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The announcement wasnudfl CM Chairman Roger B. SmiilJ Hughes executives at a newscoul ence in New York, whereGM.fi Motor Co. and Boeing Co. hadJ secret bids for the big defensoii ■■■■■■ ■ ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ ~ “ ■ ■ ■ a ‘ THE 5IXTV DOLLARS X TOOK OUT OF AW BANK ACCOUNT.., BOYS f . i o r~r —— FI - —HlH Bor /Y\AG>BE X SHOULDN'T HAl/e ecrTTEH IT ALL IN ONES ... ironies company. ’ I# tne Vol. 79 Smith said the Hughes deal GM’s $2.5 billion acquisitionoflB ironic Data Systems Corp, Iasi * had put in place the basics foi grand plan of reshaping CM ii|f high-technology company. “There’s still some piece) 0 Fibers foster toxic shock ■ Tampon mystery solved Associated Press BOSTON — Doctors said day of 1 mystery of how some highly absor bent tampons contribute to toxic idr shock syndrome, and their discovery- should allow the production of safe tampons. Researchers at Harvard Medical School said two kinds of fiber used in tampons foster the production of a bacterial poison that causes the rare disorder. The fibers remove magnesium from the vagina, which produces an ideal environment for bacteria to make the dangerous toxin. If mag nesium is added to tampons made from this material, the researchers said, they appear to be safe. “We hope we have found a means for making tampon fibers such that they will not stimulate maximum toxic production,” Dr. Edward H. Kass said. The two materials that absorb magnesium are polyester foam and polyacrylate rayon. Tampons now being sold are made from cotton, viscose rayon and carboxymethylcellulose, which the doctors said are safe. The study is being published in the June issue of the Journal of In fectious Diseases. The national Centers for Disease Control says that between 1980 and 1984, 114 died of toxic shock syn drome. Three-quarters of the vic tims were tampon users, but the dis order also strikes men and children. ■ rgu ings also contain the two fibers they identified, possibly the explanation for the toxic shock cases among men and children. Toxic shock syndrome most com monly occurs on the fourth men strual day. The researchers specu late that during the days of heavy blood flow there’s so much magne sium in the vagina that the tampon cannot bind it all. But as blood flow slows, magne sium levels drop. Then the tampions remove enougn magnesium to in duce high production of toxin. Toxic shock is extremely rare, and the incidence has dropped by 50 piercent. About three-quarters of all American women used 1980. used tampons in piece) there,” Smith said. “But I’d say,n now with EDS and Hughes andt eral Motors, we have the basic ing blocks that we need to jj ward.” Smith had tantalized the busil world for more than a year Mill statements that he had “a lulu”oil announcement coming. “The lulu has come homf'l said. The move allows GM to divel but Smith made it clear thath<i after Hughes’ technology for id GM’s 150 factories and undei hoods of its cars. Despite its name, Hughes $ not make aircraft. Its specialty I missiles, air-defense systems, stc lites and the exotic systems neering and microelectronics the U.S. auto industry has betot fond of. “We felt they were the prcoH electronics company in the world,” Smith said of Hughes of course electronics, we belied going to be the key to the2]slt| tury. It certainly is for our a mobilf.” Hughes was sold by How Hughes Medical Institute, had been the sole shareholderii( 1953. The company and insinj were founded by the late Howard Hughes. AUS laise th 19 to 2 day by ( I The I Amarill Sept. 1, that pre drinkin The dri S( WAS Roted T lion in i anu-Sar Itrict p port foi The, Tornado death toll reaches 88; 2 more people die from injuries Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Two more people have died of injuries suffered in last week’s deadly tornadoes, rais ing the death toll to 88, authorities said Wednesday. Estimates of the number of homes and businesses damaged or de stroyed in Pennsylvania alone climbed to 2,400, at a cost of nearly $226 million, said officials as they continued their detailed assessment of the tornadoes’ destruction. Tornadoes that swept through western New York, western Pennsyl vania, northeastern Ohio and part of Ontario, Canada, killed 64 people in Pennsylvania, 12 in Ohio and 12 in Canada. A Trumbull Memorial Hospital spokeswoman said 75-year-old An- tnony Squatrito, of Wheatland, P^., died Tuesday afternoon. Squatrito was the eighth Wheatland resident to die from the storm. A dozen businesses were dev astated, and 50 homes were de stroyed in the tiny Mercer County town. On Monday night, Miriam Wag ner, 57, of Milton, died at Muncy Valley Hospital from multiple inju ries, state police Trooper Thomas Isenberg said Wednesday. The tornadoes raked 13 Pennsyl vania counties, 12 of which were de clared disaster areas by President Reagan. An estimated 700 people were injured statewide. As state and federal agencies con tinued their relief efforts, John Comey, spokesman for the Pennsyl vania Emergency Management Agency, said the most critical phase was over. Morgan Stanley & Co. lnc.,tl)t| vestment firm advising tl institute, said the deal wasthei) gest sale ever of a privately )ie)i)| dustrial company. Thomas O’Grady, a sei tor of the research firm Chase:! vide $1 motive Services, said GM’s sat million $84 billion in 1984 sales conf U.S. as with $5 billion for Hughes —les* overthr the importance of diversifiot tfernmer compared with GM’s quest forit The nology. House, “For GM, it’s better to purcl CIA ai< high-tech where it already is tat caragu; place,” O’Grady said. “It’s fasten jtpected they have to be f aster becauseof next we Japanese competition.” The Hughes Acquisition) GM to challenge again for the! spot among the world’s top iik' trial companies. Based on ” nues, the GM-Hughes combint just $2 billion behind theU-. in sales by Exxon Corp., which stru ggl ). 1 in 1979. and * placed GM as No. Reac the Wl amend for the struggl in Nica “Thi DJ upsets town by reporting Lucas look -alike can pe< Tne join wi nal to 1 strugg: Associated Press WACO, Texas — The driver of a yellow pickup truck Thomas Poin dexter spotted on his way to work looked exactly like multiple mur derer Henry Lee Lucas, so when Poindexter got to his radio disc jockey job, he told listeners what he had seen. The result, authorities said, was a mild panic in Marlin, the Falls County town where station KLMT is located, and a flood of calls to the station’s switchboard. Lucas was safely behind bars in the jail of neighboring McLennan County Tuesday, when Poindexter was driving to work. “I saw a guy who looked just like Henry Lee Lucas,” Poindexter said. “I mean he looked exactly like Lu cas. I couldn’t believe it.” Lucas, a one-time drifter, has been held in the McLennan County Jail the past seven weeks while a grand jury investigation of his mur der confessions is being conducted. He has confessed to dozens of mur ders and retracted most of them. >rtly ; t, the report, the KLMT switchboard was flooded “with more than 100” tele phone calls from people wanting to know how Lucas had escaped. Vida Johnson, secretary for the Falls County Sheriffs Department, also began getting phone calls from concerned residents. She decided to call Capt. Dan Weyenberg of the Mc Lennan County Sheriffs Depart ment. “I told her that we’d run out of doughnuts and had sent Henry out for some more,” Weyenberg said. “She didn’t seem to think itwas ,; funny. “Needless to say. Lucas was k< is here, and has not left for any! | son.” opposi “Th. gedy ir which i El Sah reconc said. 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