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e Battalion ORLD & NATION 5 Friday, December 8,1989 unman searched for revenge “^luicidal killer called 14 female victims ‘feminists’ iLior ►OLD | MONTREAL (AP) — The gunman who nged through the University of Montreal’s en- Ineering school and killed 14 women carried a Buicide Tetter complaining that women had spoiled his life and he was seeking revenge, po- said Thursday. ■ The young killer — identified Thursday night ■ Marc Lapin — also wounded nine women and [four men before killing himself Wednesday in | the worst mass murder in Canadian history. ■ Little was known of the killer’s background, ibutthe Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said police Ipnfirmed his identity through his mother and quoted detective Sgt. Robert Fuller as giving the an’s name as Marc Lapin. “He mentioned in the letter that he did that cause of political reasons. He said feminists kind of spoiled his life and he hasn’t been happy in life for the last seven years,” senior police in vestigator Jacques Duscheneau said. “I think he blamed women in general, saying that if his life was ruined it was mainly because of women,” Duchesneau told reporters. The letter also mentioned former army CpI. Denis Lortie, who was sentenced to life imprison ment after killing three people and wounding 13 in 1984 with submachine-gun fire in the Quebec legislature. Copies of the letter were sent to a psychiatrist and a graphologist for analysis. Montreal Mayor Jean Dore visited the site and told reporters, with tears in his eyes, that his ba bysitter was one of the women killed. A male student laid a wreath of roses in the snow outside the engineering building Thursday morning. t Thursday night, aboiit 1,000 people walked to the school in stiff winds and freezing tempera tures to hold a candlelight memorial vigil. As he roamed through the modern, six-story engineering building, firing a rifle, he shouted at one point, “You’re all a bunch of feminists!” One of the wounded remained in critical but stable condition Thursday. The rest were out of danger. Jacques Duscheneau, a Montreal police senior investigator, told a news conference that police hoped the .223-caliber Sturm Ruger semi-auto matic assault rifle the killer used would lead to his identification. xperts: Vaccine for monkeys ig step in human AIDS fight jy WASHINGTON (AP) — A new ccine against a virus that causes IDS in monkeys is a significant ad- nce toward developing a vaccine protect people against the closely tielated human AIDS virus, experts said Thursday. I “The major significance of this work is that (it shows) a vaccine is possible for an AIDS virus,” said Mi chael Murphey-Corb, head of a team at the Delta Regional Primate Re- karch Center in Covington, La., that developed the simian vaccine. I Researchers at the Tulane Uni- wersity research center said a vaccine jfjnade of whole, inactivated simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) can protect rhesus monkeys against the virus, which is a close, genetic rela tive of the human immunodefi ciency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. 1 Dr. Wayne Koff, chief of AIDS laccine research at the National In stitutes of Health, said the work by Murphey-Corb and her colleagues “is the most significant advance in the vaccine field since we started the AIDS vaccine program. It is a giant leap. I “This has dispelled any doubts About our ever being able to create a vacdne against HIV,” Koff said bout the study. Texas begins media blitz to inform heterosexuals AUSTIN (AP) State health officials Thursday launched a so bering advertising campaign aimed at heterosexuals who are sexually active but believe they are safe from the deadly AIDS vi rus. “There are far too many het erosexuals who are sexually at risk of contracting HIV who don't perceive themselves at risk,” Texas Health Commissioner Dr. Robert Bernstein said. The ad campaign shows the geometric risk of AIDS by saying a person who has had sex with two people over the last nine years has essentially sexually con tacted 512 people, if all those people did the same. The campaign offers a toll-free number for more information. Rod Underhill, whose Dallas company. The Richards Group, produced the ads, said 90 percent of Texans who admit to having more than one sexual partner say they have taken no precautions to prevent the spread of AIDS, such as the use of a condom. The ad campaign — the first of its kind in Texas — includes tele vision and radio public service an nouncements, print ads and post ers, offered both in English and Spanish. The study, he said, shows that the primate immune system can be primed to protect itself against a ret rovirus. Both SIV and HIV are ret roviruses that kill by destroying the immune system of the host, an attack that causes acquired immune defi ciency syndrome. A report on the study will be pub lished Friday in Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Policeman convicted in 2 deaths MIAMI (AP) — A Hispanic po liceman was found guilty of man slaughter Thursday in the deaths of two black men, and black leaders praised the verdict as a just response to the shooting that set off three days of racial violence. Miami Officer William Lozano, 31, showed no emotion when he heard the verdict in the Jan. 16 deaths of motorcyclist Clement Lloyd, 23, and passenger Allan Blanchard, 24. The two counts carry a total maximum sentence of 45 years. Circuit Judge Joseph Farina de ferred adjudication on the jury’s findings, an administrative formality to allow a pre-sentencing investiga tion. The televised verdict by the six- member, multi-ethnic jury brought relief to an inner-city black commu nity that feared the trial would spark another round of racial unrest. “It just shows that our system works if people will give it a chance to work,” said Willie Sims, a black community leader who is a member of Dade County’s community rela tions board. He said that by mid-afternoon there had been no reports of vio lence. oviet Communist Party topples Lithuania overwhelmingly legalizes multiparty political system MOSCOW (AP) — The Communist Party suf fered a major defeat in the Soviet Union on Thursday when the republic of Lithuania abo lished the constitutional guarantee of Commu nist supremacy and legalized a multiparty sys tem. Similar action has been taken in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and East Germany as part of the wave of political upheaval and reform that is diminishing the role of the Communist Party in those nations. Lithuania’s parliament defied Moscow with a resounding 243-1 vote to end the party’s total [ dominance of all political and social organiza- Itions within the Baltic republic. Another 98 dep- ■uties abstained or stayed away from the session. ? President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has resolutely opposed a multiparty system for the Soviet | Union. The challenge to the Communist power structure comes at a time when he faces a crippled economy, growing nationalism and de mands from conservative communists for more order. The move in Lithuania, one of 15 Soviet re publics, thrilled other Soviet activists who are or ganizing a two-hour general strike Monday to call for similar action by the national parliament. “Wonderfully done!” activist Yelena Bonner, on hearing of the Lithuanian action, said. “You cannot restrain the movement today. This is a \l\f onderfuWy done! You cannot restrain the movement today. This is a good example for the other republics.” — Yelena Bonner, Soviet activist good example for the other republics,” said Bon ner, wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, one of a group of national parliamen tarians calling for the general strike. Estonia’s parliament voted Wednesday to de lay voting on a similar switch to a multiparty sys tem until next week, to allow time for public dis cussion. Armenia’s parliament was forced into a postponement Wednesday for lack of a quorum. The Lithuanian action rescinds Article 6 of the republic’s constitution, which says the Commu nist Party of the Soviet Union is the “leading and guiding force of Soviet society, the nucleus of its political system, government and social organiza tions,” according to Tass. In practice, the article meant that Communists dominated every sphere of life and every organi zation in the country. Until Gorbachev’s reforms began to loosen the iron custom, ambitious Sovi ets were forced to join the party and follow its or ders to rise in any profession. Similar articles are found in the national con stitution of the Soviet Union and those of the other 14 republics. Word of the call for a general strike to demand a parliamentary vote on the national version of Article 6 began to percolate through Soviet so ciety Thursday, after it was reported by Western radio stations. 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