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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes monday october 21, 1991woman s death puts Texas toll at 24police deny movie ticket was for Fisher King Killeen Texas apr the death toll Rose to 24 saturday when a woman wounded in the nations worst mass murder attack died. She was identified by police As Kriechi id Davis 62, of Killeen who had been in critical condition since wednesdays attack George Honnard 35, crashed his pickup truck through a window at Lubye a cafeteria and shot 22 people dead and wounded 23 before killing himself police said. Meanwhile a newspaper quoted police sources saturday As saying Hennard had with him a ticket to the Fisher King a movie that includes a scene in which a gunman massacres people in a new York club before killing himself. The Dallas morning news said police were speculating that Hennard 35, May have been influenced by the movie. But Killeen police denied the report saturday saying the ticket found on Hennard was for a movie other than the Fisher King. In another development the manager of a convenience store and Grill that Hennard frequented said Hennard became enraged tuesday when he saw University of Oklahoma Law professor Anita Hill on television during the Senate vote on Clarence Thomas confirmation to the . Supreme court. Hilt claimed Thomas sexually harassed her when she worked for him in the Early 1980s. Susan Muniz 22, prays at the front door of a Killeen cafeteria where 22 people were shot dead and 23 were wounded wednesday. Another woman died saturday. A it was like Hennard was throwing a Tantrum a Bill Stringer manager of the Nomad turnabout outside Belton told the Temple daily Telegram. Stringer said Hennard jumped up from his seat and began screaming a you dumb Bitch you bastards opened the doors for All the women a police Haven to determined Hennard a motive hut investigators arc focusing on evidence that he Felt rage toward women. Witnesses said Hennard shouted obscene phrases about women As he shot restaurant patrons. Most of the victims were women. Meanwhile hundreds of mourners some wearing White ribbons in memory of those slain gathered saturday for the first funerals following the nations worst mass shooting. A the tragedy of wednesday is very personal. It is unbelievable it is inexplicable it was unpredictable a the Rev. Andy Davis pastor of the first Baptist Church of Belton told about 350 mourners at a service for 64-Ycar-old Juanita Williams. Kitty Young a Friend of Williams said the army town was still recovering from the deaths of 11 soldiers from nearby fort Hood during the persian Gulf War. A it seems we just go from one catastrophe to another Quot she said. Hundreds of people filed into the first Baptist Church of Killeen to mourn the death of Patricia Carney 57, one of three administrators from the local school District who died in the massacre. At a service for Ruth Pujol another Killeen educator killed in the rampage the Rev. Steve Schmidt of first United methodist Church told mourners a you and i will probably never understand Why it had to happen and Why these people had to lose their lives in such a tragic  a funeral for Al Gratia a Retiree killed trying to Stop Hennard and his wife Ursula also was held saturday. The chamber of Commerce handed out White ribbons and a a Killeen Stickpin car washes were held to raise Money for the victims families and a Large Highway billboard read a in memorial. October 16, 1991.�?� in nearby Belton Hennard a father or. Georges Hennard said funeral arrangements for his son were pending but declined to discuss details. A we do care about our dead son and we have made arrangements a he said. Hennard said he had no idea Why his son was driven to kill. He said he Hadnot seen him for More than a  knew All North says in new Book by George Lardner or. The Washington Post Washington a Oliver l. North in a new Book Cal Ltd under fire says that he is now convinced Ronald Reagan a knew everything about the Iran Contra scandal when he was president and that the White House began an elaborate cover up to protect him several weeks before the scandal broke in 1986. North accused Reagan of being untruthful in his memoirs and said he has no doubt that the former president not Only was fully aware of the diversion of iranian arms sales profits to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua but also approved it  in an excerpt published in this week s editions of time Magazine North suggested that the notorious a a diversion was itself a a diversion Quot made Public to draw attention away from a what else the president and his top advisers had known about and  the former White House aide offers no hard evidence to support his assertions about Reagan but instead tries to build a circumstantial Case including details about previously undisclosed attempts to get him to exonerate the president. Reagan s office in California did not respond to Telephone Calls saturday. In a Story appearing with the excerpt 1 Ime quoted a spokesperson As saying the former president was travelling abroad last week and was a unavailable for  saying that he sometimes Levels betrayed North 48, wrote that he is still a very glad Quot Reagan was president for two terms but added that Reagan could have ended a years of suffering for me and my family a by granting a Pardon or shutting Down the office of special  a is that betrayal Quot North wrote. Quot Well it sure As Oliver North and excerpts from his new Book Are in this weeks time Magazine. Hell was t  the 446-Page Book written in tight secrecy with William Novak is being published by Harper Collins and is expected in bookstores today. As Straw Boss at the National Security Council for the Covert arms for hostages deals with ran and the secret Contra resupply network North recalled watching with incredulity As president Reagan and then attorney general Edwin Meese Iii announced the scandal on nationwide television nov. 25, 1986. He said he expected to leave Quot or maybe even be fired Quot As a result of warnings he got from Cia director William j. Casey following the crash of a Contra resupply plane Over Nicaragua on oct. 5, 1986. But North said he was stunned when Meese announced there might be some Quot criminality . Agents seize guns headed for Yugoslavia Chicago apr customs agents at of Hare International Airport seized 65 handguns that were being shipped illegally to Yugoslavia an official said saturday. Banjo Hukic of suburban Chicago was arrested thursday on charges of exporting arms without Federal approval said Jerry Singer a spokesman for the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms. It was unclear whether the incident was related to an aborted weapons shipment to War torn Yugoslavia in August Singer said. The seizure oct. 8 included a variety of revolvers and semiautomatic handguns Singer said. The weapons were found inside components of a swimming Pool and a water Heater. Hukic 47, was released on $50,000 Bond. He faces a minimum sentence of 3x/i years in jail. Four Chicago men were arrested in August in Miami for allegedly trying to buy $12 million in anti tank rockets and ammunition from undercover agents for shipment to Yugoslavia a breakaway Republic of  from stalled train hurts 24 in . Tunnel new York apr diesel smoke injured 24 people saturday when an Amtrak train stalled in a Tunnel near Penn station. There were no serious injuries an official said. The five car train bound for Niagara Falls had 159 passengers on Board said Amtrak spokesman Michael Stewart. It was stuck in the Tunnel about 25 minutes until an Amtrak engine pulled it Back to the station. Fumes affected passengers in the first few cars said Steven Derosa Deputy chief of firefighters. Quot the lights went out the train stopped and then there were no announcements nothing a said passenger Marie Almagro. A your eyes started burning. We thought we were going to pass  of the 24 people treated 15 a including three Amtrak workers a were taken to hospitals said Colden Grant an emergency medical service Deputy chief  
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