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The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 9

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I Repulsed Ethiopia Attack in Northwest, Somalia Says 4th Death Linked to Rare Amoeba in Florida Lakes tion, the microscopic organism killed Tommy Schultz, 6, of Grant, on Florida's central east coast, earlier in the month. Voss said the illness had caused another death in nearby Pinellas County but he had no details in the case. Voss and McGarry said investigators from the federal Center for Disease Control in Atlanta and the New York Health Department pinpointed River Country as the source of the amoeba after the New York child's parents reported that the amusement park was the only place 00 Angeles Stones 9 Aug. 28. 1980 Part I where he had gone swimming recently.

The two officials said there was no reason to blame Disney World for the tragedy because the amoeba can breed in almost any freshwater lake during hot weather. Officials have said there is no epidemic of the disease in central Florida, where all four cases were detected. Disney spokesmen said there was not much they could do. nasal passage and attacked the nervous system, including the brain, according to Dr. Robert Gunn, state epidemiologist.

The boy, who was not identified by New York or Florida health authorities, died last Friday, McGarry said. David Voss, spokesman for the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, said the three other deaths were similar. Twelve-year-old Christopher Leiter of St. Petersburg died in a Lakeland hospital last week from the inflammatory infection. In addi Soviet air and naval base on the Gulf of Aden, to which the United States gained access under a new agreement signed last week with Somalia.

Ethiopia, with the aid of Soviet advisers and Cuban troops, defeated Somalia in a war over eastern Ethiopia's Ogaden Desert region in 1978. At that time, regular Somali troops fought alongside ethnic Somali guerrillas seeking to unite the Ogaden with Somalia. Since then, the guerrillas have continued a hit-and-run war against the Ethiopians, and Ethiopia has charged that Somalia was still infiltrating troops into the desolate region. Somalia has long claimed the Ogaden region. Ethiopia said earlier this month that its patience was wearing thin over fighting in the Ogaden.

It accused Somalia of having regular military forces in the territory and warned of possible retaliatory NAIROBI, Kenya OB Ethiopian infantry backed by combat aircraft invaded northwestern Somalia early Wednesday and fighting flared along a 27-mile front, Somalia's Defense Ministry said. The announcement, distributed in neighboring Kenya by Somalia's national news agency, said the attack started shortly before dawn when Ethiopian infantry units crossed the border and Ethiopian planes bombed at least five towns in the northwestern region of the northeast African country. Near Berber Base (In Washington, Somalia told the United States that Ethiopian troops invaded its territory but were repulsed after a short-lived border conflict, United Press International reported.) The Somalis charged that the Ethiopian invasion took place near the northwestern Somalia border town of Borama, about 150 miles southwest of Berbera, the former A whole new Broadway like you've never seen before is open at Plaza Pasadena now. ORLANDO, Fla. OR-A rare but deadly disease caused by an amoeba found in Florida freshwater lakes has caused a fourth death that sf a New York youngster who spent his vacation swimming at Disney World's River Country.

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