Wednesday, April 9, 1986
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By The Associated Press
Trip to Mideast
Bush warns potential troublemakers
of Saudi Arabia, conferred with the
emir of Bahrain on the Iran-Iraq war,
Middle East peace efforts and oil prices.
At a news conference, Bush also said
that Assistant Secretary of State Richard
Murphy, who broke off from Bush's
entourage and traveled to Israel, was
pursuing "a new initiative" for Middle
East peace.
Bush refused to disclose any details
of the mission, saying "the diplomatic
efforts that he will be engaged in would
not be helped by premature discussion
about them."
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MANAMA, Bahrain Vice President
George Bush said Tuesday that U.S.
warships pat rolling the oil-rich Persian
Gulf are a signal to potential trouble
makers that "they'd better think twice"
and blunt Soviet influence in the region.
Bush visited the I'SS LaSalle, the
command ship for a U.S. naval task
force in the gulf, to stress American
military power in the region. The white
painted flagship, docked at aBahrainian
port, is known as "the Great White
Ghost of the Arabian Coast."
Standing under a canopy on the sun
drenched flight-deck, Bush told sailors
the task force helps blunt Soviet in
fluence in the gulf.
"The fact that you're here helps
friendly countries resist Soviet attempts
to gain influence, gain dominance in
this area," Bush said.
"The fact that you're here is a
warning to anyone who might even be
thinking of fundamentally disrupting
this area that they'd better think
twice. . .and if that doesn't stop them,
then they'd better think again," he
said.
Bush, Hearing the end of a 38-hour
visit to this island country off the coast
killed in Lebanon
bomb blast
JOUNIEH, Lebanon A car bomb
exploded in the main square of this
Christ ian port w hile it was packed with
lunch-hour crowds Tuesday, killing at
least 10 people' and wounding 110.
The blue BMW sedan blew up only 50
yards from offices of President Amin
Gemayel's Phalange Party, set 25 cars
ablaze and damaged buildings 500
yards away. It was the latest in a series
of bombings in Christian areas since
mid-January.
In south Lebanon, a suicide bomber
drove an explosives-laden car into a
checkpoint manned by Israeli-backed
militiamen, killing himself and wound
ing six people, Lebanon's state radio
reported. It was the first suicide
bombing reported this year in what
Israel calls its security zone.
Radios reported 16 people were killed
in the Chouf Mountain village of Bsaba,
southeast of Beirut, in a clan feud
between Sunni Moslems and Druse
warriors from rival villages.
Prime Minister Rashid Karami, a
Sunni Moslem opposed to the Maronite
Catholic president, called the Jounieh
bombing "treacherous" and declared:
"It's always the innocent people who
are the victims."
Youssef Bitar, the top police explo
sives expert, said about 165 pounds of
explosives were packed inside the
sedan.
Police said 10 charred bodies were
pulled from the rubble of two high rise
office buildings that took the brunt of
the blast.
Christian radio stations broadcast
lists of the casualties. Police say about
1, 1 90 people have been killed and more
than 2,500 wounded this year in
Lebanon's political and sectarian war
fare. No one claimed responsibility for
the Jounieh blast, as usual in bombings
in Christian areas. The Phalange has
blamed loyalists of Elie Hobeika,
Gemayel's main Christian rival, for
earlier bomb attacks.
kin pigments can falsify tests
or marijuana use, chemist says
NEW YORK Pigments in dark
skinned people are chemically similar,
to marijuana and may lead to wrongful
accusations of maryuana-use based on
inaccurate urine tests, according to a
chemist who testifies frequently in
court cases concerning drug abuse.
James Woodford of Atlanta said the
pigment, melanin, breaks down into
fragments in the urine that are chemi
cally similar to the active ingredients
in marijuana.
In very sensitive urine tests, melanin
can produce positive results in people
who have not used marijuana, Woodford
said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
Melanin is present in everyone, but
it is present in higher levels in blacks
and Hispanics, for example, than in
whites, Woodford said. Dark-skinned
people are therefore more likely than
others to be wrongly accused of mari
juana use, he said.
Last month Woodford testified in
Cleveland in the case of a group of
police cadets who tested positive for
marijuana use a month before their
graduation from the police academy.
Arthur McBay, a drug-testing expert
with the state medical examiners office
in North Carolina, said he knew of no
evidence to support Woodford's claim,
but he acknowledged that the extremely
sensitive tests for marijuana use can
provide false results.
Speed limit
LINCOLN Sen. J. J. Exon, D
Neb., said Tuesday he plans to
introduce legislation that would
raise the national speed limit on
Interstate highways from 55 mph to
70 mph.
The bill, which should be thrown
into the hopper within the next two
weeks, would give state governments
the option of lowering the 70 mph
speed limit, the Nebraska Demo
crat said.
The higher speed limit would
apply only to Interstate highways
across the country, he said.
Exon said a 70 mph speed limit is
"reasonable and proper" and
wouldn't trigger an increase in traf
fic fatalities because of the quality
of the Interstate highways.
Pay for play
LINCOLN A proposal to pro
vide $1.2 million to pay NU football
players didn't get off the ground
Tuesday, but it brought more legis
lative attention than usual to a rou
tine measure to pay claims against
the state.
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha,
who has long argued that NU foot
ball players should be compensated,
offered an amendment to pay 100
players $1,000 monthly. Speaker of
the Legislature William Nichol ruled
that the amendment wasn't ger
mane to the bill, and Chambers
didn't challenge that ruling.
Lawmakers advanced the mea
sure, LB 1255, on a voice vote. It
appropriates more than $109,000 to
pay claims against the state that
were approved by the State Claims
Board.
Tobacco warning
LINCOLN - The Nebraska Den
tal Association said Tuesday it will
launch an educational program
about the "clear and imminent
danger" of smokeless tobacco.
Dr. Gilbert Lilly, a professor at
the University of Iowa college of
Dentistry, said people are 40 times
more likely to develop oral cancer
aft er long-term use M to 40 years
of smokeless tobacco. Unless use
of smokeless tobacco is curtailed
within 40 years, the incident of oral
cancer will greatly increase in the
United States, he said.
Khadafy threat
CAIRO, Egypt Libyan leader
Moammar Khadafy's top military
commander was quoted by a weekly
Egyptian newspaper Tuesday as say
ing U.S. missiles killed 56 people in
the Gulf of Sidra fight ing.
The report also quoted Khadafy
as saying Libya's fight against the
United States is "escalating every
where." Khadafy and Brig. Abu-Mr You
nis, commander-in-chief of Libya's
armed forces, were quoted by Al
Shaab, an organ of Egypt's opposi
tion Socialist Labor Party. It said
the remarks were made to a Labor
Party delegation that visited Libya
last week.
The report said that when asked
whether the confrontation with the
United States had ended, Khadafy
replied: "Never,"
Jet fire
CHICAGO An engine on a Uni
ted Airlines 737 burst into flames
after the left main landing gear col
lapsed as the plane landed at O'Hare
International Airport Tuesday, offi
cials said.
. United spokesman Chuck Novak
said the 109 passengers and five
crew members aboard Flight 732
were evacuated without serious in
jury via emergency exit chutes.
One person suffered a possible
jammed thumb and another a pos
sible sprained ankle as they left the
plane, which was arriving from
Omaha, Novak said.
The incident was under investi
gation by the National Transporta
tion Safety Board.
Company freeze-dries pets for 'everlasting companionship'
NISSWA, Minn. Fido or Fluffy can lie by the
hearth forever thanks to the wonders of freeze
drying, says a man whose company offers pet
owners a way to preserve the remains of their
four-legged loved ones in lifelike fashion.
"The natural thing for a human being to do is
to hang on to that animal, to want to keep it,"
said Roger Saatzer, president of Preserv-A-Pet.
"The next best thing to bringing it back to life is
to have it freeze-dried."
Saatzer said that though some people find the
idea unattractive, others "are very open-minded,
and it has been taken very, very positively."
"We've done everything from rabbits to tur
tles, dogs, cats, snakes and gerbils," said Saatzer.
He has even freeze-dried a lion.
Freeze-drying gives the animal a far more real
istic appearance than traditional taxidermy, he
said.
"Everything remains intact," Saatzer said.
"The color, the size, even the texture of the hair
is the same."
Saatzer, who also owns a company that manu
factures freeze-drying equipment, said the idea
came to him a couple of years ago when a
taxidermist said he wasn't sure he could afford a
freeze-drying machine he wanted.
"Just off the top of my head I suggested he
advertise doing pets," Saatzer said. "He tried it
and it worked."
Pet owners ship their deceased pets to the
company frozen. They also send photographs so
the company can get an idea of how the owner
wants the pet to look, Saatzer said. The animal is
then thawed and shaped into position.
Once the animal's body is shaped it is freeze
dried placed in a vacuum chamber at a
temperature of 5 degrees below zero. The pro
cess extracts all water from the body without
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altering its size or shape, so that decomposition
is halted. The animal's remains thus will not
shrink and will have no odor.
With animals under 50 pounds, the entire
body stays intact, Saatzer said, while with larger
animals other techniques are used such as
stretching the animal's skin over a plastic foam
mannequin.
The cost varies depending on the size and
posture desired, Saatzer said. A small house cat
in a sitting position would run about $450, he
said, while a large German shepherd in an attack
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