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Monday, October 7, 1985/The Battalion/Page 9 World and Nation SCHULMAN THEATRES Entertaining The Bra/os Valley Since 1925 SHOE by Jeff MacNeiiy Guards line route of funeral for victim of police shooting MHl Mttt, iMReal •shim M Waas.ioi •at. in 4 brale Siii!> will hold press meeting to explain agent’s death Knoon ic ucarapaii- Kmsr for ihe^ ae Grove. [ 10 p.m. li * i e HebTf*" un. auk y Science r. meet «<h 1LDREN: i(3 p.m. in i U meet si ■ icr. I RiKfrfcr. >6 Scoaf« >ye-sea»n u /■specialty ,« Station IAGER KR Associated Press PHOENIX — Authorities Sunday investigated the shooting of the First woman FBI agent to die on duty, as the FBI declined comment on a city police report that she was mistakenly shot by two fellow agents. Special Agent Robin L. Ahrens, 33, died early Saturday after being shot in the hand, arm and eye late Friday as about a dozen FBI agents arrested a robbery suspect at an apartment complex. Phoenix Police Chief Ruben Or tega said Ahrens was shot by two agents who mistook her for the rob bery suspect’s girlfriend. Ahrens’s death will be explained at a news conference that probably will be held Thursday, said FBI agent Herb Hawkins. “We know what happened,” Hawkins said, adding that a bureau investigation is expected to be Fin ished Tuesday. “I just am not per mitted to tell you what happened until this inquiry is over.” Added FBI spokesman James Bo- lenbach, “The problem is that there were lots of shots Fired.” Ahrens, a native of St. Paul, Minn., joined the FBI in November 1984 and was sent to Phoenix as her First assignment. A funeral for her was set for Wednesday in Hudson, Wis., where her parents live, said Hawkins. She was the First female agent to die on the job since women joined the FBI in 1972, and she was the First agent killed since 1979, said FBI spokesman Thomas J. Deakin in Washington, D.C. He estimated there are 500 to 600 female agents out of a total of 8,900. FBI spokesman Jack Smythe said Saturday he “cannot comment and will not” comment on whether Ah rens was shot by her other agents until an investigation was completed. A statement released by Hawkins on Sunday morning said the FBI in vestigation was continuing, and po lice Sgt. Tony Kruczynski said a city investigation also was under way. “We’ve still got detectives working onjt now,” Kruczynski said. Ahrens died almost seven hours after FBI agents arrested Kenneth Don Barrett, 27. Associated Press ASHBURN, Ga. — Ashburn’s black community gathered amid tight security and refrains of hymns Sunday to bury a black man whose shooting death by police touched off a violent demonstration and several days of racial tension. State patrol officers lined the fu neral route and stood outside the new Mount Olive Baptist Church, where nearly 300 people attended services for Robert L. Wright. About 30 extra law enforcement of ficers waited at the Turner County Sheriff’s Department in case trouble developed, but the southern Georgia town of 4,500 people, about evenly split between whites and blacks, was calm. The Rev. Fred Taylor of the Southern Christian Leadership Con ference told mourners that the “ulti mate question” blacks in Ashburn face is how to “prevent or lessen the chance of the same thing happening again.” Taylor, bearing a message from SCLC President Joseph Lowery, said, “It is very tragic. We live in a world where people resolve human conflict with the barrel of a gun.” Wright, 22, was killed by a white city police officer a week ago after he bolted from a probation revocation hearing at the Turner County court house. Sheriff Lamar Whiddon and Ashburn police ofFicer Scotty Ire land chased Wright into an alley, where he was shot in the back. Whiddon said he directed Ireland to Fire because he considered Wright dangerous, even though he was not armed. His death touched off an hour- long demonstration by 300 to 500 mostly young blacks, some of whom hurled rocks and bottles through shop windows and- vandalized two stores. Racial tension was high for several days after that. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called a community meeting Tues day night at which black leaders urged calm. And NAACP regional Director Earl Shinhoster met Wednesday with Gov. Joe Frank Harris’ chief executive officer, Tom Perdue, to discuss problems in the town. Wright’s death also prompted state authorities to send patrol offi cers into the community to prevent further violence. Earl Shinhoster, regional director of the NAACP, on Sunday said Ash burn blacks are “still very tense and very concerned” about the death of Wright. But he said the community “intends to wait for justice.” $050 Plaza 3 locatad at 2M Southwest Pfcwy. (Bahlnd Wandy'a) •1st Show Sat & Sun. All Saats •KORA Family Nlta-Mon. 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The First draft, released just after the 1984 election, was widely described as mirroring many of the economic “fairness issues” that Democratic candidate Walter Mondale used against Reagan. Administration officials have said little publicly about the letter, but their conserva tive allies blasted it as naive and misguided. The head of the Five-man drafting commit tee, Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Mil waukee, noted “the richness” of response to the first version and said in releasing the new draft: “We do not back away from our strong conviction that more can and must be done to Fight poverty and unemployment.” The document has been shortened by 20 percent — to 106 pages despite addition of a new section calling for help for family farms —in response to complaints about length, Weakland said. But he also said bishops have generally “affirmed and supported the basic concepts and the thrust of the first draft.” In its new form, the letter declares that: • Having a job with a fair wage isn’t just a goal but a basic right, and the current unem- I I ployment levels that government ofFicials brag about are “neither inevitable nor morally acceptable.” • “Extreme inequalities of income and consumption,” which are obvious among indi vidual Americans as well as American and foreign nations, are morally “appalling” and threaten world order. • “Some elements of the military budget are both wasteful and dangerous for world peace. 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