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NafomWoirkl I 2 A MONDAY, May 1 5, 1 995 Iowa City Press-Citizen ABROAD Scientists scramble to track Ebola virus KINSHASA, Zaire Bob Swanepoel is a medical detective who's been waiting for years for a sinister killer the Ebola virus to strike again. Swanepoel, a South African virologist, is one of dozens of experts converging on Kikwit, a quarantined city of 600,000 at the epicenter of the infected zone. There is no vaccine or cure for Ebola, which kills 80 percent of those who contract it, usually within days. Victims suffer from violent diarrhea and vomiting, and finally die with blood pouring from their eyes, ears and noses. The health workers' first priority was to try to prevent Ebola's spread.

But beyond the humanitarian mission, Swanepoel said, is curiosity and rivalry. "If you asked scientists, 'What gives us it's 'Where does this all come That's our holy grail," he said. As of today, officials had confirmed 79 cases of the deadly virus. China completes nuclear testing despite treaty i China has continued to conduct nuclear tests in defiance of an international moratorium and calls from the United States, Japan and others to stop. The Foreign Ministry spokesman who announced today's explosion said China will stop nuclear testing once a comprehensive test ban treaty is implemented.

The test comes as China's official defense budget is projected to increase more than 20 percent in 1995. China is also being more assertive militarily especially over the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. Leif Nordgren, a seismologist at the Swedish defense research agency FOA, called the blast "rather small." A global conference in New York last Thursday decided to permanently extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The treaty allows only China and the other four declared nuclear power the United States, Britain, Russia and France to legitimately possess nuclear weapons. China claims it has exercised great restraint on nuclear testing for military purposes, but has defended its right to continue testing until the comprehensive test ban is implemented.

BEIJING (AP) China conducted an underground nuclear test today, just days after more than 170 nations agreed to extend indefinitely the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Today's test was the first of five China is expected to conduct this year. The last test explosion occurred Oct. 7. The official Xinhua news agency did not say when or where the test took place, but the Australian Seismological Center monitored the blast and said it was at Lop Nor, in far western China's Xinjiang region.

It estimated the blast was equivalent to 40 to 150 kilo-tons of dynamite. AT HOME Simpson team tackles critical DNA evidence LOS ANGELES O.J. Simpson's defense team is using a two-pronged attack on critical DNA evidence: challenging the odds of genetic matches and arguing that the odds are meaningless anyway because the evidence was contaminated and tampered with. Defense lawyer Peter Neufeld is pressing this theory in the cross-examination of the prosecution's strongest witness to date, scientist Robin Cotton, who testified it was all but certain that Simpson's blood was at the crime scene. Whether it was left there by Simpson, however, is a key issue as far as the defense is concerned.

Simpson's attorneys have suggested that blood swatches were switched in the lab through error or malice, and that some mysterious person rubbed the blood of Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson on the steering wheel of Simpson's Bronco. Father kills son over name EASTON, Pa. An unwed father who lost a court battle to force the mother to give his son his last name fatally shot the boy and killed himself. The bodies of Alan Gubernat, 33, and the boy, Scott, were found in Gubernat' home Sunday, three days after the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled against him, state police Cpl. Steven Junkin said.

Scott, who was born out of wedlock, was raised by his mother, Karen Deremer. Scott had his mother's last name until September, when an appeals court upheld Gubernat's demand for a change. The appeals court upheld a trial court's finding that giving a child his last name is "a right that the father has." Thursday, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of Deremer, saying the parent with custody of a child has the right to decide the surname. The court said instead of following tradition, New Jersey must adhere to "society's recognition of full equality for women." "It is the love of the parent, not the name of the parent, that binds parent and child," the unanimous opinion said. 'Forbes' revises health plan WASHINGTON Employees of Forbes Magazine think twice about submitting medical claims.

By paying everyday medical expenses themselves, they can pocket annual bonuses of up to $1,500. The president of the business magazine, Malcolm S. Forbes believes that people spend health dollars more wisely if the money comes out of their own pockets. "The program has awakened people to the fact that they are consumers with some impact" on health costs, said Joel B. Redler, Forbes 's vice president and treasurer.

The magazine's workers now are less inclined to rush to a doctor with a minor ailment, or make "a third visit to a chiropractor or for physical therapy or outpatient mental health services," Redler said. Packwood moving on welfare WASHINGTON The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is drafting legislation to cede control of welfare programs to the states, but it drops spending restrictions sought by conservatives in his own party. The plan by Sen. Bob Packwood drew quick criticism from Republicans and Democrats, as the Oregon Republican seeks a middle ground in the welfare debate. Packwood, whose committee is key to any welfare legislation, wants to allow states to take over welfare programs, backed by federal money sent in the form of block grants.

jjL if it til IP 4. ES t. V. -wF If tettS r- V- 1 -5 1 Associated Press Volunteers clean out what is left of John and Bev Livermore's kitchen Sunday in Raritan, 111. The house was destroyed by tornadoes on Saturday.

John Livermore held on to the leg of his 5-year-old grandson to keep him from being sucked out of the house by the tornado. Tornadoes kill 2 in Indiana Associated Press Argentine President Carlos Menem was re-elected to a four-year term as president Sunday. Menem to 'pulverize' joblessness BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Buoyed by the success of his economic program, Argentine President Carlos Menem trounced his opponents, earning a new four-year term. Official returns today, based on 80 percent of the vote, gave Menem 49.5 percent and a 20-point lead in Sunday's elections over his main rival, Jose Bordon of the center-left Frepaso coalition. The centrist Radical Civic Union was a distant third with 17 percent.

Menem vowed to tackle the social costs of Argentina's economic turnaround. "No government in the world has done as much as us to get a country moving again," Menem told reporters late Sunday. "We've pulverized hyperinflation and now we'll pulverize unemployment." Israel promises to stop land grab JERUSALEM The Israeli government has promised not to confiscate any more Arab land in Jerusalem to build Jewish homes. But there's a catch the 140 acres they just grabbed last month will not be given back. In a decision that has reignited the explosive issue of who controls what in Jerusalem a holy city to Muslims, Jews and Christians Israel is taking mostly Arab-owned land to build more housing for Jews and a police station.

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's pledge was meaningless because Israel had already confiscated so much, said Faisal Husseini, the Palestinian minister in charge of Jerusalem affairs. Iran reaffirms Rushdie sentence NICOSIA, Cyprus Iran's deputy foreign minister reiterated Sunday that the religious decree ordering the death of British novelist Salman Rushdie cannot be revoked or changed. The official Islamic Republic News Agency said that Mahmud Vaezi was responding to an appeal by the European Union for Iran to declare it will not assassinate Rushdie. The religious decree, or fatwa, was issued by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in February 1989. Rushdie is alleged to have blasphemed Islam in his novel, 77ie Satanic Verses.

He has been in hiding under guard ever since. Several people involved with publishing or translating the book have been killed or injured. Dalai Lama anoints 6-year-old NEW DELHI, India In a move that could deepen his rift with China, the Dalai Lama has designated a 6-year-old boy as the reincarnation of the second most important monk in Tibetan Buddhism. The exiled Tibetan leader said the Panchen Lama, who died in January 1989, was reborn four months later to a family of semi-nomadic people in a remote area of Tibet. His name was Gedhun Choekyi Nyima.

The Dalai Lama appealed to China to allow the boy to be trained as a high monk. The Panchen Lama is second only to the Dalai Lama in prestige and authority for most of the six million Tibetan Buddhists. The announcement opens another potential quarrel between China and the Dalai Lama, who fled Chinese rule in Tibet in 1959. Each claims to have final authority in recognizing the reincarnation. From news services The Heimbachs were asleep in their two-story wood frame home when the twister roared through, smashing their chimney and sending bricks flying into their bedroom.

"There was no warning just some hail and then a whoosh," Edward Heimbach, 72, said. His son, Gary, ran the family's 600-acre farm just south of Linnsburg, a town of about 500 people 40 miles west of Indianapolis. He and Kelp, 36, had planned to marry later this summer, Heimbach's mother said. fiance, Linda Kelp, died early Sunday when the tornado ripped their home from its foundation and dumped it in a muddy field about 200 yards away. The violent thunderstorms that also injured several other people in Indiana were part of a system that stretched from Arkansas up through Ohio, spawning at least 12 tornadoes in Illinois.

Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar declared seven counties disaster areas after the storms damaged dozens of homes, farms, trailers and grain silos. LINNSBURG, Ind. (AP) Edward and Jean Heimbach lost more than just their barn, workshop, garage and silo when a tornado swept through their small town. They lost a piece of themselves.

"I can burn all this stuff, haul it all away, but I can't bring Gary back," Heimbach said of his youngest son. You try to live a good life, be good to people, but there's just some things that happen." Gary Heimbach, 42, and his i Vo Report: Men need more sex education HEALTH Associated Press John hotter is escorted to court last week in Omaha. He is charged with three counts of first degree murder. Triple murder trial begins OMAHA, Neb. Attorneys for a Falls City man accused of killing three people at a rural Humboldt farmhouse want to make sure a man already convicted of the crimes doesn't testify against their client.

The issue is expected to be decided before today's trial of John Lotter gets under way. Lotter, 23, of Falls City faces first-degree murder charges in the deaths of Teena Brandon, Lisa Lambert of rural Humboldt and Philip DeVine of Fairfield, Iowa. Richardson County District Judge Robert Finn is expected to rule on the defense motion to keep prosecutors from calling Marvin Thomas Nissen as a witness. Nissen, also 23 and of Falls City, was convicted in March of first-degree murder in Brandon's death and second-degree murder in the deaths of Lambert, 24, and DeVine, 22. From news services WASHINGTON (AP) Birth-control programs should teach women how to persuade men to use condoms, and men should be educated better on the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases, according to a new report.

In recent years, most of the world's efforts to reduce population growth and improve health have focused on women, who in most cultures are powerless to decide when, where and whether children should be conceived. But this new report being distributed today to government health agencies worldwide by Population Action International stresses the need to include men in more programs, even if it takes women to get them involved. Women must be taught how to transmitted diseases. The best approach, it says, is the "double protection" of condoms and other methods to prevent pregnancy. "Women often find it difficult to protect themselves from infection whether by refusing to have sex or by insisting that their partners use condoms given their low status in many societies," the report said.

Globally, women constitute a third of people infected with the HIV virus, the report said. And sexually transmitted illnesses are far more prevalent in developing countries, especially among women in Africa where money and facilities for diagnosis and treatment are lacking. persuade men to wear condoms, the report says, citing a need to bring more men into counseling about how unprotected, promiscuous sex spreads disease. "Women must be empowered with the information they need to protect themselves," said Shanti R. Conly, the organization's director of policy research.

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