European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday november 26, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 girl at Center of East West medical tug of War a a t o / a ill i am tl1� a la Newington Conn. Apr when Juliet Chengos baby girl was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis she turned to traditional chinese remedies to treat her acupuncture herbal medicines and Massage. But now Cheng is running out of tune to prove that her Faith in the Medicine of her ancestors Isnit mis placed and that her daughter wont face the rest of her life crippled because of the treatments. Cheng has already lost temporary custody of her daughter Shirley now 7. And if the girls condition Hasni to radically improved by next month a Federal judge has granted doctors permission to operate on the girl against her mothers wishes. A i have the rights not them a Cheng said bitterly As she waited to visit Shirley at Newington children a Hospital where the girl is now living. A they cannot Force me to do Cheng had Little exposure to Eastern Medicine As a girl growing up in Shanghai. Her father was a urologist who attended a Westem style medical school. He treated her with penicillin and other Staples of Western Medicine. Cheng emigrated to the United states a decade ago hoping to go to College. She met Shirley a father while taking College preparatory classes. But the two never married and she has raised the girl alone. When Shirley was diagnosed with the crippling joint disease As an 11-month-old infant Cheng first turned to an american doctor. He prescribed aspirin to ease the pain in her swollen joints. That did no to help Cheng said so she treated her daughter at Home with herbal potions. She also took her Back to China where Shirley was treated with acupuncture Massage and concoctions from animal glands. Cheng says it was Only during those four trips to China that her daughter showed significant improvement. A i know it works because we be tried it so Many times with Shirley. It helps her a Cheng said. Shirley suffered a relapse after returning from her last trip to China about a year ago Cheng said. A doctor in Poughkeepsie n.y., where the two were living with Chengos Mother suggested she consult a specialist at Newington children a Hospital. Doctors there told Cheng her daughter would never walk unless she had surgery to relieve the tightness in the tendons and ligaments around the joints in her hips Knees and left ankle. Juliet Cheng favors chinese remedies for her daughter. Cheng refused and the Hospital persuaded the state department of children and youth services to go to court in july to take temporary custody. The two sides were Back in court in october when . District judge t. Emmet Clarie gave Cheng until dec. 5 to demonstrate that non Western. Treatment could help her daughter. The . Supreme court addressed a similar Issue earlier this year. In Fresno Calif., the laotian Immi Grant parents of a 6-year-old boy born with club feet opposed court ordered corrective surgery because they believed spirits inflicted the defect to punish the family. In june the supreme court refused to overturn lower court rulings that ordered corrective surgery for the boy Kou Xiong. But hospitals have refused to perform the operations without consent from his parents Ger and Houa vue Xiong. A when Cheng find a traditional chinese practitioner who was also a licensed medical doctor As required by Claries order she chose what she saw As the next Best thing a homeopathic doctor. Homeopathy is a Western based alternative Medicine that is popular in the Orient because it relies on similar philosophical principles. Its practitioners use Small doses of natural medicines to strengthen the body a Healing Powers. Shirley is now receiving diluted doses of phosphorous and Poison Ivy to relieve the swelling in her joints and improve her appetite. She also visits a physical therapist three times a week for two hour sessions that sometimes try the Little girls patience. On a recent visit the usually Happy girl wriggled around the therapy table and complained a i want to go or. William Shevin the homeopathic doctor who is treating Shirley believes she could be cured and Able to walk within two or three years if she continues the treatment Shirley a physical therapist said the girl has shown slight improvement during the homeopathic treatment. But doctors at Newington believe she has gotten worse said Thomas Hanley a Hospital spokesman. A or. Sherwin Nuland an associate professor of surgery at Yale medical school who has studied both Western and chinese Medicine said chinese treatment is effective in the Early stages of rheumatoid arthritis. But once there is anatomical damage surgery is the Only answer he said. A she will be crippled for the rest of her life without surgery he said. Thomas Moriarty a spokesman for the state department of children and youth services defended the Agency a decision to intervene. A although this Case has undertones of cultural and philosophical differences we have to rely on what our doctors Tell us a Moriarty said. A the Bottom line is we have to protect motorcycle race spurs protest by the los Angeles times Barstow Calif. A ten motorcyclists were arrested saturday during a tense showdown with Federal authorities in Southern californians Mojave desert Over cancellation of this years venerable Barstow to Las vegas dirt Bike race. More than 100 cyclists declaring themselves defenders of americans right to use the nations Public lands joined in the protest on a windswept Patch of desert about 110 Miles Northeast of los Angeles. Despite a Brief shoving match Between a demonstrator and rangers working for the . Bureau of land management there were no injuries authorities said. Four dirt bikers dressed in colourful racing regalia were arrested after they sped around a Phalanx of Federal rangers onto land the blk had temporarily closed in Hopes of discouraging an off Road protest ride through environmentally sensitive terrain. One riders Bike stalled in the Sand a Short distance away. But the other three were chased about 40 Miles across the desert by a san Bernardino county sheriffs helicopter before they ran Low on fuel and stopped blk District Ranger Felicia Probert said. The four a who face up to one year in prison and a $100,000 Fine if convicted of violating the by my a land closure order a were identified As Rick Sieman Wesley Holmes Bariy Vandyke and Patrick Martin. They were taken to san Bernardino county jail in Barstow where they were cited and released. Five other bikers were arrested and cited for similar violations East of Barstow and a 10th protester a Louis Mckey an electrician from Buena Park Calif. A was taken into custody after he attempted to Block an army tank motoring across the closed lands from nearby fort Irwin. A these tanks Are doing More damage than a Bunch of motorcycles a Mckey 59, yelled before being led away and handcuffed. A your rights Are being blatantly dozens of other demonstrators meanwhile mounted their bikes and followed routes around the closed territory without interference from Law enforcement officials. A we came to ride so we re Gonna ride a said Jim Smith of Laguna Hills Calif., a member of the racers under the Sun Christian motorcycle club. A Barstow to vegas is an important event to us. Its a tradition. That a Why we re Here to make this the Barstow to vegas race first run in 1967, is considered the premiere Amateur dirt Bike race in the world drawing 1,200 riders and thousands of spectators annually. Racers use dry washes dirt roads and trails to travel the timed course which stretches up to 150 Bone jarring Miles. Through the years environmentalists have bitterly opposed the event contending that the dirt bikes irreparably scar the desert and harm its inhabitants. This year their complaints took on a special urgency with the Federal governments listing of the desert Tortoise As a threatened species. In september the races sponsors announced that they were cancelling the event because they had lost Hope of obtaining a Federal permit. Blk officials identified the other five motorcyclists arrested saturday As Lincoln Peirsol Lance Polloreno Lowell Webb Lawrence Naston and Michael Island museum retells Story of America historians had prepared them. Old photographs passports music and other artefacts Are on exhibit in the new Brunswick . Up a americans newest museum the Ellis Island immigrant museum is meeting one of society a oldest needs by telling epics project efs University he to ran we helped plan the in let is ave storytellers who pass on the his a their people by word of Mouth a said Virginia a Mclaughlin a professor of immigrant history who red As an unpaid consultant on the project to restore a a Gration Center As a museum. This museum is part of our Way of telling our epics was done in a the Iliad a for example in ancient Days. tells an epic Story but it is an epic not of 8 at men but of common men. This is where we Tell our stones about ourselves a she said. The role of Ellis Island in the american epic began in 1890, when the Federal government passed legislation creating a processing Center for immigration. The facility opened in 1892 and closed 62 years later having served 17 million new americans. It languished for some 30 years until efforts to restore it As a museum began under the Aegis of the Federal government. A immigration is one of three great american stories a said Yans Mclaughlin. A the american revolution represents National birth the civil War fratricide and immigration represents a redemption in that people left the old world to come to the although Yans Mclaughlin and other historians created the Muse my a main narrative some of the additional exhibits and texts on View there were left As non museum. A this Means that visitors to the museum get a multiple perspective vision of everything a she said. A the professional historians version is presented As Well As other in terms of physical space the Ellis Island museum is the third largest in the new York City metropolitan area and the second largest historical museum in the country behind Only the smithsonian she said. Yans Mclaughlin who also worked on the statue of Liberty restoration views Ellis Island in a personal Way. Her father Francesco Iannuzzi was one of the immigrants processed there in 1904
