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Friday, December 8,1989
unman searched for revenge
“^luicidal killer called 14 female victims ‘feminists’
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►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
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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.
On Thursday, the newspaper Izvestia pub-'
lished the first mention of the strike call in a gen
erally circulated Soviet publication. The article
was highly critical of the strike call but neverthe
less spread the word to the newspaper’s 9.5 mil
lion readers nationwide.
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