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THEASSOCIATEDPRESS An officer walks near the scene of a shooting on Thursday at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pa. The Associated Press DARBY,PA. Adoctorwho was grazed by gunfire from a patient in his of- fice at a suburban hospi- tal on Thursday helped stop him by apparently re- turning fire with his own weapon and severely injur- ing him, but not before a caseworker was killed, au- thorities said. The patient opened fire after entering the office with the caseworker, Dis- trict Attorney Jack Whelan said. Witnesses reported hearing yelling before the gunshots. Several hours after the shooting, investigators had only limited information on what happened inside the closed office but believe the doctor, a psychiatrist, "from all accounts, would have acted in self-defense," Whelan said. The doctor, who suffered a graze wound to his head, "faced a situation where his life was in jeopardy," Whelan said. Yeadon Police Chief Don- ald Molineux said that, "without a doubt, I believe the doctor saved lives." "Without that firearm, this guy (the patient) could have went out in the hall- way and just walked down the offices until he ran out of ammunition," Molineux said. Thedeadcaseworkerwas identified only as a 53-year- oldwomanwhohadentered the doctor's office with the patient before the gunfire erupted. Police said they were trying to find relatives to notify. Two guns were recov- ered, Whelan said. Author- ities said the motive for the shooting was unknown. Thepatient,whowascrit- icallyinjuredandwastaken into custody, was identified as Richard Plotts, an Upper Darby resident in his mid- 30s. The prosecutor said Plotts had been involved in previous incidents with staff, but he did not know their nature. He also said he did not know if that is why the doctor had a gun or if the doctor would have been required to have a permit. After the door of the of- fice was closed, staff mem- bers heard loud arguing inside, opened the door and noticed the patient had a gun, Whelan said. They then closed the door and dialed 911. Gunshots were heard a short time later, just before 2:30 p.m. After Plotts emerged from the office, another doctor and a caseworker helped wrestle him to the floor of the hallway and grabbed his weapon, Whelan said. By that point he had already been se- verely wounded from sev- eral shots, he said. Doctorfiredback at gunman in hospital attack PENNSYLVANIA By Dmytro Vlasov The Associated Press KHARKIV, UKRAINE Two more military aircraft car- rying remains of victims from the Malaysian plane disaster arrived in the Neth- erlands on Thursday, while Australian and Dutch dip- lomats joined to promote a plan for a U.N. team to se- cure the crash site which has been controlled by pro- Russian rebels. Human remains continue to be found a full week af- ter the plane went down — underlining concerns about the halting and chaotic re- covery effort at the sprawl- ing site spread across farm- land in eastern Ukraine. Armed separatists control the area and have hindered access by investigators. All 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 — most of them Dutch cit- izens — were killed when the plane was shot down on July 17. U.S. officials say the Boeing 777 was proba- bly shot down by a missile from territory held by pro- Russian rebels, likely by ac- cident. Australian Prime Minis- ter Tony Abbott, who says he fears some remains will never be recovered unless security is tightened, has proposed a multinational force mounted by coun- tries such as Australia, the Netherlands and Malaysia that lost citizens in the di- saster. Abbott said Thurs- day he had dispatched 50 police officers to London to be ready to join any orga- nization which may result. Australia's Foreign Min- ister Julie Bishop was trav- eling with her Dutch coun- terpart Frans Timmermans to Kiev to seek an agree- ment with the Ukraine gov- ernment to allow interna- tional police to secure the wreckage, Abbott said. Details including which countries would contribute and whether officers would be armed and protected by international troops were yet to be agreed, Abbott said. International experts found more remains still at the crash site both Wednes- day and Thursday, Michael Bociurkiw, a spokesman for the Organization for Secu- rity and Cooperation in Eu- rope, told reporters in Do- netsk on Thursday. OSCE observers, sent to monitor the conflict, escorted a dele- gation from Australia to ex- amine the wreckage Thurs- day for the first time. More Australian specialists are expected to join them Fri- day, Bociurkiw said. On Monday, the U.N. Se- curity Council unanimously approved a resolution pro- posed by Australia de- manding that rebels coop- erate with an independent investigation and allow all remaining bodies to be re- covered. The first remains ar- rived in the Netherlands on Wednesday and were met by Dutch King Willem-Alex- ander, Queen Maxima and hundreds of relatives. The twoplanesThursdaybrought a total of 74 more coffins back to the Netherlands, said government spokesman Lodewijk Hekking. Patricia Zorko, head of the National Police Unit that includes the Dutch na- tional forensic team, said some 200 experts, includ- ing 80 from overseas, were working in Hilversum at a military barracks on the outskirts of the central city of Hilversum to iden- tify the dead. Around the world some 1,000 people are involved in the process, which also includes gather- ing information from next of kin. Staff will "examine the bodies, describe the bod- ies, take dental informa- tion, DNA and put all the information together in the computer and compare this information with the information they gathered from the families in the last days," police spokesman Ed Kraszewski said in a tele- phone interview. "Then we have to see if there is a match." There are three scientific methods of identifying bod- ies — dental records, finger prints and DNA. After the experts believe they have positively iden- tified a body, they defend their findings to an interna- tional panel. If both agree, the positive identification will be sent to a Dutch pros- ecution office, which has the power to release the body to the next of kin. The Dutch Safety Board said investigators in Eng- land successfully down- loaded data from Flight 17's Flight Data Recorder. It said "no evidence or in- dications of manipulation of the recorder was found." It did not release any details of the data. MALAYSIAN JET Planes with Ukraine bodies arrive in Holland SERGEI CHUZAVKOV — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS People lay flowers near pictures of the victims of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17air crash, in a central square in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Striking a populist stand ahead of the midterm elections, Presi- dent Barack Obama is de- manding "economic patri- otism" from American cor- porations that seek overseas mergers to avoid U.S. taxes. Obama and congressio- nal Democrats are pushing to severely limit such deals, a move resisted by Republi- cans who argue the entire corporate tax code needs an overhaul. Obama was scheduled to address the issue in re- marks Thursday afternoon at a technical college in Los Angeles. Though he in- cluded a proposal to rein in such mergers and acqui- sitions in his 2015 budget, Obama's speech marks a new, more aggressive focus on the subject. "The president has made clear that these companies are essentially renounc- ing their American citizen- ship by shipping their prof- its overseas to avoid paying taxes even as they bene- fit from all the advantages of being here in America," White House spokesman Eric Schultz said ahead of Obama's remarks. "That's precisely what we mean by economic patriotism." The push comes amid a developing trend by compa- nies to reorganize with for- eign entities through deals called "inversions" partly to reduce their tax payments in the U.S. But it also comes ahead of the fall political campaign as Democrats seek to draw sharp contrasts with Repub- licans by portraying them as defenders of corporate loop- holes, and as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and others have been drawing praise fromliberalarmsoftheDem- ocratic Party for their overtly populist positions. The growth of inversions has also concerned Republi- cans, but by and large they have called for a broader tax overhaul that would reduce corporate rates. A total of 47 U.S.-based companies have merged with or acquired foreign businesses over the past decade in inversions, ac- cording to the Congressio- nal Research Service. The issue gained attention ear- lier this year when Pfizer made an unsuccessful at- tempt to take over British drugmaker AstraZeneca. The deal would have al- lowed Pfizer to incorporate in Britain and thus limit its exposure to higher U.S. cor- porate tax rates Most recently, Walgreen Co., the drug store chain that promotes itself as "America's premier phar- macy," is considering a sim- ilar move with Swiss health and beauty retailer Alliance Boots. The Obama administra- tion began to ramp up at- tention to these transac- tions last week with a letter from Treasury Secretary Ja- cob Lew to House and Sen- ate leaders. Lew said such deals "hollow out the U.S. corporate income tax base." Obama is calling on Con- gress to enact legislation that is retroactive to May, arguing that will stop com- panies from rushing into deals to avoid the law. Senate Democrats picked up the call this week, with Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Demo- cratic leader, sending a let- ter to Walgreen President and CEO Gregory Wasson urging him and his board to reconsider the overseas deal. "I believe you will find that your customers are deeply patriotic and will not support Walgreen's de- cision to turn its back on the United States," Durbin wrote. Walgreen's spokesman Michael Polzin said the company is evaluating where to take its partner- ship with Alliance Boots. "We will do what is in the best long-term interests of our customers, employees and shareholders," he said. Under such inversion deals, U.S.-based, multina- tional companies can lower their tax bills in part by combining with a foreign company and reorganizing in a country with a lower tax rate. The United States has a 35 percent income tax rate, the highest in the in- dustrialized world, and un- like many other countries it also taxes income earned overseas and then brought home. ECONOMY Obama wants limits on mergers abroad RINGO H.W. CHIU — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama speaks about the economy at the Los Angeles Trade-Technical College in Los Angeles on Thursday on the final day of his three-day West Coast trip. N EWS D AILY REDBLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U NTY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 PHONE: (530)527-2151 FAX: (530) 527-5774 545 Diamond Avenue • P.O. Box 220 • Red Bluff, CA 96080 Support our classrooms, keep kids reading. 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