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NATION
Friday,January 21.2000 THE BATTALION
Probe studying
all possibilities
in dorm fire
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — In
vestigators said yesterday they have not
come to any conclusions about the cause
of a fire that killed three college students,
denying a published report that some
causes had been ruled out.
At a campus news conference, Essex
County Prosecutor Donald Campolo dis
puted the report in today’s editions of The
Star-Ledger of Newark that investigators
have ruled out careless smoking or an
electrical problem as possible causes of
the blaze at Seton Hall University.
“We are ruling out nothing at this
juncture,” Campolo said.
Campolo refused to discuss a report
in the same newspaper that investigators
were looking for three young men who
had been asked to leave the building less
than an hour before the fire broke out.
University spokesperson Lisa Grider
said Seton Hall is reviewing “anything that
we can all do to make sure that something
like this never happens again."
Some students said they thought the
fire alann that blared in the middle of the
night was another in a string of 18 alarms
since September, and went back to sleep.
Grider refused to characterize the
alarms as false, but she said only one in
volved an actual fire, which was outside
in a dumpster.
Sixty-two people were injured in the
fire, including one who suffered third-de
gree burns over most of his body.
One student broke his wrist and ankle
after leaping from his third-floor bed
room. Thirteen people remained hospi
talized today, five in eritieal condition.
“It was panic. Everybody was just,
‘Go! Go! Go!’” Nicole McFarlane, 19,
one of the students who fled the six-sto
ry dorm, said.
The 48-year-old dormitory, home to
640 students, was equipped w ith smoke
alarms and 55 fire extinguishers that had
been recently inspected.
It did not have a sprinkler system be
cause it was built before 1984 regulations
required them, Campolo said.
And fire hoses had been disconnect
ed last week and piled in the first floor
for removal because the equipment was
obsolete, Seton Hall spokesperson Lisa
Grider said.
Killed were Frank S. Caltabilota,
John N. Giunta and Aaron C. Karol. All
were 18-year-old freshmen from New
Jersey. Two were found in the lounge and
the third was found in a nearby bedroom,
Campolo said.
“We’re pretty devastated." said
Karol’s father, Joseph.
The fire also stunned the 10,000-stu
dent, Roman Catholic university 15
southwest of New York City and classes
were canceled for the rest of the w eek.
Hundreds attended a prayer service
Wednesday night led by Newark Arch
bishop Theodore McCarrick.
A memorial service was planned for
Monday.
Clinton to pick up pace
in Israeli negotiations
WASHINGTON (AP) — President
Clinton tried Thursday to pick up the
pace of slow'-moving talks between Is
rael and the Palestinians, telling the two
sides “no one can get everything” in an
accord.
Calling for compromise as he sat down
with Yasser Arafat in the White House
Oval Office, Clinton said he would be dis
appointed if a settlement was not reached.
“We have the leaders who can do it,” he
said, offering again to do whatever he
could to resolve their differences.
Arafat agreed there would be difficul
ties “along the way,” but he said negotia
tions would deal with them. He declined
to say whether he was willing to accept
less than 100 percent of his demands.
White House spokesperson Joe Lock
hart, underscoring deep differences, said,
“It’s obvious how difficult the challenge
is they face.” If Israel and the Palestini
ans need more time, he said, “we will
work with them on that.”
With Clinton’s support, Prime Minis
ter Ehud Barak and Arafat last year set
Feb. 13 as the deadline for resolving their
disputes over Palestinian statehood aspi
rations and the future of Jerusalem, at
least to the extent that Israel and the
Palestinian Authority could complete a
framework accord.
A fund settlement, which also would
deal with refugees and other knotty is
sues, is due in the fall.
As Secretary of State Madeleine Al
bright lunched with Arafat at her home
in the capital’s Georgetown neighbor
hood, State Department spokesperson
James P. Rubin said, “We do regard it as
a formidable challenge.”
Clinton, meanwhile, is trying to jug
gle slow-moving negotiations on the Is-
raeli-Palestinian front with sidetracked
peace talks between Israel and Syria.
Rubin said Syrian officials would
come here next week, to be followed by
Israeli experts, in an effort to deal with
some of the nagging issues on that track.
Direct Israel-Syria talks had been
due to resume Wednesday at Shepherd-
stown, W.Va.
But they were suspended indefinite
ly, with Albright and other U.S. officials
saying each side wanted its demands giv
en immediate priority.
Clinton said Wednesday he would
take on the task of nudging Syria and Is
rael along, and that neither side was giv
ing up despite the suspension of talks.
In Damascus, Syria’s state-run news
papers urged Washington to push Israel
harder to spell out its intentions on re
turning the Golan Heights.
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News in Brief
Woman killed by
package bomb
EVERETT, Mass. (AP) — A pack
age bomb exploded in a house in
this Boston suburb yesterday,
killing a woman.
The package was left at the
house around 12:30 p.m., and it
exploded after the victim brought
it upstairs, Middlesex District At
torney Martha Coakley said. She
would not say whether it was de
livered by a mail carrier.
"We are pursuing leads in the
case," Coakley said. “We have no
reason to believe it is a random
event."
Nearby residents were evacu
ated while agents from the FBI
and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobac
co and Firearms investigated the
scene. State police detonated the
trunk of the woman's car to make
sure there wasn’t a bomb in it.
Tom Dubitsky, a musician who
lives down the street but did not
hear the explosion, called the
area a “great neighborhood" with
families, children and schools.
The residents are of mixed ethnic
backgrounds, he said, “a big melt
ing pot, everyone gets along."
Initiative to train
teachers
WASHINGTON (AP) — More
than 400,000 teachers worldwide
will get help using computers in
their classrooms under an indus
try initiative announced yesterday.
Citing a growing demand for im
proved teacher quality, particular
ly in the area of technology skills,
computer giant Microsoft said it
would donate $344 million in soft
ware and technical support for In
tel Corp.’s new Teach to the Future
program. Intel, the leading manu
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Durangos,
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sport utility, vehicles and-
162,000 Dodge SUVs to fix-
brake problems.
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cracked rotors, but no acl
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