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B2 City Region The Boston Globe WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2002 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiii graying Muslims lead to evacuation New England in brief WEYMOUTH Fire at apartment complex displaces 45 A fire in Weymouth displaced at least 45 people yesterday after burning a first-floor storage room at the Queen Anne's Gate Apartments complex, said fire officials and the American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay. Deputy Fire Chief Gene Smith said firefighters were able to contain the 3:25 p.m. fire to the storage unit No injuries were reported, he said. The Maghrib prayer also requires action, which might make it stand out in a public area, Eid said. Generally, a believer called an imam leads the prayer and stands in front of the other believers, all of whom face east toward Mecca.

The imam begins the prayer with a loud recitation or chant in Arabic from the Koran, the Islamic book of scriptures, Eid said. While Muslims need to pray five times a day, Eid said he counsels believers to choose a private place for prayer and to explain their customs to others. The FBI office in Boston helps coordinate the area anti-terrorism task force and has fielded calls from local police departments before, said spokeswoman Gail Mar-cinkiewiez. FBI agents checked a license plate for Stoughton police, she said. MASSACHUSETTS Wohlgemuth said that while Stoughton police have handled several bomb threats since Sept.

1 1, they have not received training on Muslim customs. "We just go up there and handle it as legitimate suspicious people. We don't know what's going on," he said. Some area Muslims said last night the incident highlights what, they call an unfortunate misunderstanding and ignorance about the Muslim faith. The incident was probably a misunderstanding over the Maghrib, a Muslim evening prayer, said Imam Talal Eid, director of the Islamic Center of New England.

"I'm sure the men did it for a good intention," Eid said. The incident began when four men entered BJ's on Technology Center Drive around 7:45 p.m., said Wohlgemuth. The men walked into a bathroom, came out, took their shoes off, and began praying in the store, he said. The store manager, who was not identified by police, became alarmed, Wohlgemuth said, and called police. The men left without speaking to the manager, police said.

Shortly afterward, someone pulled a fire alarm and evacuated the building, employees said. Stoughton police sealed the building while a State Police bomb squad arrived and used dogs to check for explosives. Eid said the Muslims were most likely shoppers praying the fourth prayer of the day, which is said around sunset The timing of the fourth prayer, called the Maghrib, is critical because it must be said before the final prayer of the night, Eid said. "Most likely they were afraid they'd miss the sunset prayer. Therefore, it is permissible for Muslims to pray whenever they find a little space to stand up and do the prayer, provided they do not interfere with the freedom of other people," he said.

Governor candidates back housing plan Democratic gubernatorial candidates and state legislators yesterday endorsed a plan to help homeless families in Massachusetts. Steve Grossman and Warren Tolman joined state Senator Susan Tucker and Representative Marie St. Fleur in praising the proposal developed by The One Family Campaign, a coalition of shelters, religious institutions, business leaders, and human service providers. by state agencies, welfare reforms that tion and workforce training, construction of new affordable housing units and preservation of existing units, along with an improved social safety net II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 III till 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 BOSTON Police say high-capacity gun found Police arrested two men on drug charges in Dorchester last night and confiscated an illegal, high-capacity handgun, according to a department spokesman. Plainclothes officers saw two men on bicycles selling drugs at the intersection of Blue Hill Avenue and Vesta Road, police said.

An officer frisked one of the men and found an Intratec 9mm with a loaded 23-round clip, police said. Kenneth Harris, 19, of Mattapan was charged with possession of marijuana and illegal arms. Paul Antonio Medina 20, of Mattapan was charged with distribution of crack cocaine and possession of marijuana. HOLL1STON Judge won't block teens' expulsion A federal judge denied a preliminary injunction yesterday that would have allowed two expelled Holliston High seniors to finish the school year, saying that overturning the district's decision would have a chilling effect on administrators' authority far beyond the small community. William Lichter, 18, and Michael Quinn, 17, are still facing felony assault charges for allegedly attacking athletic director.

The teenagers argued in US District Court in Boston that school officials exceeded their statutory authority by expelling them over a disturbance at a February basketball game. US District Judge Richard Stearns said the school officials had the right to oust the students and granting the injunction would undermine administrators' efforts to "aggressively and expeditiously" pursue disciplinary action. ED HAM Inmate's death under investigation Authorities are investigating the death of a Weymouth man who died in his cell at the Norfolk County Correctional Center. Anthony Marchetti, 34, who had served most of a 2V-year drug sentence, was found unconscious in his cell at 6:50 a.m. on May 7 and was later pronounced dead at Deaconess Glover Hospital in Needham.

A preliminary examination suggested a cardiac arrest, but authorities are waiting for results of a toxicology test, said David Falcone, a spokesman for Norfolk County Sheriff Michael Bellotti. The investigation, Falcone said, "is standard procedure" when an inmate dies in custody. (AP) PRINCETON, N.J. Harvard professor set for dean's post Harvard professor Anne-Marie Slaughter has been named dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, her alma mater, effective Sept. 1.

An international law scholar, Slaughter is now a professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law at the university. Religious ritual alarms manager By Ray Henry GLOBE CORRESPONDENT STOUGHTON A nervous manager created a stir last night after she saw four Muslim men saying their evening prayers at the BJ's wholesale club and called authorities, fearing that the group was about to launch a terror attack, officials said. The manager called Stoughton police, who called State Police.

A bomb squad was deployed to the store as it was evacuated. The Stoughton Fire Department also sent a squad of firefighters with a fire truck. Until they called the FBI in Boston, local authorities apparently didn't know that Muslims typically pray five times a day, including once around sunset, Stoughton Police Lieutenant Francis Wohlgemuth said. Pushcart vendors decry new city fee By Corey Dade GLOBE STAFF As the latest group to feel the pinch of the city's tightening budget, Haymarket merchants are complaining about being charged a new, steep fee for crews to collect their garbage. After years of not bearing significant costs for the service, each business at the venerable open-air market will have to pay $750 a year for the city to haul away the mounds of boxes, produce, and other clutter discarded every weekend.

In 2004, the amount is to rise to $1,000 per business. In a meeting yesterday of the Haymarket Pushcarts Association, many of the 199 member businesses complained the fee was abruptly announced and unfairly high. Paying for a year's worth of trash pickup is unreasonable, they said, because most of them operate only in the spring and summer. The ultimate losers are likely to be the consumers, who have come to rely on the market's affordable prices often lower than supermarket costs for fresh fruit, vegetables, and fish. The merchants expect to have to raise their prices to offset the added expense.

"Any increases have to be passed to the consumer," said Pushcarts Association president Joseph Matara. "But it's not going to dispel the fact that it's probably still going to be cheapest place in the Boston area to buy reasonable food at reasonable prices." Boston's public works commissioner, Joseph Casazza, told the group yesterday that the fee did not suddenly materialize, as some merchants have suggested. A city ordinance passed in 1992 autho rized the fee to defray the costs of removing the trash. But Matara said, "We weren't even notified that this was going on in 1992. This lay dormant for 10 years, and I guess with this so-called budget crunch, this became an ace up the sleeve for the city to have a bailout" After 1992, there was little need to enact the fee because the state was providing $150,000 a year to defray the cost slightly more than $300,000.

But the state ended its contributions in 1998. Now that the city projects a $50 million shortfall in its budget, it says it can no longer afford to fund the full amount Casazza said he would have implemented the fee in 1992 if the state hadn't helped pick up the cost at the request of the mer chants. Even when the city begins col lecting the full $1,000 from each licensed vendor in 2004, the resulting $199,000 in revenue will cover only half the city's expenses, Casazza said. But Matara said it's already expensive doing business at Hay market. Each pushcart business pay's the city $200 a year for its op erating license and contributes $150 to pay workers to heave the garbage into the city trucks.

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In related news, Swift has told Massport CEO Craig P. Coy that the state will not foot the bill for additional State Police officers to replace 150 Masachusetts National Guard troops who have been stationed at Logan since October and are due to depart Friday. Massport spokesman Jose Juves said the federal Transportation Security Administration has offered to pay for the additional officers, who will staff at least 18 Logan checkpoints at a cost of $22,000 a day. Massport faces an estimated $5 1 million budget shortfall, and a recent downgrade in the authority's bond status will force the agency to pay higher interest rates should it decide to float future bonds. The new budget goes to the board next month.

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