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THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2001 ASBURY PARK PRESS PAGE A5 NATION NEW YORK BRIEFS Vietnam War slayings haunt ex-Sen. Kerrey THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Former Democratic Nebraska senator and Navy SEAL Bob Kerrey says he is haunted by the 32-year-old memory of a raid in which he ordered his men to shoot Vietnamese who turned out to be civilians. But a member of Kerrey's Navy SEAL unit and a Vietnamese woman who said she witnessed the raid allege the soldiers herded together the women and children and massacred them. Kerrey, who has not ruled out a run for president in 2004, received a Bronze Star for the Feb. 25, 1969, raid in the Mekong Delta.

The award citation says 21 Viet Cong were killed and enemy weapons were captured or destroyed. Kerrey, who earned the nation's highest valor award, the Medal of Honor, for a later SEAL action, talked about the raid publicly for the first time last week in a speech to ROTC students at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. Kerrey said the mission took place on a moonless night, when he was a 25-year-old lieutenant leading a seven-man commando team. He said two of his men, one of them Gerhard Klann, killed several people at the start of the raid because they believed they were a threat. Kerrey said he did not order the killings but took responsibility for them.

About 15 minutes later, Kerrey said, shots were fired at his squad, and his men returned fire. "But when the fire stopped, we found that we had killed only women, children and older men. It was not a military vic tory. It was a tragedy, and I had ordered it," he said. Kerrey said he decided to talk about the shooting because he heard that Klann was offering a different account.

Klann's version and an account from Pham Tri Lanh, who said she saw the raid, were reported as part of a joint effort by CBS News and The New York Times, which will publish the story in its Sunday magazine. The Associated Press THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Feathered fossil A 130 million-year-old fossil dinosaur covered with primitive feathers was unveiled yesterday at the American Museum of Natural History. meat Police arrest 45 in mob crackdown Hoping to cripple New York's most powerful organized crime family, federal agents arrested 45 people in three states yesterday on charges ranging from murder to stock fraud. The arrests in New York, Florida and Nevada followed a three-year undercover investigation of the Genovese family, the largest of the city's five major crime families. Among the 33 alleged family members and associates charged in a racketeering indictment were the family's former acting boss and two captains.

The defendants also include two retired police officers hired as enforcers, an accountant, and members of the Gambino, Luchese, Bonanno and Colombo families, authorities said. Guard faces 11 animal cruelty charges WHITE PLAINS: A Westchester County grand jury has indicted a Sing Sing prison guard on 11 counts of animal cruelty for allegedly crushing five kittens to death in a trash compactor. Ronald Hunlock, 47, could be sentenced to up to two years in prison if convicted of the top count, aggravated cruelty to animals. His lawyer, Daniel Galli-van, said yesterday he had not been informed of the indictment and could not comment. Hunlock found the kittens and their mother in an inmate's cell at the state prison on March 11.

He allegedly kicked the adult cat, then put all the cats in the compactor and turned it on. The mother cat jumped out and escaped, but the kittens were crushed. School bars boy after death threat A 10-year-old boy who reportedly called himself "brother of Satan," has been barred from classes at a Brooklyn public school where he allegedly threatened to kill classmates. Schools Chancellor Harold Levy said the school district "is making arrangements for alternative instruction" for the boy, who is described as bright and enrolled in the Eagle Program for gifted students. Parents said the boy, who was transferred to P.S.

236 in Mill Basin last Thursday, had been in school just one day when he threatened to bring a gun to school and kill someone. The boy had been removed from P.S. 207 on March 28 after allegedly threatening to kill several children in his class. At that time, one parent said the boy referred to himself as the "brother of Satan" and warned classmates that he had access to a gun. Parents at that school demanded the boy be barred from class.

When officers went to the boy's house, they found a handgun licensed to his father, police said. N.Y. Times building named landmark Part of the New York Times Building was designated as a city landmark Tuesday. The designation by the city's Landmark Preservation Commission protects the 43rd Street side of the 15-story building located at 229 W. 43rd which serves as headquarters for The New York Times.

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