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— A 12-foot African
dile which killed a 6-year-old
as shot and killed yesterday by
[owner of the Miami Serpen-
,ni. It took the 1,800-pound
le an hour to die.
ivner Bill Haast, still shaken by
'outh’s death Saturday, would
italk to reporters. But his wife
the crocodile, Cookie, was
and buried in the same pit
ire it killed young David Mark
son of West Palm Beach.
|, e Serpentarium, a research
[ity and zoo for reptiles, re-
red closed while the Haasts dis-
[ed what additional safety pre
ions to take. It was the first such
ent in its 30-year history,
lie didn’t do it (kill the animal)
[t of anger because the crocodile
just doing what comes naturally
[ini, said Clarita Haast.
e boy and his father, David
son, 42, were throwing sea-
es at the crocodile, hoping to
it move, when the youngster
ed from a retaining wall and
fell into the crocodile pit. His father
had turned away to pick more
seagrapes.
The crocodile lunged from 10 feet
away and clamped his jaws around
the boy’s chest. Nicholas Calineau
of West Palm Beach jumped on the
crocodile’s back four times while
Wasson ran screaming for help.
Wasson returned to the pit,
jumped in and straddled the
crocodile, pulling at his jaws and
screaming, “Oh, my God!’
The crocodile shook his head
violently, smashing the boy’s head
against the wall, then wheeled and
bulled his way across the 50-foot pit,
dragging Wasson and another man,
Charles Burroughs of Big Pine Key.
The crocodile submerged itself in
four feet of water as a search and
rescue team arrived.
It remained under water for five
or six minutes’ according to inves
tigators and finally gave up the boy
when it was poked several times in
the eye. Wasson died on the way to
a hospital of a combination of his
wounds and drowning.
Witnesses were critical of safety
precautions around the pit, and
Calineau said there should have
been a gun nearby so the crocodile
could have been shot. Mrs. Haast
said the fact it took an hour to kill
the reptile Sunday illustrated that
shooting it would not have helped.
Serpentarium employes also
pointed out that all visitors are lec
tured at length on safety before they
enter the attraction and there are
several signs admonishing parents
not to leave their children unat
tended.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Three
Iked men burst into a crowded
patown restaurant yesterday and
ned fire with automatic guns,
hgfive persons and wounding at
1st 16 others. Four of the dead
ire men and one a woman.
was the most deadly incident to
m in a wave of Chinatown vio-
|Ki\ which police believe involves
warfare and extortion,
e scene of the shootings was
Golden Dragon restaurant, on
hington Street in the heart of
natown.
iars had just closed at 2:40 a. m.
more than 100 persons, inelud-
some tourists and many
natown residents, were in the
taurant eating.
Witnesses said a masked man
Jered the front door carrying an
pmatic gun. He confronted
other man at a table and shot him
the head, then emptied his
ppon into the victim as he fell.
lescuers
As those shots were being fired,
two other men, also masked, walked
into the restaurant and sprayed au
tomatic fire indiscriminately at
diners as the patrons screamed and
ducked under tables. One of the
gunmen dashed to the second floor
and fired at people in booths there.
After emptying their guns, the
trio fled without having said a word.
“We don’t know what the motiva
tion was, ” said Police Chief Charles
Gain. He said the investigation
would concentrate on known gang
activity in Chinatown. Some wit
nesses said the gunmen were orien
tals, and the restaurant was fre
quented by members of Chinese
youth gangs.
Thirty-nine persons have been
killed in recent years in what police
believe is warfare among Chinatown
youth gangs, competing with each
other in extortion of local business
es. A number of the previous
killings were bold street attacks in
which a victim was accosted in day
light and shot dead.
Police investigations have been
hampered by reluctant witnesses.
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OHANNESBURG, South Africa
Rescue teams digging their way
gold ners entombed more
in a mile underground yesterda
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len rock and said “it could take
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A sharp earth movement that
ggered cave-ins at two gold mines
the western Transvaal early Fri-
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