Family hopes for eye cancer cure
DARBY (AP) ~ The Parents of a 3-year-old girl
vnildl 8 v m , eye cancer h o !* a tri P t 0 an obscure mountain
Ullage m \ ugoslavia will lead to a miracle cure for their daughter.
Megan McMahon and her mother. Jean, will travel to Medugorje,
V ugoslavia. this week to spend seven days living in the village and
making daily pilgrimages to the site where, according to legend
Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, appeared to six children on June 24.
1981. ?
The apparitions there reportedly have caused physical healings.
• When I first heard about Medugorje, I thought. ‘lf I could just
get Megan there,"’ McMahon said.
The trip is being sponsored by the Make-A-Wish foundation
Director Dave Smith heard of the McMahons’ plight and called to
ask if his organization could help.
Megan, who was diagnosed as having bilateral retina blastoma
when she was lo weeks old, had her right eye removed April 4.1985.
The same year, doctors removed six tumors from her left eye and
submitted it to a massive dose of radiation.
Scarfo jury picks set for today
PHILADELPHIA <AP> Jury selection begins todav for re
puted mob boss Nicodemo “Little Nicky" Scarfo on charges of
masterminding a multimillion-dollar methamphetamine operation
with connections across America and in Europe.
Four Scarfo associates face similar charges in a trial that
authorities hope will end by Christmas.
Selection of the 12 jurors and four alternates is expected to take
most of this week. They will be sequestered meaning thev will
stay overnight in a hotel while not in court - until the trial is over.
Prosecutors had wanted jurors identities kept secret so neither
they, nor their families, would face concern about mob contacts or
pressures. But U.S. District Judge Thomas O’Neill denied the
request, contending sequestration would provide sufficient protec
tion.
On trial with Scarfo will be Salvatore "Chickie" Merlino of
Margate, N.J.; Philip Leonetti of Atlantic City, N.J.; and Francis
"Faffy" lannerella and Charles “Charles White" lannece, both of
Philadelphia.
Protest 'dry run' for NYC event
CHERR\ HILL, N.J. (AP) An anti-abortion protest in which
210 people were arrested this weekend was a “dry run” for a
massive week-long demonstration planned for New York City next
year, the protest’s leader said yesterday.
The demonstration by about 300 people Saturday in front of the
Cherry Hill Women’s Center Inc. was the first major protest by a
group calling itself Project Life and was intended to test the
group s tactics, said Randall Terry, Project Life’s executive
director.
Police arrested the protesters during the 9 1 2 hour sit-in on defiant
trespassing charges. All were released without bail pending a
January court hearing, police said.
People from 15 states came to the demonstration, including
members of the Roman Catholic Church and various Protestant
denominations, police said.
“This ‘rescue mission’ was a dry run for the first week in May,"
said Terry, a Bingampton, N.Y., resident.
He said that 800 to 1,000 people would go to New York City for a
series of non-violent demonstrations April 30 to May 7.
Ewing heir surfaces in Boston
BOSTON (AP) He wasn’t nearly as rich as his television
namesake, but there was a real J.R. Ewing.
And now, seven years after the real J.R. Ewing died in a squalid
rooming house in Houston, his son has discovered that he is heir to
his father’s $150,000 estate.
A pleased and somewhat stunned Charles Ewing said it has been
more than three decades since he last saw his father, coincidentally
named the same as the tycoon oilman of the TV show Dallas J R
Ewing had abandoned his family.
After the elder Ewing's death, an attorney was appointed to find
his heirs but he said he was unable to find Ewing despite an
exhaustive search.
On Saturday a friend of Ewing told him an article in The Boston
Globe described the search for a Charles Ewing who had lived in
East Boston. Ewing, who said he would never have read the paper
otherwise, called the attorney.
Ewing, 51, a painter and wallpaper hanger, was stunned not only
by the news that he was $150,000 richer but also that his father had
died.
Man offers 'dollars for virgins'
NEW YORK (AP) A millionaire who says he’s alarmed by
high teen-age pregnancy rates has offered high school girls in three
New York City boroughs $l,OOO to remain virgins through age 19, a
newspaper reported last week.
I read that 40,000 girls under the age of 15 have gotten pregnant
in the United States. That’s a tragic story,” John Napoleon LaCorte
told the Daily News.
Boys do not want to marry sexually experienced women, said
LaCorte, a 78-year-old retired insurance salesman from Brooklyn.
"The Mediterraneans the Greeks, the Spanish, the Italians
say the best gift a girl can give her husband is virginity,” he said.
LaCorte established a $lOO,OOO endowment to fund the program
for high school girls in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.
To qualify, girls have to write to LaCorte to say thev want to
qualify and submit to a medical test at age 19. Boys, he said, could
not be covered under the program because “it's very difficult to
test young boys to determine if they are virgins. "
world news briefs
Five charged with importing cocaine
LONDON (AP) Police charged four women and a man from
Colombia yesterday with illegally importing $3.6 million worth of
cocaine concealed in records and children’s books. Trained dogs
sniffed out the cocaine.
Customs otiicers found nearly 5*2 pounds of the drug hidden
inside more than 100 books and records in four suitcases being
transferred Saturday from a British Airways flight from Bogota.
Colombia, to a Switzerland-bound plane.
The records and book covers were split so the drug could be
inserted, then reassembled so skillfully, officers said, that the
records could have been played.
Those charged were identified as Luis Alberto Rozko, 29: Maria
Nela Gonzalez de Arango, 37: Victoria Reyes Alciade. 28; Libia
Maria de Ayala, 34; and Maria Esneda Medina.
Chinese TV to show U.S. classics
BEIJING (AP) Shirley Temple, Julie Andrews and other
Hollywood stars will be singing and dancing their way across
television screens in China every yesterday afternoon for the next
vear.
The Good Sh ip Lollipop and The Sound of Music are just two of 51
classics that will be show r n on a weekly, Sunday afternoon United
States film series, the official Xinhua news agency reported
Saturdav.
Other selections include the Academy Award winners Grapes of
Wrath. How Green Was My Valley and With a Song in My Heart.
The series starts today with The Sound of Music.
Nine of Shirley Temple’s films, including Bright Eyes and The
Little Colonel, will be shown.
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