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Local vandals were active $10 million building.
looting and destroying property The school's outdated facilities
on Halloween-Homecoming were making it difficult to contin-
weekend. ue to be a top program, William
A janitor reported that 10 Mann, the Dean of the Dental
"youngsters" attempted to steal School, said. The proposed build-
hoses and fire extinguishers ing plan allowed the school to
from Angell Hall on Halloween increase its enrollment from 350
night. By the time the police to 600 undergraduates, whom
arrived, the suspects had disap- the school had a program for at
peared. the time.
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roaming the street destroyed is the second oldest in the coun-
unguarded Homecoming dis- try, and when it was provided in
plays. 1908, research space was given
little consideration," Mann said.
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FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS
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FORTY YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK (OCT. 271973)
The School of Dentistry pro-
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Back it up
WHERE: 2400 Hayward
WHEN: Thursday at about
10:30 a.m.
WHAT: A vehicle backing
out of a driveway hit anoth-
er car in the street, result-
ing in a minor accident,
University Police reported.
There were no injuries, but
there was some damage to
one of the vehicles.
All kinds of bad Depression Cecilia
WHERE: 1900 block of
Geddes
WHEN: Friday at about
2:20 a.m.
WHAT: A subject was
arrested for operating while
intoxicated, resisting arrest,
damage to a police vehicle
and possession of a false
driver's license, University
Police reported.
discussion Munoz talk
WHAT: Former NFL ath-
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athlete Blake Wagner will
share their experiences and
work with depression.
WHO: Council for Disabil-
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That guy at the Study 'til you Research
party drop
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Cousin admitted fatally
stabbing mom, four kids
Syria files weapons report
amid renewed violence
Suspect still in
custody after
resisting arrest and
assaulting officer
NEW YORK(AP) - A Chinese
immigrant who neighbors said
struggled to survive in America
was arrested Sunday on five
counts of murder in the stabbing
deaths of his cousin's wife and
her four children in their Brook-
lyn home - using a butcher knife.
The suspect, 25-year-old Min-
gdong Chen, implicated himself
in the killings late Saturday in
the Sunset Park neighborhood,
police said.
"They were cut and butchered
with a kitchen knife," said Chief
of Department Philip Banks III.
Two girls, 9-year-old Linda
Zhuo and 7-year-old Amy Zhuo,
were pronounced dead at the
scene, along with the youngest
child, 1-year-old William Zhuo
- all attacked in a back bedroom,
policesaid. Their brother, 5-year-
old Kevin Zhuo, and 37-year-old
mother, Qiao Zhen Li, were taken
to hospitals, where they were
also pronounced dead.
Chen is a cousin of the chil-
dren's father and had been stay-
ing at the home for the past week
or so, Banks said.
Chen came to the United
States from China in 2004, the
chief said, but neighbors say he
could never hold down a job.
"He made a very soft comment
that since he came to this coun-
try, everybody seems to be doing
better than him," the chief said.
"We're not really sure what that
means."
The chief said Chen still
speaks only Mandarin Chinese
despite being in the U.S. for
almost a decade.
On Saturday night, Chen
apparently had been acting in'a
"suspicious" way that concerned
Li, Banks said. She tried to call
her husband, who wasn't home,
but couldn't reach him.
Banks said Li then called her
mother-in-law in China, who
also was unsuccessful in reach-
ing her son. The mother-in-law
reached out to her daughter in
the same Brooklyn neighbor-
hood, Banks said.
She and her husband came
to the house and banged on the
door. When it opened, they faced
a grisly sight: a man they didn't
know, covered with blood. The
couple called 911, and officers
investigating another matter
nearby responded quickly, Banks
said.
"It's a scene you'll never for-
get," he said. The victims had
wounds in their necks and torsos.
Chen was in custody and not
immediately available to com-
ment; it was not clear whether
he had a lawyer. Banks said he
had at first resisted arrest and,
while being processed, assaulted
a police officer.
Bob Madden, who lives near-
by, was out walking his dog Sat-
urday night when he saw a man
being escorted from the two-
family brick.house by police. He
was barefoot, wearing jeans, and
"he was staring, he was expres-
S7sionless," Madden said.
Yuan Gao, a cousin of the
1 2 mother, came by the house Sun-
day and stood on the street, along
with the neighborhood's mostly
8 7 9 Chinese residents.
Some said that at Chen's latest
5 1 2 temporary home, days before the
brutal killings, late-night argu-
4 7 2ments were loud enough to be
heard outside.
Gao said Chen was emotion-
9ally unstable. "He's crazy," she
said.
1 3 Gao also said Chen kept get-
ting fired from various restau-
I 28 rant jobs after only a few weeks.
Fire department spokesman
Jim Long said emergency work-
4ers responded just before 11
p.m. to a 911 call from a person
stabbed at the residence in Sun-
set Park, a working-class neigh-
borhood.
Chemical weapons
set to be destroyed
by mid-2014 in
'ambitious timeline'
THE HAGUE, Netherlands
(AP) - Syria has filed details of
its poison gas and nerve agent
program and an initial plan to
destroy it to the world's chemical
weapons watchdog, the organi-
zation said Sunday.
The Organization for the Prohi-
bition ofChemical Weapons said in
a statement that Syria completed
its declaration as part of a strict
and ambitious timeline that aims
to eliminate the lethal stockpile by
mid-2014.
Thegroupbased in The Hague,
said Syria made the declaration
Thursday. The announcement pro-
vides "the basis on which plans are
devised for a systematic, total and
verified destruction of declared
chemical weapons and production
facilities," the group said.
Such declarations made to the
organization are confidential. No
details of Syria's program were
released.
Syria already had given pre-
liminary details to the OPCW
when it declared it was joining
the organization in September.
The move warded off possible
U.S. military strikes in the after-
math of an Aug. 21 chemical
weapon attack on a Damascus
suburb. Syria denies responsibil-
ity for the deadly attack.
OPCW inspectors were hast-
ily dispatched to Syria this
month and have visited most of
the 23 sites Damascus declared.
They also have begun overseeing
destruction work to ensure that
machines used to mix chemicals
and fill munitions with poisons
are no longer functioning.
Syria is believed to possess
around 1,000 metric tons of
chemical ,weapons, including
mustard gas and sarin.
It has not yet been decided
how or where destruction of
Syria's chemical weapons will
happen. Damascus' declara-
tion includes a general plan for
destruction that will be consid-
ered by the OPCW's 41-nation
executive council on Nov. 15.
Norway's foreign minis-
ter announced Friday that the
country had turned down a U.S.
request to receive the bulk of
Syria's chemical weapons for
destruction because it doesn't
have the capabilities to complete
the task by the deadlines given.
The announcement came
among renewed fighting in Syria.
Al-Qaida-linked rebels battled
government troops for control
of the Christian town of Sadad
north of Damascus, activists said..
The rebels have been trying to
seize the town for the past week,
and residents in the rebel-held
western neighborhoods of Sadad
are trapped in their homes, said
Rami Abdurrahman of the Brit-
ain-based Syrian Observatory of
Human Rights.
The rebels appear to have
targeted Sadad because of its
strategic location near the main
highway north from Damascus
rather than because it is inhab-
ited primarily by Christians.
But extremists among the reb-
els are hostile to Syria's Chris-
tians minority, which has largely
backed President Bashar Assad
during the conflict.
The official Syrian news agen-
cy said troops wrested back con-
trol of eastern parts of Sadad, but
were clashing in other areas.
Also Sunday, Syrian Kurdish
gunmen were trying to secure
their hold over a major border
crossing with Iraq after captur-
ing the captured the Yaaroubi-
yeh -post in northeast Syria on
Saturday. Abdurrahman said the
Kurdish gunmen were fighting
pockets of fighters from extrem-
ist rebel groups in southern
Yaaroubiyeh.
Syria's chaotic more than 2
1 year-old conflict pits Assad's
forces against a disunited array
of rebel factions. Al-Qaida-
linked hard-liners have fought
.other rebel groups as well as
Kurdish militias who have taken
advantage of the government's
weakness to cement control over
territory dominated by the eth-
nic minority.
The main Western-backed
opposition group, the Syrian
National Coalition, accused Iraqi
forces of fighting moderate Syr-
ian rebels at Yaaroubiyeh, and
shelling the area in cooperation
with Kurdish militants.
Iraq's Interior Ministry
spokesman, Saad Maan Ibrahim,
rejected the accusations, saying
they are "baseless because Iraq
and its security forces have noth-
ing to do with the fighting at the
Syrian border crossing."
In neighboring Lebanon,
another two people -were killed
by sniper fire during fighting
between rival sects in the north-
ern city of Tripoli, the official
state news agency reported. It
said that a soldier in the city also
died Sunday of his wounds.
At least 10 people have been
killed since clashes flared earlier
this week, security officials said.
Syria's. civil war effectively
has spread to Lebanon's sec-
ond largest city, where it has
inflamed tensions between two
impoverished Tripoli neighbor-
hoods-home to Assad opponents
and supporters.
The Bab Tabbaneh district is
largely Sunni Muslim, like Syr-
ia's rebels. The other neighbor-
hood Jabal Mohsen mostly has
residents of Assad's Alawite sect,
an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
The latest round of fighting
began four days ago. Tensions
had been mounting since Oct. 14,
when a Lebanese military pros-
ecutor pressed charges against
seven men, at least one of whom
was from Jabal Mohsen, for their
involvement in twin bombings
near two Sunni mosques in Trip-
olionAug.23thatkilled47people.
Lebanon shares its northern
and eastern border with Syria.
Lebanon's Sunni leadership has
mostly supported the rebels,
while Alawites and Shiites have
backed the Assad government.
Members of all three sects have
gone as fighters to Syria.
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