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State Local news it SECTION DemocratandChronicle.com DEATHS 2B I 6B WEATHER TOWN'S, VILLAGES 3B I SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2001 DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE Area Native Americans claim ancient skeletons, burial items. Jemison, the site manager of Ganondagan State Historic Site and who represents the Seneca Nation of Indians in repatriation matters. "We are doing what we have to do to make things right." Some of the remains had been in the museum's cumspect about this information because they don't want the skeletons, or the funeral objects reburied with them, to be dug up again by people who collect and sell such objects. "What we are really trying to do is to make sure our people are accorded the same human rights that this society expects to receive," said G. Peter available for claim by present-day tribes.

The five original Iroquois nations Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk all made claims. "I am deeply grateful that the RMSC's work together with native groups has enabled us to return many of the region's ancestors," said Kate Bennett, museum director. "With this we're taking the next steps in the journey to repatriation. There is more work to be done and we are proceeding." Representatives of the Seneca Nation of Indians, the Tonawanda Band of Senecas and the Cayuga Nation reburied the remains together Thursday at an undisclosed location. The parties are being cir BY STAFF WRITER DIANA LOUISE CARTER The Rochester Museum Science Center has returned the skeletal remains of 141 Senecas and 32 Cayugas to tribal representatives, officials announced yesterday.

In doing so, the museum is complying with an 11-year-old federal law that requires museums to inventory their collections of Native American remains and objects taken from graves and then make them BONES, PAGE 5B DAILY DIGEST 'Big Shot' does Alamo Remember the Alamo? You definitely will after it has been the subject tonight of a "Big Shot" the periodic photography project of photo students at Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. Under the Big Shot project, a subject is bathed in light from hundreds of sources and then photographed in a several-minute exposure. The result is a visual effect in which the subject almost appears to glow, in stark contrast to the nighttime background. The Big Shot started as an extracurricular photo exercise in 1987. Past targets of the Big Shot have included Mount Hope Cemetery, the High Falls business district and the aircraft carrier Intrepid, now a museum in New York City.

A group of RIT students has been in San Antonio, Texas, since earlier this week checking out the next Big Shot target the Alamo. The results of the Big Shot will be posted on the Big Shot Web site. A series of pictures will be posted throughout this afternoon into tonight. Go to: www.rit.edu-biomedac tivitiesbigshot.html THINGS TO DO State to check for cancers in Brockport Outcry over pollution triggers inquiry, but residents skeptical. a iiW mf rV 'I JAMIE GERMANO staff photographer Rochester city firefighters Erik Wolf, left, and Edwin Arroyo in the hallway of East High School where they graduated from the firefighter trainee program.

The two recently pulled a boy from a fire. Graduates pass fire test links to potential environmental hazards. "We can't truly draw a conclusion, but we do pursue cause and effect," said Joseph L. Rohm, spokesman for the Health Department's western regional office in Buffalo. The department does only 10 to 12 such surveys a year statewide, most of them in response to citizen concerns.

Rohm said the Brockport survey was prompted by calls from area residents to Monroe County Department of Health director Dr. Andrew S. Doniger, who last year did a review of cancer data. Doniger requested the state study in November. Health concerns have arisen because of contaminated soils and sediments linked to storm water systems on the industrial site and the resulting polluted effluent in a tributary of Brockport Creek.

Shawn Lessord, a Clarkson resident, said concerned residents started compiling an informal health study of their own BY STAFF WRITER C0RYD0N IRELAND The state Health Department, spurred by citizen concerns, is doing a cancer incidence study in a Brockport neighborhood affected by pollution from a nearby industrial site. Residents were not surprised a study was under way, but held out little hope it would prove any link between disease and the State Street site. The 30-acre plot, once occupied by General Electric 3M Corp. and Black Decker, has been linked to soil and water contamination by heavy metals, waste solvents and polychlorinated biphenyls. State health officials say results of the cancer survey may be ready as early as June.

The survey covers parts of Brockport and Clarkson and will tabulate cancer cases going back 10 years or more. Cancer incidence surveys examine the rates of cancer in a geographically limited area, like a neighborhood, and compare them to expected rates. Such surveys also look into "It's funny, because when you go to a house, you always assume there's someone inside," said Arroyo, 26. "When it does happen, you almost can't believe it. But then everybody does their part, and everything falls into place." On Feb.

25 at 688 Clifford a 26-year-old woman died before firefighters arrived, but her two children were saved. And the fact Arroyo and Wolf, 21, played such a vital role attests to the effectiveness of East High's training program, said Fire Lt. Paul Hanson, director of the program. "We've given these kids a chance to perform, and they've measured up," Hanson said. "They not only measured up, they Magic Tree House Club: Book 5: Night of the Ninjas, ages 7 and older.

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234-5636. COMING UP For their part, Arroyo and Wolf shrug off their role in the rescue. They found the boy in a smoke-filled bedroom and carried him to safety. And they shifted credit to the team members who performed first aid on the boy. They mentioned firefighter Mike Quinlan, who pulled a 14-month-old girl from the house.

But they said they're glad to have lived through the experience. "I always thought about (a rescue) and hoped I would do a good job if it ever happened," Wolf said. Now he knows he would. "But I've still got to mop the floor like everyone else," he said. BY STAFF WRITER PATRICK FLANIGAN Edwin Arroyo and Erik Wolf share a few things in common.

The two city residents are both graduates of the firefighters training program at East High School and they work together at the North Chestnut Street fire station. Two weeks ago, Arroyo and Wolf charged into a burning house on Clifford Avenue and struck another bond. Together, they share credit for saving the life of a 6-year-old boy. Now, they're members of a select group within their profession. Many firefighters work their entire careers without ever rescuing someone from a fire.

The training program was launched in 1995 in an attempt to attract more city youths into the Fire Department. Today, it will receive national recognition when Hanson and Chief Floyd Madison travel to Washington, D.C., to accept a "Cultural Diversity Award" from the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials. East High principal Edward Cavalier said the rescue confirms that program instructors are teaching at a professional level. "When we developed (the program), we didn't want anybody to see it as a back door into the Fire Department. We wanted it to be known we wouldn't compromise standards in any way," he said.

STUDY, PAGE 5B Ex-Rochester man still sought in 1967 slaying Joseph Michael Maloney has been on the lam more than 30 years. still maintaining he was not Maloney, was freed. However, a year later, a new request for his extradition was approved, but by then he had disappeared. The segment will air on America's Most Wanted at 9 p.m. on WUHF-TV (Channel 31).

The FBI will have an agent at the show to help determine whether the tips it generates, if any, seem legitimate, For more on America's Most Wanted, go to: www.amw.com Relin. "Certainly he is one of the most clever defendants we've ever had." Authorities suspect Maloney then fled to Canada, and eventually Ireland. In 1973, Irish authorities investigated a burglary at the Dublin home of a man named Michael O'Shea. They became suspicious about his identity, and discovered his fingerprints matched Joseph Maloney's. Because there was no extradition treaty between the two countries, however, he was not arrested.

Eleven years later, with an extradition agreement put in place, authorities arrested him on the Rochester murder charge. O'Shea fought extradition, claiming he was not Maloney. In April 1985, an Irish judge ruled he could be extradited to Rochester to face the murder charge. But he remained jailed in Ireland as a fight over the legality of the treaty wound its way through appellate courts. In July 1986, Ireland's highest court ruled the treaty invalid and O'Shea, this guy for 30 years, although we did catch him once already," said Michael Giglia, the special agent in charge of Rochester's FBI office.

Authorities allege that in May 1967 Maloney laced a mixed drink with wood alcohol and gave it to his wife. His wife drank the drink, a screwdriver, fell ill and lapsed into a coma. She never regained consciousness and died in June 1967. Maloney was arrested and charged with murder, but escaped from the for- BY STAFF WRITER GARY CRAIG More than 30 years have passed since authorities accused Joseph Michael Maloney of poisoning his estranged wife at the birthday party of their 5-year-old son. And Maloney despite being arrested twice for the murder is still eluding local authorities.

Now, authorities hope a segment of America's Most Wanted tonight will trigger new leads to Maloney's whereabouts. "We've been looking for mer Rochester State Hospital where he was undergoing a medical exam. To escape, Maloney crafted a key from parts of an electric razor and used it to unlock a hospital door. "He's been very clever," said Monroe County District Attorney Howard At long last, rape during war is considered a crime CAROL RITTER Contact her at: Democrat and Chronicle 55 Exchange Rochester. NY 14614 258-2309 MAX SCHULTEstaff photographer Edward Olmstead faces an uncertain future when Dimitri House closes for the season.

About 9,000 people in Monroe County sought emergency housing last year. A growing number of the homeless are finding help in supervised residences such as Sojourner House, staff writer James Goodman reports tomorrow. critter 0 DemocratandChronicle.com saults women and girls suffered at the hands of soldiers. "Comfort women" is the euphemism used to describe captive Chinese women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese military leaders during World War II. That war ended five decades ago, but some of the comfort women are still alive.

They are old, long past child-bearing years. In fact, many of them never could bear children and all have suffered permanent pain, disfigurement and poor physical and emotional health because of the viciousness of the sexual attacks they were forced to endure. There are many, many more outrageous stories like these. Rape is war. War is rape.

It is sickening. And at long last, it is a crime. new that it's a taken-for-granted part of the human story. Invading armies for centuries have brutalized women and girls. In turn, the victims themselves often have been ostracized, punished or even killed by their own people.

This isn't ancient history. It continues to this day in trouble spots all over the globe. It's happening now in East Timor, Indonesia, where a women's aid association is documenting reports of sexual slavery and multiple rapes by militiamen. In 1980, three American nuns were brutally raped and killed by Salvadoran soldiers. When trouble erupted among Serbs, Croats and Muslims in Bosnia less than a decade ago, there were widespread reports of horrific beatings and sexual as and their peace of mind and right to privacy.

But time after time, absolutely nothing was done to punish the rapists or even to officially recognize that such attacks ever took place. Finally, that has changed. A female judge at a war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, last week convicted three Bosnian Serb soldiers on charges of rape and sexual enslavement. According to news reports, the judge dismissed arguments that the men were only following orders and that "boys will be boys." This may seem to be a small thing involving only three soldiers on the other side of the globe. But it's a huge victory.

The New York Times reported, "For the first time, a war crimes tribunal ruled that rape was a RAPE IS WAR. A friend of mine who owns some properties in the city found that statement spray-painted on the side of one of his brick buildings several years ago. While he sputtered about the price he had to pay to have the graffiti removed, he didn't disagree with its sentiment. He has a wife and a daughter, and like other good men, he is repulsed by the notion of forcible rape. But since the dawn of time, women and girls have been subjected to the most unspeakable sexual attacks by armed men engaged in wars and territorial invasions.

To them, war is rape. Time and again, unarmed women of all ages have been stripped of their clothing, their dignity, their chastity, their health crime against humanity, and did not have to be ordered from above to rise to that highest level of atrocity." I applaud that finding, but I wonder: What took so long? The female half of the human race has had to wait until the beginning of the 21st century for this official recognition of the basic human right to personal dignity. Why? Rape during war is so far from NEWS TIPS: Call Metro Editor Bob Finnerty at: 258-2252 Outside Monroe County at: (800) 767-7539.