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Thursday • July 31 ; 1991
Jewell demands
explanation for
FBI’s conduct
WASHINGTON (AP) — Richard Jewell said
Wednesday that the Justice Department report on
his treatment as a suspect in the Atlanta Olympic
bombing was filled with lies and distortions. He
called on Congress to investigate.
Jewell, testifying at a packed congressional hear
ing, demanded an accounting from the FBI for the
88 days he was investigated and held up to public
ridicule before being cleared in the fatal blast.
“I believe 1 am entitled to have the FBI publicly
explain its conduct toward me and my mother,”
the former security guard said in a polite and sub
dued voice as his mother, a phalanx of lawyers
and the House Judiciary crime subcommittee
looked on.
A Justice Department report released this
week faulted FBI agents for tricking Jewell into
waiving his right to a lawyer and said their ac
tions hampered an investigation that still has
produced no arrests.
Jewell told the panel that the report is "filled
with false statements, half-truths and gross dis
tortions of the truth.” He urged Congress to con
duct its own, independent investigation.
He accused the FBI of conspiring with the me
dia to portray him as the bomber, even after
agents became convinced he had nothing to do
with it. He said the FBI illegally tapped his phone,
harassed his friends and relatives and violated his
constitutional rights.
Rep. Bill McCollum, R-Fla., chairman of the
subcommittee, said he intends to pursue the mat
ter and may call FBI Director Louis Freeh to an
swer questions at a second hearing.
Jewell discovered the bomb before it exploded
in Centennial Olympic Park on July 27, 1996. After
being hailed a hero, he quickly became the FBI’s
main suspect and was interrogated by agents who
pretended they wanted him to participate in a video
about responding to bomb scenes.
The FBI sent Jewell a letter last fall clearing him
of any involvement in the blast, which killed one
and injured 111 others. Authorities now say they
believe the bombing is linked to two other Al
lan ta-area explosions this year — one at an abor
tion clinic and one at a gay nightclub.
Executives charged with cheating Medicare
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Three Co
lumbia/HCA executives were charged
Wednesday with cheating Medicare out
of at least $1.8 million in the first indict
ment to come out of a sweeping federal
investigation of the nation’s largest for-
profit hospital chain.
The charges against two regional offi
cials in Florida and one headquarters ex
ecutive in Nashville were contained in an
indictment returned by a federal grand
jury June 25. It was unsealed Wednesday,
in Fort Myers, Fla.
All three were charged with conspiracy
and making false statements and could get
up to 25 years in prison and $1.25 million
in fines.
Just two weeks ago, FBI agents led a dra
matic seven-state raid of more than 35 hos
pitals, offices and other Columbia/HCA-
connected locations. Federal agents are
For-profit hospital chain faces indictments on
false statements, conspiracy after investigation
said to be investigating billing fraud in
home health care and laboratory work.
The three were accused of overbilling
Medicare in the way they requested reim
bursement for expenses at Fawcett Memo
rial Hospital in Charlotte County, Fla.
Prosecutors claim certain expenses
were classified as capital outlays, which
get reimbursed at a higher rate, when
they actually fell under administrative
and general expenses.
The three received 100 percent reim
bursement even though the expenses were
eligible for just 39 percent, prosecutors said.
The resulting overpayments to Medicare
and a military health program totaled about
$1.8 million, according to the indictment.
Robert Whiteside, 47, director of reim
bursement for Medicare-related expenses
at Columbia hospitals, will plead innocent,
said his lawyer, Hal Hardin.
The indictment “was quite a surprise
to us. We look forward to clearing it up,”
Hardin said.
Also charged were Jay A. Jarrell, 42, head
of the company’s southwest Florida divi
sion; and Michael T. Neeb, 35, chief finan
cial officer of Columbia/HCA’s northern
Florida operations.
"I am innocent and I have no comment
at this time” Jarrell told reporters as he left
the federal courthouse in Fort Myers. I le
was released on $100,000 bond.
The indictment alleges the illegal acts
occurred both before and after Fawcett
purchased byColumbia/HCAin 1992.
During the raids earlier this montlij
eral agents searched locations in Fk
Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas,
homa, Utah and Georgia. Documents!
seized, but olTicuils disclosed ne,:
about what they found.
The raids caused Columbia/HCAs;
to lose 18 percent of its value withinl
days and helped prompt lastweek’son
of founder and chairman RichardSt
and president David Vandewater.
Thomas F Frist Jr., who took ovei
chairman and chief executive last w?
vowed to cooperate with investigators
(Columbia/H( 1A, with revenueofi
than $20 billion peryear, has342hospis
150 outpatient surgery centers andra
than 570 home health care centers!]]
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Brothers face charges in
3-year-old’s drowning
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —A 13-year-old boy was charged
with murder after he allegedly clamped his 3-year-old step
brother between his legs in a swimming pool and drowned
the boy while joking: “Do y’all know where he is?”
Justin Kennedy was arrested Wednesday. His 13-year-
old common-law stepbrother, Vernon Leroy James Jr., also
faces murder charges in the July 6 drowning of Deangelo
Jordan James. Police continued to look for the teen-ager.
Police said that before the toddler drowned, the two
older boys tossed him into the pool over and over, know
ing he couldn’t swim.
“It may have started out as roughhousing. I don’t know
what they were thinking at the end,” prosecutor Susan
Caswell said.
Both could get life in prison without parole if convict
ed as adults; the death penalty is not an option because of
their ages.
The day of the drowning, the boys climbed a low fence
surrounding the closed pool at the run-down Williams
Square apartment complex and took turns throwing
Deangelo in the pool, police said. The murky water was 6
feet deep.
“The victim reportedly sank each time he was thrown
into the pool, and then began flailing about in the water,
attempting to stay afloat,” Detective Dexter Nelson said in
court papers. “During one of the occasions when he was
thrown into the pool, he hit his head on the edge of the
concrete pool siding.”
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Shippers prepare for possible UPS strikt
NEW YORK (AP) — If UPS goes
on strike, Sunday schools that get
their lesson plans from the Faith
Baptist Bible Bookstore in Ankeny,
Iowa, might not have a prayer.
Bookstore assistant manager
Steve Imel said even a brief strike
could put him way behind during
one of the busiest times of the
year, just before the start of the
school term.
Across the nation Wednesday, re
tailers and manufacturers looked
for other ways to ship in case
190,000 Teamsters go on strike
against UPS at midnight Thursday.
If the big brown trucks stop mov
ing, it could mean delivery
headaches for thousands, perhaps
tens of thousands, of businesses.
UPS moves about 12 million
packages a day. Its closest competi
tor, Federal Express Corp., handles
about 3 million, and analysts said
FedEx, the Postal Service and other
shippers would not be able to han
dle the added demand.
Negotiations between UPS
and the Teamsters continued
Wednesday.
The union is demanding pay and
pension increases, limits on giving
work to subcontractors, more full
time positions and health and safe
ty improvements. The Atlanta-
based company has said it needs
more flexibility in hiring and work
rules to compete.
For lames Hook & Co. in
Boston, a wholesaler that ships
$12 million worth of lobsters
around the world each year, a
strike would all but sever the
company’s lifeline to its cus
tomers.
“We use them every day,” owner
Edward Hook Jr. said from an office
jutting out over Boston Harbor.
Hook said customers either are
ordering more lobsters in advance
or making arrangements with com
petitors or commercial airlines.
“It’s like going to buy potato
chips at the store: You’ve got 50 dif
ferent kinds to buy, and if your fa
vorite brand isn’t there, you pick an
other,” Hook said.
Across town, Player Systems
Corp. relies on UPS for shipping its
golf-cart gadgets that calculate the
distance to the hole. Switching to
commercial airlines or FedEx would
boost shipping costs by about 80
percent, said Noah Eckhouse, the
company’s product development
director.
“We would probably have to
jump to another service for the
short term. But I’m optimistic. I
don’t think they’ll go out, and, if they
do, it won’t be for long,” he said.
UPS’ competitors said they're
gearing up for more business, but
many added that their first loyalty is
to current customers. New cus
tomers may not get the same deliv-
Package delivery
As United Parcel Sevice nears
a strike deadline Thursday, its
competitors are gearing up for
increased business.
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package from midtown Manhattan to Bemt)
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for existing customers, but that the ) on
goods would be sent on trucks.
U.S. astronaut optimistic about Mir visit
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STAR CITY, Russia (AP) — Once
rejected for Mir duty because of her
height, the next U.S. astronaut tick
eted to fly to the hobbled Russian
space station showed Wednesday
she’s not short on nerve.
A fire, pressure leaks, power out
ages and other breakdowns — none
of Mil’s well-publicized problems this
year are too daunting for Wendy
Lawrence, who said all the right stuff
Wednesday, and in good Russian, too.
The 5-foot-3 American told jour
nalists at Russia’s cosmonaut train
ing center at Star City, outside
Moscow, that she has a “big desire”
to go to the Mir.
U.S. space officials, quietly leery
of the 11-year-old Mir’s condition
after the series of recent glitches,
must first give the September mis
sion the final go-ahead.
“First and foremost we will review
the safety of Mir,” Lawrence said.
“There is always something unex
pected when it comes to flying in
space, but our priority is safety,” said
the 38-year-old astronaut, who is to
replace compatriot Michael Foale.
Both the Russians and the Amer
icans say the Mir remains safe,
though NASA officials also have
said there must be scientific value
to sending up another astronaut.
Many of the U.S. science ptd' tie
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collided with a cargo ship June 25 ito
punching a hole in the Speku
module where the U.S. expeti
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Environment beats heredity
in determining IQ, study says
NEWYORK (AP) — Nurture edges out nature in a new
study of what determines a person’s IQ.
In an analysis combining more than 200 earlier stud
ies, statisticians concluded that genes account for 48 per
cent of the factors that determine IQ.
That’s less than most psychologists would estimate,
said study author Bernie Devlin, and far enough below
the figure cited by the controversial 1994 book “The Bell
Curve” to undercut its authors’ main conclusions.
"That number is way too small for their argu
ments to be of any great consequence,” said Devlin,
a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pitts
burgh School of Medicine.
Devlin’s study, conducted with Michael Daniels
and Kathryn Roeder of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon
University, also found that conditions during pre
natal development significantly affect a person’s in
telligence. That suggests that inadequate prenatal
care may explain why poorer people and blacks gen
erally score lower on IQ tests.
“Our study gives credence to that idea, and dial in fact
is something that people should be concerned about,”
Devlin said. “Poor prenatal care may have a negative im
pact on IQ.”
He and his colleagues report their findings in Thurs
day’s issue of the journal Nature.
The statisticians combined the results of 212 earlier
studies that compared the IQs of twins, siblings or par
ents and their children. Then the researchers constmct-
ed a set of statistical models, or predictions, to determine
which one best fit the accumulated data.
The best-fitting model was one that included ge
netic effects, environmental effects such as being
raised in the same or different households andpre
natal conditions.
In twins, 20 percent of the similarity in IQ could bee
plained by the fact that twins share the same prenatal en
vironment. Even for siblings who aren’t twins, beingcat
ried by the same mother at different times explains:
percent of the similarity in IQ.
"The implication would be that the in-utero environ
ment has a profound effect on IQ in the general popula
tion,” said University of Minnesota psychologist Matt
McGue. “It will stimulate people to think about prenatal
^ ^ Poor prenatal care may
have a negative impact on IQ.’
Bernie Devlin
Study author
factors in a way they hadn’t before.”
It is already well-known that drinking or smokingdu
ing pregnancy can cause decreased IQ in children, ate
that exposure to lead in the womb can also lead tolote
er intelligence. There may be other prenatal factorsdte
are important as well, Devlin said.
McGue said the study casts doubt on the main hy
pothesis of “The Bell Curve.” The book, by the late Hat-
vard University professor Richard Herrnstein and polk;
cal analyst Charles Murray, argues that the continue'
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