peace negotiations this past week in Egypt would revive his sagging election campaign ahead of the Feb. 6 vote for prime minister. Both Israeli and Palestinian negotiators offered an upbeat assessment of the talks that con cluded Saturday, saying they had never been closer to an overall agreement Butaday later, Barak was under attack from both his Israeli and Palestinian rivals. Sharon, heavily favored in next week’s election, denounced the conces sions Barak offered to the Palestinians and made clear he would remove them from the table if he triumphed at the polls. “These meetings (in Egypt) were not meant to seriously tackle the problems in front of us. This is some electoral stunt,” Sharon said. Arafat, meanwhile, unleashed his salvo from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The current government of Israel has waged for the past four months a savage and barbaric war as well as a blatant and fascist military aggression against our Palestinian people,” said Arafat There had been talk of a Barak-Arafat meeting this week in Sweden, but Barak’s office said Sunday night that the prime David Sflverman/Newsmakers An Israeli man embraces a large, translucent campaign banner of right-wing candidate Ariel Sharon Sunday in Jerusalem, Israel. Sharon maintains his lead in the polb over incumbent Prime Minister Ehud Barak ahead of the upcoming Feb.6,2001 special elections for the leadership of the Jewish state. minister had decided "not to continue political contacts with Arafat and his peo ple until after the elections." Sharon leads Barak by 16 to 20 per centage points in opinion polls that have changed little in recent weeks. Most analysts say Barak needs some sort of peace agreement to energize his flagging campaign, and the Taba talks were seen as his last real shot at a pre election breakthrough. While both sides said the atmosphere at the talks was positive, they did not reach any concrete agreements and acknowledged differences remained on all the fundamental issues - especially on sharing Jerusalem and the fate of millions of Palestinian refugees who want to return to homes in what is now Israel. "Both sides have never reached a point where we were so close to agree ment,” said Barak. "It's quite natural that these (core issues) cannot be solved in a few days.” But with the election looming, Barak was running out of time. Sharon said he would seek a long term interim Agreement with the Palestinians and opposed the compre hensive peace settlement that Barak had pursued. In addition Sharon has given no indi cation he would offer the Palestinians additional territory - a position that would seem to preclude any possibility of a future agreement. "We will be making every effort to reach a political settlement and make peace on maybe a different basis, but I believe, a true one,” said Sharon, who met with U.S. congressmen Sunday in Tel Aviv. Barak "did not bring peace. What has happened is due to the mistakes that he made. He brought a war to the area.” A total of 375 people, including more than 330 Arabs and more than 40 Israeli Jews, have died since the fighting began in September. 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Ask tar the appropriate section editor at MUM ITS.94M nr n-mnll dnSinnl ndn College professors murdered at home THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HANOVER, N.H.—The safe, close-knit feel of Dartmouth College was shattered Sunday by the apparent murders of two popular, longtime professors, a couple known for opening their home and hearts to others. Susanne and Half Zantop had welcomed so many guests into their home “they practically seemed to run a hotel,” said col league Bruce Duncan. Police initially were close mouthed and didn’t say until a late afternoon news conference, nearly a day after the bodies were found, that the deaths were considered a double homi cide. At tne news conference, Attorney General Philip McLaughlin said he didn’t know if anyone else was in danger. “If we have a specific, reli able reason to believe the com munity is at risk, we would express that because that would be our duty,” McLaughlin said. The couple’s latest guest had arrived at their home Saturday evening and found the door unlocked, said neighbor and friend Audrey McCollum. “She went in and called out; there was no answer,” McCollum said in an interview Sunday. “She turned and saw Susanne on the floor with blood around her.” The guest, identified by oth ers as Dartmouth languages ‘They were wonderful people. They were special - intellectually, humanly, everything Roxanne Verona Dartmouth professor instructor Roxanne Verona, rushed to the McCollum home to call police. McCollum said her husband, Robert, a doctor, then went to the Zantop home. “He saw enough to know for certain they were both dead and had been dead for a number of hours,” Audrey McCollum said. Verona said police told her not to talk to reporters about the discovery, but she was willing to talk briefly about her friends. “They are wonderful peo ple,” the instructor of French and Italian said of the Zantops, then corrected herself: "They were wonderful people. They were special - intellectually, humanly, everything.” Susanne Zantop, 55, was a professor of German and chair man of Dartmouth’s German Studies Department. Her 62 year-old husband taught earth sciences. They had been instructors at Dartmouth for at least 25 years, said Edward Berger, dean of faculty for arts and sciences. Planetarium celebrates McAuliffe's life THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CONCORD, N.H. — Three years ago, Jeanne Gerulskis came to a new job that had her reliving the space shuttle Challenger disaster, all day long, every day. A monitor in the lobby of the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium showed a continuous videotape loop of the explosion high in the sky that killed McAuliffe, a Concord Hig i School teacher, and six other astro nauts on Jan. 28,1986. Adults stared at the disturbing video, sometimes in tears. Children bom since the disaster that riveted the nation often had a different reaction. "They would say, ‘quick, quick, come here - it's going to blow up again!"’ said Gerulskis. Soon after becoming the planetanums executive director in 1998, Gerulskis removed the video and began to focus the planetarium on McAuliffe’s life and vision, instead of her death. This year, the planetari um, which sees about 60,000 visitors annually, will commemorate her Sept 2 birthday. “No one celebrates the day Abraham Lincoln was shot They celebrate his birthday," Gerulskis said. The planetarium, the official state repository for McAuliffe items, has thousands of letters, poems and pieces of art, with items still coming in. None of them are on display. Around the lobby, visitors see a few photos and a painting of McAuliffe. The closest thing to a shrine is a wall with two photos of McAuliffe, a copy of a Congressional Record tribute to her and a box full of biographical handouts. One of the places the anniversary will be observed is Framingham State College in Massachusetts, McAuliffe's alma mater. The school has a Christa McAuliffe Center, which offers programs for teachers, and runs space flight programs for children. On Sunday, the college planned to unveil a mural of McAuliffe. McAuliffe’s mother, Grace Corrigan, who who regularly gives speeches about McAuliffe’s life and vision, was expected to attend The Associated Press ■ India Death tolls estimated at 10.000 as search continues BHU]—Exhausted searchers using everything from sophisti cated rock-cutting tools to their bare hands clawed through rub ble Sunday, hoping to find sur vivors lingering among the thou sands believed buried by western India’s massive earthquake. More than 6,000 bodies had been found since Friday’s quake, and the death toll was expe