Wausau Daily Herald from Wausau, Wisconsin • 5

Nation World Monday, August 1 1 994 Wausau Daily Herald fc. FDA to determine if cigarettes are drugs Whitewater probe focuses on trust WASHINGTON Armed with an ethics report criticizing Treasury Department disclosures of Whitewater material, senators are rf 4 focusing on the agency that started the probe involving President Clin ton land deal. Current and former officials of the Resolution Trust Corp. are appear- ing before the Senate Banking Com mittee today, followed by Treasury general counsel Jean Hanson who briefed White House officials about the investigation. U.N.

fears dysentery outbreak Water, latrines needed in refugee camps in Zaire GOMA, Zaire (AP) Another killer epidemic this time dysentery is likely to spread among the 1.2 million Rwandans packed into filthy refugee camps unless thousands more latrines are dug and soap and water become available. "We will have much more death and suffering from dysentery than from cholera," said Serge Male, the U.N. specialist in contagious diseases in Goma. An inevitable dysentery outbreak could claim 20,000 to 40,000 lives among the refugees camped around this border town, he said Sunday. Relief workers said measles, malaria and meningitis also loom on Goma's bleak horizon.

The United Nations estimates cholera and other diseases have killed more than 20,000 refugees in the past two weeks. The Office of Government Ethics That interpretation would put cigarettes in the same class as thousands of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and foods regulated by the FDA. Kessler said the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act specifically defines a drug as something "intended to affect the structure and function of the body." That could include nicotine, the most active of the hundreds of chemical compounds in cigarette smoke, he said. Already the agency regulates the sale and promotion of two nicotine-delivery systems: chewing gum and nicotine patches. Today, an advisory committee was to consider whether it should recommend approval of a third nicotine source, a nasal spray.

On Tuesday, the same committee addresses the habit itself. "The purpose of the committee meeting is to look at scientific data on the effects of nicotine on the body," said Kessler. "What are its addictive properties?" The agenda and witnesses for the committee were being withheld until Tuesday, but if the meeting follows the usual pattern of FDA scientific deliberations, committee members will hear hours of testimony. Decisions could lead to regulation WASHINGTON (AP) Federal scientific advisers are taking up a question that could change smoking habits for years to come: Are cigarettes drug-delivery systems? A Food and Drug Administration scientific advisory panel meets Tuesday to deliberate the nature of cigarettes and to vote for a recommendation that could lead to FDA regulation. It is an important step in a systematic process started by FDA head Dr.

David Kessler and gaining speed and public support that some hope will all but put a "No Smoking" sign over America one day. The findings of this advisory committee will be very important as the agency decides whether nicotine-containing cigarettes should be regulated," Kessler said in an interview. Kessler took up a regulator's sword against the tobacco dragon in February when he suggested to Congress that laws creating the FDA could be interpreted to give the agency authority to control distribution, sale and promotion of cigarettes. reported Sunday that no Treasury Department employees violated ethics rules but that Hanson disclosed too much confidential mate- rial to the White House. The former chief Treasury Department AP photo Supplies: U.S.

Air Force soldiers unload a C-5 Galaxy at Kigali's airport Sunday. The C-5 is the first U.S. plane to unload in Kigali after an agreement was reached to deploy U.S. troops in Rwanda as part of the relief effort. spokesman, Jack DeVore, went too far confirming sensitive information to a reporter, the report said.

A criminal investigation is now under way by special counsel Kooert isKe, wnose initial report son, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Dysentery is an intestinal inflammation spread by fecal contamination of food and water. U.S. Air Force cargo planes were flying nine milk trucks donated by Finland to carry water to refugee camps.

The trucks will triple the amount of water available to refugees, said Finnish Defense Minister Elisabeth Rehn. Male said a dysentery epidemic could sweep the camps for up to four months. He said 30 percent of the refugees may be infected and one in 10 would most likely die. More water and soap were needed to head off the spread of contagious diseases and more latrines had to be dug, Male said. Only 1,000 latrines have been dug in all of the camps, while about 60,000 are needed, said Ray Wilkin concluded there was no CTiminality in lreasury Department-White House contacts.

a a Mr nHHwr reuuesi a tre- quent critic of Benjamin Chavis says ine jNAAf executive director should step aside during an investigation of his settlement with 1 892 murder case lives on a former employee who claims he sexuaiiy narassea ner. Joseph Madison, a member of the NAACPs board of directors, Daily Herald (ISSN-0887-427) 800 Scon Wausau, Wis. 54402-1286 842-2101 911 Main Merrill, Wis. 54452 536-5561, 536-5562 Toll Free 1-800-477-4838 Vol. 86 No.

213 Mike Scobey, Publisher said eunaay uiai ne wants Know why Chavis agreed to pay Mary 1 Stansel up to $332,400 of the orga-1 nization's money without telling the 64-member board about it first Book offers insight into atmosphere of Lizzie Borden trial BOSTON (AP) A vicious double murder. A loved one charged. Sensational pretrial publicity. Com "What was violated here was the Postmaster: Send address changes to Wausau Daily Herald. P.O.

Box 1286, Wausau, Wis. 54402-1286 opportunity for the board to have all the said Madison, a radio talk show host in Washing- ton, D.C. There are some members ol the board who are calling lor an immediate resignation, i willing to give (Chavis) far more courtesy thon Yta nrao tin 1 liTirr mta no Vic Brabender Advertising director Kevin Denny Circulation director Betty Donovan Human resources director Berni Holllnger Controller Thomas Leckenby Production director Mona Roth Marketing director Claude Werder Managing editor 845-0621 845-0650 845-0620 845-0642 845-0674 845-0628 845-0666 peting news leaks. Gavel-to-gavel coverage. The best defense team money could buy.

The Lizzie Borden case had it all a century before J. Simpson. A new book shows just how much Americans got caught rl- One New York woman was sure she'd win $10,000 and be able to send her grandchildren to college. So she sent in $980 and got back letter openers. She is among scores of people around the country who authorities Lizzie Borden widespread attention the case received from Americans of all political and social stripes.

The letters, mostly from residents along the Eastern seaboard, paint a picture of a different time, one without television, radio, telephones or automobiles. But one with plenty of public interest in crime drama. But despite the lack of immediacy, people flooded Knowlton with criticism, advice, theories and even fan mail. "It was amazing the number of people who were caught up in this case," said Michael Martins, curator of the Fall River Historical Society. "They ate it up.

It was one of the first cases in the United States that was given this type of media attention." Martins and Dennis A. Binette co-edited the book. Its 529 pages include an extraordinary appendix of biographical sketches of the letter writers, made possible by the detective work of Martins and Binette. The letters came from attorneys, society matrons and learned thinkers, farmers, housewives and meat packers. One "Theorist" concluded Lizzie Borden avoided splattering her clothes with blood by disrobing before she committed the murders.

Another said Borden dressed like a man, an attempt to explain sightings of a stranger. Some said Lizzie Borden had no chance for justice because she was a woman, but others said she was getting preferential treatment because of her family's wealth and high social standing. Andrew Borden was worth $250,000, a considerable fortune in those days. Lizzie and her sister Emma inherited it all. al for historical researchers and Borden buffs about the case and public reaction.

Several people confessed to Knowlton. A confession, dated eight days after the murders, is from a man claiming to be the illegitimate son of victim Andrew Jackson Borden and a woman later committed to an insane asylum Writing from an Albany hotel, the man said Abby Durfee Borden convinced her husband to renege on an agreement to pay the son a yearly stipend for his silence. His letter, like many of them, was replete with odd spellings and style. "So to make a long story short the son Brooded over his and his mothers past troubles and resolved upon Vengeance, with the result known to all," writes the man, who signs the letter Phillip Gordon Reed. "No use to track me for it will be an utter impossibility to do so.

At the hour this letter is mailed I shall take a train for hundreds of miles away," he concludes. If Knowlton investigated such a son, he left no written record, and the historical society was unable to find any documents showing he existed. The book does lay to rest some misunderstandings about the case. First things first: no 40 whacks, no forty-one. Abby Borden's body bore 18 separate wounds, each described in the autopsy.

Andrew Borden was struck 10 times in the head. An analysis of the contents of the victims' stomachs backs up testimony at the trial that Abby Borden was killed at least an hour earlier than Andrew Borden. But perhaps most fascinating is the insight the book offers into say were taken in by a sweepstakes MISS YOUR PAPER? We hope not, but if you did, please call your carrier. If you cannot contact your carrier, call the Customer Service Department (842-2106). Delivery will be made in Wausau on carrier routes if you call by 6:30 p.m.

weekdays and by 11:30 a.m. Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. SUGGESTED CARRIER DELIVERY RATES: Daily and Sunday $2.65 per week Daily only $1 .90 per week Saturday and Sunday 1 .50 per week MOTOR ROUTE HOME DELIVERY: Daily and Sunday $2.85 per week Daily only $2.10 per week Saturday and Sunday 1 .60 per week MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in Zip Code Area 544) Daily and Sunday $3.90 per week Daily only $3.05 per week Saturday and Sunday 1 85 per week Mail rates outside of ZIP code area 544 available on request. Yearly rates also available on request. Published 365 days a year.

Mail subscriptions payable in advance. USA TODAY SUBSCRIPTIONS: Rates and information available by calling the circulation department (842-2106). MAIN SWITCHBOARD HOURS: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Weekdays.

OFFICE HOURS: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Weekdays, 8 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Saturdays.

Closed on holidays. BUSINESS PHONE NUMBERS Claude Werder Managing editor Tom Berger Opinion editor Peter Frank Editing coordinator David Humphreys Chief photographer Rich Jackson Day newsMoney editor Sara Kuhl Local news coordinator Barbara Shay Night news editor Steve Rupp Sports editor 845-0666 845-0664 845-0608 845-0670 845-0655 845-0663 845-0635 845-0701 company that swindles elderly people with promises of cars, washing machines and other prizes. The catch: To get the "prize," victims have to buy something for at least $500. And the prizes turn out to be worthless. The state attorney general filed suit Friday against the company, which goes by several names, including Northeast Marketing.

The company's owner's are in Rockland County, just north of New York City, but the phone calls are made from "boiler-room operations" in St. Joseph, and Jackson, Assistant Attorney General Nicholas Garin said. up in the Aug. 4, 1892, murders of Borden's prosperous father and stepmother in their Fall River home. "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs.

lizzie A. Borden: The Knowlton Papers 1892-1893," available next month, is a collection of more than 300 previously unpublished letters and documents from the files of prosecutor Hosea Morrill Knowlton. The book doesn't contain any smoking guns or bloody hatchets, in this case. Those who believe Lizzie Andrew Borden was accused unjustly can continue to do So. So can those who feel she got away with murder.

But the letters and papers, donated to the Fall River Historical Society by Knowlton's grandson in 1989, provide tantalizing firsthand materi- Vic Brabender Advertising director Gayle Benaszeski Classified ad manager John Benetti Retail ad manager 845-0621 845-0686 845-0654 W4 si 842-2100 842-2101 842-2106 842-2101 842-2108 or 842-2109 848-9360 848-9361 Classified Ads Other Ads Circulation Department News items Sports After Hours FAX, advertising FAX, news For convenient home delivery call 842-2106. Delivery deadlines are 5 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Sunday and holidays. New breast implant filled with fat a Eiiee ring to It.

Most people associate triglycerides with heart disease because too much of a certain animal-based triglyceride can clog arteries. Knapp's Trilucent breast implant uses an unsaturated triglyceride from soybean oil, the same kind fed to infants allergic to milk. Were the implant to leak, animal studies show the body would metabolize and excrete the fat just as it would had the woman eaten the fat, Knapp said in a telephone interview from his headquarters in Neuchatel, Switzerland. The Food and Drug Administration said animal studies show the implants are safe enough for limited testing in women. "This is a very different implant," said LipoMatrix president, Dr.

Terry Knapp. "It's a natural substance." Breast implants have been one of the FDA's most wrenching controversies. It banned silicone-gel implants in 1991 for everyone except breast cancer survivors in clinical trials. Knapp believes his implant is much safer because it uses triglyceride, a natural fat in the body. WASHINGTON (AP) Government regulators are allowing 50 American women to try out an experimental breast implant filled with a natural fat from soybean oil the first advance in implants since widespread problems with the devices were reported in 1991.

LipoMatrix Inc. said today that its new breast implant should be safer than the silicone-gel and saline implants that thousands of women blame for sickening them and it would be the first implant a mammogram could see through. Haiti invasion: The United States is ready to head an invasion of Haiti to restore the elected government there, U.S. officials said after the Security Council approved the use of "all necessary means" to force the country's military leaders out. The U.S.

military "is prepared to organize and lead" an invasion force, U.S. Ambassador Madeleine Albright said after Sunday's Security Council vote. The message to the Haitian military, she said, was: "You can depart voluntarily and soon, or you can depart involuntarily and soon." White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta called the vote "a very strong signal that the world community is united, that we want the military dictatorship to end." Hindu law: India's wealthiest and most progressive state has broken with Hindu tradition to legislate equal inheritance rights for women. The legislature of Maharashtra in western India amended the Hindu Succession Act of 1966 to enable a daughter to inherit property in the same manner as a son. Gov.

P.C. Alexander signed the amendment into law Saturday. A spokesman of the governing Congress party said the law will help tackle gender bias and the practice of dowry, in which families pay large sums to their new inlaws when their daughters marry. Priest kidnapped: Classes at Roman Catholic schools in Zamboanga City, Philippines, were suspended today and clergy advised to stay home after a priest was kidnapped by suspected Muslim extremists on a southern Philippine island. The Rev.

Clarence Bertelsman, a Belleville, who has worked in the Philippines for 43 years, was abducted while saying Sunday Mass, then freed hours later. He was in good condition with gunshot wounds in the buttocks and left forearm. The Associated Press Meet the right person, Call us today and place a FREE 25-word print ad, and a FREE voice ad, Interested singles will respond to your ad with a message which you retrieve FREE. GThe Central Wisconsin 3imection Wausau Daily Herald Marshfield News Herald Wisconsin Rapids Tribune CAH Today! 1-800-783-1131 Ext. 90 Call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week a Ik Wr (MIME.