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Friday, July 18, 1986 Page 2 Daily Nebraskan Early pre BAR HARBOR, Maine - A new tech nique that allows doctors to check the unborn for defects very early during pregnancy appears to be as safe as amniocentesis, the traditional method used later in the baby's development in the womb, a study shows. The new procedure, still considered experimental, is called chorion villus sampling, or CVS, and is available only at a few major medical centers. However, Dr. Laird G. Jackson, who directed the latest research, said he Nuns freed; missionary still captive MARAWI, Philippines - A U.S. mis sionary kidnapped by a Moslem group warned he would be killed if the mil itary tried to free him, while 10 nuns released Thursday after five days of captivity pleaded for leniency toward their Moslem captors. The Filipino nuns, who were held by a disgruntled former government em ployee, said they were treated well and given a farewell party the night before their release. "It was like a dream come true," said Madeleine Ledesma, 44, the mother superior of the Carmelite convent in Marawi from which the nuns were taken Friday night. "We are cloistered nuns, and we have no way to get close to them (Mos lems)," she said. "We always wished that one day we could ... mingle with them and touch their lives. ... Our lives have been enriched." The army, meanwhile, moved 400 soldiers and armored vehicles to Mara wi, 510 miles southeast of Manila, to put pressure on the kidnappers of American missionary Brian Lawrence, according to Maj. Gen. Jose Magno, southern military commander. The military released a letter from Lawrence to his wife, Carol Ann, in which he said he was treated well but warned the kidnappers would kill him if the military attacked. The 30-year-old Presbyterian missionary from Madison, Wis., was snatched from his home in Marawi on Saturday. The nuns were taken on foot and by jeep early Thursday to the home of Lanao del Sur's governor, Saidamen Pangarungan, where they were em braced by friends. A news report quoted an influential local Moslem leader, Tarnata Alonto Lucman, as saying $10,000 and several rifles were given in ransom. But govern ment, military and church officials insisted no concessions were made. 34 Nebraska Union 1400 R St.. Lincoln. NE 68588-0448 Editor News Editor News Editor Bob Asmussen. 472-1766 Kent Endacott Jeff Korbelik Jim Rogers Gene Gentrup Julie Jordan Hendricks Jeff Apel Charles Lieurance Paul Vonderlage Joan Rezac Kurt Eberhardt UNL Chapter. American Assoc Editorial Page Editor Wire Editor Copy Desk Chiefs Sports Editor Arts & Entertain ment Editor Photo Chief Night News Editor Art Director Weather meteorological Society General Manager Daniel Shattil Production Manager Katherine Policky Asst. 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Both chorion villus sampling and amniocentesis are used to obtain a sample of cells from the growing fetus. The tissue is checked to make sure the unborn child won't have severe birth defects. Amniocentesis cannot be performed until about the 16th week of gestation, while chorion sampling is done at the sixth to eighth week. This means that if the fetus is defective, the mother can have an abortion during the first tri mester of pregnancy, when it is easier and safer to perform than later. Aide: Reagan still against SALT II WASHINGTON President Reagan intends to stick to his decision to scrap the SALT II treaty despite a U.S. meet ing with Soviet officials on the weapons limitation accord, Edward Rowny, his senior adviser on arms control issues, said Thursday. "I think the decision has been made and the president has weighed every thing," Rowny said in a Voice of Amer ica interview. "I don't see a reversal." The former U.S. negotiator said the meeting next Tuesday in Geneva was a chance "to clear the air and show there are good and sufficient reasons for SALT II to be put behind us." He said he hoped the meeting would not be used as "a propaganda platform." Rowny was known to have advised Reagan to accept the Soviet proposal for a meeting on SALT II, provided the Lincoln man A Lincoln man was charged Thurs day with two murder counts in the death of Cheryl Stephens, marking the fourth arraignment in the case this week. Terry Garhart, 39, was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly kil ling Stephens, of Lincoln, 24, with malice and premeditation and with felony murder for allegedly performing the murder while sexually assaulting her. Garhart also was charged with two Americans arrive for anti-drug raids LA PAZ, Bolivia Some men and equipment have been moved from the base camp to key points in the jungle in preparation for joint Bolivian-American raids on cocaine processing plants, government officials said Thursday. They said three U.S. C-l 30 transports brought in more American soldiers and supplies Thursday to support national anti-narcotics police in the campaign to cripple the Bolivian drug trade, which is estimated to supply half the cocaine that reaches the United States and Western Europe. The planes landed in the morning at Trinidad, 294 miles northeast of La Paz s "if .lMl Mf, .Nfcff :;t(wl: :M!. , CHATTANOOGA, Okla. It wes benefit concerts-. Eugene Copeland was ready to give up and leave the area after his wife, Katherine Irene Ccpeland, despondent over possitle foreclo sure on the land her family has worked since the early 1900s, com mitted suTcide July 9 by climbing on a pile of burning trash. Eat his fellow farmers wouldn't" let him give in to despair. On Wednesday, 18 fellow fapers, riding tractors, arrived at the farm, 10 miles west of Grandfield in .southwestern Oklahoma. The group, organized by retired agriculture In structor David Martin, plowed 312 News DigesjLg Jackson, a physician at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, pres ented his findings at a genetics meet ing at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor. Using the tissue obtained with chor ion" sampling, doctors can check for a variety of inborn defects, and the list of these ailments is growing rapidly. At the genetics meeting, Dr. Stylia nos E. Antonarakis of Johns Hopkins University said he has begun checking fetuses for hemophilia, an inherited bleeding disorder. The disease is passed by mothers, who are healthy carriers of a bad gene, to their sons, who suffer the consequences of the disorder. United States was able to bring up its allegations of Soviet violations of the unratified 1979 accord. "If, for example, the Soviets were to admit all their violations and then say they are immediately ready to come forth with sizeable reductions (in mis siles), then that's another ball game," Rowny said. But, he added: "I don't see that hap pening, so in that context I would say I don't see a reversal." Reagan has accused the Soviets of deploying a long-range missile prohi bited by the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) and of illegally dis guising data information about missile tests. The Soviets have denied the charges. The president said in May that the Soviet actions had prompted him to charged in woman's death counts of using a weapon to commit a felony. The two murder charges are puni shable by death or life in prison. The weapons charges are punishable by one to 20 years in prison, a $25,000 fine, or both. Lancaster County Judge Neal Dusen berry set a $500,000 full cash bond for Garhart, who was clad in a green jump suit. Garhart has been serving a 15-month to three-year sentence at the Diagnos tic and Evaluation Center in Lincoln in Beni province, where the base camp and most cocaine processing opera tions are located, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity. Other C-l 30 Hercules and C-5A Gal axy aircraft arrived earlier in the week with soldiers, supplies and six Black Hawk helicopters to be used in the raids. Officials of both governments say American pilots will fly the helicopters but the raids will be in the hands of about 80 members of the Bolivian anti drug force known as the leopards. No date has been announced for the o T17T acres of the 1,280-acre wheat and "At first I thought, what's the use?" said Copelar.d watching the tractors raise huge dust clouds as they crisscrossed his fields. "But the way the community is acting, I'm not going to give up now. I'm going to try. "The cards, mail, the turnout today it's fantastic. Like I told my kids, I can't leave this commun- ity now. I'm just, overwhelmed.' There's no way I can repay these 'people for what they're doing for Ccpeland's son Eclfcy, also said the turnout helped the fzzzily a lot. "About the time you think you The Associated Press 9 Of 35 fetuses tested. 24 turned out to be male, and nine of these were des tined to have hemophilia. Five of the affected fetuses were aborted. In the past, mothers who feared they would pass on the gene sometimes aborted all male fetuses rather than run the risk of having a boy with the disorder. Dr. Neil A. Holtzman of Johns Hop kins said 20 U.S. companies are either working on pre-natal tests or plan to do so, within the next five years. He said tests may be developed to reveal a ten dency to have a variety of common ills, including heart disease, manic-depression and Alzheimer's disease. abandon the treaty's limit on bombers carrying nuclear-tipped cruise missiles toward the end of this year. But he said he would take into consideration whether the Soviets observed the terms of the unratified accord and how they managed their strategic nuclear force. Rowny said the treaty was flawed in two major ways: it imposes ceilings on missile launchers and not on their nuclear warheads, and in the ways compliance is verified. He said the Soviets were now willing to negotiate limits on warheads. "This gives us some basis for, at least, a hope ful attitude," Rowny said. But he said the Soviets had not given ground to U.S. demands for on-site inspection of their underground test sites, despite public indications of a change. for driving while under a lifetime li cense suspension. Garhart's charges are identical to the ones filed against Stanley Davis, 42, and Allen Bishop, 20, in connection with the death of Ms. Stephens, whose body was found in a ditch near Elm wood in May. Charlotte Bishop, 29, the wife of Bishop, was charged with being an accessory to a felony for allegedly help ing in the disposal of Ms. Stephens' body. beginning of the raids, which will mark the first participation by American mil itary personnel in field operations against narcotics trafficking in another country. Fernando Barthelemy, Bolivia's inte rior minister, who returned from a visit to Trinidad on Thursday morning, de nied reports the raids had begun. He asked journalists to be patient "and maintain the greatest possible reserve in handling information on this." The Bolivian officials who reported that some units had moved out of the issiiiiiil 5 f don't have any friends, you've get fricn 3 everywhere " ; wife were planning to leave, but ' alter Wednesday's show of support, they will stay at least six months to" a year to help his father try to make a go of it. Copeland said his neighbors' efforts saved the expense of plow- ' ing, but he doesn't know if it will prevent foreclosure on the farm, lie -said he is trying to work out ar, arrangement with the Farmers Heme Administration, which had told hisi foreclosure action might he taken. - "The Copelands ars fine peerle in the community. We love them ar.d don't want then to leave," said Mar tin. He said all it took was to "get Tapes show crew likely died without warning WASHINGTON - NASA said Thursday preliminary analyses of newly restored tape recordings from space shuttle Challenger show that its crew probably died without knowing of their impending danger. It was the first time since the Jan. 28 explosion of the shuttle that NASA had addressed anything asso ciated with the last moments of the seven-member crew. The space agency has been trying for months to decode onboard tapes, and finally succeeded, a NASA announcement said. It's been a subject of speculation since the Jan. 28 accident whether, in the moments before their deaths, the crew of seven knew something was amiss. A damage claim filed by the widow of pilot Michael J. Smith asks $15.1 million for his death and alleges that Smith "was thrown about in the spacecraft and in the few seconds preceding his death, knew of his impending death." NASA said "Preliminary analysis of the tape shows the crew was unaware of the events associated with the tragedy and the internal communications were being main tained as would be expected during a normal ascent," NASA said. The tapes were recovered from the Atlantic about a month and a half after the accident and were severely damaged by seawater and chemical byproducts. An intensive effort began to clean the tapes and salvage any data they might contain. "Engineers at IBM developed a process for neutralizing the caustic chemicals and restoring the tape to the point it can be analyzed," NASA said. Attempts by NASA engineers to play back the tapes have begun, the space agency added. Challenger carried five operational recorders which contained both computer and voice data. The two channels are intermixed in the sys tem, NASA said. Trinidad camp said operations are expected to start in the next few days and last about two months. American officials have said 160 U.S. military personnel will be involved, and that they will not participate directly in the raids but have been told to shoot back if fired upon. President Victor Paz Estenssoro has given them diplomatic immunity. Previous anti-drug campaigns have been crippled by the lack of adequate transportation in the dense Amazon rain forest of eastern Bolivia, where there are few roads and the jungle makes travel by land almost impossible. gmii&mtiiMxiMrxxvz -iits sOSi! iiri ":s : . ' the word out" zvA the farmers O. . z ct C. ; farmers, Ned Patton of Chait; : ' s jid plowing the fields was a v;;:y u ilicvrfn concern for his Mends ar. I aiding b tte farm crisis. ' "Gens's a frkr4 I've known him and Katherine ar.d their family all my life," Pattoh sail "To me, this is cne way we can he!? the situation agriculture's gotten into. It's a way of showing people can help other people." Ccpei-r. i said he h; res his wife's : death: can ep draw: attention to, the phvto' r.f tAfisv's faraers&. "That's the reason I'm letting her death be U2cd by the media. If her death can save some other lives, then it's net in vain."