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A3 NATION Settlement reached in Farrakhan murder plot Malcolm X's daughter avoids trial by agreeing r.j I gunned down 30 years ago, is accused of trying to have killed because she believed the fiery minister had a hand in her father's assassination and was a threat to her mother. The prosecution's case centered on secretly taped telephone conversations between Shabazz, 34, and an informant and a statement that Shabazz gave to FBI agents on Dec. 20. In pretrial proceedings, the defense argued that the government informant, Michael Fitzpatrick, lured Shabazz into the plot by romancing her and preying upon her fears for her family. Fitzpatrick was a high school acquaintance and the supposed hit man.

kill Louis Farrakhan," said a source close to the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The source said the trial has been deferred for two years on the condition that Shabazz participate in a two-year psychiatric and chemical dependency program. Shabazz would spend the first three months in a residential treatment program in Texas. If Shabazz completes the program and remains law-abiding, the indictment would be dismissed. If convicted, Shabazz would face up to 90 years in prison and a $2.25 million fine.

She has been free on $10,000 bail. Shabazz, who saw her father Shabazz, who had been scheduled for trial this morning on charges of plotting to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The judge asked Shabazz if she understood that signing the agreement, known as a pretrial diversion, meant she gave up her right to a speedy trial. "Yes, I understand that," Shabazz answered clearly, with defense attorney Percy Sutton and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeanne Graham standing at her side.

No details of the settlement were discussed in court "The settlement involves an affidavit where she accepts responsibility for her participation in the plot to to seek treatment Jeffrey Shelman the associated press MINNEAPOLIS Prosecutors agreed today to drop murder-for-hire charges against a daughter of Malcolm in a deal that requires her to abandon her allegations of an FBI frame-up and seek drug and psychiatric treatment. U.S. District Judge James Rosenbaum accepted the settlement in a brief court hearing for Qubilah Scientists learn viruses can mutate into lethal form in nutrient-deficient diet Laurie Garrett newsday 1 AP FILE PHOTO Qubilah Shabazz will drop her claim that she was set up. Publisher of Penthouse says he'll print Unabomber's manifesto NEW YORK (AP) Magazine publisher Bob Guccione said he would publish the Unabomber's manifesto and put his public relations team behind the effort "in order to save lives." Guccione, chairman of General Media International, which publishes Penthouse and Omni maga- tt i I Coxsackievirus B3, and several independent scientists agree that the discovery has broad implications for human disease, including influenza and the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS. It has long been known that malnourished people suffer far more frequent episodes of nearly all types of disease than well-fed people, and that new strains of viruses typically first appear in areas of human poverty.

The World Health Organization estimates, for example, that 12.2 million children under age 5 die annually from infectious diseases all but 350,000 of whom perish as a result of complications from malnutrition and lack of proper health care. It has generally been assumed that malnutrition increases susceptibility to diseases by crippling an individual's immune system. As a corollary to that the risk for infection was believed to be restricted to the malnourished individual. But the new research shows that malnutrition not only weakens the immune system but also prompts dangerous mutations in the infectious microbe. And those mutant microbes can go on to become a risk for everyone rich and poor, the well-fed and the under-fed.

The old argument that you are what you eat apparently holds true for viruses as well, according to a new study that has wide-ranging implications in the scientific probe into how viruses mutate. In a striking series of experiments the final results of which appear in Monday's issue of the British journal Nature Medicine scientists have shown that a usually benign virus mutates into a lethal form when the mouse it infects is fed a diet lacking the key nutrient selenium. Worse yet, the study by scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, found that the mutant strain can then be passed on to a healthy, well-fed mouse, with a lethal outcome. "I think this is going to blow things wide open.

It could be that any number of nutritional deficiencies cause all sorts of viruses to undergo similar changes," said Orville Levander, a Deparment of Agriculture nutritionist who was one of the key researchers. Though the research took place in mice, the virus was a human pathogen called insTLiLi ASSOCIATED PRESS Briefly Pregnancy clock may reduce premature births NEW YORK Researchers have found abnormal hormone levels early in pregnancy in women who eventually delivered prematurely or well past their due dates. Scientists might be able to prevent many premature births if they can find the biological clock that regulates delivery and adjust it in women whose hormone level shows a high risk for prematurity, said Dr. Roger Smith, a researcher in the study. The clock is probably in the placenta, which produces the hormone tracked in the study, Smith said.

About 11 percent of births in the United States are premature, happening before the 37th week of pregnancy. Premature babies are at increased risk of death and conditions including cerebral palsy, seizure disorders, blindness, lung disease and mental retardation. Smith is director of the Maternal Health Research Center at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, Australia. He and others report on their study in the May issue of Nature Medicine. Episcopal embezzling charged NEW YORK The former treasurer of the Episcopal Church embezzled $2.2 million in the past five years, Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning said today.

Ellen F. Cooke, who resigned in January, used most of the money for personal items including the purchases of homes in Virginia and New Jersey and tuition for her children, Browning said in a statement. Cooke was able to divert church funds from February 1990 to this January in part because she maintained control over auditing and, in violation of church policies, both filled out check request forms and signed them herself, according to Browning. Church officials said Mrs. Cooke has not been charged with any crime and is cooperating in the investigation and recovery of the embezzled funds.

Keg tossed in fire explodes LAKE RONKONKOMA, N.Y. An empty beer keg thrown into a bonfire at a party exploded early Sunday, killing a man with pieces of flying metal. Chester Vesloski, 21, was standing about 35 feet from the fire when the keg exploded. One of the pieces of metal severed his arm at the elbow, said Suffolk County Detective Sgt. Kevin Cronin.

Vesloski died later at a hospital. About 10 people were at the outdoor keg party near woods in this Long Island town. No one else was injured. The bulk of the keg was found about 250 feet from the fire, Cronin said. Priest mugged in confession NEW YORK An 85-year-old priest was mugged in the confessional by a man who had begged him for some money and asked to make a confession, police said.

The Rev. Raymond Dendon gave the man some change when he showed up Saturday afternoon at St. Vincent Ferrer Church in Brooklyn, police spokesman Doram Tamari said. Then the man asked the priest to hear his confession. "They go into the confessional and he grabs the priest's arm through the screen and threatens to break it unless the priest gives him more money," Tamari said.

"He relieved the priest of $20 and left." The Associated Press Tm making this offer to save BOB GUCCIONE PUBLISHER zines, urged the mail-bomb terrorist in an open letter to "contact me at your earliest convenience." In a letter to The New York Times last Pig hearts implanted successfully into baboons Four at large after 14 LA prison inmates escape A Los Angeles County Sheriff escorts escapee Guillermo Godinez to a helicopter after his capture near Valencia Sunday, hours after he and 1 3 others scaled a 20-foot fence and escaped from a maximum-security jail before dawn. Nine other prisoners were captured after Sunday's escape, the biggest ever from the Los Angeles County jail system. The 14 inmates escaped through a hole in the ceiling that had been temporarily repaired with a metal plate. The men used clothing and bedding to try to protect themselves from razor wire on the fence. But pools of blood stained the ground nearby and droplets led into surrounding scrub.

Residents near the Peter J. Prtchess Honor Rancho prison were warned by loudspeakers on patrol cars to keep children ixkxxs. and the new work shows it has been overcome, said researcher Dr. Jeffrey Piatt. The study is reported in the May issue of Nature Medicine.

Dr. John P. Atkinson, a Washington University immunology expert who's researching transplants between species, said he believed more work is needed on the topic. But "it looks like they've made a pretty good start here," Atkinson said. "It looks like, in concept, it's going to work." NEW YORK (AP) Hearts taken from genetically altered pigs and implanted in baboons were well-protected from an immune system attack, a step toward making animal organs available for human transplant, scientists say.

The pig hearts carried proteins that markedly reduced damage from an initial and normally devastating assault by the immune system. This attack, called "hyperacute rejection," has been considered the biggest barrier to routine transplants of animal organs into people, week, the alleged bomber promised to stop his 17-year reign of terror if a major media outlet published his plus manifesto. "I am making one or several of my magazines available to publicize your message," Guccione wrote in his open letter, which was faxed to The Associated Press today. "We could publish your entire manuscript at one time, or as you suggest, we could serialize it over two to three months. "Furthermore," Guccione said, "I would dedicate our entire public relations operation to help publicize your message." Other media outlets reacted with more caution to the Unabomber's demand.

Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger said they would "make a journalistic decision about whether to publish it in our pages." Time and Newsweek, which were specifically mentioned in the Unabomber's letter, were noncommittal. Officials say the Unabomber has killed three people and wounded 23 others with package bombs in attacks dating back to 1978. He struck last on April 20, killing a timber industry lobbyist in Sacramento, Calif. "I'm making this offer," Guccione said, "to save lives." Wildlife thrives in a Arest healtfo Eagles and hawks are natural predators of many animals-such as mountain beavers- that damage young trees. That's one reason it's in our own best interest to maintain habitats for these and other predators.

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