European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars and stripes thursday August 22,4991 ins in Boston apr Crews used Snow lows to Clear tree limbs from streets and people without electricity formed Long lines for ice to keep food from spoiling As the Northeast coast coped with Hurri Carie bobs aftermath tuesday. Authorities said the storm left at least 16 people dead from the Carolinas to Eastern Canada and knocked out Power to 2.1 million Homes and businesses. Officials said Bob appeared to have caused less damage than the last Hurricane to hit the Northeast Gloria in 1985. Nevertheless Massachusetts gov. William Weld estimated damage in his state at $1 billion. Rhode Island gov. Bruce Sundlun asked president Bush for disaster Aid and other states were expected to follow suit. So Many Trees and limbs were Down in Warwick ., that the Public works department put Snow lows on trucks to shove debris off roads. Waves smashed a seawall at Newport Many Small boats were blown aground throughout new England. Dozens of boats washed ashore near Provincetown mass., near the tip of Cape cod the coast guard said. With maximum sustained winds of 115 Mph the storm swept past North Carolinas outer Banks late sunday and moved northward parallel to the coast. On monday it hammered the Eastern tip of new Yorkus Long Island then Cut across Rhode Island Eastern Massachusetts near new Hampshire and into Maine. Downgraded to a tropical storm after its winds dipped below 74 Mph Bob crossed into Canada Early tuesday. By midday its remnants had moved out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Of the 2.1 million businesses and Homes without Power after the storm repair Crews from All the Northeast late tuesday still were trying to restore electricity to 200,000 Homes and businesses on new Yorkus Long Island 150,000 in Connecticut 150,000 in Rhode Island 240,000 in Massachusetts and 59,000 in Maine. Deaths attributed to Hurricane Bob Are a a train conductor killed when a wind blown tree smashed into a commuter train in new York. A two swimmers who drowned in heavy surf and undertow in the a amp Bolinas. A a dead woman and her Semi conscious husband found floating in the Long Island sound off Connecticut. A one person in new Hampshire one in new York Susan Clark of Boston views damage caused by Hurricane Bob on monday when it sent a 100-foot Pine tree crashing into the cottage she was renting in Sebago Maine. She and her Kitten narrowly escaped injury. And a woman in Connecticut who died in traffic accidents on rain sickened pavement. A also in Connecticut an infant and a 13-year-old girl who died in a fire blamed on candles used in a blacked out House and a Man who was killed by a falling tree Branch. A two 17-year-old girls who were missing and presumed drowned after being swept out to sea by Waves near Yarmouth Nova Scotia. O a swimmer who disappeared in rough surf on Long Island. O a Man whose body was recovered after he apparently was swept away by a swollen Stream in Maine. A a Man who was electrocuted tuesday in Maine while plugging in a pump in a flooded basement. A a Man whose body was recovered from a life raft by a coast guard helicopter Crew about 50 Miles East of Portsmouth bail jumper convicted in drug Case Miami apr a cuban born american spirited out of Costa Rica to face . Drug charges was found guilty tuesday of cocaine trafficking. A Federal judge ordered Carlos Rafael Duque Miyar 38, held without Bond pending sentencing oct. 28 for conspiring to sell cocaine Ana attempted Possession of cocaine. Duque jumped a $200,000 Bond and fled the United states while awaiting trial with his wife in a 1989 bust. Police in Florida had seized 1,000 pounds of cocaine during the bust prosecutors said. A jury convicted Duque in absent a in december 1990. The judge ruled him guilty at that time and repeated the ruling tuesday with Duque present. Defendants cannot be sentenced in absent a. Duque was taken from his Home in Costa Rica thursday and flown to Miami to face charges apparently at the request of . Bail Bondsmen Costa rican officials said. A Costa rican police officer Guillermo Vida was arrested Friday by Costa rican authorities and charged with helping to Fly Duque out of the country. . Officials deny any role in Duques capture. Duques lawyer Irwin Lichter would not comment on his clients removal from Costa Rica where he bought a cattle ranch near the Nicaragua Border nearly a year ago and was living under the alias Ricardo Rene Martinez Perez authorities said. . District judge Federico Moreno made Only a wry reference to the event at tuesdays hearing. A i see the defendant is finally present a the judge said. Duques wife is serving a 15-year sentence. Duque faces a maximum sentence of life in ids infected Man sues Lambskin condom maker Newark . A a Man who crusade in California for store signs warning that Lambskin condoms do not adequately guard against aids has sued the makers of a Brand he said he used when he got the disease. Jim Nissley who filed suit tuesday said a food and drug administration request two years ago for Schmid laboratories inc. To include warning labels on packages of Yourex natural skins should have been publicized. Warnings about Lambskin condoms became widely publicized Only last month when the . Attorneys office on behalf of the Fra seized thousands of Trojan Lambskin made by Carter Wallace inc. A had the Fra held a news conference or acted sooner than last month to warn people about these things i would have still had his but i would have known to be tested a lot earlier a said Nissley from Santa Barbara Calif. Nissley 38, was diagnosed with the aids virus in november-1990. He said he used Yourex Lambskin condoms in 1986 and 1987. The Fra published studies in medical journals As Early As 1989 saying Laboratory tests showed Lambskin were inferior to Latex condoms in preventing the passage of sexually transmitted diseases. A i did no to even realize there was a difference at the time Quot Nissley said. A to me a condom was a condom. All we were told was to use a condom a nobody Ever said anything about Latex or Lambskin prophylactics have pores that make them More permeable than Latex condoms. Officials at Schmid based in Sarasota fla., were unavailable for comment. Nissley said he filed the lawsuit in Newark because Schmid used to have its Headquarters in Northern new found guilty in murder of sect critic los Angeles up a former Hare Krishna member already serving a life sentence for murder has been convicted in the 1986 contract killing of a dissident member of the hindu religious sect. Jurors in the retrial of Thomas Arthur Drescher 42, returned the verdict tuesday their fourth Day of deliberations. Drescher was found guilty of the May 22, 1986, shooting death of Stephen l. Bryant. In addition the jurors found the defendant guilty of a special allegation of murder for financial gain meaning Drescher could be sentenced to die in the California Gas chamber. The first trial held last fall ended in a mistrial when the july was unable to reach a verdict. The second trial began july 9. Drescher is serving a life term in West Virginia for murdering another Krishna devotee Charles St. Denis in 1983. Bryant 33, was shot twice in the head As he sat in his parked Van in los Angeles. He quit the Krishna splinter faction based in the lavish a Palace of Gold Quot Temple Moundsville w.va., in april 1986 it after making Public allegations about corruption within the leadership. Officials in the Moundsville Temple paid Drescher $2,500 of a promised $8,000 fee for killing Bryant said Deputy District attorney Sterling Ernie Norris. Drescher was convicted in december 1986 of murdering St. Denis. St. Denis was shot repeatedly stabbed and then buried near new Brindaban the Moundsville Krishna site. Kirt Annanda Swami Bhakti Pada the Leader of new Brindaban was convicted of conspiracy charges stemming from the St. Denis murder. The mainstream leadership of 73 Hare Krishna branches in North America expelled Bhakti Pada and his West Virginia followers including Drescher in 1987
