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Israel army wounds 8
during demonstration
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Tue
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RAMALLAH, Occupied West
Bank (AP) — Israel’s army isolated
the occupied territories Tuesday,
but Palestinians threw gasoline
bombs at patrolling soldiers and the
Israelis opened Fire and wounded
eight of the demonstrators.
The unprecedented crackdown
on the 1.5 million Arabs in the occu
pied West Bank and Gaza Strip was
aimed at halting four months of un
rest and at preventing mass demon
strations by Palestinians on Wednes
day’s 12th anniversary of Land Day,
when Israeli soldiers killed six Arabs
protesting land confiscation.
tossed rocks at each other in the
streets. They called the game “Jews
and Arabs.”
Hundreds of protesters have been
wounded since riots began Dec. 8 in
the West Bank and Gaza, which Is
rael captured from Jordan and
Egypt in (he 1967 Middle East War.
The death toll stands at 119 Palestin
ians and one Israeli soldier, accord
ing to U.N. figures.
Foreign relief workers were bar
red from entering the occupied
lands. Thousands of police were mo
bilized Tuesday evening to enforce
curfews in Arab towns in Israel.
Arabs reported that demonstra
tors took to the streets in some areas
and that Israeli troops fired at the
curfew' violators. The eight Arabs
were wounded in the village of Zaita,
40 miles northwest of Jerusalem, the
army and the Palestine Press Service
reported.
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin
and Lt. Gen. Dan Shomron, Israel’s
military chief of staff, threatened for
the first time Tuesday to close the
territories for an extended period.
“For now, the decision to close the
areas is for three days,” Rabin said
on Israel radio. “But I’ve always said
we have to adjust our measures to
confront every eventuality.”
Closing the occupied lands is in
tended to quell the violence by im
posing collective punishment on Pal
estinians and.to keep out journalists,
whose reports the Israelis claim feed
the rebellion.
Palestinians in the territories
threw rocks and gasoline bombs.
Among the protesters reported
wounded was 13-year-old girl.
In Ramallah, small children
Although general access for jour
nalists has been withdrawn, U.S.
television pools were allowed into
the West Bank and Gaza on Tuesday
and some individual journalists
managed to get past roadblocks.
Sheriff calls death
of Indian candidate
‘another murder’
LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) — A
young man was charged Tuesday
with killing an Indian judicial candi
date and an alleged accomplice com
mitted suicide, in a case the sheriff
called “just another murder” stem
ming from a broken romance, not a
political assassination.
The death Saturday of Julian
Pierce initially was characterized by
authorities as a political slaying, and
some people in Robeson County
speculated it was the work of some
one who objected to an Indian be
coming a judge. The county’s pop
ulation is evenly divided among
Indians, blacks and whites.
“I can assure the world that there
was no political involvement in the
case,” Sheriff Hubert Stone said at a
news conference. “I think the people
of Robeson County will understand
that it’sjust another murder.”
Pierce was a popular, 42-year-old
legal services lawyer and Lumbee In
dian. He was running against the
county district attorney for Superior
Court judge in a county where racial
tensions erupted in February when a
hostage was taken at the local news
paper.
Sandy Gordon Chavis, 24, a Lum
bee Indian, was arrested Tuesday on
a murder warrant and was being
held at the county jail, Stone said.
Pierce was shot in the chest and
side early Saturday morning. Gun
men blasted through a broken win
dow in his kitchen door and entered
the room to shoot him again in the
head with a 12-gauge shotgun, Stone
said.
Stone said Chavis said in a confes
sion that Goins had pulled the trig
ger on the pump shotgun that killed
Pierce. The gun belonged to Cha
vis’s brother, Stone said.
Goins had gone to Locklear’s
house after the slaying, but “didn’t
tell her he had killed Pierce,” Stone
said.
Neither Chavis nor Goins, a secu
rity guard in Raleigh, had criminal
records. Stone said. Both were from
Pembroke.
The dead man was identified as
John Anderson Goins, 24, also an
Indian, whose body was found in a
closet at his father’s home Tuesday
with a bullet wound to the head. A
murder warrant also was issued for
Goins, Stone said.
Pierce was dating Ruth Locklear,
whose daughter, Shannon Bullard,
had been involved with Goins, Stone
said.
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Particularly harsh restrictions
have been put on the Gaza Strip.
The rebellion began there and the 6-
mile-long Mediterranean coastal
area is easier to isolate.
“No human beings are on the
streets,” said Rashad al Shawaa, who
was deposed by Israel as mayor of
Gaza City in 1983. “It’s like a ceme
tery. The army announced over
loudspeakers: ‘Anyone who leaves
Mtth
their home will be shot.’
He told the Associated Press by
telephone he saw soldiers fire on a
few Palestinians who went out in his
neighborhood in defiance of the
curfew.
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Shawaa said the telephone call was
the first he had received in 26 hours.
Telephone service to Gaza was cut
Monday and most remained down
Tuesday night.
Bernard Mills, the U.N. Relief
and Works Agency director in Ga/.a,
told U.N. officials by radio: “You
have 650,000 people under house
arrest.”
Foreign journalists asked the Su
preme Court to overturn the order
banning them from the territories,
the first in more than 20 years of Is
raeli occupation.
TOWSON, Md. (AP) —Afi
Conrail engineer was sentei
day to the maximum term
years in prison and fined Si
causing 16 deaths in Amtrats
train accident.
Rick L. Gates, 33, of
pleaded guilty Feb. IGtotht
misdemeanor manslaughter
Gates admitted in a swornsta#
of facts to smoking marijuana
train, which has been under
gation for several months, at
ing to make several safety
that might have preventedtltl
dent.
Baltimore County C
Judge Joseph P. Murphy
didn’t think he was under
ence of marijuana.
“But what he did in terms!
ure to follow procedureswastt
us that he didn’t give a dam:
just didn’t care.”
Gates and family members
courtroom wept as prosecutors
five victim impact statements
relatives of those people who
killed in the crash.
In return for the guilty plea,
more County State’s Atio:
Sandra O’Connor agreed too
idate the names of all 16 victir.
one count, which reduced the
mum sentence from 80 yean
$16,000 in fine *s to five Yean
S1,000 fine.
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“They (Goins and Miss Bullard)
started having problems and they
broke up,” Stone said. “Two war
rants were issued last week by the
girlfriend’s mother, charging Goins
witn trespassing. Grains felt Pierce
had something to do with it. He got
mad and he killed him.”
Pierce had been running for Su
perior Court judge in the May 3
Democratic primary against District
Attorney Joe Freeman Britt, who
has a reputation for never losing a
death penalty case. Because there
was no Republican opposition, the
primary winner would have been
elected in November.
Because Pierce is dead, state law
provides that Britt, who is white,
would become judge. But Pierce’s
supporters planned to meet Thurs
day with Gov. Jim Martin to request
a special legislative session to seek an
exception to the law.
World Briefs
Aspirin found to reduce heart attacksl
ATLANTA (AP) — A two-year
international study of more than
17,000 heart patients showed that
aspirin and the seldom-used drug
streptokinase, taken together af
ter the onset of chest pains, re
duce deaths among heart attack
victims.
The Second International
Study on Infarct Survival, involv
ing patients in 400 hospitals in 16
countries, is billed as the largest
heart attack treatment study ever.
It was presented Tuesday at the
annual meeting of the Amei
College of Cardiology.
T he study showed thai
chewed aspirin tablet oradi
nation of the drug streptokin;
or SK, improved the survival
The rate improved more,!
ever, when the two were taken
gether.
M ortality among heart al
victims given the combination
7.8 percent after five weeks,
pared with 12.8 percent for
tients given a placebo.
Soviets don’t tell patients of cancer
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — So
viet doctors participating in an in
ternational teleconference said
Tuesday that they routinely con
ceal the truth from patients diag
nosed as having cancer and they
questioned the American practice
of fully informing patients of a
tumorous condition.
“It’s hardly a good idea to tell a
patient directly that he has a can
cer,” Dr. Nikolai Napalkov, presi
dent of the U.S.S.R. Oncological
Society and a leading cancer re
searcher in the Soviet Union,
said. “Only in rare cases,
the patient refuses treatni
does the doctor have theoi
lion to tell the patient.”
American doctors taking p
in the conference strongly!
agreed.
“T he sense of trust thatf
between a dcotor and
very important,” Dr. SteverJ
Rosenberg, chief of surgerya
National Cancer Institute,
“It’s impossible for me toimajj
giving quality care withouttelj
the patient the full story.”
UT students’ blood tested for AIDS
AUSTIN (AP) — Blood sam
ples drawn from University of
Texas students will be tested for
the virus that leads to AIDS as
part of a nationwide effort to col
lect statistics on the fatal disease,
school officials say.
The campus Student Health
Center, which takes about 400
samples a month for routine
blood tests, will send a portion of
each sample to the Centers for
Disease Control for testing. UT
will be one of about 25 colleges,
and the only one in Texas, in-
cluded in the study.
To keep individual
results anonymous, the samp]
will he labeled only withthef 1
son’s sex, race and age, and*
the sample was taken.
Also, the CDC will throw!
every l()th sample submitted.
Dr. Scott Spear, a healthceej
physician who is an organize!!
the study, said individual i
dents and individual univers
will not be able to fiiidoutres-j
of the tests. Each universit'l
supposed to collect about 1
sam p 1 es.
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