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A Shoot-Out in Washington
A man armed with an assault weapon walked into Washington's lightly secured police headquarters, went to the third floor and shot up an office, killing a city detective and two FBI agents. The gunman, Bennie Lee Lawson, also died in the melee, but police were unable to say whether he killed himself or was shot by law officers.
Ito: No Conflict
L.A. police captain Margaret York, who happens to be married to Lance Ito, the judge presiding over the O.J. Simpson murder trial, said she does not remember any disagreements with detective Mark Fuhrman. Simpson defense lawyers are hoping to portray Fuhrman, who discovered important evidence against Simpson, as a racist and a woman hater; the attorneys were also hoping to catch Judge Ito in a conflict of interest because of his wife.
Dr. Jack is Back
. After more than a year out of the spotlight, Dr. Jack Kervorkian attended the suicide on Saturday of Margaret Garrish, 72, in a Detroit suburb. Garrish was suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis, among other ailments. It was unclear whether a Michigan law banning assisted suicide expired the day before her death. Authorities ruled the case a homicide.
WORLD
Serbs Press Bihac Advance
Shrugging off three separate nato air strikes -- including the largest air raid in Europe since World War II -- Bosnian Serbs continued their advance on the Bihac area of northwestern Bosnia. The besieged region, home to 180,000 people, was designated a United Nations "safe area" last year, and is strategically critical. Its capture would enable Serbs to link the territory to a Serb-controlled area of Croatia and the Yugoslav border, forming a part of what they envision as a "Greater Serbia." NATO and its member governments continued to debate an appropriate response, even as Serb forces swept forward, ready to seize Bihac. Meanwhile, four U.S. Navy ships, with some 4,000 Marines and sailors aboard, began heading for the Adriatic Sea.
Clinton Offers Golan Troops
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in Washington on a two-day visit, got some good news from President Clinton, who said he would seek to include U.S. troops in any peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights. The chairman- presumptive of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Republican Jesse Helms, had earlier raised questions about the wisdom of such a U.S. mission and called the Israeli-Syrian peace negotiations a "fraud."
Palestinians Clash in Lebanon
Raising fears of a Palestinian civil war, fighters from the P.L.O. battled Muslim fundamentalists in Lebanon's largest refugee camp. At least 10 people were killed and 25 more were wounded in the daylong clash. Loyalists of P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat captured much of the camp Friday morning. But after a midday cease-fire for Sabbath prayers, the fundamentalists emerged from mosques fingering the triggers of AK-47s and shouldering rocket-propelled grenade launchers; they soon recaptured all their lost territory.
A Deadly Secret "Sapphire"