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Nate Sandals klein@michigandaily.com nguyen@michigandaily.com 1An JOHN MAKELY / The Sun Amish men gather across the street from the schoolhouse yesterday in Nickel Mines, Pa. A milk truck driver entered a one-room Amish school- house and killed three girls and then himself. Gunman kills 3 then self at Amish school Milk truck-driver commits third deadly school shooting in U.S. in less than a week NICKEL MINES, Pa. (AP) - A milk truck-driver carrying two guns, a stack of wood and an old grudge entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse, let boys and several adults go, then barricaded himself inside with a dozen young girls before opening fire on them, killing three girls and then himself. It was the third deadly school shooting in less than a week in the United States, this time in a bucolic stretch of Lancaster County where horse-drawn buggies carry plainly dressed Amish along twisting backcountry roads and where violent crime is virtually nonexistent. Seven others were taken to hospitals and most of the victims were shot at point-blank range, authorities said. The gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, is not Amish, wasn't targeting the Amish and apparently chose the school because he was bent on killing young girls as a way of "acting out in revenge for something that hap- pened 20 years ago,' state police Commissioner Jeffrey B. Miller said. A 32-year-old truck driver from the town of Bart, Rob- erts apparently killed himself, Miller said. He had left several rambling notes to his wife that Miller said were "along the lines of suicide notes." According to investigators, Roberts dropped his chil- dren off at their school bus stop, then pulled up at the West Nickel Mines Amish School - which had about 25 to 30 students, ages six to 13 - at around 10 a.m. Roberts brought with him supplies necessary for a lengthy siege, including three guns, a stun gun, two knives, a pile of wood and a bag with 600 rounds of ammunition, police said. He also had a change of clothing, toilet paper, bolts and hardware and rolls of clear tape. He released about 15 boys, a pregnant woman and three women with infants, Miller said. He barred the doors with desks, two-by-fours and two- by-sixes and used nails, bolts and flexible plastic ties to help secure them, Miller said. NEWS IN BRIEF HEDLNS RO RON TH 'WRL WASH INGTON Foley scandal shadows GOP Nov. hopes In a twist on the old Watergate question, the Republican Party is struggling to answer: What did GOP leaders know of a congressman's salacious exchanges with underage male pages and when did they know it? The truth could determine not only their own political futures but also whether the party can recover from the scandal surrounding former Republican Rep. Mark Foley - and manage to remain in power after Nov. 7. "I don't think this is so much about Foley as it is about the handling of this," Rick Davis, a Republican strategist, said yesterday as the drama rocked the House GOP five weeks before midterm elections, much to Democrats' delight. "The question becomes who's gettin g thrown overboard besides Foley to get this to go away," said Tony Fabrizio, another GOP consultant. The six-term Florida congressman resigned abruptly on Friday after the disclosure that he sent suggestive electronic messages to teenage boys working as House pages. SHANNON, Ireland Rice: No memory of CIA warning on Sept. 11 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she cannot recall then-CIA chief George Tenet warning her of an impending al-Qaida attack in the United States, as a new book claims he did two months before the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. "What I am quite certain of is that I would remember if I was told, as this account apparently says, that there was about to be an attack in the United States, and the idea that I would somehow have ignored that I find incompre- hensible," Rice said. Rice was President Bush's national security adviser in 2001, when Bob Wood- ward's book "State of Denial" outlines the July 10 meeting in which Tenet said he warned Rice. Cofer Black, the CIA's top counterterror officer, was also present. "I don't know that this meeting took place, but what I really don't know, what I'm quite certain of, is that it was not a meeting in which I was told there was an impending attack and I refused to respond," Rice said. Speaking to reporters en route to Saudi Arabia and other stops in the Middle East, Rice said she met with Tenet daily at that point, and has no memory of the wake-up call from Tenet described in the book. BAGHDAD Iraqi leader announces plan to unite sects Iraq's prime minister announced a new plan yesterday aimed at ending the deepen- ing crisis between Shiite andiSunni parties in his government and uniting them behind the drive to stop sectarian killings that have bloodied the country for months. The four-point plan, which emerged after talks between both sides, aims to resolve disputes by giving every party a voice in how security forces operate against violence on a neighborhood by neighborhood level. Local committees will be formed in each Baghdad district - made up of repre- sentatives of every party, religious and tribal leaders and security officials - to con- sult on security efforts. A Sunni representative, for example, could raise a complaint if he feels police are not pursuing a Shiite militia after an attack. A central committee, also made up of all the parties, will coordinate with the armed forces. NEW YORK Two Americans share Nobel Prize in medicine Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for discovering a way to silence specific genes, a revolutionary finding that scientists are scrambling to harness for fighting illnesses as diverse as cancer, heart disease and AIDS. Andrew Fire, 47, of Stanford University, and Craig Mello, 45, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, will share the $1.4 million prize. They were honored remarkably swiftly for work they published together just eight years ago. It revealed a process called RNA interference, which occurs in plants, animals and humans. 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