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Pentagon blamed for death of
19 soldiers in Saudi bombing
■ The Defense Department
will now review the actions
of Air Force personnel.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON A failure by the
Pentagon and key field commanders to
focus on terrorism contributed to the
death toll of the bombing in Saudi Arabia
that killed 19 U.S. airmen in June, ac
cording to a task force report released
Monday.
In response, Defense Secretary Will
iam Perry ordered a review of whether
any Air Force personnel should be court
martialed. President Bill Clinton praised
the report as “unvarnished, blunt, straight
forward.”
“We intend to do everything we can”
to protect troops in the field, Clinton
said. “We’ re going to aggressively imple
ment the ... report.”
House SpeakerNewt Gingrich, R-Ga.,
campaigning in his home state, accused
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the Clinton administration ofbeing “con
sistently weak in its approach to protect
Americans from terrorism.”
A focus of Perry’s review is expected
tobe AirForceßrig. Gen. Teryl J. “Terry”
Schwalier, commander of the 4404th
Wing and the officer responsible for the
security of the roughly 2,000 servicemen
living at Khobar Towers in Dhahran, site
of the bombing. “Khobar Towers was
identified to Gen. Schwalier as one of the
three highest priority soft targets in the
region,” the report notes.
But Schwalier seems not to have made
terrorism a top priority, the report said,
contending that he “never raised to his
superiors force protection matters that
were beyond his capability to correct.”
An end-of-tour memo written by
Schwalier the day before the June 25
bombing does not even mention the ter
rorist threat as a focus of his tenure.
Perry was not specifically criticized by
the task force, which was commissioned
by the Pentagon and headed by retired
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ing. However, the Downing report cites
as its first finding the Pentagon’s failure
to issue orders on protecting forces housed
in buildings.
“I am concerned that insufficient at
tention is being given to anti-terrorism
measures and force protection," Down
ing wrote in a memo to Perry accompa
nying the task force report.
With thousands of Army troops pack
ing bags for possible deployment to Ku
wait, Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the mili
tary is taking steps to coordinate its re
sponse to terrorism. Still, the four-star
general admitted to being caught off
guard. “All of us have been surprised by
the size and sophistication and the de
structiveness of this attack.”
In the June attack, terrorists parked a
fuel trailer truck just outside the shallow
perimeter of the apartment complex, 85
feet away from one of the eight-story
buildings. The blast demolished one side
of the building, killing 19 and wounding
hundreds.
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Voters face choice on highway bonds
Bi The $950 million bond
will help speed up current
construction projects.
BYSARADEMANIGOLD
STAFF WRITER
Approximately 70 percent to 75 per
cent of highway fatalities occur on two
lane highways.
That’s why the N.C. Partnership for
Roads and Schools wants N.C. voters to
approve a $950 million road bond at The
polls Nov. 5. “There’s a very real, and
sometimes dangerous, strain on our
roads,” said partnership Co-chairwoman
Margaret Kluttz, the mayor of Salisbury
and a member of the N.C. Board of
Transportation. “For no other reason
than reducing highway deaths and inju
ries, we need to pass the highway bonds
and accelerate construction.”
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Chemical leak from truck
closes eastbound 140
RALEIGH Authorities closed a
section of the interstate highway circling
Raleigh on Monday after a tanker truck
began leaking sodium hydroxide.
The Highway Patrol forced vehicles
to exit the Raleigh beltline at Gorman
Street onto Tryon Road, to U.S. 70 and
then back onto Interstate 40 eastbound.
Sodium hydroxide is a corrosive
chemical that is dangerous if inhaled or
comes into contact with skin, said Renee
Hoffman, spokeswoman for the state
Department of Crime Control and Pub
lic Safety.
Mother Teresa in hospital
after falling out of her bed
CALCUTTA, India—Ten days after
leaving the hospital, Mother Teresa was
readmitted Monday after falling from
her bed.
The nun who has come to symbol
ize compassion for the needy had
bruises on her face and an irregular heart
beat after the fall, doctors said. Her inju
ries were not life-threatening, they added.
“She was admitted for observation
and investigation,” said Dr. S.K. Sen,
director of Calcutta’s Woodlands Nurs
ing Home.
Mother Teresa was rushed to the hos
pital by ambulance, then taken to the
intensive coronary care unit. She under
went a CT scan, which will allow doctors
to determine whether she suffered any
brain injury.
Mother Teresa was fully conscious
Monday, eating normally and speaking
to the doctors, said Dr. Asim Bardhan,
her personal physician.
The N.C. Partnership for Roads and
Schools published studies that support
the bond. Traffic is up 50 percent in the
last 10 years. North Carolina’s major
urban highways are now the fifth most
congested in the area. The number of
highway deaths has increased since 1989.
Kluttz said acceleration of highway
construction will save the state $93 mil
lion. If approved, the money from the
bonds will help speed up current projects
on roads in the state, said Steve Meehan,
aspokesmanfortheN.C. Partnership for
Schools and Roads.
“The road bond funds will not go to
any new roads but to the existing road
projects that are identified for improve
ment. ” Meehan said “The bonds are spe
cifically for expanding two-lane rural
highways into four lanes.”
The requested $950 million will be
divided among secondary roads, intrast
ate roadsandurbanloops. The ftinds will
be used to speed up completion of road
Doctors did not say when she might be
released.
Whitewater attorneys call
for prostitute's diaries
NEW YORK Whitewater pros
ecutors have subpoenaed the explosive
diaries of the prostitute who detailed her
relationship with former Clinton politi
cal adviser Dick Morris, the New York
Post reported today.
Independent counsel Kenneth Stair
issued the subpoena a week ago, a source
told the newspaper. Sherry Rowlands
hasn’t turned over her diaries but plans to
comply, the newspaper said.
Starr was interested in Rowlands’
claim that Morris told her that first lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton was behind the
White House’s improper gathering of
hundreds of FBI files on top Republi
cans, the Post said.
In Rowlands’ diary, as excerpted by
the Star supermarket tabloid last week,
Rowlands said Morris told her Mrs.
Clinton ordered the FBI files in 1993.
“She’s a paranoid lady—she did it,” the
diary reportedly stated, quoting Morris.
Morris denied the allegation last week,
saying he told her that “everyone thinks"
that Mrs. Clinton did it.
Starr also may be interested in
Rowlands’ claims that Morris had di
vulged some Whitewater damage-con
trol strategy to her, such as his advice to
Clinton that he distance himself from the
first lady in case she was indicted.
Memorial service for slain
rapper held Monday
NEW YORK To many, Tupac
Shakur was a figure Of violence who
became a victim of the gangsta culture he
glorified. To others, he was a promising
talent who wound up a casualty of a
society that destroys black youth.
On Sunday the slain 25-year-old rap
per was mourned at his boyhood church.
“Who will weep for Tupac Shakur?”
the Rev. Herbert Daughtry asked at a
memorial service at The House of the
Lord Pentecostal Church in Brooklyn. “I
will weep for Tupac. I will weep for all
our youth."
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projects already planned in every North
Carolina county. Projects include pavig
1,200 miles of secondary roads and com
pleting major sections of seven urban
loops in an earlier span of time.
The N.C. Partnership for Schools and
Roads said the road bonds will not in
crease taxes. Funds will be paid out of
existing Highway Trust Funds. Every
county will receive funding.
Not everyone supports spending $950
million on roads.
The No Highway Bonds Committee,
a grassroots organization, plans to launch
a aampaign against the bond, said Nat
Mund, UNC School of Law alumna and
campaign coordinator of the No High
way Bonds Committee.
“The committee feels that the bond is
economically wasteful and is potentially
environmentally damaging,” Mund said.
The committee will provide more infor
mation about the organization’s effort
today following a press conference.
as he rode in a car driven by the head of
his record label, Death Row Records
chief Marion “Suge” Knight. He died of
his wounds Friday.
So far, police say Knight and Shakur’s
entourage of bodyguards have failed to
provide any suspects in the shooting.
States encouraged to use
kids in sting operations
WASHINGTON - In a little publi
cized provision, President Bill Clinton’s
crackdown on youth smoking encour
ages states to use minors in sting opera
tions to detect illegal tobacco sales or
risk losing federal aid.
The government said its new rule did
generate a healthy dose of responses from
citizens about the physical and psycho
logical safety of undercover children and
their ability to understand legal issues
like entrapment.
But it says examples around the coun
try including an Illinois town where
stings using junior high school students
have had a dramatic impact—show that
such problems can be solved with proper
adult supervision.
“We took into consideration the im
pact on youth in any of these sting opera
tions,” said Mark Weber, spokesman for
the Department of Health and Human
Services agency that implemented the
rule.
The rule was issued in January by the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Ser
vices Administration, which distributes
$1.2 billion a year in drug treatment and
prevention funds.
It mandates that all states have man
datory inspection programs by next year
to catch businesses that illegally sell to
bacco to children. The rule leaves it to the
states to determine how to catch illegal
sales, but strongly urges the use of under
cover stings with children at least two to
three years younger than the 18-year-old
legal smoking age.
The tobacco industry’s trade group
. says it supports crackdowns on illegal
sales but has reservations about using
minors. “Any time you use kids essen
tially to break the law, it does send a
mixed message, ” said Walker Merryman,
vice president of the Tobacco Institute.
FROM WIRE REPORTS