European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 4, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7radioactive escapees show plenty of Bounce Knoxville Tenn. Apr in a Case that at first glance could pass for a science fiction movie plot radioactive frogs Are Loose at a government lab. About 100 so called a hot frogs have been caught hopping away from a contaminated Pond where they hatched this Spring said officials at the department of Energy soak Ridge National Laboratory. A they done to have six legs and four eyes a said Frank Kornegay the labs environmental coordinator. He said they look like Ordinary Leopard frogs common in Tennessee. The radioactive frogs Are Safe unless eaten and Leopard frogs Arentt exactly a delicacy. The frogs a Brownish Green and up to 2 inches Long with Long Skinny legs a appear healthy but will set off Geiger counters with radiation Levels Well above background readings officials say. The lab is planning to install a Frog fencing a a Fine mesh screen about 3 feet High to prevent them from escaping Kornegay said. The frogs became contaminated while growing up in the mud of a half acre holding Basin for waste Waters from the labs nuclear research of the 1940s and 195,0s.quot a a you can to be harmed by rubbing them picking them up or moving them around. But they Are contaminated internally a Kornegay said. A they done to represent a health risk unless you choose to eat them a he said adding that the chances of that happening Are slim because a they Are not an edible size or a species of Frog that generally would be  employees have been instructed to return escaped frogs to the Pool if they re alive and treat them As radioactive waste if they re dead. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is located on a 55,000-acre reservation. The facility was created to enrich uranium for the country a first atomic bombs. King of Funk arrested for alleged torture by the los Angeles times los Angeles a Singer Rick James the grammy winning a King of Funk of the 1980s, was arrested with his 21-year-old Girlfriend Friday for allegedly imprisoning and torturing a 24-year-old woman with a hot cocaine pipe Over three Days at James Hollywood Hills Home police said. James 43,. Who with Prince spearheaded the 1980s merger of Funk and Rock was held in lieu of $1 million bail after he was arrested Friday morning at Home with his Girlfriend Tanya Anne Hijazi. Hijazi was held on $500,000 bail. James and Hijazi were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon false imprisonment forced Oral copulation making terrorist threats and furnishing narcotics police said. James and his Girlfriend met the unidentified victim who apparently was unemployed at a party Ana offered to put her up at their House police said. On july 16, James threatened the victim with a gun telling her he would kill her if she tried to leave and he and Hijazi tied the woman up and severely burned her about 20 times with the hot end of a crack cocaine pipe officers said. That night and Early on july 17, James forced the victim to perform Oral sex on Hijazi while he watched police said. Officers said that throughout the ordeal James and Hijazi smoked crack cocaine and intermittently forced the victim to smoke it too. Los Angeles police detective Dennis Cicioni said the victim was a just let. Go by James and Hijazi on july 18. She went to Cedars Sinai medical Center where her injuries led Hospital workers to notify police. She was released after treatment officers said. James a native of Buffalo n.y., is Best known for super Freak a taut sexually charged dance number that broke into the top 20 in 1981. The songs distinctive Bass line was adopted by rapper . Hammer Ashe basis last year for the smash u can to touch this single. James listed As co writer on the song won a grammy in february when u can to touch this was named Best rhythm and blues song of 1990. James began his music career in the mid-1960s in Toronto where he and a then unknown Neil Young formed a Rock band called the Mynah Birds. After the group split up James moved to Detroit and joined motown As a writer producer. In 1979, motown released James debut album a collection featuring a song you and i that reached no. 13 on the National pop charts. The album come get it was the first of four a a Gold records a reaping More than 500,000 sales a that James recorded for motown. The biggest album 198l�?Ts Street songs sold More than 1 million copies. In addition to his own recordings James produced hits for such acts As the Mary Jane girls Teena Marie and actor Eddie Murphy. James left motown in the late 1980s to sign with Warner Bros. Records where his last album wonderful failed to restore him As a potent Chart Force in 1988. A spokesman for Warner Bros said James last album was released two years ago and his contract with the record company was dropped earlier this summer. The spokesman who asked not to be identified had no comment on James arrest. A file Rick James in 1983teen killed outside theater showing Boyz san Bernardino Calif. Up a 15-year-old girl was killed and three others were wounded Friday in a drive by shooting in front of a theater where the controversial movie Boyz n the Hood was playing. Sherrie Guerrero a police spokeswoman said it was unknown whether the shooting was related to the movie but that the attack appeared to have been gang related. The Krikorian Premier theatre a with the Glass on one of its doors shattered a was shut for the evening in the Wake of the shooting. Nearly 100 people were in the lobby of the theater and standing outside when several shots rang out about 5 p.m., sending the patrons scurrying for cover Guerrero said. The slain girl a san Bernardino resident was not identified pending notification of her family. Guerrero said a Friend of the girls Lupe Padilla also 15, was wounded in the Groin. The boy was listed in stable condition at Loma Linda medical Center. The two other victims included another Patron Jose Haro 17, who suffered a slight wound to the head and the theater a assistant manager Julie Telfer 23, who was shot in the lower left leg both were in stable condition at san Bernardino county medical Center. Detectives questioned witnesses to the shooting but it was not immediately known How Many people were inside the suspects car described Only As a Tan vehicle possibly a general motors design. There were five movies scheduled to begin showing about the time the shooting erupted including Boyz n the Hood. Guerrero said however that a at this Point there a no Way we can connect the violence to the film. The opening of Boyz n the Hood last month was marked by violence across the country. The mayhem that accompanied the film which depicts the struggles of growing up in South Central los Angeles was blamed largely on Street hoodlums triggering panic among theatregoers and prompting several Heaters to cancel showings. One Man was killed in a Chicago suburb during the height of the violence on the weekend of the movies debut nationwide in mid july and More than two dozens others were wounded. The film has been praised by critics for its anti violent message and has done Well at the Box office despite the violence. Odic defends purchases of artwork for new office Washington a the Agency that protects deposits in Money pinched Banks has denied a congressman a charge that it is squandering its taxpayer funds on expensive works of Art for a new office Complex. A we Are Well within the government guidelines on Art on a building of this size a David Barr spokesman for the Federal Deposit insurance corp., said Friday. Rep. Frank Annunzio d-ill., said thursday that the spending of More than $85,000 on Art to decorate the Walls of the of Dick a new Headquarters in Arlington va., was a an outrageous use of taxpayers  Annunzio chairman of the House banking subcommittee on financial institutions said the Odic has continuously sought More Money from Congress for the depleted banking insurance fund. Odic chairman l. William Seidman has asked Congress for some $70 billion by oct. 1 to Shore up the fund that insures customer deposits to $100,000. A now we learn the Odic is using the funds to decorate the Castle from which the Agency will oversee its Ever growing Empire of employees and acquired properties a Annunzio said. Arms negotiator chosen for state department Job by the Washington Post Washington a Arnold l. Kanter the chief arms control specialist on the National Security Council staff has been chosen to succeed Robert m. Kimmitt As undersecretary of state for political affairs the state departments third ranking Post the White House announced Friday. The Surprise selection of Kanter who has not been a member of the close knit group around Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii was made Public As Baker and several of his key aides were travelling in the Middle East. A senior state department official said Baker has worked closely with Kanter on the recently signed strategic arms reduction treaty and other arms negotiations and was impressed with Kanters knowledge and ability to work with people. Kanter also was described As skilled in inter Agency negotiations which Are an important part of the undersecretary a Job. In 1983-84, he served As a Deputy to the undersecretary for political affairs then Lawrence s. Eagleburger working on arms issues and european policies. Kanter 46, is a Chicago native. He graduated from the University of Michigan and Yale in political science and taught at Ohio state and Michigan before joining the state department in political military affairs in 1977. In 1985-89 he was a senior staff member of Rand corp. And directed its National Security strategies program. Kimmitt 43, was confirmed by the Senate on tuesday As . Ambassador to Germany