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Tuesday, September 19,1995 Page 2
Hurricane victims receive supplies
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S.
Virgin Islands - Planes flew prepack
aged meals, ice and other supplies
into St. Thomas by the ton Monday,
part of an effort to relieve residents
whose lives and homes were jolted by
Hurricane Marilyn.
C-130 military cargo planes thun
dered onto the airstrip at St. Thomas,
beginningthe full reliefeffort six years
to the day after Hurricane Hugo rav
aged the Caribbean. The island’s
51,000 residents lost water, electric
ity and telephone service when Marilyn
struck Saturday.
National Guard troops and police
directed traffic in Charlotte Amalie,
the islands’ capital, where long lines
formed at gasoline stations. The drive
from the airport to the resort of
Frenchman’s Reef, normally a 15
minute trip, took 45 minutes Monday.
In the interior, workers cleared
roads of power lines and utility poles.
A radio station was set up so residents
could leave messages for loved ones.
Residents, meanwhile, tried to re
group.
Stacey J. Fredericks sifted through
the debris' of her home, salvaging
clothes she hung on lines stretched
across her yard. She pointed to a pile
of rubble with a refrigerator and dish
washer protruding.
“We live here — or we did,” she
said.
Her sister, Donnise Fredericks
North, said the cleanup helped keep
her mind off their trouble.
“All this stuff we’re trying to save
keeps us busy,” she said. “But if you
stop and start thinking about that night
... you just don’t want to do that.”
The total number of victims wasn’t
immediately known. Authorities re
ported that between three and six
people were killed in St. Thomas, while
a hospital worker in St. Croix reported
two storm-related deaths there. Two
people died in Puerto Rico, and one
person died in St. John.
Monday’s airlift included 300,000
prepackaged military meals, drinking
water and ice, said James Lee Witt,
director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
“This is a massive response and
has taken a combination of everything
we have as a federal team to make this
happen,” Witt said at a briefing in St.
Thomas.
Three distribution centers could
open to the public as soon as Tuesday,
Witt said at an afternoon briefing. Up
to 80 percent of the homes in St.
Thomas were damaged or destroyed,
FEMA said.
Witt said he was unaware of any
one missing on St. Thomas. Officials
earlier had reported about 50 people
missing or injured.
Bermuda issued a tropical storm
warning as Marilyn moved through
the Atlantic. At 11 p.m. EDT, the
center of Marilyn was about 345 miles
southwest of Bermuda, moving north
northeast at 14 mph with winds of 85
mph. It was expected to pass near
Bermuda sometime Tuesday, well east
of the U.S. mainland.
New problems block peace plan
S ARA JEV O, Bosnia-Herzegovina
- A U.S. peace initiative, promoted by
diplomats over Bosnian Serb resis
tance, was miredMonday in new prob
lems—the unprecedented battlefield
gains of the Serbs’ enemies.
While NATO airstrikes battered
the rebel Serbs and forced them to
agree to withdraw their heavy weap
ons from around Sarajevo, the army of
the Muslim-led government and al
lied Croat forces have taken huge
chunks of territory from the Serbs.
Croat and government forces claim
they have captured some 2,400 square
miles — or just over 12 percent of
Bosnia — in the past week.
The Bosnian Serbs’ losses are so
severe that many observers are afraid
the army of Serb-dominated Yugosla
via may plunge into the war to rescue
them. In addition, the gains by Croat
forces have rekindled fears among
Muslims of being squeezed out by
Croats and Serbs.
U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke,
whose shuttle diplomacy across the
Balkans had brought new hopes of
peace, was visibly dispirited Monday.
After meeting with Serbian Presi
dent Slobodan Milosevic, the region’s
most powerful figure, Holbrooke ac
knowledged that there was only “a
little progress.”
A member of Milosevic’s delega
tion, which is negotiating for the
Bosnian Serbs, said the two sides were
far from reaching an agreement.
Bosnian Serbs, armed and encour
aged by Milosevic, captured about 70
percent of Bosnia after the war broke
out in April 1992. The current peace
plan calls for their share of Bosnia’s
territory to be reduced to 49 percent of
the country, but after the recent losses
they may hold less than that.
“It’s about 50-50 ... and that’s a
cautious estimate,” said U.N. spokes
man Lt. Col. Chris Vernon, noting that
by some estimates, the Serbs already
hold less than half of Bosnia.
The United Nations is deeply con
cerned by the offensive and appealed
for “restraint, especially in the light of
the looming humanitarian catastrophe
around the town of Banja Luka,” said
spokesman Chris Gunness.
Banja Luka is the Serbs’ northern
stronghold is important not only in
battlefield strategy but because it is an
industrial center.
The Bosnian Serbs, who have ac
knowledged heavy losses, claimed
Monday that they have stabilized de
fense lines, and will defend Banja
Luka, which is jammed with tens of
thousands of refygees.
“Our only strategic goal is to de
fend the Banja Luka region,” Jovan
Zametica, spokesman for Bosnian Serb
leader Radovan Karadzic, told The
Associated Press.
A Bosnian army source confirmed
the Serbs had strengthened their de
fensive lines, and said government
and Croat troops were encountering
much stiffer resistance.
The pattern of the fighting has given
rise to speculation that the Bosnian
Serbs staged atactical withdrawal from
western towns, preferring to appear to
lose in battle what they would be forced
to relinquish at the negotiating table.
Natural implant could replace silicone
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - While law
yers battle over the dangers of silicone
breast implants, scientists are explor
ing a startling procedure that uses a
woman’s own cells to create tissue
inside the breasts—in effect, a “grow
your-own” alternative.
The experimentation is years be
hind other substitutes for silicone that
use vegetable fats and oils, but sup
porters note that this technique doesn ’t
permanently leave foreign substances
in the body.
“We’ve been tryingto outsmart the
body’s immune system. These fellows
have come up with a concept that
works with it,” said James Martin,
research director at Carolinas Medi
cal Center. The experiments were be
gun last fall at the Charlotte, N.C.
based hospital and at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Silicone has been blamed by hun
dreds of thousands of women for seri
ous immune system diseases. In 1992,
the Food and Drug Administration
banned purely cosmetic silicone im
plants; the procedure is still available
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for cancer and other medical reasons.
If early work on laboratory animals
succeeds, the researchers, within three
to five years, will remove a tissue
sample from somewhere in a woman’s
body, use it to grow additional cells in
the lab, then implant the cells in the
woman’s breast. There they should
multiply and mature into real breast
tissue.
The only comparable procedure
now in existence involves removing a
woman’s abdominal tissue to recon
struct breasts, an operation that is com
plicated, risky and often causes scar
ring, said Michael Miller, an associate
professor of plastic surgery at the
University of Texas Anderson Cancer
Center in Houston.
The researchers’ aim is to help
women who have undergone
mastectomies after breast cancer. But
the method also could be used for
cosmetic breast enlargements.
This year, the scientists are trying
the treatment in laboratory rats. Next
year, they plan to try it on pigs.
A number of questions remain be
fore it can be tried in humans, though
the scientists got a tentative endorse
ment last month from the FDA.
The Charlotte and Ann Arbor labs
have licensed sales rights to a small
biotechnology company , Dallas-based
Reprogenesis, which is paying for
some of the research.
Miller called the breast implant
work “a very exciting area of research.”
“Tissue engineering will affect the
way we do reconstructive surgery in
the next century, without question,”
he said.
Tissue engineering was pioneered
about 12 years ago by two surgeons at
Childrens Hospital in Boston, Robert
Langer and Joseph Vacanti.
One key discovery, Langer said, is
that many body cells can be manipu
lated to form different kinds of tis
sues.
“You can take certain cell types,
put the right ones together and give
them the right cues and they tend to
reorganize and form structures,” he
said.
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Papers to run Unabomber manifesto
WASHINGTON - In an extraordinary decision, The Washington
Post and The New York Times agreed to publish in Tuesday’s editions
of the Post the 35,000-word manifesto of the terrorist known as the
Unabomber.
The Justice Department, in recommending that the papers accede to
the terrorist’s demand, hinted that it hoped Tuesday’s publication would
help its investigation.
“Recent publications of excerpts by newspapers and other publica
tions, as well as the review by selected academicians, have resulted in
numerous investigatory leads which continue to be followed,” Justice
Department spokeswoman Lee Douglass said late Monday.
Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said the decision to publish the
lengthy document under threat of continued terrorist violence was
difficult.
“Whether you like it or not, we ’ re turning our pages over to a man who
has murdered people. But I’m convinced we’re making the right choice
between bad options,” Sulzberger was quoted as saying in the Times.
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Heidi Fleiss’ father sentenced
LOS ANGELES - Paul Fleiss, the prominent pediatrician who helped
his daughter Heidi hide her call-girl ring profits, was sentenced Monday
to one day in prison and fined $50,000.
U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall also ordered the doctor to
serve three years probation and perform 625 hours of community
service. Because of credit for time served, he will not serve any time in
prison.
Paul Fleiss also agreed to surrender to the government $375,187, the
proceeds from the sale of a Beverly Hills estate purchased with the
prostitution profits.
“What got me here was a long chain of events,” Fleiss said outside
court. “I never intended to cheat, lie or steal. I only intended to help my
child.”
He told the judge he planned to continue practicing medicine.
O.J. prosecutors close rebuttal
LOS ANGELES - O.J. Simpson prosecutors closed their rebuttal case
Monday, and the defense prepared to fight back with new witnesses,
including a reputed mob enforcer once linked with Nicole Brown
Simpson’s sister.
The defense, which wants to use Anthony ‘Tony the Animal” Fiato
to undermine the credibility of a lead detective, began its own rebuttal
case so restless jurors would continue to hear testimony.
Defense blood splatter expert Herbert MacDonell told how he drew
his own blood and smeared it on a pair of Aris Light gloves to see if
gloves found at Simpson’s home and the double-murder scene could
have shrunk from blood saturation.
“I can detect no shrinkage,” MacDonell said.
Glove expert Richard Rubin, testifying earlier for the prosecution,
told jurors the evidence gloves could have shrunk as much as 15 percent
since they were bought—explaining why Simpson had trouble squeez
ing his large hands into them during a courtroom demonstration.
Hurricane Marilyn_
Conations as of
Mon. 5 am. EDT
25.4N. 69.4W
Max. winds: 100 mph
Gusts at 120 mph
Moving Nat 10 mph
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