European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 6 the stars and stripes . Thursday january 20,1993innocent men to receive millions for years in prison from wire report los Angeles a two men who spent 1714 years in prison for a murder they did t commit reached a settlement with the City of los Angeles on tuesday that will pay them $3.5 million each plus interest Over 30 years. An attorney for Clarence Chance and Benny Powell called it the largest pretrial settlement in City history. Chance and Powell were released in March after serving time for the 1973 murder of a los Angeles sheriffs Deputy the action was taken As the result of a investigation by a new Jersey private investigator who uncovered evidence that defense lawyers said proved that the two were framed by police investigators. Chance who has been living in a hotel room for two months said he will use most of his Money to help other prisoners wrongly , thyroid ill linked Chicago a smoking increases the risk and severity of Graves disease a thyroid condition researchers reported tuesday in the journal of the american medical association. Affairs medical Center in san Francisco and or. Wilmar wic Singa of the University of Amsterdam. In a study of 450 patients with Graves disease the doctors found that those who smoked were nearly right times More Likely to suffer from one of the disease s More severe symptoms including enlarged tissue around the eyes and blurred vision,8 die in apartment fire Bruce miss. A an apartment fire Early a tuesday killed eight members of a family no May have been trapped by a barred window. The victims were a 53-year-old woman six of her grandchildren and an infant great grandchild said or. Gene Beadle Calhoun county medical examiner. Beadle said most of the bodies were found near a window. Quot the window had steel bars and i assume they were making an Effort to get out but could not Quot he said. Investigators had not immediately determined the Caps of the Blaze in the one Story three unit  in Yard identified los Angeles a a leg found in a South los Angeles Back Yard apparently belongs to the victim of a hit and run Accident in which the Driver sped off with a motorcyclist s severed limb stuck to his bumper. Sheriffs sgt. Bob Stoneman said the leg was identified tuesday after a caller reported that the limb might belong to roman Diaz 29, who lost his right leg in the dec. 12 Accident Diaz identified the shoe that was still attached to the leg found wrapped in plastic behind a vacant House Diaz was Riding a motorcycle when a mid-�?T70s Ford  turned left in front of him. Diaz hit the rear bumper and the Impact severed his leg at the knee. I he California Highway patrol said the Driver stopped for a moment then sped off with the leg attached to the  liver doing better pp1tshukgii a t he Baboon liver transplanted into u 62-year-old Man is showing signs of improvement a spokeswoman for the University of Pittsburgh medical Center said tuesday doctors reported that the Man s liver function is improving and that the Organ has grown to the expected size said spokeswoman Lisa Rossi. Doctors were encouraged that the Quantity and Quality of the bile being produced by the liver also have improved she said. However the Man has been slow to regain consciousness since the Jan. 10 operation Quot he still has not fully awakened. Yet tests performed Over the last few Days have ruled out the possibility of any brain injury Quot Rossi said. The Man identified Only by age and As a . Citizen is the second person to receive a Baboon liver. Missouri killer executed inmate in Texas reprieved by the associated press a Missouri prisoner was executed by injection Early wednesday for stabbing his cellmate to death. In Texas a condemned Man from Mexico whose ease Drew pleas of mercy from the mexican government won a reprieve with just hours to spare. Mart say bolder 35, went to his death at the Potosi to correctional Center for the 1979 slaying of the Ron King at the time bolder was serving a life sen Fence for killing a Homeowner during a 1973 break in. Bolder who converted to islam while in prison refused a sedative on religious grounds and died with the Koran on his Chesti just before he was put to death he told prison superintendent Paul delo Quot in a mad at the system in a mad at the government. I m not mad at  bolder s attorney had claimed to have new evidence that King died of poor medical care not the stabbing but a Federal appeals court late tuesday refused to hear the Case and the supreme court did the same without dissent. In Huntsville Texas Ramon Montoya had faced lethal injection Early wednesday. But supreme court Justice Antonin Scalia issued a reprieve to allow the full court to decide whether to hear Montoya s Appeal. Montoya 39, was sentenced to die for shooting to death John Pasco a 27-Ycnr-Oul Dallas police officer in 1983. Montoya contends his confession to the slaying was the result of police interrogation that violated his right to have n lawyer present. The state Board of pardons and paroles rejected 151 a plea for clemency from the mexican government and the governor of Montoya a Home state of san Luis Potosi. A Day memories of Granddad Ike Anne Eisenhower standing beside a photo of her Grandfather Gen. Dwight p. Eisenhower applauds at a new York news conference where plans were announced tuesday for a Monument marking the 50th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe. The picture shows us motorists asked about Cia killer Washington apr police set up a Roadblock outside Cia Headquarters tuesday and questioned motorists about the Rifleman who killed two of the spy Agency a employees on their Way to work monday and wounded three others. But the killer remained Loose despite descriptions from motorists lips from 250 Telephone callers and a Cia supplied list of possibly disgruntled employees and Agency contractors. The gunman left his cur in the Ift turn Lane outside the Entrance at 7 50 . Monday walked Between two rows of cars slopped at a red Light and opened fire with a weapon said to resemble an ak-47 assault Rifle. He then returned to his car and sped away police had Little doubt that he targeted Cia employees in choosing the spot outside the Cia s wooded Complex in suburban Virginia 13 Miles across the Potomac from the nations capital. Police who set up the Roadblock outside the Headquarters found 30 More witnesses tuesday. Some described the gunman Lor police sketch artists. The gunman was identified Only As a Young Man possibly with dark curly hair and a dark complexion. A prime commander Eisenhower talking to paratroopers on the eve of a Day june 6,1944, the memorial honouring All americans who served in the european theater of operations during world War ii will be erected in Caen i Ranee a key objective of the  a Protection against tick bites Chicago up a Deer ticks which transmit Lyme disease seem to prefer biting people wearing clothes a doctor reported tuesday. Or Henry Feder or. Of the University of Connecticut health Center in Farmington conn., said he found that among More than 300 people it a nudist Camp the Only Deer tick bites were reported by people who were wearing clothes. Experts generally recommend thut people Wear Long sleeved shirts and Long pants in Deer tick areas to deter bites. However Veder said in a Tetter to the journal of the american medical Assoc Iutin that the Deer licks actually apparently prefer to get underneath clothing. Only one Case of Lyme disease associated symptoms had been identified by doctors treating the nudists Feder said. Quot one explanation is that although Deer arc present Deer licks Are not yet established. A second explanation is thut jeer ticks do not like nudists As licks prefer to do their biting under cover Quot he said