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lasses and — in these violent
imes — more metal detectors,
urveillance cameras, gun-sniff-
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ocker searches to keep kids
•om toting guns.
Seventy percent of the na-
ibn’s 50 largest school districts
ave installed metal scanners to
etect firearms, up from 25 per-
pnt two years ago, according to
he National School Safety Cen-
er. But preventative measures
re also becoming the norm in
uburban and rural areas.
“There is no school district
ow that is immune, whether
ou’re rural, suburban or city,”
aid Peter Blauvelt of the Na-
ional Association of School
lafety and Law Enforcement Off
icers.
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inderscore the depth of gun-re-
ated killings in schools, al-
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ease Control and Prevention.
Just as it tracks outbreaks of
flu, the CDC is tracking the rate
of death in schools from guns.
And preliminary numbers show
102 homicides and suicides in
and around schools in the past
two years — a number that sug
gests an epidemic.
“An epidemic is what public
health officials use whenever
there is an unprecedented in
crease in the rate of death.
Clearly, the increase in rates of
firearm-related injury and death
in and around schools warrants
calling it an epidemic,” said
Patrick Kachur, an epidemiolo
gist in the CDC’s Division of Vio
lence Prevention.
In a 1993 survey by the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance Co.,
more than one in 10 teachers
and one in four students report
ed they had been victims of vio
lence in or around school. Thir
teen percent of the students said
they had brought a weapon to
school at least once.
Educators are fighting back,
not only with equipment, but
with programs such as peer in
tervention and conflict resolu
tion to prevent disagreements
from turning deadly.
Such programs are now being
used, for example, in Upper
Perkiomen High School outside
Philadelphia. In 1993, a 10th
grader pulled a 9mm Ruger from
his book bag and killed a class
mate during first period biology
class because, as he told police,
“he punches me and kicks me
and makes me look like an ass.”
Conflict-resolution programs
are also in place at the Margaret
Leary Elementary School in
Butte, Mont. Last April, an 11-
year-old boy was killed in the
schoolyard by a 10-year-old
classmate, who fired a gun at
another youth following an argu
ment.
opulation Conference meets in Cairo
U.N. leaders defend abortion,
stress slowing birth rate
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — One of the world’s few
m ... women leaders struck back at the Vatican and
'Yoth"; Muslim fundamentalists Monday by defending
u o e uui gfoortioH anc j sex education, and made a plea to
urb the population boom “for earth’s sake.”
, v her opening day speech, the outspoken rime
u y asquati m i n j s t er 0 f Norway, Gro Harlem Brundtland,
framed a key issue of the U.N. population confer-
, „ ...i eilce: giving power to women as the way to slow
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i me coa Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, the
only other woman head of state present, supported
women’s equality but took a far more conservative
view on abortion and sexual issues.
Bhutto’s decision to attend the nine-day confer
ence and buck conservative Islamic opponents was
in itself a victory for the organizers. Two other
Muslim women leaders, Tansu Ciller of Turkey
and Khalida Zia of Bangladesh, backed out.
But Bhutto’s rejection of sections of the pro
posed 20-year blueprint to curb population growth,
coupled with another Vatican attack on abortion,
reflected the polarized debate at the conference.
Weeks before it opened the U.N. conference ex
ploded in controversy over the issues of abortion,
birth control and sex education.
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The Vatican opposes artificial birth control and
abortion in all cases, while Muslim fundamental
ists say the draft plan of action promotes promis
cuity, homsexuality and a loosening of family ties.
In three preliminary meetings, delegates to the
conference agreed to more than 90 percent of the
plan of action. But the most contentious issues
must still be resolved — reproductive health and
family planning services, reproductive rights, ado
lescent sex education and abortion.
Vice President A1 Gore said Monday that partic
ipants were “very close” to a consensus on the sub
jects still in dispute. But he predicted the Vatican
would not accept the final document despite com
promise language being worked out by the Euro
pean Union.
Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro, a member
of the Vatican delegation, reiterated the Roman
Catholic Church’s opposition to references in the
draft to “reproductive health,” calling the phrase
implicit recognition of abortion accessible to all.
Brundtland, a physician turned politician, re
ceived sustained applause when she took on the
Vatican’s position.
“I have tried in vain to understand how that
term can possibly be read as promoting abortions
or qualifying abortion as a means of family plan
ning,” she said. “Rarely, if ever, have so many mis
representations been used to imply meaning that
was never there in the first place.”
IRA calls for
cease-fire
BALLYHALBERT, North
ern Ireland (AP) —- Twenty
miles southeast of the
protests and tension of
Belfast, Pat Montgomery sur
veyed the sweeping golden
beach outside her studio and
delivered her verdict on the
IRA cease-fire.
“All sane-thinking Protes
tants want to give (peace) a
go,” said the Protestant artist,
whose paintings capture the
undulating hills and dramatic
seascapes of the verdant Ards
peninsula.
“Maybe the IRA really
have changed this time.”
Other Protestants on this
prosperous and peaceful fin
ger of land agree it is time for
unionists to take the Irish Re
publican Army on trust and
seek reconciliation.
“The (Protestant) loyalist
paramilitaries must disarm
now and allow the politicians
to negotiate for peace,” said
Walter Kelly as he and wife
Joan admired yachts at a lux
urious new marina at Bangor,
just north of Ballyhalbert.
Others want British troops
removed from Northern Ire
land and an end to the British
government’s ban that pre
vents the media from broad
casting the voices of Sinn
Fein, the IRA’s political allies.
None of that washes on the
shabby streets of the Shankill
and other Protestant working-
class “ghettoes” that stand
hard by the IRA’s bases in
Catholic neighborhoods.
Here, most people dismiss
the cease-fire as a cynical IRA
ploy, and they predict it will
not last.
Overwhelmingly they back
extremists like the Rev. Ian
Paisley, who rails against “pa
pists” and accuses the British
government of treachery for
its contacts with the IRA and
Sinn Fein.
A poll last week by the
Dublin-based Marketing Re
search Co. showed only 9 per
cent of Northern Ireland
Protestants believe the cease
fire is permanent, while 75
percent are convinced the IRA
will respond to loyalist mur
ders by rejoining the conflict.
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