European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 01, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Sunday August 1,1993 crime casts Shadow on Pope s visit Denver a a rash of violent Street crimes Here has made Colorado officials skittish about this month s visit by Pope John Paul ii. Denver s archbishop has asked for prayers to make the City Sanctuary for  the violence that began with the drive by shooting of a 6-year-old boy in june has escalated Over the hot summer finally prompting gov. Roy Romer on thursday to Call a special session of the legislature for sept. 7. He said he did not think crime would affect the Pope s visit aug. 12-15 for world youth Day an International Cath Olic gathering. We ought not create a sense of panic Romer said we be got serious problems but we re going to cure those  " Denver archbishop j. Francis Stafford was less certain. He said he has sent news reports about the shootings to the vat ican. He asked the Public to Pray that Weavill be violence free at least for the next three weeks that Denver would be Sanctuary for  Arapahoe county sheriff Pat Sullivan said authorities Are prepared to protect the Pope. Security forces will include secret service agents and Law enforcement officers from throughout the six count area. Romer was More concerned with the safety of area residents. Be cannot have the citizens Irving in the fear they now live in he said. Four shootings happened last  boys were hospitalized after drive by shootings. Two men were killed one in drive by shooting and another by two men who stole his car. Alarmed and outraged residents have organized rallies and peace parades. Citizens Are angry citizens Are rightly concerned and citizens expect something to be done said Margaret Carpenter mayor of suburban Thornton where one of last week s drive by shootings occurred. Some officials suspect at least some of the crimes Are part of a gang initiation rite. Police sgt. Doug Hildebrant said that some gangs demand youths commit a mutant mice All the rage for research bar Harbor Maine a exotic mice genetically engineered to be riddled with cancer or crippled by cystic fibrosis have become so important for research that they will soon be mass produced and put on Sale. The technology for engineering the mice is Only a few years old but the mice arc already among the most valuable research tools for understand ing the genetics of human diseases according to researchers at the Jack son Laboratory in bar Harbor where the mice will be bred and sold. Genetically speaking humans an mice Are remarkably similar. Most human genes have corresponding genes in mice. That similarity makes mice Ideal re search subjects especially considering that they Are easier to Breed an cheaper to feed than human research subjects. Currently most of these new mutant stocks Are available Only in limited quantities and at High prices because they Are maintained in Small research colonies with a High daily Cost for Ani Mal care said Kenneth Paigen the lab s director. The Howard Hughes medical Asti tute the March of dimes the Ameri can heart association and the Ameri can cancer society consider the mice so valuable that they donated $1.5 Mil lion to the Laboratory to finance the opening of the new mutant mouse mar Ket. The mice will be distributed to re one of the genetically engineered mice at the Jackson Laboratory in bar Harbor Maine. Searchers worldwide at the lowest Fea sible Cost and without restriction on their uses for research Paigen said. Many such mice Are being patented by their creators but the Jackson lab oratory will be Selling mice that can reused freely without Patent restrictions Paigen said. The Laboratory is the world Leader inthe study of mouse genetics. For years its scientists have studied mutant Mic for clues to the causes and potential treatments of human diseases. Some mouse mutations Are useful for scientific study if they happen to produce something Akin to a human disease. But most mutants Are of no particular value. What is important about the new mice is that they can be designed to carry a particular mutation that re searchers want to study. Researchers studying cancer genes for example created a mouse lacking something called the p53 Gene which is one of the most important cancer sup pressing genes in human beings. Humans whose p53 genes Are defective face an increased risk of cancer but researchers do not understand precisely Why. Mice lacking p53 genes pro vide an Ideal Way for scientists to find out. Crime to become a member. Now we re hearing More and More reports that it s to go out and shoot someone he said. Romer outlined a plan for new Laws such As stricter handgun Laws More Over night detention areas More Beds at youth facilities and a new youth reformatory system. " some legislators accused Romer Democrat of playing politics by calling the special session. He is up for re elec Tion in 1994. I just Hope that we re not using Money for a special session that would be better for programs or More cops on the streets said state sen. Sally Hopper a Republican. Court to hear Demjan Juk bid to return Home Cincinnati a a Federal appeals court is to hear arguments this week on whether to allow John Demjan Ink to return to the United states while he appeals his 1986 extradition to Israel. On thursday the israeli supreme court overturned the "4988 conviction and death sentence of Demjan Juk who was accused of being Ivan the terrible a Gas chamber operator at the nazi death amp Treblinka. He had steadfastly argued that it was a Case of mistaken Iden Tity he was to be deported from Israel to his native Ukraine today unless the israeli High court of Justice or the attorney general found reason to keep him in Jerusalem police said saturday. Demjan Juk 73, has sought temporary Asylum in the Ukraine while he tries to win . Permission to return to Cleve land. The retired autoworkers from suburban Cleveland was stripped of his . Citizenship in 1981 and extradited to israeli 1986. He has appealed to the 6th . Cir Cuit court of appeals saying the Justice department withheld information that could have helped him fight the proceed ing. In a motion Friday his lawyers questioned the Validity of the extradition order and the fairness of forcing Demjan Juk to live abroad while the Appeal continued. The appeals court in a separate hear ing sept. 3, is to hear testimony on a fed eral judge s investigation into whether the Justice department withheld information that could have cleared Demjan police accused of having sex with teens in Hooker Case Cooper City Fla. A the first shocker Wasa Case of High school girls allegedly working As prostitutes. Then came accusations that undercover police officers had sex with the teens before the arrests. Two Cooper City High school students and a retired out Captain accused of being their Pimp Are behind bars. Three police officers in Oakland Park where the arrests were made were suspended with pay last week pending an investigation. I think it s outrageous that a police officer would engage in a sexual act prior to making the arrest Sai Dbruce Rogow a Law professor at Nova University in fort Lauderdale. Lie called it a Case of vice officers enjoying their work too  you do not need to have any sexual Contact to make an arrest in a prostitution Case said Oakland Park police chief Edward Overman. The offer of sex and the passing of Money that is acceptable  in this fort Lauderdale suburb of 25,000 residents burglary and Petty theft Are considered major crimes so teen age prostitution did More than raise a few Eye brows. The girls were arrested May 26 at a hotel in suburban Oakland Park. One girl s concern was How she was going to face her Mother said sgt. Glenn Osani one of the sus Pended officers. Both of these girls come from mid dle to upper Middle class families. One of them has been doing this for i years he said. You look at these girls and you d never know they were 16 they were very Well dressed and  the Case took a bizarre twist just Days after Osani made that comment when he and detectives Brian Rupp and Forrest Jay Santalucia were suspended. A police report said the girls removed their cloth ing began performing Oral sex and massaged the genitals of a detective whose name has been blanked out. Shortly thereafter the second undercover detective entered the room and one of the girls performed Oral sex on him according to the report. Moments later an other officer burst into the room and arrested the girls. .u1 was july after the Gas produced identification that the officers realized they were 16 and 17, the re port said. The sexual episodes and the arrests were videotaped by Osani from an adjoining room. Prosecutor Stacy Honowitz said the internal police investigation will not affect her Case against Thomas Hildebrand 59, of fort Lauderdale who faces 34c Keu ran81ns for to running a prostitution ring to child Buse. 1 rial was set for aug. 9. Arrest affidavits said the girls charged $150 per hour and gave Hildebrand 40 percent. Pne arrested girl allegedly claimed to make $3,000 a week. Authorities said two other Cooper High students red. � Hildebrand but the Haw not Bee charged. School officials refused Corinena