European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 04, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday january 4. 1990 the stars and stripes Page 9 a snowman for All seasons with Switzerland s Lack of Snow one woman in vet Ikon decided a Desper ate measure has needed a Styro foam snowman. Overcast but non ices skies were expected to continue thursday and Friday. Bomb rips apart Indian affairs office Riverside. Calif. A a bomb planted in a Federal Bureau of Indian affairs office blew out windows and doors and ripped out inc floor tuesday. No one was injured authorities said. The 5 30 . Blast was the second Indi an related bombing in Riverside county in four Days but authorities found no imme Diate link with a bombing that damaged a office on inc Morongo Indian reservation Early Friday. The Ria blast which also damaged an adjacent office in the building near Down town was investigated by the Fri and Riverside police department. We Don t know whal kind of bomb was used Fri spokesman Jim Neilson. He declined to say whether the office had been the target of any threats but police spokesman Pete Esquivwl said that possibility was being investigated. The Bureau office is 30 Miles from Morongo Indian reservation one in the area. The two Story building houses several offices and some of the adjacent ones were damaged by objects that were hurled through the Walls. Esquivel said. It was a fairly Large explosion judging by the structural damage to the building he said. A damage estimate was not immediately available. The previous bombing occurred about 2 . On dec. 29, but was not discovered until 7 45 ., when workers arrived at a business office of the Morongo band of Mission indians near Banning said Sher Iff s capt. Jake Bowser. A pipe bomb was used in that explosion but Bowser could not release any other in formation about the device. He said it was powerful enough to kill but if the bomber had wanted to injure someone it would have been timed were no known witnesses and both bomber and motive remained unknown authorities said. There also were no threat before the bombing. In the Southeast recent mail bombings have killed a judge and a civil rights attorney. Federal officials said inc bombings May have been carried out by a group Wilh a grudge against the a act and the 11 in . Circuit court of appeals. Scene in pm documentary attacked by animal activists los Angeles a Roger & the darkly comic documentary thai depicts a woman clubbing gutting and skinning a Rabbit for food has got bad reviews from the american humane association and animal activists. It shows a Little Rabbit being murder said Betty Denny Smith director of the los Angeles office of the association s animal Protection division. I do not see any humor in filmmaker Michael Moore whose documentary on How the loss of 30,000jobs at several general motors corp. Plants in lint. Mich., devastated the town of 150.uou. Defended the scene. It s i Pivotal moment in the film be cause people Don t want to lie said. They Don t want to look to Sec the brutality of whal has happened not to this Rabbit but to this town that a woman is reduced to killing rabbits for food in the Middle of the Hometown of the world s richest Moore in a recent phone interview from new York also expressed bewilderment that the Rabbit killing scene had provoked outrage among animal activists while scenes that he said depict brutality and cruelty to people have been ignored. The film was one of the Surprise hits of 1989. Making the 10 Best lists of More than a dozen film critics across the coun try. It traces the Impact on Flint of pm chairman Roger Smith s decision to close the local Auto plants. The woman who clubs the Rabbit is the wife of a Laid of Tom employee. She said in inc movie she raises the animals for pets or 20 quit Jerusalem Post Over editorial dispute Jerusalem a the publisher of the Jerusalem Post accepted the resignations of 20 journalists tuesday including nine of the most senior editors and reporters. Publisher Yehuda Levy issued letters to the 20 journalists ordering them to Clear their desks. Three More journalists resigned later tuesday. The journalists including the former managing editor David Landau accuse Levy of damaging the journalistic integrity of Israel s Only English language daily. The latest tremor at the Post came the Day after the journalists asked to terminate their employment and eight Days after the resignation of the top editor. Erwin Frenkel. Frencl said he quit because Levy had undermined his editorial authority. In their letters of resignation to Levy and Canadian owner David Radler on monday the others said they had no Choice but to resign because of an Ever increasing erosion of editorial according to Landau the resignations were by Levy s removal of an editorial from the Post s weekly International edition. The nov. 30 editorial in the daily paper defended the Post s right to critics a the govern ment after prime minister Yitzhak Shamir of the right Wing liked party had accused it of harming Israel s reputation abroad. That editorial was in fact the Touchstone of whether we have a really editorially Independent newspaper. The Issue was the most Basic Issue of journalistic said Landau. 42. Who began working at the i Ost in 1970. Levy denied accusations that he is moving the historically Liberal newspaper in a conservative direction. I want to say that All the labels they Are trying to apply to me Are labels that stick Well in the Media. But there nothing to them Levy tolls race radio. The dispute is not Over what they Are claiming it s about but Over proper management of his he added. Levy said about 80 permanent journalists still work for the newspaper. Joanna a Chick who quit her Job As Maga my and features editor estimated that Only about 30 full time journalists remain not including those who arc pensioners part time employees or work on the free weekly insert published by the Post. Levy was appointed president and publisher in july by Radler. Chairman of the Board of Holliger inc. A Canad an newspaper group. Hollinger inc. Bought a controlling interest in the Post in april. The paper s editorial staff filed notice of a labor dispute thursday which will allow them to take action including a strike or work slowdown after a two week wailing period. 1 hey Are demanding Levy s removal. The wave of resignations began nov. 30 with the Depar Ture of the head editor Ari Rath after persistent Dis agreements with Levy. First lady begins radiation treatment for disease Washington a first lady bar Bara Bush wednesday morning began the first of 10 Days of radiation treatment for Eye swelling and impaired vision resulting from a troublesome thyroid condition her office said. Bush went to Walter Reed medi Cal Center for the 10-minute treatment which will be repeated for each of the next nine Days said spokeswoman Jean Becker. The first lady butlers from Graves Dis ease which has resulted in a swelling be Hind her eyes causing tearing and double vision. The radiation focused on Bony Ca nals behind the eyes called orbits is in tended to reduce the swelling. Becker said. The Muscles thai Are swollen Are in the orbit area. The radiation treatment will not prevent Bush from carrying out her Normal sched ule the spokeswoman said. Bush. 64, was diagnosed with Graves disease earlier this year and was prescribed the drug Predni Sonc to treat the Eye prob Lem. She also was Given one dose of a radioactive liquid Treal Meni to treat the thy roid aspect of the disease. That treatment was effective but the Eye problem has remained her office says. The Predni Sonc has nol improved her condition although she is till Able to read and go Alx iut a Normal schedule of activities. If the radiation is not successful sur Gery would be an option. Step one was the drug she s been taking. That did t work Becker said. So this is the next step she said of the radiation. Graves disease causes an overproduction of hormones and initially caused bust s dramatic weight loss Over a period of weeks. The radioactive treatment and use of the drug my thiazole halted their regular hormone production by destroying the thyroid gland
