Two Serbs sentenced
to death for war crimes
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
(AP) — A military court convicted
two Serbs of war crimes on Tuesday
and sentenced them to death by firing
squad for atrocities that included slit
ting the throats of POWs and raping
Muslim women.
No date was set for the executions
of Borislav Herak, 22, and Sretko
Damjanovic, 31. Defense attorneys
said they would appeal.
The commander of U.N. peace
keepers urged Bosnian authorities to
turn the case — Bosnia’s first war
crimes trial—over loan international
tribunal to avoid inflaming ethnic
passions.
Herak, his head slightly bowed as
the sentence was reaa, confessed to
killing 30 war prisoners and civilians,
including a dozen young Muslims he
first raped.
Damjanovic claims he was tor
tured into falsely confessing to five
murders and two rapes. The only evi
dence against him, his lawyer com
plained, is Herak’s testimony.
Defense lawyers planned an ap
peal to the Bosnian supreme court,
saying the trial produced no hard evi
dence and hinged on the disputed
confession of one defendant.
Given a chance to speak after sen
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/ deserve the death penalty. I would just like to see
my father one more time and to have some ciga
rettes.
-Herak
Serb
This is a not a fair judgment. I am not guilty. I’d
also like to have some cigarettes.
~Oamjanovic
Serb
tencing, Herak said, “I deserve the
death penally. I would just like to see
my father one more lime and to have
some cigarettes.”
Damjanovic said bitterly, “I just
want to thank the court for this.”
Asked by Judge Zlatan Tcftedarija
to elaborate, Damjanovic said, “This
is a not a fair judgment. I am not
guilty. I’d also like to have some
cigarettes.”
Both soldiers were convicted of
crimes against civilians and geno
cide, based on Herak’s testimony that
he and Damjanovic killed people dur
ing so-called “ethnic cleansing” op
erations to purge Muslims from vil
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lages the Serbs took over.
Herak also was convicted of crimes
against prisoners of war, based on his
confession that he slit the throats of
three POWs.
A third defendant, Nada Tomic,
was sentenced to three years in prison
for harboring goods stolen by the
soldiers.
The three defendants were cap
tured Nov. 11 after blundering into a
Bosnian army checkpoint.
The trial, which opened March 12,
was the first attempt by Bosnia’s
Muslim-led government to prove in
court its claims that Serb nationalists
carried out widespread atrocities dur
ing the savage, 12-month-oid war.
First medicine developed
to battle cancer gene
SAN DIEGO (AP)—Scientists
have developed the first medicines
intended to stop malignancy by
disarming a rogue cancer gene, an
approach that could help control
many forms of tumors.
The new treatment is intended
to block a cancer-causing gene —
a so-called oncogene — that ap
pears to play a role in cancer of the
breast and pancreas, among other
organs.
Although the ultimate cause of
cancer is often a mystery, scien
tists have learned in recent years
that mutations in several genes are
critical steps on the path to malig
nancy. When these normal genes
go bad, cells lose control over their
growth, and cancer results.
The latest approach is intended
to short-circuit this process by at
tacking an oncogene known in sci
entific shorthand as neu.
At the University of California,
Los Angeles, Dr. Dennis J. Slamon
has started safely testing of an an
tibody intended to thwart the pro
tein made by the neu gene’s pro
tein. While early results are con
sidered encouraging, the works is
still too preliminary to judge
whether it will work. Dr. Mark I.
Greene of the University of Penn
sylvania, who isdeveloping a simi
lar strategy, said it has shown great
promise in tumor-prone lab ani
mals. He plans to begin testing it
on people within a year.
He said his animal studies pro
vide “the first demonstration that
one can prevent genetically driven
tumors.”
The neu oncogene makes a pro
tein called PI 85. This plays a role
in triggering cells’ uncontrolled
growth. Greene’s strategy is to fash
ion an antibody that locks onto this
protein and renders it harrrfless.
Greene presented his findings
Tuesday at a meeting of the Ameri
can Cancer Society.
Greene, whose team discovered
the neu oncogene nearly a decade
ago, said it is involved in about 30
percen t of breast cancer.
Greene has experimented
largely in mice that have been ge
netically manipulated to develop a
form of cancer indistinguishable
from ncu-related breast cancer in
people. Ordinarily, these animals
get cancer at about 35 weeks of
age. When the researchers began
treating them with anti-neu anti
bodies at about 6 weeks of age, the
appearance of cancer was delayed,
and half of the mice did not devel
opment malignancies at all.
Pitcher s fatal boat wreck
due to alcohol, tests show
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Cleve
land Indians pitcher Tim Crews was
legally drunk when his speeding boat
crashed into a dock on a darkened
lake, killing himself and teammate
Steve Olin and injuring Bob Ojeda,
investigators said Tuesday.
Crews had a blood-alcohol content
of 0.14 percent, surpassing the 0.10
mark considered intoxication under
Florida law. Neither Olin nor Ojeda
was deemed legally drunk.
Medical Examiner Thomas Hcgert
of Orange County said a 0.14 reading
could be the equivalent of six to seven
beers in a person the stature of Crews
(6-foot, 195 pounds), “but the effects
vary considerably in each person.”
Col. Bob Edwards, law enforce
ment director for the Florida Game
and Fresh Water Fish Commission,
called the matter an “alcohol-related
accident.” He added the commission
did not anticipate filing any charges.
Edwards cited three factors inves
tigators considered in this kind of
accident: “careless operation, main
taining a vessel within the speeds
consistent with safety and (the lack
of) a designated lookout, someone
who can be utilized to help look for
structures such as this.” \
Edwards and Lt. Bruce Cooper, in
charge of the probe into the March 22
accident on Little Lake Nellie, said
evidence indicated the 18-foot bass
boat with 150-horsepower motor was
traveling at more than 25 mph in the
dark.
“The exact speed at the time of the
crash is unknown,” said Edwards.
Investigators earlier said there were
indications the boat was going near
top speed of about 65 mph. Edwards
said Tuesday it was impossible to
determine maximum speed.
Olin’s blood alcohol content was
placed at 0.02 percent and Ojeda’s at
0.006 percent, indicating they had
considerably less to drink than Crews.
“Those were good, honest, solid
men,” Indians manager Mike
Hargrove said. “It doesn t alter the
fact one way or the other. Those guys
are still dead. The hurt is still there.
And I think enough is enough.”
Hargrove met with the team in the
dugoul Tuesday after the Indians’
right-filled 6-5 loss to the Cincinnati
Reds in Winter Haven to update the
players on the investigation.
Cooper was asked what possible
charges could have been filed if the
operator of the boat had survived the
crash.
“Thai’s a whal-if question that did
not occur,” Cooper said. “We do have
laws that would cover it. It would be
held manslaughter if that did occur
with alcohol.”
Edwards said the findings were
reviewed by the state attorney in Lake
County, whoagreed no charges would
be filed.
Autopsies conducted in Orange and
Lake counties determined the cause
of death for Crews and Ol in was “blunt
force trauma to the head." The nature
and location of the injuries indicated
they did not see the dock.
Ojeda also told investigators he
did not see the dock, which investiga
tors said was 171 feel long.
Investigators found unopened cans
of beer in an ice chest, a nearly full
bottle of vodka and an empty beer can
aboard the boat.
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