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Saluda's Hite big fisherman on lake Sports Taming snack attacks Food The State 108th Year, No. 223 South Carolina's Largest Newspaper COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1999 The Switchboard (803) 771-6161 STATE EDITION LOU LETS LOOSE ERIK STATE USC coach Lou Holtz didn't take it easy on the Gamecocks Tuesday. Holtz quickly corrected mistakes as the team began two-a-day practices in preparation for their first game, at N.C. State on September 4. See story on page C1.

Holtz will soon be featured on a limited edition stamp. For details see page B1. Anti-nuclear ear group criticizes Duke Power reactors' safety By ANDREW MEADOWS Staff Writer The two nuclear reactors in South Carolina that Duke Power wants to fuel with weapons-grade plutonium broke federal regulations 24 times in the past three years, according to a report released Tuesday by an wellknown anti-nuclear group. Washington, D.C.-based Public Citizen reported the five other nuclear reactors in South Carolina broke regulations 42 times since early 1996. Each of the two Duke-owned Catawba reactors in York County ranked in the top 11 nationwide in violations, according to Public Citizen.

More than 90 percent of the country's reactors have been in violation over the past three years. Catawba 1 violated operational regulations 10 times, while Cataw- WLTX plans 5 a.m. raid in news war By DOUG NYE Staff Writer The local news wars between Columbia television broadcasters will escalate in the pre-dawn hours beginning Nov. 1. That's when WLTX-TV will premiere a two-hour program at 5 a.m.

"We're really pumped about this," WLTX general manager Rich O'Dell said. "We'll deliver the news and information people demand that will make it Columbia's favorite morning show." Since purchasing WLTX last year, Gannett Broadcasting has gradually made its presence known in the Columbia market by increasing the station's weather coverage and hiring meteorologist Jim Gandy away from WIS as a SEE WLTX PAGE A6 Index 4 SECTIONS, 44 PAGES ABBY D7 BUSINESS B6 CLASSIFIED C9 COMICS D6 CROSSWORD D6 FOOD D1 METRO B1 Copyright 1999 The State 6 07770 0000 00001 0 Five shot at Jewish center in L.A. area LOS ANGELES A man with a highpowered gun burst into a Jewish community center Tuesday and sprayed the lobby with 20 to 30 shots, wounding five people, including three boys attending day camp, and then walked out. Police with dogs searched street by street in the surrounding suburban neighborhood for the suspect, described as a bald, white man around 40 years old. The motive was not known.

"Every possibility, including if it's a hate crime, we'll look into it," said officer Guillermo Campos. STATE The most seriously injured was a 5-year-old boy who was shot in See the stomach and leg and underwent surgery. He was in critical but stable condition. Two 6-yearold boys, a 16-year-old girl and a 68-year-old woman who worked at the center were in stable condition, officials said. The violence was the latest in a series of shootings at workplaces and schools, and as the search for the gunman continued, President Clinton and others spoke out.

"Once again, our nation has been shaken and our hearts torn by gun violence," Clinton said in Washington. "It calls on all of us not only to give our thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families, but intensify our resolve to make America a safer place." About two dozen children were in the center when the gunman burst into the North Valley Jewish Community Center and began spraying the lobby with bullets about 10:50 a.m., said Capt. Steve of the Los Angeles Fire Department. The gunman fired up to 30 shots before walking down a hallway and out of the building, Ruda said. STATE Ruda said he believed the shooter used a 9mm Uzi.

Police Chief Bernard Parks, however, the would only identify the gun as a infor- high-powered weapon with a large magazine. By JEFF WONG The Associated Press SEE SHOOTING PAGE A10 students expelled guns at school school dropped 31 percent in the 1997-98 school year compared to the year before, according to the report, which is based on discipliseems nary data gathered from the school states. "This is very good news," said the Julie Underwood, general counsel for the National School Boards Association. "Sometimes it's hard to SEE EXPULSIONS PAGE A5 Hill students Researchers armed with Breathalyzers tested students out late at night at the University of North stereo- Carolina at Chapel Hill and found 72 percent of 1,790 students surstudy veyed had no alcohol in their blood. On the most popular nights to as party Thursday, Friday and Saturday about two-thirds, or 66 SHATNER'S WIFE DIES Nerine Shatner, wife of "Star Trek" star William Shatner, drowned Monday at their home.

See page A2 "FAT DIES Jennifer Paterson, co-host of the cult favorite cooking show "Two Fat Ladies" dies of at age 71 of a cancer. See B1 page A7 Classified 719-9999 Web THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Children from the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, are led to safer ground by Los Angeles police. 'We can't be paranoid': In S.C., shots also echo S.C.'s reactor record In the past three years, the state's seven nuclear Catawba reactors have violated federal regulations 66 times, (Duke) including 24 at the Catawba 85 24 violations reactors, which are slated to burn plutonium for fuel within the next seven years 26 95 KEY Oconee (Duke) Columbia 33 violations 20 Reactors 26 Nuclear station (Electric company) H.B.Robinson V.C. Summer SOURCE: Public Citizen (SCANA) 4 violations 5 violations ba 2 violated regulations 14 times, Public Citizen said. Tom Shiel, a spokesman for Charlotte-based Duke Power, said he hadn't seen the entire Public Citizen report so he couldn't com- News at 5, 6, 7, 11 The Columbia television news market continues to grow: 1994 June WIS premieres city's first Saturday-morning newscast.

Sept. WLTX adds Sunday 6 p.m. newscast. 1995 April WLTX adds Sunday 11 p.m. newscast.

Sept. WIS adds weekday 5 p.m. 1996 March WACH launches city's first weekday 10 p.m. newscast. March WLTX expands five-minute 11 p.m.

newscast to 35 minutes. Sept. WLTX adds weekday 7 a.m. newscast. 1997 Sept.

WLTX adds noon newscast. 1998 January WACH adds 10 p.m. weekend newscasts. March WOLO adds 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.

weekend newscasts. 1999 April WOLO adds weekday 6 a.m. Nov. WLTX to add weekday 5 a.m. The Weather The heat goes on.

Hot again today with sunny to partly cloudy skies. High 96, low 72. Thursday: Mostly sunny, even hotter. High 98, low 72. See page A2 Ariail On keeping score in Russia.

See page A8 A Newsroom 771-8415 Home When word of a shooting at a Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles spread to Columbia, some local Jewish residents thought first of their children. Soon after a man opened fire at the L.A. center, calls began coming into the center in Columbia from parents concerned about their children's safety. "There is always concern; we have to take every precaution to protect ourselves," said David Waldman, the center's acting director. Waldman has asked the Columbia Police Department to increase patrols for the rest of the week and to place a patrolman in the area.

"I would not consider pulling By KIMATHI LEWIS Staff Writer Bringing guns to school The number of U.S. public school bringing firearms to school has Total expulsions By school level All grades: For 1997-98: 1996-97 Elementary 5,724 1997-98 High 3,930 school NOTE: Figures include data from the 50 states, the District of Columbia and several territories; quality of data varies widely state to state SOURCE: Education Deptment my children out (of the center)," said parent David Reisman at Columbia Jewish Community Center on Trenholm Road, looking for his 10-year-old daughter. "The worst thing to do is run away. Jews have been dealing with this kind of thing for years and we've never run away." The center has about 30 percent non-Jewish members and is open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Pam Krolewicz-Milas is afraid someone will hear of the shooting at the Los Angeles Jewish center and try to do it here. But she knows she can't protect her 9-yearold daughter from everything. "If I tried to protect my daughter from all the crazies in the world, I would have to keep her locked up, never to go anywhere or do anything," Krolewicz-Milas said. THE ment specifically on it. However, he said "consider source" when evaluating the mation.

SEE NUCLEAR PAGE A10 Fewer for having By LISA RAMIREZ Washington Bureau WASHINGTON As Americans struggle to understand what to have been a plague of shootings, a new Education Department report suggests problem may not be as widespread as the headlines suggest. The number of students expelled for bringing firearms Many Chapel By GARY D. ROBERTSON The Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Despite types of widespread on-campus drinking, a university released Tuesday shows students apparently don't drink as much some might think. Inside Today BOATER'S TRIAL BEGINS Jill Johnson Forrest faces charges reckless homicide for her role in Lake Murray boat crash.

See page Delivery 771-8380 students expelled for dropped. Highlights of the report: By firearm type For Rifle, Handgun shotgun Bomb, grenade, starter Junior high pistol, etc. Figures don't total due to rounding KNIGHT RIDDER TRIBUNE don't drink, study says percent, scored a zero. And only one in 10 tested had a blood-alcohol content that was at or above .10 percent. The legal limit in North Carolina and many states is .08 percent.

"There is far less drinking on this campus than is generally believed. And there is far less Deaths John Amaker, Goose Creek George Ashley, Lancaster Allene Bland, Myrtle Beach James Bostic, Gray's Hill Joseph Byers, Columbia Cary Cook, Dillon Forrest Cromer, Summerville Oscar Dawson, Columbia Glenn Floyd, Harleyville Leroy Fulwood, Salters Jessie Guilard, Blythewood Vivien Holsonback, Newberry Leslie Johnson, Charlotte Frank Keisler Gilbert Connie Kennerly, Cordova excessive drinking," said Rob Foss of the UNC Highway Safety Research Center, a co-director of the testing project. The findings coincided with the launch of a new alcohol awareness campaign as school begins next SEE CHAPEL HILL PAGE A6 MOVIES D5 NATION A3 OPINION A8 PEOPLE A2 SPORTS C1 TELEVISION D4 WORLD A4 Marvell Knight, Columbia Phoebe Lulloff, Lancaster Robert McCollough, Edgemoor Marie Pennington, Lexington Anthony Phillips Greenwood Judy Rayfield, West Columbia Alva Seyphers, Lexington Eva Singleton, Conway Ronnie Sowell, Jefferson Shirley Teseneer, Greenwood Andrew Wiles, Cameron Lucile Williams, Orangeburg DETAILS, B4 Address www.thestate.com INFORMATION FOR LIFE.