, ;B—The Daily Collegian Thursday, April 19, 1984 Copter carrying 2 :By FREDDY CUEVAS Associated Press Writer TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras A U.S. Army helicopter with two U.S. :senators aboard was struck by gun 'lire and forced down yesterday in ;Honduras near the El Salvador bor- :der, U.S. officials said. No one was •reported injured. • • One of the senators, J. Bennett ;Johnston, l. D-La., said the UH-1 heli ttopter carrying him and Sen. Lawton ;Chiles, D-Fla., was struck three !times by .50-caliber ammunition that or. fcame "presumably from Salvadoran 6' USC student safe, prof dead Former teacher-of-the-year releases hostage, kills himself By DAVID REED Associated Press Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. A former teacher-of-the-year who was denied • tenure and lost his job at the Uni versity of South Carolina shot and killed himself yesterday after tak ing • a student hostage and demand ing to be reinstated, authorities • said. Philip Zeltner, 37, a former assis tant philosophy professor, shot • himself in the head in the office of • the university's president, where he had barricaded himself after seizing a student who was later released, said Hugh Munn, spokes man for the State Law Enforce ment Division. Zeltner was found about 5:30 p.m. by a SWAT team that apparently picked the lock of the door to Hold erman's office in the administra tion building, Munn said. The hostage had been released un harmed more than 90 minutes ear lier. "He apparently shot himself with one of the two handguns he had," Munn said. Zeltner, from New York City, came to USC from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1974. Although he was named USC's teacher of the year in 1978, he was denied tenure three times the -_ last time in the 1981-82 school year which meant his contract was • not renewed. He unsuccessfully sought reinstatement after leaving the school at the end of the academ ic year. Zeltner entered the second-floor • office of U_ SC President James Holderman shortly after 1 p.m., demanding to see Holderman, Munn said. ILDERNESS . 7 - S SIR iv A L _WORKSHOP Saturday, May 19 8:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. Keller Conference Center Attention Outdoor Enthusiasts! (campers, backpackers, - hunters, fishermen, mountaineers, skiers... ) Learn the basic principles of outdoor safety and wilderness survival from one of the nation's experts, Dr. Paul Risk of Penn State. The $45 fee includes instructional materials, coffee, and lunch. For information call 863-1738. guerrillas." A second UH-1, carrying Diana Negroponte, wife of U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte, also was fired on. Both U.S. Embassy officials here and Pentagon officials in Washington agreed that the second helicopter was not hit. The Defense Department amended its original statement that the aircraft was struck. No injuries were reported in the second helicopt er either. The mountainous area where the helicopters were fired on is 55 miles west of this capital city and 10 miles from the Salvadoran border province 11-lis problems with tenure) all started with a schedule problem. Phil didn't like to get up before 11 in the morning. The department chairman wanted to give him a 10 o'clock class.' Ward Briggs, associate professor at the University of South Carolina When told Holderman wasn't there, Zeltner took student Pat Bowman hostage, Munn said, and USC security officials evacuated and sealed off the building about 1:30 p.m. Bowman, an accounting major, is an intern in Holderman's office. Zeltner talked by telephone with Holderman, agents of the State Law Enforcement Division and a television personality, but hung up and was dead within a half hour, Munn said. He "basically was demanding that he be reinstated with tenure," Munn said. The former professor's attorney entered the building to talk with Zeltner, but left shortly before the SWAT team was sent in, Munn said. Zeltner's former wife and personal physician also had been brought to the building, he said. The physician, Dr. Melton Stuck ey, pronounced Zeltner dead. 136wman, who was released un harmed at about 3:0 p.m., said Zeltner was armed with two revolv ers and claimed to have explosives, Munn said. No explosives were found in a search of the building. senators of Morazan, a longtime stronghold of leftist guerrillas who are fighting the U.S.-supported government in El Sal vador. The senators, on a fact-finding mis sion in Honduras, were on their way from a Honduras air force base to a U.N.-operated camp for Salvadoran refugees in southwestern Honduras. Many residents of the camp, Colo moncagua, are considered sympa thetic to the Salvadoran guerrillas. Johnston, speaking at a Tegucigal pa airport news conference later Wednesday, said he had no idea what was happening aboard the small heli- Zeltner had only worked inter mittently for the two years after he left USC and grew increasingly bitter and withdrawn, said close associate Ward Briggs, an asso ciate professor at the university. "(His problems with tenure) all started with a schedule problem," said Briggs. "Phil didn't like to get up before 11 in the morning. The department chairman wanted to give him a 10 o'clock class. Phil went to Holderman . . . "He was sure at the last minute that Holderman would save him," said Briggs. "He was convinced F that Holderman betrayed a 'friendship that never really existed." University officials, however, would not disclose their reasons for not granting him tenure, and infor mation spokesmen said such re cords were personal and would remain closed. 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