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Mayor n leistnei said Wednesday The state and federal govern mem helped with a $90.5 mil- bdn buyout of Times Beach, but “there’s no w»v that amount of mone\ can reimburse the peo ple for lots of their health/’ Letstner told a House PuMk W'orks and T ransportation oversight subcommittee hearing. “Trying m summarize the agonizing death of our city is dif ficult." she said, reading from a 16-page statement “This ex perience has been an emotional roller coaster ride for 2.000 people * Letstner, a couple who for- tnerh lived in Imperial, Mo., a Louisiana maa and a New York woman all irMified about the problems of victims. The mayor complained of the lack of “people-oriented’’ com pensation for the environmental disaster that drove people from her cky. She outlined the seizures, rmotmnal problems, allergies, skin divrases. and tumors that have affected Times Beach rest dents including some members of her own family One of her daughters has been diagnosed as having a pre- cancerous cervix, and other young women — some in their teens — have developed breast cancer, Leistner said "While the human temptation exists to blame anything and ev erything on dioxin. I hav* re lated only problems that have defied diagnosis as to the>r caiAe," she said Dioxin, a by-product of the manufacture of herbicides, is a potent cause of cancer in anim als and causes skin rashes in hu mans. Researchers are studying a possible link between dioxin and a rare soft-tissue cancer in humans. Dioxin was contained in waste oil spread in several areas of Missouri, including Times Beach, as a dust Control measure in the early IQTlh The EPA announced last Feb ruary it was tapping the govern ment’s $ 1.6 billion Superfund, a special tax on chemical com panies producing hazardous wastes, to buy out the estimated 800 residences And 12 busines ses in Times B^ch. Leistner said.that compensa tion to some mefrhants for their business losses has been inade quate. “Businesses- tvere told that (Small Business Administration) loans were avai|able, w she said. “Almost all applied, and almost all were Tefuseq. There was no ’ready’ money |or the business people, and they have suffered accordingly." She offered a'senes of recom mendations for handling similar problems in the future, includ ing establishment of a tax on chemicals to provide the neces sary health care for people suf fering from exposure to dioxin She also called for adequate and prompt compensation for ouMtiess people and for person al pmperty, along with lifetime follow-ups on the health of peo ple exposed to the chemicals. Shnrlev and Ronald Payne of Paciflc, Mo., who for 6V5 years lived in Imperial, Mo., across the street from a dioxin contaminated site, detailed the medical problems that they, their four children and former neighbors have suffered. “I believe our family health problems have been a direct re sult of our exposure to dioxin," she sgid. adding that state health officials agree. , Akhough the Paynes sold their home in 1981 before the Environmental Protection Agegcv this year began con tern plating buying out homes in the area,, Payne said her family has sustained $25,000 in medical ex penses not covered by health in-1 suragee. “I am concerned about the nthey people who still live near and around the Minker site," she said. “The contaminated dirt is still there; there are no fences and nor warning signs. NATCHITOCHES La — Detectives have tentatively iden tified a man accused of posing as basketball legend Bill Russell in a bizarre investment scam as for mer NFL star Marv Fleming The new twist in the case was announced Tuesday by city police, who said efforts were continuing to identify the sus- C through officiate of the ball league. “He did advise me that he was Marv Fleming the football play-' er," said police detective Larrv Vaughn “But we still have no solid proof.” Vaughn said the man admit ted under questioning he was in deed Fleming and had once played for the Green Bav Pack ers and the Miami Dolphins. He said the man looked like a photo of the former NFL player and was wearing some jewelry shown in the picture. “The time we showed himthis picture was the time he told us ne really was Marv Fleming," Vaughn said. Fleming was the starting tight end for the Miami Super Bowl teams of 1971, X972 and 1979 after coming to the Dolphins in a trade with the Packers Sheriffs deputies said the 6- foot-4 suspect went so far with his Bill Russell charade as to ted his would-be victim a voluntary operation had cut him down from his once-imposing height. > "She thought the basketball player was much taller." said spokesman Russell Roge. “He tokj her he had an operation in which they removed (0 inches of bone out of his legs so he could fit in his Mercedes Benz." Detectives said the man ex plained his lack qf resemblance to the former NBA plaver and coach by saving he had had an accident recently and was forced to undergo plastic surgery. The suspect identified him self as Russell but was carrying a driver’s license and personal checks imprinted with tne name of Fleming. He used these false identities in an attempt to trick the woman out of $2,500, Roge said. According to the charges filed against him, the suspect phoned the woman as Russell and sought her investment in s.re staur ant He told her to make the check out to Fleming, whom he identified as his accountant. However, the woman became suspicious when he* son, who played basketball, expressed doubts Russell would be in volved in such a business deal. She invned the man to come over and discuss the offer in de tail — as officers listened in another room. “She handed him the check, he got up and started out the front door,” Vaughn said. “That's where we apprehended him” The suspect was charged with attempted felony theft. In the vehicle's trunk, officers said they found “a bunch of newspaper. chnteinv^ about Marv Fleming Day, held in . Texas when the player retired about nine years ago. A female companion identi fied as Bobbie Jane Brvaat, 42, of Pueblo, Colo., was booked as an accomplice in the case. The woman verified" the suspect was Bill Russefl at the woman's house. * Hearing’could lead to-new trial for convicted murderer Profile run on horse tortures da'lLas law Police sought a psvchological profile on the kil lers of seven horses, brutally tor tured by internal injury, and were told they are sadists with below-average intelligence and posublv bedw sners or arsonists Since all the horses were mares, police Sgt. W B Wilson said Monday, “I’m even wonder ing if there’s some kind of hatred of women." Investigators believe the peo ple are responsible for at least three incidents since March in ACLU says more prisons won’t help which seven mates died of inter nal injuries after being sexuallv mutilated Police believe;at least two peo pie are involvcq — one to calm the animal or irjject a drug and another to inflict the fatal in juries “Cruelty to afiimals, a fireset ter and bedwet(ers are part of one syndrom^," said S.A. Somodevilla, Dallas police psychologist Ih addition, he said, the people probably have probf Liber SAVANNAH Ga — Build mg more pi isons u not the answer to the overcrowding robtem. an American Civil rmes Union attorney told participants at the Southern I .rKisl,4tive conference I uesday. ateve Ney, thief stall counsel for the ACLL''s National Prison Project, pointed out that over crowding is a result of a doubted prison population over the past 10 years He said nearly hall of the 400,000 people in state prisons around the country — about 180,000 — are in the 15 states that compose the Southern Legislative Conference “More building is not the answer," be said. "Clearly, the prisons are not rehabilitating anyone They are not deterring crime * Ney recommended the in creased use of probation and community service sentencing, increasing the amount of “good tune" sentence reductions allowed and reclassification of prisoners as ways to cut back prison populations. “We’re trying to obtain humane conditions," he said. “The people in prison should be pumsned but under humane conditions.'' Paul Lawrence, a Justice De partment lawyer, agreed with Ney. “Overcrowding means you have too manw to take care of," Lawrence saia. “The prison just isn’t staffed or managed to meet constitutional standards. “a relatively low IQ" and are knowledgeable about horses. Investigators and psycholog ists discount rumors of cult in volvement. No external mutila tion occurred and no evidence of ritual activity was found at the scenes. • “It’s for kicks," SomodeeiHa said "They’re sick. The intent is to kll the animal, k’s someone who is getting a kick out of the cruelty. There’s sadism in volved.” United Press InteraMioml AUSTIN — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Wednesday ordered a mental competency hearing that could lead to a new trial tor death row inmate Samuel C. Hawkins, who was twice sentenced to die for the rapes and slayings of a pregnant Borger woman and an Amarillo girl. 12. The state's highest criminal appeal court fuled a trial judge erred »n refusing to let a jury decide whether Hawkins was competent to stand trigl for the 1977 rape and stabbing death of Abbe Hamilton, 19. who was six months pregnant. The court said a Lubbock County jury should consider within the next 90 days whether Hawkins was competent at the time of his trial for Hamilton's death. Hawkins, 99, was scheduled to be die in March 1982 for the kidnapping. rape and bludgeoning death of Rhonda Keves, 12, of Amarillo, but an Austin judge stayed the execu tion. 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