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Rwandan president seeks international help President Paul Kagame of Rwanda called on the UN Security Council and the international community for help in implementing a peace deal to end Congo’s civil war, a fight that has engulfed six African nations. Senate approves plan to pay UN dues The Senate voted to release $582 million in dues owed the United Nations as part of a deal to reduce the US. share of UN. operating and peacekeeping costs.
Space shuttle puts new laboratory in orbit The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Cape Canaveral with the $1.4 billion Destiny Laboratory, the most expensive and pivotal piece of the international space station.
Lawyers contest bomber’s conviction Lawyers for Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols said his conviction and life sentence should be overturned because the jury did not rule on whether he knew people would die in the bombing.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8,
2001
Gunman shoots at White House
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The suspect, a former IRS employee, has a history of mental illness By TERENCE HUNT
sources as 47-year-old Robert Pickett, from Evansville, Ind. He had been fired by the Internal Revenue
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WASHINGTON A middleaged accountant with a history of Service in the mid 1980s, and neighmental illness fired several shots bors said he kept to himself, resented the IRS and was obsessed with outside the White House WednesWest Point, where he had dropped day and then was shot by the Secret Service as he waved his handout after a semester in 1972. Pickett gun menacingly, authorities said. had acknowledged in court records The tense, noontime standoff sent suffering from mental illness and trying to commit suicide. tourists running for cover. Bush, working out in the White The midday drama unfolded just outside the fence at the edge of the House residence, was alerted by SeSouth Lawn, 200 yards from the cret Service agents “but understood building where President George that he was not in any danger,” spokesperson Ari Fleischer said. W. Bush was inside exercising. The man, wounded in the knee First Lady Laura Bush was in Texas. and hospitalized under guard, was Vice President Dick Cheney was identified by law enforcement working in his White House office.
The shooting was the latest in a string of security scares that have brought tighter protection for U.S. presidents. In 1995, then-President Bill Clinton ordered Pennsylvania Avenue closed in front of the White
House following the Oklahoma City bombing. Earlier that year, a man was shot on the White House lawn after scaling a fence with an unloaded gun. The latest incident, shortly before noon on a sunny, spring-like day, triggered a tight security clampdown. Tourists were evacuated from White House rooms, and police in riot gear took up positions around the executive mansion and
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Sharon claims mandate after victory By KARIN LAUB Associated Press
Ariel Sharon, flush from an elecJERUSALEM tion victory seen as a mandate to veto more concessions to the Palestinians, pledged in a symbolic pilgrimage to Judaism’s Western Wall Wednesday that Jerusalem will remain in Israeli hands forever. Sharon’s promise, delivered the day after his decisive win over incumbent Prime Minister Ehud Barak, ran directly counter to a key Palestinian demand for control over Jerusalem’s walled Old City and its holy shrines. However, Sharon aides were quick to portray Israel’s new leader as a pragmatist with whom the Palestinians will be able to do business. “Sharon wants
to bring peace,” said an adviser, Raanan Gissin. “I certainly believe the Arabs... know they may not get everything they want, but it will be a real agreement.” Sharon aides suggested Wednesday that—contrary to reports during the campaign—he would be willing to carry out territorial concessions in the West Bank and even dismantle some settlements. Reuven Rivlin, a lawmaker from Sharon’s Likud Party, told Israel TV this would involve “uniting” some islands of Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank, which could involve uprooting some isolated Jewish settlements. Palestinian officials said they were ready to hear Sharon’s offers. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat told See
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