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A 911 call was received at 9:48 a.m. from a man at a pay phone about a mile from the campus who said his roommate H-U was on the way to the univer- football game against Harvard. sity to shoot people, Officer But many students were still David Hartman said. in their dorm rooms, Hartman Esserman said he was lean- said, and Yale authorities sent ing toward the incident being a out their first warning about hoax and a witness who report- half an hour after the 911 call. ed seeing someone with a rifle "The Yale police made the likely saw a law enforcement right call," Esserman said. officer. "They went to immediate lock- "Though it is starting to tilt down to keep everybody safe." in the direction of an innocent Yale advised students and mistake, it started with a pur- staff members to shelter in poseful and malicious call," place. It also issued an adviso- Esserman said, vowing to track ry asking people off campus to down and arrest the person stay away. 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Police had difficulty gaining access to some rooms because those people locked inside 8 6 weren't convinced they were dealing with law enforcement, 4 3 he said. Most rooms don't have peepholes. Yale sent out an 7 1 5 email telling community mem- bers that officers would be slip- ping a Yale ID under the door or 1 using keys to gain access. Undergraduate classes are C.} 4 set to resume Dec. 2 Yale has been the target of violence in the past. In May 2003, a bomb damaged an empty classroom and adjacent 7 reading room at the law school. A Yale professor, David J. 6 Gelernter, was seriously injured in 1993, when a bomb mailed by Theodore Kaczynski, the man known as the Unabomber, exploded in his campus office. Monday's search came sever- al weeks after a scare on another Connecticut campus. Controversial actions justified with 'security', met with criticism CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian gov- ernment officials on Monday defended a new law that sharply restricts the right to protest as needed to bring security, trying to counter a storm of criticism from allies and opponents alike who say the rules stifle freedom of expression and endanger the country's democratic transition. The law, issued by the inter- im president a day earlier, bans public gatherings of more than 10 people without prior govern- ment approval, imposing hefty fines and prison terms for viola- tors. It also empowered security agencies to use force to break up protests. The protest law has caused cracks in the loose coalition of secular and non-Islamist groups that rallied behind the military- backed government installed following the ouster of elected Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July. Morsi supporters have been holding constant protests since his fall, often descending into bloody clashes amid a rising wave of violence. But opponents of the new law, including among those who have backed the gov- ernment, say it will silence all critics - and that it goes against the spirit of the protest move- ments that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and rose up against Morsi, pavingthe way for the coup that removed him. The government portrays it as a measure to restore security and stability and help the country's economy - arguments that have strong resonance with an Egyp- tian public weary with violence. "There will be no economy without security and a stable political environment now and in the future," interim Prime Min ister Hazem el-Beblawi said, at a government meeting in which the law was discussed, according to the state news agency. He saidsome intheopposition aim to create "confusion and sow mistrust betweenthe authorities and the public." Egypt's powerful military chief, the man who removed Morsi, weighed in as well, urging political factions and the media to support the transition pro- cess and line up behind a push to restore security - though he did not specifically mention the law. Political groups should drop "criteria and considerations that don't fit the reality Egypt is liv- ing and the challenges it faces," Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said, pointing to security threats, includingthe increasingmilitant attacks in the Sinai Peninsula. "The political, economic and social challenges Egypt faces need effort and will and a correct understanding of the require- ments of this phase," el-Sissi said at a meeting of officers, accord- ing to MENA. He said a number of measures under way will "correct the democratic path and establish a regime that pleases all Egyp- tians." It was an apparent reference to the new protest law and a drive to finish amendingthe con- stitution. In the latest violence, attack- ers on a motorcycle threw a gre- nade at a police checkpoint near a historic royal palace in Cairo, wounding at least one guard, according to MENA. Interior Minister Moham- med Ibrahim, in charge of police, insisted the protest law doesn't undermine the right to peace- ful expression, as he met with top security officers on how to implement it, starting Monday. "The law grants the right to organize public gatherings, con- voys, and peaceful protests and to join them, in accordance with the law," Ibrahim said according to the state news agency MENA. Among the restrictions, how- ever, would-be protesters must seek a permit for their gather- ing three days in advance, which, security officials can turn down with little explanation, requir- ing the applicants to turn to the courts to appeal. Rights groups, secular politi- cal parties and activists, who had lobbied against protest law, said that despite an initialuproar over an earlier draft of the law, the final version had only small changes. "It gives a legal cover to repression," said the Popular Current, a group led by leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahy, who had backedtheremoval of Morsi. The group said the law "is not befitting for a country that had two revolts in two years mainly against repression." In a snub to the law, the youth activist group April 6 and other political groups held a rally out- side a central Cairo police station Monday, calling on the govern- ment to "eat popcorn!"- a joke to say the government is wasting time. They mockingly presented a request to organize a rally they said will be attended by 10 mil- lion Egyptians. The military-backed inter- im government, meanwhile, is pushing through with a politi- cal road map that calls for new presidential and parliamentary elections next year. The prime minister, el-Beb- lawi, said Monday that a key first step in the process - a referen- dum on amendments in the con- stitution - will likely take place in the second half of January. He did not give a precise date, which is still to be announced by the interim president. The 50-member appointed panel is still working on amend- ing the 2012 constitution, mainly drafted by Islamists and approved under Morsi. The process is also seeing a risingchorus of criticism against the secrecy of its discussions and a number of articles that have granted the next president great- er powers. I 4 I i a