European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Wednesday november 23,1994girl in fatal beating Case denies she claimed rape from the associated press Philadelphia the teen age girl whose Story of insults and bullying reportedly touched off the fatal beating of a 16-year-old boy says she never said she was raped. The rape allegation was cited As leading to a nov. 11 retaliation attack against Eddie Polec who was beaten with a baseball Bat on the Steps of his Church. He died the next morning with a fractured Skull. The girl from suburban Abington whose identity has not been released told the Philadelphia daily news in an interview published monday that she and a Friend had been harassed by some teens from rival Fox Chase at a fast food restaurant a week before the attack. She said that she told her friends she had been pushed around but that a i did not say anything about rape. People said a you could have been  but i did not say anything about that a the rape Rumor persisted however and became a major impetus for retaliation by a group of about 20 Abington area teens according to  teen agers have been charged with  for husband pressed Washington a an american woman whose guatemalan rebel husband disappeared in 1992 wants the Clinton administration to impose sanctions to pressure Guatemala to find him. Jennifer Harbury who recently ended a 32-Day hunger strike in front of the guatemalan National Palace made her plea monday during a meeting with top . Officials Harbury a husband Efrain Bamaca Velasquez disappeared after a firefight with a guatemalan army unit March 12,1992. The guatemalan military says it never held Bamaca but eyewitnesses have told Harbury that they saw him in detention. The White House in a statement issued after the meeting with Harbury said the administration had received unverified information that Bamaca had been seen alive in july 1992 but added a we do not know whether he is alive  bomber jailed Jacksonville Fla. A a Man was sentenced monday to 10 years in prison for a Kmart store bombing that injured four people. James Manley Cost 22, pleaded guilty in september to one count of exploding a pipe bomb to damage the store maliciously. He also pleaded guilty to one count of using explosive materials to damage the building. Four people were injured one seriously in the dec. 30 explosion at the Kmart at Neptune be Chr North of Jacksonville. The break in the Case came from a fingerprint found on a paper bag in the menus room said Michael Hawkins of the state fire marshals office. Defense attorney Stephen Weinbaum said Cost suffers from attention deficit disorder and blackouts. But . District judge John h. Moore ii said he it doubted costs claim that he does no to recall making and hiding the bomb. Cost was ordered to pay restitution of $129,991 to Kmart corp. He apologized to the victims. Cost confessed to bombing another Kmart in May Hawkins said. That charge was dropped when Cost pleaded guilty. No one was injured m that blast. Stockton holsters plan for concealed weapons by Richard c. Paddock 1 los Angeles times Stockton Calif. A the1 Stockton City Council has rejected a measure that would have allowed any a Law abiding resident of this City to carry a concealed weapon. After two Long and emotional debates before overflow crowds at City Hall the Council refused monday night to make Stockton the first City in California to fight crime by allowing its citizens to Arm themselves outside their Homes. The vote was 6-1 against the plan which would have allowed As Many As 130,000 adult Stockton residents to carry hidden firearms. A what is the message sent to our children if we adopt this a asked Jeff Crawford a Stockton resident who opposed the measure. A is that in a civilized society a real solution a the proposal would have relaxed the rules for obtaining permits for concealed weapons in the City where a deranged drifter opened fire with an assault weapon on a schoolyard five years ago killing five children and wounding 29. The Council agreed that enacting the measure would Hurt Stockton a image and Esca baby with a Mission Jill Schwartz of Cleveland holds her Newborn daughter Angelina who was brought into the world in the Hope of saving the infants 5-Ycar-old sister Christy a leukaemia victim needing Bone marrow. After failing to find a suitable donor Jill and Randy Schwartz conceived Angelina on the Chance that her tissue Type would match Christy a. Or. Susan b. Shurin said cells collected from Angelina will be transplanted into Christy Early next year. Shurin said there is a 20 to 30 percent Chance the transplant will cure the girl. A a a a a a a a a a late Street violence. 11 Council members also concluded that the proposal was preempted by state Law governing the issuance of concealed weapon permits. A i think this would be absolute chaos a councilwoman Loralee Mcgaughey a Strong opponent of the measure told colleagues. A i think that it has been a True travesty for this City. Its not something that we  a a a. Quot a a the proposal was put Forward by councilman Nick rust a member of the National Rifle association. Rust argued that giving a Large number of citizens the right to carry concealed weapons would make the City safer. But in the end he was the Only one to vote for the ordinance. A people Are going to have guns and the people you cannot control Are the criminals a he said shortly before the measure was voted Down. A i believe we re giving a message to the nation if you want to commit a crime come to  under current Law people May keep a gun in their Homes or businesses without a permit. But rust and his supporters argue that 70 percent of All crime occurs away from those  jeer As child rapist says he s changed Lexington mass. Apr a child rapist who moved into this Boston suburb four weeks ago faced 500 angry and fearful neighbors promising that he has changed and urging them to give him a Chance. But the crowd remained hostile shouting and hissing at David Carroll throughout the 90-minute meeting monday. When Carroll asked rhetorically whether he should have been executed for his crime several people hollered a yes a a you Are responsible for your fears a Carroll said. A hysteria does not  the meeting was called by police chief Christopher Casey who said he had received hundreds of complaints since residents Learned last week that Carroll had moved into their upscale suburb of 29,000. Carroll 56, was convicted in 1990 of raping his daughter. He served one year of it 10-year sentence. Under terms of his parole he can have no Contact with children or his daughter and must attend weekly group therapy sessions. A common sense and the Law of averages insist that at least some of us change permanently a Carroll told the audience. A i feel my past is truly my past a he said. A i will do no one any  residents demanded to know Why Carroll was permitted to live on a Street near a school and Day care centers. When Casey and Natalie Hardy executive director of the Massachusetts parole Board told the crowd that he has the right to live where he wants some audience members jeered. A a it a the children that should be the main concern a one woman shouted. Anaesthesia link to birth defects suggested Washington apr women who undergo general anaesthesia during Early pregnancy May be at slightly higher risk for having babies with a rare birth defect a study suggests. The centers for disease control and prevention emphasized that its preliminary study does no to prove anaesthesia is dangerous to Young fetuses but urged More research to Settle the Issue. A a we re suggesting a new wave of studies to evaluate this a or. Muin Khoury the cd cd a Deputy chief of birth defects said monday. A this particular finding might be a red herring or it could be  up to 2 percent of women undergo surgery during pregnancy Many before they know they Are pregnant. But very Little is known about general anaesthesia a putting pregnant women to sleep a during the first trimester when fetal nervous systems develop. Khoury a study comes after swedish researchers in 1990 reported a possible link with neural tube defects. Khoury studied 694 mothers of babies with birth defects and 2,984 mothers of healthy babies. The Odds that mothers who underwent general anaesthesia in the first trimester had sick babies weren to significant he reported in the american journal of Public health. Then Khoury looked at 204 babies with multiple Central nervous system defects. He found the risk of hydrocephalus a fluid on the brain a in combination with other disorders to be 10 times higher for anaesthetized mothers. But he found Only seven such cases very weak evidence Khoury admitted. Even if the finding proves accurate the risk is still Small because hydrocephalus is so rare afflicting one baby in 1,000. A the question is left very open a said or. Raphael Gershon chief of obstetric Anaesthesiology at Emory University ii Atlanta who suggested that illness o surgery itself could be to blame instead o anaesthesia. The Lack of data makes doctors cautious refusing most surgery for pregnant women and then usually opting for local aesthetic Gershon said. A i done to w ant to give the Mother it whole lot of drugs in Case that. Wil give the fetus the drugs a he said. A Ubu there is no study to prove  Khouriy is searching International Dat it bases for More evidence. A this who Issue needs to be looked at a he said