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How whining poisons the workplace Living IE Fireworks for a fabulous 4th Where to go to see the shows Living IE Tennis whereabouts unknown Sports IB Variably cloudy Partly cloudy today and Wednesday with 30 chance of showers Highs near 90 both days Light winds2C Carolinas Edition (1) Tuesday July 4 1995 500 behavior raises license questions lunch break has drawn international attention spurring letters to Ann Landers jokes on Tonight Show" and articles in grocery tabloids What happened next struck people here as even more odd In April four months after suspending license for an alleged history of erratic behavior the NC Board of Medical Examiners gave it back Some of his former patients say it take a brain surgeon to know a mistake an said George Frick a former Sattler patient I built a building family says she now suffers dizziness and memory problems Last November two months after operation at New Hanover Regional Medical Center a medical board investigation found evidence that Sattler was unable to practice safely reason of illness or mental abnormality" It chronicled allegations of bizarre behavior that Sattler contested The board said Sattler: Played music so loud during neurosurgery that professionals in the operating Please see Sattlerpage 6A Famous midsurgery snack cost his license But NC gave it back By JOHN HECHINGER Staff Writer WILMINGTON Dr Raymond Sattler is famous for his appetite Last September while performing brain surgery in Wilmington he left to get a snack For 25 minutes his brain lay exposed He leave another doctor in charge and it collapsed do you think 1 should keep my license so 1 can go back and kill more Sattler 50 has closed his practice He talking but told the medical board he followed acceptable procedures His attorney describes his client as a talented if eccentric physician is a man who is an excellent surgeon and he has in effect been run out of the said lawyer Wade Smith of Raleigh has been run out of North Mary Jo Ridenhour 55 the woman left on the operating table plans to sue Sattler Her Dr Raymond Sattler in 1987 ILLS impels action on Today between the food the family and the fireworks you may snatch a quiet moment to reflect on our nation's 219th birthday To help you use the time well we've assembled a few trenchant thoughts from eminent Americans past and present The general theme here is liberty and individual responsibility as befits the Fourth But you'll find no oratorical flag-waving no smug patriotism Only one of the quotations was actually uttered on a Fourth of July but all the commentators share two ideals: a high-minded concern for their country's welfare and a commitment explicit or implied to unity among its brothers and sisters drag trade crackdown follows tough stands by Sen Helms President Clinton dence from Colombian authorities US intelligence agencies reported i drug money had found its way into the campaign that elected President Ernesto Samper And US Sen Jesse Helms R-NC in his role as the head of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee gave Colombia an ultimatum: Take steps to dismantle the drug trade or risk losing US aid Today the Andean nation is in the midst of a sweeping crackdown attacking the drug lords of Cali on their home turf More than 200 raids involving 6000 special Please see Colombiapage 5A By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS Observer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON A few months ago Colombia the largest supplier of illegal drugs to the United States seemed on its way to becoming an international pariah So extensive was the corrosive influence of narcotics traffickers that many Colombians accepted it as part of the landscape a national cross to bear As the kingpins of illegal drugs reigned relations be- Helms tween the United States and Colombia fell to a dismal state Justice Department officials began withholding evi Former federal prosecutor pleads guilty to helping Cali cartelpage 5A Paternity-suit switch may be one of many Were there other bogus blood samples? desire you would Remember the Ladies and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors Do not put such unlimited power Into the hands of the Husbands Remember all Men would be tyrants If they could If particular care and attention Is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice or Representation Abigail Adams to John Adams March 31 1776 Is the oldest and most discredited rule known to history (But) democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people Democracy can hold that devotion only when It adequately respects their dignity by so ordering society as to assure to the masses of men and women reasonable security and hope for themselves and for their children Franklin Roosevelt July 19 1940 have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day tor their bodies education and culture tor their minds and dignity equality and freedom for their spirits I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed I still believe that we will overcome Martin Luther King Jr accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace Dec 10 1964 By KATHLEEN McCLAIN Staff Writer The case of a Durham County woman convicted of taking $500 to rig a paternity test has outraged prosecutors shaken up child support enforcement agencies and set what may be a legal precedent Officials fear the 1990 blood switch that sent Karen Beth Weary to jail last week the only one Mecklenburg District Attorney Peter Gilchrist says an investigation is under way in dozens of Mecklenburg paternity cases in which Weary ruled men out as fathers know when had something made me as Gilchrist said know what's out Weary is a phiebotomist a person trained to take blood samples who was working as an independent contractor for several genetic testing firms If a paternity test is falsified and a man is ruled out as the father a child can be deprived of 18 years of financial support She was convicted last month of switching blood samples she took Please see Bloodpage 6A mmm imi I HH Give me your poor tired huddled masses to a point Hostility greets immigrants coming to America New citizens: David Ramgobin displays his certificate of naturalization at Federal District Court in Greenbelt Md as Thad Ereme holding balloons has his picture made a stigma today being an immigrant" says Ramgobin Last month Ramgobin now 32 stood in a wood-paneled Maryland courtroom raised his right hand and took an oath of fidelity to the United States of America becoming a citizen with 50 other immigrants a stigma today being an he said Welcome to Amenca A debate over what to do about the more than a million foreigners who move to this country every year is spreading and challenging cherished notions about what the United States is all about According to the 1990 Census about Please see Debatepage 8A By JENNIFER LIN Observer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON David Ramgobin was only 10 when he and his family came to this country from Trinidad He says he grew up thinking he was as American as the next guy He pledged allegiance to the flag at public school served in the US Army and later in life paid taxes to the IRS every April Except for not being able to vote it never bothered him that he was a legal immigrant with a green card instead of a citizen with a US passport But resentment toward immigrants even legal residents is building in this country Ramgobin felt compelled to act i.