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The Sun SATURDAY, December 24, 1988 AO I NATION Recovering whale may return to Gulf norted to Sea World, 100 miles east. "3 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) A 23-foot Bryde's whale rescued from the Gulf of Mexico has responded to antibiotics and gained 175 pounds since last month's stranding, scientists said. They hope to return the 2-year-old mammal to the Gulf in January. Sea World research biologist Dan Odell says he knows of no other case in which a Bryde's whale survived a stranding and was returned to natural habitat.

"We got lucky," he said, watching the two-ton mammal floating in a pool at the marine attraction Thursday. A boater discovered the whale Nov. 25 in shallow water off Honeymoon Island near Clearwater. During a daylong rescue it was towed to shore, hoisted by crane into a truck and trans- Bryde's whales, which grow to 40 feet are usually found in water more than 100 feet deep. Scientists don't know why the whale beached.

Blood tests showed a generalized infection that is responding to antibiotics. And with huge doses of vitamins and 105,000 calories daily in herring gruel and high-calorie liquids, the whale has steadily improved. At Sea World, the whale is hoisted out of the pool and tube fed, a process that takes about 20 minutes. While it is being tube fed, workers coat its back with a zinc oxide to prevent sunburn and dress cuts. Experts are uncertain whether the whale will resume normal feeding patterns once returned to the sea.

They hope to transport it 75 miles out and attach a radio transmitter to track it. From Our House To Your House AP WIREPHOTO TANKER EXPLODES: The tanker of a propane truck rests on the ruins of a house destroyed when the tanker exploded on an interstate highway Friday at Memphis. The explosion killed six people, including two children in the house. Six killed by fireball of propane truck blast By WOODY BAIRD Associated Press Mississippi I Bur Ijy ILL i KY. MO.

TENN. ARK. Interstate 240 near downtown as the fireball engulfed the truck and several other vehicles, said fire Capt. Benny McDow. The people taken to hospitals suffered mostly from burns, McDow said.

Six victims were admitted to the burn unit of the Regional Medical Center and four were in critical condition, authorities said. The names of the dead and injured were not immediately available. The propane truck apparently skidded off an exit ramp on Interstate 240 as the driver tried to turn onto Interstate 40 toward Arkansas, Mc Dow said. "He was trying to exit and lost control and hit a retaining wall," McDow said. "That exit there is short.

It's one of those tight turns." Jed Tennison, who works at a sheet metal plant near the crash ALA. MEMPHIS, Tenn. A propane truck exploded Friday on a highway, killing six people, sparking a massive fireball and sending the tanker crashing into a house 125 yards away, officials said. Four people were critically burned, and eight others were taken to hospitals. "I heard the explosion and saw the tanker flying through the air.

It fell on the house and just blew up," said Marvin Mitchell, a resident. The house was destroyed and two children inside died, authorities said. The four other deaths, including the driver of the truck, and most of the injuries occurred on MISS. 100 mile A i 1 4 11 iPf't' I Iff Clir i iv wit iWA tr I'fr fiK1' i II 111 Lrw 4 CI llilf mPm AP scene, said he rushed to a highway overpass when he heard the explosion. "There was a guy on fire rolling on the road and there was another just lying on the ground where somebody must have put him," Tennison said.

Asian immigrants are holdup targets gun holding meetings with heads of clans and families, warning them of the hazards of carrying money and urging them to use banks. Ying Vang, executive director of the Lao Family Community of Minnesota, said the group contacted 60 Hmong leaders and asked that they call emergency meetings to discuss taking extra precautions. "We told them to make sure people are aware of this rash of robberies and to watch each other closely and make sure more do not happen," he said. spokesman Paul Adlemann. "These people are definitely being targeted." Two men arrested in the hold-up Wednesday of two Hmong women in north Minneapolis have been linked by photographs and a stolen car to at least one earlier robbery, in St.

Paul. But hours after the two were captured with the help of a Hmong man armed with a shotgun, police said another Asian man was robbed in north Minneapolis. Leaders of the area's Southeast Asian community have be MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Robbers preying on Southeast Asian immigrants have held up at least a dozen people in the last week, and police and community leaders are warning Asians to be careful and not carry a lot of mon- In one robbery, a Hmong woman lost a purse containing $5,500. "The word is out that they carry money," police Capt. Carl Johnson said.

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Highland Ava, 1 142 Anderson St, Loma Lmda.602 E. Main St, Barslow I i Uzi-toting subject caught when submachine gun sticks in pants GEbl rf tj mm rr- i pwf ill ill lit iitjit iii PflEG LOCAL DELIVERY ST FACTOHY AUTHORIZED BULB GIFT CLEARANCE SALE Picnic Baskets Utensils Wine Glasses Carafes 100's of Items NEW YORK (AP) A man who was being chased by police through the Port Authority bus terminal Friday turned on his pursuers and tried to pull a loaded Uzi submachine gun from his pants, police said. The gun got stuck. "It's a rather large gun and this particular individual was 5-foot-3 and 220 pounds," said Officer Michael Terribile, one of the arresting officers. "It got stuck on some clothing.

Thank God it did." The gun was fully loaded with 20 rounds of 9mm ammunition. "One round was in the chamber ready to fire," said Terribile. "It sounds funny but it could have been a really tragic situation. The terminal was pretty full with holi-day travelers heading out of town." The incident occurred about 2 a.m. after Terribile and Sgt.

Richard Murphy, both in plainclothes, arrested Rasheem McAllister for allegedly carrying 163 vials of crack inside a resealed potato chip bag. They had McAllister under surveillance for about 40 minutes and noticed he kept putting down a red tote bag, walking away from it and then coming back to it near the Greyhound bus terminal, Terribile said. They saw him talking to a second man, and when they asked about him, McAllister said, a guy out there with a gun and he's going to kill according to Terribile. Terribile and Murphy chased the man and called to a third officer, Ralph Williams, that "this was the guy." The suspect, identified as Chidiakl Knight, was fighting to get past other people on the escalator while "attempting to pull the Uzi out of his waistband," Terribile said. The officers caught up with him at the bottom of the staircase as the suspect continued tugging at the weapon, the officer said.

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Fourteen were kidnapped or disappeared, 28 wounded, 90 beaten or otherwise assaulted, 43 were targets of death threats and 12 had their homes raided or destroyed, it said. It said 40 newspapers or radio closed and that nine were bombed, burned or destroyed. Also, more than 200 instances of lesser harassment occurred. The anti-press actions occurred in 70 countries, compared to 57 countries the year before. "The figures do not reflect other forms of official and unofficial editorial censorship, and diverse methods of economic and political pressuring of the mass media," said the survey report prepared by Leonard Sussman, a Freedom House senior scholar.

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