European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday november 27, 1993 map holding baby makes fatal leap off Bridge from wire reports san Francisco a Man grabbed a baby out of a stroller he was pushing across the Golden Gate Bridge then plunged to his death with the infant in his arms thursday witnesses Man s body was recovered by . Coast guard divers. They later called off their search forthe baby. Police it. Mike Locati said he arrived on the scene moments after motorists reported the suicide. He saw the bodies and said the Man was in his 20sand the baby looked to be about 1 year or 2 years january a Man threw his 3-year-old daughter Over the Bridge and then jumped. Both died. 2 jets forced to land two Boeing 747 jetliners made emergency landings thursday one in Chicago and one in Losangeles. None of the 641 people aboard the planes was injured after engine problems forced the landings. One of four engines on a United airlines Jet bound for Tokyo malfunctioned and the plane returned to Chicago about 90 minutes after taking off from o Harc International Airport. The plane had 309 people aboard in los Angeles the Pilot of a Cathay Pacific flight headed to Hong Kong with 332 people aboard reported severe Frame vibration and engine failure about 35 minutes after Takeoff said . Oliver an airline vice president about 100 Miles out of los Angeles International Airport the plane dumped some fuel into the Pacific Ocean and landed Back at los Angeles on a Remote runway. Weapons charges filed new York a Man who shot and killed two teen agers when they tried to Rob him at gunpoint will not face murder or manslaughter Arthur Boone was indicted wednesday on two counts of carrying an illegal , a 42-year-old sugar factory worker victimized by past muggings was carrying an unlicensed .44-caliber magnum on nov. 14 when hews approached by the two teens outside a Corner Market. One of the muggers put a by gun to his head while the other took his Wallet he said. Assuming the by gun was a real pistol and fearing the teen agers would find his own gun Boone fired three shots at then. He waited for police to arrive and surrendered. One of the counts against Boone second degree criminal Possession of a weapon is punishable by up to 5 years to 15 years in prison. The second count third degree criminal Possession of a weapon carries a maximum of 2vi years to 7 years. Ore. Lawmaker to quit Medford Ore. Rep. Robert f. Smith r-Ore., announced wednesday that he will retire when his term ends next year so he can spend More time with his family. However he said he might consider a return to Public office if sen. Bob Packwood r-Ore., Senate ethics committee is investigating allegations that Packwood sexually harassed More than 20 women. Smith 62, who owns a ranch in Harney county and ropes calves on the Amateur Rodeo circuit has been a conservative voice in Oregon s congressional delegation since 1983.before he went to Congress he served in the Oregon legislature for 22 years including stints As House speaker and Senate majority Leader. Dad daughter die in crash Rogers Ark. A Small plane crashed in wintry weather killing a father and daughter thought to be the Only people aboard the plane. The Cessna crashed thursday evening in a Fiel about a Quarter mile North of the Rogers Airport Benton county sheriff Andy Lee said. Janet Owen communications supervisor for thej8.ijs % said the plane apparently crashed As to be . The stars and stripes Page 7 claims on baby Swap Sarasota Fla. A inconsistencies have Ari sen in the Story of a former nursing aide who says Kim Berly Mays and another baby were switched intentionally in a Hospital nearly 15 years ago. Patsy Webb previously denied three times in sworn statements that she knew anything about a switch of babies born to Barbara and Robert Mays and to Ernest and Regina Twigg. The Twiggs Are Kimberly s biological parents. But she said tuesday that a doctor at Hardee memo rial Hospital in Rural Wauchula gave the order in 1978 to switch the couples babies exchanging Kimberly forthe Mays ailing baby. Webb said she refused but when she came to work the next Day she found that the twobabies had been switched. She said she is speaking out now because she is dying from emphysema. But the reason Webb offered for the switch is contradicted by medical records. They found she was eat up with cancer Webb Saidof Barbara Mays in an interview wednesday on lbs evening news. They wanted her to have the goo baby because she did t have Long to Barbara Mays did die of ovarian cancer in 1981, Buther medical records show she was t diagnosed until june 16,1980. Thankful for some Turkey Alan Langston shares his salvation army thanksgiving dinner with his cat Sylvester in Salinas Calif. The 38-year-old, who has been homeless for 13 years says he found the cat in a dumpster three months ago. There was no Way for doctors to have known bar Aramays was ill at the time of the birth of her daughter said George Russ an attorney for Robert and Kimberly Mays. The baby Swap came to Ligpit when the child raised bythe Twiggs was being treated for heart problems and blood tests showed she was t the Twiggs biological daughter. The girl named Arlena by the Twiggs died in 1988. The Twiggs attorney said wednesday that Webb interview just raises More nobody before has Ever said anything about Barbara Mays having cancer then John Blakely told the Tampa Tribune. The Story has always been that she found out a year later that she had Webb declined to comment when asked about the conflict wednesday night. On Abc s today show on Friday Barbara Mays obstetrician also said she had no sign of cancer at the time of the birth. But or. William Black also said that he tends to be Lieve Webb s Felt that this was an intentional switch right from the very beginning Black said. Chicken pox vaccination being tested Washington apr. To White sent her son to play with a Friend who had Chicken pox testing whether an experimental vaccine would protect him from the itchy rite of childhood. It did. By Spring More american children May be so Lucky As the government gets set to approve the nation s first vaccine against a disease considered More a Nui Sance than a killer even though it claims More than 90 lives a year. The food and drug administration sin the final stages of investigating Var Ivan a Chicken pox vaccine developed by Merck & co. Approval is expected by 3.9 million americans mostly children get Chicken pox every by the highly contagious Varicella virus it typically causes severe itching and rash. But about 9,000 people develop com plications ranging from blood infections to brain damage. An average of 92 died each year from 1987 to 1991. Children with weak immune systems and adults Are most at risk. Doctors predict Vari Vax will Cut Chick in pox to 240,000 cases a year with Only four deaths. And a study sponsored bythe Federal centers for disease control and prevention found Vari Vax would cost$157 million a year but would save almost $700 million a year in medical Bills handwork lost by parents of sick children. Japan and Europe have used a version of the vaccine successfully since the mid 1980s. But its development in the unite states has been slow. Doctors disliked giving healthy children a live vaccine fora usually mild illness. Son Mother plead guilty to migrant worker abuses sleet freezing rain and Light Snow kept investigators for the Federal aviation administration from getting to the area Lee said. Wilmington . A a Man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to hold migrant farm workers Pris Oner while they worked off their debt to him and his Mother pleaded guilty to related charges. Willie Bonds jr., 42, of Goldsboro pleaded guilty wednesday to the Federal charges. Carrie Mae Bonds 62, of Lake Wales Fla., pleaded guilty to violating the migrant and agricultural worker Protection act. Both could have been sentenced to up to 47 years in prison. But they bargained the maximum Down to five years for Bonds and one year for his Mother. They will be sentenced later by . District judge James c. Fox. The bonuses recruited homeless men and took them to work on farms in North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia. Their wages were docked for Basic goods they could buy Only from the bonuses the indictments said. As a result the labourers were paid from nothing to $10 for working 40 to 60-hour weeks said Maureen Sweeney of farm workers Legal services in Raleigh
