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Spirit eliminated Kenny Cooper steps down as coach after loss to Harrisburg Sports, 1C Mills lifts Orioles Reliever strikes out three in sixth to help defeat Rangers, 7-5 Sports, 1C Back where he belongs Waters hails the 'R' on his film, but will audiences get the joke? Arts Entertainment, 1H THEJsSUN. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND $1.50 SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 1994 Americans flee chaos in Rwanda The bloody history of a single handgun Glock 22 traced to 4 Baltimore shootings No. YD546US. with a 16-round capacity. Gray, plain, mostly plastic, It has a lightweight feel that belles its $600 price tag and a brand-new look that denies its bloody history.

That history Includes the shooting of Lisa Ragln In a wild exchange of gunfire on Federal Street in May 1992. And the shooting of Terry Johnson and shattering of neighbors' windows In a dispute over a girlfriend on Valley Street In July. RiA One tn an occasioned sertes By Scott Shane Sun Staff Writer Jeaneen Marine always carries with her a memento of her first encounter with a handgun. It Is a slug embedded a hair's breadth from her spine. Doctors say It would be too risky to remove It, though she never forgets for a minute that It Is there.

"Constant pain," says Ms. Marine, 18. "Like an ache, In my back and my leg." It has been there since one night In August 1992 when she was standing four doors up from her THE mm EiM PVV Ss "rft fcf home on McCabe Ave- ILm nue in North Baltimore, chatting with a neighbor. Shooting started a half-block away at the corner of Alhambra Avenue. Ms.

Marine started to run for home. She glanced back and saw the dark blue car with a gun sticking out the window, firing. "I thought, 'Oh, my God, they're going to kill me," she recalls. She got as far as the next-door neighbor's yard before a bullet slammed Into her back. The gunman got away but police have the gun In custody.

It sits In an envelope filled with hollow-point rounds In the evidence room at Baltimore police headquarters. It is a Glock semiautomatic pistol, Model 22, Serial 1 A Rwandan carries a Swiss baby at the Burundi border as foreigners Africa slipping as U.S. priority And the shooting of Tujuan Ford In a drug-related argument on Eager Street tn September 1992. As is the case In most nonfatal shootings In Baltimore, no one has been pun- niu-Ji lshed. But police ballistics experts have tied each of the four shootings to the same Glock handgun.

The dock's story, as pieced together from police reports, court records and Interviews, shows the anguish and random destruction that a single pistol can produce in a few months as It moves through the criminal underground, sold, lent or "rented" by one thug to another. It Illustrates the growing firepower of the street arsenal, and the resulting stray bullets that cut down innocent people who dare See GUN, 22A Glock began making semiauto-matics for the Austrian army. 22A The Rev. Benjamin F. Chavls Jr.

tlonallsts Into Increased levels of membership and active participation within the NAACP at national and local levels." See NAACP, 21 A Wry i 1 A V' Av Chavis' secret meeting angers NAACP officials Several nations send in troops to aid evacuation By Gilbert A. Lewthwaite and Mark Matthews Washington Bureau of The Sun WASHINGTON Three convoys of Americans fleeing the civil war In Rwanda reached the safety of neighboring Burundi last night and early today as the combat escalated to the fiercest level yet In four days of anarchy. The evacuation came as the United States, France and Belgium deployed troops and military aircraft to central Africa and began a Joint effort to rescue nearly 3,000 foreign nationals from the latest episode of a decades-old struggle between two tribes. Four hundred French paratroopers arrived at the airport outside the Rwandan capital, Kigali, while the United States sent 360 Marines and seven aircraft into Burundi and moved them toward the border. Belgium dispatched 800 troops, and the United Nations said it was considering sending 1,500 reinforcements for Its peacekeeping force In Rwanda.

The presence of the International contingents had no Impact on the escalating bloodshed In the Vermont-size, mountainous nation. The Tutsi rebels, known as the Rwandan Patriotic Front, claimed to have moved a large force within 10 miles of Kigali, where Hutu-supported government forces hunkered down. "Friday we were talking about thousands of dead," Herve Le Gull-louzlc, medical coordinator of the International Committee of the Red Cross, told the Reuters news agency. "Today we can start with tens of thousands." He said the corpses were everywhere "in the houses, in the streets, everywhere." Mark Billot, of the Belgian branch of the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, told Belgian BRTN radio that 8,000 people have been killed in Kigali alone. The British Broadcasting Corp.

reported that tens of thousands had died throughout Rwanda and said that trucks filled with bodies were arriving at Kigali's overflowing morgue. There were no reports that See RWANDA 19 A rivet Israelis mission were arrested Thursday and will be required to testify under subpoena today. On Friday, officials released the testimony of the wife of Baruch Goldstein, the man who opened fire in the Cave of the Patriarchs. Mrs. Goldstein, who was permitted to testify In private, said of her husband's actions, "I still don't understand." She also asked the commission to reopen the question of whether other See HEBRON, 6A Tcam-by-team statistics for the American and National leagues.

Wednesday: Bird Watch. Behind- the-scenes look at the Orioles and an update on their minor-league prospects. Thursday: Fans' View. An outslde-the-lines look at what goes on at Camden Yards, plus Ask Mr. Baseball and Where Are They Now.

Friday: Weekend Warm-up: Notes, quotes and anecdotes from around the majors, a look ahead to the weekend's TV games, and we rank the teams 1-28. Rwandajlight part of familiar pattern By Mark Matthews Washington Bureau of The Sun WASHINGTON The tense evacuation of Americans from Rwanda's escalating bloodshed yesterday marks the latest U.S. retreat from a continent that top Clinton administration officials once touted as holding untapped promise. When it entered office, the administration pledged to devote far more attention than its predeces- Unprecedented open Hebron hearings Board wasn't told oj activist gathering By James Bock Sun Staff Writer A private meeting between the NAACP's chief executive and a group of black nationalists has angered members of the civil rights group's board, which wasn't told of the event. Among 50 leftists invited by the Rev.

Benjamin F. Chavls Jr. half of whom came to the meeting Friday In Detroit were political radicals Angela Davis and Kwame Toure (formerly Stokely Carmlchael), rapper Sister Souljah and former presidential candidate Lenora Fulanl. Of the four, only Ms. Fulanl attended.

A March 18 letter of Invitation headed "Confidential: Not for Publication or Reproduction" described as one goal of the meeting "access of Pan-Africans, Progressives and Na- MCNCE RWNCWWSSE flee Rwandan fighting. The withdrawal from Somalia and abandonment of a United Nations "nation-building" scheme there was the most dramatic retreat. But the administration has also been forced to scale back its diplomatic presence in recent months, at least temporarily, In Sudan, Burundi and the Congo. Earlier, the United States had to cut personnel in Angola and Liberia. Yesterday's evacuation of Americans from Kigali, Rwanda's capital, to Burundi, followed a now-familiar pattern of "ordered departures" of U.S.

embassy per-. sonnel and their dependents from See ANALYSIS, 18 A everyone to see' mosque has been a riveting change, "This commission is putting a mirror in the face of the Israeli public and forcing people to look at things they didn't want to see," said one high government official. Mr. Rabin was the 99th witness to testify before the commission about the massacre Feb. 25, and the last to do so voluntarily.

Three Muslim guards who boycotted the com Baseball goes into Extra Innings in The Sun this season. Starting today, readers will see more features, more statistics and a more complete picture of major-league baseball. Here's the new lineup: Today: The lighter side of baseball. Features include: Kids' Comer, Mike Rlclgllano cartoon and Statsmanla, plus the best and worst of the week and It's Your Call. Tomorrow: National pastime.

A look at baseball's hottest personalities and trends, plus the week In review. Tuesday: Numbers Game. NEWS ANALYSIS sors to a region where South African apartheid was finally ending and a number of nations were struggling to establish democratic institutions and free-market economies. But as they confronted serious foreign policy distractions elsewhere, officials edged away from Africa in the face of its enormous problems with backward economies, corruption and constant conflict tribal, religious and ethnic stretching from the radical Islamists of Algeria and Sudan to the Zulu warriors of South Africa. 'It's all out there first phase of the commission's work, which has been both educational and alarming to Israelis for Its open, televised proceedings.

Israelis are accustomed to having military embarrassments hidden under a cloak of secrecy for "security reasons." But the commission appointed to investigate the mass murder of Muslim worshipers at the Hebron So do the police. They have few clues, no suspects and no motive in the apparent execution-style murder. But overshadowing all Is the story of Mr. Cox, a 27-year-old ex-Marine who saw part of his life spread across a movie screen and who wanted to retrieve his good name. David Cox and Jay Steeves were best friends, growing up together In Needham, a town of neat homes, manicured lawns and lush parks.

When they graduated from high school in 1985, they made a pact, enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps under the "buddy system" that guaranteed they could go through basic See MARINE 20A Ex-Marine who felt 4A Few Good Men' maligned him is mysteriously murdered By Doug Struck Jerusalem Bureau of The Sun JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin slipped In through a side door of the Supreme Court building last Wednesday, eluding reporters and photographers waiting in front He spent 4Vi hours testifying in secret session before the Inquiry commission into the Hebron massacre. He then left the same way. It was an Incongruous end to the lawsuit against the makers of "A Few Good Men," he mysteriously disappeared Jan. 5.

For nearly three months, police searched for him as his family prayed for him, even consulting with psychics in futile attempts to contact him. And then, April 2, a canoeist on the Charles River spotted a single white sneaker that led to a discovery In a wooded area, Under branches ripped from nearby trees lay the body of Mr. Cox. There were three bullet wounds In the torso and one wound behind the neck. "It doesn't make any sense," said Elaine Tlnsley, Mr.

Cox's girlfriend. "1 wnt to find out what happened." Arts 1H Food 1J Books 6E Games 7E Bridge 7E Horoscope 3K Business ID Lottery 14B Calendar 4H Movies 8H Classified 10 TV TV BOOK Crossword 7E Real Estate 1L Deaths 12-138 Sports 1C Editorials 2E Travel 1M By Bill Glauber Sun Staff Writer NEEDHAM. Mass. They are apparently unrelated flashes of violence, framing the final eight years of David Cox's life, from the front lines of the Cold War in Cuba to a muddy river bank in suburban Boston. The most traumatic Incident of his military tour In Cuba would inspire a movie that left him indignant, his and his comrades' service careers altered to quench Hollywood's desire for drama.

But Just when Mr. Cox's life appeared to be coming together, when he was on the verge of securing his first steady and lucrative civilian Job, when he had finally decided to Join a Weather Showers likely. High, 68; low, 48. Yesterday's high, 66; low, 43. 14B Portions of The Sun are printed each day on recycled paper.

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