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WEATHER hangout Late storms Low 54 The Idaho Statesman ESTABLISHED IN 1864 CAPITAL NEWSPAPER WEDNESDAY As the Boys and Girls Club of Nampa takes shape enthusiasm abounds Life IE August 11 1999 50 CENTS BSU kicks player I off football team disciplines four Sports 1C 1 INSIDE TODAY LOCAL TOPICS School board rejects claim The Nampa School Board at a meeting Tuesday night re jected a $1 million claim filed by the parents of a Snake River Elementary student accused of harassing class mates Page IB GROWTH: Nampa Planning and Zoning Commissioners refused to allow a subdivi sion that would have placed 60 homes on one acre lots amid farmland Page IB THINGS TO DO: oreigner and Journey sets record at Idaho Center Outdoor Am phitheater Page IB Wk JJwffli BUSINESS: Swiss Village Cheese Co will get a $25 million boost to upgrade production a move com pany officials say they hope will help open more interna tional trading opportunities particularly in China Page ID COMMUNITY EVENTS: Thurs third annual Commu nity un Night is an opportu nity for Nampans to play for free Page 2B BASEBALL: Hawks top the Spokane Indians to win the senes Page 1C COMING TOMORROW BEST BACKPACKING: August Ls a prime month for back packing in the Sawtooth Mountains because the snow is gone streams are lower and easier to cross and more trails have been maintained In Rec Index Comics: 5E Crossword 3E Datebook 4B Deaths 5B Editorials 6 7B Horoscope 3E Movies 4E Stocks 4 5D Television 4E Weather 8B Youth sports 2C 6 sections 54 pages 136th year 17th Issue 1999 The Idaho Statesman A Gannett Newspaper The Idaho Statesman uses recycled paper 090r0090r 6 LOS ANGELES SHOOTING Lone gunman wounds five i Peace turns to terror Page HA Other recent shootings Page 11A BMB osin3s i 7'i 4Ljb a ffli IWj ff ftew IMP IS ssge as 1 9k 'L 't Ww? o3Wr' bWfcA 1 Photos by The Associated Press Above: Children from the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills Calif are escorted to safer ground by Los Angeles Police Department officers uesday after a gunman wounded five people at the center Top: A Los Angeles po lice officer and an unidentified woman assist children outside the center A manhunt is under way 3 boys girl and adult shot at Jewish center By Jeff Wong The Associated Press LOS ANGELES A man with a high powered 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 failed to find the suspect a balding white man about 40 years old in a street by street search near the center but late in the day officers found a green Toyota Corolla taken in a nearby carjacking that was under investigation for a possible connection to the shooting Several SWAT teams converged on a hotel where authorities found the car At 9 pm after evacuating the hotel SWAT teams went in The motive for the attack was not known pos sibility including if a hate crime look into Officer Guillermo Cam possaid A 5 year old boy was shot in the stomach and leg and underwent surgery He was in critical but stable condi tion Two 6 year old boys a 16 year old girl and a 68 ear old woman were in sta ble condition officials said A teacher who spoke on condition of anonymity said the injured woman burst in to her room with a wounded arm The teacher said she gathered her students and evacuated the building The violence was the lat est in a series of shootings at workplaces and schools and as the search for the gunman continued Presi dent Clinton and others spoke out again our nation has been shaken and our hearts tom by gun vio Clinton said in Washington 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 Gov Gray Davis said he was forming a task force of state agencies to advise churches child care centers and other operations to up grade their security sys See Shooting 11A Gunman wounds five at Jewish community center Granada Hllte Rinaldi StX Santa Monica Bay Mn KtAcKn fl California Angetoa i KRT Idaho delegates pressure EPA to call air clean Lawsuit challenges assertion By Craig Quintana The Idaho Statesman congressional mem bers fear federal officials will reverse course and brand the Treasure Valley a bad air area costing it $100 million in road funding If the Environmental Protec tion Agency backs down from its March decision on the air quality Ada County could lose $25 million for the second phase of the lying Wye reconstruction and see funding for the ParkCenter bridges and the widening of Chinden Boulevard ive Mile Road Maple Grove Road and ederal Way tossed into doubt In a joint letter Sens Lany Craig and Mike Crapo and Reps Helen Chenoweth and Mike Simpson urged EPA Ad ministrator Carol Browner to vigorously fight a lawsuit call ing on the agency to reverse its March decision The four are demanding a briefing from the EPA before any action is taken on chang ing the air quality sta lyingWye The second phase of work on the lying Wye is set to begin In 2001 and is supposed to be done by 2003 wwt iKf jb TtAmJC' I 4 A if tus In March Browner took Ada County off the list of areas that violate clean air rules for particulate pollution such as soot and dust The particles up to 10 microns in width smaller than the width of a hu man hair are a by product of See Air and roads HA Bank to lend $3 billion for mortgage program By Leslie Miller The Associated Press BOSTON Bank of Amer ica announced Tuesday it will fund an unprecedented $3 bil lion mortgage program for low to moderate income bor rowers that promises no down payment no application fee and no closing costs The national program will be overseen by Boston based Neighborhood Assistance Corp of America led by self described Bruce Marks who has a track record of getting loan commit ments from banks after fla grantly accusing them of dis criminatory lending practices cynical as I am that all bankers are evil this is the ex ception to the Marks said The friendly agreement which the 44 year old Marks estimates will affect 100000 borrowers nationally is a wa ter shed for the community ac tivist Both Marks and Bank of America say the bank volun tarily decided to make the mortgage commitment be cause good business not said Robert Johnston senior vice president for Bank of Ameri community development bank a lot of cash trans actions in the inner he said see a real value in lending in the inner In 1995 before NationsBank was acquired by Bank of America it decided to lend $500 million in mortgages through Neighborhood Assis tance Corp over five years Neighborhood Assistance which now has 20 offices na tionwide originated the loans with low income first time homeowners who often were distrustful of banks The or ganization helped navigate the borrower through the confus ing mortgage process and most important offered post ownership assistance while NationsBank made money Johnston said Report suggests fewer guns taken to schools Staff and wire reports Despite a handful of high profile shootings at American schools in recent years there has been a dramatic decline in the number of students ex pelled from school for carry ing firearms according to an Education Department report released Tuesday Boise and Meridian school districts are a case in point No student was expelled during the past school year for taking guns to school according to district officials The previous year three Boise students were expelled spokesman Dan Hollar said The drop probably is attributa ble to the work com municating its zero tolerance policy he said Students are expelled for at least a year for such violations have no place in the Hollar said continue to be vigilant in that effort to make sure that schools are as safe as they can The US Department of Ed ucation said that during the 1997 98 academic year 3930 students nationwide were ex pelled for carrying firearms in school a 31 percent drop from the 5724 who were expelled for that reason the previous school year Education Secretary Richard Riley and law en forcement officials hailed the school expulsion findings and said they showed that schools are becoming safer despite such incidents as the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton Colo earlier this See GunsHA India downs Pakistani plane killing 16 board according to Pakistani officials' Pakistani leaders denounced By Dexter ilkins Los Angeles Times Each country claimed late Tuesday that the wreckage of the plane a rench built At lantic I maritime patrol aircraft had crashed on its side of the bonier The border whose location is agreed upon by both countries cuts through a sparsely popu lated region of desert and marsh According to Indian officials Indian radar operators picked up the Pakistani plane on their screens after it had veered six miles into Indian airspace It was shot down when it failed to land at a nearby Indian base Tia Aeev'iata4 DrAe in wasnineton the Clinton Wreckage of a Pakistani naval Atlantic 1 reconnaissance plane administration urged both lanrenlanp that had cmssfdthp rawsiari iriuia uuruer on luesoay me LandbliViSrfJhe any wiicu icuicu lu idiiu iiiuy said the wreckage lay in the western Indian marshland ful Indian Defense known as the Rann of Kutch Minister George ernandes said i ne plane wmcn was snot down had not come with peace the action as mur ISLAMABAD Pakistan Tensions reignited between the newest nuclear powers uesday after India shot down a Pakistani military plane near the two border reigniting the violence that last month nearly drove the nations to all out war Pakistan said the shooting killed all 16 members of the crew The two countries disput ed where the plane was shot down and on whose territory its wreckage landed Indian leaders said one of lueir ivuu zi iigniere intercept Alic uunimtx ui UK Dldlie Tuesday followed 11 weeks of heavy fighting between the two over the disnuted Himalavan saying the Pakistani plane gion of Kashmir was on a training mission when Indian jets crossed into Pakistan The Associated Press con toattack tributed to this article i ir rA.