European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday september 24,1990 surrogate baby Johnson leaves St. Joseph Hospital with an escort before the journey to the genetic parents Home on saturday. Genetic parents can keep baby until hearing is held on custody by the los Angeles times Orange Calif. A the child born to surrogate Mother Anna l. Johnson a tiny boy who was delivered into the Eye of a Legal and emotional Hurricane four Days ago went Home to his genetic parents on saturday. The infants departure from the Hospital was As unusual As his test tube Conception his gestation in the womb of a hired surrogate and his birth into a potentially precedent setting custody dispute. The still unnamed Newborn left St. Joseph Hospital in Orange about 10 15 . He was carried out the front doors by a paediatric nurse in a Green scrub suit and flanked by a uniformed police officer a clutch of Hospital officials and the baby a court appointed guardian William Steiner. The infant wrapped in a striped Blanket was swept past a Bank of reporters and photographers and loaded into a borrowed infant seat in Steiner a car. Steiner drove the child to the Home of Mark and Crispina Calvert the couple who hired Johnson to Bear their baby. Crispina Calvert 36, said that when Steiner pulled into the driveway of the quiet neighbourhood her husband Coula no longer wait inside. The 34-year-old insurance underwriter ran to the front door and put onto the Steps smiling and extending his so Steiner could hand him the still sleeping baby. Johnson who was staying with friends in Mission Viejo Calif., waited until late saturday afternoon to visit the baby at the culverts a she stayed for Over an hour. Steiner who will Monitor Johnson a visits with the baby said the session was a tense and awkward at first a but went a a Fine after that. A i sort of got the feeling that this baby was. The peacemaker said Steiner. A the attention just focused on the baby and away from All the acrimony and ironically it was Johnson a who is battling the culverts for shared custody of the baby a who made certain that the baby went Home with the culverts. During a five hour session with a judge on Friday the parties could not agree on who should take the infant Home temporarily until another custody hearing could be held. When her lawyer called her at the Hospital to say that the judge was about to place the boy in a Foster Home for a Short while Johnson decided that it was better for the baby to be with die culverts than in Foster care. Johnson 29, is the first surrogate Mother to ask a judge to declare that she is the Legal Parent of a child that is not genetically related to her. She agreed to be implanted with an embryo made from the culverts a sperm and egg. But she later backed out of the $10,000 contract and sought to keep the child saying the culverts Hud neglected her during pregnancy and would make unfit parents. Suspect linked to hikers murder Harrisburg a. Up a suspect in the double murder on the appalachian Trail has been arrested in West Virginia officials said saturday. A Man identified As David Casey Horn 38, of Loris s.c., was arrested Friday in harpers ferry w.., although his identity could not be immediately confirmed Pennsylvania state police said. The Man matched the description of a suspect wanted by Pennsylvania authorities in the murders of Geoffrey Hood 26, of signal Mountain tenn., and Molly Larue also 26, of Shaker Heights Ohio officials said. Horn was spotted by a hiker who notified police officials said. Horn was believed to be wearing the boots and Backpack of one of his victims. Hood died of multiple Shotgun wounds and Larue was stabbed to death. The couple who worked As social workers planned to get married. The suspect is being held in the county jail in Charlestown w.., on charges of murder. Extradition proceedings could begin monday. The bodies of Hood and Larue were found on sept. 13 in a shelter on the Trail. The deaths prompted officials to Issue warnings on the 230-mile length of the appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania. In addition the appalachian Trail conference which oversees the 2,140-mile Trail that stretches from Maine to Georgia urged hikers to bypass the entire Section of the Trail in Pennsylvania. Police thursday released a composite drawing of a rough looking Man believed to be in his 20s who was considered a suspect in the crime. Update Bhutto trial ordered Lahore Pakistan apr a special one judge court on sunday ordered ousted prime minister Binazir Bhutto to stand trial on corruption charges. Justice Rashid Aziz Khan issued the notice to the 37-year-old former Premier saying the backed caretaker government had presented evidence. He ordered the civil proceedings to Start oct. 2. If convicted Bhutto could be barred from the oct. 24 election and from participating in politics for up to seven with fungicide Washington a european wine with traces of a widely used japanese fungicide will be kept out of the United states until at least next april although the wine poses no health Hazard the environmental Protection Agency has said. Estimates of the Export loss for France Italy and Spain Range up to $400 million annually. The chemical is manufactured by Sumitomo chemical co. Of Osaka hut dispute Moscow up a a dispute Over jurisdiction Between two local government bodies has closed one of the two pizza hut restaurants that opened with great fanfare 10 Days ago a restaurant official has said a we apologize to our customers for the temporary closure by the soviet authorities of our restaurant a said a sign posted on the door of the flagship Moscow pizza hut on Kutuzov sky Prospect it is located about one mile from the Kremlin. Andrew Rafaqat the Deputy general director of the joint venture running the soviet pizza huts said the restaurant was closed by officials from the Kievsky regional Council in a jurisdiction dispute with the Moscow City Case ruling Salem Ore. Apr two men who were fired for using the Hall Nogen peyote in ceremonies of the native american Church Are not entitled to unemployment compensation the Oregon supreme court has ruled. The decision apparently is the final chapter in a Legal Battle that twice reached the . Supreme court. R Alfred Smith and Galen Black were fired As Counselor for Douglas count Quot a Quot a a it v.,. Program peyote a illegal drug mescaline in rituals of the Indian Church. The Oregon Law against peyote unlike Laws in some other states makes no exception for sacramental use. Air Force scrubs Clandestine Titan 4 launch Cape canaveral Fla. Up the launch of a powerful air Force Titan 4 rocket possibly carrying a secret military satellite was cancelled Early sunday for unknown reasons with the Clandestine countdown on hold at the to minus five minute Mark sources said. The Titan 4 was thought to have been scheduled for liftoff from Cape canaveral around 12 48 ., according to government radio traffic monitored by reporters near the launch Complex. But a one hour a a hold in the countdown was extended More than an hour and then a second hold began at 1 55 . With the countdown at the to minus five minute Mark. Finally at 3 30 ., the flight was called off for the Day sources said. But As usual with military missions All details about the flight were classified and air Force officials would neither confirm nor deny reports about an impending launch. It was not known when another at tempt might be made. Ask few by 1?w seeksssssk1 launches by using 8 arge id prove useful a a the persian Gulf Sale at Fol Oil i to 17 More warning of any iraqi missile attacks on . Troops or those of its allies
