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Tuesday, September 19, 2000
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THE BATTALION
News in Brief
CIZCU Iowa parents
ciiy aportin. arrested for child
, findangerment
laign fodder ii^ 1 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A
leorge W. Bush, louple has been arrested and ac-
esidential nomiis Jused of keeping their two daugh- I
ning the ozone- tors tied up in a motel room while
or to Los Anal they worked at night,
lonthreclaimedS Police said the girls, ages 10
;mal smoo stnndsHnd 5, wore harnesses that were
fed to furniture with leashes.
Is in December:. A Detective Brian Danner said the
to the Environr3i hilc)ren appeared to be healthy.
\itcncy or riski#| he y had toono to walk around but
of federal high« ouldn ^ leave the r o orn -
an industrialgJ Donald Ra V Melton Jr., 26, and
the state planb\|r mberly E - Melton ' 27 - were
‘■harged Sunday with child endan-
desicned toe J erment and were bein & held in
■ ( •|T.. n x ... > leu of $13,000 bail each. They
r Vm . l »ere arrested at the Wal-Mart
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nit. Ix'low them»
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aunties.
California transit strike
forces commuters to drive
store where they worked.
Melton had been tying up his
stepdaughters — Ashley Porter,
10, and Sherrie Porter, 5 — for
tv,o or three weeks, police said.
Police said the girls’ mother was
rrested for allowing it.
.S. Intelligence
obtains detailed
terrorist manuel
I ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — U.S.
intelligence agencies have ob
tained CD-ROM copies of a six-
volume manual they believe is
used by Saudi dissident Osama
in Laden to train recruits at his
rrorism camps in Afghanistan,
SA Today reported.
The 1,000-page manual con
tains information on how to re
mit followers, shoot weapons,
arry out assassinations and
ther terrorist operations and
tssemble bombs similar to
|hose that destroyed U.S. em-
assies in East Africa in 1998,
he paper reports in Monday’s
ditions, citing unnamed U.S. jn-
elligence officials.
Bin Laden, who is believed to
be in Afghanistan, has been in
dicted in the United States in
■cbnnection with the attacks in
1K( nya and Tanzania that killed
ore than 200 people. He has
nied involvement.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A tran
sit strike forced nearly half a mil
lion Southern California com
muters to scrounge for rides or get
behind the wheel themselves Mon
day at the start of the work week,
worsening traffic on already
clogged streets and freeways.
Some commuters showed up at
bus stops and waited in vain as tem
peratures rose into the 90s.
“1 just don't know what else to
do. I called my friend, but 1 don't see
him,” Cesar Marroquin, 34, said as
he waited for a ride to East Los An
geles Occupational School, where
he was scheduled to take a test.
Some 4,300 members of the
United Transportation Union went
on strike over wages and overtime
Saturday, halting 2,000 buses and
rail and'Subway lines serving a
l,400-square-mile area. An esti
mated 450,000 people in the car-de
pendent region depend on the tran
sit system.
No new talks were scheduled,
but Metropolitan Transportation
Authority spokesman Rick Jager.
said transit system negotiators and
a state mediator were ready to bar
gain. Union spokesman Goldy Nor
ton said union representatives were
waiting for an invitation from the
mediator.
Freeway traffic rose about 5 per
cent during the morning commute,
the California Highway Patrol re
ported. The CHP said a lack of ma
jor crashes helped highways absorb
the additional traffic.
“It is a substantial amount, but it
didn’t result in a major headache
like we thought,” CHP Officer Bill
Preciado said.
It was a different story on city
streets, where cars snaked bumper-
to-bumper through downtown and
workers complained that commut
ing times had been doubled.
Bus driver Lisa Smith picketed
on a Pasadena Freeway overpass.
“These people should be on the
buses,” said Smith, pointing to the
freeway traffic mess below. “Peo
ple who rely on buses need buses.
We do care about the people. This
is as stressful a time for us as it is
for our passengers.”
MetroLink commuter trains,
which aren’t part of the strike, ar
rived on schedule at the downtown
Union Station.
Once there, commuters waited
for others to pick them up or scat
tered on foot and bicycles, which
they had carried on the trains.
“It's affecting my boss more
than me. He’s stuck in traffic, and I
just have to sit out here and wait un
til he gets me,” said MetroLink
commuter Tim Herrera, 31, of
Fontana, who works at Paramount
studios in Hollywood.
The MTA said it faces a $438
million operating deficit over the
next 10 years if it doesn’t cut costs
or raise fares.
It wants $23 million in savings
from its rail and bus operators over
the next three years by cutting over
time costs 15 percent.
The MTA proposed that 400 of
its 4,400 drivers accept four-day
work weeks in which they would be
on duty at least 12 hours but be paid
for only 10 hours a day.
Overtime would kick in only af
ter 12 hours.
Dirtier hands in larger cities
Survey shows New Yorkers skip washing after using restrooms
TORONTO (AP) — Apparently the city that never
sleeps is also too busy to wash up. A new survey of pub
lic restroom habits in five U.S. cities finds New York
commuters are least likely to clean their hands after us
ing the john.
The results, released Monday, are the latest installment
in the American Society for Microbiology’s effort to cajole
folks into following Mom’s most basic hygiene advice.
Four years ago, the society sponsored a study to see
how often people take time for soap and water in re
strooms. Researchers stood around, endlessly combing
their hair or putting on makeup, while watching what peo
ple did. Or did not do.
They fourld that about one-third of Americans skipped wash
ing. So the society sponsored a “clean hands campaign” to ed
ucate folks about the importance of hand washing in stopping
the spread of cold?, diarrhea and other infectious diseases.
This month, they did the survey again. The result: Not
much has changed. If anything, Americans are even
slightly more slovenly than they were in 1996. Especial
ly in New York City, it seems.
Four years ago, 60 percent of folks using the rest
rooms at Grand Central and Penn stations washed up af
terward. This time, it was just 49 percent.
To the microbiology society, made up of infection con
trol experts, this is serious business. “Fifteen seconds of
soap and water and rubbing your hands is a wonderful way
to get germs off. We are not making a lot of progress,” said
microbiologist Judy Daly of Primary Children’s Medical
Center in Salt Lake City, the society's secretary.
Besides the New York train stations, the observers peeked
at bathroom habits at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco,
the Navy Pier in Chicago, a Braves game in Atlanta and a
casino in New Orleans. *
are drug testing improves apartment living
CHICAGO (AP) — The way
Chm les Poole remembers it, The
B /n Mawr apartments used to be
ill-service building — if the ser-
1 vices you were looking for in
volved drugs and prostitutes.
■ Outside its doors was what
amounted to an open-air drug
$tore. And inside, right behind the
front desk, one woman ran her
own little side business, finding
Customers dope and hookers.
[These days, the 79-year-old
ole says he sees none of that,
^nd a big reason, he says, is the
test for illegal drugs like cocaine
and marijuana that everybody —
from teen-agers right up to a
white-haired retired accountant
who needs a cane to get around —
must pass before they are allowed
to move into the building and keep
passing once a year to stay.
“To me, it’s that much more of
a guarantee that we do have a
drug-free building,” he said of the
drug testing implemented more
than a year ago by Holston Man
agement Corp. after it bought and
rehabilitated his building and two
others. ‘T think it’s great.”
It is also rare.
The same company requires the
tests of tenants in three of its Chica
go buildings—one across the street
from The Bryn Mawr. And the test
ing has been required since 1994 at
an apartment complex in Cleveland,
but nobody in the organization that
owns that property knows of any
other apartment buildings that have
followed its lead.
In both cities the testing — paid
for by property owners, not the
tenants — was implemented in ar
eas known for scaling crime rates
and illegal drug use.
“This was a property with a his-
tory of terrible problems,” said Tom
Slemmer, the president of National
Church Residences, an Ohio-based
not-for-profit provider of affordable
senior and family housing which be
gan testing for drugs at Summer-
wood Commons in the Cleveland
suburb of Euclid after it bought the
property. “There were suspicious
murders on the site that were drug-
related. The building had been shut
down and fenced.”
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