2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 17, 1999 NATION/WORLD Church shooter leaves flew clues for police FORT WORTH, Texas (AP)-- Police picked through Larry Gene Ashbrook's trashed home and old journals on yester- day, finding holes punched in walls, con- crete poured in toilets and family pho- tographs shredded - but no explanation for why he opened fire in a church, killing seven people and himself. The 47-year-old Ashbrook appeared to be "a very troubled man who ... sought to quiet whatever demons that bothered him," FBI agent Robert Garrity said. "I don't know that we'll ever know the answer to the question of why it happened." Ashbrook, dressed in blue jeans, a FLOYD Continued from Page 1 black jacket and smoking a cigarette, entered the Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth on Wednesday evening as teenagers listened to a Christian rock band in the sanctuary. In the church lobby, Ashbrook con- fronted his first victims with a question: "What's the program?" Then he shot a janitor who approached him and killed two other people before walking into the crowded sanctuary. The 150 teen-agers gathered inside ini- tially thought Ashbrook was part of a skit as he began cursing and spouting deroga- tory comments about Baptists. They scrambled for cover as Ashbrook opened fire, pausing at least twice to reload. "The guy pointed at me and shot at me!" an out-of-breath man told a 911 dispatch operator. "I saw the flash of a muzzle and headed the other direc- tion." "There's a woman -here who looks like she's bleeding in the head!" a church nursery worker told another operator. Ashbrook lit and rolled a homemade pipe bomb down an aisle at one point. It exploded but did not harm anyone. Seven people - choir members, seminarians and" high school stu- dents - were killed. Seven others were wounded, three seriously. recall all schools in New Jersey and New York City closing because of a hurricane. The wind set a Ferris wheel spinning on its own at Ocean City, Md., and overturned an empty truck on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. New York City sent its munici- pal employees home early, urged business to close and shut down the upper deck of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. Hundreds of airline flights were canceled along the East Coast, grounding tens of thousands of passengers. Amtrak suspended all train service south of Washington, and service farther north was disrupted by a mudslide and fallen trees. Ferry service was canceled from Cape Cod to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. "The message is, don't fool with Mother Nature," said New York City Council Speaker Peter Vallone. "Stay home if you can." New York's mass transit system is particularly vulnerable to rain. Just three weeks ago, a freak storm during the morn- ing rush hour dumped three inches of rain, halting subway service and disrupting commuter rail lines. Hundreds of thousands of workers got to work late or not at all. The New York Stock Exchange stuck to regular hours, but the U.N. Security Council suspended its deliberations at 2 p.m. and postponed a meeting on protecting civilians in war. zones. U.N. officials said it was the first time in recent histo- ry that a formal, open meeting of the Security Council was derailed by bad weather. On the eastern end of Long Island, directly in the storm's projected path, residents made last-minute runs for flash- lights and emergency supplies and hammered plywood over windows. It was expected to be Long Island's harshest storm since September 1985, when Hurricane Gloria caused an estimat- ed S130 million in damage and knocked out power to 750,000 homes and businesses. "They're getting panicky," said Harold Herbert of Herb's Market in Montauk, on the easternmost tip of Long Island, as his customers lined up for batteries, water, ice and cold cuts. "I don't think this hurricane is as bad as some of them." Authorities ordered the evacuation of Fire Island, off the south coast of Long Island, but not all its 2,000 residents obeyed. Dave Feraro, armed with candles, flashlights, batteries and a cell phone, hunkered down with his wife in their Fire Island home a mere 150 feet from the white-capped Atlantic. I I PLANS Continued from Page 1 other items that might be needed by stranded passengers. But no such requests had been received as of yester- day evening, mainly because would-be East Coast travelers were warned in advance of cancellations, he said. Kinesiology junior Lauren Bonzagni also spent yesterday on the phone trying to find out how the storm would affect her plans. Bonzagni, who is trying to get to New York to visit friends, said her plane reservations had been can- celed, then re-routed from Newark International Airport to Logan International Airport in Boston and then canceled two more times. Bonzagni said the Northwest Airlines representatives have been helpful thrughout the entire ordeal. "They've been very polite about it," Bonzagni said. Bonzagni has a plane reservation for 7 am. today, but said if it is canceled she will keep trying throughout the morning. Bonzagni said she is a little frustrat- ed because she is the only one in her group of reuniting friends who is com- ing from out of the region. "They're already there sitting in the rain," Bonzagni said. As hurricane Floyd moved north, Northwest resumed service to Florida on Wednesday and yesterday once again began flying into North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, Killian said. Some students were traveling this weekend to spend the Jewish holi- day Yom Kippur with family and friends. RENOVATE Continued from Page 1 vated facilities for the political science and American culture departments and the Center for African American Studies. "It is appropriate that these programs come together," she said. This goal, Neuman said, will strengthen LSA as a whole. Technology upgrades, with plans for new fiber-optic cable, electrical and other mechanical systems is part of the renovations. Many ofnthe facilities to see renova- tions currently have substandard infra- structure for technology. Currently, most faculty and graduate students in Haven Hall can access the Internet only via a telephone modem. Neuman said the lack of access to technology infrastructure frustrates many in Haven Hall. "It's a recipe for contemplating suicide," she said. Regent Olivia Maynard (D- Goodrich) said the physical environ- ment of the Frieze Building needs sig- nificant attention. Maynard said the condition of Frieze was poor even when she taught at the University. "You could eat off the. floors in the Public Health Building. With Frieze, you could never clean that place," Maynard said. But even though renovations on Frieze, which was originally built as Ann Arbor's high school, will not be included in the current renovations package, Maynard said she is glad the administration will be addressing the building down the line. The regents are scheduled to vote on two additional building projects when the reconvene this morning including S.8 million worth of renovations to the Burton Memorial Tower and the approval of architects to develop plans for renovation to the Student Publications Building. Baier said both of the historic struc- tures need significant life safety upgrades. RETR, TPED *9 * *C TF USE BE s 0TMS Aibright: Russia must ght corruption WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, beset by con- gressional criticism of the Clinton administration's policy toward Russia, said yesterday that "the suggestion made by some that Russia is ours to lose is arrogant; the suggestion that Russia is lost is simply wrong." However, in the wake of recent reports about Russian corruption and capital flight, Albright said Moscow's response to corruption "has not been adequate," and she maintained that Russian President Boris Yeltsin "needs - at last - to make fighting corruption a priori- tv" "The Russian legal system remains no match for well-connected criminals," she added. "The deadweight of corruption is holding Russia back." In a speech at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace here, Albright said that Russian leaders should cooperate with investigations into money laundering and the misuse of AROUND THE NATION Clinton refuses to disclose documents WASHINGTON - Rebuffing a congressional inquiry, President Clinton invoked executive privilege yesterday and refused to turn over documents on his decision to offer clemency to members of a Puerto Rican separatist group. It was the fourth time the Clinton White House has used executive privilege to refuse a request from Congress. Clinton also invoked the privilege during iro pendent counsel investigations into the Monica Lewinsky affair and former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. Critics, including some in Congress, have accused Clinton of making the clemency offer to help first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's budding Senate cam- paign. Mrs. Clinton opposed the deal after it began to draw criticism and then was herself criticized by some prominent Puerto Ricans in New York. "The American people have a right to know why President Clinton opened the prison gates and granted freedom to terrorists," said Rep. Vito Fossella.(R-N.Y.), "If the president genuinely believes his clemency deal was justified, I find it curi- ous that he would choose to stonewall Congress." White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said partisan politics was behind the congressional subpoenas for the documents, adding that Clinton was 'standin* his constitutional "right to get confidential advice." International Monetary Fund moneys. Albright's pointed' comments about the need for Yeltsin to take a personal role in fighting corruption follow a report that Yeltsin and his family directly benefited from improper payments from foreign companies seeking to do b - ness in Russia, Gates donates to minority education LOS ANGELES - Microsoft Corp. Chair Bill Gates yesterday pledged to spend SI billion over the next 20 years giving college scholarships to thou- sands of academically talented but financially needy minority stude The gift would be the largest phi thropic gesture ever in education. Gates, the world's wealthiest person, has never made a bigger contribution to any single cause and this one is almost without rival in the nation's history. Gates said he is creating the scholar- ships because he believes too many minority students are not reaching or finishing college. 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Australian officials said earlier that food would be dropped yesterday to Timorese hiding in the hills, but later, Defense Minister John More said Indonesia had insisted that troops of the Australian-led emergency interna- tional force be on the ground before the air drops began. That was expected to happen this weekend. A contingent of 250 British Nepalese Gurkha soldiers landed in Darwin to join the force of about 2,000 Australians expected to launch a coor- dinated air and land incursion to East Timor. At least 11 other countries are expected to contribute to the multina. tional force. Under :he United Nations Security Council authorization passe Wednesday, they will be permitted to shoot to kill to restore order to the.v aged Indonesian province. 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