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Other news to note A-1 2 The Orlando Sentinel, Friday, July 20, 1990 A ai 8 "3 8 WEST Ll complain the buttons are for his re-election campaign. The lapel buttons, which also feature the slogan "YES, WE are part of a campaign organized by Gov. William Donald Schaefer's office to encourage Maryland's 70,000 state employees to offer the public service with a smile. Some state employees complained that they were being used in an election year. "It certainly did appear that it was politically motivated," William Bolander, executive director of the state chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said Thursday.

"This has absolutely no political overtones whatsoever," Schaefer press secretary Paul Schurick said. Boy expected to survive severe power-saw injury FULLERTON, Calif. A 3-year- old boy critically injured when the blade of a power saw became embedded in his abdomen is expected to recover with only a deep scar to show for his brush with death, doctors said Wednesday. Dr. Mohd Dhar, one of the Western Medical Center-Santa Ana surgeons who operated on Ryan Anthony Galvan for four hours Tuesday night, said that at first doctors weren't sure they could save the boy.

Ryan was taken to the hospital after his father, Antonio Galvan, found him in the yard of their home at 4 p.m. Tuesday with the blade of an electric circular saw its spring-loaded protective guard removed lodged in his midsection. Priest gets 6 years after his arrest in molestation SANTA ANA, Calif. A judge who four years ago put a priest on probation for molesting altar boys said he would throw him in prison if he was caught with children again. This week the judge kept his word.

The Rev. Andrew Christian Andersen, convicted of 26 counts of child molestation in 1986, was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison. The former parish priest was convicted four years ago of molesting altar boys at St. Bonaventure Roman Catho- lie Church in Huntington Beach. Superior Court Judee Luis A.

Car- 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS Catastrophic illnesses too much for father, 94 a i DALLAS A retired oil man shot to death his 61-year-old daughter, a polio victim who used an iron lung, and then killed himself, officials said. Ammy Harlin Drake, 94, opened Alta Jeanne Drake's iron lung, shot her twice in the chest, returned to his lounge chair and shot himself with a revolver early Tuesday, police said. Family caretaker Helen Jackson found the bodies Tuesday along with a note from Ammy Drake, detailing funeral note indicated he couldn't take care of her anymore and that there was no one around to take care of her," said police Capt. E.L. Hol-man.

The Dallas County Medical Examiners Office ruled the death a homicide-suicide. Relatives said Drake's health was failing and her father had cancer. Boggs expected to retire daughter's illness cited NEW ORLEANS Rep. Lindy Boggs reportedly will not seek reelection to the congressional seat she and her late husband have held for 46 years. Mrs.

Boggs, 74, was expected to announce her decision today. She has been under increasing emotional and physical strain because of the illness of her daughter, Barbara Sigmund, friends of the family say. She assumed the post in March 1973 after winning a special election to succeed her husband, the House majority leader, whose plane disappeared during a flight over Alaska six months earlier. United Airlines pilot Al Haynes smiles while taking questions at a press conference. Survivors of Flight 232 crash give thanks Dukakis signs tax boost but not out in public BOSTON Gov.

Michael Dukakis, who bragged about the "Massachusetts miracle" during his losing race for president, has signed a bill taxing many services to infuse the state with needed cash. Dukakis signed the bill Wednesday behind closed doors. "This is not something to celebrate," he said later. "Taxes are like medicine. Nobody likes to prescribe them.

Nobody likes to take them. But taxes are part of what will be required to regain fiscal health in the state." The act raises state income and gasoline taxes and extends the 5 percent sales tax to hundreds of business services that are now exempt. The new law is expected to bring in $1.2 billion this fiscal year and $1.8 billion next fiscal year. Rev. Al Sharpton jailed ASSOCIATED PRESS port after an engine broke apart, severing a hydraulic system that controlled the plane.

Of the 296 aboard, 184 survived the July 19, 1989, crash. Survivors, their families and Sioux City rescuers went to the airport, where they were allowed to walk around the crash site. A memorial service was planned. "I have a lot of memories of some pretty gruesome things, and we both feel guilty that we walked away unharmed while so many others didn't," said Sharon Bay-less, who with her husband, Brad, of Littleton, escaped with minor injuries. Some survivors sought out United Capt.

Al C. Haynes to thank him for the job the crew did in guiding the airliner to the airport. SIOUX CITY, Iowa A year after they tumbled out of the smoke-choked fuselage of a shattered jumbo jet into a hot cornfield, survivors of United Flight 232 returned Thursday to give prayers of thanks and sympathy. The United Air Lines DC-10 cartwheeled at the Sioux Gateway Air to serve 15-day sentence 1 NEW YORK The Rev. Al Sharpton was behind bars Thurs denas put Andersen on probation tor live years but threatened him day as part of his 15-day disorderly conduct sentence for a 1988 "Day of Outrage" protest.

Sharp-ton and the Rev. Timothy Mitchell with prison if he had unsuper-'1 vised contact with children. An were convicted at a non-jury trial dersen was arrested March 12 in Albuquerque, N.M., for investigation of kidnapping and attempted child molestation. before state Supreme Court Justice Phyllis Flug. Charges against 11 others were dismissed.

They surrendered to authorities New salesman finds out customers really like car Wednesday afternoon and were taken to jail where they were placed in maximum security, protective custody, said Corrections spokeswoman Ruby Ryles. The Ed Barkowski. The dog will be destroyed, said a city official. Outrage stifles proposal to sell organs of the poor MILWAUKEE A proposal to sell the organs of dead welfare recipients has prompted such outrage that some people fear it will undermine other plans to solve a serious organ donor crisis. Milwaukee County Board Supervisor T.

Anthony Zielinski made the proposal in an effort to reduce the county's burial expenses. But a flood of criticism persuaded him to drop the plan, and it now has no chance of passage. Still, some observers are concerned that the political backlash from Zielinski's plan will doom other proposals to help relieve donor organ Fame Air Museum, which displays 23 military airplanes, almost all from World War II, at Flying Cloud Airport in suburban Minneapolis. Pit bull kills 6-month-old with attack in bedroom CHICAGO A 6-month-old girl was killed by a neighbor's pit bull terrier as the infant slept in her bedroom, police say. Tionna Kenny was bitten on the head, neck and arms by the dog, whose owner apparently was caring for the child at the time of the attack Wednesday, police said.

The dog's owner, Tyrone Hardy, told police he heard the dog growling and the child cry out. Hardy said he could not free the child from the dog's grip, according to police Officer SEATTLE Just 90 minutes into his new job, a car salesman was accosted at knifepoint by his Pilot, stepson die in crash of World War II Mustang MAYER, Minn. A pilot and his stepson died when their World War II-era plane crashed in a grove of trees. The single-engine P-51 Mustang fighter crashed Wednesday, about 30 miles southwest of Minneapolis. Killed were pilot Kermit LaQuey, 58, of St.

Michael and Christopher Barnes, 35, of suburban St. Louis. LaQuey was chief qilot for the Planes of protective status isolates them from the general prison population. Ryles said they were given that status because of their notoriety. Sharpton's 15-day sentence stems from a Jan.

27, 1988 "Day of Outrage" rally during the Howard Beach racial attack trial. With first customers 19-year-old twins who stole the car they wanted to test-drive, police said. The thieves led police on a 12-mile chase before they were stopped and arrested on suspicion of armed robbery. "It's sure a different way of starting a job," said the Governor's name brings frowns over happy faces ANNAPOLIS, Md. Bright yellow happy-face pins with the governor's name on them are part of a public service campaign, officials say.

But some state employees good behavior, the two could be out in 10 days. salesman, Steve Sacry. Quayle predicts veto of rights bill without changes Vice President Dan Quayle said Thursday the president will veto a Senate-passed bill to combat job bias unless it is purged of provisions that the administration contends invite hiring quotas. "The administration is not crnincr to havf a 1 -w 'c 2 American teens killed in crash of English bus OXFORD, England A double-decker bus carrying gifted teenage students from the United States overturned on a highway outside Oxford on Thursday, killing a boy and a girl and injuring 56 other people, police said. Some students were thrown out windows, some crawled from the bus, some were later pulled free by rescuers, and at least three were trapped inside for an hour, authorities said.

Four people suffered serious injuries. "It was a scene of utter chaos and mayhem," said ambulance superintendent Robin Finlayson. "There were girls and boys trapped in the coach and others strewn up the bank. They were crying, bawling and bloody. Many had crush injuries." The bus was taking about 60 American students and staff to an arts festival when it went out of control as it turned off the A40 highway near Wheatley, about six miles east of Oxford, said Thames Valley Police Chief Inspector John Wheeler.

ed: "It's time to stop the stupidity of allowing these weapons to proliferate by being manufactured in this country when we don't allow them to be imported." Synthetic protein offers hope of attack on AIDS Researchers have developed a synthetic protein molecule that will attach itself tightly to the AIDS virus in a test tube and prevent the virus from spreading to uninfected cells. In a report published today in the journal Science, researchers say the man-made molecule, called CPF, is able to block a molecule on the surface of the AIDS virus from sticking to healthy immune cells in the blood. Steven J. Burakoff, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, said tests of the molecule in laboratory animals are just beginning, and that there are "many hurdles to go over" before the compound could be tested in humans. Another AIDS researcher, Dr.

Allen Goldstein of the George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, said, "There's a long way to go before you could translate the study results into a clinical application." Provisions range from banning racial discrimination in the workplace to allowing victims to seek punitive damages in the most severe discrimination cases. The sharpest clashes surround a provision that would make it easier to challenge hiring practices at companies. House leaders won't put gun control in crime bill House leaders have decided not to include gun-control measures in their version of the 1990 crime bill, unlike the recently passed Senate bill, which includes new restrictions on military-style assault weapons favored by drug dealers. While insisting he is "sympathetic" to gun control efforts, House Judiciary Chairman Jack Brooks said including them in the bill "just makes it a lot more difficult to pass and get an anti-crime package through conference" with the Senate before the November election. So his committee voted 23-12 Thursday against an amendment offered by Rep.

Larry Smith, that would have restricted the manufacture and sale of cheap handguns known as Saturday Night Specials. Smith angrily respond ASSOCIATED PRESS No to the armed forces Shantytown dwellers marched in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Thursday, calling for an end to the militarization of Salvadoran society. The topic will be one of the central issues in the dialogue between the government and the rebels starting today in Costa Rica. The banner says 'NO TO THE ARMED quota billQuaye crammed down its throat disguised as a civil rights bill," Quayle said the morning after the Senate passed the bill. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jack Brooks, D-Texas, said he believed there were enough votes on the House floor to pass the bill without changes, even if the administration was "still screaming about quotas." Democratic leaders said the bill most likely would clear its final committee hurdle in the House on Tuesday.

Dutch contraceptive pill cuts breast cancer risk AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Dutch gynecologists have developed a new birth control pill designed for women in the high-risk category for breast cancer and other diseases. Arie Haspels, a professor at Utrecht University Hospital, said Thursday the new pill was made of menatoline, a hormone derived from the human pineal gland. Most birth control pills contain the hormone estrogen, which has been determined by scientists to cause breast cancer or thrombosis in some women. The new pill has to be tested on 5,000 patients before it can appear on the market. About 200 women have taken the pill.

Italy may allow women to enlist in armed forces ROME Women could volunteer for service in the Italian military, one of the last all-male armed forces in Europe, under legislation approved by a parliamentary committee. The bill also would reduce the draft for men from 12 months to 10 months. Increasing numbers of Italian women have been joining the police forces in recent years, but the armed forces have remained closed to them. The bill must go before the full Senate and then to the Chamber of Deputies. Medellin police death toll hits 198 as gunmen kill 3 BOGOTA, Colombia A truck loaded with explosives blew up near Medellin Thursday, killing two people, police said.

The blast occurred near Rio Negro, 18 miles east of Medellin, the focus of a bloody 11-month-old war between cocaine traffickers and the government. A police spokesman also said gunmen killed three more po-lice officers Wednesday and Thursday. He said another police officer wounded in an attack last month also died, bringing the total of officers slain in Medellin so far this year to 198. Special treatment brings Italian man out of coma CICAGNA, Italy Uttering "mama," a man came out of a nearly three-year-long coma and is now moving his limbs and speaking, Italian media reported Thursday. Marcello Manunza, 25, came out of the coma on Monday in a hospital near Genoa, responding to tickling and encouragement from his family, the reports said.

Manunza had undergone special physiotherapy under the direction of a Philadelphia professor, Glen Doman, the reports said. He had been placed on a board at a 45-de-gree angle to help him move and had been given frequent massages, the reports said. Manunza went into a coma after a November 1987 car accident. Tommy's Joynt, a landmark saloon known for gaudy murals covering its facade. Harris first became known in San Francisco as a radio entertainer in the mid-1930s, when he was known as the "Little King of Song" on the NBC network.

JOHNNY WAYNE Wayne, one of the kings of comedy of Canadian radio and television as half of the Wayne and Shus- ter team, died Wednesday of cancer in Toronto. He' was 72. Wayne and Frank Shuster had a long career. as Canada's best-known cut-ups, starting with a Boy Scout fund-raiser they did on radio in 1930. Their' comedy was a mixture of slapstick, pantomime and corn.

They started their regular CBC-TV program in 1954, building an array of characters such as the Brown Pumpernickel, Professor Waynegartner and Tex Rorschach. ROBERT CHARLEBOIS Charlebois, 67, who sang in the major opera houses of Europe in the 1950s and '60s, died Saturday at his home in St. Paul, Minn. He had been ill since suffering a stroke in January. After serving in the Army during World War II, Charlebois stayed on as entertainment director for U.S.

soldiers in Munich, West Germany. He studied at the Munich School of Music and went on to sing in opera houses in Austria, France, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Spain and Portugal. TOMMY HARRIS Harris, a San Francisco restaurateur, city parks commissioner and former radio personality once known as the "Little King of Song," died after a brief bout with leukemia. He was 78. Harris, who died Wednesday, was the founder and longtime owner of 'V.

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