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Officials urged commuters to use car pools and set up an information hot line; they also planned special express buses. John Caggiano, business manager of Local 589 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, said, “There is a very good possibil ity it’s going to be a long strike.” He called on Gov. Mario Cuomo and U.S. Sen. Alfonse D’Amato to meet with Robert Kiley, head of the Metropolitan Transportation Au thority, and reconsider the manage ment position. The MTA is the LIRR’s parent agency. Walter C. Wallace, the federal me diator for the talks, said he could not say when negotiations would re sume. “We will get some sleep, re charge, and I’m not going to set a date when we will get back to gether,” he said. “There will still be some meetings going on,” he said, adding that the government had exhausted its ef forts to halt a walkout and the unions were free to exercise their right to strike under federal law. Sunday’s walkout climaxed two years of federally sponsored nego tiations, including two cooling-off periods. It occurred after five unions suddenly withdrew from the talks and two others — the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers and the Police Benevolent Association — failed to reach agreement with man agement. The engineers and police were the only workers to declare a strike, but the other union leader* said they would honor picket lines. L1RR President Bruce Mclver said he con sidered any union not under con tract to be on strike. The 11 unions represent 60 per cent of the railroad’s unionized em ployees. Five other unions, rep resenting mostly supervisory personnel, already have signed con tracts but also are idled by the strike. The L1RR strike is the first since April 1980, when the railroad was shut down for one day. Under the Federal Railway Lat>or Act, which governs 1.1 RR labor rela tions, employees are allowed to strike after all federal procedures have been exhausted. This hap pened in the LIRR dispute Saturday when the second and final federally mandated cooling-off |>eriod ended. Study shows crime victims often know their attackers WASHINGTON (AP) — In nearly four out of 10 violent crimes, the attacker is a relative, friend or acquaintance of the victim, accord ing to a federal study released Sun day. The Bureau of Justice Statistics report says that less than half the 20 million violent crimes committed from 1982 through 1984 were com mitted by people who were strangers to the victims. The survey of 58,000 households conducted twice a year by the Cen sus Bureau found that 46 percent of robberies, rapes and assaults were committed by strangers. “It is often said that the fear of crime is largely a fear of strangers,” bureau director Steven R. Schle- singer said in a statement. But he said 10 percent of the of fenders were known to the victims by sight and 39 percent of the vio lent crimes involved friends, rela tives or acquaintances of the victim. Friends accounted for 17 percent, or 3.3 million, of the violent crimes, while casual acquaintances ac counted for 14 percent, and relatives accounted for 8 percent. In the rest of the cases, the relationship of the attacker to the victim was not known. From 1982 to 1984, friends, rela tives or acquaintances were responsi ble for 40 percent of the rapes, more than 45 percent of the simple as saults, nearly 40 percent of the ag gravated assaults and 20 percent of robberies. The bureau, a Justice Department agency within the Office of Justice Programs, said it may be underesti mating the number of crimes com mitted by people known to the vic tim. “Individuals victimized by rela tives may be reluctant to discuss the event . . . for fear of reprisal or out of shame or embarrassment,” the re port said. In the 1.5 million violent crimes in which a relative was the offender, 77 percent of the victims were women. Spouses or ex-spouses committed more than half of all crimes by rela tives and about two-thirds of all crimes by relatives against women. More than half of the crimes by relatives against women were re ported by women who were di vorced or separated. The bureau cited FBI statistics for 1984 which found that 20 percent of the 19,000 homicides were com mitted by relatives and nearly 40 percent by acquaintances. U.S. won’t seek death for suspect in hijacking WASHINGTON (AP)-U Justice Department announce Sunday that it won’t seek tit death penalty against (he su pec ted hijac ker of a TWAjetlii if the suspect is extradited fro: West Germany and convicted U.S. courts. The U.^i. announcemc: ended an impasse between ti two nations caused by the eat refusal of the United Stales rule out the death penallyintli c ase of Mohammed Ali Hamad West Germany, which has death penalty, has said ii wota not allow Hamadi’s extradio until it was assured that no punishment would beini|x "We have concluded thatc only way we can get him bad through the use of the formal: tradition process, and that ext dition process, our extra treaty with Germany, n that we agree not to im death penalty if the suspect convicted of capital crimes in the U.S.,” Justice Depai spokesman Patrick Kortensaic a telephone interview'. A Justice Departme: statement said the United Su now formally will ask forthei; tradition of Hamadi, whowasa! rested last Tuesday at the Frar4 '* lent airport. He is the first person arrest in connection with the 17-dayfi jacking that occurred in 19f | during whic h a U.S. Navy die- was shot to death at the Beir. airpor t and 39 other America.; were taken liostatge. A day alter Hamadi’s am the Justice Department tolde West Germans that Hamadi,". and three others are wanted:? this country for conspiracy commit atir piracy and murdf aboard TWA flight 847, A was hijacked on a {light fro: Athens to Rome. Air piracy carries a maxima! Study: Cocaine use can cause birth defects NEW YORK (AP) — Animal ex periments suggest that cocaine use during pregnancy can produce in fants with long-term abnormalities in the brain systems that control sen sation, movement and emotions, a researcher said Sunday. This occurs despite the frequent absence of physical defects in the offspring, said Diana Dow-Edwards, a researcher at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn. In a separate report, a researcher said he has found that cocaine use by pregnant women may retard the brain growth of their children. Dow-Edwards found, in studies with about 30 rats, that rats exposed to cocaine during early development mature into adults with marked hy persensitivity' in the brain’s motor system, its sensory system and in the limbic system, which governs emo tions and such functions as eating and sleeping. The evidence suggests, she said, “that cocaine exposure during preg nancy produces long-term and per haps permanent alterations in brain function activity.” The hypersensitivity apparently is due to the excessive buildup of cer tain chemicals called neurotransmit ters that are used by brain cells to communicate with one another, she said at a symposium sponsored by the Greater New York Chapter of the March of Dimes. Ira Chasnoff, a pediatrician at Northwestern University Medical School in Evanston, Ill., and one of the nation’s leading authorities on the effects of cocaine use in preg nancy, said Dow-Edwards’ research could explain some of the defects he is cataloging in the infants of co caine-using mothers. For example, Chasnoff said, “it appears that these infants are proba bly having an increased rate of sei zures in the neonatal (newborn) pe riod.” He also reported that infants of cocaine-using mothers have a signifi cantly smaller head size than normal infants, suggesting a retardation in brain growth and possible future brain deficits. Chasnoff said cocaine-af f ected in fants are excessively jittery, experi ence rapid changes of mood, and are extremely sensitive to noise and other external stimuli. He has reported previously that pregnant women using cocaine are more likely than others, even heroin users, to have spontaneous abortions and that the infants of cocaine-using mothers have an increased risl| sudden infant death syndroiwj crib death. Dow-Edwards said her studio the first to look for subtle sigiuol| caine-associated brain deficitsi: offspring of laboratory animals. For 10 days after the rats'J born — a period that parallel'| third trimester of human pregtiil — she gave the rats a daily dosi cocaine equivalent to a human: of slightly more than one grat cocaine. The drug produced no chan;: the growth of the young rats, did it produce obvious physical fects. But studies to assess thebrair, velopment of the rats when- were young adults, 60 days ' showed that their brains hadetf levels of three neurotransmitten