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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, July 7, 1994

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes . U \ a thursday july 7, 1994 tourists i at Gulfport miss. A a couple of norwegian tourists pounded on an automatic Teller machine in frustration when it took their card and their Cash. The result Wasny to what they  alarm triggered by the pounding sunday evening summoned police to the Deposit guaranty National Bank. While officers were standing outside two men burst through a window of the Bank and were arrested on burglary charges. Dean Lindsay 33, of Arlington Texas and Billy Bryant 40, of Centerville tenn., were being held wednesday under $100,000 Bond. Bryant was treated at a Hospital for cuts front the broken window. Foiling a crime apparently was a new experience for the norwegians whose names were not released. The tourists hit the atm machine because a apparently their card got taken and it made them mad a said detective Mike Hall. When officers arrived to answer the resulting alarm they found no signs of entry to the building. But As they waited for Bank management to get there two men broke through the window and tried to flee. A they had circumvented the Locking mechanism a Hall said. A the Only Way they could get out was to bust through the  mom courses a i like vide courses because i work full time and pm a full time mom. My children Are both very involved in sports and school activities. With vide courses i can attend their events and i schedule my own quiet time for studying a a if it Wasny to for vide courses i  be Able to. Attain my degree Bucago Quality , anywhere life of the homeless in t on Miami apr the homeless Camp on tiny Watson Island is skid Row with Palms unemployment and food Stamps just a few feet from Blue Green water lapping at a Sandy Shore. High Rise condominiums Overlook the cobbled together shacks on the tiny Hump of Sand rising from Biscayne Bay. Miami leaders Are deciding what to do about the 6,000 homeless people spread throughout the City a Many of whom Are hunkered Down on some of americans costliest beachfront property. Most Watson Island residents did no to pay much mind to tuesdays meeting of the Miami City commission a even though the Fate of their impoverished Paradise was at slake. The commission approved construction of a 350-bed, $3 million homeless shelter that will be partly financed by a 1 percents restaurant tax. The City is under court order to provide a Safe zones until it can offer decent shelter. The zones Are to be demolished once the shelter is built. One of the Safe zones is Watson Island where about 50 people survive on food Stamps handouts and the knowledge that police wont harass them. A you got All kinds of people Here a said George 61, whose Chest resembles a pinched Bird Cage. A cubans haitians Black americans Whites. You got people. Here who can to get a Job and you got people who done to want a  George who like other squatters did t want his full a me used gets s379 a month in social Security. He and his tent a a mate Frank live under a piece of trans Lucent plastic sheeting and sleep on mattresses fished from a trash pile. A a there san invisible line Here right about there a George said extending a Long Bony Arm. A on that Side of the line a he said waving vaguely a Are the bad seeds the bad elements. On this Side a he said a smile spreading across his Sun cracked lips a Are the sociable the More intelligent who have got a Little  a yeah people who pull together a said Frank 45.a Quot As the squatters go about the daily tasks of scraping together an existence people gawk from cruising pleasure  a it a degrading a said Annette a 6-foot string bean of a woman. A How would you like your family and friends to know you were living like this a she said trying to hide her rotting Teeth behind a paper Napkin. A i got to go out there and Panhandle every Day and i done to want people seeing my picture in the paper and knowing i live Here because they Arentt going to try to help  she smoothed an imaginary wrinkle from her White to shirt then retreated to her Shack of scrap lumber roofed with plastic sheeting. Her neighbors echoed the complaints of homeless people across America How do you get a Job when you done to have decent clothes for an interview or Money for transportation and if you done to have a Job where do you get Money for a decent place to live by the Washington Post a experimental nasal Spray is getting High Marks for controlling migraine pain. University of Kansas researchers report that the Spray containing the Long used migraine headache drug dhe-45 i Hydro ergot a mine Mes late is Safe and effective in offering rapid Relief from the severe pain and controlling the nausea that often accompanies the migraines. Migraines afflict an estimated 25 million americans annually. They account for 80 million annual visits to doctors offices and Cost $50 billion yearly in lost wages and medical expenses. Various medications including the Are used to treat migraines. But in Pill form the drugs often Are hard for migraine sufferers to keep Down because of the nausea and vomiting that often occur in Many migraines. For this reason doctors in recent years have experimented with alternative ways to administer medications including injections and nasal sprays. The recent study of 112 people who suffer from migraines found that administering the As a nasal Spray was an effective Way of controlling the pain and other symptoms said Dewey k. Ziegler director of the headache clinic at the University of Kansas medical Center and Lead author of the study. Kevorkian expects delay in Lansing Mich. Apr. Jack Kevorkian says he Likely will put off his Effort to place the Issue of assisted suicide before voters. Kevorkian and others supporting a constitutional right to assisted suicide have been gathering signatures required to get a referendum on the nov. 8 ballot in Michigan. As of mid june they were about 80,000 signatures Short of the 256,457 needed by next mondays deadline. A a in a pretty sure we wont qualify for the ballot this year Kevorkian said monday while collecting signatures in Lansing. A a we la shoot for november 1996. That a a presidential year. There will be a lot of voters. It would be a Good sampling of the  the drive was hindered by bad weather during Winter and Early Spring he said. Kevorkian an outspoken proponent of physician assisted suicide for the hopelessly ill has been present at the deaths of 20 people since 1990. The Michigan court of appeals has reinstated murder charges against him in two cases. But Kevorkian wont be prosecuted while the state supreme court reviews the constitutionality of the states ban on assisted suicide  
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