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Some judges at the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court spent the night in their offices, and hundreds of judges, lawyers and jurors walked or cycled, enabling 17 of the 19 courtrooms to function normally. An early shortage of stenographers forced some judges to take their own notes as hearings got under way. Senior prosecutor John Bevan cycled for several miles through slow-moving traffic, carrying his gown in a bag on his back, and he said he wouldn’t like to repeat the experience. “My nerves are shattered,” he said. “It really is a most dangerous occupation.” “I saw a car with three bikes on the roof, two in the back, and five people in the car,” said Patrick Gilli- gan of London Bicycle Co. “I guess they just drive as far as they can and get on their bikes.” Forewarned by police to drive only if necessary, motorists set out two or three hours early. “Traffic was in fact quieter than normal on most of the motorway routes around London,” said the Automobile Asso ciation. Manchester, Liverpool, Edin burgh and Glasgow also reported earlier rush hours, with traffic a little worse than normal. London parking garages were packed, and police refused to ease parking restrictions, saying it would encourage more people to drive into the capital. However, free parking was set aside for buses bringing in rommi iters. WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans, seeking to defuse a po litical problem, took the unprece dented step Wednesday of trigger ing an investigation of one of their own: Rep. Donald E. Lukens of Ohio. The action on Lukens, who was convicted last month on charges in volving sex with a 16-year-old girl, came on a show of hands in a closed- door meeting of the Republican Conference, the organization of all GOP House members. Minority Leader Robert Michel, R-Ill., sought in a statement to por tray the move as part of a Republi can “total commitment to standards of behavior for members of Con gress which reflect honorably on the institution and the nation.” H owever, House Speaker Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash., said the Republicans seemed to be trying to score “a political point . . . appar ently at the expense of one of their Travelers using London’s Heath row and Gatwick airports were urged to use buses rather than taxis. Gatwick’s express train to central London was idled, as was the subway line to Heathrow. On strike were 75,000 rail work ers, 18,500 operators of London’s red double-decker buses and 10,500 subway workers, leaving only some private suburban bus routes operat ing in London own members.” He said any GOP at tempt to make ethics a partisan issue was “absolute nonsense and the pub lic knows it.” The House ethics committee, for mally the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, had been ex pected to investigate Lukens any way. If the committee finds he vio lated House rules it could recommend penalties ranging from a reprimand to expulsion. Republicans have set ethics re form in the House among their top priorities for the 101st Congress. And their political operatives hope to capitalize in the next elections by pointing to the resignations of Dem ocratic House Speaker Jim Wright of Texas and Whip Tony Coelho of California in the face of ethics alle gations. But Lukens’ conviction on May 30 in Franklin County, Ohio, of con tributing to the unruliness and de linquency of a minor, has been an embarrassment to his own party. House GOP launches investigation of Lukens Two in five first-borns conceived out of wedlock New test helps identify babies born with AIDS BOSTON (AP) — A new test can identify babies who are born infected with the AIDS virus so they can be quickly treated in an effort to delay or stop fatal ill nesses, researchers say. When mothers are infected with AIDS, they have about a one in three chance of passing it on to their babies during pregnancy. But doctors have had to wait more than a year before knowing which newborns are infected. The still-experimental test can frequently — though not always — sort this out soon after birth. “It’s something of a break through,” said Dr. Martha F. Rogers of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. “We have been very hindered by the fact that we don’t have di agnostic tests in infants. We need that critically because people would like to start treatment with AZT very early on. “But you are stuck with treat ing every child born to a (virus) positive mother with a fairly toxic drug, and you’ll be treating some kids who don’t have the infec tion.” WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of every five American women giving birth to their first children weren’t married when they became preg nant, the Census Bureau said Wednesday, a rise over the past two decades. The bureau also found a jump in the birth rate among women in their 30s, noted that a majority of the women having a baby in the year ending in June 1988 were in the work force, and said minorities tend to have higher birth rates. In all, the bureau said the national fertility rate was 69.7 births per 1,000 women aged 18 to 44 in that year. Those are considered the prime childbearing ages. Fertility rates have remained at about 70 births per 1,000 women during this decade and the figure for 1988 is not considered signifi cantly different from the 71 re corded the year before. But changes have occurred among the women becoming moth ers in America. For women aged 15 to 29, the bu reau found, 40 percent of their first born children from 1985 to 1988 were conceived out of marriage, up from just over 30 percent when the measure was first taken from 1970 to 1974. The 40 percent of new mothers who conceived out of wedlock in cluded 11.7 percent who got mar ried before the child was born and 28.3 percent who were still unmar ried when the baby arrived. The major change was among that second group, the women who were still unmarried when the baby arrived. They increased from 17.9 percent of all first-time mothers in the early 1970s to the 28.3 percent recorded in 1985 to 1988. This shift “may reflect the opinion of some women that they may be better off in the long run by relying more on the support of their parents and relatives for financial and emo tional assistance than by entering a potentially unstable marriage under taken solely to prevent an out-of- wedlock birth,” bureau analyst Am- ara Bachu said in the report. At the same time that the share of unwed-mothers was rising, the per centage of women conceiving while single and then getting married be fore the arrival of the baby dropped from 14.9 percent to 11.7 percent of first mothers. Students rally at Houston consulate during reception for Chinese consul HOUSTON (AP) — About 150 Chinese students an gered by the government crackdown against pro-de mocracy demonstrators in their country shouted at guests attending a reception Wednesday night for the departing Chinese consul in Houston. The sign-carrying students yelled “Don’t go” and “Shame” at people who arrived the consulate’s building near downtown Houston. “We just want to show our anger to the whole world and let them know what the Chinese government has done. The government lies. They want to keep the truth from the people,” said Patty You, 29, an industrial engineering student at the University of Houston. Ms. You, like many of the other students, carried signs reading “No more executions” and “Don’t eat with butchers, don’t deal with animals.” Chinese students attending colleges in Texas and Louisiana have staged similar protests outside the con sulate’s building in recent weeks to show their support for fellow students in China. In addition, the students mailed about 121 letters over the weekend to civic leaders and foreign consuls asking them not to attend the party for Gen. Ni Yaoli, said Fan Lu, a research associate at Rice University: Ni is returning to China after completing his three- year term in Houston as consul general. “We respectfully urge you not to go, as a gesture of personal protest against the recent heinous crime against humanity committee by the ‘government’ of the People’s Republic,” the letter said. Baker considers creation of office to coordinate U.S. border affairs WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is considering set ting up a special office to coordinate U.S.-Mexico border affairs, said Sec retary of State James A. Baker III. “Because of the increasing impor tance of the U.S.-Mexico border, and the rapid growth of activities connected with it, we are aware of the need to focus greater attention upon this area,” Baker told Sen. Lloyd Bentsen in a letter this week. Bentsen, a Texas Democrat, in May asked Baker to consider cre ating a special office for border is sues within the State Department. Bentsen said full-time experts were needed "who know about and are sensitive to those local issues that are international because of the exis tence of a legal boundary.” The border has unique problems that require creative solutions, Bent sen argued, and the United States needs a “regular point of contact and coordination when U.S. agen cies operate in conjunction w'ith Mexican officials.” Baker told Bentsen, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, that the State Department is consid ering creating a three-officer unit within the Office of Mexican Affairs to deal with southern border issues “in a more consistent and intensive manner.” Baker said establishing the unit depends “in large part upon our ability to find positions that can be reprogrammed for this purpose.” The unit’s responsibilities would include coordinating relations be tween U.S. agencies and their coun terparts in Mexico. Mexico has al ready established a director general for border affairs. 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