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Sunday, May 10, 1098 THE MONITOR, McAIIen, Texas SB Courts Gity must pay interest to tycoon's former mistress, judge says The Associated Press of health spa tycoon Richard 'Minns, says police ignored a September 1980 report from a Houston that he had been offered. I $10,000, to kill her, chop up her body and dump the remains in the Gulf of Five' weeks after the tip was received, Piotrowski was shot four times in the back as pleadings' and said the city must; pay $18.1 million; instead of $22.3 million ordered in January, when Piotrowski won the negljgence law-', suit' He said the "city also must pay Barbra Piotrowski 10 percent interest on the fine. (' Piotrowski claimed the Houston Police Department failed to protect her and dismissed a threat on life without a warning in the September 1993 lawsuit. Piotrowski, the one-time mistress Piotrowski's attorney Steve Sumner said. Sumner said the interest will cause the award to be about $24 million, and the plaintiffs plan to ask Hittner to award $6 million in attorney fees.

Houston city attorney Anthony Hall has said the city will appeal the jury's decision. The jury determined the Houston Police Department- knew of the murder-for-hire plot more than a month before the shooting and did nothing to warn Piotrowski. During the. case, evidence showed two of the officers handling Piotrowski's complaints against Minns vere working as bodyguards for him and the man who solicited her murder. Piotrowski accused Minns, founder of what became the President and First Lady health clubs, of masterminding a 1980 attempt to kill her after three-year affair soured.

Minns never has been charged with a criminal offense in the shooting. He left the country and has lived abroad most of the time since 1982. Houston private investigator Dudley Bell and Robert Jess Anderson of Spring were convicted of hiring the men who shot Piotrowski and were sentenced to 38 years in prison. Nathaniel Ivery and Patrick Tony Steen, both of California, were convicted of carrying out the plot and were sentenced to, 35 years in prison. HOUSTON A judge has reduced the amount of money the city of Houston has to pay a former model partially paralyzed in an attack more than a decade ago.

But U.S. District Judge David Hittner has ordered the city to pay the interest on the $18.1 million judgment since the lawsuit 'was filed in 1993. Hittner said plaintiffs duplicated some of their claims in the case's she left a Houston doughnut shop. The attack left her partially paralyzed. "We proved 'state-created danger' and our equal-protection DALLAS: Health Blacks should f1 D'S E) A fight causes of heart disease, doctors urge The Associated Press DALLAS Several leading black cardiologists are calling for a renewed attack on the causes of heart disease among blacks.

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Charles Francis, director of medicine at Harlem Hospital Center in New York and chairman of the Association of Black Cardiologists. Francis said blacks are more likely than whites to carry major risk factors for cardiovascular disease, including obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes and smoking. He said it was a "very ominous sign" that smoking is increasing among black teens. Francis also urged more research into treatment of high blood pressure among blacks. He said many blacks don't trust researchers because of studies such as one conducted at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, in which researchers monitored but did not treat blacks suffering from syphilis.

"We need to get the message across to African-Americans that research is valuable," Francis said. A common method of recruiting research patients is by paying them. But Francis and others said this raises concerns that some participants are more interested in the money than advancing medical knowledge. Yancy, the UT Southwestern cardiologist, said screening for heart disease must begin earlier among blacks because nearly 40 percent develop high blood pressure in their late 20s or 30s. Among other races, he said, high blood pressure usually develops later in life.

"That is an extreme statistic because that means a lifetime of exposure to the deleterious effects of hypertension" for many blacks, Yancy said. Dr. Elijah Saunders, head of hypertension research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said blacks on average have diets that are higher in salt, fat and calories, causing key organ damage and death. Saunders said there are several "special challenges" in treating blacks for high blood pressure. He said blacks are more likely to be diagnosed later and to have other diseases.

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