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THE SUN WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 199C 2B MARYLAND BEL AIR IN THE Barry's path leads down; Mandela's leads upward STATE ROGER SIMON ROCK-THROWING INCIDENT Girl, still in coma, sent to rehabilitation center Destiny Morris, the 15-year-old Hagerstown girl who was seriously injured on the Capital Beltway last month when a rock was thrown into a pickup truck in which she was riding, has been transferred to a rehabilitation center near Pittsburgh, a spokeswoman for the Southern Maryland Hospital Center said yesterday. Miss Morris was taken Monday to The Meadowlands, a rehabilitation center in Canonsburg, said Peg Greenway, hospital administrator for public relations. The girl has been in a coma and has been treated at the Prince George' County hospital since the May 27 incident. "There was nothing more we could really do for her here," Ms. Greenway said.

She said Southern Maryland is an acute-care hospital, and Miss Morris was able to survive without life support care. Miss Morris had been sleeping in the cab of a truck taking her and friends home from Ocean City when the vehicle was hit by rocks thrown from the beltway median strip in Prince George's County, near Oxon Hill. Two 18-year-old men and a 17-year-old boy have been arrested in the incident. SIMON, from IB most heavily armed nations on earth. Mandela believes that until white South Africa puts down its arms, black South Africa cannot renounce violence or the threat of vio-leoce.

It is a difficult, dangerous path he has chosen. But he has chosen it. He has refused to let circumstances dictate his fate. He believes in the individual choices he has made. Marion Barry, too, has made choices.

He lived in a country not free from racism but infinitely freer than South Africa. And Marion Barry rose high in this country. He became mayor of the nation's capital, a job he could have held for as long as he wished. But he threw it away. And for what? For booze? For drugs? For groping a few strange women, none of whom appear any more attractive than his own wife? It was a choice.

He made it. At first glance. Nelson Mandela appears to have had few choices in his life. Blacks in South Africa are Suspect is shown in picture taken by a bank surveillance camera tnougni to nave committea. Blood tests fail to link suspect to Frederick teen-ager's murder Western Maryland Bureau of The Sun Police laboratory blood tests did not connect a suspect in the March 1989 killing of Tracey Lynn Kirkpat-rick to the scene of the crime, Frederick police said yesterday.

Ma). Richard J. Ashton, the police chief, said an analysis of bloodstained items submitted to the state police crime laboratory proved the blood was that of the 17-year-old The blood tests were not able to Implicate or eliminate anyone," Ma- Jor Ashton said. Police sent the evidence to the ft ft I V. 1 Ks' A aurmg one ui it rouoenes ne is BANK ROBBERIES Man sought in spree that began in 1989 Police are seeking a man thought to be responsible for 14 bank robberies since May 1989 in Baltimore City and in Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties.

The man, described as 25 to 35 years old and 5 feet 6 inches to 6 feet tall, was last seen Wednesday, when he robbed the Household Bank In the 5500 block of Baltimore National Pike in Catonsville, said E. Jay Miller, a Baltimore County police spokesman. The robbery spree began May 26, 1989, at the Maryland National Bank branch on Route 140 near Reisters- PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY Cicoria to run again while awaiting trial Prince George's County Councilman Anthony J. Cicoria, awaiting trial on theft and tax evasion charges, has changed his mind and will seek re-election In the fall. "The people have changed my mind," he said.

"So many people have urged me to run and continue the fine constituent service that I've done. That's what has always made me change my mind the people." Mr. Cicoria sent a letter dated Friday to constituents, saying he would announce on July 2 his intention to run. He and his wife, Catherine, are scheduled to stand trial in October on charges of theft and tax evasion in connection with the alleged siphoning of $64,000 in campaign funds for personal use. Both are charged with filing false state Income tax returns and one count of theft.

Mrs. Cicoria is charged with seven additional counts of perjury-Mr. Cicoria, who Is nearing the end of his second, four-year term on the council, has denied the 7 DR. ALFRED SOMMER JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Sommer named dean of public health school Dr. Alfred Sommer, an ophthalmologist recognized around the world for pioneering work using vitamin A In poor countries to prevent blindness, has been appointed dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Dr. Sommer, who will assume the post Sept. 1, will oversee the largest public health education program in the world. He is a professor of ophthalmology at the Hopkins School of Medicine and has Joint appointments in the Departments of epidemiology and international health in the School of Hygiene and Public Health. He succeeds Dr.

Donald A. Henderson, who served for 13 years as dean of the school, which has more than 300 faculty members, 1.000 students and projects In 40 nations. Romainc i-rt ro are missing girl's 1 111. aiau. luvuiuu VAaiimivi isb- fiw nnciHvplv frlpntiftprl thp rpmains found in a car pulled from the Sus-; quehanna River near Havre de Grace last week as those of Lisa D.

Swope. who disappeared in December The office could not determine the cause of death from the examination of the skeletal remains, which were discovered last week in about 25 feet of water, 125 feet offshore from a boat ramp at the Susquehanna State Park. The remains, clothing and personal effects were discovered in Miss Swope's 1974 Plymouth Duster. State police Sgt. Larry C.

Meusel, who is heading the investigation, said there was no indication of foul play or trauma to the remains and Miss Swope's death appeared accidental. The 17-year-old Havre de Grace High School student disappeared on Dec. 30, 1981, after leaving her Job at a local restaurant. TRED AVON RIVER High bacteria levels close beach in Talbot The Talbot County Health Department has banned swimmers from the Tred Avon River along The Strand because of unusually high levels of bacteria. Water samples taken between May 1 0 and June 1 8 showed that the amount of fecal coliform was as much as 2Vi times the safe level, said Kim Coulbourne, a sanitarian with the Health Department.

The beach has been closed since June 18. "Fecal coliform indicates that other types of bacteria and viruses could be present that could be excreted by animals or man," she said. People who swim in the water or drink it may become 111. Health officials said bacteria can result from increased sediment caused by ducks, heavy rain and boating. Ms.

Coulbourne did not know when the beach will be reopened for swimming. BALTIMORE 17-year-old charged as adult in slaying Baltimore police said yesterday that they have obtained warrants charging a 17-year-old in the drug-related slaying of a man who was shot Saturday as he sat in front of a house on Etting Street. Randall Allen Whiting of the 2 1 00 block of Division Street has been charged in warrants as an adult with flrst-detfree murder and with a hand gun violation, said Agent Arlene Jenkins, a police spokeswoman. Agent Jenkins said the victim, Ronald Tiers, 20, was sitting on steps near his house in the 2100 block of Etting Street just after 3 a.m. when he was shot.

Mr. Tiers ran down the street but was shot again by the gunman, the spokeswoman said. As he was lay. wounded, the gunman shot him a third time. Police said the shooting was drug-related but offered no further details.

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He said the man robbed some of the banks twice. Police said that in each instance the man approached a teller and produced a note demanding $50 and $100 bills and indicating that he was armed. Only once has anyone seen a weapon, police said. Police think the suspect has an accomplice to drive a getaway car. On one occasion, witnesses reported seeing the man flee In a red Nissan.

Mr. Miller said the man is considered armed and dangerous. Anyone with Information is asked to call the Baltimore County police robbery squad at 887-2017. WASHINGTON COUNTY Schools buy caller ID as bomb threats rise An increase in bomb threats has prompted Washington County school officials to buy caller Identification devices for telephones at middle schools and high schools. The school system has bought eight devices and plans to buy at least six more, said W.

Wayne Stouf-fer, finance and operations director for the school system. The devices display a caller's phone number. Thirteen bomb threats were called in to schools in Washington County the past school year. There were four during the previous year, school officials said. When a threat Is made, the building Is usually evacuated and searched.

Twice this year, school was canceled for part of the day due to threats. The school system loses money in canceled teaching time and wasted school lunches when classes are dismissed, said Deputy Superintendent Thomas A. Downs Jr. Each device cost the school system $83.50 plus $30 a year for service. "If we catch Just one person, it will probably pay for Itself," Mr.

Downs said. mm mm ill Time is Ticking Have a new Car Phone from without basic rights. But Mandela chose to live with dignity and with the independence that came from within his own spirit. So one man, who went to prison, was always free. And the other man, who lived in freedom, chose the prison of drugs.

You don't have to be a Barry or a Mandela to make these choices. They come to each of us. And perhaps the greatest value of Mandela's visit is to remind us once again where our paths can lead. laboratory nearly three months ago, hoping to Implicate a man who called a national hot line in June 1989 saying that he had killed Ms. Kirkpat-rick.

After police played the tape on local radio stations, someone called and identified the voice. Police have not released the name of the suspect, a Frederick County man, because he has not been charged. Ms. Kirkpatrick, a Brunswick High School honor student, was found stabbed to death on March 15, 1989, in a storeroom of a sportswear shop where she worked part time at the Westridge Shopping Center. $12200 per month for months.

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