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domestic violence Cases Rise, IB I twins Top O's again, 5-2, 1C FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1995 HOME DELIVERY: 25 (inmost areas) NEWSSTAND: 50 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 1 1 'i i- The car uas going very fast It hit me first Then he proceeded to hit everybody else. They just went fiying in the air. You could hear screams and then it was quiet" Accident victim Vicki Stuart KIM HAIRSTONSUN STAFF PHOTO Tragedy strikes in Woodlawn mm 4 children among 5 killed as car plows into bus stop rm A Mazda is seen speeding and weaving in and out of traffic, at U.S. pushes airstrikes for Bosnia 'Robust' attacks would protect U.N. 'safe areas' From Wire Reports SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina The United States will try to convince its allies at an emergency meeting in London today that rrfr s-sive airstrikes are the way to halt Bosnian Serb attacks on United Nations "safe areas." The White House reported that France had agreed to the American proposal but a statement by French President Jacques Chirac failed to mention it The agreement came as fighting resumed around the U.N.

"safe area" of Zepa, which refused to surrender to Bosnian Serbs who had already proclaimed its conquest. In Bihac, another of the U.N.'s six "safe areas," a government town was attacked by Bosnian Serbs and Serbs from nearby Croatia. The loss of the Srebrenica "safe area" eight days ago, along with the attack on Zepa, has highlighted the inability of U.N. peacekeeping forces and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to stop Bosnian Serb advances. Yesterday, the White House announced that President Clinton and Mr.

Chirac had agreed to the American plan to use "robust" airstrikes to protect Gorazde and Sarajevo, two more "safe areas." But the announcement by Mike McCurry, the White House press secretary, was greeted by skepticism in Paris. A French statement made no mention of French backing for the U.S. plan. Catherine Colonna, Mr. Chirac's spokeswoman, said the French president told Mr.

Clinton that an emergency meeting of the world powers in London today "should respond to these proposals." France and the United States have been divided over action to defend Gorazde and Sarajevo. France wants to commit more troops on the ground by sending reinforcements by helicopter to defend Gorazde and force a supply route to Sarajevo. The United States favors airstrikes against Bosnian Serb gun po- See BALKANS. 6A They just went flying in the air. "You could hear screams and then it was quiet.

A boy fell down on my leg. I felt his hand to see if he had a pulse, and I didn't feel nothing." When the car stopped on the grassy roadside, five people lay dead: Mrs. Dorsey, 25; her two children, Keisha, 7, and Channel, and two of Ms. Fields' children, Darian Hough, 8, and Jasmine Little, 4. Mrs.

Dorsey' stepson, Charles Edgar Dorsey 8, was in critical condition last night at Johns Hopkins Children's Center with a broken leg and a punctured lung. Ms. Stuart was treated at Sinai See ACCIDENT, 8A By John Rivera and Elaine Tassy Sun Staff Writers The morning rush hour was beginning on Woodlawn Drive yesterday as sisters Karen Fields and Kim Lin air Dorsey waited for a bus with their six children, who laughed and playfully Jostled each other. They were all singing the same song, a little children's song and everybody had a part," said Vicki Stuart, a 35-year-old nursing assistant who was waiting for the same bus when a 1988 red Mazda MX6 careened toward them. The car was going very fast.

It hit me first," she said. Then he proceeded to hit everybody else. least three witnesses tell police. Then the Mazda sideswipes a Camaro and swerves toward the curb. The car knocks over an MTA sign and strikes seven people at the bus stop.

An 8-year-old boy, a 7-year-old girl and a 25-year-old woman are killed. Their bodies lie within 20 feet of each other and about 60 feet from the bus stop. 1 A I li a Car continues on grass edge. The body of 3-year-old girl is found near telephone pole. Jl Car stops with three of its tires flattened and about 300 feet from the bus stop.

The body of the fifth victim a 4-year-old girl is found nearby. Friend says driver loved to make the kids smile' He came to Baltimore with circus A Meadows Park 4 curtjf Social Security Administration hwmi l4M a 4 v.awj. r.r i i- Mazda hard-working family man. Friends said he neither drank nor used drugs, and would even leave the Keno screen at the local carryout as soon as his girlfriend rang his beeper. Mr.

Haney "is not the monster that people are making him out to be," Ms. Alexander By Jay Apperson and Michael James Sun StaffWritcrs That most romantic of teen-age escapes joining The Greatest Show on Earth lifted Raymond Charles Haney from the despair of a Chicago public 70W- s' Woodlawn White House uncooperative, police report JER0LD COUNCIL, JEF DAUBERSUN STAFF GRAPHIC SOURCE: Baltimore County Police Department said. He told police that a car cut him off and forced him to swerve off the road and onto the sidewalk. He told a reporter it was all an accident, that he was Just trying to get to work. And, said Ms.

Alexander, he called her yesterday afternoon and quietly voiced his anguish. "He's so upset, he's completely devastated," she said. "He said today housing project. More than a decade ago, it brought him to Baltimore where, from atop a circus elephant, he found a wife and a new hometown. "He loved to make the kids smile, and he loved to make them happy," his close friend, Rhonda Alexander, recalled yesterday.

"Even after he left the circus, he taught gymnastics to children." In the face of the i li iiiii. minim, iujil. i HILIERV SMITHSTAFF PHOTO Raymond Charles Haney came to Baltimore with the circus and decided to stay. U.S. Park Police officers told the Senate committee looking into the Whitewater matter that the White House did not fully cooperate with their investigation into the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent W.

Foster Jr. MaJ. Robert H. Hines said he contacted a senior official after the two investigating officers complained that presidential elides were not cooperative. Article, 3A started out just like every morning.

Then, he said, somebody cut him off and his car went out of control. "I asked him, 'Were you rush-See DRIVER, 8A unsettling news that Mr. Haney was the driver of a car that fatally struck five people including four children Ms. Alexander and others who know him went out of their way yesterday to describe him as a Kim Dorsey, 25 Keisha Dorsey, 7 Channel Dorsey, 3 Darian Hough, 8 Jasmine Little, 4 More inside: Victims remembered, 8A. Coping with crisis, 9A.

Deadly accidents, 9A. Army rebuffs GOP in Waco hearing California universities end racial hiring quotas Military assistance for '93 raid attained legally, officials say Student admissions still under debate YMCA renovations Baltimore's only remaining YMCA branch, the Druid Hill Family YMCA, will close for a year for remodeling. Page IB UMQC center rejected A plan to turn a portion of the UMBC campus into a research center has been rejected by the Boards of Appeals. Page IB Bridge Business Classified Comics Deaths 4D Editorials 11C Horoscope 12B Lottery 5D Movies 11B Television 14A SD 22B UVE 3D viewed as a Republican vehicle to embarrass a Democratic administration. Mr.

Clinton made a point yesterday of reminding the public of Mr. Koresh's sexual liaisons with young girls, the "depravity" found at the Mount Carmel compound and the issues facing law enforcement authorities during the siege and standoff. "Here was a man who was molesting young girls and paddling children with boat oars, a man who was laying up supplies and illegal weapons for Armageddon. A man who was instructing women and children about how to commit suicide," Mr. Clinton said during a speech to law enforcement officials.

"There is no moral equivalency between the disgusting acts which took place inside that compound in Waco and the efforts that law enforcement officers made to enforce the law and protect the lives of Innocent people. There is no real equivalency. That is the point that has to be ham-See WACO, 10A ByAnnLoLordo Sun Staff Writer WASHINGTON Federal agents legally acquired military assistance for their 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, a panel of Army officials told a congressional hearing investigating the botched assault. And yesterday, President Clinton continued to support the law enforcement community and tried to keep the focus on Davidian leader David Koresh. In the second day of hearings, Republicans turned to the use of the military by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

But they were rebuffed in their attempt to show that ATF misled the military in order to receive the training, helicopter assistance and medical support provided for the execution of the raid. The bureau needed to show alleged drug activity at the Davidian compound to receive some of the military aid, specifically help from a spe-ciaj forces unit. authorities debate at the start of the meeting from his vantage point as president of the panel. "Are we going to treat all Callfor-nlans equally and fairly? Or are we going to continue to divide Califor-nians by race?" he asked. But the Rev.

Jesse L. Jackson, himself a potential presidential candidate, urged regents not to drop race-based admissions. The consequence of going backward is the loss of hope, the furthering of despair, the hardening of cynicism we can ill afford," Mr. Jackson said in a 45-minute address. As Mr.

Jackson left, he made a point of pushing to Mr. Wilson's seat and shaking his hand. Mr. Wilson rose and the two spoke for a mo-; ment, the taciturn governor smiling faintly. Seventy people addressed the regents, who began discussing the issue late in the afternoon.

have since acknowledged that no evidence of drug activity was found there. Two House subcommittees are conducting eight days of hearings into the Feb. 28, 1993, raid, the resulting 51 -day standoff and the event's fiery end. Four ATF agents were killed In the initial raid. Mr.

Koresh and 80 of his followers died in the fire that erupted during the FBI's tear gas assault on the compound April 19, 1993. The Waco fiasco has been cited as a source of anti-government sentiment in the country. It became a rallying cry for citizen militias and other extremist groups. The Republican-led Congress wants answers to lingering questions about the government's action The hearings also have been Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Leaders of the University of California voted yesterday to halt affirmative action hiring policies, but political wrangling continued over another proposal to end race-based admissions. The 15-10 vote on the hiring practices came after 1 1 hours of debate with 500 people demonstrating outside.

Six people were arrested on civil disobedience charges as the Board of Regents considered whether to drop race as a factor in admitting students to the nine-campus state university system. Republican Gov. Pete Wilson, who has made repealing affirmative action a key plank of his presidential campaign, Wed to set the terms for Weather Chance of storms. High 90, low 72. Yesterday's airport high, 93; low, 68 22B 83A 0 Portions of The Sun are printed mfr newspaper also Is recyclable.

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