2A - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 28, 2001 NATION/WORLD 4 Officer's acquittal sparks unrest NEWS IN BRIEF; HEDLNE FR ARUDTH SOL k . 4. * ; ...Y ". Id CINCINNATI (AP) - Police said an overnight curfew helped them keep order when black protesters set fires and threw rocks and bottles after a judge cleared a white police officer in the fatal shooting of a black man. Mayor Charlie Luken declared a state of emergency Wednesday night and assumed control of the police and fire departments. He was considering whether to extend the curfew past yes- terday night. "That curfew was a great tool for us," police spokesman Lt. Kurt Byrd said yesterday. Luken was criticized after riots in April - sparked by the shooting - for waiting too long to impose a citywide curfew. On Wednesday, he authorized the curfew after police reported seeing crowds gathering and some youths putting on masks. Police went to 12-hour shifts and can- celed days off. "I think the response by the city was better than in April," Luken said yester- day. "I think we learned things." The mayor also said he had asked clergy to urge people to stay home last night, saying protests "sometimes have unintended consequences that are not peaceful." The disturbances occurred in Over- the-Rhine, the same predominantly black Cincinnati neighborhood that bore the brunt -of the three-day riot triggered when Officer Stephen Roach shot Timo- thy Thomas, 19, as he fled police who sought him April 7 on 14 warrants. A judge Wednesday acquitted Roach, 27, of negligent homicide and obstruct- ing official business. About 12 hours later, scattered vandalism began and continued into early yesterday. Car windows were broken Wednes- day night about a block from the site of a vigil for Thomas. One news photographer was struck on the foot by a thrown brick. Another photographer, cut by glass from a bro- ken bottle, was treated at a hospital. A car was set on fire, and there were at least 30 fire department runs to put out trash can fires, Byrd said. Twelve adults were arrested on charges of cur- few violations, disorderly conduct or drug offenses, and two juveniles were charged with curfew violations, he said. Police said the disturbances weren't nearly as bad as in April, when stores were burned and looted and some white residents were pulled from their vehicles and attacked. About 75 adults and 40 juveniles were convicted of riot-related charges. Black activists said they thought Roach should have been convicted and jailed for what they perceived as an unprovoked shooting. Prosecutor Michael Allen and city councilman Phil Heimlich said they deplored the violence. They said Roach received a fair trial and the verdict must be accepted. "Just because you don't get the ver- dict that you want, doesn't mea that justice wasn't done," Allen said. "There are some in this community who believe that you should get the verdict you want, when you want it." ZUG, Switzerland 15 dead in Swiss shooting rampage A man enraged with local officials opened fire with an assault rifle and tossed a grenade in a crowded state legislature before shooting himself yesterday. Switzerland's worst-ever shooting spree left 15 people dead, including the gun- man. The rampage by Friedrich Leibacher, a 57-year-old Zurich resident, killed three members of the canton of Zug's seven-member government, as well as 11 of its 80 lawmakers. Fourteen officials were seriously injured, including govern- ment chief Hanspeter Uster, who was shot through a lung. The spree plunged Switzerland into mourning and prompted an immediate rethinking of security standards in a country where even the president has little police protection. "It was like an execution," said lawmaker Hanspeter Hausherr, who was in the chamber when Leibacher stormed in, wearing a police vest and firing at least one magazine of 20 bullets from his 5.6 mm SIG "Sturmgewehr 90" in a five- minute frenzy. He then detonated a grenade, which ripped doors off and shattered windows of the stately two-story building near Zug's quaint old town and glistening lake not far from Zurich. He then shot himself with a pistol. MOSCOW Russian government meets with Chechens For the first time since Russia opened its current war against rebels in Chechnya, a government representative met yesterday with an envoy from the separatists to dis- cuss ways to end the 2-year-old conflict. The meeting came on the final day of a three-day ultimatum announced by Russ- ian President Vladimir Putin as part of a declaration of his nation's support for a U.S.-led war on terrorism. In an address to the nation Monday night, Putin said Chechen rebels cannot be seen as separate from "international terrorism," and he gave them 72 hours to lay down their weapons and cut ties to their financial and military sponsors abroad. In Chechnya, no more than a few dozen weapons were surrendered to local authorities. But Aslan Maskhadov, president of the republic's self-proclaimed sepa- ratist government, named aide Ahmed Zakayev as his envoy for talks with Russian officials. Zakayev met with a deputy to Viktor Kazantsev, Putin's representative in the region. Neither the location nor the substance of the discussion was disclosed, and the name of Kazantsev's deputy was not provided. Cincinnati police officers talk to a man in downtown Cincinnati yesterday. Police said an overnight curfew helped them keep order Wednesday night. Some activists called for blacks to channel their anger to electing new city leaders in November, when all nine City Council members are up for election. Voters also will directly elect a mayor, for the first time in 76 years. The mayor will have a four-year term, rather than two years, and power to veto council legislation. "You've got to express dissatisfaction at the polls'in public peacefully," said Fanon Rucker, a black lawyer and for- mer assistant city prosecutor. "I think people who are disappointed in the process can look for productive ways to make change within the system." A group calling itself the Coalition of Concerned Citizens for Justice urged new candidates to run for the City Council to challenge "the business-as- ususal politicians that have kept our city and its citizens from thriving." Luken, who is white, is running Nov. 6 against black opponent Courtis Fuller. Fighting clouds Mideast peace talks JERUSALEM (AP) - A fledgling truce between Israel and the Palestinians was severely tested yester- day by clashes that killed five Palestinians and wound- ed 22 on the eve of the first anniversary of the Palestinian uprising. The cease-fire faces fresh challenges today, when several radical Palestinian groups opposed to compro- mise with Israel plan mass protests to mark one year since the start of the uprising that has claimed the lives of 647 people on the Palestinian side and 177 on the Israeli side. The latest fighting came despite pledges by both sides to enforce the truce, sought by the United States as it tries to bring Arab and Muslim states into its anti- terror coalition. Palestinians accused Israel of trying to undermine a truce agreement reached on Wednesday between Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "It's an attempt by the Israeli army and some people inside the Israeli government to blow up and destroy the results of the Peres-Arafat meeting and we hold the Israeli government responsible for this dangerous esca- lation," said Arafat spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeneh. An official in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office said the Israeli troops were responding to a Palestinian bomb attack Wednesday on an army post in the Gaza Strip. At Wednesday's meeting, Peres and Arafat agreed to resume security cooperation and take a series of confi- dence-building measures. Israel promised to ease its stifling closures of Palestinian communities in the coming days. The army said it demolished several homes in the Gaza Strip's Rafah refugee camp in response to a bomb attack Wednesday on an Israeli army post on the edge of the camp, along the Israeli- Egyptian border. Three soldiers were wounded in the blast, for which the Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility. Just before midnight Wednesday, Israeli tanks and a bulldozer moved toward Rafah as troops fired from tank-mounted machine guns at the camp, Palestinian security officials said. Tanks also fired shells, the offi- cials said. Palestinian gunmem returned fire, and the fighting lasted for more than three hours, the officials said. Three camp residents were killed and 22 wounded including four who were in serious condition, doctors said. Tanks drove about 100 yards into Palestinian ter- ritory during the raid, Palestinian security officials said. There had been no attacks on soldiers before the incursion, the army said. Later in the day, troops manning a watchtower next to Rafah shot and killed a 14-year-old boy, said Ali Musa, a doctor at the local hospital. Elsewhere in the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops shot a Palestinian man in the head near the town of Deir el Balah, a Palestinian security official said. The wound- ed man died in a hospital. Palestinian police patrolled Rafah hotspots yester- day, where a general strike was declared and the town's population gathered for the funeral of those killed dur- ing the fighting. The army denied it entered a Palestinian area, saying the houses demolished were in a buffer zone near the border that is under Israeli security control. It said it demolished several houses that had served as cover for weapons smugglers and that underneath one house, soldiers found the entrance to a tunnel the army said was used in the attack on the military-outpost a day earlier. CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico Hurricane threatens Baja peninsula Hurricane Juliette bore down on tourist resorts at the tip of the Baja Cali- fornia peninsula yesterday, knocking out power and smashing docks into drift- wood after killing an American surfer. "My heart was pounding. It was really scary," said Tomas Doran, who braved 15-foot waves to move his fish- ing boat from a damaged marina early yesterday. "I didn't sleep at all. The waves were crashing into us all night." Howling winds blew roofs off of shacks in poor neighborhoods and downed power lines, causing sparks to cascade from shorted transformers. Pounding waves destroyed docks a day after William Creson, 45, of Denver, drowned while surfing the 10-foot waves whipped up by the storm. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the eye of Hurricane Juliette was expected t4 slip west of the peninsula. TAMPA, Ia.' Military spy gets life in prison or offense The highest-ranking military man ever accused of spying was sentenced to life in prison yesterday, 50 years to the day after he declared his allegiance to United States as a new citizen. George Trofimoff, a retired Army Reserve colonel born in Germany, con- tinued to profess his innocence - declaring, "I am not a traitor" - as U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew handed down the sentence. Trofirnoff had faced at least 27 years in prison. Assistant Secretary of Defense John P. Stenbit told the judge in a letter on behalf of President Bush that anything less than a life term would be neither adequate punishment for him nor a deterrent to others. "Mr. Trofimoff has conducted espionage longer than anyone else we have known of in this country," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Walter Furr. INDAU, Germany Comm uter train collision injures 86 Two commuter trains carrying schoolchildren collided head-on yester- F .1 day, injuring 86 people, nine seriously, after an engineer overlooked a signal telling him to stop, authorities said. Both train engineers and several schoolchildren ranging in age from 10 to 15 were among those seriously hurt in the early morning accident, said Thomas Fischer, chief emergency ser- vices doctor. None suffered life-threat- ening injuries, he said. Some panicked students were able to open the doors.of the stopped train and jump to safety before the collision. Each train was carrying about 150 schoolchildren and morning com- muters. Prosecutors are considering bringing charges of negligent injury against the engineer who failed to stop his train. The oncoming train was traveling at a moderate speed. Neither train derailed. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. i ht sa roen er 4 I . p S fk^#a r W . . h i U Attention b efter. CHORAL SINGERS You are invited to join the University Musical Society -CHORAL UNION Thomas Sheets, conductor 2001-2002 Season Handel: Messiah Ann Arbor SO Ives: Symphony No. 4 San Francisco SO Brahms: German Requiem Ann Arbor SO Beethoven: Missa Solemnis Detroit SO The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $100. Winter term (January through April) is $105, yearlong (September through April) is $180. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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