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Nation & world briefing Despair strikes inside sniper’s range Jeffrey uettleman New York Times SILVER SPRING, Md. — It was at 10:30 Tuesday morning that Shirlita Baker’s down mood hit a new depth. She started getting upset earlier in the week, watching the police chief try to send messages to the sniper, “making the cops look so desperate,” she said. Then the two men arrested in Rich mond, Va., initially thought to be sus pects, turned out to be only suspected illegal immigrant laborers. But at 10:30, Baker heard the news : , that a bus driver in her neighborhood had not just been seriously wounded by a gunshot to the stomach, he was now dead. “That was the moment when I said to myself, ‘I can’t believe what’s hap pening here. They’re not going to get this guy,”’ said Baker, 40, also a bus driver in Montgomery County. “I pulled my daughter out of school. I’m not going to work. This is ridiculous. ” It got worse. Around 4:30 p m., police officials announced that a note left by the sniper at the scene of a killing in Vir ginia carried the words “your children are not safe anywhere at any time.” “We can’t live like this,” said Baker, who kept checking over her shoulder in the parking lot of a Giant grocery store. She shared a worried look with her 14-year-old daughter, Brittany. “We gone, honey, we gone,” and then they drove away. As if the recent setbacks in the sniper investigation were not enough, those tw< > huge chunks of news — the message about children and the killing of a bus driver just blocks from where the shooting spree began three weeks ago — left people here with a queasy feeling Tuesday that things were spin ning totally out of control. The developments were interpreted as some of the most dispiriting, most nerve-racking signs that the police are no closer to finding the sniper than they were the day the killings began. Military spy planes. SWAT teams. Squad cars at every big traffic light. These do not make people feel much safer. The most agonizing part, people say, is having their hope extin guished. So what about daily routines or morning commutes getting inter rupted. It is the promising develop ments followed by a stack of disap pointments that really whittle a strong person down. “Things look good, and then all of a sudden they look bad again,” said Jacob Ellis, a recording engineer in Silver Spring. “Every time we get some good news, the sniper just takes it away.” uiego ibarguen and Michael Dorgan Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) WASHINGTON — President Bush wants Chinese President Jiang Zemin to promise to help him restrain North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program when the two leaders meet Friday, ac cording to a senior U. S. official. The third meeting between the U.S. and Chinese presidents — at Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas — also will feature discussions of Iraq, Taiwan and religious freedom, experts say. Bush and Jiang then will attend the Asia Pa cific Economic Cooperation summit 1, which trite ma oetween Jiang l to be tit ’s. semm: - /• But North Korea's recent admission that it has run a covert nuclear arms pro gram, in violation of a 1994 agreement, has vaulted the issue “to the top of the Crawford agenda,’’ said the U.S. offi cial, who spoke on condition of anonymity. China, North Korea’s only impor tant friend, has spent hundreds of mil lions of dollars on aid to keep North Ko North Korea form its econ side world, n in the late 1^3 Would make cooperation,’ © 2002, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services, Knight Ridder Newspapers correspondent Warren P. Strobel contributed to this report. about the treatment that followers Falun Gong supporters said they expect more than 1,000 supporters to converge in Crawford when the president meets with his Chinese counterpart. The Chinese government banned Falun Gong in 1999 and has cracked down on the group, claiming its spiri tual and moral beliefs are a cover for subversive activity. Amnesty International, the human rights organization, reports that fol lowers of Falun Gong face detention, unfair trials torture and imprisonment as part of the Communist govern ment’s repression. Falun Gong supporters said they ex pect more than 1,000 supporters to converge in Crawford, where Bush’s ranch is located, when the president meets with his Chinese counterpart. —Amy Dor sett, Hearst Newspapers (U- WIRE) Groups request stricter regulations on file sharing Margaret Bauer The Student Life (Washington U.-St. Louis) ST. LOUIS, Mo. (U-WIRE) — Col lege campuses across the country are becoming staging grounds for an imminent battle over digital copy right infringement as university of ficials fear lawsuits from recording and music industry officials. The leaders of six higher educa tion organizations recently sent a letter to more than 2,300 colleges and universities requesting stricter regulations on digital file-sharing technologies. Representatives of the music and recording industries sent out a similar request soon thereafter. The letters assert that evidence of illegal distribution of copyright ed material through peer-to-peer and other digital file sharing con nections on college campuses may result in lawsuits and legal action against universities that choose to remain impartial. At Washington University, the service policy for Residential Tech nology states that “users should as sume that material is copyrighted unless they know otherwise and not copy or disseminate copyrighted material without permission.” Despite the policy’s warning, most students with a computer use some variation of the popular peer to-peer programs, including KaZaA, Morpheus and Blubster. In many cases, students have lit tie idea what the actual problems are with file sharing and copyright infringement on campus. “It seems like many students come to campus as freshmen think ing that downloading (and making available for uploading) music, games, software, etc. ... is not a problem,” Residential Technology Services director Matt Arthur said. “Our hope is to educate new stu dents so that they fully understand the ramifications of this issue.” As Arthur explained, many peo ple tend to mix up the problems of bandwidth and the content of that bandwidth. “It’s not my business to look at what people are running over the bandwidth,” Arthur said. “File shar ing programs are not, in and of themselves, a problem. ... 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