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Obituaries Paul Schaefer, an ex-Nazi who was serving a prison term for sexually abusing children in a cultlike compound, dies at 89. B5
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Residents in the Washington area are being rudely awakened in the wee hours of the morning by phone calls from someone with a Wyoming area code. B4
An advanced education in life
At the District’s elite Gonzaga College High, many students get their first exposure to poverty — and their first chance to help
by Susan Kinzie
In his freshman year at Gon- zaga College High School, John Sullivan hurried by the pan- handlers and homeless people he passed on the streets. They made him feel uneasy, unsafe.
The teen from Great Falls also was intimidated when he began volunteering at the Father Mc- Kenna Center, a Catholic-run shelter on campus where home- less men can get a free hot lunch, addiction counseling and other help. The first morning, he was cursed at when he refused to give
a man six tablespoons of sugar for his coffee. Someone had to es- cort the man out. For many Gonzaga students, the elite Catholic school is a first introduction to poverty and their first chance to learn how to help. The need is all around: on the walk from the Metro past
people demanding money, in the long-troubled Sursum Corda neighborhood next to the North- west Washington campus and on the school grounds, where the homeless shelter is as integral as the 150-year-old chapel and brick classroom buildings. Long before schools across the
country began requiring com- munity-service hours for gradua- tion in an effort to teach compas- sion and social responsibility, Gonzaga students were living it. They can volunteer during a lunch break, sign up to sleep at
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Sympathy on order
Customers of Patches, a Silver Spring greeting-card shop, hold a fundraiser to keep the establishment from going under during these economically rough times. B2
Fifth man is charged in District shootings
‘FINAL ARREST’
IN MARCH CASE
Four slain in drive-by, robbery attempt
by Paul Duggan
A fifth suspect in a deadly drive- by shooting last month in South- east Washington was arrested Monday and charged with four counts of murder, ending the search for the alleged perpetrators of the most lethal outbreak of vio- lence in the city in years, police said. “We are very pleased to an- nounce the final arrest in this case,” Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said after detectives arrested Jef- frey D. Best, 21, about 9 a.m. Two suspects were arrested the night of the shooting, and two were arrest- ed last week. “While I know this does not alle-
PHOTOS BY MELINA MARA/THE WASHINGTON POST
Maya Tate, 9, waits in the plaza while her grandfather purchases her birthday cake from the new Safeway along Fourth Street SW between M and I streets.
A neighborhood on the rebound
With a Safeway in place and businesses set to open, Southwest D.C. is on an upswing
by Lisa Rein
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Workers toil on the sidewalk along Fourth Street SW across from the new Safeway.
D.C. suburbs can no longer draw the shades on AIDS crisis
mosquito.” “It’s from monkeys.” “It’s a gay thing.” “If it’s oral, it doesn’t count.” Keanna Faircloth has heard them all in Northern Virginia schools, where she tries hard to not run out of the room screaming, crying or pulling her hair out. Faircloth goes to these schools, busts the myths and tries to put some useful
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he myths are still out there: “You can get it from a
information about HIV/AIDS into the rock-hard heads of about 10,000 kids every year. And this can be a daunting task, given that not all schools in Northern Virginia welcome the message of prevention that Faircloth’s organization, Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry, is delivering. “Of course, we start with abstinence. Of course. But that’s also not realistic. Thirteen? Sex at 13 is nothing in these schools,” she said. Even in the suburbs? Where
PETULA DVORAK
the lawns are all nice and the schools are great? AIDS? And how. The Washington AIDS
Partnership is releasing a study Tuesday on HIV/AIDS in seven suburbs surrounding Washington. It’s a sister study to the blockbuster released in 2005 that predicted an
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or 50 years, Southwest Washington was divided in half by a mall and an office complex that withered with age. Like the freeway
that isolates the neighborhood from downtown, Waterside Mall left its community without a center. Today, the mall is gone, two gleaming glass office towers with a splashy ground-floor Safeway su- permarket have risen in its place and the road that was mothballed to build it is back, with wide sidewalks for pedestrians. Fourth Street might be a stretch of asphalt over two city blocks, but its reappearance in a
neighborhood plagued by a genera- tion of poor urban design is an im- portant milestone in its revival. The new pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use project at the Water- front-SEU Metro station is the first of three legs of an $800 million re- development of 1.2 million square feet for offices, the same amount of residential space and at least 110,000 square feet devoted to shops and restaurants. A CVS and a Bank of America are moving back soon from temporary quarters. A Subway and another restaurant — one with tablecloths run by the owners of Tunnicliff ’s Tavern on Capitol Hill — have signed leases.
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viate the pain caused by these hei- nous acts,” Lanier said, “this arrest closes a chapter in this tragedy.” Police initially had said that four people were killed in the drive-by attack, which occurred about 7:30 a.m. March 30 outside a ram- shackle tenement in the 4000 block of South Capitol Street SE. But court documents detailing the police investigation, which were made public Friday, say that three victims were slain in the drive-by and that the fourth had been killed minutes earlier in an attempted robbery nearby. Authorities say that Best and three other men — Orlando Carter, 20, Nathaniel Simms, 26, and Rob- ert Bost, 22, all of whom are charged with four counts of mur- der — were in the rented minivan from which the shots were fired on South Capitol Street. The other man charged in the case, Lamar Williams, 22, is suspected of sup- plying the guns that were used, au- thorities say.
Killed in the drive-by attack were DaVaughn Boyd, 18, William Jones III, 19, and Brishell Jones, 16. Five others were wounded. The five suspects are also charged with murder in the death of Tavon Nel- son, 17, who was shot minutes be- fore on nearby Galveston Street SW in a bungled attempt to rob him of a handgun, police said. Police said the drive-by shooting was the final act in a cycle of retali- ation touched off by a shooting the week before on Alabama Avenue SE in which Jordan Howe, 20, was killed. Carter is suspected of partici-
pating in Howe’s slaying March 22 and has been charged with mur- der in that case as well. A day after Howe was killed, Carter was wounded in a shooting near Sixth and Chesapeake streets SE. Police said in a court affidavit that Carter suspected that his attacker was
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The untold Civil War
Archives exhibit explores little-known aspects
by Michael E. Ruane
The Confederate prisoners were lined up 15 paces from the Union firing squad. The order was given, and the six rebels died instantly. Five of them were shot through the heart, the Union offi- cer in charge reported, adding that the execution was conducted to “my entire satisfaction.” So what if they were innocent
POWs. A band of rebels had mas- sacred captured Union soldiers and their commanding officer a
few weeks before. Now, Union commanders just needed to select a Confederate officer for death, to complete the eye-for-an-eye transaction. There was no gallantry to this bloody affair in 1864, no stirring charge worthy of Currier and Ives. It was but a dark footnote to the epic of the American Civil War. And it was just what the Na- tional Archives sought for the ma- jor exhibit that will debut Friday: “Discovering the Civil War.”
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Reproductions of letters and photos, such as of this Union drummer boy, will be displayed.
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