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Call 776-0411 THEATRE GUIDE Plitf Information 846-6 714 ' 7 days a week AT PUTT THEATRES FIRST MATINEE SHOWING ONLY Skaggs Center 846-6714 Big Trouble/Little China 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40 (PG13) Psycho 3 (R) 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 Running Scared (R) 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Ferris Bueller (PG13) 1:00 3:10 5:20 7:40 9:50 Legal Eagles (PGbato^™ 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:30, 9:i About Last Night (R) 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 IN THE World and Nation Police fight to control Chilean mourners 1.82 I- SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Riot police fired tear gas and water can nons Wednesday to disperse an esti mated 2,000 mourners marching be hind the casket of a teen-ager burned to death during an anti-gov ernment demonstration last week. Witnesses said the 19-year-old vic tim had been set on fire by an army patrol, and Chile’s Human Rights Commission reported a second torching Wednesday. Commission spokesman Jorge del Picoin said men in civilian clothes seized Mario Antonio Araya Mar- chant late Tuesday in Valparaiso, drove him to suburban Renaca, soaked him with flammable liquid and set him afire. Picoin said the vic tim was in serious condition at a hos pital. Authorities declined comment. “Few times in Chile has there been a crime so cruel,” Maximo Pachecon, vice president of the rights commis sion, said in a speech. “A culture of death is being imposed on us. If this crime is covered up or denied, it will lead to a spiral of violence and more crimes.” In Santiago, mourners scat tered by police regrouped in the General Cemetery to bury Rodrigo Rojas de Negri. They shouted slo gans during the ceremony against the militay government of President Augusto Pinochet. Rojas, a freelance photographer, returned to Chile last month, a de cade after he moved to the Washing ton, D.C., area with his mother, an exiled supporter of the leftist gov ernment that Pinochet toppled in a 1973 coup. Several witnesses said an army pa trol seized Rojas and an 18-year-old woman July 9 during a demonstra tion in the capital and set them afire. Rojas died Sunday from burns over two-thirds of his body. The wont] is in grave condition. Wednesday’s events were view In L’.S. Ambassador Harry G. ties Jr. and four European d mats. They saw police spray water an:j fire tear gas to keep the crowdfrois marching to the cemetery. Afiel three police charges over a spacei eight blocks, only a few vehiclesrt( mained in the cortege. Some AIDS-infected blood continues to go undetected WASHINGTON (AP) — Chances of contracting AIDS through blood transfusions are very remote, but small amounts of infected blood con tinue to escape detection and other precautions should be emphasized, an expert panel said Wednesday. Tests to screen blood supplies for evidence of AIDS — acquired im mune deficiency syndrome — are improving rapidly, but developing faster, more accurate checks should get top priority, said the group con vened by the National Institutes of Health to re-examine blood screen- mg. After meeting for three days and considering what is known about AIDS testing, the panel endorsed the practice of patients having their own blood banked for anticipated surgery and people being notified if they have questionable AIDS test re sults. Dr. Thomas C. Chalmers of Mount Sinai Medical School in New York, the conference chairman, said banking one’s own blood for an im mediate need is a good idea for rea sons other than AIDS prevention, such as preventing allergic reactions. But Chalmers said the panel did not endorse so-called directed dona tions, whereby a person selects someone else to donate blood for him, because it has not been proven safer than blood from normal chan nels. And having blood stored for no specific reason can be wasteful and also should be discouraged, he said. Dr. Lincoln E. Moses, a panelist and professor of statistics at Stan ford University Medical School, said test results indicate one potential blood donor in 1,000 may carry the AIDS virus. Because an estimated 99 percent of these donors are excluded by high-risk profiles or screening tests, it is likely 120 units of AIDS-infected blood gets into national supplies each year out of 12 million dona tions, Moses estimated. People with confirmed positive tests — positive antibody tests backed up with a second, more pre cise test — traditionally have been told the results and discouraged from giving blood. However, those with ambiguous results, such as being positive on one test and negative on another, often have not been informed by blood collecting services. Tanker explosion emits toxic fumes MIAMISBURG, Ohio (AP) — A derailed railroad tank car that had spewed toxic fumes and forced thousands of residents to flee ex ploded Wednesday evening, forcing renewed evacuations and causing in juries in the path of the fumes, au thorities said. The number or extent of the inju ries were not immediately known. The explosion occurred shortly after 6 p.m. as firefighters tried to put out white phosphorus that had reignited in the tanker. In addition, a nearby tank car carrying sulfur was burning, officials said. Because fumes engulfed the wreckage, firefighters were pulled back from the scene, and the area was being drenched by unmanned pu mpers. Plumes of toxic fumes headed to ward a hospital and a shopping mall in the Dayton suburbs, and new evacuations were ordered in the towns of Miamisburg and West Car rollton, where residents fled the de railment Tuesday, as well as in the communities of Morain and Miami Township. By 7:30 p.m., a chemical cloud three miles wide at its widest point had spread at least five miles. Flames flared up again Wednes day when authorities raised the tanker and its cargo of volatile white phosphorous, came in contact with the air. The chemical ignites at 85 degrees Fahrenheit. About 17,500 people evacuated their homes Tuesday, and some had spent 12 hours in evacuation shel ters. Some had begun to return to their homes Wednesday, although officials had not encouraged people to go back and a state of emergency was in effect. ■y Ol Star’s brother arrested on drug charge f ": i : LONDON (AP) — Narcotics officers arrested a brother of Boy George and three others Tuesday on charges they conspired to sell heroin to the rock star, police said. The singer was being sought for questioning. Police would not comment on reports that Boy George, whose real name is George O’Dowd, was bound for the United States. Charged with conspiracy to supply heroin to Boy George were his brother Kevin O’Dowd, Anna Tinamaun, Steven Luben and Diane Feiner, police said. 1 hey said Luben ana Feiner re mained in custody. David O’Dowd, another of Boy George’s brothers, said in a tele vision interview last week that the singer has been addicted to her oin for eight months. But Bov George and a third brother, Ger ald O’Dowd, denied that. South Africa lifts union meeting ban JOHANNESBURG, South Af rica (AP) — The government said Wednesday it had made a mis take, and lifted a two-day-old ban on union meetings a few hours after four black unions chal lenged it in court. The Bureau for Information said the original ban on meetings by 33 organizations in the Johan nesburg area “contained certain errors,” and a revised order would be issued Thursday. It said the new order would cover only Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg, and would exclude all trade unions. The unions filed court papers late Wednesday afternoon against the ban, issued under the nationwide state of emergenq imposed June 12, saying its dis ruptive effects on contract nego tiations could prompt national strikes. Market rallies, halts Dow Jones slide Sex ed study shows drop in pregnancies SCHULMAN THEATRES 2.50 ADMISSION 1. Any Show Before 3PM 2. Tuesday - All Seats 3. Mon-Wed - Local Students With Current ID’s. ‘DENOTES DOLBY STEREO i PLAZA 3 226 Southwest Pkwy 693-2457 •THE KARATE KID PG 2:40 7:20 5:00 9:40 *T0P GUN pg 2:45 7:25 5:05 9:45 •RUTHLESS PEOPLE R 2:30 7:30 4:50 9:50 MANOR EAST 3 Manor East Mall 823-8300 •BACK TO SCHOOL PG-13 2:30 7:25 4:50 9:45 LABYRITH PG 2:40 7:20 5:00 9:40 THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE G 2:10 7:15 3:50 9:00 5:30 SCHULMAN 6 2002 E. 29th 775-2463 AMERICAN ANTHEM PG-13 2:20 7:25 4:40 9:50 TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL PG-13 2:35 7:20 4:55 9:45 COBRA R 2:30 7:35 4:50 9:55 RAW DEAL R 2:25 7:10 4:45 9:35 P0LTERG1EST II PG-13 2:40 7:30 5:00 9:55 •UNDER THE CHERRY MOON PG-13 2:15 7:15 4:45 9:40 BALTIMORE (AP) — Junior high and high school girls at city schools which participated in an ex perimental pregnancy prevention program were less likely to become pregnant and appear to have post poned their first sexual encounter, according to a Johns Hopkins Uni versity study. “What it showed is that something can be done about the teen-age pre gnancy problem,” said Dr. Laurie Schwab Zabin, the principal investi gator in the study, said Wesdnesday. The three-year program involved 3,400 students in grades 7 through 12 from 1981-1984 and showed 30 percent decrease in pregnancies among girls in the two junior and se nior high schools which participated in the program, Zabin said. In the two schools that didn’t have the program, there was a 58 percent increase in pregnancies during the same time, she said. “This shows that such programs do not encourage students to be come more sexually active but that they may actually postpone sex longer,” Zabin said. Preliminary results of the survey, reaching similar conclusions, were first reported in November 1985. The staff encouraged students to talk to their parents, Zabin said. Many who asked that their visits be conf idential when they first came in, later said there was no need for the confidentiality since they did talk with their parents, she said. Another interesting finding in the study was that junior high boys were just as likely as girls in their class to participate in the program, Zabin said. This shows that boys are con cerned about the issue if reached at an early enough age, she said. NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market halted the slide of the past two sessions with a moderate rally Wednesday, aided by declining interest rates. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, which had tumbled 80.14 points Monday and Tues day, rose 5.34 to 1,826.07. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange came to 142.88 million shares, down from 174.06 million the day before. Early in the session and again near the close, stocks benefited f rom flurries of buying by traders apparently shopping for "bar gains” after the market’s sharp drop since the start of the week. But analysts said the stock mar ket was still feeling the affects of the jolt of Monday’s record-set ting drop and f urther selling on fuesday. Dm e I) d, lelbon PI Fs chad Aviators begin 4y2-day plane test flight MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — The Voyager, an experimental air craft designed to circle the globe without refueling, was forced to land Wednesday at a coastal Air Force base, abruptly ending a crucial test flight. “The plane landed safely,” said Air Force Sgt. Fred Bolinger, a spokesman at Vandenberg Air Force Base, where the Voyager landed. The base is about 130 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The plane was airborne for about seven hours before it was f orced to land because of engine trouble, said Gary Fox, a Voyager mechanic. Dick Rutan and co-pilot Jeana Yeager took off in tire experi mental Voyager, with 110-foot plastic-and-carbon fiber wings — about as long as a Boeing 727’s — on a desert runway in Mohave. They had planned to fly re peated circles between Santa Bar bara and San Francisco until a Sunday landing. The aircraft travels at 90 knots, or about 103 mph. J Bi.m jrclien H in i Is oi •IVH t k lepun I jail Mm i Study: Many ‘SIDS’ deaths caused by accidents BOSTON (AP) — Many baby deaths attributed to the mysterious sudden infant death syndrome actu ally result from suffocation, over bundling and other accidents that are caused by parents’ poor judgment, a study concludes. But a leading SIDS researcher cautioned that the study looked at cases that may not be typical of such deaths nationwide and said most ba bies who die from the syndrome show no signs of parental neg ligence. The doctors investigated 26 in stances of sudden infant death in Brooklyn, N.Y., and found at least some evidence of accidental causes in all but two of them. “What occurred in Brooklyn is probably characteristic of the prob lem nationwide,” Dr. Millard Bass said. “It appears there are a lot of misdiagnoses being made.” His investigation turned up cases in which mothers apparently smoth ered their babies by rolling on them in their sleep. Babies also appeared to die from being placed too close to radiators at night or were asphyx iated by their bedding. In an accompanying editorial. Dr. Bradley T. Thach of St. Louis Chil dren’s Hospital said the cases might not be typical of crib deaths else where, so “considerable caution is needed in making generalizations based on these data.” Dr. Frederick Mandell, vice presi dent of the National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Foundation and senior associate physician at Chil dren’s Hospital in Boston, said he feared the effect of the study. “The impact of this kind of article on parents whose children have sud denly and unexpectedly died — and who have not asphyxiated their child and whose children have not died of hypothermia — will be of great sig nificance because all parents feel some guilt, that they have done something wrong,” he said. “In the grief reaction there are a lot of what onlys — if only we had not left the blanket in crib,” he said. “But in fact it seems most of the ba bies who die show no evidence of negligence.” Mandell said previous studies re futed the findings of the Bass study. Gayle Lloyd, spokeswoman for the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, said it is their general policy not to comment on studies before their researchers have seen them. When a seemingly healthy baby dies unexpectedly or without expla nation, the cause of death is fre quently attributed to sudden infant death syndrome, also known as SIDS or crib death. It is the most common cause of death among children be tween the first month and first year of life. The study was directed by Bass,a forensic pathologist at the State Uni versity of New York. O- 846-3768 Campus, N. & E. of Campus, Westwood, La bBuisa, Spring Loop 696-0234 rr—in~‘ L T 6 Hear Yc! Hear Ye! PIZZA DELIVERS South of Campus, S.W. Parkway, Hwy 30, Raintree, Em. 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