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October 4, 1986 THE DES MOINES REGISTER 1 1 A Pastors protest hospitals that perform abortions U.S. imposes import ban on wildlife from Singapore Von Bulow files $20 million suit against stepson 5S WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Pastors across the nation will lead their parishioners in hundreds of protests this weekend against hospitals that perform abortions, the Christian Action Council said Friday. The second annual Pastors' Protest Against Abortion was scheduled for today to coincide with the beginning of the Supreme Court term Monday, as a reminder of the court's 1973 ruling legalizing abortion nationwide. The goal is to get hospitals to stop performing all abortions except those necessary "to prevent the physical death of the mother to preserve her life," said the group's executive director, Curtis Young.

"This protest is being undertaken not to simply state a conviction but to bring about a change," he said at a news conference. "The integrity and reputation of our nation's hospitals are at stake." Young said the council, an evangelical anti-abortion organization founded in 1975 at the home of evangelist Billy Graham and based here, has sent out 650 packets of information to local groups interested in staging protests. He estimated there would be actual protests against about 300 hospitals today, followed up by meetings with hospital administrators and other steps such as boycotts if necessary. Emily Tynes, a spokeswoman for the National Abortion Rights Action League, said pressure tactics have succeeded in changing abortion policies mainly at religious-affiliated hospitals. By PATT MORRISON l'tt Lm Anodes TimM LOS ANGELES, CALIF.

In an unusual action begun quietly last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has banned all wildlife imports from Singapore because that country refuses to abide by international protections for rare animals. The action by the wildlife service has virtually shut down Singapore's $12 million home-grown tropical fish trade with the United States, most of it processed through Los Angeles International Airport. More important to environmentalists, the ban also ends Singapore's alleged $3 million to $5 million traffic to the United States in illicitly obtained animals and animal products. They include rare birds like the black palmcock, which sells here for $10,000 reptiles, rhino horns and elephant ivory, and the hide of a rare mammal, the pangolin, which is usually shipped to Texas, to be made into cowboy boots, officials said, or to the Far East, where its hairy scales are used by herbalists.

The United States, as a signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, requires that each imported animal and animal product carries a certificate of origin, to prove that it is from a country where it is not protected as an endangered or threatened species. Singapore, however, had "not been cooperative," said Kathleen King, an enforcement specialist with the wildlife service, "finally we refused clearance to all shipments." King said Singapore usually "doesn't declare the country of origin," and, said World Wildlife Fund expert Ginette Hemley, re-exports protected animals and products taken illegally from their native lands, in effect "laundering" the product. "Laundering, as we define it, is obscuring the true origin of wildlife, or falsifying the origin" to conceal illegal goods, "and Singapore is a laundering center," Hemley said. It is impossible, said Hemley, that Singapore, an urbanized island nation about the size of Chicago, could have the sizable population of reptiles, rare birds, elephants, rhinos and other animals that its export volume would indicate. What prompted the wildlife service to act, King said, was importation of the rare pangolin, a mammal that resembles an anteater with scales made of hair.

It is known to live wild only in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, where it is protected. Reagan visit to grads nets debt NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP) Claus von Bulow, whose stepchildren filed a civil lawsuit against him last year after the Danish socialite was acquitted of trying to kill their mother, has replied with a $20 million federal countersuit. Last year a Rhode Island jury cleared von Bulow of causing the seizures that rendered his wealthy wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow comatose in 1979 and in 1980. She recovered from the first coma but doctors say the second is irreversible.

Von Bulow was convicted of attempted murder in 1982 but the verdict later was reversed and he was acquitted after a second trial in 1985. Mrs. von Bulow's children by a previous marriage, Alexander Auer-sperg and Annie Laurie Auersperg Kniessel, filed a $56 million civil suit on her behalf last year after their stepfather's second trial. The two stepchildren, who bankrolled an investigation that led to the criminal charges against von Bulow, renewed their claims in the federal civil suit that he tried to murder his wife with insulin injections. But von Bulow mounted his own lawsuit late Thursday, seeking damages "believed to exceed $20 million." The suit names only Auersperg as a defendant and claims he, "possibly in concert with others, perpetrated a fraud of which von Bulow was the intended victim." Von Bulow's lawsuit claimed Auersperg sought to injure him and to deprive von Bulow of his rights to his wife's assets.

Von Bulow stands to inherit $14 million of his wife's $75 million estate. Auersperg and his sister issued a statement which claimed the lawsuit Claus von Bulow Countersues in family squabble was another delaying tactic for von Bulow who has gotten the sworn statement he is required to make for their lawsuit delayed several times. In a related development, their stepsister, Cosima von Bulow, moved in court to break their grandmother's $100 million will. Miss von Bulow, 19, the only child Claus and Sunny had together, said she was disinherited because she sided with her father when he was charged with trying to kill her mother. Miss von Bulow said her stepsister and stepbrother had poisoned Mrs.

Aitken's mind against her and her father. Mrs. Aitken died in May 4, 1984, at age 86, leaving close to $100 million. Her last will, drafted Nov. 4, 1982, excluded Miss von Bulow "for what I consider good and sufficient reasons." That will left her husband, Russell Aitken, one-third of the estate, with the other two-thirds to go to von Auersperg and Kneissl.

In a will executed seven months earlier, Miss von Bulow would have shared equally in the other two-thirds, receiving about $22 GLASSBORO, N.J. (AP) President Reagan's graduation address to the Glassboro High School Class of '86 left one souvenir nobody planned on a $6,310 debt. "The cost was well worth it," assistant school superintendent Michael Toscano said Friday. "You don't put a price tag on this feeling. It was the first graduation ceremony in this country to have a president shaking seniors' hands." The school district spent $16,000 preparing for the president's 40-minute visit June 19.

Reagan handed out diplomas to each of the 140 graduating seniors. The school district had budgeted $2,170 for graduation before learning about the president's visit. Then, air conditioning was installed in the high school gymnasium and carpeting placed on the stage, at a cost of $6,100. The school district is not seeking reimbursement for those costs be cause it considers them investments and has used other district funds to cover them, plus $1,320 in donations from businesses and residents, Toscano said. But other expenses, including tickets, balloons, banners and graduation programs, as well as furniture rentals, tallied $6,310.

Toscano said officials aren't sure how the district will pay off that portion of the debt. "No question, we have people inquire about the debt. But there's no negative reaction," he said. Locust battle continues NAIROBI, KENYA (AP) Aerial spraying has eased the threat of a disastrous plague of locusts in Sudan and Ethiopia, but insects still threaten crops in southern and western Africa, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday.

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