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WORLD Wisconsin State Journal, Thursday, August 12. 1993. Plight of 2 Bosnian war survivors complicated 14A i i -s I ft Girl who drew world's attention deteriorating By Audrey Woods Associated Press LONDON Wounded 5-year-old Irma Hadzimura-tovic, whose suffering attracted world attention to the injured children of Bosnia, grew weaker Wednesday as British doctors fought to save her life. Irma, who was injured during a July 30 mortar attack that killed her mother, arrived Monday at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. The next day, surgeons removed shrapnel from her back and drained fluid from her head.

Much of her intestine had already been removed immediately after the attack. But she also has developed severe meningitis, an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. On Wednesday morning, Dr. Kathy Wilkinson announced: "There has been a marked deterioration in Ir-ma's condition." Meanwhile, Britain, Sweden and Ireland announced Wednesday they would evacuate all 41 patients on the U.N. list of emergency cases.

In Stockholm, Sweden, British Prime Minister John Major and Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt said the joint evacuation would start within 48 hours, taking 20 people to Britain, 16 to Sweden and five to Ireland. Major, responding to tearful telephone calls from the public, had intervened Monday to bring Irma to London after her doctor in Sarajevo, Edo Jaganjac, publicized her case. Jaganjac, desperate to get her to a properly supplied hospital, turned to the international news media after blaming U.N. red tape for delaying evacuation as Irma's condition worsened. The girl's father, Ramiz, left bedside Wednesday to appeal to the world to stop the fighting in Sarajevo.

If not, "more children like my daughter Irma will be he said at a brief news conference before being overcome by emotion. Translator Mamon Nahas finished the sentence for him: "He cannot say it will be killed." The U.N. High Commission for Refugees said Tuesday that 41 patients a third of them children need to be evacuated urgently from Sarajevo. Before the British-Swedish announcement, UNHCR Others await flights to foreign hospitals By Maud S. Beelman Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Suhra Coko and hundreds of other war victims didn't get the quick attention received by the 5-year-old girl who was whisked out of Bosnia this week amid an outpouring of world sympathy.

Like ittle Irma Hadzimuratovic, flown to London on Monday for treatment of her mortar wound, Coko urgently needs medical attention outside Sarajevo. But after two weeks, the 34-year-old woman is still waiting to hear whether the United Nations will be able help save her right leg, mangled when one of its armored personnel carriers hit her. She is one of about 400 people whose cases the U.N.'s four-doctor medical evacuation team is evaluating to see if they are eligible for medical evacuations. Hundreds of others also are hoping for a chance at outside medical help. Tony Land, head of the U.N.

High Commissioner for Refugees' office in Sarajevo, acknowledged that the system "doesn't move quickly enough." But he noted that patients must be stable enough to travel and have a plane, country and hospital to take them, as well as someone to pay the bills. The system has seldom been so efficient as on Monday when Irma was flown out after the world's press focused on the plight of the badly wounded girl. Coko's case is poignant, too. She was run over by a U.N. armored personnel carrier July 26 while walking back from Kosevo hospital.

She had been visiting her husband, left a paraplegic after mortar rounds slammed into his front-line position. She was standing on the side of the road, waiting for traffic to clear, when the U.N. vehicle she had spotted traveling down the road suddenly swerved and hit her. "I don't know why they didn't see me," she said. Now, Coko lies in a hospital bed worrying about her two sons, ages 11 and 6.

"They're alone now," she said, her face trembling as she fought back tears. Her physician, Dr. Anadi Begic, worries how to save her right leg. "It's too slow," he said of the U.N. procedure.

"She could lose hr leg." Associated Press Associated Press Ramiz Hadzimuratovic, father of critically ill 5-year-old Irma, holds her 3-year-old sister Medina during a news conference in London Wednesday. spokeswoman Sylvana Foa said in Geneva that the publicity about Irma's case had brought a flood of offers. In Helsinki, a senior health official said Wednesday that Finland was prepared to receive 13 wounded children from the Bosnian capital. The Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England has offered to treat a boy on the U.N.'s evacuation list, 11-year-old Ijdham Dedovic. He was wounded May 29 by a shell that blinded him in one eye and badly injured his right arm.

Thousands of children have been wounded during the 16-month war in Bosnia. Between 140,000 and 200,000 people have been killed or reported missing. 'Suhra Coko, 34, the victim of a United Nations road cident, has her right leg check Wednesday by her doc- tor, Anadi Begic, at Sarajevo's Kosevo Hospital. Coko wants the United Nations to evacuate her entire family. But the chances of that happening, given the bureaucratic morass in simply getting out the 41 people who've already been cleared for evacuation, are slim.

"I would like us all to leave because my husband is so badly wounded, and I'd like my kids to go because it's so dangerous for them to live alone," Coko said. "I'm just hoping that they (the U.N.) are going to save us." U.N. doctors apparently concur with Begic that the woman needs help urgently. "They agree that the injury is very bad," he said. 3 questioned in murder of CIA agent in Georgia Ailing Dominican retains clout Balaguer, 86, likely to add to 30 years in power By Doralisa Pilarte Knight-Ridder Newspapers SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic When President Joaquin Balaguer 86 years old and blind left abruptly for a Miami hospital last week, the Dominican Republic's collective heart skipped a beat.

Without Balaguer, a conservative who, has By Liatn McDowall Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia Three people have been picked up for questioning in the murder of a reported CIA agent, and the head of security for Georgia's leader was suspended Wednesday pending the outcome of the investigation. The security chief, Eldar Gogo-ladze, was driving the car in which Fred Woodruff, 45, was killed Sunday night; His suspension was reported by an official of the Ministry of Information and Intelligence, where Gogoladze works. Officials in Washington say Woodruff was a diplomat, but news reports have identified him as a veteran CIA operative. On Tuesday, CIA Director James Woolsey Jr. flew to the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, to bring bis body home.

Woodruff was shot in the head by an unknown assailant while driving with Gogoladze and two Georgian women along a crime-plagued stretch of road 15 miles from Tbilisi. The motive was not clear. James Hutchinson, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, said three people were picked up for uominaiea uonumcan politics for 30 years, his Social Christian Reformist Party is likely to scatter its strength with infighting and give opponents a good shot at next year's presidential elections. But with him around, even if in frail health, questioning.

At least one was wearing a uniform, he said, but added that it was unclear whether the man was a soldier. The Embassy had no informa- tion on the people questioned or whether they had been detained. Georgian officials did not provide more information about the case. But Maj. Soso Margishivili, spokesman for the Georgian military, said no National Guardsmen had been detained.

Hutchinson said the plane that brought Woolsey left behind an American official to help Georgian investigators. Georgian officials have said Woodruff might have been a victim of common crime, which is growing -amid a general air of lawlessness in-Georgia. There also was speculation police fired on Woodruff's vehicle because it failed to stop at sev-eral checkpoints. U.S. officials have been vague about what Woodruff was doing in-'-v Georgia.

They said he had been in Tbilisi since June and was to have' returned to Washington in a few1 days. -H 4 i hi-: Ify Post's i il countries presumably France, as Haiti's colonial-era master, and Canada were interested in uniting the island of Hispaniola as one country. Pena Gomez, 56, a rousing speaker and wily politician in his own right, says he has the right tools for winning the elections. "I'm not a secret or an unknown," he said in an interview. "I am a well-known leader in this country, and I have already passed the test of power." Unlike at other times in this country, where dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo once ruled for three decades, neither the political campaign nor Balaguer's ailments have caused apprehension about possible military coups or cancellation of the balloting.

"Twelve or 15 years ago, any matter of much less importance would have provoked a wave of comments about possible interruptions of the constitutional order," said an editorial in the newspaper El Nacional one day after Balaguer's sudden departure. "It is comforting to know the Dominican people have learned that governments are changed in the ballot box, with votes," it added. Balaguer's main drawback has been his advanced age and frail health. But one political observer said the president may just turn this apparent weakness to own favor. guer's durability and knack for the surprise comeback, and even the man who stands to gain the most by Balaguer's disappearance, opposition leader Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, concedes his strength.

Within the Social Christian Reformists, "the only one who has the possibility of performing well and winning the election is Balaguer," said Pena Gomez, a former mayor of Santo Domingo and Revolutionary Party presidential hopeful who has led opinion polls lately. So strong has been Pena Gomez's showing in popularity polls, that Balaguer has begun waging a low-intensity electoral campaign long before the elections in May of next year. JB, as newspapers here call Balaguer, has yet to declare his candidacy and has even insinuated he might not run. Few believe him. And just last month, he threw a couple of punches that smacked of full-swing electioneering.

His legal counsel began the attack by saying it would be "shameful" for any Dominican to vote for a Haitian, a reference to Pena Gomez, who is black and said to be a descendant of Haitian immigrants. Balaguer put a stop to the racist attacks two days later, but then went on the offensive, stirring Dominicans' historically uneasy feelings about next-door Haiti by intimating that third the main opposition Do- Balaguer minican Revolutionary Party might be forced to trim its hope of recapturing the presidency after years in the political wilderness. As Balaguer recuperates from surgery at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital he had aneurysms, weakenings of the walls of an artery, removed from both thighs last week nobody in this Caribbean nation is making the mistake of writing him off. Friend and foe alike are familiar with Bala- imiiire Arlington, Va. Madison Columbus Potosi Columbus Highland Madison Livingston Dells Verona Burke, John Richard Canny, John Michael, 88 Hazelton, William F.

"Bill," 77 Henderson, Bette 68 Langefeldt, Clara, 90 Linscheid, Mrs. Alphons (Marie), 91 Naeseth, Olivia Louise, 39 O'Konek, Nora 65 Rhinehart, Paul 72 Van de Grift, Robert Rhinehart of Adams, and Gary (Pattl) Rhinehart of Anchorage; 14 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; three brothers, Virgil (Melba) Rhinehart of Reedsburg, Philip (Janls) Rhinehart of1-Adams, and Adelbert Rhinehart of Blrchwood; and four sis--ters. Ruby Davis of Mauston, Viola Dorow of Reedsburg, Florence (Francis) Hirst of Reedsburg, and Alta -(Raymond) Kozlowskl of Wisconsin. Dells. Funeral services will be con- -ducted at 2:00 p.m.

on Friday, August 13, 1993, In TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH, Wisconsin Dells, with Rever-end Dennis Schueller officiating. Burial will follow In Butterfleld Friends may call from 5:00 until 9:00 p.m. on Thursday at the FARBER FU-NERAL HOME, In Reedsburg. Burke, John Richard ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA John Richard Burke of Arlington, Virginia, died on Sunday, August 8, 1993. He was the beloved husband of Amelle M.

Burke; and brother of the late Donald Burke. Also surviving are two cousins, Mrs. Ronald Kelly and Mrs. AAlchael Dean of Madison, Wisconsin. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at ST.

AGNES CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1914 N. Randolph Street, Arlington, Virginia, on Friday, August 13, at 11:00 a.m. Friends and family will gather at the Administration Building, ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY on Wednesday, August 18, at 12:30 p.m. for a 1:00 p.m. Inurnment with honors.

Memorial contributions may be made to DACOR Bacon House Foundation, 1801 Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20006. Arrangements by MURPHY FUNERAL HOME OF West Palm Beach, Florida. He was preceded In death by his parents and Sister, Mary. Funeral services will be held at IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH, 5101 Schofleld Monona at 10:00 a.m.

on Saturday, August 14, 1993, the Reverend John Melnholz officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's of the Lake cemetery, Westport. Friends may call from 5:00 until 8:00 p.m. on Friday, August 13, 1993 at the JOYCE FUNERAL HOME, 540 W.

Washington where a rosary will be said at 7:00 p.m. Hazelton, William F. "Bill" COLUMBUS William F. "Bill" Hazelton, age 77, died on Tuesday, August 10, 1993, at Columbus Nursing and Rehabilitation Center In Columbus. A grayeside service will be held at 1:00 p.m.

on Thursday, August, 12, 1993, at HILLSIDE CEMETERY, Columbus. Reverend Samuel Batt will officiate. Jones-Jensen Funeral Home Columbus Henderson, Bette E. POTOSI Bette E. Henderson, age 68, died Tuesday afternoon at her home in Potosi.

She was born on May 3, 1925, In Coin, Iowa, the daughter of Ivan and Viva (Barret) Vermule. She graduated from high school In Blanchard, Iowa. On May 3, 1941 she married Harry Henderson in Rockport, Missouri; he survives. They moved to Platteville In 1948, where her husband taught at UW-Plattevllle and later in numerous countries overseas. They moved to Potosi in May 1985 from Lebandh where Harry had taught at the American University.

In Potosi they operated St. John Mine and Canoe Service. Bette was a member of the Lions Club, the Sara Sponda Spinners, and the Potosi Township Historical Society. She was an artist and very interested In arts and crafts; loved fishing and the outdoors; gathering watercress, nuts, and berries. She Is also survived by her parents, Ivan Vermule of Denver, Colorado; Viva Pearson of Clarlnda, Iowa; three sons, Lonnie (Carol) of Racine, Randy (Mary) of Cedar Rap-Ids, Iowa and Jeffry (Nancy) of Platteville; a sister, Detores Rice of Phoenix, Arizona; three grandchildren and two step-grandchildrea Friends may call at the family home of St.

John Mine In Potosi from 4:00 until 8:00 p.m. on Thursday. A private gust 12, 1993 at the MCGUIRE-PETERSON FUNERAL HOME, Highland, where a Parish Rosary will be held at 7:30 p.m. "She will be deeply missed by her family and friends." Naeseth, Olivia Louise MADISON Olivia Louise Naeseth, age 39, of 4909 Sherwood Road, Madison, died on Wednesday, August 11, In Mount Horeb. She was born on March 31, 1954, In Madison, the daughter of Gerhard and Milma (Petrell) Naeseth.

After attending the University of Wisconsin, she served for some years os administrative secretary on a research prolect at the University of Wisconsin Institute of Environment. She then lolned the staff of the Wisconsin Insurance Alliance as staff assistant, serving there until Illness forced her retirement. Olivia was a lover of the outdoors. She was a member of Bethel Lutheran Church. Survivors include her parents and brother, Charles, of Madison.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 14, 1993 at 11:00 a.m. at BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH, 312 Wisconsin Avenue, Madison. The Reverend James Koza will officiate. Burial will follow at 2:00 p.ra In the Spring Prairie Cemetery near DeForest. Friends may call at the GUNDERSON FUNERAL HOME, 5203 Monona Drive on Friday from 5:00 until 7:00 p.m.

If friends desire, memorials may be mode to the Multiple Sclerosis Society or to Bethel Horizons. O'Konek, Nora M. LIVINGSTON Nora M. O'Konek, age 65, of Livingston, died on Tuesday, August 10, 1993. She and her husband, Harold, operated the Dutchman's Inn from 1971 to 1989.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, August 13, at the SOMAN-LARSON FUNERAL HOME In Montfort. Friends may call from 4:00 until 8:00 p.m. on Thursday at the funeral home. Rhinehart, Paul J.

WISCONSIN DELLS Paul J. Rhinehart, age 72, of Wisconsin Dells, died on Tuesday, August 10, 1993, at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison. He Is survived by his wife, Eileen of Wisconsin Dells; a daughter, Joanne (Stanley) Weldllng of Lake Delton; five sons, Charles (Cynthia) Rhinehart of Lake Delton, Richard (Carol) Rhinehart of Eau Claire, Chester (Cay) Rhinehart of Wausau, Dale (Pattl) family memorial service will be held at a later date. The METCALFE-KUENSTER-PAGE FUNERAL HOME of Potosi assisted the family with arrangements.

Memorials may be made to the Potosi-Tennyson Chamber of Commerce Pier Prolect, co Farmers and Merchants Bank, Potosi, Wisconsin 53820. Langefeldt, Clara COLUMBUS Clara Langefeldt, age 90, a resident of Friendship Manor, Columbus, and formerly of 407 W. Harrison Street, died on Wednesday, August 11, 1993, at the Manor. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 14, 1993, at 11:00 a.m. at the Funeral Home.

Reverend Robert Wilke will officiate. Burial will be in HILLSIDE CEMETERY, Columbus. Friends may call at the Funeral Home from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Friday.

Jones-Jensen Funeral Home Columbus Linscheid, Mrs. Alphons (Marie) HIGHLAND Mrs. Alphons (Marie) Linscheid, age 91, of Highland, Wisconsin, died on Wednesday, August 11, 1993 at Bloomfleld Manor, Dodgevllle, following a brief illness. The former Marie Imhoff was born on April 16, 1902 In Highland to Stephen and Catherine (Franzen) Imhoff. She married Alphons H.

Linscheid of Muscoda on August 23, 1927. The couple farmed in the Highland area until retiring to the Village of Highland in 1960. He preceded her In death on August 27, 1979. Marie was a member of St. Anthony's Catholic Church and Altar Society.

She was also preceded In death by her parents and a daughter, Pat Fecht of Mollne, Illinois In June of 1988. Marie Is survived bv two daughters, Marlorle (Jack) Ament of Phoenix, AZ and Mary (Wayne) Fredrlch of Tacoma, WA; five sons, Bill (Barb) of Highland, Arthur (JoDean) of Dodgevllle, Joseph of Mollne, IL, James (Judy) of Madison and Alphons Jr. "Zeke" (Barb) of Cobb; 26 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; a sister, Laura Imhoff Bambenek of Winona, MN; a brother, George Imhoff of Highland and many nieces and nephews. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, August 13, 1993 at ST.

ANTHONY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH In Highland. Father John Urban will officiate with burial In ST. ANTHONY'S CEMETERY. Friends and relatives may call from 4:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.

Thursday, Au at a local nursing home. He was born on March 5, 1905 to Edward Patrick Canny and Mary Breakey In Ottumwa, Iowa. John married Louise Dennis of Eddyvllle, Iowa on June 26, 1928 In the St. Joseph Hospital chapel In Ottumwa. John came to Madison from the Ottumwa Courier In December of 1934 to serve as circulation manager of the Wisconsin State Journal.

In 1954, after the two local newspapers consolidated operations, he succeeded Harry Cowgill as circulation director. He held this position until his retirement In September of 1970. As a member of the Central States Circulation Mangers Association, since 1926, he served In various offices Including President (1939-40). He was active In the circulation seminars held at Iowa University and the University of Wisconsin up to his retirement. He was a lifetime member of the Knights of Columbus.

As an active parishioner In St. Mary's of the Lake Catholic Church of Westport for thirty years, he served at various times as president of the Holy Name Society, President of the Church Council, church secretary and church treasurer. John was a longtime member of the Madison Optimists Club. He also served as treasurer of the Madison Serra Club (a group that promotes religious vocations In the local Catholic Schools). Survivors Include his wife Louise and three children, John Edword (Mary), of Cincinnati, David Patrick (Karen), of Platteville and Janet Louise (James) Goodwin, of Monona; fourteen grandchildren and twenty greatgrandchildren.

He Is also survived by two brothers, Edward (Ann), of Fountain Hill, Arizona and Robert (Fran), of Hemet, California and two sisters, Margaret Canny and Theresa Zeh, of Van de Grift, Robert T. VERONA We mourn the passing of, Robert T. Van de Grift, loving husband of Kathy Van de Grift, son of Dr. and Mrs. J.J.

Van de Grift, trust-ing brother to Jim, Jan and Jon and father of Corey. Entrepeneur and owner-operator of Van de Grift Electric, Bob was a Verona native and longtime resident, and made valuable contributions to the community. For many years, Bob was also octive as Verona's unofficial good-will ambassa-' dor to Las Vegas, the Caribbean, and all points blessed by sun, sand and sea We shall miss his sense of humor, his adventurous spirit and his boundless love of life. Family and 1 friends are Invited to celebrate Bob's spirit at a memorial to be held a Van de Grift Park, corner of Harvest and Parkland, Verona, on Saturday, August 14, 1993 from 10:00 am until 2:00 p.m. Inquiries may be made at 845-6511 Canny, John Michael MADISON John Michael Canny, age 88, died on Tuesday, August 10, 1993 I.