U.S. peacekeeper dies from gunshot wound

U.S. peacekeeper diesfrom gunshot wound
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia -- An American peacekeeper has died of a gunshot wound at a U.S. military base in Kosovo, an official said today.
The body of Pfc. Gary S. Kalinofski, 21, was discovered Monday by fellow soldiers at Camp Magrath, 30 miles east of the province's capital, Pristina.
The cause of Kalinofski's death remained unknown but did not result from any engagement with hostile forces, said Major James Crews, a spokesman for the U.S peacekeepers in Kosovo.
Authorities were investigating the circumstances surrounding his death, Crews added.
Kalinofski had served in Kosovo since November. He had been assigned to A Company, Task Force 1-32nd Infantry Regiment in Fort Drum, N.Y.
He is survived by his parents, who live in Fayetteville, N.C.
Some 5,000 U.S. soldiers serve as part of the peacekeeping force in Kosovo. In 1999, NATO and the United Nations took control of the southern Yugoslav province after an air campaign that ended former leader's Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown against the ethnic Albanian majority.
Spacewalkers attachsecond wing to Hubble
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A fresh pair of spacewalkers floated outside today and attached a second powerful 25-foot solar wing to the Hubble Space Telescope. It was the second of five excursions planned this week by space shuttle Columbia's telescope-repair team.
"Beautiful day for a spacewalk," astronaut James Newman observed as he went out. "Incredible," said Michael Massimino, a first-time spacewalker. The men quickly stepped through their chores 360 miles up, removing and stowing the old solar wing and unpacking and lifting the new one into position. It mimicked Monday's work by two other astronauts, who installed the first new solar wing on Hubble.
Massimino tightly gripped the new 640-pound wing and held it steady as he rode the shuttle robot arm to the attach point on the telescope. "Lean back a little bit," Newman told him. "Take a deep breath and relax. You did a great job."
Officials begin draininglake near crematory
LaFAYETTE, Ga. -- A tiny lake where a skull and a torso were discovered last month is the newest focus in the search for corpses at a crematory whose operator allegedly discarded hundreds of bodies. Authorities began draining the three-acre lake Monday, with pipes drawing enough water out to drop its level by 6 inches. Officials estimate the lake outside Tri-State Crematory is 8 feet deep at its deepest point.
Authorities said they will probably spend more than a week dredging the dry lake bed for human remains. So far, 339 rotting corpses have been discovered dumped in pits, left in sheds and stacked in vaults at the facility.
Crematory operator Ray Brent Marsh is in jail on 118 charges of theft by deception for allegedly taking payment to cremate the dead and instead passing off cement powder and dirt as ashes.
Yates murder trial
HOUSTON -- A psychiatrist who wrote that Andrea Yates had no symptoms of psychosis two days before she drowned her five children in a bathtub came under fire from a defense lawyer who suggested the notes could have been added later.
The tense exchange occurred at the start of the third week in Yates' murder trial. She has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to capital murder charges in the June 20 drownings and faces life in prison or the death penalty if convicted.
Defense attorneys are trying to show Yates, 37, didn't know right from wrong at the time of the killings because she was in a psychotic state.
Indian police reportssay leaders led mobs
AHMADABAD, India -- Police say a local leader of India's governing party and officials from a Hindu nationalist group linked to it led mobs that burned to death 107 Muslims during religious riots. Police reports obtained by The Associated Press today named several important figures in two attacks in the city of Ahmadabad, part of riots that have killed 512 people.
Police officers wrote and filed the reports Sunday in the neighborhood of Naroda, where 65 Muslims were burned to death as they slept by Hindus who set the slum on fire Friday morning, and in Meghaninagar, where thousands of Hindus burned to death 42 Muslims in their homes Thursday night. None of the men accused in the reports could be contacted to comment. They have been avoiding police attempts to question them, said Deputy Police Commissioner P.B. Gondya.
Associated Press