European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 r the stars and stripes . Saturday december to 1994 completed los Angeles a ending a two month search for the people to de cide . Simpson s Fate lawyers have selected a panel of 12 alternate jurors that closely resembles the main jury picked last month. Despite the Milestone opening arguments May be months away with hear Ings on the admissibility of crucial in evidence still to come the alternates sworn in thursday Range from a 44-year-old Black female computer technician who said Nicole Brown Simpson was t a Saint to a 28-year-old female hispanic real estate appraiser who said Simpson was the on 1 or person who had a visible motive to kill his second sex wife. There Are nine women and three men among the alternates. The group com Prises seven Blacks four Whites and on hispanic. The main jury selected nov. 3, consists of eight women and four men. Eight jurors Are Black one White two hispanic and one of mixed race. Some of the alternates could be pressed into service immediately. Supe rior court judge Lance Ito is scheduled to meet with attorneys to discuss unspecified allegations of juror misconduct. If any jurors Are dismissed Mem Bers of the alternate panel would be selected at random to replace them. Regardless of the possible dismissal of jurors for misconduct some of the alternates probably will sit in judgment of Simpson because it s Likely that jurors will be lost Lor various reasons during the trial which could last six months. Up asked the alternates to return to court monday for instructions on what they May and May not watch listen to and read before the opening statements begin probably in late january or Early february. Simpson is charged with murder in the june 12 Stab m rat it 4-1off 1.7 of a o . A _ _ Al to _ 1 of. . Simpson looks across the courtroom from behind one of his attorneys Robert Shapiro during a hearing in los Angeles on thursday. Criminal charges against Cowlings who drove the for Bronco in a june 17 freeway Chase. No charges were tiled. / a a. Defense attorneys contend Darden improperly gained Access to information in the Simpson Case through his work on the Cowlings investigation. In a filing unsealed thursday the prosecution main j it a _.�. 1 -. -. K a a or i o a i a j it a 4ul"b Una Caricu  me Prus Cuton Mai Bing deaths of Nicole Simpson and her Friend Ronald trained that its use of the Cowlings grand jury was prop Goldman. R Ana that Anu  v v  Abraha 29, was shot to death at the Bank of America Branch tuesday. He had an arrest record dating to 1984 and had been treated at a state Hospital for the criminally disturbed. The two authentic looking grenades had no explosive material or timing devices officer Mike Johnson said. Baby death Rote Falls Washington infant mortality in the United states reached an All time Low last year but deaths from a flu epidemic and other respiratory illnesses also depressed life expectancy for  newborns the government said. The infant mortality rate fell to 8.3 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1993, a decline from 8.5 deaths per 1,000 the year before. Babies born in 1993 were expected to live 75.5 years Down from 1992 s All time High of 75.8 years according to provisional figures thursday from the National Center for health statistics. A report in the journal of paediatrics said that one in every five women was childless in 1992, up sharply from one in nine in the 1970s. Whale kicks away trouble Penns aukerm . Aright whale that has been roaming the Delaware River got stuck on mud Flats near an Oil refinery but kicked itself free two hours later and disappeared into a crowded Shippin Channel. Marine biologists feared the whale would die when it got stuck thursday night. They threw rocks at it while trying to coax it Back into the water. The animal did it himself. It kicked itself free with his Tail said Bob Schoelkopf director of Marine mammal stranding unit in Brigantine. The rocks they were throwing at it May have stimulated 11�. The whale first appeared along Philadelphia s riverfront last saturday swimming in circles with ahead wound. Dad allegedly beat student Albany . A White College student who claimed she was brutally assaulted in her dorm room by a masked Black Man was actually beaten by her Tather police say. David r. Giles was charged thursday with third degree assault a Misdemeanour. He pleaded innocent and was freed on $5,000 bail pending Adee. 22 hearing