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Nation & world briefing U.S. diplomat shot to death in Jordan Michael Matza Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) AMMAN, Jordan — A U.S. diplo mat was killed Monday morning in Amman as he was preparing to leave home to go to work at the American embassy. The diplomat was identified as Laurence Foley, a senior administra tor with the U.S. Agency for Interna tional Development. The agency gave his age as 60. Foley was shot eight times in the head, chest and stomach. Jordanian police said Foley’s wife, Virginia, dis covered her husband’s body Monday in a pool of blood in their driveway, near his burgundy Mercedes-Benz. It was the first killing of a U.S. diplo mat since 1998, when 12 Americans died in a bombing at the U.S. embassy in Kenya. That attack was tied to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network. No one has claimed responsibility for Foley’s killing, but officials imme diately stepped up security at the U.S. embassy. Jordanian soldiers guarded the embassy’s walls and pa trolled the perimeter in jeeps mounted with machine guns. The embassy warned Americans in Jor dan to take special precautions. Jordan is an ally of the United States in the Middle East, and it signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994. But King Abdullah has dis agreed with U.S. threats to use mili tary force to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, warning it could unleash unrest throughout the re gion. The U.S. threats against Iraq also have fueled anti-American sen timent among Jordan’s population, the majority of whom are Palestinian refugees. Jordan also has thousands of Iraqi refugees who fled during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The Jordanian government has aggressively pursued Islamic ex tremists in the kingdom and has of fered its assistance to the United States to help infiltrate groups asso ciated with al-Qaida. Foley had worked for the U.S. gov ernment for 37 years, the last 14 for USAID, which dispenses American foreign aid around the world. He pro vided administrative support for $250 million worth of USAID pro grams in Jordan. Jordanian Information Minister Mohammed Affash Adwan declined to speculate on motives but called the killing “an aggression on Jordan and its national security.” Jordanian officials, led by King Abdullah, pledged to bring the killer to justice. © 2002, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. Students rally in largest D.C. protest since Vietnam Jessica Coomes Daily Kent Stater (Kent State U.) WASHINGTON, D.G. (U-WIRE) — More than 100,000 protesters flocked to the capital Saturday to voice loud, peaceful objections to a possible war in Iraq, which many contended is linked to U.S. oil inter ests. Organizers said it was the largest rally in Washington since the Vietnam era. “Normal, everyday people think this war is wrong — it’s not just ac twists,” said Maureen Havelka, a Kent State senior psychology major who attended the protest. Speeches by actress Susan Saran don and the Revs. Jesse Jackson and A1 Sharpton highlighted the four hour rally. The crowd spanned from the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial to a pond by the Washington Monu ment. a distance of about one-third of a mile. Protesters then overflowed into Washington’s closed streets, drift ing shoulder-to-shoulder with bob bing heads and signs, chanting adamantly in a procession around the White House. International ANSWER, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, spon sored the event and coordinated oth er major rallies Saturday in San Francisco and around the world. While President George W. Bush is calling for a regime change in Iraq, speakers and protesters repeatedly called for a change of power in the United States. Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attor ney General, said the United States has weapons of mass destruction, which makes the government a “hypocrisy,” not a democracy. “Regime change needs to begin at home,” Clark said. The Rev. Jesse Jackson ques tioned the country’s priorities and demanded change. But when it mat ters, Jackson said, democracy will work, and protesters should trust it. “This time the silent majority is on our side,” Jackson explained. “Americans do not want this war.” Michael Barnes, a volunteer for ANSWER, said 100,000 protesters is a conservative estimate, and the crowd may have been as large as 200.000 people. He said regular protests attract 10.000 to 20,000 people, and Satur day’s large audience gives the issue more legitimacy and shows the anti war position is widely supported. U. of Arizona student kills three teachers, self John M. Broder New York Times TUCSON, Ariz. — An aggrieved student killed three instructors at the University of Arizona nursing school Monday morning and then fa tally shot himself, the Tucson police said. The medical complex at the university was locked down as Tuc son police and bomb squad officers searched for explosives. The police identified the gunman as Robert S. Flores Jr., 41, a student at the nursing school. College offi cials said he was failing his course work and fellow students described him as belligerent and potentially dangerous. A school staff member raised an alarm about him more than a year ago, saying he was de pressed and capable of violence, but there had been no follow-up action taken, according to the chief of the university’s police force. Richard Miranda, chief of the Tuc son city police, said Flores apparent ly entered the nursing school build ing shortly before 8:30 Monday morning and methodically sought out his victims, all of them female nursing instructors. The first victim was Robin E. Rogers, 50, who was shot multiple times with a handgun as she worked in her office on the second floor, Miranda said. Flores then walked into a fourth floor classroom and shot his second victim, Barbara Monroe, as she stood in front of about 20 students in a class on critical care. Several stu dents in an adjacent classroom called campus and Tucson police. But before they responded, the po lice said, Flores walked to the back of the classroom and shot his final vic tim, Cheryl McGaffic, 44. He then turned to two students he apparently knew and ordered them to leave the classroom, witnesses told the police. Moments later, he released the re maining students, who ran in terror to other classrooms or out into the parking lot next to the medical com plex. The police quickly rounded up the witnesses and sequestered them in a building housing the university’s office of alumni affairs. Flores then apparently shot himself, Miranda said, falling on a backpack that the police feared might contain explosives. By late Monday afternoon the police still had not moved Flores’ body as they tried to determine if the backpack posed a danger. Take your pick of problems: The Economy. The Environment. Education. Reproductive Freedom. Health Care. Civil Liberties. Corporate Influence. Energy Policy. Iraq. Now pick up the phone. The Democratic Party of Lane County invites you to help elect a solution. 015123 Volunteer. Do it now. The stakes are too high to not get involved. Call our Headquarters 762-VOTE (8683) today. Paid for by the Democratic Party of Lane County & Friends * University of Oregon College Democrats, EMU, Ste #20
