European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes . Wednesday november 23.1994 girl 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 wee before the attack. She said that she told her friends she had Bee pushed around but that i did not say anything about rape. People said you could have been raped but i did not say anything about  the rape Rumor persisted however and became Amajor impetus for retaliation by a group of about 20 Abington area teens according to police. Three teen agers have been charged with murder. Gay midshipman loses Washington a Federal appeals court tuesday upheld the expulsion of a midshipman from the . Naval Academy who had acknowledged that he is homosexual. On a 7-3 vote the . Court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit rejected Joseph c. Steffan s argument that his discharge solely because of his stated sexual orientation was unconstitutional. The decision reverses an earlier ruling by a three judge appellate panel that had ordered the naval Academy at Annapolis md., to reinstate Steffan. That ruling had been appealed by the Clinto administration which has initiated a new policy of not asking military personnel their sexual orientation. Steffan was discharged under the old policy.  " Kmart bomber ailed Jacksonville Fla a Man was sentence monday to 10 years in prison for a Kmart store bombing that injured four people. James Manley Cost 22, pleaded guilty i 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 Beach North of Jacksonville. The break in the Case came from a fingerprint found on a paper bag in the men s room said Michael Hawkins of the state fire marshal s office. Defense attorney Stephen Weinbaum said Cost suffers from attention deficit disorder and blackouts. But . District judge John h. Moore ii said he doubted Cost s claim that he does t 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 inlay Hawkins said. That charge was dropped when Cost pleaded guilty. No one was injured in that blast. Stockton holsters plan for conceal by Richard c. Paddock los Angeles time Stockton Calif. The Stockton City Council has rejected a measure that would have allowed any Law abiding resident of this City to carry a concealed  two Long and emotional debates before Over flow 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. What is the message sent to our children if we adopt this asked Jeff Crawford a Stockton resident who opposed the measure. Is that in a civilized society a real solution 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 child Dren and wounding 29. The Council agreed that enact ing the measure would Hurt Stockton s image and Esca baby with a Mission a Jill Schwartz of Cleveland holds her Newborn daughter Angelina who was brought into the world in the Hope of saving the infant s 5-year-old sister Christy a Luke Mia victim needing Bone marrow. After failing to find a suitable donor Jill and Randy Schwartz conceived an Gelina on the Chance that her tissue Type would match Christy s. 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. Weapons late Street  members also concluded that the proposal was preempted by state Law governing the issuance of concealed weapon permits. I think this would be absolute chaos councilwoman Loralee Mcgaughey a Strong opponent of the measure told colleagues. I think that it has been Atrue travesty for this City. It s not something that we need.". / a / the proposal was put Forward by councilman Nick rust a member of the National Rifle  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  Are going to have guns and the people you cannot control Are the criminals he said shortly be fore the measure was voted Down. I believe we re giving a message to the nation if you want to commit crime come to  under current Law people May keep a gun in their Homes or businesses without permit. But rust and his supporters argue that 70 per cent of All crime occurs away from those locations. Neighbors jeer As child rapist says he s changed Lexington mass. A 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 yes you Are responsible for your fears Carroll said. 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 car Roll had Moyed into their upscale suburb of 29,000. Carroll 56, was convicted in 1990 of raping his daughter. He served one year of a 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. Common sense and the Law of averages insist that at least some of us change permanently Carroll told the audience. I feel my past is truly my past he said i will Dono 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. It s the children that should be the main concern one woman shouted. An est Hesia i i n k to b i it h defects suggested. ". -. W %7 Washington a women who undergo general anaesthesia during Earl pregnancy May be at slightly higher risk Tor having babies with a rare birth defect a study suggests. The centers for disease control and prevention emphasized that its preliminary study does t prove anaesthesia i dangerous to Young fetuses but urged More research to Settle the Issue. We re suggesting a new wave of studies to evaluate this or. Muin Khoury the cd s Deputy chief of birth defects said monday. 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 putting pregnant women to sleep during the first trimester when fetal Ner Vous systems  Khoury s 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 t 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 fluid on the brain 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. The question is left very open said or. Raphael Gershon chief of obstetric Anaesthesiology at Emory University i Atlanta who suggested that illness or surgery itself could be to blame instead of anaesthesia. The Lack of data makes doctors cautious refusing most surgery for pregnant women and then usually opting for a local aesthetic Gershon said. I Don t want to give the Mother a whole lot of drugs in Case that. Will give the fetus the drugs he said. But there is no study to prove  Khoury is searching International data bases for More evidence. This whole Issue needs to be looked at he said