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Lighten Up With Woolrich Nation 6A SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1997 THE TIMES Woven Shirts and cotton shorts 2 die when landmark dog track collapses MIAMI SHORES, Fla. The land-: mark Biscayne Kennel Club and its President offers apologies for Tuskegee Syphilis Study AMPER'S ilORNER wn Center 5822 LINE AVE. 861-6996 greyhound sign collapsed on demolition workers taking apart the 1920s-era dog track Friday, killing -two and injuring three. The workers were cutting away I-r beam supports of the grandstands when the aluminum and steel struc-; ture gave way with an earth-shaking "It was like a machine gun bop-1 bop-bop-bop-bop," said a neighbor, Consuela Antonas. 1 The blue-and-white structure, just off Interstate 95 north of Miami, was being demolished in preparation for the sale of the property to adjacent Barry University.

The sign broke into pieces of corrugated steel. The three injured workers were listed in stable condition. The identi-, ties of the dead were not immediately released. The cause of the accident was under investigation. Tuskegee study is much deeper than die wounds tliat any of us have suffered," Herman Shaw, who will be 95 Sunday, told diose in the East Room.

But, said Shaw, who participated in die study for its entire 40-year course, "in my opinion it is never too late to work to restore faith and trust" The other participants who attended were Carter Howard, Charlie W. Pollard, Fred Simmons and Frederick Moss. Family members represented Sam Donor, Ernest Hendon and George Key. Friday's ceremony, at which Clinton also announced government support for a bioethics center at Tuskegee University and odier steps designed to focus attention on the ethical issues involved in medical research, was the culmination of years of effort to wring a formal apology for the experiment out of the government that ran it. Clinton, who said he was "sorry that Uiis apology has been so long in coming," also expressed die government's regrets "to Macon County, to Tuskegee, to the doctors who have been wrongly associated with the events there" and to all African-American citizens.

"I am sorry that your federal government orchestrated a study so clearly racist," he said to black Americans. Only eight experiment subjects alive to hear public condolences. Gannett News Service WASHINGTON Surrounded by the gilt and glitter of the White House's formal East Room, five elderly black men from Alabama and their families sat in dignified silence Friday as the president of the United States apologized to them. "No power on earth can give you back the lives lost, the pain suffered, the years of internal torment and anguish," President Bill Clinton said to die eight remaining survivors of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, three of whom were too ill to come here for the long-awaited apology. "What was done cannot be undone.

But we can end the silence. We can stop turning our heads away. We can look at you in the eye and finally say on behalf of the American people what the United States government did was shameful and I am sorry," said Clinton, who slowly and emphatically voiced the words, "I am sor- ry." Clinton's apology, made in a room filled with African American leaders, including most members of the Congressional Black Caucus, came a 7 I V. LOCAL CHANNELS AP Herman Shaw embraces President Bill Clinton at a ceremony where Clinton apologized for the government experiment. quarter century after the public first learned about the 1932-1972 U.S.

Public Health Service study. Hundreds of black Alabama men participated in return for free medical care. What they did not know was they had syphilis, but government doctors did not treat die disease so that they could study its long-term effects. "The damage done by the 742-8900 Fourth-graders shown 'Striptease' in class CHICAGO They came to class to study computers. Instead, fourth-graders were shown the R-rated movie Striptease, featuring a topless Demi Moore.

The 55-year-old public school teacher was removed from classroom BCBtaBnBffiiaaaa Journalist questioned about medals duties pending an investigation. "Everybody here was very surprised at his bad judgment," Chicago Board of Education spokeswoman Susan Vargas said. "How could he do sometiiing like that? He should know better." The teacher, whom authorities refused to identify, did not explain why he showed the video to the students Wednesday. He was hired in 1994 WOW have been an honest mistake, a claim that Boorda also had made in his own behalf. "I have not worn a uniform in 26 years," Hackworth said.

He said the claims being made against him are die result of "payback timp" from Nmn without any previous teaching or computer experience, Vargas said. A parent walking by the class saw nudity on a television screen and told the principal, who shut off the movie and called police and child welfare on the anniversary fi of Boorda's death. I ...1.1 llULftWUl 111 IU1U CNN he had listed the Ranger award on his personal Internet page, but removed them "the minute I found diat the quali and welcome me back," Hackworth said. "I was in Vietnam for five years, after the fifth year all I heard was lies and deception, for 5 years seeing young Americans fill up body bags. As a brand new bird colonel I told the American public it was a bad war, people were being deceived and we should get out now." Since then, Hackworth said, "I have been on die receiving end of their savage machete." Hackworth, 67, now is a columnist for King Features.

Former Rangers have questioned whether Hackworth should be including his Ranger tab in his lists of awards. He was queried by a private group, the U.S. Ranger Association, said a spokesman, Steve Jaeger. "Up to diis date, we have not found any documents or information that would qualify him to wear the Ranger tab," Jaeger said in a telephone interview. "The documents that he has supplied do not apply to him." The cover of Hackworth's latest Ijook, Hazardous Duty, calls him "America's most decorated living The Associated Press WASHINGTON Journalist David Hackworth, who figured in last year's suicide of Adm.

Jeremy Boorda by questioning whether Boorda earned all his medals, found himself defending his own decorations Friday. "I have never worn a decoration or any other kind of military insignia that was not on my service record and that was not awarded to me by the U.S. Army," Hackworth said in a telephone interview. Hackworth retired as a colonel in 1971 after publicly criticizing the war in Vietnam, where he served for five years. Last year, he and another reporter for Newsweek scheduled an interview with Boorda about his wearing two bronze pins, which normally are awarded for valor in combat Boorda, the Navy's top admiral, committed suicide less than two hours after he learned what the questioning would be about On Thursday, CNN and CBS reported that Hackworth had worn a "Ranger" tag, to which he was not entitled.

CNN said the wearing may Hackworth Come by and see our full line of genuine Harley-Davidson parts, accessories and motorclothes. New Extended Hours Sunday 11 Monday-Friday Saturday 5545 GREENWOOD RD. Prosecutor portrays governor as a schemer PHOENIX Gov. J. Fife Symington repeatedly lied to lenders in a desperate attempt to keep his development business afloat prior to his election and then used his office to try to get out of loans, a prosecutor charged Friday.

"John Fife Symington is a very clever man who told lies to get millions of dollars in loans and then schemed to cover up those lies," Assistant U.S. 1 fication didn't pertain to me." He said he served in a special unit in the Korean war. Later, he said, the Army placed an entitlement for the Ranger tab on his service record. The tab, he said, can be won by going to a specialized school in the United States or a special unit Much later, Hackworth said, he gave up his medals in protest over die Vietnam War but in 1988 they were reissued by Brig. Gen.

John Howard, i "They wanted to honor my service 31 -1 0 opening statement Schindler told the jury that Symington submitted "blatantly false" financial statements to lenders from 1986 to 1991 "to obtain millions of dollars in loans (to build projects) for which he and the Symington Co. received millions of dollars in developers' fees." Schindler also addressed the most politically charged of the counts facing Symington: attempted extortion. As governor, the prosecutor said, Symington tried to use the influence of his office to pressure a lender to let him out of a $10 million loan on the ill-fated Mercado project in downtown Phoenix. Girl. 8.

missinsr from of 30 Years edication Service room, abduction likely MIDWEST CITY, Okla. With every passing hour in the search for 8-year-old Kirsten Renee Hatfield, The Board of Directors of Bossier Medical Center and Bossier City's Mayor George Dement recently honored Bobbie Shaub, Mildred Smith, and Vi Taft for their 30 years of volunteer service in the Medical lliere is a growing fear that she was i Center Guild. Mildred, Bobbie and Vi were doing their work with patients and families from the first days of Bossier Medical Center's existence and continue today. Their spirit of volunteerism and tm uw. V4 ilsJW her into bed.

1 The second-grader was last seen Tuesday at 11:30 p.m. When her mother went to wake her at 6:30 a.m. ednesday, Kirsten was gone. The room's window was closed but unlocked. Police found blood spots on a windowsill and on a 6-foot-high wooden fence in the back yard.

The girl's underwear was found in the yard. "It's looking more and more like an abduction," FBI spokesman Dan Vogel said Thursday. "I think the possibility that she is a runaway has dropped considerably in the last 24 hours." Police help restore Richard Jewell's name MIAMI Richard Jewell is getting some recognition for saving lives by spotting a suspicious package that contained a bomb and help dedication to helping those in need have set the standard for others to follow. If you have a little free time and want to join these ladies in their I. mmm- gratifying work, meet great people, and have fun too, please call for information about joining the Bossier Medical Center Guild at 741-6194.

Thanks Mildred, Bobbie and Vi You make it happen! ing to evacuate at the Atlanta Olympics. But the 34-year-old former security guard who went from hero to prime suspect before being cleared by the FBI says he'd prefer to appear in public with some peace of mind. Unemployed and still searching for a job in police work, he was recognized by the American Police Hall of Fame for his actions evacuating the Olympic mall July 27, "saving countless lives," and his handling of accusations that it was he who had planted the bomb there. Jewell said the group's recognition eases, but does not erase, the sting of three months under the microscope of the FBI and hordes of journalists. He was never charged.

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