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Wfmmm rows Kurt Ruqr.h wins Pennsylvania 500. CALL MONDAY, JULY 25, 2005 www.mcall.com 50t fc r11" THE MOWING AN ESSAY 1 Partly cloudy 89 66' Forecast, B8 Dissident unions to renounce AFL-CIO A daughter's quest Did Mother's job as a shoe clerk cause her cancer? e-- it BRIEFING THE TEAMSTERS and the largest service employees union plan to announce today that they are leaving the AFL-CIO, paving the way for two more unions to bolt, labor officials said. Al A MAN WHO STABBED a Bethlehem woman 13 times in 1994 and got out of jail earlier this year is facing charges that he killed his pregnant girlfriend in New Hampshire last week. Al HOUSE AND SENATE conferees abandoned giving makers of the gasoline additive MTBE liability protection against environmental lawsuits Sunday, removing the major roadblock to enactment of energy legislation. A4 ATTORNEY GENERAL Alberto Gonzales said Sunday that he notified White House chief of staff Andy Card after the Justice Department opened an investigation into who revealed a covert CIA officer's identity, but waited 12 hours to tell anyone else in the White House.

A4 THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION plans to withhold some documents written by Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts while he worked for earlier Republican administrations. A4 A SUICIDE BOMBER aiming to blow up an Iraqi police station killed 40 people Sunday when Teamsters, Service Employees International among four groups in rift with labor giant. By Ron Foumier Of The Associated Press CHICAGO Jolting organized labor, the Teamsters and a massive service employees union decided Sunday to bolt the AFL-CIO, paving the way for two other labor groups to sever ties in the movement's biggest schism since the 1930s. The four dissident unions, representing nearly one-third of the AFL-CIO's 13 million members, announced they were boycotting the federation's convention, which begins today, a step that was widely considered to be a precursor to leaving the federation.

They are part of the Change to Win Coalition, a group of seven unions vowing to accomplish what the AFL-CIO has failed to do: reverse the decades-long decline in union membership. But many union presidents, labor experts and Democratic Party leaders fear the split will weaken the movement politically and hurt unionized workers who need a united and powerful ally against business interests and global competition. The Service Employees International Union, the largest AFL-CIO affiliate with 1.8 million members, has spearheaded the exodus and will announce today that it is leaving the AFL-CIO, said several labor officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. a 1 A fin 1 LABOR PAGE A2 his explosives-laden truck detonated in Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

A5 BRITISH POLICE ARRESTED a third man in connection with last week's failed attack against London's transit system. A5 A SPORT UTILITY VEHICLE crashed into a line of motorcycles on a charity ride Sunday in Drums, Luzerne County, killing one person and seriously injuring others, authorities said. A6 AN EFFORT IS UNDER WAY to install a small memorial to the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 within the walls of the U.S. Capitol. A6 Murder suspect was guilty in Valley stabbing Man who slashed Bethlehem woman in 1994 accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend in New Hampshire.

From staff and wire reports A man who stabbed a Bethlehem woman Frank Wies The Morning Call GETDA ROEHLER FENSTERMAKER believes a shoe X-ray machine was the source of her breast cancer. Daughter Ann Wlazelek researched the link between the machine and cancer with professional and personal interest. By Ann Wlazelek Of The Morning Call The news came more than 30 years after her first bout with the killer disease, and it hit hard. At 86, my mother faced a second breast cancer. Sitting on an examining table in the surgeon's office wearing a gown three times her size, she looked small and vulnerable, not at all like the strict disciplinarian who once broke a wooden spoon over her daughters' behinds.

I thought I knew what the surgeon was going to tell her at that visit in 2003 that the lump, surrounding tissue and lymph node he removed were virtually clear of cancer, that she probably would need no further treatment. But the doctor made a suggestion we both knew would reawaken the fight in Mother. "I'd like you to consider radiation therapy," he told her. TODAY in LOCAL nearly to death in 1994 now faces charges he killed his pregnant girlfriend last week in New Hampshire. Robert Lopez, 35, who got out of prison this year, is accused of second-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Brandi Bernard on Thursday in Manchester, N.H.

An autopsy found Bernard died of blows to her head. Assistant Attorney General David Ruoff said investigators are trying to determine I iiJtf i tion to deform children's feet or cause cancer and infertility in adults. And today, no one can convince my mother her cancer came from any other source. "Cancer didn't run in our family," she told me. "I stood over this machine 25-30 times a day." As her daughter, I took her word.

As a health reporter, I thought it possible but wondered if it could be proven. For many, the need to know what causes an illness, especially cancer, is personal: to protect the next generation or assign blame. For me, the pursuit was professional. Few newspapers had written about shoe X-ray Radiation? No way. In Mother's mind, radiation was what gave her cancer in the first place, in 1971, and now possibly again.

My mother had been a shoe clerk in the 1940s and 1950s, when shoe X-ray machines became popular sales tools at stores across the country. For 20 years she worked at Farr's shoe store in Allentown, a family-run fixture at Eighth and Hamilton streets. Shoe X-ray machines, known formally as shoe-fitting fluoroscopes, showed customers how much room existed between their stiff new oxfords and the bones in their feet At the time, few knew the machines emitted hazardous amounts of radiation enough radia what weapon was used. Family members said she was about 10 weeks' pregnant with the couple's child. In January 1994, Lopez attacked then-girlfriend Olivia Williams with a 7-inch knife, stabbing her 13 times in her face, head, neck, torso, arms and hands.

Both lived in Bethlehem at the time, and Williams' family said she was trying to Puerto Rican heritage on parade The Puerto Rican Day Parade in Allentown, featuring entertainers, customized cars, motorcycles and a festival in Jordan Park, drew an estimated crowd of 20,000. Bl break up with Lopez. MOTHER PAGE A3 CHARGES PAGE A2 INDEX MORE INSIDE Impossible is Armstrong's specialty i st.A Alt Astrology E4 Mini Page E5 Bridge E7 Movies E3 Business A10 Opinion Classified FI Puzzles E7 Comics Scoreboard C6 Contact Us A9 Sports CI DearAbby E8 State News A6 Deaths Television E4 Lotteries A2 Weather B8 Comment I TERRY I LARIMER Armstrong wheels into history Lance Armstrong gestures from the podium during ceremonies on the Champs-Etysees in Paris after winning the Tour de France for the seventh consecutive year. More on CI nesota had won the Tour de France three times and, incidentally, also won a Tour du Pont. That victory included a time trial win in a race from Allentown to Easton, after which LeMond generously agreed to a one-on-one interview.

As good and as gracious as LeMond was, even he 0 even reached remote outposts such as the Lehigh Valley, where a not-so-young columnist also was covering cycling road events. These included the one-day CoreStates race in Philadelphia and two-week events such as the Tour de Trump, which evolved into the Tour du Pont That columnist was skeptical about comparisons to LeMond. The rider from Min NO. 41,203 2005 The Morning Call All Rights Reserved For horn delivery, call 610-820-6601 or 800-666-5492 THE MORNING CALL (SSN 0864-5S57) Is published daily by The Morning Call 101 N. 6th Allentown, Pa.

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