European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 10, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 7 obscene mimicry cracks up courtroom Columbia . Apr with pulsating Pel vises two male police officers wrapped their legs around a microphone stand and got Down on All fours and Shook their posteriors at a jury. The performance wednesday was intended to mimic the dancing of nude women in the Chippen dolls nightclub. The officers hoped to offend the jurors and convince them that the dancing was obscene. Instead they made the jurors smile and Drew laughter from courtroom spectators. The jury began deliberations thursday. The trial of Jennie Davis 24, was expected to help establish the Richland county a standards of obscenity. Three other dancers Are to go on trial at a later Date. Solicitor Jim Morton pleaded with jurors to ignore the humorous aspects of the Case. A the officers Arentt too excited about getting out Here and dancing a Little a Morton said. A but you Are being asked today to determine what the Community of Richland county will allow or not  but jurors and spectators laughed when Davis attorney Brian Dumas submitted copies of Playboy Magazine to show that county residents can obtain material that is just As sexually suggestive As nude dancing. The officers Jim Potash and Scott Desrochers admitted during Cross examination they had purchased Playboy for themselves or viewed a rated movies at Home. The . Supreme court has ruled that nude dancing that is not obscene is protected under the Constitution. Communities must define their own obscenity Standard based on what forms of expression Are so offensive that the average citizen would find them obscene. Davis is charged with exposing her body in an obscene manner a Misdemeanour that carries a maximum punishment of six months in jail or a $500 Fine. Columbia police arrested the dancers and the nightclubs manager during an Early morning raid july 28 after a four week  drops cause woman to lose Eye Pittsburgh up at least one woman has lost an Eye and several others May be in danger of blindness from using tainted Eye drops produced by a phar Amacy from a drug used to treat arthritis. The Pittsburgh press in a copyright Story thursday said one woman who used the drug contaminated by a bacteria had her Eye removed last week at Allegheny general Hospital. Two other patients May have to have eyes removed and two More have lost sight in an Eye. The patients mostly women Between 55 and 78, All have had Cataract surgery during the past month. They used Ondocin produced in Pill form by Merck Sharp amp dohme and approved by the food and drug administration for Oral use in the treatment of moderate to severe arthritis and osteoarthritis. The press said the tainted Eye drops came from Hiebert a drug store. A store manager Joseph Kilkeary said somewhere Between 20 and 200 people received the Medicine but All have been told to discontinue use. Kilkeary said the pharmacy has made the drops for years a without any problems whatsoever and is not sure How the drug was contaminated. A we Are not really manufacturing medication we re just filling prescriptions that the doctors prescribed a Kilkeary said. He said the Eye drop production was being thoroughly examined. Many Eye specialists prescribe Ondocin for topical application such As in Eye drops and pharmacies produce the drops by mixing powdered Ondocin with other solutions. Gary Bruell a spokesman for the drugs manufacturer said a the product is not indicated As a topical drug As an ophthalmic product. A the Fra is very Clear on How a product should be used a he said. A we certainly  comment on what a pharmacist or physician May be doing outside of what is indicated in the  John Lech director of the Center for drug information at mercy Hospital said a legally pharmacists can dispense and a physician can prescribe a commercial product for a use and in a dosage other than what is contained in the of Day a product  Eye surgeons at Allegheny general hospitals ophthalmology department identified the bacteria As Pseud Monas a bacteria often found in wounds Burns and infections of the urinary tract after growing cultures taken from a Small Brown bottle of Ondocin Eye drops. A normally we done to find any bacteria in medication but with that specimen we found Over 100 colonies a said Matthew Rigg a technician in the bacteriology lab. A we  believe How Strong it , gentler . Experienced 65 blackout new York a Quarter Century ago the lights went out in the most densely populated part of the country. Elevators stopped parties started and legends of the great blackout were bom. In 12 minutes 80,000 Square Miles in seven states and two Canadian provinces were pitched into blackness. Thirty million people were without a Watt. But to Many new yorkers nov. 9,1965, was a night of Jovial inconvenience one where Urban strangers became friends and the City pulled together in an unparalleled show of , 76, has cancer of prostate won t seek re election Washington apr sen. Alan Cranston d-calif., said thursday he has cancer of the prostate and wont seek re election when his term expires in 1992. A the physicians Tell me that the cancer is apparently totally curable but immediate treatment is necessary a Cranston said in a statement released by his office. A a positive Factor is my otherwise robust health. Whether i face an operation or radiation therapy will be determined  Cranston 76, also said he would not seek another two year term As Deputy majority Leader for the Congress that convenes in january. He was first elected to the Senate in 1968 and has been elected to the no. 2 democratic position in the Senate every year since 1977. Cranston a popularity among voters has plunged since he was named As one of five senators who allegedly intervened with Federal regulators on behalf of savings and loan executive Charles Keating a Campaign contributor. The Senate ethics committee has been investigating those allegations. Cranston had been expected to face a Challenge from sen. Wendell Ford d-ky., if he ran again for Deputy majority Leader. That office will be filled tuesday in a caucus of Senate democrats. Cranston said the cancer was first detected by the Senate physician during a routine annual physical examination and was confirmed by a Biopsy at Walter Reed Hospital on oct. 15. People stuck in trains shared goodies from their pockets. Barbershop quartets sprang up in elevators. Stores offered free food and use of display Beds for their unexpected guests. Amateur traffic cops guided cars safely through darkened intersections. Three deaths a two heart attacks and one stairway Accident a were attributed to the blackout. There also was less crime than on any other night of the year. There were 59 arrests in the 12 hours that Manhattan remained dark. During a 1977 blackout nearly 4,000 people were arrested a most for rioting and looting. Professor Herbert Gans a sociology professor at Columbia University believes the difference was socioeconomic. A postwar affluence was still going on in the �?T60s,�?� Gans said noting that economic hard times did not hit new York until the Early 1970s. A in 1977,�?� he added a people were also 10 years  the 1965 blackout began at 5 16 . When a safety relay near the Canadian Border was tripped by a momentary Power  survivor Universal studio s town Square courthouse was charred but it remains standing after a fire tuesday consumed the Flimsy sets surrounding it the los Angeles building was used in the film a Aback to the