European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday january 14, 1995 race s ouster los Angeles a the editor of a local mensa chapter newsletter has been forced to resign after publishing articles from members that called for killing the homeless the elderly and the mentally ill. Nikki Frey was ousted from the Volunteer Post thursday on a 5-1 vote of the chapters executive committee. Frey came under attack for defending the publication of articles that proposed that people Quot who Are so mentally defective that they cannot live in society should As soon As they Are identified As defective be humanely dispatched a another article stated that German dictator Adolf Hitler s greatest offence Wasny to the killing of 6 million jews but Quot the fact that his actions prevent a rational discussion of the creation of the master  a a a a a a a a a a -. A a a excerpts from the articles were published tuesday in the los Angeles times. Richard Amyx chairman of american mensa ltd., the Parent organization of the group for people with High is said he recommended that Frey be replaced after she ignored his request to avoid further controversy and instead defended her action on to and radio shows. Mensa is a social organization for people with is in the top 2 percent of the Public As judged by a cup cd tests. There Are about 55,000 . Members and 100,000 worldwide. California tallies costs As fresh storm nears Ventura Calif. A with a new smaller storm approaching California tallied the Cost of a weather siege that ruined crops turned creeks into Deathtrap and coated the state with mud. An estimated 3,000 people remained out of their Homes thursday As damage estimates Rose to $300 million statewide. President Clinton expanded the Federal disaster areas to include 34 counties and transportation Secretary Federico Pena announced $5 million in Federal funding for Road and Bridge repairs. The California department of food and agriculture estimated Ventura county lost s22jz million Worth of produce including strawberries celery and lettuce. Orange county was estimated to have lost Between 50 percent and 80 percent of us Strawberry crop. Since Jan. 3, when the storms began 17.19 inches of rain have fallen in Santa Barbara 12.10 inches in Ventura 13.18 inches in Malibu 9.43 inches in los Angeles and 8.59 inches in Santa Ana. Quot Peoples nerves Are getting a Little frayed at this Point. Matin us a really taken some heavy hits Here in the last year and half a said City spokeswoman Sarah Maurice. A a  a a a a a a a a. A a a a a a a. A a the area was also hit by destructive wildfires in late 1993. The latest storm thursday pounded san Diego with heavy rain but caused Little More than snarled traffic. The National weather service said a storm from the North is expected to arrive by sunday and should be Milder than the recent deluge. Move Over Howard former Virgo la gov. L. Douglas Wilder talks with reporters before kicking off his radio talk show in the Wreva studios in Richmond on wednesday Wilder will be on the air for a two hour Call in show five Days a week. The storms have been fuelled by a weather condition known Asel Nino which sends warmth and moisture into the air Over the Pacific Ocean strengthening the upper air Jet winds that carry that weather downstream to the United states climatologists say. In Southern California Rivers and creeks have receded dramatically since tuesdays torrential Rains that swept at least three people to their deaths and led to dramatic helicopter rescues of homeless people from an Encampment along the Ventura river., some homeless people tried to return thursday to the tree shrouded Encampment. Several eluded police and new encampments mushroomed on rive Bottom islands. A. A a Quot you can arrest me As Many times As you want but you can to prevent me from going Home a said Craig Fearnow one of those frying to reach the Encampment. About 165,000 residents of Ventura and san Diego counties were ordered to boil their drinking water by cause of contamination hazards from floodwaters. In Northern California Humboldt county authorities called in the National guard and California conservation corps Crews to Deal with a potential health Hazard a hundreds of dead sheep and Dairy cattle that drowned in the eel River South of Eureka. Despite the continuing headaches Steve Baxman fire chief of the town of Monte Rio was confident his town would rebound. A this is a town that floods All the time Quot he Sard. A a they Hose out pick tip the garbage and go on with life. Tough group of  Miracle Man tiptoes through bomb Range fort Bragg . Apr a civilian who got his truck stuck on a fort Bragg bombing Range was Lucky to get out alive. The truck wont get out at All. It will become another target. Soldiers were about to open fire when Glen Woodcock 31, drove his Ford Bronco into the Middle of the Range monday night then walked out when the four wheel drive vehicle got stuck officials said. The Range is littered with thousands of rounds of  ammunition. A Quot a a a. Woodcock was arrested by military police after he approached soldiers and asked for help moving his truck. He was charged with trespassing and told that his truck was irretrievable. Col Woodrow Wilson fort Braggs Garrison commander said the Range is pock Skei a a 1 a a marked with bomb craters and is clearly marked. A Why or How he did not step on something and blow himself totally up is a Miracle Wilson said. Help near for hypochondriac Oslo Norway apr Norway is opening a clinic to help hypochondriac figure out what sailing them a or More precisely what Isnit ailing them. Even though hypochondriac suffer imaginary illnesses or worry excessively about their health a they realty do suffer a or. Ingvard Wilhelmsen said in an in tar View thursday with the Nib news Agency. The clinic which opens March 1 in the West coastal City of Bergen will help hypochondriac understand the psychological Root of their problems said Wilhelmson who is an internist and a psychiatrist. Rome apr two former researchers at the clinic where a test tube baby Al i Gedly was born two years after her biological Mother died have cast doubt on whether the birth took place. The birth of baby Elisabetta was announced this week by Rome gynaecologist Pasquale Bilotta and immediately Drew the condemnation of the Vatican. Eight of the biological mothers eggs had been fertilized with her husbands sperm a few months before she died in a car crash. Four of the embryos were Frozen after implantation of the first four failed. Last year the woman a husband asked Bilotta to implant those embryos in the womb of his 33-year-old sister who gave birth to Elisabetta last week the gynaecologist said. But two researchers at Bilotta a Fertility clinic told the Rome newspaper ii Messaggiero that the clinic lacked the equipment to conduct the procedure. A How could he have Frozen the embryos if we done to have the equipment her Manno Greco was quoted As saying. He and biologist Laura Rienzi both said they quit the clinic because Bilotta Hadnot informed them of the procedure. They also said the Low. Success rate of such procedures made the birth unlikely. Greco added that he was a morally opposed Quot to a birth from in Vitro fertilization if one of the parents was dead. The researchers announced thursday that they had quit. Bilotta told the newspaper that he used an outside Laboratory to freeze the embryos and that he had fired the two researchers because they weren to performing Well. Such a pregnancy was tantamount a trampling the right to be born in human. Way a the Vatican new spa l Oss Cavatore Romano said wednesday prominent scientists including 19 Nobel Medicine laureate Rita Levi a Salcini defended the pregnancy. A a it a act of great generosity a she said. Bilotta said doctors agreed to the in bands request because they believed ill a science should be at the service of life. A this baby was born of an act of to Between husband and wife a Bilotta u the Rai state broadcasting network