The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 45

The Kansas City Star THURSDAY June 16 1994 JOHNSON COUNTY EDITION TODAY Down in Missouri up in Kansas Change in abortion rate (per 1 000 women ages 15-44) between 1988 and 1992: Scientists find breakthrough blood hormone IN THE STAR GRAND NEWS Abortions dip in US dive in Missouri Kan US Mo 11 It forms platelets replenishing those lost in chemotherapy By GINA KOLATA The New York Times An important blood-forming hormone that had eluded discovery for 35 years has at last been isolated after a race among several biotechnology companies The finding is expected to be of direct clinical benefit for cancer patients and to make an estimated $1 billion a year for the company that wins the patent for making the substance A further consequence is that with the new hormone all major components of blood can now be manipulated with far-reaching implications for medicine Hematologists were elated is big said David Golde head of hematologic oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York Jerome Groopman chief of hematology at the Deaconess See SCIENTISTS A-13 Number of abortions 1988 1992 National 1590750 1528930 Missouri 19490 13510 Kansas 11440 12570 Source: Alan Guttmacher Institute Kansas rate is up chiefly in Wyandotte and Johnson counties By ALAN BAVLEY Medical Writer The abortion rate has been dropping steadily throughout most of the United States a new survey shows But nowhere has the decline been more dramatic than in Missouri While the overall abortion rate among women of child-bearing age decreased 5 percent nationally from 1988 through 1992 the Missouri rate plummeted 29 percent according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute Abortion rates also dropped in 35 other states The abortion rate in Kansas rose by 1 1 percent the result institute researchers said of a substantial increase in abortions in Wyandotte and Johnson counties Women from Missouri probably accounted for much See RATE A-12 Col 1 Grand Prix is gaining popularity and boosting production at the Fairfax plant Business Section The Star SOUTH AFRICA: IN TRANSITION US offers Korean sanctions ROYALS RALLY Chico sacrifice fly in ninth brings home the winning run in a 4-3 victory over the Angels Sports Section From Star News Services IMAST ISSUE Mayor Cleaver now supports moving the city ambulance system away from Downtown Local News Section The Associated Press In 1976 black students were gunned down by police for June 16 Soweto uprising Today students pack the Phefeni striking over Afrikaans-language instruction sparking the Secondary School as learning replaces resistance WILD RIDE A former Kansan chronicles the highs and lows of Thoroughbred horse racing FYI Section WEATHER UNITED NATIONS The United States outlined a plan Wednesday for United Nations sanctions against North Korea in an effort to force the country to open its secret nuclear facilities The US plan would require UN members to halt all trading in arms with North Korea a move that could cost North Korea $50 million to $100 million a year in lost ex- ports But North arms exports are mostly missiles sent to Iran and Syria two countries with spotty records of compliance with UN directives The sanctions plan has been watered down in an altempt to win the support of China which has a veto on UN Security Council decisions and has a long record of opposing punitive international sanctions So the proposals fall well short of the near-total trade blockades the council has slapped on Iraq Yugoslavia and Haiti and they include no See US A-11Col 1 Blood at site is same type as Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES The blood type of samples recovered at the scene of a brutal double slaying match that of OJ blood a potentially important piece of evidence in the investigation of the killings of his former wife and a man she knew Los Angeles police sources said Wednesday The former football blood type is different from those of the two victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman a source said Although even rare blood types are shared by many people any discovery of blood type at the murder scene could lend credence to the suggestion that he was there sources said A more exact test to determine whether the DNA in the blood sample matches See BLOOD A-15 Col 1 Youngsters heed advice: Go back to school 4 6 8 10 12 2 4 6 8 10 i THURSDAY AM THURSDAY PM PARTLY CLOUDY Forecast D-12 ships: Classes are full students are studying late and some of them are showing up Saturdays hungry for education to make up for lost time As South Africa marks the 1 8th an-niversary today of the Soweto riots a crusade against apartheid that historians regard as the beginning of the end of white-minority rule educators say they see a culture of learning starting to displace the culture of resistance Young people are heeding the advice of President Nelson Mandela flocking to classrooms to attain the skills they will need to build a country See AFRICAN A-IO Col 1 By JOHN DANISZEWSK1 The Associated Press SOWETO South Africa In 1976 black schoolchildren in Soweto went on strike against being forced to study the Afrikaans language spoken by most whites and were shot dead by police In 1986 during the state of emergency the slogan was Education Before and classrooms emptied again But in 1994 after the inauguration of South first black president an incredible transformation is taking shape in schools in black town OPINION The Associated Press Attendance at black schools has risen significantly since Nelson election The Senate compromise on investigating Whitewater is reasonable and proper Section Racism delayed black war Channel 62 sues Royals over TV deal TOMORROW IN THE STAR The Commerce Department reports on housing starts 1 mMMMMMMmiNniMNHMKIfe DEPARTMENTS Vol 1 14 No 272 7 Sections By BRIAN BURNES Staff Writer By BARRY GARRON TV Critic II Racial prejudices that had ruled their civilian lives followed them into the armed forces It until late in the war that military leaders relented allowing Gates and other black Americans to prove their mettle back it was an absolutely unjustifiable failure to use a vital said Theodore A See TROOPS A-14 Col 1 Charles Gates then a first lieutenant with the all-black 761st Tank Battalion vividly recalls the D-Day invasion heard about said Gates of Kansas City who was in training at Camp Hood Texas all we concentrated on that day was learning how to get the best out of our equipment We knew we would be going Eventually was when most black soldiers saw combat in World War It wasn't until late in the war that Charles Gates (above and at right) and other black soldiers were able to prove their skills on the battlefield Gates did so winning a Silver Star The TV flagship station of the Kansas City Royals sued the team Wednesday for breach of contract seeking to end its agreement and collect damages KSMO Channel 62 said the millions of dollars it pays the Royals was supposed to make it the exclusive local home of the team Instead a national contract among ABC NBC and Major League Baseball that created The Baseball Network will put at least 10 prime-time Royals games on KMBC Channel 9 and WDAF Channel 4 after the All-Star Game on July 12 about as many primetime games as Channel 62 will carry during that same period The Royals had no comment on the suit we have the document and KENWONGThe Star STARBEAM The Senate plans to hold Whitewater hearings starting in July but be limited in scope Sort of Whitewetness hearings or other illnesses It was the third large study in the United States to find no harm from the implants Story A-3 A study conducted by the Mayo Clinic has found no evidence that silicone breast implants cause connective tissue diseases Study finds no harm in silicone breast implants See CHANNEL A-10 Col 1.