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.”
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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
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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
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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. ... It is how
these tools are used that can
become a concern, both from a
bandwidth and copyright point of
view.”
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