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Page 4B Friday, February 17, 1989 STATE REGION Iowa City Press-Citizen Union fights drug testing STATE BRIEFS Church of Love leader breaks down in court By The Associated Press CEDAR RAPIDS Union officials representing 300 city employees in Cedar Rapids said they would fight city efforts to test all job applicants and some current workers for drug use. Cedar Rapids would be the first city in Iowa to start a blanket drug-testing policy. Don McKee, state president of the American, Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said it was a violation of worker privacy. Lora Summerwill, director of safety and health services for the city, said the tests would protect the city in the face of pressure for drug-free work places. Starting next Thursday, job announcements will notify applicants that drug screening will be.

part of the hiring procedure, Summerwill said. City workers who have regular physical examinations as part of their employment will be given a 30-day notice before undergoing their drug tests. State law prohibits random drug tests, but Summerwill said Cedar Rapids can order drug tests "where we've established probable cause where the impairment presents a danger to the safety to the employee and other employees." McKee said the union supported a drug-free work environment, "but we're also supportive of our constitutional rights, which say we have the right of certain freedoms She and Lowry, both of Bet-tendorf were convicted Dec. 16 on charges of mail fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. They were accused of bilking at least 31,000 men out of $4.5 million through the so-called Church of Love, a mail-order operation that prosecutors said was as a lonelyhearts club for older men.

Prosecutors said they sold members phony dreams of "angels of love" at a fictional retirement paradise called Chonda-Za. Lowry faces a possible 125-year sentence for his conviction on 19 felony charges in the scam. St. Charles could receive 65 years in prison for her con-, viction on seven counts. Sentencing is scheduled for April 7.

After the trial they were released on bond pending By The Associated Press PEORIA, m. Convicted Church of Love leader Pamala St. Charles broke down in federal court Thursday, screaming at co-defendant Donald Lowry in their first Illinois appearance since they fled the region last month. St. Charles, 25, sobbed and sniffed all during the 30-minute status hearing before U.S.

District Judge Michael M. Mihm, who presided at their jury trial. She flew into a rage when federal marshals handcuffed her to return her to a jail cell. "I told you they'd take us back," she cried. "I can't go back." As marshals led her out of the courtroom, St.

Charles screamed at Lowry, 60. "I hate you, Don. I hate you, Dori," she said. The outburst hushed the courtroom and drew tears from St. Charles' parents and other relatives who were there.

Grinnell College conducts symposium GRINNELL Far more people will suffer clinical depression in their lifetime than will suffer from alcoholism or diabetes, but few will seek treatment, doctors said at a national symposium here. "Depression, to a lot of people, just means sadness," William Dodson said. He is a psychiatrist and director of student health at Georgetown University. "It is going to touch each and every one of you in some way or another. About 20 percent of Americans have a clinical depression at some time in their lives," Dodson told about 200 people at Grinnell College, site of the symposium by the National Alliance for the Mentally 111.

Dodson said the number of Americans who suffered from depression was twice that of alcoholics and five times greater than the number of people with diabetes. Arlene Hegge, head of divisional research in the clinical research branch of the National Institute for Mental Health, said 10 million adults suffered each year from depression. Most are between 20 and 50, although cases of people in their early to late 20s and early 30s are common, Hegge said. Perpich denies national political ambitions DES MOINES Minnesota Gov. Rudy Perpich found himself caught in a swirl of political speculation Thursday, but said the environment and education were the only things on his agenda in Iowa.

Perpich was in Des Moines to meet with lawmakers and Gov. Terry Branstad, but Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses were on the minds of many. Perpich, a Democrat, has been rumored to be interested in a bid for his party's nomination, and he was asked about it after an hour-long private meeting with Republican Branstad. "No, I like governor," Perpich said. Asked if that meant he would be running again for governor, and not for the presidential nomination, Perpich said: "You're closer onto the mark by saying that." Perpich said he had traveled to more than two dozen states boosting education issues, and his political ambitions didn't become an issue until he landed in Iowa.

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"The demands of a relentlessly competitive world economy make passage of this bill imperative," Sen. Patrick Deluhery, D-Davenport, said. "Kids who don't have an education don't have a future." Deluhery was floor manager of a truancy bill approved Thursday by the Iowa Senate on a 34-14 vote. The bill, which requires students to remain in school until reaching age 18 or graduating from high school, now goes to the House. From news services WOMEN'S SALE SHOES! PRICES REDUCED FOR THE 3RD TIME mi am snxrv-Y-w---wax.

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The imprisoned wife of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard testified Thursday that her weight dropped to 89 pounds after a prison doctor discontinued her pain and digestion medications. Anne Henderson-Pollard, 28, testified at a federal court hearing at the Federal Medical Center in her lawsuit. The suit said her medical care amounted to cruel and unusual punishment that violated her constitutional rights. The lawsuit, filed against the medical center and Warden Joseph Bogan, seeks outside medical evaluation. Henderson-Pollard, who is 5-foot-3 and had weighed 165 pounds, said she thought her life was endangered by the treatment provided by Dr.

Martha Grogan, the center's medical director. The government said differences in medical opinion did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment and that a prisoner had no constitutional right to demand a particular type of care. Henderson-Pollard is serving two concurrent five-year sentences on charges related to her husband's spy activities. Pollard, 34, was sentenced in 1987 to life in prison for supplying classified documents to Israeli agents. Lawyers: Bank probe announcement unfair MINNEAPOLIS Some lawyers said it was unfair for U.S.

Attorney Jerome Arnold to announce that Midwest Federal Savings Loan and its then-chairman, Harold Greenwood were under an FBI investigation for possible fraud. "You don't announce an investigation like this in the news media," Bruce Hanley said. He is a criminal defense lawyer and former chairman of the criminal law section of the Minnesota Bar Association. "If I was defending him (Greenwood), I would think it would be very unfair for him. The stigma attached to it people just believe you're guilty." Arnold announced the investigation in an unusual Feb.

7 news release a day after the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines stepped in to supervise business operations at Midwest Federal. Monday Greenwood resigned when the Des Moines bank declared the thrift insolvent and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. as conservator of the institution. Arnold's news release said the FBI probe "involves alleged criminal acts of bank fraud, wire fraud, misapplication of bank funds, false statements, embezzlement, kickbacks, bribery, securities fraud, mail fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracies to defraud the United States." It identified Greenwood and said he was among the individual targets of the investigation. Greenwood immediately denied any wrongdoing.

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