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A4 THE HARTFORD COURANT Tuesday, January 18, 2000 World Connecticut dim Convict Tells Grisly Tales f2i1 ft rr Murderer Helps Police Search For Bodies .3 paper reported. Clark said he consumed his victims because he "wanted to become the women and girls he killed," a law enforcement official who interviewed him told the paper. Clark reportedly asked Massachusetts investigators to buy him women's clothing, and wore some of it during the search of property once owned by his grandfather in Wellfleet. Clark left Cape Cod Saturday after spending the morning pointing out potential grave sites in and around the 7.4-acre parcel of land, the paper reported He has drawn maps of potential burial sites on Cape Cod, according to police. "Clark definitely provided us with information that compels us to get back to certain locations in Well-fleet as soon as possible," state police Sgt James Plath said.

Clark told Massachusetts police that he picked up two women in Vermont in the 1980s and buried their bodies on the Cape, the newspaper said. While on Cape Cod, Clark was shown photographs of several women and girls and asked if he knew anything about their disappearances. Included was a picture of 9-year-old Sarah Pryor, who vanished while walking near her Wayland, home in 1985. A portion of her skull was found 2 miles away in 1995. An investigator said Clark did not select Pryor's picture, the paper reported.

On Dec. 15, Maryland and Massachusetts police searched the Wellfleet property on South Pamet Road with a police dog. They did not find any human remains, but did turn up a bucket containing women's jewelry, including some that belonged to Houghteling, the paper reported. The Barnstable district attorney's office was not open Monday because of the holiday. Wellfleet police said Clark had left Wellfleet.

A Montgomery County, police spokeswoman said she had no word on Clark's whereabouts on Monday. ECUADOREAN SOLDIERS search a bus passenger at an army roadblock on the road to Riobamba, 200 kilometers south of Quito, Monday. The security forces are on high alert at indigenous groups have blocked highways in protests against President Jamil Mahuad and his difficulty in stopping the country's economic Ex-Chief Nominated For Inspection Team Associated Press WELLFLEET, Mass. A twice-convicted murderer who led authorities on a search for bodies on Cape Cod has told police he tortured and ate some of his victims, according to a published report In addition, killer Hadden Clark spent Sunday in Connecticut, where investigators hoped he would provide details about a woman he claimed killing there sometime in the 1980s, authorities said. Members of the state police major crime squad went with Clark to a wooded area at an undisclosed central Connecticut site where Clark had apparently told authorities he had dumped a woman's body, said Lt.

Ralph Carpenter, a Connecticut state police spokesman. Police did not find anything, he said. "We were not able to relate anything he was telling us with any specific crime," Carpenter said. Hadden left with Massachusetts state authorities Sunday. Authorities said they have not corroborated Clark's claims of cannibalism, which he made during police interviews in Maryland and on Cape Cod, the Cape Cod Times reported Monday.

The paper cited unidentified sources. Clark, 47, is serving two back-to-back 30-year sentences in Maryland for the murders of 6-year-old Michelle Dorr, who disappeared in 1986, and 23-year-old Laura Houghteling, who disappeared in 1992. In both cases, Clark helped police find the victims' remains. Investigators from Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Vermont want to talk with Clark about as many as 11 other murders. All of the victims were women, the Tracking Student Performance? Briefs WORLD Spain: Test Pinochet Again MADRID, Spain Spain put the Pinochet ball squarely back in Britain's court Monday, sending London a judge's request for a new medical exam to determine whether the former Chilean dictator is mentally fit to stand trial.

The move came a day before Britain's deadline for opinions on the case. Last week, Britain's Home Office said doctors believe Gen. Augusto Pinochet, 84, is too ill to be extradited to Spain to face charges. Home Secretary Jack Straw said he was considering canceling the extradition, but he asked for opinions from Spain, France, Belgium and Switzerland. New Parliament Meets In Russia MOSCOW Russia's fresh start in the new century takes another potentially big step today with the opening of a newly elected, tycoon-studded lower house of parliament.

Many Russians hope the 450-member body will work effectively with the nation's vigorous new acting president, Vladimir Putin. The old set of lawmakers frequently clashed with former President Boris Yeltsin. And some analysts expect this Duma to be more pragmatic about the West, possibly even achieving agreements on nuclear-weapon limits and other security issues. The new leadership, however, will confront the same problems carried over from the last century: A weak military mired in the war in Chechnya and an economy marred by corruption, heavy debts and a slowly declining ruble, as well as an inability to compete effectively in the world economy. Problem Fuel Grounds Planes SYDNEY, Australia From Wagga Wagga to Wee Waa, Rbckhampton to Lightning Ridge, towns in the vast Australian Outback depend on small planes to deliver the mail, dust crops, round up cattle, shuttle schoolchildren, bring in doctors and evacuate medical emergencies.

But 11 days ago, half the nation's light aircraft were grounded because of contaminated aviation fuel that thickens when it contacts copper and brass engine parts, raising the risk of clogged fuel lines and motors stalling in flight. Nobody knows how many planes actually carry the bad fuel. The source of the contamination Mobil Oil Australia a subsidiary of U.S.-based Exxon Mobil Corp. has no test to find out. KohPs Party Sets Meeting BERLIN Germany's Christian Democrats scheduled an emergency leadership meeting as calls grew louder for party leaders to resign over a spreading campaign finance scandal.

Party leader Wolfgang Schaeuble, himself facing suspicions for accepting the equivalent of $52,000 from a businessman, set the national party executive meeting for today, six days ahead of its next regular session. From Wire Services I )' Wt REUTERS procedures for U.N. appointments, a mission has 24 hours to formally object to a nomination. Otherwise, it is automatically accepted. Ekeus is retiring as U.S.

ambassador this summer and had been expected to take up a five-year post to be chairman of the governing board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The new inspection agency, UNMOVIC, was formed in December to replace UNSCOM, which pulled out of Baghdad in December 1998, ahead of U.S. and British airstrikes. Iraq has said UNSCOM inspectors cannot return. Annan named Ekeus after a difficult monthlong search for a candidate who would be agreeable to all members of the Security Council.

After a Sunday deadline passed without consensus, Annan wrote to the president of the council, Richard Holbrooke of the United States, that he had "come to the conclusion that Ambassador Rolf Ekeus of Sweden should be appointed executive chairman of UNMOVIC." The United States applauded Annan's decision. "We support Ambassador Ekeus, who in the past, has ably served the international community in its efforts to disarm Iraq," said the deputy State Department spokesman, James. B. Foley. Annan considered other candidates including Brazil's former U.N.

ambassador, Celso Amorim; and Finland's ambassador to Israel and Cyprus, Pasi Patokallio in a bid to ensure unanimous support. Spokesman Fred Eckhard said the secretary-general had exhausted his search without success. "Over 30 days, he raised something like 25 names and he could not find one on which all could agree. So he put forward the name of the person he thought best for the job," Eckhard said. Ekeus' tenure as chief U.N.

inspector was marked by several im-. portant developments, including the uncovering of Iraq's biological weapons program. But Ekeus also raised eyebrows at the United Nations when he cut a deal with the Iraqis to gain access to so-called "sensitive sites" in 1996, setting up special procedures for access that weren't called for in U.N. resolutions. Some at the United Nations believe that deal was the first step in UNSCOM's downfall, setting the stage for future Iraqi attempts to prevent or complicate inspectors' access to certain sites.

Nevertheless, Ekeus was known to be Annan's top choice from the beginning. At a December press conference, Annan outlined his dream candidate for the job, telling reporters he wanted someone who knew disarmament, had good judgment and people skills and who could be firm. "In effect, I'll probably be looking for somebody like Rolf Ekeus," Annan said. year. That's all it would take to give town workers an extra holiday and remove this mark from Walling-ford, which is probably no worse or better than most places as far as racism's concerned.

It wasn't all that easy finding black residents to ask, there being approximately 350 altogether in Wallingford. But Verniece Hall Santos and her husband, Michael, are African American and moved to Wallingford 10 years ago. For about the same price as their house in New Haven, they got a bigger place in a safer neighborhood with better schools for their kids. And they've never looked back. "In the beginning people did look at you funny because you were dif .46 1 Li -r.

'I i i i i 'if 1 i I I i Continued from Page A3 But while it would open a treasure chest of new research data, and offer possible conclusions about what works and what doesn't, the idea also raises the sinister specter of Big Brother peering over the shoulders of innocent schoolchildren. Because of this, no legislators have been willing to introduce legislation to allow this sort of tracking. Over a period of years, tracking students like this would give educators the ability to assess whether, say, sending 3- and 4-year-olds to preschool makes a difference in how they learn to read later on. The state of Florida has been able to precisely monitor what happened to a recent class of ninth-graders through graduation and evaluate whether dropout prevention programs made a difference. "There is no question that we ought to try to develop a system that measures student performance over time on an individual basis," said state Rep.

Cameron C. Staples, D-New Haven, co-chairman of the legislature's education committee. "There is no other way to really assess the impact of the education they are getting from year to year." Too often, education policymakers are left with anecdotal information or data from an individual district that, while valuable, is inconclusive. With a long-standing statewide testing program in the Connecticut Mastery Test, some say tracking individual student performance is the logical next step. "It would enable us to really track progress and look at the results of a specific program.

For example, look at the early readiness program right now we won't be able to identify the students in the program and what the benefits are over time," said Abigail L. Hughes, associate commissioner of education. "It would allow us to look at the effectiveness of programs." All of this is something that the better individual school districts al Over Russian and Chinese objections, the U.N. wants to send Rolf Ekeus, the former head inspector, back to Iraq to lead the new agency. By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press UNITED NATIONS After a difficult search for a candidate to head the new Iraq weapons inspection agency, the U.N.

chief announced his choice Monday: Rolf Ekeus, the same man who led the old inspection agency for six years. Russia immediately rejected Annan's pick, throwing Ekeus' nomination into doubt. The United States, currently president of the Security Council, received a formal letter Monday evening from the Russian ambassador saying Moscow "cannot agree with the proposal," a U.S. official said. Consultations were scheduled for this afternoon.

In picking the Swedish diplomat, Secretary-General Kofi Annan overrode Russian and Chinese objections and set up a likely confrontation with Baghdad. Iraq immediately questioned the nomination, saying it amounted to putting "old wine in new bottles." "How can they appoint a new commission and then name its former head to lead it?" Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz asked reporters after a meeting in Spain. Ekeus was the first executive chairman of the U.N. Special Commission, which was created in 1991, in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, to rid Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction. He stepped down in 1997 to become Sweden's ambassador to the United States.

While his successor, Richard Butler of Australia, incurred the wrath of the Iraqis during his tumultuous two-year term, Ekeus too was harshly criticized by the Baghdad leadership, particularly toward the end of his tenure. Aziz on Monday accused Ekeus of deliberately prolonging U.N. trade sanctions imposed on Iraq after it invaded Kuwait in 1990. He said the Swedish diplomat allowed inspectors to spy on Baghdad. Aziz, however, did not say whether Iraq would cooperate with Ekeus if his nomination is approved.

Before its outright rejection, Russia, along with China, had told Annan on Friday that they opposed nominating Ekeus for the new agency, called the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, or UNMOVIC. They argued that Ekeus would not be acceptable to Iraq. France also indicated it preferred other candidates. It wasn't immediately clear how Russia's rejection would affect Annan's nomination.

Under normal Pagnozzi Continued from Page A3 of the media to make it clear to people who don't know me that this is not true," he said. But I don't know him. Besides, most of the time, he isn't going to hear about what people think about him or about Walling-ford because they won't say it except as a judgment about what city to live in and where to spend money or build businesses. "I'm not here to talk with you about new development in Walling-ford," said Dickinson. "I'm here to celebrate Martin Luther King Day." Thirty-two thousand dollars a ready do: follow a student's progress through the years and monitor performance at key points, such as on the mastery tests.

Still, critics say allowing the state to create files on all students is a page out of George Orwell's "1984." "What we are concerned about is the creation of databases. It is particularly onerous when the database is created by the government. We never know what becomes of the file five years from now," said Joseph Grabarz, executive director of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union. "Who knows what happens to that database later on?" Grabarz said. Thomas Mooney, a Hartford lawyer who has represented dozens of school boards around Connecticut, said state and federal law permits an idea like this, as long as it is for research.

"It is a highly appropriate activity by the state, when we look at the constitutional obligation of the state to provide a substantially equal education opportunity," Mooney said. "I find it hard to object to the state doing that." State Education Commissioner Theodore S. Sergi said as long as names of students are protected, it's a good idea. "If we could get by all the business of guaranteeing privacy, it does tell us a lot more about actual instruction," Sergi said. Done correctly, gathering such "longitudinal" data is essential when tracking and assessing the impact of teaching and learning, education researchers say.

"What you can see is what happens over time. You can look at predictors and try to relate things that happen early on with things that happen later on," said Sally E. Shaywitz, a Yale School of Medicine pediatrician and principal investigator in one of the country's longest running longitudinal studies. She began tracking the education performance and lives of 400 Connecti Business Executives Gina Greenlee Strategic Planning Director Lisa Johnson Consumer Marketing Director Raymond B. Koupal Vice President and Chief Financia1 Officer Richard J.

Medeiros Jr. Advertising Director Robert R. Rounce Controller Nancy Stimac Classified Advertising Director John R. Suchecki Vice President and Chief Information Officer cut children in 1983 and is now following them into adulthood. "You can look at outcomes and you can look at what early on predicted this outcome," Shaywitz said.

"For example: Do reading problems persist or do they go away? We showed that with children who have early reading problems, they don't go away." States like Tennessee and Florida have been creating personal files on schoolchildren for years, examining trends and gauging which programs work and whicn don't. "I have the potential with the data I have to go into a fourth-grade class in any school and tell them in the five subject areas, which students were the most effectively instructed," said Benjamin Brown, executive director of evaluation and assessment for the Tennessee Department of Educatioa Levan Dukes, bureau chief for education, information and accountability for the Florida Department of Education, said his state's "personally identifiable information" on 2.5 million children enables educators to quickly answer questions about dropouts or the impact on a school's test scores from students who frequently move in and out. "It makes nothing but good sense to initiate this kind of system," Dukes said. Suspicious Blaze Injures Firefighters Associated Press WATERBURY City fire officials on Monday were investigating what they call a suspicious fire that destroyed a vacant factory and injured five firefighters. The Virjune Manufacturing Co.

building was leveled Sunday night after a fire broke out sometime before 6:40 p.m. Firefighter Dan Chieffo suffered second-degree burns to his chest, back, shoulder and left arm while outside a second-floor window, Deputy Fire Chief Gary Gray said. Fellow firefighters rolled him in the snow to put out the flames on his left arm, Gray said. Firefighter Mike Stanco suffered back and shoulder injuries from a fall during the fire. Three other firefighters sustained minor burns or puncture wounds.

Missing-Person Case: New Development ENFIELD Police late Monday were investigating a possible break in a missing person case. Police Capt. Carl Sferrazza would not release much information about the case, but did say officers have been investigating a report of a missing person for several days. He declined to say what the report was. Several local television stations reported late Monday that the missing man's car had been found in Longmeadow, Mass.

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