European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes f . Friday january 15,1993 at least 2 people sought in 7 deaths paper says Palatine til. Up police Are seeking More than one person in the slayings of seven fast food workers a the worst mass killing in the Chicago area in nearly three decades a newspaper has reported. Sources also told the Arlington Heights daily Herald that at least one Cash Register appeared to have been emptied in the late Friday or Early saturday slayings. Authorities have refused to say whether they believe robbery was a motive for the slayings of five adults and two Palatine High school students at Brown s Chicken amp pasta restaurant. The newspaper said a Quot bloody Broom apparently was used to Quot meticulously Quot clean the crime scene at which police found no Bullet casings. However sources said at least two .38-caliber guns were used to shoot five of the victims several times a some in the face. Two others were shot just once. Police investigated potential links Between the slayings and other recent robberies of grocery stores and fast food restaurants in the area. Authorities aided by Chicago police and the Fri reportedly sought three people who Are believed to be connected to the robberies for questioning in the Case about 25 Miles Northwest of Chicago. Workers and owners of other businesses in the area of the restaurant which normally closed at 9 . On Friday said they saw a parked car with its engine running near the restaurant after 10 pm. That night. They also reported seeing lights still on about 10 ., an unusual occurrence motorists reported nearly hitting a Man who apr geared to be carrying a handgun As he ran across a Street near the restaurant Between 10 . And 11 . Panhandler a Hole a fellow cub looks on a Snow Leopard at los Angeles zoo lifts up its feeding pan in Hopes of finding a Between meals handout. The leopards members of an endangered species Are the first benefactors of an a a adoption plan that encourages los Angeles area companies groups and individuals to give financial support to selected animals at the zoo. These cubs were adopted by Crystal Pepsi. Parents fight on vegetative girl s Fate Akron Ohio a a 14-year-old girl left brain damaged from a car Accident lies in a Hospital bed while her divorced parents fight in court Over whether she should be unhooked from tubes that keep her alive at times Carla Myers opens her eyes she a in what doctors Call a Quot vegetative pseudo Wakeful state Quot appearing to be awake but not aware. She a been that Way since oct 25, when she was involved in an traffic crash on her Way Home from a High school Homecoming dance. Her father Timothy Myers 38, said she should be disconnected from the tubes that give her water and nutrition Quot i know she  want to go on like this a he said. Quot every week that goes by she a looking less and less like my  her Mother Robin Myers 37, believes there is Hope for Carla and wants her to remain connected to the tubes. The woman a attorney Ann Snyder said Quot there Are things that Robin has observed things she believes Are responses from Carla a things like blinking and Eye movement following people around the room a a. Timothy Myers considers his sex wife a wishes irrelevant since he is the girls Legal guardian and has authority to make Deci was for her. A the couple div Preed in 19vsi,agreeing in 19ss to give the father Custodi \ a but Robin Myers who has not commented publicly has asked a court to make her a co guardian to clarify what she. Claims is her right to a say in her daughters medical care. Carlaus Fate May rest with a judge who must decide the guardianship Issue and perhaps whether she should remain on life support. Probate judge William f. Spicer set a hearing for wednesday. Evidence will include findings of Barbara Patterson a lawyer and former nurse he appointed As a limited guardian. On the night of the Accident Carla Myers and three other teens were in a limousine headed Home from the dance at Akron a Garfield High school. A car coming off an exit ramp went through a Stop sign and smashed into the Limo. The Driver of the other car and a 16-year-old boy whose Mother had chartered the Limo were killed. Carla who was about three months pregnant suffered a miscarriage after the Accident. She breathes on her own and is not on a ventilator. On dec. 12, after Carla had been hospitalized for seven weeks her father consulted with doctors and had the tubes removed. Six Days later Carla s Mother saw they had been removed she demanded they be reconnected and the medical staff complied. Artificial heart recipient / surgery from wire reports Tucson Ariz. A Sharoyn Loughran woke up wednesday to find herself with a breathing tube in her Throat and an artificial heart in her Chest. Loughran 46, who monday became the nations first artificial heart recipient in nearly two years was responding normally said her surgeon or. Jack g. Copeland. But she appeared frightened and bewildered at first Copeland Aid. But he said she understood she had been Given a mechanical heart to keep her alive until she can receive a human heart. It the operation at the University of arizonans University medical Center took four hours. Doctors said her failing heart worsened sunday while she was being evaluated for a transplant. 5 years in porno Case Concord . A the former drama department chairman at Phillips Exeter Academy was sentenced to five years in prison wednesday on child pornography charges involving his male students. He will be in a sexual offenders program at a Penitentiary in North Carolina. Lane Bateman 51, apologized to students and their families before being sentenced by Federal judge Jose Antonio Fuste saying he will never again have anything to do with pornography. Bateman taught at the prestigious prep school for 12 years before authorities raided Nis Campus apartment to july. Prosecutors said he secretly videotaped students Quot either wearing undershirts towels or nothing a a and that he compiled sexually explicit tapes made by students and submitted to him for grades. Reagan Given medal Washington in one of his final ceremonies of office president Bush bestowed the presidential medal of Freedom on Ronald Reagan on wednesday telling his predecessor that Quot millions thank god today that you were in the White  As Reagan s wife Nancy and daughter Maureen watched Bush draped the medal on a Royal Blue ribbon around the neck of the 40th president. Reagan was the 302nd recipient of the nations highest civilian Honor and the 38th of Bush a tenure in the White House. The citation accompanying the medal said Reagan a symbolizes All that is Best in America. As president he ennobled the american spirit. Around the world he burnished americans lamp of  governor honors King Concord . A new Hampshire became the last state in the nation wednesday to officially observe the birthday of slain civil rights Leader Martin Luther King or. Newly elected gov. Stephen Merrill signed an executive order honouring King s birthday with an official state Holiday a for this year Only. However Jim Rivers a spokesman for the governor said the legislature is expected to pass a Taw this year making the Holiday permanent. Although it has never recognized Kings birthday new Hampshire has observed an annual civil rights Day. Under Merrill s order the Holiday will be renamed Martin Luther King civil rights Day. It will be celebrated monday when the Federal Holiday is scheduled As Well. Logging restricted for owl san Francisco the . Forest service is restricting logging to protect the California spotted owl a Cousin of the Northern spotted owl. In announcing a two year ban wednesday on Clear cutting of Timber i Federal forests in californians Sierra Nevada the Agency acknowledged the move May Cost Timber Industry jobs and cause lumber and housing prices to Rise. A however the interim nature of this decision will make it a Short term Impact Quot Forest service spokesman Matt Mathes said. Logging already has been shut Down on millions a Era acres n California Oregon and Washington to protect the Northern spotted owl a threatened species. Scientists estimate there Are fewer than 2,000 pairs of the California spotted owl which is listed by the government As a Quot sensitive species a or a species in less trouble than one that is Quot threatened or