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Tuesday July 9, 1985/The Battalion/Page 7 SHOE by Jeff MacNelly French train hits truck, killing eight injuring 67 Associated Press »u^ i u , .. ^ , - . Associat<Hl Press I SAINT-PI ERRE-DU-VAUV- JtAY, France — An express train going 100 mph smashed into a trac- rntory, tli| tor-trailer trapped on the track be- is nationo[|t we en automatic crossing gates Mon- Hay. Police said eight people were i, 50 miltjHilled and 67 were injured. •d Arabia* Police and fire officials said the lo- Hmotive and four front passenger t least ontHrs of the Le Havre-Paris train Baal Moby limped the track and one car ■lowed through part of a neArby officialsolgiouse. The train carried about 600 army rep passengers. I The U.S. Embassy in Paris said ia's Trans preliminary reports indicated five ike a nuni : Americans were among the injured. ?ats toim-E The embassy said four of the five theoffai Americans suffered minor injuries Hnd the fifth was hospitalized in sat- nascusl)t||factory condition. Identification of e leader of Najda. ing an ev e ration of ib reactioi the injured Americans was withheld f lending notification of their fami- ies. Witnesses said the frantic driver tried to raise the gate manually mo ments before the impact and was back in his chb, trying to crash his rig through the barrier when the train hit him. Police said 10 of the injured were in “grave condition.” The accident occurred at about 9:15 a.m. in this community 62 miles miles west of Paris, on a regular run from the port of Le Havre. National police and firefighters, called in from a 60-mile radius, struggled to free passengers from the tangled mass of metal, said offi cials of the department, or state, of Eure. There was no immediate official explanation of the accident’s cause. “Rocks began flying outside the window along with a lot of metal,” 14-year-old Carrie Brezine of Yellow Springs, Ohio, told reporters afteir the accident. “Then the train began to swerve from side to side and lug gage began falling. Several suitcases hit me on the shoulders before the train tipped over.” She was in the second passenger car and was not seriously injured. “I passed out, but I remember hearing people screaming And call ing for help,” she said. Brezine was in a group of young Americans who had spent three weeks in Le Havre and were travel ing to Paris. None of them was se riously injured. S. landing Tying air- al steps ic it called i Watermelons Official: Farmers m&y^be responsible for poisonings :e s. rle homes . By mid least five xvrt were e jammed pressure red their er the city quipmeni )se,” said aation or- dspeaker auld take Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Cali- brnia’s top agriculture official said Monday that he believes watermelon poisonings in California and sur- ounding states were caused by de liberate misuse of farm chemicals, not by pesticide residue from pre- ious crops. State Food and Agriculture Direc tor Clare Berryhill said, “I’m not as- uming it was a carryover. I’m as- uming it was an illegal application.” He said his department had re vived information from informants fto that effect. The pesticide involved in the poi sonings, aldicarb, sold by the Union Carbide Co. under the trade name ofTemik, is banned for use on wa termelon crops. But its use has been approved for other crops, including cotton, which is produced in the same area as watermelons, in many cases by the same growers. Aldicarb-contaminated melons have been linked to illnesses of more than 200 people in four Western states and Canada. The pesticide involved in the poisonings, aldicarb, sold by the Union Carbide Co. under the trade name of Temik, is banned for use on watermelon crops. Some growers blamed Union Car bide for the contamination, saying the pesticide did not decompose in the soil as fast as they had been led to believe. But Berryhill said at a news coh- ference, “I’m not going to blame Union Carbide at thisjuncture. “We believe there were violations of restricted materials laws, and we think there are some growers out there who violated that. “And I’m here to tell you right now that I will not sleep until I find those growers, and I’m going to use all the police power I nave in my power to put them away. We cannot allow a few growers in this state to jeopardize our industry. We’re out to find those people.” His deputy, Rex Magee, said vio lations of pesticide laws are misde meanors with maximum criminal penalties of a $1,000 fine and up to six months in jail. But he said civil penalties could be as high as $150 per plant, which he said could total in the millions of dollars. Berryhill added that other grow ers who have lost their crops because of orders to destroy suspect fruit also might have claims against grow ers who violated the pesticide laws. Dr. Kenneth Kizer, director of the state Department of Health Services, said 149 California illnesses were linked to aldicarb poisoning and an additional 200 illnesses, in 23 coun ties were under investigation. At least 38 cases of aldicarb poi soning have been reported in Ore gon, Washington, Alaska and British Columbia. Man linked to cabin killings declared fit for trial in Canada Associated Press CALGARY, Alberta — Charles NgvvaS declared fit to stand trial in Canada on Monday after a psychiat r ric examination, and U.S. officials said they would begin proceedings to extradite him to California where he is linked to the discovery of nine bodies at a remote cabin. Before his arrest here Saturday, Ng, 24, had been the subject of a worldwide manhunt because of his connection to survivalist Leonard Lake, who committed suicide in po lice custody last month. Lake lived in the Calaveras County cabin where investigators have unearthed nine bodies, 40 pounds of bones, videotapes of sex ual torture and bloody tools. Police say Ng appears on some of the vi deotapes — including one in which he threatens a terrified woman with a knife — although his fingerprints have not been found at the house. Ng, a former U.S. Marine, ap peared briefly in a packed court room before Judge Hubert G. Oliver granted a prosecution request for a preliminary psychiatric examina tion. Several hours later, prosecutors said government psychologists had declared him able to stand trial. Ng faces Canadian charges of at tempted murder, robbery of less than $200 and illegal use of fire arms. H£ was arrested at a Calgary department store during an alleged shoplifting attempt in which a secu rity guard was shot in the hand. Oliver scheduled a July 15 hear ing when Ng will be asked to choose among a judge-only trial in Provin cial court, a judge-only trial in a higher court or a jury trial in a higher court. Ng’s attorneys, who have prom ised to fight extradition, said they would recommend a jury trial. In San Francisco, Claralyn Balazs, Lake’s ex-wife, has been subpoenaed to appear Wednesday before a granu jury, Stan Rozanski, one of her attorneys, said. Rozanski said Monday the subpoena asked for a 1985 personal calendar and some letters from Lake. At a news conference with Cali fornia and Canadian aVithorities, Calgary police Inspector Ron Tar rant said Ng, who has a sister in Cal gary, might have been camping in a city park for three or four days be fore his arrest. Calaveras County Sheriffs Sgt. Ron McFall and San Francisco police Inspector Edward Erdelatz ques tioned him for about five hours Sun day. They refused to give any details of their interview with Ng, but McFall said, “We found it beneficial. I can’t say we’re disappointed.” can stop lily in his i wagon la b isers said 5 for en- ■cent said ir health, /anted to ilarity of reational >t a con- e survey :iia Gen- eluded a of 1,402 ty 1-7. ut 1,400 ubject to rcentage f chance ent eor iking on-Fri 9- 5 Sat 10- 2 Tucson citizens to send Soviets Ecstasy deotape calling for peace (continued from page 1) Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — Sometime later this year, if all goes as planned, the good citizens of Novokuznetska, Siberia, are going to sit down in front of a video cassette recorder, slap in a tape and hear good tidings from a faraway place called Tucson. One Tucsonan will say, “Hello, my name is Bill Preib. I just want to say that nobody wants war — and ev erybody wants peace.” “I love you,” a Tucson woman will inform the Soviets, speaking their native tongue with a heavy Ameri can accent. The spontaneous messages, a pro ject of the Tucson-Novokuznetska Friendship Project, were recorded on videotape recently at a “Peace Fair” in Reid Park. People attending the Tucson Peace Center’s fair, which featured displays by numerous human rights and pacifist organizations, were in vited to “Speak Your Peace to the Soviets on Video.” They paid $3 for doing so. Anne Goldman, a member of the Friendship Project, said the 80-min ute videotape is to be sent, along with a video recorder, to Tucson’s sister city in the Soviet Union in an effort to let the Russians know that “we want peace, and we need to work togetner to get a world that works.” Proceeds from the participation fees will be used to pay travel ex penses for students from Tucson and Novokuznetska to visit their re spective sister cities, Goldman said. Hannis Latham used donated equipment and gave his time to re cord the goodwill messages. “It’s not really what they say, but how they say it,” Latham said. “It’s their faces, their eyes, their express ions: These carry the message. “We aren’t trying to tell them (the Soviets) that our way is better. We just want to give them a ‘hit’ of Americans, and we think that the vi deotape is a beautiful way of doing that.” Four University High School stu dents, all holding kittens, and their guitar-playing Russian teacher, Cindy Seaborg, went before the camera. They started off singing a Russian rendition of “Old McDon ald,” and then they go on to a Rus sian folk song called “The Dream of Stenka Razin.” But why the kittens? Laurel Lamb, one of the four stu dents, said, “Because kittens speak Russian. They say ‘Meer,’ and meer means ‘peace’ in Russian. It also means ‘world.’ ” Latham said the video project will continue in coming months. He said it will be necessary to send the Rus sians a video machine along with the tapes because their machines won’t accommodate American-made cas settes. “One man’s death has been asso ciated with the drug,” Daugherty says. “The California psychoanalyst admittedly had a heart condition and died after taking a 300-milli gram dosage of MDMA.” One study conducted at the-Uni versity of Chicago indicates Ecstasy destroys nerve sensors, affects sleep, memory and mood regulators, causes aggressive behavior, impairs motor functions and may be toxic to nervesl DEA officials currently are con ducting public hearings about the drug in various cities across the United States. The officials are lis tening to Federal Drug Administra tion officials and psychiatrists who say they need the drug for their pa tients. One of the hearings concluded last month in Los Angeles while a- second is scheduled to begin Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo. 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