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Excessive lead
found in blood
United Press International
DALLAS -— Health officials
have tested more than 100 chil
dren who live near a lead smelter
and have found that a quarter of
them, including a toddler hospi
talized for lead poisoning, have
excess lead in their blood.
t he survey, conducted bv the
city's Health and Human Services
Department, examined children
living near the Dixie Metals
smelter in south Dallas and found
that 20 of 102 children ages 0
vears and younger had elevated
lead lev els.
bvv ent v-tvvo-mont h-old Pat
ricia Flores, who had been seen
eating dirt in her front vard near
the smelter, was identified during
the survey as an “urgent-risk”
case and immediately hospital
ized in Parkland Memorial Hos
pital. She was listed in fair condi
tion Weclnesdav.
The survev also identified four
other children as moderate to
high t isk cases, HITS of ficial
Margo Branscomb said.
The survey results came at the
same time state District judge
Dee Brown Walker of Dallas is
sued a temporary’ restraining or
der prohibiting the opening of a
second lead smelter in the city.
He said the issue has not been ef-
fectivelv addressed. Citv officials
contend the facilitv does not com-
plv with c itv zoning ordinances.
“I don't know vvhv thev (Mur
mur Corp.) want to get that thing
started out there," Walker said
Tuesday. "It seems like it would
lead to another mess."
I he restraining order was
signed over the protest of Mur
mur officials who were autho
rized Monday by state District
judge Nathan Hecht to open the
plant.
Murmur bought the giant
smelter in west Dallas from RSR
Corp. in Mav for $25,000 and has
invested $400.000 in pollution-
control equipment to complv with
a federal order to clean up the
smelter and to pav for the re
moval of lead-contaminated soil
nearbv .
Thomas Kurt, a member of the
citv environmental health com
mission, said he was not con
vinced the lead levels were linked
to the smelter.
"I wouldn't necessarily become
an alarmist at the information,’’
he said. " I here are other factors
to be looked into.”
He noted that many Hispanic:
families in the area use a popular
Mexican folk remedy that cron-
tains a high lev el of lead oxides.
Accused abductors in coy
United Press International
AMSTKRDAM. Netherlands —
1 hree men accused of kidnapping
the Dutch beer magnate Freddie
Heineken and extorting an $1 1 mil
lion ransom went on trial Wednes
day.
Heineken familv members, rela
tives of the defendants and curious
onlookers crowded into a courtroom
tigged with bullet-proof glass
screens to hear testimonies of the
months of meticulous planning be
hind the abduction of one of Fu-
rope's t ie best men.
Heineken, the (>()-year-old head
of the world's fourth largest brew
ery, was kidnapped at gunpoint
Nov. I) outside his Amsterdam of
fice. His driver. Ah Doderer, 58, also
was kidnapped.
1 he pan was taken to an isolated
timber warehouse, where thev were
chained to the walls of specially built,
sound-proof cells for 21 days. Hei
neken and Doderer were found by
police 48 hours after the brewery
paid a ransom estimated at SI 1 mil
lion.
1 he three Dutch defendants are
Jan Boellard, $5; Martin F.rkamps,
21: and Frans Meijer, 30. I hey were
; nested in a nationwide manhunt,
during which police recovered about
SO million of the ransom. The re
mainder is still missing.
Under Dutch law, there are no
jury trials and defendants are not
asked to plead guilty or not guilty. If
convicted, however, the three could
face jail sentenc es of up to Hi years.
AT A THEATRE NEAR YOU.
Presiding judge (>. ffodeiil:
opened the trial with a suinimrl
the c ase and then called ErkampjB
the stand as the* first of the three*
fendants to testify. Frkanipsgatj
statement detailing his sine of*
store before defense and pros**
tion arguments.
Lrkamps said preparationsbT
live months before the kidnappiiJ
but in the' beginning he wasuniujl
of the* spec ific nature of thecrirl
being planned.
"I liad no idea the whole time iJ
all this planning was lor a kidnJ
ping, ' F.rkamps said. "I reckoned*
were going to do a bank joborson
thing like that."
F.rkamps said he was promtej
about S300.<)()() for stealing
mobiles and for helping to purdJ
West ('.erinan intercoms that kn®
used in the* tin heated cells i in id
H eineken and Doderer wereimpitl
nned.
After Frkumps discovered cl
crime involved a kidnapping,heal
he* realized "there was just noguJ
bac k at lhat stage."
He said he helped takecaryt)!*
two c aptiv es aftei the abduction. I
"I bioiiglu them l(K>d,
cooked nivsell every morningac
rvciv evening." Frkainps sai(l.“^A
when 1 had to speak to them, ispofl
in Cei nian to hide my identity.IziP;
had rm head covered so theycqfl
mit see mv lace."* p
Uouit ol t ic ials said Heinekena:®
his chivei were not exoected l(n*|
peat m the trial
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