European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes . Saturday. March 6,1993 chances of vaccine slim for Gulf linked disease los Angeles a a study shows it will be hard to develop a vaccine to prevent a potentially deadly disease that afflicted some . Troops in the persian Gulf War and millions of other people worldwide. The disease leishmaniasis is caused by the Leishmania parasite which infects humans when they Are bitten by sandflies that carry the parasite. Vaccines make people immune by using part of the disease causing organism to provoke the body s immune system into fighting the disease. The study by or. Steven Reiner and or. Richard Locksley and colleagues found that the same part of the Leishmania parasite that makes some mice immune to leishmaniasis also can make other mice sick and die. That Means the same part of the parasite can trigger both protective and deadly responses by the immune system. A the findings published in fridays Issue of the journal science suggest an eventual vaccine to prevent senator seeks action to end baseball Cartel by Cox news service Washington a sen. Howard m. Metzenbaum on thursday forecast Quick congressional action to end major league baseball a exemption from anti monopoly Laws a step he said should expand the number of leishmaniasis could make the disease worse in some susceptible people who became infected by the parasite said Reiner an immunologist at the University of California san Francisco. So the vaccine would have to be administered to susceptible people in a special Way or in combination with another drug to protect them from the disease Reiner said. An estimated 12 million to 16 million people worldwide Are afflicted by leishmaniasis with roughly 400,000 new cases and 500,000 deaths each year. In Milder cases patients develop disfiguring skin sores in severe cases a Noyon As Itala Azary patients waste away and die unless treated with compounds of the toxic Metal Antimony. Leishmaniasis was detected in 28 . Troops who fought in the Gulf War the army said last year. None died. Teams and make More games available on free television. The Ohio Democrat who chairs the judiciary committees antitrust subcommittee made the comments As he introduced legislation to repeal the exemption. Quot baseball owners arc a legally sanctioned Cartel who cannot be held accountable for conduct which hurts Consumers or harms Competition a Metzenbaum said. A giving the baseball owners free rein to decide what a in the 6cst interests of the game is like giving the members of open free rein to set world Energy Metzenbaum said the full committee will conduct a hearing on the Bill by the end of next month and that he expects it to pass the Senate this year. Similar legislation was introduced in the House earlier by rep. Michael Birlirakis a Fla. A Birlirakis aide said House judiciary committee members Are interested in scheduling a hearing soon. Metzenbaum unveiled his Bill at a news conference with Florida s senators a Democrat Bob Graham and Republican Connie Mack. They said their bipartisan Effort enjoys widespread support. Mack and Graham Are upset that the baseball owners blocked a move of the giants from san Francisco to the Tampa Bay area and have not Given the area an . If the owners did not enjoy an unregulated monopoly Metzenbaum said they could not hold the number of teams below what the free Market would support and impose As Many restrictions on televising games. They might even face Competition from not in league As football and basketball Nave he said. The other professional sports Are not exempt from antitrust Laws and have expanded More rapidly Metzenbaum for Bosnia Jalena Krunica a retired doctor from Croatia donates blood at new England Baptist Hospital in Boston during a blood drive for two bosnian , Branica is in the United states for a five or six month visit with her daughter in Westboro mass Batons used for control police witness says los Angeles apr the defense won few concessions thursday from a police Academy instructor who said four while officers violated policy in the videotaped beating of Black Motorist Rodney g. King. One defense lawyer suggested Batons Are issued to police officers a to break bones.�?�. A we never teach to break Bones a sgt. Mark Conta said emphatically in Federal court. �?o1 say they should us the Baton for Conta was pressed on that and other issues by attorney Michael Stone a former policeman himself. Conta testified that stones client Laurence m. Powell and his colleagues violated los Angeles police department policy in the beating of King. A the should put that Baton away grab hands and feet and take him into custody and end this Light now without any further Melee a Conta said of Powell As he watched the videotape that was made by a bystander and broadcast worldwide Conta said the officers had other options than clubbing and kicking King and continuing to beat him when he was on the ground and not a threat. Powell sgt. Stacey c. Koon officer Thodore j. Briseno and former officer Timothy e. Wind Are charged with violating Kings civil rights during the March 3, 1991, beating. Their stale trial on assault charges ended in acquittals that sparked deadly riots in los Angeles. In a related development the judge in the Reginald Denny beating Case issued a two week delay in that trial thursday scheduling april 14 for jury selection. Three Black men Are charged with attempted murder few allegedly beating Denny a while trucker in the hours after the riots. Defense lawyers had sought delays saying they needed More time to of baby Sitter executed in Louisiana a a a a from wire reports. Angola la. A a Man who raped and fatally torched a baby Sitter was put to death Early Friday in Louisiana s first execution by injection. Robert Sawyer 42, went to his death shortly after Midnight after the . Supreme court refused to hear an Appeal. There was no recorded dissent. Sawyer was condemned for the 1979 murder of 23-year-old Frances Arwood a baby Sitter working for Sawyers Girlfriend in suburban new Orleans. Prosecutors said Sawyer and an accomplice Charles Lane raped her beat her poured scalding water on her and set her afire after a night of drinking. She died weeks later. Lane was tried separately and Given life in reported beaten Pittsburgh a figure skater Christopher Bowman who won a National championship last year and finished fourth at the olympics was beaten at a hotel in a seedy neighbourhood according to a police report. Bowman was treated tuesday morning at mercy Hospital for injuries to his ribs and head according to police a ambulance took him to the Hospital. Bowman refused to talk to the police officer sent to the Hyatt hotel by dispatchers police cmdr. Edward Patterson said. The officer whom Patterson would not identify said he heard Bowman Tell paramedics that he got into a fight at the Ellis hotel in Pittsburgh a crime Ridden Hill District at about 2 30 . Tuesday. Of he called for an ambulance after returning to his room at the Hyatt hotel. Contacted in his room Bowman said the police report was wrong. He said he lost his Wallet on a downtown Street and he was never at the Ellis hotel. He said he called for help because he was sick. The popular skater known As a Bowman the showman a is in Pittsburgh with the ice Capanes. He planned to skate in the show which runs through sunday at the civic fighters found Washington a human immune cells linked with special antibodies have turned into biological smart bombs that target and kill Colon cancer cells according to researchers who tested the technique in mice. Or. Hiroshi Takahashi of Massachusetts general Hospital cancer Center in Charlestown mass., said thursday that although the method has been tested Only in mice it could develop into a powerful therapy for human cancers. A report on the study was to be published Friday in the journal science. Takahashi said the technique uses powerful killer cells that Are present in the human immune system. The cells have been shown to be extremely toxic to Colon cancer tutors in test tube experiments. In clinical trials with patients however Takahashi said the cells mount Only a weak attack on the May face fees los Angeles a Drivers would pay for each mile they drive under a plan proposed by California transit agencies to help pay the costs of Federal regulations and increased demand. A report by the California transit association recommends a fee of one fifth of a cent per mile or about $24 a year for a Motorist driving 12,000 Miles annually the los Angeles times reported thursday. The Money w Ould be used to reimburse transit agencies that Are facing a projected $4.1 billion deficit by the year 2000, the report said. The fee Rouhi be enforced by checking mileage w Hen cars come in for their mandatory smog checks every two years the report said. The legislature and gov. Pete Wilson would have to approve the unprecedented fee. 1 he $516 million a year generated by the fee w Ould help pay transit Agency costs of complying w Ith tighter Federal regulations on pollution and Access for the handicapped said the association which represents California s 80 largest transit agencies. A a
