Oregon daily emerald., October 13, 1992, Page 8, Image 8

Man survives two-day
detainment by Iraqis
(A!’) — Muni
tions export
Chad Hull re
turned to the
United Slutes
on Monduy after n "roller-coast
er” two-day ordeal in custody
in Iraq
"You can't imagine how hap
py I um In ho homo," Hall said
upon urrivul at Washington s
Dulles Airport. He was greeted
hy his wife Susie and sons
Chad and Craig
The 50-year-old Texan was
captured at gunpoint Thursday
afternoon in a disputed section
of Kuwait's border with Iraq
The Incident threatened to ig
nite a new confrontation lie
tween Baghdad and Washing
ton only weeks before the U S
Iraq sold the i upturn was due
to confusion along the un
marked frontier and released
Hall to IJ N custody in Dagli
dud on Saturday. He was flown
to the U N bordnr headquarters
ut Um Qasr for a medical ex
animation Sunday before lining
escorted to the IJ S embassy in
Kuwait
Hull, who told reporters in
Kuwait that he was not mis
treated while lining held, s|M)ke
of the "roller-coaster of feel
ings” he experienced when an
Iraqi police major and urmy
colonel seized him along the
border.
"I realized I was in trouble
when (the colonel) pulled a gun
on me." he said
Hall, a retired U S. Army ma
jor who served in Vietnam, said
ho succeeded tn getting ihu
Iraqis lo release his Pakistani
co-workers But for him. he
said. "II was a matter of either
going or being shot "
Hull Is a bomb-disposal ex
pert working for Environmental
Health Kosoarch und Testing
out of Lexington. Ky Ho was
under contract to Kuwait's
Ministry of Defense to remove
munitions loft from the Persian
Gulf War
Company offi* ials said Hall
was ruptured on the Kuwaiti
side of a 15-kilometor-wide de
militarized zone running down
the border Iraq does not recog
nize the new border drawn up
after the war. which shifts oil
wells arid farmland to Kuwait
Hull said his Iruqi captors
stuck guns in his rib rage und
to his head as they led him
away from the border and to
various military outposts. The
next day fie was pul in u red
Fiat, told to put his head down,
and driven north to Baghdad
where fie was Issued a prison
uniform
"My heart dropped ut that
point fairiluse I thought I was in
for a very long term in Iraq,
based on what happened to tint
others.” Hull said in Kuwuit. re
ferring to two Britons and three
Swedes arrested in the disput
ed zone over the past throe
months They all received suv
on-yoor prison terms for illegal
ly entering the country.
Bush wrong about Magic’s record
WASHINGTON (Af'i — Earvin Magic"
Johnson attended two meetings of the Nutionul
(Commission on AIDS That's one morn than all
throe members of tho president's cabinet who
have seats on tho commission.
"We've been very disappointed," (Carlton
hoc. chief liaison officer of the commission,
said of tho cabinet secretaries' personal atten
dance record
Lee said Monday that the biggest disapjKiint
ment was Dr Louis Sullivan, secretary of tho
Department of Hoalth and Human Services,
who has attended only one of tho commis
sion's two dozen meetings since it was formed
in 19H9
The attendance records became an issue dur
ing the first presidential deflate Sunday night,
when President hush criticized Johnson's deci
sion It) resign from the commission and his
poor attendance at tho meetings
The Lakers basketball star — who an
nounced last year that he had HIV, the virus
that causes AIDS ~ resigned from tho commis
sion last month, saying tho administration was
not taking Its work seriously enough
"I was a little disappointed in Magic because
he came to mo and I suld, 'Now. if you see
something we’re not doing, get a hold of me
Call me, let me know,'" Bush said Sunday.
"He went to one meeting and then we heard
that he was stepping down "
Bush was wrong
"Ho says I only went to one mooting," John
soft said in an interview with KNBC-TV in Los
Angeles "He lied, I went to two meetings. I
couldn't make the other ones because of
scheduling problems Of course they only had
a couple more after that."
Lets confirmed Johnson's presence at two of
the six meetings tho commission held while
Johnson was on the panel.
Campus gunman confronts classmates
LINCOLN. Nub (Al*) — A
University of Nebraska gradu
ate student confronted about 20
classmates with a rifle Monday,
but everyone escaped un
harmed when the gun jammed,
police said
A student pushed a desk Into
the gunmun after the gun fuiled
to fire, knocking him into u cor
ner so the others could gel
uway. said campus Police Chief
Ken Cuuhle
The gunmun gave no motive
for his actions, wilnossrss and
authorities said.
Lancaster County sheriff’s
deputies later arrested Arthur
McElroy. 43, at his home In
nearby Bonnet. He was held for
investigation lor milking terror
ism: threats, false imprison
ment and use of a firearm to
commit a felony. Caublo said.
The .30-callber carbine had a
30-bullet clip, and Mclilroy had
another 30-round clip in his
pocket, Gauble said
The gun jammed when Mc
Elroy allegedly tried to udvunco
a bullet into the rifle’s bring
chamber when another bullet
was already in place.
Students In the class, which
Mcblroy was enrolled in, threw
themselves to the floor to uvoid
being shot.
“I’m just grateful that it
didn't work," Caublfl said "It's
a pretty helpless situation."
McLiroy was a gruauuiu ui
Rutgers University in New Jer
sov and received a luw degree
from the University of Nebras
ka in 1989. university Vice
Chancellor James Griesen said.
He was considered a full
time student because he had
enrolled in throe classes.
Griesson said.
Gauble said Mclilroy was de
scribed as a loner.
"Nobody had much to do
with him, and it doesn't appeur
that he hud any single student
in mind as a victim,” ho said
Student Patrick (iiusgrovo of
Nebrasku City said the man
didn't utter a word after the
gun fulled to fire
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