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AWOL intelligence officer found
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PETAH TIKVA, Israel -AU.S.
Army Reserve intelligence officer
AWOL from his base in Texas
turned up Monday at a youth hos
tel in Israel, where police said they
were talking to him but had no
plans to arrest him.
Lt. Col. Jeremiah Mattysse
was picked up by plainclothes
police in Mitzpeh Ramon, a
desert town famed for its crater
and its hippie culture, and
brought to Israel’s international
crimes unit in PetahUvka, near
TfelAviv.
American military officials
said they're especially concerned
about Mattysse's absence
because of his background in U.S.
intelligence.
Joseph Hanley, a spokesman
for the U.S. Army Reserve
Command in Atlanta, said last
week that it would be logical for
an investigation to include ensur
ing that nothing was missing from
offices where Mattysse worked.
Mattysse smiled as he got into
the car Monday, wearing the knit
ted gimHeap typical of Orthodox
Jews and aT-shirt with a floral
modi
He agreed to “review the
case,” a police statement said.
Israeli law has no provision for
arresting someone who deserts a
foreign army, and Mattysse could
leave the station when he wants.
Late into a session that
stretched over two hours, U.S.
diplomats joined the meeting.
Until February, Mattysse
commanded the Army Reserve
Intelligence Support Center at
Camp Bullis in San Antonio,
Texas, as a full-time reserve offi
cer. The unit’s primary mission
was to train reservists in intelli
gence work.
Mattysse, SO, foiled to report
to duty on Aug. 8 after a vacation,
making him AWOL, or absent
without leave.
Mattysse had been reassigned
to the 90th Reserve Support
Group in San Antonio after an
investigation began into his wife’s
allegations that he had an extra
marital affair. The San Antonio
Express-News reported that his
wife, Vanda Mattysse, filed a
divorce complaint March 7 in
Virginia.
RivkaArtzi-Nir, a woman who
lives in Israel and identified her
self as Mattysse’s girlfriend, has
told Israeli newspapers he had
become devoted to helping ismH
since he converted to Judaism 10
years ago
Santa Cruz promotes electric bikes
7 don’t
want to
get rid of
the cars
in your
garage. It
took me
50 years
to put
them
there. I
want to
comple
ment
them."
Lee
Ioacocca
former Ford
president
and
Chrysler
chairman
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -
Even a proudly progressive,
low-key college town like
Santa Cruz can’t escape
what plagues the rest of
America: too many cars on
the road
Officials are practically
begging people to get out of
their cars and onto electric
bicycles - an environmen
tally friendly product that
has been slow to catch on
elsewhere
As part of a $1 million
plan, called the most com
prehensive of its kind in the
nation, Santa Cruz County
residents will be eligible for
discounts, rebates and even
interest-free loans on elec
tric bikes, which can cost
upward of $1,000.
The plan is being cham
pioned by a former fixture
of the transportation estab
lishment, Lee Iacocca,
although he has a vested
interest: He now runs EV
Global, a Los Angeles com
pany that makes electric
bikes and has found busi
ness to be tepid at best
“I don't want to get rid of
the cars in your garage,” the
former Ford president and
Chrysler chairman said last
week. “It took me 50 years
to put them there. I want to
complement them.”
Electric bikes are much
like regular bikes, except
they have a battery-pow
ered motor that spins the
back wheel
That provides a boost to
a pedaling rider or replaces
pedaling altogether for up
to 20 miles-making it easy
to zip up hills, cruise
through town at 18 mph
and arrive at work or school
without breaking a sweat
The batteries can be
plugged into any standard
outlet and need about four
hours to folly charge.
The bikes, which have
been available for about
five years, are a cost-effec
tive way to replace gas-guz
zling short car tripa
But their popularity has
been limited and electric
bikes are mainly available
only online or through spe
cialty dealers.
Gary Starr, chief execu
tive of Zapworld.com, an
electric bike and scooter
maker in Sebastopol Calif,
estimates that there are
between 75,000 and
100,000 electric bikes and
scooters on American
roads.
“I think the only reason
it hasn’t taken off so for is
lack of exposure” he said.
Iacocca’s privately held
company aimed to sell
2,000electric bikes a month
this year; he said they’ve
been struggling to crack
1,000. ZapworTd’s sales
were up 56 percent in the
first half of this year, but the
company’s stock has hov
ered around $5 for months.
If any place is suited for
kick-starting the market, it’s
Santa Cruz, which prides
itself on its spiritual dis
tance from the traffic
choked Silicon Wiley on the
other side of the moun
tains. Home to a hilly
University of California
campus 65 miles south of
San Francisco, Santa Cruz
offers extensive bike routes,
and signs remind drivers to
share the road with cyclists.
But it appears no com
munity before Santa Cruz
has so strongly endorsed
the bikes.
“The bike, generally,
around this country is still a
second-class mode of
transportation,” said Deron
Lovaas, a representative of
the Sierra Club’s anti
sprawl campaign in
Washington, D.C.
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McCain's cancer didn't spread
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHOENIX - Tests on lymph
nodes and tissue removed during
Sen. John McCain’s skin cancer
surgery confirmed that his skin
cancer didn’t spread.
His office announced this
Monday as McCain went home
from the hospital.
The former GOP presidential
candidate underwent more than
five hours of surgery on Saturday
to remove melanoma from his
temple and upper arm.
Melanoma is the most dangerous
form of skin cancer.
Pathologists completed the
final review of the tissues around
the cancers and found no sign
the melanoma had spread, said
Todd Harris, a McCain
spokesman.
If the cancer had reached one
aOmmImcIimi_
or more of the lymph nodes,
treatment would have been more
complicated and less likely to
cure the cancer, experts had said.
McCain, 63, was released
from the Mayo Clinic Hospital
and was resting comfortably at
his Phoenix home, a statement
said.
Doctors found the
melanomas after McCain left the
Republican National Convention
to have biopsies performed at
Bethesda Naval Hospital near
Washington on Aug. 4. He had a
melanoma removed from his
shoulder in 1993.
Melanoma is usually caused
by exposure to the sun. People
with firir skin have a higher risk of
skin cancer.
McCain spent hours in the
harsh Arizona sun campaigning
for Congress in 1982 and subse
quent years.
McCain’s friends have said he
is religious about wearing SPF 45
sun block when outdoors and
about seeing his doctor three or
four times a year to check for new
lesions.
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