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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday. October 28, 1985 doctors say future Uncertain for babies found after quakes Mexico City up most of the 25 babies pulled alive from the rubble of the recent earthquakes have gone Home  their families but paediatricians warn they May suffer Long term damage from being buried for up  a week. The discovery of the newborns. Trapped in the col lapsed wings of Juarez Hospital and general Hospital provided a rare note of Joy As mexicans dug out from the sept. 19 and 20 earthquakes and counted 8,000 of their people dead. As each infant was pulled from the shattered con Crete slabs bystanders laughed and cried. Some shouted Viva Mexico As if reaffirm the country s will 10 survive one of its worst disasters. More than a month later Only three babies remain in infant Hospital of the 17 babies that were taken there. At the military Hospital in a Northern suburb Only two of the eight babies treated there remain in the Nursery. We have let almost All of them  Home and these Little ones arc doing very Well said or. Lucia Madra  waving her Arm at the incubators and cribs in the Large and sunny intensive care unit of infant Hospital. This is a work of love. We arc working Day and night Madra?.o said. However the doctor spoke quietly when asked if the babies would suffer Long term damage after being buried from four  nine Days without liquids Post Natal care or their mothers love. We really Don t know if they will be Normal she said. Right now they appear  be but we cannot say As we have not seen such a situation before. We will keep close watch on these children  see How they develop biologically and psychologically and How they will adapt into  two babies died at the Hospital one a Little girl dubbed Mary miracles and another unidentified male child. Doctors said both babies died of massive infections after they were found near put relying Bod ies. Three babies known Only by their surnames Are still in Madrazo s care the boy Medina Hernandez the girl Nunez Ortega and the boy  Little Medina Hernandez is doing the Best of All Madrazo said. His Mother breast feeds him every three hours. He and Nunez will  Home soon but Little Santamaria. He might have problems. Well have  hold on   unlike the other babies who were mostly bruised or suffered twisted Linvs the Santamaria baby has serious head injuries. Maybe hell have serious prob lems but we Doi t know what those problems May  or. Pablo Rivera Hernandez a Hospital administrator also stressed that doctors were worried but could not say whether the infants would suffer Long term damage. We arc on uncharted territory Here Rivera said. Oven though babies arc born with Between 10  15 percent liquid excess and they May not have suffered from any shortage there May be problems with the Central nervous  we will continue studying them and comparing them on growth charts until they Are 8 or 9 years old he said. We will also have  determine if there is any damage  internal organs or  the  although Rivera pointed out that Only 15 of the 125 babies in general Hospital s Nursery survived the quakes he refused  Call them Miracle  even though this is a religious country i Don t think we can say it is a Miracle they survived. They were Lucky not  have been crushed but afterwards they were prepared of continue  Rivera said inc environment of the collapsed build Ings resembled in Many ways what the babies knew for the first nine months. It was dark their movement was restricted and it was relatively  the fact the infants were also lightly swathed in blankets and the ability of the kidneys of the Newborn  Recycle water during the first Days of life much like animals in the desert helped ensure their survival he said. As these Little ones were too Small  have any anguish or  panic they used less calories than an adult in the same situation would  although some of the babies mothers were killed in the quakes none of the infants is without a family As their fathers grandparents or other relatives have stepped forwardly care for the babies. Rivera said the infants survival remains a mystery for the medical world and that mexican specialists Are preparing a report on the Phonon Mon. However we will not be Able  answer All the questions As we were not trapped with the Little ones  see How they did it. We would have  reconstruct the same situation  see How they managed this Odyssey but that remains a hypothesis.  one wants the Earth  begin shaking  policewoman slain in Montreal Montreal a a policewoman was fatally shot saturday night becoming Montreal s first female officer slain in the line of duty police said. The slain officer Jacinth Fyfe 25, who had served on the police Force for five years was also believed  be the first policewoman killed in Canada. Police said several residents of the Dorval Section had complained  police that a Man carrying a gun was walk ing through the neighbourhood and had tried  break int two Homes. A police car was sent  the scene  investigate a report that the Man was banging on the door of a House said John Kousik director of the police station covering the Dorval District. There was a Light on in the House and a hedge around it. As the police car approached a Man stepped from the hedge carrying a Rifle. The policewoman stepped on the Gas  get out of the Way and three or four shots were  Kousik said that hots shattered the rear window of the police car and that the vehicle then went out of control an struck a tree. Kousik said Fyfo was struck by a Bullet in the Back of the head. He said Fyfo s partner Denis Denman 36, jumped from the Cruiser and was fired at twice by the gunman who fled into a nearby House. Denman then went around and opened the Driver s door of the police car  help his partner and she fell into his arms dead Kousik said. Kousik said that a second police car then arrived and that the suspect a Man in his 20s, was arrested police have not yet released the name of the suspect. He is being interrogated by detectives. Denman a 14-year police Veteran was reported  be i Shock but otherwise unhurt. The Montreal police department has 66 female officers Fyfo is survived by two Brothers and a sister. Khad Afy warns Western Europe London a libyan Leader Moa mar khad Afy has warned of chases in the Street and explosions in the cities of Western european countries that shelter his opponents. In a speech on libyan radio monitored Here khad Afy also threatened  evict Western european business inter ests from Libya if european governments fail  disown inc United Stales and support him. In his speech broadcast Friday night by satellite from Libya  a conference on libyan development in Paris khad Afy said european countries harbouring anti libyan groups will pay the Price for protecting  terrorism will move into their territory. Any chases in the Street or explosions that might take place will be the responsibility of those who protect  in april last year a London policewoman was killed when a gunman in the libyan embassy opened fire on anti khad Afy demonstrators gathered outside libyan agent have been Irneli Calvd in a series of of her attacks on anti khad Afy activists in Western cities. W,T8plhat 70 it str of Job a s sports come fro Western Europe khad Afy said Western Europe must think of its own interests and not those of America Amer Ica wants  sacrifice the interests of Western Europe " hang glider Pilot missing for 3 Days arrives in port Sudan Cairo Egypt a an adventurer who flew off in a motorized hang glider across the desert  Sudan disappeared for three Days and showed up in port Sudan t British embassy source said. Richard mercy ii Harvcy icel London aug. 28 intend ing  Fly  Zimbabwe in stages in the lightweight glider which is equipped with a Small engine and scat. Meredith Harvey left the Southern egyptian City of Luxor sunday morning and was scheduled  arrive in port Sudan the same evening. Egyptian and sudanese teams had been searching for him and his companions  director fined loses Job for instigating attack on 5 girls Tokyo a a former television director has been fined for instigating an attack on five High school girls while filming a documentary on youth violence officials said. Tsutomu Nakagawa was fired by Asahi National broadcasting . And was fined $467 for inducing two teen age girls  attack and beat the girls said an official of the Public prosecutor s office in Hachiji Western Tokyo. The five schoolgirls were slightly injured. The program subtitled violent shots Bosses of mid dle school delinquent girls total confessions of sexual torture was broadcast on aug. 20. The juror stirred up by Nakagawa s actions led Asahi  cancel the hour Long afternoon variety show on which the staged documentary was shown. The show had been on the air for 20 years. Asahi president   viewers in a broadcast saying there was  excuse for the incident. Drunk person without License can legally push car court rules Lausanne Switzerland a a Swiss Federal court has ruled that a drunk person without a Driver i License can legally push an automobile. The panel upheld a lower court ruling that acquitted i Man charged Wilh drunk driving after the car he we pushing crashed into a parked vehicle. The Man was  identified. Police had taken away the Man s car keys and Driver License because he appeared drunk. Defying the office he then pushed his vehicle for about 66 feet steering through the open door until in crashed. Pushing a car does not constitute driving and is at Best comparable  of craving a non Molori cd vehicle Theroun found. Green Beans from Netherlands May contain toxic berries Bonn a Consumers should avoid a Brand of canned dutch Green Beans found mixed with berries that May come from a poisonous wild Plant the Federal  said. The dark Green soft berries look like peas but appear  come from the night Shade plan which contains a Chemi Cal called Solanum that can cause stomach pain vomiting and convulsions according  the ministry. In a Sale men it said the affected Beans arc the Deluco Brand in 800-Gram cans labelled Fine Young Green Beata a recommending consumption  later than end of Rysy.  i Beans arc a product of  Gelder Mal or . Holland the ministry said. It did nol order confiscation of the Beans. But Wert German food merchants routinely take a product off their shelves voluntarily after Federal health official have it sued a warning against it. Increased traffic in peking blamed for Rise in Accident rate peking a _ More than 600 people have beet killed and about 3,000 injured in traffic accidents in peking this year the official Xinhua news Agency said. It said 6,000 accidents have taken place since january and 300000cars which " by 5 4 Mill 0n Xinhua quoted Public Security Bureau official Cheng i. As blaming the acid cols on inexperienced Driver in vehicles 6  ays and a rap d ease in the number of Between Jan. I and oct. 25, 602 people died on the roads 54 More than in All of 1984, Xinhua said. A T of Chicles in the capital has increased by m rvs  last ear and the by now has More Haniu Uoo taxis compared with less than 4,000 in 1984. Inc report said traffic regulations  e been revised Ana police officers have been added at intersections  control congestion  
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