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The Sacramento Bee FROM PAGE ONE Friday June 2 2000 A21 Carmakers urge side air bag tests Proposal would create a voluntary industry-wide program Reunion: Mom faces attempted murder abduction charges 3- and 6-year-old children and a small adult The dummies will be placed in 12 positions including leaning against a door and lying across the seat One test calls for the 3-year-old child dummy to be placed in the position in front but turned toward the back with its head between the door and side of the front seat would venture that most if not all side air bags that are out there would not comply with these said Adrian Lund a research engineer with the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and chairman of the industry group that came up with the tests The industry hopes tests will avoid problems that occurred with front air bags In some cases the bags deployed with such force that children and small adults have been killed or seriously injured makers to conduct the tests or report the results It is phantom said Robert Sanders whose 7-year-old daughter was killed in 1995 when a front air bag deployed in a low-speed crash is no way that the public will know that the bags comply with the standard and even if the automakers test to the standard there is no said Sanders director of Parents for Safer Air Bags have to recall the thing or fix Rob Strassburger of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers which represents most automakers said market forces will compel companies to test their systems The industry is proposing tests to measure how side air bags protect dummies meant to represent Continued from page A1 of what 2-year-old Jonathan might look like today and warned guards to be on the lookout for visitors Police Correctional Officer Laura Boersig noticed a startling resemblance to the image when Fu-entes-Ortiz received three visitors at the jail Tuesday night Jona-'' than was laier taken into custody along with his grandmother and another relative i By Thursday the reunited father and son were spending time at the beach getting to know each other again really overwhelming We see him and we believe it getting along with his said Brenda Ortiz paternal aunt our turn to take care of She said Jonathan misses his mother and the family would allow him to visit her in jail if a child specialist determined it would be beneficial for him willing to do anything for Brenda Ortiz said Jonathan recognized his father immediately despite the lost years because of family photos he kept Police say the saga began March 11 1992 when Fuentes-Ortiz brought lunch a hamburger and a milkshake to her husband while he was working at a toy store in Redwood City She allegedly told him the shake was filled with amino acids to help him build muscles and that it might taste funny In fact the shake was spiked with a common insecticide and Ortiz went into convulsions 10 seconds later in the break room Redwood City Sgt Kathryn Anderson said His heart stopped and his liver failed and before he lapsed into a coma he was able to tell police only that a friend had provided the concoction When he emerged from the coma 11 days later he filled in the rest of the story and police went to his house to serve a search warrant and arrest Fuentes-Ortiz But she had left with Jonathan without a trace Police still do not have a clear motive in the alleged poisoning Anderson said and Fuentes-Ortiz has declined to give a statement Ortiz told detectives in 1992 that his marriage was a happy one Anderson said Ortiz had permanent nerve damage in his feet and toes and got muscle spasms in his calves that caused him to stumble He has little sensitivity in his fingertips and may have suffered permanent liver and kidney damage Police and the FBI tried to track down Jonathan and Fuentes-Ortiz in the years after the alleged abduction focusing on Mexico because of tips from informants and family members and chasing down dozens of leads that followed appearances on Associated press photographs The case of Jonathan Ortiz and his mother Elizabeth Fuentes-Ortiz has been featured on more than 20 times Ortiz-Fuentes was finally arrested by Mexican immigration officers without incident in the town of La Barca in Jalisco The mother was returned to the Bay Area and grandmother admitted his identity to authorities She told them he had stayed in her Alameda home for the past week Wednesday morning 31-year-old Ortiz greeted a son who has become a stranger and who may have been told any number of stories about his father Anderson said Anderson declined to say where Ortiz lived I can tell you is that I talked to sister and she said the meeting was very nice but that there were a lot of emotions said Anderson who has investigated the case from the start cool huh? 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