2A - The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 11, 2002 NATION/WORLD Sniper attacks, kills seventh victim NEWS IN BRIEF HEDLNE FOMAOUD HEWOL 0 MANASSAS, Va. (AP) - A sev- enth fatal shooting in the Washington area is "consistent" with six others and may be the work of the same sniper, authorities said yesterday. Dean Harold Meyers of Gaithers- burg, Md., was gunned down Wednesday night moments after filling his tank at a northern Vir- ginia gas station. An autopsy showed he was killed by a single shot to his upper body,. Prince William Police Chief Charlie Deane said. Authorities stressed they had not conclusively linked the slaying to the others but cited the similarities with the eight shootings, six of them fatal, since Oct. 2 in Mary- land, Virginia and Washington, D.C. It "appears to be consistent with the other shootings in the region," Deane said. Police were searching for a white minivan seen leaving the scene of the Manassas shooting. Two men had been seen in a white van shortly after the sniper slayings began. The vehicle described by witnesses to Wednes- day's shooting was similar - a white "panel truck." "It's a minivan but instead of win- dows around the side, it's solid. We don't know about windows in the back," Sgt. Kim Chinn, a Prince William County police spokeswoman, told reporters earlier yesterday. The vehicle was described as looking like a Dodge Caravan, she said. "The assurance we can give the community is we are working as hard as we can," Chinn said. Manassas is approximately 30 miles west of the nation's capital and about 40 miles southwest of Bowie, Md., the site of Monday's shooting that wounded a boy out- side a school. Investigators say the sniper, or snipers, fired from a distance with a high-powered hunting or military- style rifle. Like Meyers, all the ear- lier victims had also been felled by a single bullet. A former neighbor of Meyers, Carol Iverson, described him as "perfectly delightful. ... He always had a kind word." She said they remained close after she moved, and he had visited her home just last week. The 13-year-old schoolboy wound- ed in Bowie on Monday remained in critical but stable condition yesterday. A woman wounded in Fredericksburg, Va., last week was released from the hospital Tuesday. M A DST ON E T H EAT E RS. SIGMA KAPA::PA SORORITY Bringing Sisterhood To Life The best just got better...E1:1,, W lo et ou nATwPGEEKEG):: ,:! Welcome to our new Pledge Class! ,S Od$.S! TEL AVIV, Israel Barghouti comments start fight in court Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti used his murder trial yesterday to attack Israel's occupation in the West Bank and Gaza, setting off fistfights among spectators as his defense team distributed a mock indictment of Israel and his Jewish lawyer compared him to Moses. Barghouti, a key West Bank leader ofYasser Arafat's Fatah movement, is the high- est-ranking Palestinian to be put on trial in Israel. His third court appearance was light on legal content, but heavy with staging, tension and drama. Israel accuses Barghouti of orchestrating terror attacks that killed 26 Israelis, rang- ing in age from 8 months to 79 years. Barghouti insists he is a politician and is not connected with violence. In the legal proceedings, the judge gave the two sides six weeks to prepare argu- ments about the Israeli court's jurisdiction - which Barghouti has challenged - and set the next court session for Nov.21. Defying howls of derision from relatives of Israelis killed in Palestinian attacks, Barghouti made clenched-fist and V-for-Victory signs as he entered the courtroom, shackled and handcuffed. "Murderer!" one of the'protesters shouted. "You killed my son!" shouted another. "Iam a freedom fighter," Barghouti retorted. "Peace will win." WASH INGTON House approves more defense spending The House overwhelmingly approved yesterday a compromise $355.4 bil- lion defense bill brimming with money for new destroyers, helicopters and missiles and granting President Bush most of the Pentagon buildup he requested following last year's terrorist attacks. While the day's spotlight shone on the congressional debate over authorizing Bush to use force against Iraq, the massive defense spending package - one-sixth of the entire federal budget - underlined the bipartisan consensus behind beefing up the military. Quick Senate approval was also expected. "Now more than ever, we must secure our nation's security," said Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.). The bill's 409-14 passage, less than four weeks before congressional elections, also reflected a desire by Democrats to head off campaign-season accusations by Bush that they had delayed a measure urgently needed in the U.S. effort against terrorism. Most of Congress' budget work has been stalled because Bush wants to spend less than Democrats and even some Republicans want. The Department Of Philosophy The University Of Michigan announces THE TANNER LECTURE ON HUMAN VALUES 2002-2003 Claude M. Steele Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences Stanford University The Specter of Group Image: Its Unseen Effects on k Human Performance and the Quality of Life in a Diverse Society Friday, October 18, 2002 4:00 p.m. Angell Hall Auditorium A 435 S. State Street SYMPOSIUM ON THE TANNER LECTURE Claude M. Steele. ANTINA ALLEN-CASTELLITTO Professor of Law and Philosophy University of Pennsylvania GLENN C. LOURY Professor of Economics Boston University JAMES SIDANIUS Professor of Psychology University of California, Los Angeles Saturday, October 19, 2002 9:00 a.m. Pendleton Room, Michigan Union ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistani election results disputed For the first time since a 1999 coup, Pakistanis voted yesterday in elections the military government hailed as a historic return to demo- cratic rule and the opposition denounced as a stage-managed sleight of hand to mask President Pervez Musharraf's firm grip on power. Sporadic violence left at least seven people dead, a bloody but common occurrence in Pakistan's. rough-and-tum- V~e politics. Turnout was projected to be low, hurt in part by a series of decrees that kept the country's best-known politi- cal players on the sidelines, and by self- declared constitutional changes that have assured Musharraf ultimate control of Pakistan's fate. Musharraf- an important U.S. ally in the war on terrorism - has created a military-controlled National Security Council that will vet all national policy decisions. WASHINGTON Demogrhic changes increase d out rate The number of Hispanics who dropped out or never attended high school surged by over 50 percent in the 1990s, especially in the South and West where many schools were over- whelmed as they tried to accommodate the fast-growing Spanish-speaking population. The changing demographics present a tough task, particularly to small-town and rural school administrators whomust find money in their tight budgets to hire bilin- gual staffers and develop new programs to teach newly arrived students who may not have a good grasp of English. In 2000, approximately 1.56 million U.S. residents ages 16 to 19 were not high school graduates and not enrolled in school. Of the total, nearly 34 percent, or more than 528,000, were Hispanic. That's up from 22 percent, or nearly 346,000, of the 1.59 million total in 1990. SRINAGAR, India Pro-India party loses state assembly control Kashmiri voters ousted the ruling pro-India party - the dominant force in the Indian-controlled province for more than 50 years, demanding eco- nomic and social reforms and an end to the Islamic militancy that has claimed tens of thousands of lives. Final results yesterday showed the National Confer- ence party, which is closely tied to the Hindu-nationalist government in New Delhi, lost half the seats it held in the; last state assembly, maintaining only 28 constituencies - far below the 44 needed to form a majority government. The party declared it would not ally with its rivals in a coalition gov- ernment, signaling an overhaul of the political landscape in the Himalayan province wracked by Islamic sepa- ratism and at the center of nuclear- armed brinkmanship with neighboring Pakistan. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 0 6 0 All events open to the public without charge This Weeen 6 Ony 1 / -M % % 'a A Epp, 1 oooo 7 A 10000070 . 00000000 oooo 0000"000 -.dm*vdLwdmmwb i 3OOO0 11 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily's office for $2. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $105. Winter term (January through April) is $110, yearlong (September through April) is $190. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. 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