April 2S. 1999
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Colorado Remembers School
Shooting Victims
High School Shooting
Two students o f Columbine High
School attacked students with guns and
explosives in a suicide mission. Twenty
five students and teachers may have
been killed. The gunm en’s intention
was to target minorities and athletes.
They were found dead o f self-inflicted
gunshot wounds, with what appeared
to be bombs around their bodies.
NATO Attacks
NATO continued to launch attacks
a c ro s s Y u g o s la v ia w ith U .S.
helicoptors and troops heading to
ward Albania. Their m ission is to
assist in the a llia n c e ’s attack on
Yugoslav ground forces and stop their
cam paign to rid Kosovo o f its ethnic
A lbanian m ajority. Their main tar
gets are a dozen select towns and
cities.
Church Fires
Jay Scott Ballinger, a 36-year old
Indiana satan worshipper was indicted
on charges o f setting fire to seven
churches in Indiana and three in Geor
gia, including one in which a volunteer
firefighter died. The Justice Depart
ment has not decided yet on whether
Ballinger should seek the death pen
alty in the Georgia case. He recently
admitted to burning 30 to 50 churches
in 11 states between 1994 and 1998.
Vitamin C
The new recom m ended daily al
lowance by G overnm ent researchers
is to double or triple the intake o f
V itam inC because ofitscancer-fight-
ing ability. The N ational Institute o f
H ealth stated that the RDA for vita
min C should be increased from 60
m illigram s to betw een 100 and 200
mg.
Killer Virus
A new virus in Malaysia had al
ready claimed more than 90 lives and
recently killed some stray dogs in M a
laysia. This rare strain, called Nipah
virus is named after the village where
its first victim died. Similarly in Japan,
a dozen victims had died o f Japanese
encephalitis.
Rosa Parks
The Senate had voted unanimously to
award Rosa Parks with a Congressional
Medal for surrendering her bus seat to a
white man that sparked the civil rights
movement. Her arrest in 1955 lead to a
yearlong bus boycott by blacks spear
headed by the Reverend Martin Luther
King Jr.
New Dinosaur Species
Two new heavily armored dinosaur
species were uncovered by James
Kirkland from the Ecollege o f Eastern
Utah in Price, about 100 miles south
west o f Salt Lake City. The species
found are either an ankylosaur, club
tailed armored dinosaur or nodosaur.
Cloning Goats
A Canadian biotechnology company
successfully cloned goat triplets to
produce spider silk in goat's milk for
medicinal use The spider silk is valu
able in helping to repair broken limbs
and tom tissue Cloning the sheep was
done in a way similar to the cloning
Dolly the sheep in 1997. The major
concern is that the technology used
could lead to the cloning o f humans
Bv D an W hitcomb
LITTLETO N , Colo., April
27 (R euters) - W ith church
bells pealing across the state,
residents o f Colorado rem em
bered the victim s o f the C ol
um bine High School massacre
w ith a m om ent o f silence on
T u esd ay, w hile three more
slain students w ere laid to rest.
The solem n tribute began at
11:21 a.m local time (1:21
p.m. EDT) (1721 GM T), ex
actly one w eek after gunshots
first rang out in the school lo
cated in L ittleton, a suburban
co m m unity outside D enver.
Fifteen people, including the
two student gunm en, lost their
lives in the ram page.
R adio and television sta
tions in Colorado also observed
the m om ent o f silence.
The tolling o f the bells was
the only sound heard in dow n
town D enver, w here an elec
tronic billboard near the air
port read, “C olorado, joined
in grief.’’
A giant blue ribbon em bla
zoned w ith the word "C olum
bine" fluttered from the outer
w all o f a sports stadium in
C o lo rado’s capital city, and
blue ribbons w ith the initials
“CH S” w ere seen on jacket and
coat lapels around town.
Police said Eric H arris, 18,
and D vlan K lebold. 17. used
guns and bom bs to kill 12 fel
low students and a popular
teach er b e fo re taking their
ow n lives. M ore than 20 o th
ers injured by bullets and fly
ing shrapnel from pipe bom bs
survived.
Three student victim s o f the
attack w ere buried on T ues
day: Corey D ePooter. Matthew
K echter and K yle V elasquez,
who was laid to rest with a
m ilitary honour guard.
A t V e la s q u e z ’s fu n e ra l,
fam ily friend John N ew hauser
told m ourners, “ It is not right
for the old to bury the young."
In a d d itio n , p o lic e in
Littleton review ed hundreds of
leads in an attem pt to learn how Harris and
Klebold am assed the high-powered w eap
onry and explosives used in the attack.
T he search for clues led Jefferson
C ounty sheriffs to K lebold’s prom date,
Robyn A nderson, 18, who was being
treated as a w itness in the case, not a
suspect, county officials said.
A nderson did not answ er telephone
calls or answ er the door on Tues-
day at the Littleton home w here
she lives with her mother.
T he J e f f e r s o n
C o u n ty
S h e riffs departm ent said the
woman, identified in local m e
dia reports, was cooperating
w ith police and that she had been
released after being questioned
on M onday.
In W ashington. U.S. P resi
dent Bill C linton cited the trag
edy in pushing his proposal to
keep certain firearms away from
young people by closing w hat
he called “ a dangerous loophole
th at was likely e x p lo ite d in
L ittleton, w hich allow s people
to buy w eapons at gun shows
w ithout any background checks
at all."
A gun shop ow ner in C olo
rado Springs, about 60 miles (96
km) south o f Denver, said he
recognised H arris’ picture from
television as som eone who had
com e into his store with four
other teens trying to buy a m a
chine gun and a silencer.
But o w ner M el B ernstein
said he threw the youths out o f
the store because he thought
they w ere too young. Published
reports also said a D enver gun
show organizer had turned over
to federal agents lists o f ex
hibitors.
U nder a C olorado state law
oassed in 1993 it is a felonv for
parents to perm it a juvenile to
possess a handgun if the parent
knows there is a substantial risk
the juvenile would use the hand
gun to com m it a felony. But the
law allow s adults to give m inors
hunting rifles.
Harris and Klebold belonged
to a group at C olum bine High
School know n as the "Trench
C oat M afia,” whose m em bers,
students who considered them
selves social outcasts, wore dark
clothing and revelled in talk o f
w ar and w ar games.
To help "give students a feel
ing o f safety ,” the Jefferson
C ounty school board voted late
on M onday to ban students from
w earing black trench coats to school or
school-sponsored events.
Oregon Takes Major Step Towards
Reconciliation in its
"Day of Acknowledgement"
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A ssociated P ress W riter
SA L E M .O re (A P )_ It w asn’tth ai
long ago.
" C o lo r e d s ” in O re g o n w e re
shunned from w hite neighborhoods
Signs above shops read "dogs or M exi
cans not allow ed ’’ Japanese-A m en-
cans w ere shipped out o f their homes
and into internm ent camps
Now, 150 years after passing a law
to bar “negroes and m ulattoes" from
the O regon T erritory, O regonians
gathered on Thursday to recognize
the sta te 's discrim inatory past.
“No more will we tolerate injus
tice," M yrlie E vers-W illiam s, form er
chairw om an o f the N ational A ssocia
tion for the A dvancem ent o f Colored
People, told those at the C apitol for
the Day o f A cknow ledgm ent. “No
m ore will we tolerate hatred and in
tolerance."
E arlier in the day, both the House
and Senate approved resolutions com
m em orating O regonians’ struggle for
racial justice. The m easure was ap
proved unanim ously in the Senate,
but it passed 50-7 in the House after
several m em bers questioned the value
o f the day.
"I d o n ’t believe we serve ourselves
well by recalling a painful past," said
Rep C arl W ilson. R -G rants Pass.
“ W hat really counts is what we do
today and in the future, not to engage
in sym bolism but in substance.
“ R ather than reliving the past and
risking division, lets pledge to walk
the path that repudiates racism and
discrim ination," he said
T here w ere no words o f anger or
blame at an afternoon cerem ony, when
O regonians _ o f all colors and reli
gions _ packed a House cham ber.
D ressed in traditional navy-blue
uniform s, Buffalo soldiers and N a
tive A m ericans w ith feather head
dresses posted the flags.
The House sw elled w ith song, as
form er Rep. M argaret C arter led the
crow d in a rendition o f “G lory. G lory,
H alleluiah!”
"W e 'v e come a long w ay here in
the state o f O regon," said Ciov John
K itzhaber. “ But th e re ’s alw ays more
that can be done."
In 1844, a year after O regon lead
ers passed an anti-slavery law, the
provisional governm ent voted to pro
hibit blacks altogether A fter repeal
ing it a year later, territorial leaders
approved the second exclusionary act
in 1849.
The law stayed in the O regon Con
stitution until 1926.
At least one black. Salem busi
nessman Jacob V anderpool, was ex
pelled in 1851.
Although never fully enforced, some
say the law 's mere existence discour
aged many black pioneers from settling
in Oregon and created a foundation for
discriminatory laws and attitudes that
continued well into this century.
Oregon becam e the last state on
the W est C oast to adopt, in 1953, a
law outlaw ing discrim ination in ho
tels, m otels, restaurants and am use
ment parks.
“ When we have injustice, we have
to change,” said S enate President
Brady Adams. “ We cannot change
until we have acknow ledged."