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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Monday january 3,1994 doctor new York a the italian doctor who helped a 59-year-old woman become the oldest on record to give birth says there is nothing wrong with giving older women the same reproductive Freedom As men. Quot this is a big Victory for women. Women Are discriminated against. Men can be 100 and have children. This is Why the entire male world is against me a or. Secrino Antinori said. Menopause has Long stood Between older women and childbearing. But anti Nori has erased that natural Barrier by birth implanting women who Are no longer menstruating with donated fertilized eggs. Critics contend that Middle aged mothers will not live Long enough to rear the children they Bear and that they Are too old for the emotional and physical strains of pregnancy. But Antinori said the ability of Middle aged men to look after their children is not questioned to the same extent. He said the right of any woman to have children transcends ethical debates. A a it san individual Freedom that no one can touch a he said in an interview thursday in new York City where he was spending the new years Holiday with his wife and daughters. The debate Over engineering births expanded Friday with reports out of Italy that a Black Mother gave birth after being impregnated with an egg from a White woman. The egg was fertilized with sperm from the Black woman a White husband. Critics said the birth was a first step toward people choosing specific characteristics for their children. Or. Cesare Aragona told the Rome daily la Republica that the 37-year-old Mother who already had a child was rendered infertile by a tumorous growth. He and her husband wanted another a child and since they were Able to select the donor of the eggs they chose a White woman for Quot practicality a the newspaper quoted  the 59-year-Oid British woman gave birth to twins on Christmas Day British health Secretary Virginia Bot Tomley said the treatment would not be allowed in Britain for Post menopausal women. Others in the British medical Community have also come out against the technique. Inter Rescue of tenants in fire Omaha neb apr a House Painter grabbed his ladder and battled heavy smoke to Rescue three people from a burning apartment buildings third floor and help firefighters save a fourth. A  fantastic Job Quot said capt. Skip Baughman a paramedic the rescuer Ronald Ford 37, was treated at a Hospital for smoke inhalation and released. About 10 people were evacuated from the building. Ford was in an apartment building next door visiting his brother Warren Ford. The two were getting ready to leave for a painting Job when the fire started Friday afternoon. Danae Martinez Ronald Fords Girlfriend said she heard a neighbor Yelling and found smoke in the Hall. Martinez who is seven months pregnant dialled 911 but found it was Busy and called Ford at his brother a place. Ford said he sprinted to the building and tried four times to run up a smoke choked stairway. Quot the third step that a the farthest i got a Ford said. A i was coughing. I  breathe. I  see a Ford ran 40 Yards to a Van owned by his employer and drove it to the burning building. His brother helped him take out a ladder and prop it against Marti-nc2�?Ts window to Rescue her and her baby son Daniel. Ronald Ford then sprinted to the North end of the building where Peg Sanders was Yelling out a third Story window for help. She and her 70-year-old Mother Elizabeth Sanders were trapped by smoke. Ford went up the ladder again battalion chief Dave Koziol said. He helped Peg Sanders out and then climbed the ladder a third time feeling his Way through blinding smoke to the elderly woman s bed. Quot i told her to put her arms around my neck and she did the Best she could a Ford said. Quot i picked her up and took her to the  Ford said he could not take her Down the ladder but by that time firefighters had arrived to help them out of the building. Dolphins still missing after River ices Over sea Bright . A an Aerial search of the new Jersey coast failed to turn up any sign of the four dolphins that disappeared in an ice bound River but authorities were hoping fishermen May have spotted some of them. Bob Schoelkopf head of the Marine mammal stranding Center in Brigantine said a fishing party about eight to 10 Miles off Sandy Hook reported seeing two or three dolphins Friday morning. Quot there a a Good possibility these were the missing dolphins because dolphins Arentt supposed to be there now a Schoelkopf said. He said members of the fishing Carty were emphatic that the animals they saw were Ottle nose dolphins. The four missing ones Are the same variety. An Aerial search saturday failed to turn up any of the mammals. A the part of the Shrewsbury River where three of the dolphins were last been swimming wednesday iced Over that night and rescuers fear the air breathing animals May have suffocated. One of the four had disappeared tuesday after showing signs of illness and fatigue. Randy Moore and his family Welcome sunny Day at the Spokane Wash., International Airport on thursday after their flight front Chicago landed in Madison wis., to Rescue the family dog from an unheated cargo area. To Rescue Spokane Wash. A a United airlines passenger Jet made an unscheduled Landing to Rescue two pets who were mistakenly shipped in an unheated cargo compartment. The emergency Landing at Madison wis delayed the Chicago to Spokane flight by about two hours. The animals a Golden retriever sunny Day and cat Daisy a arrived in Spokane safely. A the Crew did an outstanding professional Job a said the pets owner Randy Moore. He is moving his family from Albany n.y., to Coeur do Alene Idaho about 30 Miles East of Spokane. Minutes lifter the Boeing 727 took off from of Hare International Airport on thursday Quot the dispatcher called us and said two animals had been incorrectly loaded a capt Mark Sebby said. A they were in fear for their  temperatures at 30,000 feet can reach 55 degrees below Zero. Sebby said he dumped 16,000 pounds of fuel Worth about $2,300, so be could safety land at Madison about an hour after leaving Chicago the animals were taken off the plane warmed up and then put in the heated portion of the hold. Cargo couple leaves House at Center of tax protest colra1n, mass. Apr a couple that landed in the Middle of a peace protest when the pair bought a House for $5,400 has been persuaded off the property. Daniel and Terry Franklin on Friday moved out of the two Story House they bought at a foreclosure auction in april 1992. The couple landed in a standoff with people protesting the eviction of the previous residents who had stopped paying taxes in 1977 in protest of american military actions in Nicaragua Al Salvador Panama and Iraq daily peace vigils outside the House led to Legal disputes with a land Trust which includes some area Resi dents that bought 200 acres under and around the House. The Trust which sided with the protesters sued the Franklins to get them off the land. Trust member Alan Ladd said the dispute was settled recently for a a mutually agreeable sum of  details were not disclosed but the Trust now owns the House and land. In 1989, Randy Kehler and his wife Betsy Corner were evicted for nonpayment of More than $45,000 in taxes interest and penalties Kehler was jailed for three months for contempt of court. Ladd said he did not know whether the House would be Given Back to Kehler and Corner  
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