state
Cyanide
By RICHARD GREEN
Associated Press. Writer
PORTLAND, Ore. No cyanide was found in
any of the remaining eight capsules in a bottle of
Anacin-3 taken from the home of a woman who
died from the poison, but cyanide gas was pre
sent in the bottle, a medical official said yester
day.
The presence of the poisonous gas suggested
the woman, Patricia F. Bennett, had taken the
• only cyanide capsule or capsules in the Maxi
mum Strength Anacin-3 bottle, medical examin
er William Brady said.
Brady said no capsules in two other bottles of
over-the-counter medications found at her home
contained any cyanide:
Lie detector tests were given to Bennett's
9 dead in Lebanese militia fighting
By TERRY A. ANDERSON
Associated Press Writer
TRIPOLI, Lebanon Tripoli
slum dwellers hid in their homes
yesterday as rival Moslem militias
blasted each other with automatic
weapons and artillery, leaving nine
more dead.
"We're hungry and we're fright
ened," one woman trapped by the
fighting cried.
In . west Beirut; Lebanese troops
arrested 40 suspected PLO collabo
rators in house-to-house searches.
They were charged with plotting
against state security and turned
over to military prosecutors, an
army statement said.
Eager workers
Part of a crowd estimated at 7,000 push forward to turn in applications for 3,800 temporary jobs with Chicago. The people waited in lines as long as a quarter•mile long
No poison
Police said army troops sealed off
several suburban Beirut neighbor
hoods in their hunt for collaborators
of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liber
ation Organization. Police said the
sealed-off neighborhoods included
Bourj el-Barajneh, a main PLO
stronghold before thousands of
guerrillas were evacuated from
Beirut last summer.
Private radio stations linked the
crackdown to a bomb blast that
wounded two Israeli soldiers in a
military vehicle south of Beirut on
Wednesday.
Also yesterday, Israeli armored
reinforcements were reported de
ploying near the Syrian border in
the'eastern Bekaa Valley.
nation
gas found
in remaining Anacin-3 capsules .
husband, Norman, and her mother, Golden
Mitchell, Washington County Sheriff's Lt. John
Vallery said. Vallery declined to reveal the
results of the tests.
Mrs. Bennett, 31, of Hillsboro lived with her
husband, mother and 14-year-old daughter by a
previous marriage. She died early Tuesday. The
sheriff's department is investigating the death as
a murder.
Dr. John Aitchison, chief of toxicology at Ore
gon Health Sciences University, examined the
capsules Wednesday using low-density X-rays.
Officials disclosed findings of the analysis at a
news conference at the university here.
Brady said technicians will continue to test the
contents of the capsules and will examine the
contents of a large number 'of other capsules
found in the Bennett home.
In Israel, the United States raised
new ideas at the Lebanese-Israeli
talks in Kiryat Shmona on withdra
wal of foreign troops from Lebanon.
The battles in Tripoli raised the
death toll to 166 in seven weeks. The
fighting was confined mostly to two
slum neighborhoods, while the rest
of the northern port slowly recov
ered from shelling that had closed
most businesses and brought Leb
anon's second-largest city to a
standstill.
Leaders of most of the factions
involved in the fighting met again
after a cease-fire declared Wednes
day went unheeded. A delegation
from Syria led by Deputy Defense
Minister Ali Asian was included in
world
in bottle
Representatives of Anacin-manufacturer
Whitehall Laboratories, a division of New York
City-based American Home Products Corp., will
aid in these tests, Brady said. '
In addition, Food and Drug Administration
scientists are examining Maximum Strength
Anacin-3 . taken from shelves of stores in Hillsbo
ro, Portland and Vancouver, Wash.
Brady said officials were not suggesting a
recall of Anacin-3 from the Portland area. "This
is a single isolated tragedy," he said.
The bottle of Maximum Strength Anacin-3
found in Bennett's home wasn't tamper resistant.
Mrs. Bennett died at about 4 a.m. Tuesday in
the intensive care unit of Tuality Community
Hospital, about 5 1 / 2 hours after she was driven to
the hospital by her husband.
the meeting, chaired by former
Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid
Kararhi, the city's leading poli-
The fighting primarily involved
the pro-Syrian, Alawite Moslem
Arab Democratic Party in the
neighborhood of Bal Mohsen,
backed by several hundred Syrian ,
paratroopers, and an anti-Syrian
alliance of Sunni Moslems led by'
Farouk Mokaddam's leftist October
24 Movement, in the Bab el-Tabba
neh area.
In Bab el-Tabbaneh, where nearly
deserted streets were littered with
rubble and garbage, Sunni Moslem
militiamen dressed in camouflage
fired at other militiamen.
Up in flames
Firefighters spray water on a smouldering building in Boston yesterday. The
building, in the city's Chinatown section, was hit by an explosion of unknown
origin.
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Day-care centers
spread diseases
CHICAGO (AP) Day-care centers have
become "networks" for spreading diarrhea,
dysentery and other intestinal diseases to
children and their parents, causing out
breaks "reminiscent of the presanitation
days of the 17th century," a doctor reported.
The problem is too widespread to be
solved by case-by-case treatment and diag
nosis, Dr. Stanley H. Schuman wrote in
today's edition of the Journal of the Ameri
can Medical Association. .
"We don't have enough vaccine to prevent
the spread of infections in day-care facili
ties," Schuman said in a telephone inter
view. "We don't have the medical dollars or
the public health dollars. We have to go back
to the basics of sanitation."
The pattern is a throwback to conditions
in 17th-century Europe, when doctors real
ized the link between poor sanitation and
Certain diseases although they didn't under
stand the biological cause of the diseases,
Schuman said
Schuman, a professor at the Medical
University of South Carolina in Charleston,
S.C., cited several factors believed to con
tribute to the problem:
• Day-care workers "develop a casual,
tolerant attitude toward frequent lapses in
sanitary routines," even those as simple as
washing hands.
• Day-care centers often serve more
meals than a restaurant on a given day, but
proprietors sometimes have little training
in food-handling.
• Children enter and leave day-care cen
ters in an erratic pattern, "ensuring maxi
mum mixing of infected and susceptible"
children. •
• Children under 6 sometimes carry in
fections that they transmit to their parents
without showing any symptoms themselves.
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Mediator summons teachers to table
PITTSBURGH (AP) Pennsyl- riorated ' with the jailing of the
vania's top mediator yesterday union president for contempt of
summoned negotiators for the Cal- court and an assault that hospital
ifornia Area School District and its ized the school board president.
teachers union in a bid to end the The strike has idled about 1,400
state's longest public school students in the Washington County
strike. community about 40 miles south of
With state police troopers Pittsburgh.
guarding the meeting rooms at the
State Office Building here, the two Quinn said the negotiating com
sides reported to Thomas Quinn, mittees assembled in separate
director of the Pennsylvania Bu- rooms with himself carrying mes
reau of Mediation. • sages back and forth as the two
The bitter, 66-day labor dispute, sides identified their leading is
which exceeds the previous record sues. The early hours of the talks
strike by 11 school days, has dete- produced no agreements.
Woman names Bell of Pa. in rape suit
PITTSBURGH (AP) Bell of _work.
Pennsylvania said yesterday it When the woman heard some
will contest a lawsuit that alleges one enter the home, she tele
an operator's incompetence pre- phoned 555-1212, a directory
vented a rape victim from alerting assistance number, and asked an
polic'e in time to stop the assailant. operator to connect her with the
"We think the suit is frivolous. police, according to the suit.
We expect to show that we acted • She was put on hold twice before
totally responsibly. The operator
transferred to a lice
did a good job," Noah Halper, a be r,
g the lawsuit contendspo. num
spokesman for the utility, said. _
According to a lawsuit filed in In their suit, the couple alleges
Allegheny County Common Pleas, that Bell "breeched its duty"
Court, a man broke into a Pitts- when the information operator
burgh home- before dawn one failed to immediately connect the
morning in December 1981 after woman to 911, a police emergency
the victim's husband went to number operated by the city.
Challenger initial liftoff delayed again
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) February," Harris said, if another
Launch of the shuttle Challeng- test' firing of the shuttle's three
er has been delayed until at least main engines becomes necessary.
Feb. 1 and possibly "much later in
the month," because of an unex-
The leak described as minus
cule but about twice the accepta
plained hydrogen leak, space
ble rate was discovered after
agency officials said.
the initial test firing of the engines
A two-week search for • the
source of the leak into Challeng-
on Dec. 18.
er's main engine compartment A meeting of the National Aero
has now interrupted the \ regular nautics and Space Administration
schedule of tests and preparations management team is scheduled
for the new, shuttle's maiden for today, at which time a decision
flight, Hugh Harris, public infor- may be made on whether another
mation chief at Kennedy Space "flight readiness firing" of the
Center, said yegterday. engines should be carried out, KSC
"The launch could slip well into spokesman Mark Hess said.
Effect of nuclear war banned in class
DOVER, Del. (AP) -- An "anti- 35, said. "I was extremely disap
war" teacher said yesterday he pointed, not only for myself, but
was banned from teaching a sev- for my students. Ido not believe
enth-grade class a course on the that the issue of nuclear war can
effects of nuclear war after the be covered in one or two isolated
school board decided the course " lessons. I think the two or three
material was biased. weeks I had planned to spend on
William W. Hutchinson Jr., a this was not that major a change
social studies teacher at Central in my curriculum."
Middle School, said he was sur- Hutchinson had been asked by
prised by the, decision. the National Education Associa
"To be honest, I expected some tion to teach the pilot course in
kind of compromise," Hutchinson, Delaware.
Wedding gifts: $5OO and a divorce
DES • MOINES, lowa (AP) turned by a federal grand jury, last
Women got $5OO on their wedding month but kept secret until
day and the promise of an Wednesday.
additional $5OO, and a divorce in Authorities said Shirley Clayton
a marriage scheme to benefit ille- Martinez of Moline, 111., operated
gal Mexican aliens, authorities the marriage scheme.
here said. The marriages never were con-
Eight illegal Mexican aliens sumated nor did the newlyweds
married lowa women solely to ever live together, the indictment
enter the United States legally as says. And no second payment was
spouses of American citizens, ever made, so the divorces never
according to an indictment re- took place.
world news briefs
Police prevent lawyer's convention
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) of Mirpur, 70 miles northeast of
Riot police stormed a downtown here.
hotel and set up roadblocks around Lawyers from across Pakistan
a city in Azad Kashmir yesterday, and Kashmir, a region whose sov
preventing a planned convention ereignty is disputed by Pakistan
by 2,000 lawyers. and India, were converging on
As many as 25 lawyers were Mirpur. They planned to call on
arrested for violating a govern- the military regime that took con
ment ban by meeting at the Al trol of Pakistan in 1977 to give the
Mizan' Hotel in the industrial city government back to civilians.
Gunmen kill 2 officers in N. Ireland
ROSTREVOR, Northern Ireland activists in recent weeks in the
(AP) Gunmen killed two police British-ruled province.
officers and wounded a third yes- Police Inspector Ray Shields
terday in an ambush outside a post said the officers were slain in a
office in the first guerrilla slaying fusillade of automatic weapons
in Northern Ireland this year. fire outside the post office in the
The ambush came hours after a main square of the County Down
booby-trap bomb meant for a market town of Rostrevor, south
Protestant militia trooper blew up of Belfast.
and wounded a civilian woman, He denied earlier reports from
police reported. police spokesmen that the patrol
The officers died in an apparent car was lured to Rostrevor by a
revenge attack by Irish nationalist fake telephone tipoff that the post
guerrillas who vowed reprisals office was being robbed. This is a
because police and troops have tactic frequently used by guerril
killed seven known or suspected las to ambush police cars.
British officer loses top govt. secrets
LONDON (AP) A British in- Robin Gordon Walker, 36, a se
formation officer . admitted yester- nior officer with Central Office
day that he lost secret government of Information, was fined $883.75
documents in a London subway by Bow Street magistrate's court
train. after admitting a violation of the
•
Extracts from the documents, Official Secrets Act.
which the officer was taking to a The information officer went to
European Economic Community the Foreign Office on Sept. 19 last
meeting, were later published in a year to collect papers, some clas
radical weekly London magazine. sified and marked secret.
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