European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 08, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 8 the stars and stripes . Monday november 8.1993 Cadet recant hoax statement by the Washington Posta Black Cadet at Virginia military Institute who received a series of threaten ing letters says he signed a polite statement calling the letters a hoax be cause he Felt intimidated after a lengthy interrogation. Virginia state police and the Fri con eluded recently that the three letters had been a hoax and sources familiar wit the investigation said police suspected that the senior Cadet had written the let ters himself. But Friday Vii s superintendent expressed support for Cadet Phillip Watson and announced that the school s own investigation has been unable to pinpoint who was responsible for the letters. , John w. Knapp said no disciplinary action would be taken against Cadet who reported receiving the threats has said quite clearly. That redid not write the notes and does not know who did Knapp said in statement. Absent evidence to the contrary that is All we need in the vhf sys tem to relieve him of any Knapp also rioted however that the school now agrees with police that the letters were part of a an interview last week the 22-year old senior from South Carolina re counted a lengthy interrogation by police after he reported finding the third had taken him from the Vii Campus in Lexington to their Headquarters in Salem where he was Given a poly graph results have not been disclosed but Watson said the conversation became increasingly accusatory in the next sever Al line of questioning changed to make me feel like a suspect he said when one investigator suggested that the letters were a joke Watson did not Rule that out saying practical jokes Are not uncommon at said it May have been a joke and they said you can t say maybe " he re called. I was very frustrated. I was tired. And i was tired of answering a Short time later he agreed to Sig the statement because i wanted to get this All Over Watson who vigorously denied writing the letters accused the police of ending their investigation Only because they Felt they spent too Long on such a Charlie Vaughn a state police spokes Man in Richmond responded this investigation was conducted with full re Gard for the rights and privacy of All individuals contacted. The state police investigation is Watson had reported receiving the first letter in his Barracks sept. 29 and two More within a week. Cadets at the 1,200-student Campus were informed of the letters oct. 6. The alleged threats prompted widespread Dis Cussion of race relations at the school which is 7 percent Black. Watson is regarded As a popular ath Lete who is Well known for founding a gospel choir. Gene research to put the bite on tooth woes san Francisco up from growing Teeth inthe Laboratory for transplant to manipulating molecules to prevent decay advances in biotechnology Are revolutionizing dentistry researchers reported Friday. Dan science will have profound effects on dentists enabling them to find molecular basis for Oral health problems and develop new molecular therapies said Gordon Douglass of the University of California san Francisco dental scientists Are already growing Teeth and other Oral structures in culture. It certainly does not take much imagination to see a time when Teeth Are grown in Cul Ture to be transplanted to in the near future dentists Hope to use biotechnology to diagnose prevent or reverse Oral diseases researchers said at a Daylong symposium co sponsored by the Ameri can dental association. For example scientists expect to prevent tooth decay by manipulating the molecules that allow cavity causing bacteria to cling to they might use biologically engineered growth fac tors to target new Bone growth to reverse the effects of gum disease. Susan Fisher of a Csc has been studying the interaction Between saliva and bacteria some of which cause and some of which inhibit tooth is a false impression that bacteria stick to Teeth she said. Actually bacteria stick to salivary Glycoproteins which coat the Fisher found the decay causing bacteria adhere to specific salivary components which carry specific Carbo hydrate molecules that serve As receptors for equally specific protein molecules on the bacteria. By looking for common rules of interaction Amon the hundreds of pairs of carbohydrate receptors and proteins we Hope to develop genetically engineered com pounds to target the receptors Fisher said. The compounds which might simply be added to toothpaste could Block receptors for the bad organisms that cause decay or provide additional receptors for the Good organisms that protect the other a Csc researchers have been testing genetically engineered Bone inductive factors to promote Bone replacements around dental implants or in cases of gum disease. ,. Lyv i Khz a crowd protesting a anti Gay rally by Neo nazi and Kun flux klan groups saturday in Washington attacks a car driven by a White supremacist hate protesters turn violent Washington crossing a. A Jim Currie and a caravan of friends drove four hours to protest against hate. They arrived eager to blend their voices wit others opposing the message of White separatists Kun flux klan members and skinheads who demonstrated against homosexuals saturday. But the students said that what they found on their Side of the Highway was anger and hate equal to what they had come to oppose. The counter protesters threw rocks and bottles got rough with two men wearing Confederate Flag emblems on their hats and smashed the window of Acar driven by a White supremacist. No injuries were reported police said. I have a lot of problems with people who say there s no free speech for certain groups even a costs said Currie a Junior at the state University of new York at Binghamton. The 50 people who rallied under an organization called the United states of America nationalist party were outnumbered by about 300 counter protesters. They also were outnumbered by 300 state troopers in not gear who watched on foot on horseback on motorcycles and in helicopters. Police kept the opposing demonstrators separated by a Creek but violence still erupted. One person was arrested for underage drinking state police sgt. Richard Morris said. Pupils charged after detergent was used in dirty trick by the Baltimore Sun Baltimore five Annapolis mid dle school pupils were charged with food poisoning after serving a Batch of cookies sprinkled with dish detergent to the Princi pal a teacher and some fellow youngsters. The eighth graders apparently dissatisfied with How their Home economics class assignment had turned out decided to squirt dish washing liquid on the cookies and offer them to unsuspecting pupils an teachers officials said. One of the Stu dents thought that if they swallowed the tainted cookies bubbles would come fro the Mouths of the people that ate them " county it. Ray a. Pearson Kevin i. Dennehy accepted an offer to Sample one of the soapy it was a joke it was a bad joke Den Nehy said thursday night recalling that he spit the cookie out of his Mouth As the pupils walked Down the Young people were charged As Juve Niles and released to their principal said All of the pupils will remain suspended pending a school District investigation. No one was Hurt and i Don t think the intended to Hurt anyone he said but they re learning a hard the pupils were baking biscuits tarts cookies and sausages in a Home economics class thursday when they decided that they were unimpressed with their culinary acumen Dennehy said. Four of the Pupil watched As their classmate topped a col Lection of the baked goods. A Pupil who came into class late was the first person to taste the soap Laden cookies. He asked if he could have one of the cookies and they told him sure " Den Nehy said. He spit the whole thing out when class was Over Dennehy an teacher Mary t. Poisson were approached in the hallway each took a cookie an could barely make it through one bite. I wondered whether they had forgot ten to Wash the baking pans Dennehy said adding he knew they had t when the pupils ran Down the Hall. The cookies really had somewhat of inoffensive taste to i
