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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A
woman who had been
onounced dead but revived
amorgue table was actually in
tate of “hibernation,” hospital
Baals said.
Police officer Gary Wright,
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me or not believe me. I saw a
resurrection.”
The woman was in satisfac
tory condition Sunday night in
Burnham Hospital. Dr. Stanley
Bobowski, a hospital patholog
ist, called the “resurrection” a
medical “fluke.”
“Her temperature was so low
she didn’t have to breathe or
have a fast pulse. It’s very rare. I
think you read about it three or
four times a year in the coun
try,” Bobowski said.
The woman was pronounced
dead Thursday afternoon after
police — summoned by friends
— found her lying still and cold
on the living room floor of her
apartment. Authorities later de
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H1STLE, Utah — The
lish Fork River, dammed up
a mountain mud slide that
id it into a 3-mile-long lake,
ped Thistle with 50 feet of
forcing evacuation of 50
iple. Authorities feared the
rwould flood another town
instream.
The town of Thistle is gone,
future, whether it will ever
itagain, is uncertain,” Larry
men, Utah public safety
miissioner, said at the site
iday.
safely placed in emergency shel
ters in nearby Birdseye today
while emergency workers bat
tled the mud slide to prevent
further flooding in the town of
Spanish Fork miles down
stream.
Utah County Sheriffs dis
patcher Shannon Horn said
only the rooftops of the 22
homes in Thistle could be seen
from a helicopter. She said the
flood also may strand about 25
families in Covered Bridge if it
knocks out a bridge to the com
munity.
“This is the worst disaster in
the history of Utah as far as the
economic ramifications are con
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won’t be another disaster like
this for decades — I hope.”
The mountain’s mud slide,
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than 17 feet since Wednesday
and wa$ creeping at 6 inches per
hour Sunday.
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more than $1 million in damage
to railroad property and state
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as they investigated the scene for
a possible crime.
Then an ambulance took the
woman to the hospital morgue.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON —The Sup
reme Court agreed Monday to
test for the first time whether a
city can own and display a nativ
ity scene at Christmas without
violating the Constitution’s ban
on mixing government and reli-
gion.
Tackling a question that
crops up each yuletide, the jus
tices will review this fall a ruling
banning the city of Pawtucket,
R.I., from displaying a town-
owned crib scene with life-size
figures of the Christ child, Mary,
Joseph, kings and shepherds.
The city displayed the crib
along with numerous other de
corations in privately owned
Hodgson Park in the heart of
the city. Other decorations in
cluded a giant “Seasons Greet
ings” sign, lighted tree, figures
of carolers, snowmen, Santa
Claus, reindeer and Disney
characters and a stand for a live
Santa.
Only the creche was attacked
in a lawsuit filed by a group of
taxpayers and the Rhode Island
branch of the American Civil
Liberties Union, who argue the
Christian nativity scene violates
the First Amendment’s ban on
government “establishment of
religion.”
In other action Monday, the
justices:
— Agreed to decide if Nation
al Enquirer reporters based in
Florida can be sued for libel by
Hollywood actress Shirley
Jones.
— Refused to revive Oscar-
winner Mickey Rooney’s claim
against major Hollywood stu
dios for refusing to pay him for
reruns of his pre-1960s films on
cable television.
— Rejecting vigorous argu
ments from Chief Justice War
ren Burger, left intact a ruling
requiring a federal court to re
view the conviction of a triple
murderer in Washington state.
In the nativity case, both a
U.S. district judge in Rhode Is
land and the First U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals sided with the
taxpayers and ACLU in the
nativity scene case and declared
the city’s sponsorship of the
scene unconstitutional.
“Despite its passive nature,
erection of the creche has the
real and substantial effect of
affiliating the city with the
Christian beliefs that the creche
represents,” U.S. District Judge
Raymond Pettine ruled.
On a 2-1 vote, the appeals
court went a step farther and
found the city not only entang
led government and religion by
erecting the creche, but also
illegally discriminated between
Christian and non-Christian re
ligions.
Pawtucket’s city fathers de
fend the nativity scene as only a
neutral, historical symbol of the
Christmas holidays. They argue
it was only one part of a larger
scene of traditional decorations
that as a whole have no religious
purpose.
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