Santa Cruz Sentinel from Santa Cruz, California • Page 13

State Friday, April 25, 1986 Santa Cruz Sentinel A-13 Animal-rights protests bring arrests for 1 30 i i flifl fl lhA i. I I III AV.VAI ML By JOHN ANTCZAK Tkc AtaocUted Presi At least 130 protesters, claiming laboratory research on animals is "cruel, ridiculous and unnecessary," were arrested by police for blocking access to California's major universities during a one-day demonstration by animal rights advocates. About a dozen protesters also assembled Thursday at the University of Nevada at Reno on National Laboratory Animals Day, sponsored by the April 24 Coalition. Protest organizers said 23 campuses were targeted in California, Nevada, Arizona, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Washington, Michigan and Minnesota. Forty-eight people were arrested for blocking a driveway at UCLA, eight were arrested at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern banner from a balcony.

Chanting, "Does Not Apply to Humans!" protesters carried signs that read "Animal Auschwitz" and "Stop the U.C. Atrocities." Other signs said animal research is not applicable to human diseases or condemned animal research as "medical fraud and pseudo science." "It's just not right to kill animals who can't defend themselves," said protester Gayla Basehart. Dr. Glenn Langer, director of cardio-vascular research, said 88 percent of the animals used at UCLA are mice and rats, 2 percent are dogs and cats and the remainder are various types of small mammals. He said there were few advancements in the treatment of major diseases, such as polio and smallpox, "that haven't been dependent on animal research." California Medical Center, five were arrested at University of California, San Diego, and 10 were arrested at the University of California, Irvine, after they chained themselves to a door.

In Northern California there were 21 arrests at UC Berkeley, 19 at Stanford, 10 at UC San Francisco, and 14 at UC Davis, 70 miles northeast of San Francisco. About 100 demonstrators were denied entry when they marched to two' rear doors at UCLA Medical Center's Neuropsychiatric Institute. The group, which then blocked a driveway, was told repeatedly they would be arrested before ranks of University of California police closed in from both sides and led away the demonstrators one by one. Four protesters who got to the fifth floor of a nearby building, draped a I AP KurpDoto Policeman arrests animal-rights protester at USC Eye Foundation build ing. DES responsible for sexual deformity, says man to Stannard's condition of retained 'the apple of her father's eye," Several studies have concluded the Mehesan said.

"By 14, Kathleen was 5-foot-10 and had an athletic body. She had no breasts. She wasn't menstruating. Instead, Kathleen was starting to develop hair all over her body and a very deep voice," Mehesan said. That's when a doctor discovered that Kathleen was a boy with retained testicles, be said.

At first, the teen-ager welcomed the news, Ossa said, noting he had always shown signs of preferring to be a boy. testicles. He said Squibb knew of the dangers of DES in this area as early as the 1930s but "either ignored or covered up the adverse test reports." "We're not dealing with a sex change in this case," Mehesan said. "He was a male from the start. He just didn't look like a male in the genital area." Stannard, as a child called Kathleen living in El Segundo and Gardena in Los Angeles County's South Bay area, was a tomboy and drug creates the environment for cancer in daughters of women who used it, but drug companies have disputed those findings.

Numerous lawsuits on behalf of women have been filed against the firms, but Mehesan said this may be the first alleging that sex organs were altered by the drug. In his opening statement, Mehesan argued that evidence indicates the taking of DES during pregnancy completely blocks the production of testosterone and impedes the development of male genitals, leading Wired condor is released VENTURA (AP) A California condor has been freed after being given a clean bill of health and fitted with a new radio tracking transmitter by biologists working to save the giant birds from extinction. The 14-year-old male bird was released Thursday in a remote area about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles, said Peter Bloom, who beads the capture program at the Condor Research Center in Ventura. The vulture-like bird, captured Tuesday, was set free in hopes it would join the three other condors believed to remain in the wild. "Those four birds represent a breeding pair and two bachelor males," Bloom said.

Another condor, believed to be 10 years old, was captured Monday and sent to the Los Angeles Zoo, where officials hope it will breed with a captive female. TORRANCE (AP) A man raised as a girl until puberty because he hid female sexual characteristics was rejected by bis father as a "she-man" when a doctor discovered he was really a boy, his mother testified. The testimony Thursday came as Robert W. Stannard's multimillion dollar lawsuit against DES manufacturer E.R. Squibb Sons got under way.

The 38-year-old Stannard alleges the dietbylstilbestrol given to his mother when she was pregnant in 1947 caused him to lack male genitals when he was born. Joan Ossa said her son's natural father never adjusted to seeing his cherished daughter, Kathleen, become his son, Robert. "He took a very hostile attitude," the 59-year-old Fresno woman recalled. "He was uncommunicative. He ignored Robert." Eventually, the father moved away after the family settled in Manhattan Beach.

In his last conversation with his son, he called him a "she-man," Stannard's attorney, Thomas Mehesan, told the eight-man, four-woman jury in his opening Stannard underwent numerous operations in 1961 and 1962 to create male genitalia, transforming him from the adolescent girl he appeared to be into the teen-age boy he actually was. Stannard is now a veterinarian, husband and father living in Northern California. He was adopted by Harold Stannard, a high school teacher who took the family in after his father left borne. He alleged in the lawsuit filed in 1980 that DES, a synthetic female hormone given to expectant mothers from the 1930s to the 1960s to prevent miscarriages, also was responsible for two bouts with testicular cancer. The first bout spread to bis lungs, kidneys and lymph nodes.

The cancer has been in remission for six years. Squibb attorneys attribute Stannard's condition to a naturally occurring syndrome, male pseudohermaphrodism, and denied their product could cause cancer. Squibb attorney Ralph CampiUo asserted in his opening statement that there is "no scientific evidence that DES or any other estrogen can cause a male Man sought in women's disappearance under the name of Robert Howard SAN DIEGO (AP) A nationwide found that his ex-wife, a girlfriend and a business partner vanished in Las Vegas since 1967. Detective Carol Grant of the Las Vegas Police Department said Patricia Weeks disappeared April 26, 1968, just after she and Weeks divorced. Twelve years later, Cynthia Jabour of Las Vegas disappeared after telling friends she was ending her six-year relationship with Weeks.

Smith, Jarvis said at a press conference. He is believed to be the last person in contact with Carol Ann Riley, a 42-year-old San Diego nurse who has been missing since April 5. Weeks disappeared April 7 after telling a roommate in his Scripps Ranch home he was going away on business, Jarvis said. According to Jarvis, a private investigator hired by Riley's fiance discovered Weeks' true name and search is on for a man linked to three women who vanished in San Diego and Las Vegas after going to dinner with him, police said. Robert Dean Weeks' business partner also disappeared in Las Vegas, and he's wanted by authorities there on an embezzlement warrant, San Diego homicide Lt.

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