European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes . Thursday november 12,1992 Wachtler spends first Day of detention new York up sol Wachtler the Day after resigning As the states top Jurist spent wednesday under detention in his Long Island Home wearing an electronic monitoring Anklet and under the watchful Eye of private Security. Wachtler resigned tuesday As chief judge of the new York court of appeals the states highest tribunal amid allegations that he blackmailed a former Paramour and threatened to Kidnap her daughter. Hours before the 62-year-old Wachtler appeared before magistrate Sharon Grubin in . District court in Manhattan where he agreed not to leave his Home in Manhasset Long Island except to Isit doctors lawyers or to go to court. Wachtler was arrested saturday and charged with extortion for allegedly blackmailing his former mistress Joy Silverman a prominent 45-year-old Republican party fund Raiser and threatening to Kidnap her teenage daughter. After the arrest Grubin had ordered Wachtler held for psychiatric observation at Long Island jewish Hospital in new Hyde Park where the accused had been undergoing treatment for an undisclosed illness reportedly cancer. Considered the most influential and powerful judge in the states history Wachtler also consented to Wear an electronic Bracelet that monitors his whereabouts hire private Security to watch him and escort him on outside trips and compile a list of visitors. Anaheim Calif. A a 53-year-old grandmother who turned Bax her biological clock by Way of artificial hormones and test tube fertilization has Given birth to twin girls. The babies born 12 weeks premature tuesday to Mary shearing were listed in guarded condition at Martin Luther Hospital both were under 3 pounds. Shearing who has three children and two grandchildren from a previous marriage was going through menopause when she was implanted May 15 with embryos created with sperm from her 32-year-old husband Don and eggs donated by a woman in her 20s. Her name was not made Public. Hospital spokesman Dennis Gaschen said the oldest Post menopausal woman in the United states to have delivered a test tube baby previously was 52. The guinness Book of records lists the oldest Mother As Ruth a. Kistler who was nearly Sivi when she gave birth in California in 1956. Shearing s attempt to thwart her biological clock stirred debate Over the ethics of test tube pregnancies among older  his Home the former Jurist also agreed not to have Contact with any of the alleged victims. Wachtler and his attorney Charles Stillman also agreed that All further proceedings in the Case will be handled by new Jersey . Attorney Michael Cher Toff. Chertoff office opened the Case on a request from Fri director William sessions who Silverman contacted directly to complain about receiving Anonymous threats. The Case went to Federal prosecutors in new Jersey instead of new York because letters allegedly sent by Wachtler to Silverman bore new Jersey postmarks. Chertoff said tuesday that wac tier was not a suspect when the investigation began but became the Robes prime target Wincn threatening phone Calls to ilverman�?Ts1 apartment were traced to his car phone. Prosecutors allege Wachtler threatened Silverman who ended their Long term affair sometime last year with phone Calls and Anonymous letters that included demands for $20,000 and threats to Kidnap her 14-Ycar-old daughter. Wachtler has been married for More than 40 years and has four children. Wachtler whose term As chief judge was to expire Jan. 2, 1999, oversaw the operation of All the states courts receiving an annual salary of $120,000. Gov. Mario Cuomo said tuesday he would move swiftly to find a replacement. The couple went Public with details of the pregnancy partly because of negative comments they had heard. Shearing and her husband of seven years said they wanted to encourage older women who might be considering pregnancy. The age consideration while it s important is not something you run your life by Quot shearing said last month. She had miscarried a non test tube pregnancy four years ago. The twins were due feb. 5. But doctors expected an Early delivery because of the mothers age and the complications associated with multiple births. Babies delivered after 24 weeks Are considered to have some Chance of survival. The first baby to be born Amy Leigh was delivered vaginally. She weighed 2 pounds 2 ounces. Her sister Kelly Ann was delivered by caesarean Section and weighed 2 pounds 12v6 ounces. Hormones were used in the first trimester to sustain the pregnancy but medication was discontinued after the embryos were  senator denies raping woman in 1963 from wire reports Hastings Minn. A sen Dave Durenberger in a court response to allegations that he raped a woman and fathered her son 29 years ago says any Contact he had with the woman was consensual. His filing monday in Dakota county District court repeated a denial that he raped Joyce Rauscher 57, now of cottage Grove and fathered her son Kenneth Millette 28. The senator did not specifically address whether he and Rauscher had a sexual relationship. He said Only that any Contact with her was a at All times  he denied visiting her Home where she says the rape occurred when he was her divorce lawyer in 1963. Durenberger said last week that he was positive he was not Millette a father and would agree to take a blood test Only to help Millette a seek the  won t ban Bible Brooklyn Center Minn. A a school Board in Brooklyn Center unanimously has rejected a bid to ban the Bible from its Public schools. An atheist Gene Kasmar filed a petition in july asking the school District to remove the Bible on the grounds that it is full of obscene and offensive passages. The school Board in this Minneapolis suburb announced the result of its Roll Call monday night to a cheering crowd. Assistant superintendent Dennis Morrow has said bibles Are used in schools for learning purposes. Without referring to biblical sources it is nearly impossible to explain topics in Art history or entire themes in humanities  believed found san Diego a traces of apparent cyanide were found in a vehicle where a British National died mysteriously Days after his wife and three children were fatally shot in the family a luxurious rental Home a newspaper reported wednesday. Law enforcement authorities who requested anonymity told the Blade citizen of Oceanside on tuesday that sheriffs investigators found evidence of what they believed to be cyanide in the Ford explorer where the body of Ian Stuart Spiro was found. Spiro 46, was an International commodities broker who had ties to British and . Spy agencies. An autopsy performed monday did not reveal How Spiro died. The results of toxicology tests Are expected in six to nine Days investigators said. Spiro was found slumped Over the steering wheel of his vehicle in a Remote desert Park on sunday afternoon. Spiro has been identified by sheriffs authorities As the prime suspect in the slaying of his  screens still Smoky Washington there a still plenty of smoking going on in movies these Days and both the Good Guys and bad Guys Are far More Likely than their audiences to Light up a Survey released wednesday said. The researchers expected to find that smoking and other signs of tobacco had All but disappeared from the big screen Over the past 30 years As smoking declined in the general populace. Instead they found that there a been Little change during that period Quot the amount of smoking or tobacco related events remained fairly constant a a said Anna Russo Hazan of the Institute for health policy studies at the University of California san Francisco. She was delivering a paper on it wednesday at the meeting of the american Public health associations annual meeting. L or months the researchers sat with Kitchen timers pencils and rating sheets As they watched movies that were released Between i960 and 1991. They kept track of who smoked what they looked for billboards with the names of cigarette brands on them and they watched when somebody played with matches. The Flash of a lighter also would catch their Eye. A at a Hospital news conference last month in Anaheim Calif., 53-Ycar-old grandmother Mary shearing and her husband Don shearing 32, answer questions about her test tube pregnancy. Grandmother has test tube twins