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Show Wednesday, February, 24, 1999 The Daily Utah Planned Parenthood Gets Anthrax Threat C.G. Wallace Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY A downtown Planned Parenthood clinic was evacuated Tuesday and an employee was taken to University Hospital after she opened a letter containing an anthrax threat. FBI spokesman George Dougherty said he couldn't immediately say whether the letter was similar to more than 20 others received across the country in the past week. The letters to abortion and Planned Parenthood clinics claim to contain anthrax, but initial tests have shown they were hoaxes. University Hospital spokesman John Dwan said Planned Parenthood employee Angela Stefoniak, 32, was treated with antibiotics in case she was exposed to anthrax. He said she was decontaminated by the FBI before she arrived at the hospital around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. "She's fine. She just opened the Cause of Parchuteris Death Determined A skydivcr apparentshot himself to death as he descended 14,000 feet. The body of Michel Sunday Ejume was found in the woods Saturday night, a gunshot wound to the chest, investigators ROME, Ga. ly said. The experienced skydiver had parachuted from a plane earlier in the day but never returned to the envelope and this is a precautionary measure," Dwan said. Anthrax is an organism that mostly affects animals. It can lead to death in humans if not treated early with antibiotics. Letters received last week were postmarked in Lexington, Ky. There was also a rash of phony anthrax threats at clinics last fall. The Salt Lake Planned Parenthood clinic, which does not perform abortions, distributes family planning materials. Several Planned Parenthood workers and firefighters were quarantined and doused with bleach Monday after a clinic in Kansas City received an anthrax threat that appeared to have been a hoax. More than 100 emergency personnel converged on the midtown clinic Monday after an employee opened an anonymous letter that said the person reading it had just been exposed to anthrax. First Satellites Built by continued from page 4 VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. Three satellites, including the first built by South Africa and Denmark, were launched into orbit Tuesday aboard a single Delta II rocket. It released the Air Force's Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite, or Argos; South Africa's Sunsat spacecraft; and Denmark's Orstcd. Sunsat was created by engineering students in South Africa, primarily to show that they could do it. Orsted will map Earth's magnetic field. Argos was designed to conduct research on military and space technology. The satellite from South Africa and the one from Denmark represent those nations' entry into the club of spaccfaring countries. Argos weighs 3 tons and is loaded down with research gear. Sunsat was also symbolic of South Africa's return to collaboration with the international science community after being isolated during the apartheid era. The repeated delays had become a source of jokes in Denmark. On Danish postal stamps. 130-pou- 136-pou- It takes awhile for epidemics to break out, according to Castillo, and "more people die from infectious disease than from drowning." "All these things are from high waters," he said. "Water pollution is No. 1; No. 2 is increased mosquito population. And children will be malnourished because there isn't much food, and they can easily be victims of these plagues." "We're trying to collect as much medicine and money to buy more medicine down there because it's half the price," he said. "People have called with checks and things, but we're still short of coming close. We're putting it out of our pockets to pay for our stay down there." The trip will cost roughly $1,000 per person, Castillo said. They have only Detective Danny Logan said Tuesday that investigators do not know why Ejume killed himself. Police found a receipt in Ejumc's apartment for a 9 mm handgun that he had bought the day before. The gun has not been located. "We figure he dropped the gun when he shot himself," Logan said. "From that altitude, it would probably go a foot deep in the ground, as wet as it has been." Ejume, a native of Cameroon, Africa, worked as a security guard. f 1 POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES Alternate Wednesdays in the Chronicle Opinion pages. Read what campus politicos have to iturma say. The Associated Press 0 Slide show presented by a representative of Envision Utah New information will be presented Question and answer session 12 Envision Uta A Partnership for Quality Gro w t h $4,000. "We arc pushing for antibiotics and cash to offset travel and pay for medications," he said. They have received donations of medicines from local hospitals, but he said they could always use more. The students and doctors will be performing physical examinations and giving prescriptions for medication while down there. "It's all medical work, medicine in terms of pills and shots, not surgery," he said. "We're just backing them up and taking them medicine they're short on." "I'm just giving hack to the people that need down there," he said. "I did my thesis in Mayan medicine, and certainly saw need posed in the aftermath of the hurricane. It was time to give back to the people that once helped me." Castillo was horn in Nicaragua, and is a Mavan Indian himself. Read The Associated Press airport like the other skydivers. 5 raised about $2,000 of the needed MITCH Denmark, South Africa Launched Chronicle -- 1 UNION WEST BALLROOM Union programs |
