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Show 1 CUaotidi Page MoiwUy, MAy Two 2, 1988 DATELINES Passers-b- y disarm, kill NYC murder suspect NEW YORK (UPI)-- A murder suspect beaten by a dozen angry witnesses died in police custody Sunday as he was being processed for the "unprovoked" killing of a woman on her way to church. Officials said an autopsy would be performed to determine what caused the death of Wilson Ruiz, 36, who board to bludgeon a Harlem allegedly used a 55-year-- -4 woman in front of horrified onlookers Saturday. The woman died shortly after. who witnessed the attack on Enraged passers-b- y Yolanda Geoges, 55, disarmed the suspect and beat him before police pulled him to safety. Ruiz' wounds required 80 stitcnes at Metropolitan Hospital. On Sunday morning, Ruiz collapsed while he was in murder charges at police custody on second-degre- e Manhattan Central Booking. He died a half-holater at Beekman Downtown Hospital, Sgt. Louis Llanes, a police spokesman, said. The attack on Georges occurred about 9:25 a.m. Saturday outside the Martin Luther King Jr. Towers in Harlem, where the woman lived with her son, police said. Officers said the woman and boy were on their way to services at Morja Church. The burly Ruiz, also of Harlem, smashed Georges repeatedly over the head with a police said. Georges was taken to St. Luke's Hospital where she was declared dead. The suspect also attacked the woman's son, Wilder Goerges, striking him on the head, police said. The youth was treated at St. Luke's and released. ur 14-year-- -4, Powerful winds wreak havoc in California LOS ANGELES seas swept feet 150 Redondo of the Beach stranded away 1,300 pier, people overnight on Santa Catalina Island and knocked a boater overboard to his death, officials said Sunday. Powerful northwest winds with gusts to 50 mph also were blamed for capsizing a boat and killing a teenager in the San Francisco Bay area. The winds also fanned an arson fire Sunday morning, sweeping flames through three commercial buildings in (UPI)--Wind-whipp- ed the south Los Angeles County neighborhood of Willowbrook, causing $400,000 damage, fire officials said. No injuries were reported. Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island was closed studies from page one fight disease and regulate the central nervous system. Researchers have shown that electromagnetic fields may modify the production of hormones and help promote the growth of tumors. A two-yestudy recently concluded by David an Savitz, epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, suggested that prolonged exposure to low-levmagnetic fields may increase the risk of cancer in children. Even more notable was an increased risk for leukemias, lymphomas and e tumors. The latest studies have focused on extremely low frequencies at the bottom of the electromagnetic low-frequen- el soft-tissu- spectrum. These low frequencies include the alternating current that powers the nation's homes and offices. This radiation is "nonionizing." Unlike ionizing and nuclear radiation, nonradiation, such as radiation is not strong enough to tear elecionizing trons from atoms and molecules which converts them to charged ions. Instead, it just holds and shakes the minute pieces of matter. At relatively high frequencies, the shaking generh ates is. how a microwave oven cooks food. Scientists are now trying to understand the results of shaking at low frequencies. Scientists have generally assumed nonionizing radi- 60-her- tz East River, all rescued NEW YORK (UPIJ--A commercial helicopter carrying Asian tourists on a sightseeing excursion Sunday plunged into the East River shortly after takeoff but rescuers fished all four passengers and the pilot from the icy water. Four of those aboard were rescued immediately and reported in good condition at Bellevue Hospital and Cabrini Medical Center. A fifth, identified only as an Asian male tourist, was pulled from the water 90 minutes after the crash and reported in "grave" condition in the emergency room at Bellevue. He was not breathing and in cardiac arrest when he was pulled from the water, but a Bellevue doctors still said were working to save him spokesman more than 60 minutes after his body was pulled from the 40-degr- ee water. The man, appearing pale and lifeless, was lifted off the back of a rescue boat and carried on a stretcher to an ambulance as EMS technicians pounded on his chest in an effort to get his heart beating. The crash of the helicopter, operated by Island Helicopter, was first reported around 10:30 a.m. just off the Queens side of the East River. Authorities said it broke apart when it hit the water. Following the rescue of the first four people, the pilot walked into the Island Helicopter office dripping wet and draped in a blanket. He was escorted by EMS technicians and declined to answer questions about the crash. An official said the four tourists had hired the helicopter for a sightseeing excursion. "They took off from 34th Street and must have had engine problems because it just dropped into the river," Dennis Leahy, from the Harbor Patrol rescue squad, said. "We pulled four out" immediately, he said. John Hargrave, a" deputy chief of Emergency Medical Services, reported, "All were stable when they were transported. They were suffering from submersion and hypothermia." University of Colorado health physicist Nancy X-ra- ys heat--whic- ge Chopper crashes in asbestos increases a person's chance for lung cancer 50 times. The figure Savitz came up with, while not insignificant, is not an extreme increase, Thurman said. "I would pay attention to it. I can't dismiss it out of hand. I still have to treat it as a potential hazard," he said. And at this point it is nothing more than a potential hazard. Scientists have not found a causal link. They have not reached the point where they can say, "This person has leukemia and it was caused by exposure to electromagnetic radiation from power lines." "The jury is very much out on this one," Thurman said. The possibility that electromagnetic fields promote biological hazards emerged in a 1979 study in Denver. ar high-volta- up those stranded, who spent the night inside the Avalon casino and a high school gymnasium, Coast Guard officials said. The combination of smoking and exposure to cy ation to have no harmful effect on humans. But now, in light of recent studies, researchers are not so sure. The Savitz study found that children living in homes exposed to higher electromagnetic fields from power lines were 1.7 more times likely to develop cancer than children in homes with lower fields. The Savitz figures suggest that the cancer rate jumps from about one in 10,000 per year to about two in 10,000 for children living near power lines. Utah State Epidemiologist David Thurman put the figures from the study into perspective. If a person smokes cigarettes, the chance for lung cancer is nine to 10 times greater, he said. The risk when a person is for lung cancer jumps four-fol- d for a asbestos to prolonged period. exposed Saturday night as winds gusted to 60 mph, harbor officials said. Emergency shelters were set up to accommodate nearly 1,300 people stranded on the popular tourist spot 26 miles west of the Los Angeles Harbor. Sunday morning the harbor was reopened and passenger boats from the mainland made their first trips to pick . Wertheimer and physicist Edward Leeper compared the home environments of childhood cancer victims and a control population in an attempt to determine whether any factors related to home environments were associated statistically with occurrences of cancer. Wertheimer and Leeper found more cancer cases than would have been expected among children living near power distribution lines in the Denver area. Savitz, using similar research methods to those of Wertheimer and Leeper, confirmed their findings last summer. The intensity of radidation produced by ordinary power lines seemed to statistically increase the risk of leukemia in children living nearby. To date, about 20 epidemiological studies have been conducted to determine the effects of nonionizing radiation on the body-a- ll with conflicting results. Most of the cancer debate, however, stems from results of the Wertheimer-Leepe- r study. Many researchers in the field, including one from the U., are skeptical of the results. "It think it is on the basis of my knowlbut deserves further study," Om Gandhi, a it edge, professor of electrical engineering and an expert on far-fetch- ed electromagnetic radiation. Divers pulled some twisted metal wreckage from the water and laid it on the dock at the 34th Street heliport, including the broken and bent tail section, the tail rotor! pontoons from the craft and a bent door. 'The wreckage is scattered everywhere. The only thing left floating is the floor of the copter," Leahy said. Youths in custody after high speed chase ends OGDEN, Utah (UPI)-T- wo teenagers suspected of mental from a Wyoming hospital and then escaping high-spee- d a Utah on lawmen chase in leading which two squad cars were damaged were in custody Sunday, officers say. The youths are charged with aggravated assault in connection with Saturday's smashup that caused $4,000 car and damage to a deputy sheriffs $3,500 damage to Utah Highway Patrol trooper John Smith's vehicle, Smith said. They also are charged with theft of a Clinton, Utah, faces a comman's car, Smith said. And the while the also is plaint of evading police with obstruction of justice. charged The youths apparently escaped April 29 from the Wyoming State Mental Hospital in Evanston and rode a freight train to Ogden, Smith said. About 9:30 a.m. Saturday "this Clinton guy was fishing in the Weber River and had left the keys to his car under the front seat." The suspects told investigators they were trying to get back to Wyoming when they spotted the parked car, found the keys and drove away, the trooper said. The fisherman flagged down another motorist and he alerted 60-mi- le 18-year-- 16-year-- theUHP. "I caught up with them," Smith said, on Interstate Highway 84 about 10 miles east of Ogden "and called ahead to Morgan" for a roadblock. A sheriffs deputy but the suspect car parked his car in the middle of drove down an interstate off ramp around the blockade and back onto the highway. Deputy Keith Squires then tried to give chase but his vehicle collided with Smith's UHP car, said Morgan County Sheriff Bert Holbrook. Neither officer was seri' ously injured. Other lawmen pursued the stolen car at speeds of up to 105 mph for about 60 miles. They arrested the state line when the teenagers near the of car ran out gas. suspect The older suspect was being held in the Summit County Jail on $25,000 bond, Smith said, and the was being held in a juvenile facility in Roy. 1-- Utah-Wyomi- ng scholarships from page one For $69, her company guarantees to match the career objectives, hobbies, interests, and parental affiliations of any undergraduate applicant ($99 for graduate students) to at least five scholarship sources. The maximum is 25 sources athough she said the average is 12 to 14. 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