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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 09, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fonday september 9, 1985 the stars and is ripes Page 7 methods of Mia identification questioned Oklahoma City a a con Grossm has asked a House subcommittee to investigate the m is the army used to identify remains returned from Vietnam As those of a . Pilot shot Down 7 years ago. The Pilot s widow Kathryn fanning had the remains exhumed under court order last month and a forensic anthropologist who examined them said they could not he identified As those of maj. Hugh fanning. Rep. Glenn English. D-okla., said Friday he ask a the foreign affairs subcommittee on asian and Pacific affairs to probe the process the . Army Central identification Laboratory used to determine the remains were fanning s. Or. Clyde Snow a consultant to the state medical examiner s office examined the remains at mrs. Fanning s request. I Don t know what the basis of their calculation was Snow said. Probably the army report is essentially accurate As far As it goes. There arc several modes of identify ing a body. I would need a great Deal More documentary  i think we be had some people playing fast and Loose with the facts As far As the remains of the Mia Are concerned English said. People have depended on the examinations made by people supposedly professional and i understand there is some question As to How professional they  maj. Keith schneider., a Pentagon spokesman said that personnel at the Laboratory Are experts in analysing partial skeletal remains. In All cases the identification of remains is an extraordinarily careful and painstaking process Schneider said. Fanning s a-6 Jet was shot Down on oct. 31, 1967, when he was 26. The remains were buried in August 1984. School crossing guard killed by car after saving kids Melrose mass. A a 58-year old school crossing guard known to her St. Mary s gra., school charges As Nanna pushed a half dozen children out of the Way of a speeding car that struck and lulled her an instant later. Jose Silva 71, of Saugus was arrested in connection with the death thursday of Mary m. Foley said police it. Paul Hor Gan. Foley of Melrose was dead on arrival at Melrose Wakefield Hospital. She More or less sacrificed herself Horgan Saiu. He explained that Foley pushed a half dozen children out of the Way of Silva scar. Police officer Jim Smith in a car waiting at the crossing after picking up his daughter at school saw Silva Careen Down the Street and hit Foley before bouncing off another parked car and getting Hung upon a third. She got those kids out the Way and she got killed for doing it said Smith but she did what she was supposed to  Smith who was off duty arrested Silva. Silva was charged with operating so As to endanger leaving the scene after personal injury vehicular homicide and four counts of leaving the scene after damage to prop erty. He was released on $2,000 Bond and a pretrial conference was set for oct. 30. Foley a graduate of St. Mary s Gram mar school worked at the crossing Ihrer for at least is of the 25 years she had been a guard. The children knew her As Nanna Foley said sister Charlotte Ann Ciommo principal at St. Mary s. She had a special love for children and they loved her. And she gave her life for them. It is an absolute  big wheel at the fair Joe Johnson 16, demonstrates an of Stoughton mass., Aerial stunt during Boston s kid Fiir. The fair attracted thousands of new England youngsters. Tobacco heir is indicted in deaths of mom brother Naples Fla. Up a grand jury has indicted tobacco heir Steven Benson on two counts of first degree murder in the car bombing deaths of his Mother and his brother officials said saturday. The nine count indictment handed Down after a closed door session of the Collier county grand jury also included one count of attempted murder four counts of arson and two counts of making and placing explosives. Margaret Benson 63, heiress of the Ben son tobacco Fortune and her son Scott 21, were killed july 9 when two pipe bombs demolished their car outside their Home in an exclusive subdivision of Naples. Carol Benson Kendall 40, Steven s Sis Ter also in the vehicle at the time of the blast survived the explosion but suffered severe Burns. Steven Benson 34, pleaded innocent to All charges. Court officials said a Bond hearing for Benson was scheduled for monday. Benson was arrested aug. 11 and was jailed without Bond. Police investigators say that two pipe bombs 4 inches in diameter and 12 inches Long filled with Black Gunpowder caused the blast that killed the two instantly. Court records allege Steven Benson had taken 12 million from his Mother s invest ment account without her knowledge and deposited the Money in his own account before the bombing. Women firefighters gather in Colorado for convention Boulder Colo. A women fire fighters holding their first National Confer ence say it might take a couple of decades for the questions to end. Among the More common do you sleep in the same station with All those men do you really fight fires do they just keep you around to drive the truck did they hire you Only to avoid being sued yes. Yes. No. Maybe. The conference brings 175 of the nation s 800 career women firefighters together for the first time although they have Corre Singer establishes fund for boy with aids Kokomo. Ind. A a Singer song writer outraged at what he terms the absolutely disgusting Way residents have acted toward an aids stricken boy who was barred from school says he will produce a song to raise funds for the youth s treatment. Alex Tiensivu of fair Lawn n.j., has written a song called a Little boy s dream Ryan s song about the plight of 13-year-old Ryan White who was barred from classes at the Western school corp. In suburban Koko  said the song s message is summed up in this line when our broken hearts appear beyond the Point of mend god usually sends our Way a very special Friend. The Friend is anyone who buys cassette recording of us song  be dumb used privately Tiensivu said Friday. Ryan a Haemophilia a contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome through a mood transfusion. School officials said they feared other children would contract the deadly Dis ease from the boy. Meanwhile Ryan receives seventh Grade instruction through a Telephone link with his classes. Aids is a usually fatal affliction that destroys the body s immune system. It is believed to be caused by a virus and apparently can be spread by sexual Contact contaminated hypodermic Needles and blood transfusions but not by casual Contact. Some children of mothers with aids May be bom with the disease. Last week the National centers for disease control in Atlanta said each child with aids should be evaluated individually but that most should be allowed to attend school. The cd said the benefits would outweigh the apparent non existent risk of  in new York City on saturday a Board of education panel ruled that one of four Chil Dren with aids who have sought admission to the City s schools should be allowed to attend this fall. Two others should receive instruction in the Hospital and the fourth should find some other Means of education because the child has been interviewed and identified on television and might face social discrimination in school the panel said. Ryan was released Friday from Riley hos Pital for children in Indianapolis after being hospitalized since monday night with a cough and a fever. His Mother Jeanne White said Ryan attended Bruce Springsteen s sold out concert in the Hoosier dome Friday night sponged through the newsletter fire work for three years. Bourlier firefighter Linda willing called the conference a reunion for people who have never met each  willing edits the newsletter along with Terese Florin a Miamisburg Ohio fire fighter. They organized the conference and picked the Boulder site partly because it has the highest percentage of women firefight ers of any City in the nation. Nine of Boul Der s 80 firefighters Are women. Feinstein signs child care measure san Francisco a mayor Dianne Feinstein has signed an ordinance requiring some office developers to provide child care services in new or renovated buildings. We Are absolutely thrilled said Abby Cohen of the child care Law Center in san Francisco. It s a great Day for  the measure to take effect in 30 Days affects development outside downtown. It re quires developers of new or rehabilitated office space of at least 50,000 Square feet to pay $1 per Square foot into a child care fund or to build a child care facility on the property. I believe this is a Basic solution to getting people to work and to stay off welfare particularly where there is just a Mother and Chil Dren said Feinstein  
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