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United Press International
I RALEIGH, N.C. — A gunman holding out for the fourth day in
a fetid Amtrak sleeping compartment handed a crying 4-year-old
girl to an FBI agent today but police said the girl’s mother and
-month-old brother were apparently dead.
The gunman, who identified himself as Mario Rodriguez, said a 1
lan was also lying dead in the tiny compartment, but police
discounted the claim.
The girl was freed early today after the gunman was told by FBI
igent Raymond Ayres, “I’m going to the hospital anyway, let me
take the child.”
The girl, wrapped in a pink blanket, was handed to Ayres
through the window of the sleeping car after negotiators con-
dnced Rodriguez they would not shoot him. She was in “fair to
good condition” at a hospital.
Police have believed since Friday that a woman, thought to be
ithe mother of the two children, is dead. Rodriguez has said her
decomposing body is in a top bunk of the 6-by-10 foot compart-
" lent.
Some police officers stationed closest to the sleeping car wore
lasks today because of the stench apparently from the woman’s
decomposing body.
Although the 9-month-old child could be heard crying often
Friday and Saturday, the crying gradually became more irregular
and stopped Sunday morning. Rodriguez said the baby, which
officials first thought was a girl but said today they believed was a
boy, is dead.
“The baby is dead, allegedly,” Police Chief Frederick K. Heine-
man said. “We don’t have reason to believe he’s lying.”
Police said a man identified from an Amtrak passenger list as W.
Rodriguez, a woman and the two children got on Amtrak’s Silver
Star at Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday night bound for New York.
’Mario Rodriguez has claimed a man he identified as William
Rodriguez is dead. Heineman discounted the claim, saying “it’s
possible but improbable” a dead man was in the compartment.
Police said they believed Mario Rodriguez and W. Rodriguez
vere the same man.
Heineman described the gunman as a “man of many extremes.”
“I have never run into anyone like him before nor have any of
the other hostage negotiators that are here,” Heineman said. “He
is highly unpredictable.”
Tay Beasley, a spokesman for Wake County Memorial Hospital
where the 4-year-old was taken, said she is “active, she has been
crying and talking. We have just brought in a nurse to act as an
interpreter.”
Ms. Beasley said the girl appears to understand Spanish better
than English.
! Raleigh Police Capt. C.L. Price said Ayers, who speaks Spanish,
had been able to establish a relationship with Rodriguez.
Price said Rodriguez feared he would be shot if he gave up the
girl.
“When Rodriguez went to the window, he showed both hands
and said ‘Don’t shoot me,”’ Price said. “The negotiator assured him
he would not shoot.”
After the girl was released, police attempted to resume negotia
tions with Rodriguez, who has wavered between threatening police
officers and threatening to kill himself.
Sunday night, Rodriguez lowered a 9-millimeter handgun
wrapped in a white cloth from the window of the compartment. In
return, authorities tied a bag containing soft drinks and cigarettes
to the rope and Rodriguez pulled it back into the compartment.
Police said Rodriguez still had a .45-caliber weapon.
Now you know
Arena
collapse
kills 2
United Press International
MEXICO CITY — A bull-[
fight arena packed with 1,500
spectators collapsed Saturday,
crushing hundreds of people
under metal and wood debris.
Two people were reported dead
and an estimated 200 were in
jured, police said.
Police spokesman Jaime Lara
said 75 ambulances from the
Red Cross and the city rescue
squad helped to take an esti
mated 200 people to hospitals.
He said two people were re
ported killed.
Half of the Carlos Arruza
Plaza, constructed of metal tub
ing and wood, apparently col
lapsed from the vibrations of a
landing helicopter Saturday
afternoon, Lara said.
The helicopter was bringing
bullfighter Antonio Lomelin to
the plaza in San Pedro Actopan,
a neighborhood in the south
western part of Mexico City.
More than 1500 people were
watching the bullfights when the
plaza collapsed, Lara said.
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An old home remedy that
keeps the refrigerator smelling
fresh may also help people avoid
expensive gum surgery. Baking
soda — though largely forgotten
in recent times — has long been
known as a tooth power. Now
! there is lab evidence for its effec
tiveness in preventing gum dis-
i.ease, /
The September issue of Sci
ence Digest magazine reports
that scientists at the University
( of California, San Francisco,
have recently conducted tests
that focus on the power of bak
ing soda, Epsom salts and table
salt to kill oral bacteria. The re
search is funded by baking soda
manufacturer Arm and
Hammer.
Bacteria were inhibited by all
three compounds but were inhi
bited by baking soda at lower
concentrations than were neces
sary with Epsoms salts and table
salt.
Oral biologist Ernest New-
brun said baking soda seemed to
take special aim at gum disease-
causing bacteria, affecting them
more than they did other bacter
ia. “Now we are doing rate stu
dies to see how fast they’re kil
led,” Newbrun added.
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