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The
Seattle Times
March 21, 2000, Tuesday Night Final Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A4; ACROSS THE NATION
LENGTH: 487 words
HEADLINE:
Ex-Black Panther arrested in fatal shooting of deputy
BODY:
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Former Black Panther
leader H. Rap Brown, wanted in the fatal shooting of an Atlanta sheriff's
deputy, was captured in Alabama late yesterday, authorities said.
Now
known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, he was arrested in Alabama's Lowndes County,
west of Montgomery, FBI agent Theodore Jackson said.
Authorities said
that when Al-Amin was sighted in a shed by federal marshals, he began firing at
them and fled. Marshals used tracking dogs and a helicopter to aid in his
capture.
Al-Amin, 56, was scheduled to make a court appearance in
Montgomery today.
He is accused of fatally shooting Deputy Ricky Kinchen
and wounding Deputy Aldranon English in a shootout in Atlanta on Thursday. The
deputies were trying to serve Al-Amin with an arrest warrant at his store.
In the 1960s, as H. Rap Brown, he served as a leader of the Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and justice minister of the Black Panthers.
Single shot fired inside house containing gunman,
hostages
DUNDALK, Md. - A shot was fired yesterday inside the
house where a slaying suspect has been holding his former girlfriend's mother
and two other people hostage since Friday, authorities said.
After the
shot, police used a loudspeaker to urge the suspect, Joseph Palczynski, to let
them bring in an ambulance. But authorities later said police did not believe
anyone inside the house was seriously hurt.
Palczynski, 31, has been on
the run since March 7, when police say he kidnapped his former girlfriend, Tracy
Whitehead, and killed the couple she was staying with and a neighbor. A fourth
person was killed and a boy was wounded when Palczynski reportedly carjacked a
vehicle.
Panel calls for permanent ban on taxes for Internet
access
DALLAS - Congress should permanently ban Internet access
taxes and repeal a 100-year-old telephone tax, and should refrain for now from
trying to apply state sales taxes to purchases online, a federal e-commerce
panel decided yesterday.
A majority of the 19-member Advisory Commission
on Electronic Commerce endorsed a proposal from its business members that also
would extend by five years a moratorium expiring in October 2001 on new
Internet taxes. It also would encourage state and local
governments to simplify their sales-tax systems.
Company's AIDS-gene patent is in error, scientists contend
Scientists have uncovered what they believe to be glaring errors
in a patent issued in February to Human Genome Sciences Inc. for a human gene
that plays a crucial role in AIDS.
The potential setback comes after
Human Genome Science's stock price soared on news that it won a patent on the
AIDS gene.
The company's description of the gene's sequence, or chemical
makeup, contains at least four significant mistakes, according to research
scientists, a claim that legal experts said could allow the company's
competitors to attack the patent's validity.
GRAPHIC: PHOTO; Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
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