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Boy kills two at San Diego high school ■Thefreshman,often teased by others,had told friends he wanted to shoot his classmates. TWOSSOCIWH) PRESS SANTEE, Calif. —A 15-year oki boy who had been picked on and had talked about shooting classmates allegedly opened fire in a high school bathroom Monday, killing two people and wounding 13 in the nationfc dead liest school attack since Columbine. One student said the boy had asmile on his face as he fired away with a pistol at Santana High School in suburban San DiegOu The boy, a freshman whose name was not released, surren dered in the bathroom, dropped his gun and said he acted alone, according to sheriff’s officials. They said he would be charged as an adult with murder, assault with a deadly weapon and gun posses sion. Both of the dead were stu dents, and at least one of the vic tims was a campus supervisor, SherifFW31iamKblendersakL Fellow students and an adult acquaintance said they had heard the boyls threats over the weekend but thought he was joking and did not report him to authorities. "He was picked on all the time,” student Jessica Moore said. “He was picked on because he was one of the scrawniest guys. People called him freak, dork, nenl, stuff like that” Student John Schaidt, 17, was in a nearby classroom when the shooting started about 9*.20 a.m. in a boys' restroom and spilled into a quad. “I looked at the kid, and he was smiling and shooting his weapon,* Schardt said. “It was total chaos. People were hying to take cover.” Schaidt said he took photos of victims and another student videotaped the gunman’s arrest, but authorities confiscated the film and the tape Andrew Kaforey, a 17-year-old senior, said he ran into the bath room with a security guard after hearingwhat sounded like a fire cracker or agunshot “He pointed the gun right at me but he didn't shoot,” Kaforey said As he and die guard ran out, the gunman shot the guard in the back, Kaforey said Investigators said the boy used a .22-caliber revolver, stop ping once to reload and retreated after the shooting into the bath room. The attack was the nation’s deadliest school shooting since the April 1999 bloodbath at Columbine High in Littleton, Cota., where two teen-agers lolled 12 fellow students and a teacher before committing suicide. MKho oOUt€T8U Parents gather at Santana Wgh School afteradeady school shooting Monday in Santee, Cafit,asuburi> of San DiegaAstudent • opeaedfirewithenumr.IrMigtwn inriwo«iifwr)13. "Hus is my worst nightman*,*’ Principal Karen Degiescher said. She said the campus would he closed Ihesday, and counselors were called in to help students. es of the boy described him as skinny and the subject of constant harassment. Students said he boasted about owning a gun. Over the weekend, the boy “was joking on and off that he was going to come to school and shoot people,''said Joshua Stevens, 15, a friend of the boy. "He had it all planned out, but at the end of the weekend he said he was just jok ing and he wasn’t realty going to doit "I said, ‘Like, you better be.’ And he said,‘No, I'm serious.1” Democrats ask Census Bureau for new results WASHINGTON — Democrats and civil rights groups renewed pleas for the Census Bureau to release results from a separate population tally they said accounted for an estimated 3.4 million people, primarily minorities, missed during the initial “head count* But supporters of that second, statistically adjusted count also acknowledged Monday it was unlikely that Commerce Secretary Don Evans would go against a Census Bureau recommendation that endorsed using raw population numbers for con gressional ledistricting. Evans was deliberating Monday over the recom mendation from the bureau's acting director,William Barron, that the "head count” offered the most accu rate snapshot ofAmerica. Evans is scheduled to issue HWs derision today. Whatever numbers Evans approves will be the federal government's official data given to the states for electoral redistricting. The first such numbers, to be released on a state-by-state basis, could come out later this week. By federal law, all states must receive their data by April 1. It would be a surprise if Evans said yes to statisti cal sampling, said Rep. Charles Gonzalez, D-Texas. He was one of two Hispanic Congressional Caucus members that lobbied Evans to allow the release of all adjusted numbers after they were done analyzing it The soon-to-be unveiled numbers will not only be used to remap House lines, but state and local leg islative district boundaries as welL The data could also be used to redistribute over$185 billion in feder al funds each year among the states. ZtotfrNebraskan Editor Sarah Baker Haaagtog Editor. 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Lincoln, ME 68588-0446, Monty trough Frify during the yjrtffwyfer^w^itydwnpllie summer eBeewniTiw pubic las access to the Pubficabons Bowl Readers an encounged to submit stay ideas and conmentatofla Da* Mxasian by cafeng (402)472-2588 Subscriptions am $60 for one year Postmaster. Send address changes to He Pa* Nebraskan, 20 Nebraska Union, 1400 R SL, Lincoln 1C 68588 0448. Pwfcxfical postage pad at Lincoln, IE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 2001 THE DAILY JeRASKAN Chest pains put Cheney in hospital ■After already suffering four heart attacks, the vice president was examined for possNeartay blockage. THE ASSOCUTH) PRESS WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney, who has had four heart attacks, suffered chest pains Monday and was taken to a hospital where doc tors inserted a tube to examine arteries for possible blockage. President Bush called it a “precau tionary measure.” Adviser Mary Matalin said Cheney was undergoing a cardiac catheteriza tion at George Washington University Hospital to determine what was causing the chest pains. ‘They’re going in to take a look,” she said. “Details to fellow” Cheney, 60, suffered a heart attack in late November but quiddy resumed a full schedule after an operation to fix a blocked artery. One of his heart arteries was 90 per cent blocked, so doctors implanted a wire scaffolding-like device called a stent to push away the blockage and prop open the artery walls. It was his fourth heart attack since he was 37. In 1988, Cheney had quadruple bypass surgery to dear dogged arteries. Aides said Cheney, who was working at the White House on Monday, told Bush in the morning that he was experi encing discomfort in his chest and planned to be examined by a doctor. One aide to Cheney said he headed to the hospital about 3:30 pm. Ihe aide said he appeared normal, even cheerful, all day. Matalin said Cheney checked him self mto the hospital "for arepeat cardiac catheterization after experiencing two brieC mild episodes of chest discomfort This is a non-emergency precautionary procedure. An EKG obtained at the White House this afternoon was unchanged from one obtained last Thursday.” In procedures such as the one Cheney underwent Monday, doctors insertaflenble tube into aleg vessel and it is run from there up to the target artery supplying blood to die heart At that point dye is injected. The dye shows up on an X-ray, enabling doctors to see die flow of blood through the artery. If there is a blockage, the tube can be backed out and a larger tube can be inserted. This tube can be used to per form a balloon angioplasty, a technique in which a collapsed balloon is placed at the point ofhlodcage and then inflated. This opens the artery. If no problem is found, a patient undergoing catheterization could be sent home from the hospital in six to eight hours. If problems are found and additional procedures are required, then the patient will probably remain in the hospital for a day or two. Cheney is an unusually active and influential vice president He headed Bush’s transition team, played a major role in Cabinet and top personnel selections and has helped Bush forge foreign policy as well as a national energy policy. White House officials say Cheney is the adviser Bush most relies upon to make sure his agenda is carried out IBs hospitalization came less than a week after Bush’s first address to "... Ym trying to do all those things you need do to be a responsible individual with a history of coronary artery disease and somebody who's 60.” Dick Cheney U.S. vice president Congress, just as Bush is trying to gener ate support for his tax-cut plan. In a telephone interview, Matalin said the EKG last week was part of a nor mal follow-up to the heart attack Cheney suffered late last year. She said Cheney reported the dis comfort to his doctor, who advised the vice president to have the new proce dure done sometime this week. In a television interview Sunday, Cheney said he felt great “I am well-behaved. They’ve taken control of my food supply. So I’m trying to do all those things you need do to be a responsible individual with a history of coronary artery disease and somebody who’s 60," he told CNN. After his last heart attack, Cheney's doctors said the accumulation of disease had left his heart moderately damaged. Other heart experts said Cheney was at higher risk for further heart attacks than the average person his age and needed to take such protective steps as losing weight Cheney late in November revealed that his blood pressure was an excellent 106 over 80. Storm threat paralyzes Northeast THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Snarling air travel across the country and overseas, a powerful storm plas tered the Northeast with snow and ice Monday in a threatening three-day assault that could be the region’s biggest blast of winter in years. One to 3 feet of snow was forecast across much of New Jersey, New York and New England by eariy Wednesday. Schools were closed Monday for millions of youngsters from West Virginia to Maine. The nor'easter had been forecast days in advance, and peo ple had plenty of time to stock up on groceries, snow shovels and videos, stripping shelves bare in some stores. The heaviest snowfall from the slow moving storm was expected today, but by Monday a foot or more had already Weather TODAY Partly cloudy high 40, low 21 TOMORROW Partly cloudy high 43, low 25 fallen in upstate New York and north eastern Pennsylvania. Elsewhere, sleet and freezing rain glazed sidewalks and highways. Meteorologists warned that the storm could be similar to the blizzard of 1978, which buried southern New England in 3 feet of snow, caused more than 100 deaths and battered coastal areas with high waves. “Sandbags aren’t going to help a bit in this case. If it comes, it's going to come,” said emergency official Mark Zartarian at the shore town of Rye, Nil “If it’s anything like 78, it’s going to lift and move boulders the size of your can”, New York's Education Department estimated 90 percent of the state’s public and private schools were closed. Affected were 3.1 million students, including 1.1 million in New York City - despite the fact snow didn’t begin falling in the city until early evening. “I think it's going to rain all night,” Long Island commuter Sean Leguillo said during the afternoon. “I’ve been waiting since Saturday for some snow.” The city was still bracing for snow overnight, but Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was able to joke about the weather dur ing an afternoon phone chat with Gov. George Pataki “When the governor called me and he said, How is the storm?’I said to him, ’What storm?”’ Giuliani said. Every school in Connecticut was shuttered, keeping more than 500,000 children at home. In Boston, some 62,000 youngsters got the day off. Philadelphia schools closed early, and hundreds of thousands of students were sent home. Airlines canceled hundreds of flights at the New York metropolitan area’s LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark air ports, and more than 400 flights were called off at Boston's airport Swissair grounded flights that would have car ried about 1,600 passengers to and from Europe on Monday. Despite days of warnings horn fore casters, some travelers wound up stranded at airports. While utility crews and state emer gency workers were on standby, nonessential government workers were told to stay home and off the roads in Connecticut New York City’s suburbs, Massachusetts and New Jersey. The Pennsylvania General Assembly called off Monday’s planned budget hearings. Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland banned jackknife-prone tractor-trailers from the state’s highways, and in Massachusetts all bus service between Cape Cod and Boston was canceled. With the wind whistling in off the ocean, a housing project for the elderly in Revere, Mass., was ordered evacuated because of the danger of flooding. At Ocean Grove, N.J., 10-foot waves crashed against the pier and the surf sloshed much of the way across 200 yards of newly replenished beach. World/Nation . The Associated Press IHmM Monica Lewinsky to make documentary about scandal NEW YORK — Just as the details of Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky begin to fade into history, the former White House intern has agreed to make an HBO documentary about the investigation into die scandal and its impact on the nation. Lewinsky told The New York Times that the passage oftime has provided bar with new perspec tive that would go beyond what she had revealed in her biography, “Monica’s Story." “The book, that captured that time for me," she said. “The last couple of years have been such a time of intense growth and per spective for me. I want to do something that really reflects the way I fed now" Sheila Nevins, head ofHBO’s documentary unit, said there were still issues worth explo ration, particularly “why this very minor event became one of such enormous magnitude." ■ Virginia Judge rules that convicted spy poses threat, orders him jaled ALEXANDRIA. —A federal judge said Monday that the gov ernment’s case against accused spy Robert Philip Hanssen was “extraordinarily strong” and ordered Hanssen confined to jail Hanssen, who appeared at a hearing wearing a green jumpsuit with the word “prisoner” printed across die back, did not contest his confinement under an agree ment forged with prosecutors. With his lawyer cupping his elbow, Hanssen stood when U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan asked if he understood he was entitled to contest deten tion but had waived that right “I do, Yaur Honor,” he said. Buchanan said she could see no conditions for releasing Hanssen, accused of espionage, because he was both a flight risk and posed a threat to the safety of the community. She noted that Hanssen, 56, was carrying his passport when he was arrested Rib. 18. She said the government had presented ample evidence to support keep ing him jailed while his case moves forward. ■Japan Japanese Prime Minister Mori saved by Parliament decision TOKYO — Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, beset by scandals and a stumbling Japanese econo my, survived a second no-confi dence motion Monday, but faced persistent calls to resign-even in his own party. The lower house of Parliament voted 274-192 to defeat the no-confidence motion submitted by four opposition parties. Mori, whose Liberal Democrats hold a majority in the chamber, defeated a similar measure in November “Doesn't that mean that the Cabinet is trusted?” Mori said. “Doesn’t that mean that I must continue working responsibly?” Not according to opposition leaders and even some members of his own coalition. “A person like you could be described with the phrase, ’He doesn't know what shame is,” said Yiikio Hatoyama, leader of die, the Democrats. ■ Saudi Arabia Musfim stoning the devil ritual leads to 35 tramping deaths MINA—The convergence of millions of pilgrims has once again brought tragedy, with the deaths Monday of 35 Muslims trampled in a crush of bodies dur ing the stoning die devil ritual at the annual hajj pilgrimage. Hours later, the enormous crowd was calm. A witness said the incident started early in the morning and was brought under control about three hours later. The witness, an Egyptian journalist who was per forming the pilgrimage and who spoke on condition of anonymity, saw a few people at a time suffo cate or fall and be trampled to death. Correction Because of a reporting error, Sgt. Scott Beggs of the UNL Police Department was misidentified in a Friday Daily Nebraskan story