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INDIO, Calif. (AP) — Liberace
died of a disease caused by AIDS,
the Riverside County coroner said
Monday, and he accused the enter
tainer’s doctors of covering up the
cause of death.
“Somebody along the line wanted
to pull a fast one on us,” Coroner
Raymond Carrillo said at a news
conference.
Miscroscopic tissue analysis
showed that Liberace died because
of cytomegalovirus pneumonia due
to human immunodeficiency virus
disease, Carrillo said.
“In layman’s terms, Mr. Liberace
died of an opportunistic disease
caused by acquired immune defi
ciency syndrome/’ he said.
Cytomegalovirus is a common vi
rus that affects more than half the
adult population without ill effects.
It can be fatal, however, to people
whose disease-fighting immune sys
tem is weakened by the AIDS virus.
In addition to the fatal pneumo
nia caused by the cytomegalovirus,
Carrillo said the contributing causes
of Liberace’s death included lung
and heart disease and a hardening
of the valve in the heart.
Carrillo said he believed that Lib
erace’s doctors covered up the cause
of his death. He died Wednesday at
his Palm Springs home at the age of
67.
“The original cause of death did
not make sense,” he said.
Dr. Ronald Daniels, a physician
who treated Liberace, said the enter
tainer died of cardiac arrest because
of heart failure brought on by suba
cute encephalopathy, a brain inflam
mation.
“Encephalopathy does not cause
heart disease,” Carrillo said.
The coroner added that Daniels’
failure to report the correct cause of
death would be reported for possible
disciplinary action to California’s
Board of Medical Quality Assur
ance, and that Forest Lawn’s similar
failure would be reported to the
state board responsible for regulat
ing mortuaries.
Daniels’ receptionist said the doc
tor was declining comment.
Liberace’s aides repeatedly denied
he had contracted AIDS. They
maintained he was suffering perni
cious anemia, heart disease and em
physema.
coroner had not been contatitl
required in the case ofpossibltT
tagious diseases, and because]
tor wasn’t in attendance whenlifci n--)
ace died, Carrillo said. MP
Fans of Liberace have expre
outrage about the investigate
see whether the popularenteraj
had AIDS.
It was first reported Jan. 24 by the
Las Vegas (Nev.) Sun that Liberace
was suffering from AIDS. The news
paper attributed the information to
unidentified sources.
Riverside County officials refused
to accept the death certificate signed
by Daniels when they discovered the
"It just made me sick klel
heard all this digging up dia"
Petersen said Sunday at Forest
Memorial Park in the
Hills, where Liberace was entoi
“1 resent anyone going intoann
private life.”
Coroner’s investigator Sabas
sas said if proper procedure
BEIF
lieen followed, it wouldn’thavel lem kic 1
necessary for his office to kt ing to
news conference on the caislTuesda
death, offending Liberace’s fans prisone
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meric
Child-care programs growing in importance
Beirut
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Child
care programs, today a crucial prob
lem for working couples, likely will
become increasingly important to
employers who want to keep experi
enced staffers on the job, a new
study says.
“In the future, tight labor markets
will make it harder to replace experi
enced female employees who leave
work to start a family,” says the re
port, published Monday by the pri-
Bi
vate Population Reference Bureau.
In the years since the end of
World War II, women have flooded
into the labor market, and time away
from their traditional homebound
duties has faced millions of families
with a dilemma of finding care for
small children.
Today, more than half of married
women with children under age six
are employed, compared with only
one in eight in 1950, Census Bureau
statistics show.
Responses to this change have
varied from family to family and re
gion to region, with some employers
initiating programs to assist their
workers. Those actions will become
increasingly important, says the
study by Martin O’Connell of the
U.S. Census Bureau and David E.
Bloom of Harvard University.
Some women can hire help, but
most domestic workers do less than
half the housework and “husbands
are not much help either,” with the
majority of them doing less than
one-fourth of the housework, the
authors state.
Women have been seeking jobs in
a market with a surplus of labor,
during the time when the children
of the post-World War II Baby
Boom flooded the market. But that
will end in the 1990s as the smaller
“Baby Bust” generation comes along
and there are more jobs than work
ers, the report comments.
In addition, pressure for better
child-care programs also will he cre
ated by other recent trends such as
delayed childbearing and the high
divorce rate, according to the report
“Juggling Jobs and Babies: Ameri
ca’s Child Care Challenge,” pub
lished by the private, non-profit
population research center.
Meanwhile, “lack of affordable
child care probably is preventing
many poorly educated and low-in
come mothers from working at all.
when they are the women who need
jobs the most,” the study says.
Even after lal>or becomes more
scarce, the report suggests that
“most employers will need coaxing
by federal, state and local govern
ment to adopt progressive child-care
policies.”
A variety of approaches is possi-
a
ble, O’Connell and Bloom state, in
cluding:
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abuses that, to date, (lie Contras
show no sign of curbing.”
Specifically, the re|M»rt said the
Contras “engage in selective but sys
tematic killing of persons they per
ceive as representing the govern
ment, in indiscriminate attacks
against civilians.”
It added that rebel kidnappings of
civilians have been widespread, ap
parently for the purposes of recruit
ment and intimidation.
But the study also said the Nic ara
guan government engages
sive interrogation unr .•« esl: 1
prisoners, including MydoR^ 1 ' 111
pressure and threats usedtotR‘ ll,)l f
confessions. R .
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closing last summer of La
inde|>endent newspaper,noteR 11, 1
this ac tion left NicaraguawithR c s ‘ u
government-sponsored medi ™ al U(
“dangerous situation.”
Manufacturers unveil new toys;
interacting dolls to hit the market
NEW YORK (AP) — Once upon a
time, dolls just sat there and looked
pretty. Then they wet, they talked,
and they walked. Now they hold
conversations with each other with
out a child even being in the room.
At the 84th annual American In
ternational Toy Fair, which started
Monday, manufacturers unveiled
animated talking toys that not only
communicate with each other, but
“understand” what a child says to
them and respond with an appropri
ate answer.
Also introduced were high-tech
action figures that will take electro
nic cues From signals beamed by new
animated TV shows.
Manufacturers are hoping such
toys can enliven the relatively flat
$12.5 billion toy market.
Rick Anguilla, editor of the trade
publication Toy and Hobby World,
said, “We see the area of growth in
true interactive toys — not just toys
that have something to say and ran
domly say it, hut those that almost
seem to think and can have real con
versations.
Put two Talking Cabbage Patch
Kids ($100 a piece, retail) in a room
and press the buttons on their stom
achs. They’ll sense each other’s pres
ence and begin chatting.
They may discuss ice cream —
some are programmed to like va
nilla, others chocolate or strawberry.
Children can join in the discussion,
too, of course.
The new dolls know what’s going
on around them. Take them for a
humpy car ride and the doll might
say, “OK, that’s enough. All this
bouncing up and down makes me
dizzy.” Kiss the doll’s cheek, and it’ll
say, “Thank you for the kiss. May 1
have another one, please?”
Worlds Of Wonder, the company
that introduced the animated talking
Teddy Ruxpin, now has Julie.
Unlike past dolls that shot out
random phrases with little relevance
to what a child said, Julie has more
than 100 sound-activated responses
in her computer chip memory.
She recognizes voices and words.
When she hears someone say he or
she is hungry, Julie will respond,
“Let’s eat.” Take her into a dark
room and she’ll ask, “Can you see
OK? It’s kind of dark.” The doll can
even be trained to only respond to its
owner’s voice.
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