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Fraternity ritual ends
in near fatal fire
1 PULLMAN, Wash. — A week
end fire that heavily damaged
a Washington State University fra
ternity house has uncovered a
practice that police said Sunday
may not be uncommon on WSU’s
Greek Row: binding a student’s
wrists and ankles and leaving him
helpless.
In the case of the WSU sopho
more found by firefighters Satur
day — bound with duct tape in
side a barricaded guest room as a
fire burned in another wing of the
Sigma Nu house — the conse
quences could have been disas
trous.
As a practical joke, it “could
have gone horribly bad,” univer
sity spokeswoman Sue Hinz said.
“It’s very fortunate firefighters
got to him. There was smoke in
that area and people can die from
smoke inhalation,” said city po
lice and fire spokesman Glenn
Johnson.
“It's an unfortunate happen
ing,” said Ben Schuetz, a junior
who lives in the Delta Tau Delta
fraternity next door.
Protesters release hostages
as conflict continues
2 MEXICO CITY—Hundreds of
protesters have freed the 65
policemen they captured during a
clash over control of a teachers’
college, according to news reports
Sunday.
Several police and protesters
were injured during the weekend
protest in the Hidalgo state town
of Tepatepec, 50 miles north of
Mexico City, the reports said. Pro
testers also burned more than a
dozen police cars.
State officials and town leaders
met briefly Sunday to discuss the
conflict over the Tepatepec’s
teachers college, but there was no
word on an agreement.
The latest violence began as
hundreds of state police raided
the school early Saturday morning
to end a seven-week student
takeover. Dozens of students were
arrested.
Security guard shoots, kills
seven relatives
3 CAPE TOWN, South Africa—
A former security guard on
Sunday shot and killed seven rela
tives, including two young chil
dren, and then fled, police said.
The victims included the man’s
wife, her three sisters, a brother-in
law and two of tire man’s children,
aged 3 and 7.
All were shot in their heads exe
cution-style. A 13-year-old daugh
ter escaped the attack.
The shifting spree began
around 7 a.m. at a farm near Prince
Alfred Hamlet in Western Cape,
police spokesman Anton de Kock
said. The name of the suspect, a
former member of the South
African Defense Force, was not
immediately available.
Louis Milne, who runs the farm,
said the 35-year-old gunman had
worked as a security guard on the
property* until six months ago,
when he was fired for pointing a
gun at his nephew. He said he
wanted to shoot his family be
cause his wife wanted a divorce,
Milne said.
Bomb from VVWII discovered,
detonated
4 ROME — Italy shut down a
central stretch of its major
north-south rail and road routes
and evacuated hundreds of peo
ple Sunday to blow up a newly
uncovered American-made bomb
dropped in World War II.
The rusted bomb contained
about 550 pounds of TNT, authori
ties said. Explosives experts
deemed it too fragile to dig out or
disarm. Instead, they excavated a
crater and used plastic explosives
to destroy the bomb from afar.
“Perfectly successful,” said Lt.
Col. Fabio Commellini, one of the
leaders of the explosives team.
An allied warplane dropped the
bomb near Terni, about 40 miles
east of Rome, on Jan. 28, 1944,
when much of Italy was under
German occupation. The bomb
landed in the Paglia River, near a
rail route.
Skier buried in avalanche
5 CONCORD, N.H. — An ava
lanche on New England’s
highest peak smothered a skier
Sunday, one day after a different
avalanche killed a skier in upstate
New York.
David McPhedran of Kents Hill,
Maine, and a friend were skiing in
an area of Mount Washington
called the Gulf of Slides when the
avalanche hit about 1 p.m. Only
Aimee Reiter survived, said Col.
Ron Alie of the New Hampshire
Fish and Game Department.
“They decided to climb up one
of the gullies to ski down it and
caused the avalanche, which
swept them down the gully,” Alie
said.
“She was buried waist-deep,
but David was buried face down. ”
Reiter, also of Kents Hill,
climbed out and uncovered
McPhedran, 42, but was unable to
save him, Alie said.
With heavy snowfall and rough
weather conditions, Mount Wash
ington is one of the few places in
the East where avalanches are a
danger. During the last century,
126 people have died there.
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