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British police threaten use of tear gas in riots
Associated Press
LONDON — Police threatened
on Monday to use tear gas and plas
tic bullets against street rioters, after
some of the worst urban violence in
Britain since 1981. One policeman
was stabbed to death and 232 fellow
officers were injured.
Twenty civilians also were hurt
when more than 500 youths, some
armed with shotguns, machetes and
staves, battled police Sunday night
and early Monday in the racially
mixed north London district of Tot
tenham.
Police Commissioner Sir Kenneth
Newman told a news conference the
riot — the fourth major outbreak of
urban violence in Britain in a month
— was the first in mainland Britain
in modern times in which guns were
used and a police officer was killed.
Newman said he sent tactical
squad officers armed with plastic
bullets and tear gas to the scene at
the height of the violence, but the
riot was contained without using
them.
“But I wish to put all people of
peopi
London on notice that I will not
shrink from such a decision should I
believe it a practical option for re
storing peace and preventing crime
and injury,” he warned.
British police have never used
plastic bullets in riots outside North
ern Ireland, and tear gas has not
been used since the 1981 distur
bance in the Toxteth district of Liv
erpool.
Except for Northern Ireland,
where all police patrols are armed,
police in Britain traditionally carry
only night sticks and go into riots
protected by body-length plastic
shields.
Home Secretary Douglas Hurd,
the Cabinet official in charge of the
police, said he fully supported the
use of plastic bullets “if police find
themselves being attacked by petrol
bombs.”
The rioters, blacks and whites, ap
peared to be aiming at police, whom
they blamed for the death of Cyn
thia Jarrett, a 49-year-old black
woman who collapsed and died of an
apparent heart attack during a po
lice search of her home on Saturday
night.
Newman said Patrolman Keith
Henry Blakelock, a 40-year-old fa
ther of three, “was savagely mur
dered” during an attack by about
100 youths wielding machetes,.
knives and an axe. Police on Monday
recovered a knife found near the
scene of the attack.
Scotland Yard said 69 injured po
licemen were treated at hospitals
and 163 were treated at the scene for
less serious injuries. Five were re
ported in serious condition, includ
ing one officer who was hit on the
head by a slab of concrete and was
suffering from kidney failure.
Seven people, including two po
licemen and four journalists, suf
fered shotgun wounds and one civil
ian suffered serious stab wounds.
Rioting in 20 towns and cities in
1981 injured hundreds of police and
rioters, caused millions of dollars in
damage and led to 4,000 arrests. In
the past month, riots have swept Bir
mingham, where two Asian brothers
were killed, and London s Brixton
district. There also was serious un
rest in Liverpool.
Study shows steroids may aid in cystic fibrosis treatment
Associated Press
BOSTON -T- Doses of steroids ap
pear to protect young victims of cys
tic fibrosis from lung damage, the
single greatest cause of illness and
death in this commonly inherited
disease, researchers say.
The study, conducted at Harvard
University and Children’s Hospital
in Boston, showed that children who
took the drug had healthier lungs
and spent less time in the hospital
than aid a comparison group.
After four years, “we felt we had
to stop the study, because it was be
coming so obvious that the steroid
group was better. We felt we needed
to open it up and let people know,’’
said Dr. Harvey S. Auerbach, who
directed the study.
Steroids reduce inflammation, but
they can cause serious side effects.
The researchers said they do not
recommend the drugs for routine
use in cystic fibrosis until their find
ings are confirmed by a larger study.
“We are very encouraged,” said
Dr. Robert Beall of the Cystic Fibro
sis Foundation. He said the founda
tion will finance a major study to
check and expand the Harvard re
sults.
Cystic fibrosis is the most common
fatal genetic disease of whites. One
in 20 Americans carries the gene for
cystic fibrosis, and the disease occurs
whenever a child inherits the gene
from both parents. It strikes about 1
in 1,800 whites.
Victims secrete thick mucus that
clogs the airways of their lungs.
They are also susceptible to lung in
fections, and most patients die of
respiratory failure. They typically
live until their early 20s.
The latest study, published in the
Sept. 28 issue of the journal Lancet,
was conducted on 45 children. They
were randomly assigned to receive
either a cortisone-like steroid drug
called prednisone or dummy place
bos.
The two groups were alike when
the study began, but after four
years, there were significant differ
ences. The steroid patients’ lungs
were virtually normal, while various
measures demonstrated that the
comparison group’s lungs were
about 15 percent below normal.
Word Processing 101
There is a grim reality of college life that you
may or may not be acquainted with.
TYping. No, make that hours of typing. Precisely
why you should consider a Macintosh™
With programs like MacWrite™ and Microsoft®
Word, you can compose, edit, move paragraphs, and
change type sizes and styles with one finger.Which
can come in very handy (Especially if thats the
way you type.) And that’s just one example of how
Macintosh helps students work smarter, quicker and
more creatively
The good news is, with Macintosh you don’t
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