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More Hawaii news inside Heading study A6 ea A Waiheein Belgium ii Kzy Obituaries The Honolulu Advertiser Saturday, December 10, Marcos heartbeat stabilized, hospital aide says Ex-president rushed to St. Francis complaining of chest pains After taking a break from the vigil, a somber but dry-eyed Imelda Marcos returned to her husband's guarded third-floor room at St. Francis Medical Center at about 8:45 last night. When asked about his condition, she whispered, "He's tine." Then, as the elevator doors closed, she added, "I hope so." Mrs. Marcos said she planned to spend the night at the hospital.

Aides said Marcos was "undergoing tests" last night, but they could not offer any details. by Vickie Viotti By Walter Wright Advertiser Staff Writer Ferdinand Marcos, accused this week of possibly faking illness to avoid a New York court appearance, was rushed to a hospital yesterday with what his aides called congestive heart failure. Doctors had stabilized his heartbeat by mid-afternoon, and Marcos joked with nurses and sat up to eat, St. Francis Hospital spokeswoman Norma Kop said. He remained in a cardiac monitoring unit room last night, with his wife, Imelda, at his side or resting in an adjacent room.

Marcos spokesman Gemmo Trinidad said Marcos was awakened by a telephone call at 3 a.m. yesterday from his daughter, Imee, in Morocco, in which she advised Marcos that she was about to undergo a Caesarean section delivery following six hours of unsuccessful labor. The Marcoses, aware of their daughter's history of difficult childbirths, including hemorrhaging, became worried about the situation, Trinidad said. Within an hour, Marcos was complaining of an increase in heart pains that he has been complaining of in recent weeks. An aide, Col.

Arturo Aruiza, said Marcos chose to bear the pain in recent weeks rather than accept doctors' advice that he go to a hospital. Dr. Juanita Zagala, a personal physician to Marcos who lives at his Makiki Heights residence, was summoned, as was Honolulu cardiologist Dr. Calvin Wong, and Marcos received initial treatment at the house, Trinidad said. By 11 a.m.

a decision was made to transfer Marcos to St. Francis. He arrived by private ambulance at 12:17 p.m., borne very slowly with all this harassment," Lazo said, referring to the court case and a court-ordered FBI examination of Marcos last month. Dr. Livingston Wong, a surgeon who helped remove a benign growth from Marcos' thyroid earlier this year, said he was called in to consult on Marcos' current condition.

He said he couldn't comment on Marcos' cardiac condition. But Livingston Wong did say Marcos was "not a candidate" for heart transplant, although he said he did not know yet if Marcos would be a candidate for any other surgery relating to his heart. Livingston Wong also refused to comment on the suggestion by a New York doctor retained by the prosecution that Marcos might have been faking pain when examined Oct. 31 at Trip-ler Army Medical Center. Marcos had been diagnosed in the past as having an enlarged heart and was receiving the medication Pronestyl to suppress arrhythmias or heart rhythm irregularities.

Marcos' own doctors had said his heart and other problems meant he should not be forced to travel to New York for the arraignment in the racketeering case. But Dr. Francis M. Weld, of New York, disagreed. When Weld during his Oct.

31 examination asked Marcos to raise his feet from the floor while sitting, Marcos "was unable to lift his left foot at all, and his right foot only two inches." But later, Weld reported. Marcos "casually lifted his left leg and crossed it over his right knee, followed within an hour See Marcos, Page A-4 on a stretcher in what appeared to be a semi-conscious slate, breathing with the assistance of bottled oxygen. Joe Lazo, head of Friends of Marcos, emerged from the hospital at about 5 p.m. saying he had just seen Marcos in his private room, his eyes closed, resting. "He looks very, very weak," Lazo said.

He said he did not try to speak to Marcos, nor did Marcos say anything. Lazo challenged a report by a government doctor that suggested Marcos was faking when he complained of pain and muscle weakness during an Oct. 31 examination to determine if he was fit enough to travel to New York for arraignment on criminal racketeering charges. "I don't believe that doctor," said Lazo. "He said Marcos was fit to go to New York, and look where Marcos is today.

The situation that's going on is that they are trying to kill the Marcoses wanted coupie Isles' milk lead free, tests show found hidin in old bunker i iv -tV. ''iv I I i it i t.l tmMm By Vickie Ong Advertiser Staff Writer Prompted by concern about lead-tainted water on the Big Island, the state Department of Health recently tested milk from 15 farms and processors in Hawaii but found no detectable levels of lead, an official said yesterday. "We don't expect to do any more testing of milk for lead unless there's more evidence to suggest we should," said Maurice Tamura, supervisor of the Health Department's food products section. "We tested all of the milk produced in the state and there were no detectable levels of lead in the milk." The department's laboratory conducted two rounds of milk-testing, the first of Big Island milk. The second batch of tests was prompted by a "control" sample of a quart from a Honolulu processor that tested positive for lead at "barely detectable levels." Tamura said yesterday that result "could have been a fluke." However, it did spur the Health Department to collect and test additional milk samples from processors in Honolulu, Maui and Kauai and four Oahu dairies.

Deputy Health Director Bruce Anderson yesterday said that because of the problem of lead leaching into private water catchment systems on the Big Island, "we were concerned that some of the water troughs or water systems used to feed the animals were contaminated with lead and that possibly lead would be present in cow's milk." In September, the Health Department collected raw milk from five dairy farms and finished milk from two processors, Meadow Gold Dairies-Hilo and Excelsior Dairy, on the Big Island. The lab can detect lead in milk beginning at .02 part per million and all samples were nondetectable for lead, Tamura said. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration believes lead in milk is not a hazard until it reaches a level of 0.1 part per See Hawaii's milk, Page A-4 believed to have operated several loan finders offices, the last with a crudely lettered door sign "PHI Management' at 1270 N. King St.

FBI Special Agent Harlan Frymire last night said the local FBI office checked with the Pittsburgh office and learned that the Collinses were in Hawaii. Agents checked the couple's Kalihi office, found they had fled and alerted Honolulu police. Meanwhile, police had received several complaints about the couple's local operations and had begun an investigation. One man here reportedly lost $13,000, Frymire said. Another man filed a complaint yesterday with police but details were not released.

Police and the FBI expect other victims to turn up as the public becomes aware that the office in Kalihi was a scam. Frymire said other possible victims should call the police. "Any fraud here is of a local concern. We were interested in them because of their flight," he said. Officer Thomas Carreiro said the Collinses apparently lived in the bunker for several days and they later told police the car had gone into the ditch three days ago.

They had hiked to bus stops to go to Kaneohe for food and money, police said. Little cash was recovered at the bunker, but police seized what was described as "lots and lots of food stamps." They were booked on a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in Beckley on September 1987 charges of writing bad cnecks and operating a fraudulent loan business. Those charges were later dismissed, but the couple was rearrested last night at the request of West Virginia authorities, who asked they be held pending extradition. By Terry McMurray Ailvertiner Staff Writer Honolulu police and FBI agents raided an abandoned military bunker in the Koolau foothills above Waiahole Valley yesterday and arrested a couple wanted in West Virginia for scams involving more than $100,000. Police said they have received complaints that the couple also conducted scams here.

They had been here operating a series of "money finders" offices and promising to find "loans" for a price for people having trouble obtaining them. Police said they received several complaints that customers paid fees, but the loans were never delivered. The couple was identified as Ray Collins, 35, and his wife, Pat, 34, of Beckley, W. Va. They had been sought by FBI agents from Florida to Texas for more than a year.

The couple apparently learned the FBI had been tipped off they were here and last week abandoned their Salt Lake home and hid, the FBI said. Police were alerted by the FBI Wednesday that the couple had withdrawn money from a Kaneohe bank's automatic teller Tuesday and Wednesday. Officers of the Windward Crime Reduction Unit watched the teller Thursday, but no one showed up. Then police learned that a borrowed car the couple had been using was reportedly seen in Waiahole Valley. Police checked yesterday and found it at 10 a.m.

in a ditch near the upper end of the valley road. Windward officers began hiking up the valley and found the couple half a mile up the trail, huddling in the bunker. They were taken to the Kaneohe Police Station for booking, then transferred to the Honolulu cellblock. The FBI said the couple had been here at least a month and perhaps up to a year and were Advertiser photo by Carl Viti Christmas trees Joyce Kilmer's famous poem says, "Only God extra for the holidays more than 80,000 can make a tree." But the trees at Bishop lights. The Bishop Square trees were lighted at Square's Tamarind Park are getting a little a ceremony last night.

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But her pregnancy has put work on hold temporarily. She receives welfare benefits, which cover only her rent and utilities. There is little money for anything else. Amanda, who lives in a one-bedroom apartment, has to sleep on the floor for lack of furniture or bedding. A small coffee table serves as a kitchen table.

At Christmas time, she is thinking about her unborn child and worried because she has no crib, diapers or baby A few baby gifts at the holiday season would make her feel more optimistic about the future. And as her pregnancy progresses. Amanda would appreci- ate the comfort of a bed. first right, then turn right again on Street. Building 220 is the last building on the left on Street; the clearinghouse entrance is the last door of the building.) The clearinghouse is open from 9 a.m.

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Call S45-1CC9 for information. Windward residents can drop off small items intended for the Christmas Clearinghouse in the yardage department of the Cornet Store on Kailua Road. Sture hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 9 a.m.

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RanCad Jaycon Jr. I Jonn Mi'owet J-ju 5 Cum.aa 13 Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard supervisors sold more than 6,000 Portuguese sausages to raise $2,800 contributed yesterday to The Advertiser Christmas Fund. The supervisors are the 525 members of the Federal Managers Association, Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. The organization is led by president Barbara Stuck, a personnel security specialist in the security office, and vice president Brendan Cra-valho. general foreman in the rigger shop.

This is the fourth year that the Federal Managers Association has held a holiday fund-raiser to benefit the Christmas Fund. The vo a first year, the grc tributed $1,000 to th "We wanted to community service ha Won't you help give her a little holiday joy? Please send a monetary contribution to The Advertiser Christmas Fund, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu 9C802, or bring it to the News Building. C05 Kapiolani during weekday working hours. If you have material items you'd" like to contribute to this woman or others in need, they can he taken to the Christmas Clearinghouse warehouse at Building 220 at Fort Shafter.

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