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8 ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS, Elko, Nevada Friday, January 27, 1995 Gmiuiian tackled hy ex-Marine Simpson's first fe interviewed TPT1 .4 tm Ilk mmm-Mt-mtamrnrf nl i I 'fn -rnnm inf ssoaa ion aa om oa 3M(i 3anQd Mil CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) A 15-minute shooting rampage that left two people dead was finally ended by a former Marine who tackled the gunman and says he wished he could have intervened sooner. Wendell Williamson, a law student who reportedly was treated for mental problems, was accused of firing a semiautomatic rifle at cars, buildings and passers-by Thursday afternoon as he slowly walked a downtown street near the campus of the University of North Carolina, "He was just casually walking up the street, all cool, calm and cocky. You could hear the bullets zipping down the street and through the trees," Elmer Zink told The Herald-Sun of Durham. The gunman continued shooting even after he was wounded in the leg by police.

William Leone, an ex-Marine and Gulf war veteran now studying at the university, was wounded in the shoulder as he tackled the gunman. He and a second bystander then subdued the man. "I just did it," said Leone, 26. "When I saw him reload, I just thought I could get him. I didn't think.

It all sort of happened." doesnt describe it," he told The News Observer of Raleigh. "Idiot' does it justice I was just kind of offended someone would walk into the street with a rifle and start shooting." Leone, who was wounded in the shoulder, was treated and released at a hospital. He said he believes the shot that hit him came from police; police wouldn't comment on that possibility but said the shooting would be investigated. Williamson was charged with two counts of murder. Authorities said they did not know the motive.

"What happened up there is not something that any reasonable person could understand," Police Chief Ralph Pendergraph said. Police would not identify the victims, but newspapers reported they were Ralph Walker, 42, a McDonald's management trainee, and UNC student Kevin Reichardt, 20. One victim was killed on the steps of his rooming house, the other as he rode a bicycle died in front of a sorority house, A sorority member said he was hit while on his bicycle and tried to crawl across the street then (Aociatl Prt photon) Orange County District Attorney Carl Fox, left, was pictured at the scene of yesterday's Chapel Hill, N.C., shootings. The victim in background was the first person shot. A second person was killed as the gunman walked up the street.

News Capsules FBI describes key break LOS ANGELES (AP) OJ. Simpson's first wife said Simpson never hit her, and a prosecution report alleging a police officer once responded to a domestic violence call at their home is "all made up." Marquerite Simpson Thomas also said her marriage broke up in part because of Nicole Brown Simpson, who began dating Simpson about two years before his 1979 divorce from Thomas. "I knew of her because she certainly came by and made herself known," Thomas said in an interview on ABC's "2020" to be aired Friday. "In 77, Nicole would drive by the house or check to see if his car was there," Thomas said, adding that she didnt have a relationship with Ms. Simpson.

Simpson is accused of murdering Ms. Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman on June 12. Thomas, along with her husband, Anthony Thomas, has attended Simpson's murder trial this week. Asked whether Simpson ever abused her, Thomas said: "No, he did not" "And if he did," she said, "he would have got a frying pan upside his head. There was just no way that I would allow that to happen to me." Thomas denied a report, included in prosecution court documents, that quotes a police officer who said he responded to a domestic violence call at their home.

The documents contend Thomas told the officer that Simpson hit her, and she and her children were taken to a hotel for the night "That is just not true," she said, adding that it is "all made up." Meanwhile, OJ. Simpson says in his new book he would "jump in front of a bullet" to protect the ex-wife he is accused of killing. "I wonder what Nicole was thinking at the end," he writes in Want to Tell You, which arrived in stores today. "I think now about what must have been going through her head when she realized what was about to happen to her." "How could anybody say I killed this woman?" said Simpson. beat up pretty gooor from FBI superiors and colleagueSfc-for losing the remembered ex-CIA agent Edward Howard slipped past the FBI in 1985 en route to Moscow.

Wiser knew Bryant had halted the "trash cover," but "I took the view that he had merely suspended the trash cover, so I unsuspended it," Ames later told the FBI he never knew they had tailed him, picked up his trash, bugged his telephones and home, or searched his house while he was away in October 1993. "He was overconfident," Wiser said. When arrested, Ames was taken to a fake FBI squad room with his meeting sites listed on blackboards, large photos of his home, and lots of unfinished coffee cups "that FBI lived-in look," Wiser said. The subtle message: We're on to you; you better talk. It had worked that way in other cases.

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(p) 738-9218 Whitfield" C1W, Vym liiduslr in, Int 1 $1,550 i 'aa HiililA A jni i ii iud it his daughter, five customers, and two people outside the shop. Fifty-eight people were injured. Kelly was blown out into the street and found as he struggled to get to his feet. The bomb demolished the shop and floors above, which had been used by the Protestant paramilitary Ulster Defense Association. Taco Bell scare SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The number of hepatitis A cases believed linked to a Salt Lake City Taco Bell has climbed to 54.

One person filed suit Thursday. The Salt Lake City-County Health Department announced Jan. 19 that 21 people, including three employees of the restaurant, had been stricken. The outbreak was traced to a restaurant employee who worked for 10 days in December before being diagnosed on Dec, 23, Thomas Schtenker, director of th Salt Lake City-County Health Depart ment, said his staffs initial assess ment of the case indicated the risk to the public was minimal. Food inspectors reviewed food preparation at the restaurant, interviewed employees for signs of illness and inoculated them against the hepatitis A virus.

Workers also were educated about how food-borne diseases are transmitted and prevented. The initial indication of a hepatitis A problem came when restaurant patron Rose Olds, a nurse, called the Health Department on Dec. 20 to report there was no running water in the women's restroom. She also told food inspectors that a female employee appeared to be jaundiced. NAACP audit BALTIMORE (AP) The NAACP has agreed to allow a national accounting firm audit its troubled finances, board members say.

But syndicated columnist Carl Rowan reported Thursday that the firm, Coopers Lybrand, balked at the offer because NAACP board chairman William Gibson and other members sought to limit what can be investigated. Gibson wants to prevent the firm from investigating his monthly $3,000 stipend and a $10,000 loan he allegedly received from the civil rights group, Rowan reported. Grandparents killed LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) A teenager who hid in his room while two friends stabbed his 80-year-old grandparents to death has been convicted of murder. Michael Brown, 17, could face life in prison with no parole for 60 years.

No sentencing date has been set Prosecutors said Edward and Marie Brown were killed because Mrs. Brown kicked the teen-agers out of the house for drinking. Brown was stabbed 58 times; his wife five times. Testimony showed that Brown let his friends in through a window, pve them knives and hid his face in a pillow when he heard his grandparents scream. Brown also was convicted Thursday of conspiracy, car theft and evidence-Umpering He was acquitted of armed robbery.

Bernadette Setser, 17, was convicted of murder and Jeremy Rose, 18, pleaded guilty to murder. They both testified against Brown. Shooting suspect Wendell Williamson was killed by another shot Williamson, 26, is a third-year law student at the university. He had been treated recently for mental illness, his parents told the News Ob-sewer of Raleigh. Other law students described him as a disturbed man who sometimes had outbursts in class and mumbled to himself in downtown bars.

Police officer Demetrise Stephenson was shot in the left hand while in her police cruiser. She was in good condition today at a hospital. "He saw her and I saw her," bystander Bob Epting told The Herald-Sun. "I thought, 'Oh my God, she doesnt see As she passed him, he just leveled the rifle down into her driver's side window two feet away and he shot. "That was the single most horrible thing I ever saw in my life," said the 50-year-old attorney.

"I thought she was dead." After Leone tackled the gunman, Epting helped subdue him. "He was shooting at me, he was shooting at random, and he was shooting at anybody he saw," Epting said. "He looked like he was on his way to his own death." Leone spent four years in the Marine Corps and six months in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War before entering UNC, where he has been studying finance and business administration and working on the side as a bartender. He said he was glad he could help, and "I just wish I could have intervened sooner." spy inve in Washington in the 1980s; the CIA was supposed to inform the FBI about -his reports on each-meetingBut Lewis said FBI surveillance picked up meetings for which there were no reports. Ames was transferred to Rome in 1986.

"We asked CIA to go to Rome and get the reports," Lewis said. "Unfortunately, that was not done." Thursday, Sept 9, 1993, was a black day in the investigation. Because of a misunderstanding, FBI agents missed Ames when he left home to leave a chalk signal on a mailbox for the Russians, they later learned. Still worse, Ames left the CIA at 4 p.m. in his car and was gone for 70 minutes.

He lost the FBI teams trailing him. Ames was leaving his final draft of the Post-It message and documents under a footbridge in Washington's Rock Creek Park. "We didnt know how skilled he was, but he was a CIA officer who had received counter-surveillance training," Wiser said. "I told them I'd rather he get lost than they get burned." Nevertheless, "we were getting 1 WeAVy HoQTW NO HBSScf ZF yoV 45 3091704 Land mines WASHINGTON (AP) They cost only $3 apiece and look harmless, but their ability to kill or maim is just a footstep away, The United States has been trying for years to attack the problem, but it's been a losing battle. A State Department report released Friday conceded that international efforts to clear land mines from trouble-torn Third World countries have been outpaced by mine deployment.

It estimated that the world is lit-, tered with 80 million to 100 million antipersonnel land mines in 64 countries, Most of the victims an average of 500 a week are innocent civilians. The report cited estimates that mine clearance efforts extracted about 80,000 mines globally in 1993 but that 2.5 million mines were implanted that year, I Lajd mines are often used to ter-' roriz'e civilian populations in the world's small-scale conflicts. But the mines keep on killing after the wars subside. Ireland BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) A 21-year-old IRA operative was ordered to serve nine life sentences today, one for each of the nine people killed by a bomb he and an accomplice carried into a fish shop in a Protestant neighborhood. Sean Kelly, who lost his left eye in the blast, refused to recognize the court and put forward no defense during his trial two weeks ago.

"The wanton slaughter of so many innocent people must rank as one of the most outrageous atrocities endured by the people of this province in the last quarter of a century," said Lord Justice John MacDermott Kelly and Thomas Begley, Irish Republican Army operatives disguised as meat delivery men, carried a bomb into Frizzell's fish shop on Belfast's Sbankill Road, a mostly Protestant area, in October 1993. Just as Begley, 21, was about to hang the 5-pound bomb on a meat hook, the device went off. Begley was killed along with the shop owner, shows drink! 3 0 in Ames WASHINGTON (AP) Under fire because Aldqjch Ames had, eluded hi lurveillance FBI supervi- sorLes Wiser ignored his boss's order and sent agents on a risky midnight raid of the garbage outside the Ames home. They found seven tiny yellow scraps of paper a torn-up Post-It note that convinced them they had found Russia's agent inside the CIA. "It was a marvelous piece of insubordination," said Robert "Bear" Bryant, assistant FBI director for national security.

Not long before, Bryant had ended the FBI's secret collection of Ames' trash for fear neighbors might spot the agents and warn Ames of the snooping Bryant admitted Thursday that he would have denied permission for the Sept 15, 1993, trash pickup if Wiser had asked. The note reassembled from the trash container outside Ames' $500,000 Northern Virginia home contained a draft message from Ames to the Russians. In traditional spy language, he offered to meet in Bogota, Colombia, and told them how to signal their approval or set a different time or place. "We knew he was the guy when we found that note," Wiser said. Bryant, his deputy John Lewis and Wiser gave reporters an inside look yesterday at their 2V5 -year hunt for the man who turned out to be the most damaging spy ever caught inside U.S.

intelligence. Ames caused the death of 10 Western agents and compromised dozens of operations. He is serving life in prison without parole; his wife, Ro-sario, is serving five years. The FBI officials disclosed that One Russian diplomat, not named, was expelled from this country for supervising Ames. In prison, Ames volunteered information the FBI would never have known but for his cooperation, but still had problems on a polygraph when asked whether he had told everything.

The CIA failed to answer FBI questions about Ames' activities as early as 1986. Ames became a Soviet spy in 1985. By August 1991, a joint FBI-CIA analysis team, tipped by a CIA employee to Ames' lavish spending, had noticed a correlation between Ames' meetings with a Soviet diplomat and his cash deposits. Ames was assigned to meet Soviets Chubby Checker at the Stockmen's February 3rd and Hth at 9:00 pm and pm in the Stockmen's Showroom Tickets on sale at Stockmtn's cog 15 in aortfi Price includes one AW 11 TWlSnN' TUESDAY at the Stockmen's Tuesday, January 31 Twist ind Limbe Coetests! in celebration of Clubby Checker! Sip tp tJI fM it the Slockroe i Showroom, cootoU xpt tH 7:00 p-m. I st plica frt 1 00 ind 2 tickets to Chubby Oeder Show 2nd places gel dmno For 2 si the Bull Pen bckelsto Chubby Checker Show 3rd pUcw ft 2 tkieti to Chubby Checker Shew fitting Jxx xl-eJ and don know wtitxt to itaxi J) WzMing Wldzi JVancij (702)135-8285 i LABORATORY Jut Wzdding Conultina Svtni Coordinating The FBI released this photo yesterday of the note it found in the garbage of convicted spy Aldrich Ames last year.

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