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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Girl tells of rape by dad but school slow to respond new York a a 9-year-old girls terrible secret finally came to Light in a school essay. And the school kept it a secret. A i know what its like to be raped. My father raped me a the fourth grader said in a feb. 14, 1992, essay about the rape trial of Boxer Mike Tyson. No one at the school in East Harlem called police or the state child abuse hot line. Investigators said the principal was out that Day and the teacher locked the essay away. Ten Days later after a midterm break he gave the essay to the principal who appears to have delayed passing it along to the schools medical office for 16 Days. By that time the child had confided in her grandmother who found help. The father who confessed was awaiting trial last june when he died of aids. The prosecutor later determined the girl was raped at age 6 and probably also abused at other times. She has tested negative for the aids virus. The Public schools special commissioner of investigation said in a report thursday that the girls despair prompted bungling and Buck passing at the school. Thy s. Breault 28, of Queensbury were Riding the triple chair ski lift late thursday afternoon at West Mountain ski Center when it stopped. Workers had shut Down the lift for the night a not realizing it still had passengers a leaving the men stranded 30 feet to 35 feet off the ground said maj. Larry Cleveland of the Warren county sheriffs department. A this is a child a cry for help. When a child summons the courage to make that cry someone has got to be there to hear it red Stancik said. It started with a classroom assignment write about a a famous Black athlete in Celebration of Black history week the girl wrote about Tyson who at the time was on trial for rape. The exact contents of the essay  remain a mystery a Stancik said. The child ripped up the original and the schools copies vanished. The report said the assistant principal Luz Rosenthal read the essay a gasped Ana thrust it backs at the teacher Stan Collymore. When the principal Jacqueline Bussey saw it she said shed ask the medical office a to see if it was fact or  it appears she did no to do so until March 12. Quot on March 1, the child confided in her grandmother. The next Day the grandmother confronted her son who confessed. She waited until March 12 to Contact an aids task Force which called the hot line. The report recommended disciplining Bussey normally known As a a caring and talented educator a for her a shocking Lack of care in this Case. It said Colly More should be a officially reminded of his  the men  jump withe it risking serious injury and they weren to close enough to a lift Tower to climb Down Cleveland said. Deputies began a search for the men after they were reported missing by a Raulfs wife at about 12 45 . The Warren county snowmobile patrol searched the ski Center about 45 Miles North of Albany until the men were found on the lift at about 4 30 . Both were taken to Glens fails Hospital where they were being treated for frostbite and exposure after More than 12 hours in temperatures that dipped As Low As 13 degrees. Quot drug firm ordered to recall batches of five medicines from wire reports. Newark  Federal judge thursday ordered a generic drug maker to recall limited batches of at least five medicines and to Stop distributing dozens More until the company finishes reviewing its manufacturing processes. But . District judge Alfred m. Wolin refused a request by Federal regulators to order a temporary shutdown of Barr laboratories inc. The food and drug administration had accused Barr of mixing foreign substances into its drugs using contaminated water in processing antibiotics distributing miss Abele drugs and repackaging and reselling drugs that had been returned As defective. The recalled drugs included several varieties of erythromycin an Antibiotic and batches from two other drugs  acetyl and meperidine Hal. The company is based in Pomona ., and has a Plant in Northvale  at risk study says new York a lesbians have a one in three lifetime risk of developing breast cancer two to three times that of heterosexual women according to a National cancer Institute researcher. Suzanne g. Haynes an epidemiologist said thursday that her study is the first to estimate breast cancer risks for lesbians. She found that known breast cancer risk factors such As alcohol use smoking Lack of childbearing and poor Access to health care were All More common among lesbians than among heterosexual  with laxative Fisher 111. A cheerleaders at Leroy High school gave their counterparts at Fisher High school a pan of brownies but no one ended up doing handstands Over the gift. The brownies were laced with a laxative causing diarrhoea stomach cramps and hives. A there were nine of us that ate them and nine of us that got sick a cheerleader Carla Moore said wednesday. Michael company principal at Leroy High acknowledged that a Leroy cheerleader put the contents of two laxative packages into the brownies before they were offered at a game Between the schools Jan. 26. He refused to say How the student was punished but a letter of apology was sent to Fisher  decline Washington life insurance premiums for Federal workers have dropped from Lovi cents to 16vi cents per $1,000 of Basic coverage. Because of the drop Many employees Are expected to sign up or increase their coverage during the March 29-april 30 open enrolment period. This is the first time in seven years that workers can make changes in the coverage. The 4.1 million workers and retirees already have $370 billion Worth of  tapes May be released Bosto after years of frustration for scholars audio tapes made in president John f. Kennedy a White House office May finally be made Public. The tapes May become available if new sound equipment that the Kennedy Library in Boston is buying improves the Quality of the recordings enough for the National Security Council to understand and declassify them Library officials said. In the Early and mid-1980s, the Kennedy Library made Public 34 hours out of a total of 248 hours of recordings mostly relating to Domestic affairs. But since then the process has been held up by a bureaucratic tangle. The National archives which oversees presidential libraries has prohibited the Kennedy Library from spending time and Money on making transcripts of the bulk of the recordings that restriction has made it difficult for the Council which has sole authority declassify Hite House documents to open the Way Tor making Public the contents of the remaining retirees told re not a sacred cow by the new York times Washington the chairman of the House ways and Means committee told leaders of the nations most powerful organization of retirees thursday that he did not consider them a a sacred cow and that a one year freeze in social Security Cost of living increases should be considered As one Way to help reduce the Federal budget deficit. The lawmaker rep. Dan Rostonkowski d-lll., told the legislative Council of the american association of retired persons that if the option was eliminated then one interest group after another would claim exemption from deficit reduction efforts. A we can to afford to let anyone escape his responsibility a he said. But congressional leaders of both parties said president Clinton would probably reject the Cost of living freeze and instead propose a higher tax on social Security benefits. And health and human services Sec retail Donna Shalala told the retirees group after Rostenkowski spoke that the freeze was one of a probably thousands Quot of alternatives under consideration. Rostenkowski did not come Down on the Side of new taxes or a benefits freeze. But he said that taking social Security completely a off the table would result in a an Avalanche of exclusions that will leave nothing but budgetary crumbs on the table and make it impossible tout the deficit. Noting that other lawmakers had urged that any change in social Security benefits be excluded he said a i done to agree that any one segment of our society should be left As a sacred cow not to be  moving Forward former vice president Dan Quayle uses his club to pop a Ball out of tree roots thursday on the sixth Hole at poppy Hills Golf course in Pebble Beach Calif. Quayle is among several celebrities competing in the four Day Pebble Beach National pro am  lift shut off for night leaving 2 in the cold Queensbury  Apr two men were recovering from frostbite Friday after spending most of the night stranded on a ski lift. Stephen m. Mullen 22, of Hudson Falls and Tinio  
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