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Police fight to control Chilean mourners
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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