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DAILY CHRONICLE DtfolbSycomor. Tuday, January 5, 1 993 3 State Kueper to take stand BELLEVILLE, 111. (AP) Charles Kueper prepared to take the stand by Wednesday as his lawyer's last witness in a lawsuit accusing RJ. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and the Tobacco Institute of conspiring to conceal the dangers of smoking.

Kueper' attorney, Bruce Cook, accused the company's lawyer Monday of joining in a 20-year-old cover-up of the dangers of cigarette smoking. Cook said RJ. Reynolds lawyer Paul Crist kept company scientists in the dark so they couldn't testify about research on smoking and its connection with lung cancer and emphysema. Kueper, 5 1, of Cahokia is dying of lung cancer. "RJ.

Reynolds has been aware for years that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, causes emphysema," Cook said. They have used people like Mr. Crist who accept their dollar and hide evidence." Cook asked an J. Reynolds scientist how attorneys prepared him for an interview with newspaper reporters regarding a secret company report in 1985 hat linked smoking to lung disease. William S.

Simmons, director of smoking and health for J. Reynolds, said the attorneys showed him three pages of an appendix to the report. He said he assumed the rest of the report was consistent with his own research. Cook chastised Crist, saying "Mr. Crist, by only February when an Illinois Appellate Court overturned the conviction.

Jaclyn's uncle, Timothy Guess, 31, was an early suspect but three employees at the restaurant where he worked said he was working the night Jaclyn disappeared. Two viewers of the "Unsolved Mysteries' episode who described themselves as regular customers at the restaurant said Guess was not at work that night and employees had concocted an alibi for him. And WMAQ reported that five patrons told the station Guess did not show up. Students receive presents CHICAGO (AP) Parents were welcome to watch as 325 elementary school students got late Christmas presents, but their help was not wanted. The students, in the 5th through 8th grades, were to have received presents at a special assembly Dec.

23. But a number of parents who were helping at the assembly stole the hundreds of toys and electronics items. Some immediately sold the gifts on the street for as little as $3, principal Marshall Taylor said at the time. Montgomery Ward Co. donated some of the replacement presents.

Others were purchased with donations from as far away as New York, said a police officer who delivered the gifts in a truck. "Parents are invited. They are invited to view," Taylor said before Monday's assembly. "But we will not need their assistance on this particular Homeless cycle broken AURORA, 111. (AP) Robert Simmons spends his spare time painting his kitchen, hanging wallpaper or refinishing secondhand furnishings.

Just two years ago, he had no kitchen, no walls, and no furniture. Simmons was homeless. But today the recovering alcoholic anticipates buying the house he rents, thanks to a nonprofit developer that helps those in need. For $325 a month, Joseph Corp. rents Simmons a foreclosure home it purchased on the outskirts of this west Chicago suburb.

Simmons has an option to buy the home in two years if he can save $3,600 for a down payment He says anyone can conquer homelessness. "All you got to do is stop," said Simmons, 39. "Do your homework. Work with people. Talk with people.

If it don't work, don't give up." Some say Simmons' success story is unusual. Advocates for the homeless in Aurora give the credit to Simmons and Joseph Corp. The company has put roofs over the heads of two other homeless families and has placed several low-income families in homes. And that's just a beginning, said Mary Anne Wencel, executive director. giving him three pages of the report, blissfully kept Mr.

Simmons in the dark." But Crist said Simmons was testifying about his own knowledge, and it was up to Cook to call other witnesses with more knowledge. Prosecutors investigate alibi CHICAGO (AP) Prosecutors are reviewing new evidence in the 1988 slaying of Jaclyn Dowaliby, focusing on her mentally ill uncle, according to published and broadcast reports. The renewed investigation stems from information obtained from viewers of the television show "Unsolved Mysteries," and the work of two Chicago journalists, according to WMAQ-TV, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. A spokesman for the Cook County State's Attorney's office would not confirm that the investigation has been reopened but said the office would review any information that might help solve the slaying. Jaclyn's mother and adoptive father, Cynthia and David Dowaliby, were charged in the 7-year-old girl's death after they reported her missing in September 1988.

The judge threw out the case against Mrs. Dowaliby before it went to the jury, citing a lack of evidence. The jury convicted Dowaliby in 1990 and he was sentenced to 45 years in prison. He was freed last National titled to return to it," said center director Reese Collins. Such a transfer has been accomplished with other birds, but not with eagles, she said.

Several of the endangered birds have been bred in captivity. But not since the 1940s has a bald eagle egg laid in the wild hatched in captivity in Florida, Ms. Collins said. The egg was found on the ground after a tall pine in which its nest had been built was cut down with a chain saw on Florida's west coast on Dec. 28.

burning to death a 12-year-old girl drew prison terms of 60 years each. Mary Laurine Tackett, 18, and Melinda Loveless, 17, were sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to charges including murder and arson. According to testimony, they lured Shanda Rene Sharer from her home a year ago and tortured her for more than seven hours before soaking her with gasoline and burning her alive along a country road. Loveless plotted to kill Shanda because she believed Shanda had won the affections of her 15-year-old lesbian lover, according to testimony. The defendants must serve 29 years before becoming eligible for parole.

Two 16-year-old girls were also charged. One has pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing; the other is scheduled to for trial March 1. Plant sale pondered WASHINGTON (AP) The Bush administration is considering whether to approve the sale of a $100 million chemical plant to Iran even though it could produce a chemical warfare agent as a byproduct, according to a published report The Washington Post says in today's editions that the Commerce Department is backing the sale of the plant by BP-America, which has told the administration the plant would be only to produce materials for synthetic fibers. The Post said officials at the departments of state and defense oppose the deal because the plant would yield hydrogen cyanide as an unavoidable byproduct. That substance was used as a chemical warfare agent in World War I by France, Britain and Russia.

The Post also reported that administration officials were expected to consider a plan by the Ayres Corp. of Albany, to sell Iran 10 airplanes worth $7 million to spray chemical pesticides on farm crops. The newspaper quoted Fred P. Ayres, president of the company, as saying the planes cannot be used to spray chemical warfare agents without endangering the Nuclear plant closes PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) The operator of Oregon's only nuclear plant has closed it permanently three years early after spending millions of dollars to defeat efforts by the voters to do the very same thing.

The plant had been idle for the past two months after a cracked steam tube led to the release of traces of radioactive gas. Portland General Electric Co. hadn't planned to shut the plant permanently until 1996. But On Monday, the utility said the cost of correcting the safety problems so that the plant could be reopened was too high. About 700 of the plant's 1,300 workers will be laid off by year's end.

The utility had fought initiatives on the November ballot to close the plant immediately. The plant is on the outskirts of Rainier, a town of about 1,700. Teens sentenced to 60 years MADISON, Ind. (AP) Two teen-age girls who avenged a wrecked homosexual affair by torturing and Boeing teams with rivals Eagle chick hatches NEW YORK (AP) Boeing Co. is teaming up with two rivals to build a 600-seat super-jumbo jet.

The Wall Street Journal reported today. The newspaper said Boeing has reached agreements with Daimler Benz AG of Germany and British Aerospace PLC. The deal, to be announced later this month, is subject to approval by antitrust regulators. Boeing already builds 400-seat jumbo jets. Boeing President Philip Condit confirmed only that his company is talking with the two other manufacturers, which are part of Europe's Airbus Industrie consortium.

Airbus makes planes of all sizes up to 320 seats. MATTLAND, Fla. (AP) A healthy bald eagle chick has hatched from an egg that tumbled from its nest and fell 40 feet to the ground when vandals cut down a tree in the wild. The eaglet made its way out of its shell Sunday after being incubated by a pair of captive birds at the Birds of Prey Center, which is run by the Florida Audubon Society. The bird will be released to the wild in about a month.

"He's tough. He came from the wild and he is en International. mrm AND WXFJ2 00 $1 0 Oil tanker runs aground ABERDEEN, Scotland (AP) A disabled tanker ran aground in near hurricane force winds today in the Shetland Islands, leaking some of its 24 million gallons of crude oil and endangering an important bird sanctuary, officials said. "She's on the rocks to the west of Sumburgh Head which is the extreme south of the Shetland Islands," said Aberdeen coast guard spokesman Nick Bryant. The area is about 180 miles north of Aberdeen.

High winds and heavy seas hampered efforts to save the ship and contain the spilled oil. The weather is of such severity that no containment or cleanup action can be contemplated at present. The council's emergency cleanup team are ready to begin to clean up as soon as the weather improves," the Shetland Islands Council said in a statement. Bill Gault, a Royal Air Force squadron leader, said winds were blowing 70 to 74 mph nearly hurricane-force when the ship smashed aground after losing power. David Deas, spokesman for the Marine Pollution Control Unit, a division of the Department of Transport, said the type of oil in the ship's tanks could help minimize environmental damage.

"It is a light crude which evaporates more quickly find this process is helped by the bad weather," Deas said. Tony Brewster, a helicopter pilot who airlifted crew members from the grounded tanker said there was "quite a considerable amount" of oil leaking. Tourists recall ordeal CANCUN, Mexico (AP) Raymone Krai says being thrown from a Mexican tour bus was the luckiest thing that ever happened to her. At least 25 other tourists died when the bus slammed into a power pole bunt into flames. I Krai, of Duluth, suffered minor injuries but rhelped other survivors from the bus after it skidded off -a wet road Sunday, 25 miles west of this Caribbean resort.

"I remember flying through the air," the 46-year-old woman said from a hospital bed Monday. "When I opened my eyes I was in a bunch of brush. I could hear people groaning. I'm lucky to be alive." Almost half the 52 other passengers on her bus were not as lucky. Officials said at least 25 including 14 Americans and four Canadians were killed or presumed dead when the bus overturned on the rain-slickened road.

The bus, traveling from Cancun on a day trip to the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza, apparently was speeding, passengers and police said. Krai said the driver swerved to avoid a car parked alongside the two-lane road and lost control, plowing into the jungle growth. The roof lifted off of the bus," Krai said. Then I saw electricity shooting into the bus from the transformer on the power pole," she said. "It looked like a Frankenstein movie." The burned-out wreckage lay by the side of the road Monday.

Tennis shoes and tubes of sun cream were strewn about Mexican and U.S. officials refused to immediately release the names of the dead, pending notification of family members. Plutonium shipment arrives TOKAI, Japan (AP) A freighter carrying 1.7 tons of plutonium docked in this town today, ending a two-month voyage but not the international outcry over the seaborne delivery of the deadly material and Japan's plans to stockpile it for nuclear energy. The Akatsuki Mara reached Tokai port, 70 miles northeast of Tokyo, from Cherbourg, France, just after dawn, flanked by scores of escort vessels. About 600 anti-nuclear activists, outnumbered by some 1,000 police, later marched through the narrow streets of Tokai, a fanning village, to protest the shipment that they think put the entire world at risk.

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