European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 07, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes . Sunday february 7, 1993 moves stud led to prevent food poisoning outbreaks Washington a outbreaks of food Poison ing similar to one last month that killed one child and left hundreds of other people ill could happen again agriculture Secretary Mike Espy said Friday. Espy told a Senate agriculture subcommittee that it is impossible now to prevent other outbreaks but we Are moving on a separate track to be sure it is possible in the strategy we have developed includes improvements in education regulations testing enforce ment and research he said. He said he will be meeting Over the next few Days with consumer arid Industry groups to find ways to re Duce the likelihood of other outbreaks of food Poison ing caused by bacterially contaminated hamburgers the cause of the outbreak in Washington state last month. Officials traced the illnesses to contaminated and in Der cooked meat served by Jack in the Box restaurants. The president of the san Diego based Chain Robert j. Nugent told the subcommittee Friday that our response was also urged the panel to consider requiring intensified efforts to locate infected animals at the Man convicted for abusing teen age Niece Santa Barbara Calif. A a Man was convicted Friday of stripping beating and shaving his teen age Niece Over a three year period in discipline sessions he videotaped in his basement. After 5vz hours of deliberations jurors found John Shipman guilty of four counts of lewd Contact with a child under age 14 and 11 counts of rape with a foreign object. The abuse began when the girl was 13. Shipman s3, could be sentenced to 120 years in prison. Sentencing will be april 1. Deputy Public defender Tom Allen did t deny that the girl was abused but claimed there was no sexual intent. He had argued his client should be convicted on reduced charges of child abuse and in humane treatment. The jury was shown 37 minutes of graphic videotape of what Shipman called disciplinary sessions in the War room a Concrete lined basement with sound proofing at his Santa Maria Home 140 Miles North of los Angeles. The videotapes showed Shipman beat ing the nude girl on the buttocks with rid ing crops and leather straps while she screamed in pain and obeyed his orders to shout obscenities and cry out yes he also shaved her pubic hair. Shipman angrily testified wednesday that he used such methods when the girl got bad grades and deliberately lied to the teen is now living with her Mother in san Bernardino county. The Mother sent the girl to live with Shipman and his wife Barbara in late 1989 after the Young Ster ran away. Shipman testified that he videotaped the encounters to prove he did nothing wrong with the girl. Farm level to keep them from entering the food Chain while they Harbor harmful appearing thursday night on can s Larry King live program Espy said he plans to ask for More inspectors and More Laboratory testing of the nation s meat Supply though he said that would be expensive. Espy said he would talk to president Clinton and Federal budget writers about hiring the inspectors and _ would ask Industry to use new technology such As a rapid test for e. Coli bacteria being developed in Georgia. Espy also mentioned having animal carcasses sprayed with mild acids to keep bacteria from sticking which is a voluntary procedure already approved by the department of agriculture. He said Low level doses of radiation already approved for killing bacteria on Poul try should be considered for beef. The hearing was the first by Congress on meat contamination since the outbreak of gastrointestinal illness linked to bacterially contaminated meat killed a 2-year old boy and sickened More than 300 people in Washington state. Cases also were reported in Idaho and Nevada. Caught in the Chimney St. Louis firefighters pull William Cobb out of a Chimney on the City North Side Friday morning. Cobb who became stuck about 12 hours earlier was trying to break into the store below authorities said. Most polled in la. Believe cops can quell riots by the los Angeles times los Angeles reflecting renewed Confidence in the los Angeles police department under chief Willie l. Williams a wide majority of los Angeles Resi dents say that they believe the City will be Able to quell any outbreak of violence resulting from verdicts in the Rodney g. King and Reginald Denny beating trials a los Angeles times poll has found. Sixty nine percent of respondents were confident that City officials and police could quell a major outbreak of violence should it occur Only 26 percent expressed doubt and 5 percent said that they were unsure. Mounting respect for the Way the police Are doing their Job is of critical importance because 67 percent of the City believes that one or the other verdicts will Trig Ger renewed rioting. The expectation of violence has increased slightly since october when 61 percent thought it Likely. The poll was conducted from Jan. 28 through feb. 2. Jury selection began last week in Federal court in the prosecution of four los Angeles police officers accused of violating King s civil rights. The police officers not guilty verdicts april 29 in state court on charges that they used excessive Force to subdue King triggered an eruption of violence during which Denny a Bunten. Man with his pleads innocent in rape cases from wire reports Roseburg Ore. A former preacher infected with his which causes aids pleaded innocent Friday to charges he raped nine children in an attempt to infect them As Well. Adam Lee Brown 30, will go on trial nov. 9 on a 43-count indictment accusing him of attempted murder rape sodomy and other charges. He is being held on $250,000 bail. Brown was originally arrested last october on charges he molested a neighbor boy. Since then he has been linked to assaults on other boys and girls. Brown grew up in the Small logging town of Rossburg and was a Lay preacher in his Mother s Church in the neighbouring town of Sut Herlih. Jab at Coors approved new York it s 103feet Long and 10-feet High. And soon the thousands of commuters who pass through Penn station every Day could see this space filled with a scathing critique of Coors Beer designed and paid for by artist Michael Lobron. A . District court judge Pierre Leval in Manhattan ruled Friday that Amtrak which owns the commuter Hub violated Lebron s first amendment rights when it refused to rent him the space because his and was political. The controversial mural depicts a group of children drinking Coors Beer next to an obscured american Flag on one Side and a War torn nicaraguan Village with an inset of a Soldier on the other. A flaming Silver can of Coors hurtles across the scene aimed at the peasants under the words is it the right s Beer now a Takeoff on the Coors slogan it s the right Beer Leval said Federal funding of and involvement in Amtrak meant it was essentially a Public not private entity. Therefore the Railroad could not ban free expression. Skunk closes school Oakland Calif. The animated cartoon Skunk Pepe be Pew May have charmed the hearts of american youngsters for decades but his real life counterpart has become an unwelcome guest at an Oakland elementary school. After three weeks of trying to capture a Pesky elusive and eternally smelly Skunk officials at Burbank elementary school sent the students and faculty Home Friday after the stink became unbearable. Administrators said the Skunk has apparently taken up residence in the school s air ducts and basement and has eluded several traps. After parents and students began to complain and it became obvious the Skunk would not surrender without a fight school officials shut their doors Friday until the culprit can be caught. The school will be closed at least through tuesday while new traps Are set and officials said classes will be temporarily relocated. Race based funds of d Washington a Federal appeals court on Friday affirmed the education department s authority to allow at least temporarily the continuation of race based scholarships at tax supported colleges. A three judge panel of the . Court of appeals unanimously upheld a lower court s decision dismissing a lawsuit by seven White students who said minority scholarships violated the j964 civil rights act. The students represented by the conservative Washington Legal foundation contended that some 45,000 minority exclusive scholarships for Blacks hispanics and indians make less scholarship Money available for White students. They argued that former education Secretary Lamar Alexander was unreasonable in delaying a ban on scholarships awarded solely on a racial basis. After several fits and starts on the Issue the department proposed the ban in december 1991. Under heavy congressional pressure Alexander agreed last june to delay implementing the new policy until after a general accounting office study or the Issue is completed sometime later this year
