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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, January 26, 1992

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes sunday january 26, 1992mourning notre Dame cancels events South Bend ind. A the University of notre Dame stunned by a bus crash Friday that killed two members of the women a swim team cancelled All athletic events for the first time since the assassination of president John f. Kennedy in 1963. A people Are shocked a said Dennis Brown a University spokesman. A a it a a Tough situation and we Are trying to Cope with it. Everybody in the notre Dame family has been  the Rev. Edward a. A a Monk Malloy the roman Catholic University a president rushed Home from a conference in Washington to preside at a memorial mass on Campus. A a the University cancelled All weekend contests on Campus including a women a swim meet against St. Bonaventure and the midwestern collegiate conference indoor menus and women a track meet. The teams chartered bus crashed and overturned four Miles from Campus during a blinding snowstorm along the Indiana toll Road also known As interstates 80-90. The Accident occurred shortly after Midnight As the team returned from a meet near Chicago. Killed were two 19-year-old freshmen Margaret Murphy a a Megan Beeler of nearby Granger ind., and Colleen Hipp of St. Louis. A they were both pretty much going to be the stars of the team a said Rose Pietrzak an assistant sports information director. A Beeler was one of our top athletes. Hipp was one of our top distance ath  a third freshman swimmer Haley Scott 18, of Phoenix suffered a serious Back injury and underwent surgery twice Friday at memorial Hospital said Hospital spokeswoman Betty Andrzejewski. Most of the 35 others aboard suffered minor injuries. Head coach Tim Welsch escaped injury. The bus carried 32 swimmers three coaches a student manager and the Driver. Sister Josef Riordan a resident adviser at Walsh Hall where Beeler lived said Counselor talked to students at the crash scene and the infirmary. A a they re grieving. They re very close. There a a Large class of freshmen at Walsh Hall a she said. A so Many of them Are still in  fired Man held in shooting of sex Boss employee a one of two shooting victims is wheeled from the general dynamics Plant in san Diego. . Picks up record number of haitians Miami apr coast guard cutters have picked up a one Day record of More than 1,000 haitians a spokeswoman said Friday. A refugee advocate said the flow of refugees will grow until democracy is restored in Haiti. The 1,072 refugees intercepted thursday from 16 boats were taken aboard two coast guard cutters to a tent City at the . Naval base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba said coast guard spokeswoman Toni Long. A this was the largest number rescued in any 24-hour period since the coast guard began intercepting haitian boat people in 1981, she said. The coast guard said 10,534 haitians on 156 boats have been intercepted since the latest wave of refugees began in october. The wave was unleashed by an army coup that ousted Jean Bertrand Aristide Haiti a first freely elected president. Rolande dormancy head of the haitian refugee Center said the growing tide of refugees is unlikely to subside unless democracy is restored in Haiti. She said the United states should give the refugees political Asylum. A we have reports of people being killed every Day a she said. The United states maintains that the refugees Are fleeing poverty not persecution. But refugees say they Are fleeing army  cuts Buffalo . Map jurors in a lawsuit Over the 1971 Attica prison riot successfully rebelled against a judge whom they accused of inflicting cruel and unusual punishment by forcing them to deliberate longer hours. The judge had ordered the longer hours while on vacation in the Caribbean. An emotional three Page letter from jurors awaited . District judge John Elfvin when he returned to court thursday from Barbados where head gone after the jurors began deliberations. The judge had turned the Case Over to a . Magistrate. Elfvin monitored the Case and gave instructions by phone. Elfvin 74, said he returned More than two weeks Early because of criticism about the trip and because of a request from the districts chief judge for him to return. The nine jurors had been working week Washington a democratic presidential hopeful Bill Clinton and his wife plan to appear on 60 minutes tonight to respond to a tabloid account of alleged infidelity advisers said Friday. The Arkansas governor spent the Day in Little Rock conferring with advisers and friends about How to put the controversy to rest before it derails his presidential Campaign. Lbs news said the couple would talk san Diego a a fired worker who went to an aircraft Plant for grievance hearing Friday shot and killed a company labor representative and seriously wounded his former supervisor authorities said. The suspected gunman identified by police As Robert Earl Mack was fired from the general dynamics Plant Jan. 15 for unsatisfactory attendance said company spokesman George Roos. Mack assembled missiles at the Plant Roos said. Mack 42, had been with the company a con Vair division for about 25 years said homicide it. John welter. He had entered the Plant wearing a visitors badge for the hearing welter said. Michael Konz 25, died of a gunshot wound to the head at the University of California san Diego medical Center said Hospital spokeswoman Eileen Callahan. Konz was a labor representative in con Vair a human resources department Roos said. The second victim Jim English Yasback jury s Days from 9 . To 4 30 . Since deliberations began two weeks ago. But on wednesday the judge ordered them by phone to deliberate until 10 . And to work on saturdays. The jurors protested with an unusual letter to the judge a in Light of your pronouncement today of the new schedule we suddenly feel pressured and in a very real sense punished simply because we have not rushed to a conclusion a they wrote. After discussing the situation with jurors and attorneys thursday Elfvin agreed to let jurors resume their daytime schedule. A the jurors Are All family people a former Attica inmate Herbert x. Blyden said outside court. A it would be a hardship for them if they had to stay until the Midnight  former inmates Are suing four sex new about their marriage in a special edition of 60 minutes scheduled to air in the United states immediately after the super bowl. A Bill and Hillary want and Welcome the Opportunity to say in a forthright and open Way what they have to say a said Clinton Campaign manager David Wilhelm. The governor has adamantly denied the allegations of an Arkansas woman shot in the head. He was in critical condition Friday evening after surgery nursing supervisor Jane Swett said. The two men were shot in a courtyard at the Plant. About 20 or 30 workers witnessed the shooting welter said. A i done to think he shot at random a he said. Police arrived about 10 minutes after the shooting and Mack surrendered a Short time later police said. Mack was being questioned at police Headquarters Friday night police said. Police found a handgun in the building welter said. Between 4,000 and 5,000 people work at the company a con Vair division Plant. The Plant makes fuselages for the md-11 commercial jetliner and houses an Assembly operation for the advanced cruise missile program. General dynamics issued about 200 60-Day Layoff notices in late 1991 and plans to Lay off about 300 More of the divisions workers by March said company spokeswoman Julie  hours York officials involved in putting Down the uprising on sept. 13, 1971. Inmates claim they were beaten during and after the police assault that ended the four Day uprising. Police gunfire killed 29 inmates and 10 hostages. The inmates killed three prisoners and one hostage. Jurors sat through three months of testimony. Since deliberations began they have reviewed dozens of hours of testimony on tape. The jurors said the trial forced them to postpone vacations and weddings drop out of College classes and hire baby Sitters. One juror wrote that she would miss seeing her adopted korean son take his oath of citizenship. Elfvin said outside court that he wanted the jury to work longer because deliberations were taking too Long. He said he did not understand Why they needed to hear so much testimony again. Who said she had a 12-year affair with Clinton. The allegations by Gennifer Flowers came in a paid interview with the Star a supermarket tabloid. Star editor Richard Kaplan said Flowers had an exclusive contract with the Star and would discuss her Story at a news conference tuesday. Clinton has denied any relationship with Flowers. He imposed while taking vacation Clinton going on to to counter charges  
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