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Show Oct. Saturday 1990 13, ... A resident Bush agrees to grant dying boy's last wish LAKE RONKONKOMA, N.Y. A boy whose dying wish is (AP) to meet President Bush will finally have his dream come true later this month now that the red tape that held up the visit has been cut, his family said Friday. Bush personally learned of Jimmy Kilanowski's wish to shake hands with him, and on Friday he granted him that request, bringing days of wrangling over a hoped-fo- r invitation to an end. The White House called the Kil- - meet Bush through Wish Is Granted, a local organization that helps terminally ill children fulfill their dreams. This created a roadblock with White House staff members who were used to dealing with a different organization. anowski family at their Long Island home in Lake Ronkonkoma on Friday afternoon to arrange the meeting with the president for Oct. 23 in Stamford, Conn., where Bush will be campaigning, the family said. "That's wow," Jimmy said, grinning from ear to ear when informed of the good news by his mother Laurie. "He is so happy," Mrs. Kilan-owssaid. "We are all thrilled that the president came through." Jimmy had expressed his desire to ster. Mrs. Kilanowski said that the White House representative who talicu mc laiiillj f i iuaj Dalu D'Amato had been instrumental in making sure Bush was aware of Jimmy's dying wish. "We are very grateful to the senator for helping us," the mother said. Jimmy, his mother, father Peter, and brother, Danny, also will be treated to a White House Jimmy, who has referred to Bush as "the most important man in the whole wide world," was rebuffed by White House staff members earlier this week and told the president was too busy to fulfill his ki World New York Sen. Alfonse D'Amato on Thursday stepped in to see if he could help the disappointed young- wish. Jimmy, who was given lVz years to live in April 1989 because of five brain tumors, made his big wish known through Wish Is Granted. Nation LONDON (AP) Infectious medical wastes targeted - The Soviet KGB helped spark last in Eastern European to put reform Communists in power, former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky said Friday. But he said the secret agents and their Communist Party bosses never expected, and were helpless to - New FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) regulations on infectious waste disposal in Davis County kick in Jan. 1 due to startup of operations by Industries and the Browning-Ferri- s county burn plant. The new regulations were given final approval last month by the Davis County Board of Health. which has conBrowning-Ferritracted to operate Weber County's landfill, has a medical waste systems division and is planning to build an incinerator at the North Salt Iake Industrial Park, said Richard Harvey, county environmental health director. Officials with the burn plant near Layton also are considering purchasing an autoclave to dispose of medical waste. "We probably wouldn't be doing a thing about it if not for (the incinerator and autoclave)," Harvey said. "We're going to be a regional treater of infectious waste." Harvey said he believes local medical professionals are cautious about medical waste disposal. But he said the new policy is a way to allay concerns of residents worried about coming into contact with infectious diseases. Generators of infectious waste will be given after the first of the year to notify the county health department of their operations, he said. lie" ii ri i i I r . I 1 ay ir ra iw I 1 itii I fervor that stop, the outpouring of followed. "Here they just lost because they wanted it to stop and it was impossible to stop the momentum, it was too late," said Gordievsky, who worked as a double agent for 13 years until he defected to Britain in 1985. Gordievsky did not say where he learned about the alleged KGB involvement in Eastern Europe's tumult. Despite the goodwill of Soviet President Mikhail s, Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost, Gordievsky would still face a death sentence in the Soviet Union. "The feelings of irritation, evil and unpleasant feelings of jealousy and revenge in the KGB and among other traditional Soviet Communist apparatchiks is still the same," he said. German unity figure shot Interior Minister OPPENAU, Germany (AP) Wolfgang Schaeuble, who guided negotiations of the treaty that linked the two German states, was shot and seriously wounded late Friday at a campaign gathering, police said. Schaeuble, 48, was struck by two bullets in the head and neck and was in serious condition, police said. Reports, however, indicated his life was not in immediate danger. Police arrested a suspect who "comes from the criminal drug scene," the ZDF television network reported. Ralf Krueger, head of the state criminal office, said there was no evidence the suspect had a terrorist background and, most probably, he acted alone. The attack, which occurred in Oppenau, in the Offenburg district outside Freiburg, in southwest Germany, was the most serious incident since East and West Germany reunited Oct. 3. Iranian fan fails in Di AP Laserphoto at an Argentinian station near Buenos Aires works Friday at the controls of a radio telescope (in rear) that is now searching southern skies for signs of alien intelligence. An engineer Get behind your candidate Abortion measure passed by Senate - WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate voted Friday to require parent notification before teenager abortions at most hospitals. The Senate approved the abortion-notic- e requirement offered by Sen. on a William Armstrong, voice vote after opponents failed on a tie 8 vote to table, or kill, it. A tie vote meant the motion to table did not pass. The provision would cover abortions for women under 18 at any hospital that receives Medicaid or other federal money. If enacted, the provision would be the first federal requirement that parents be involved in abortion decisions by young people, although many states have passed laws requiring notice or consent by a parent or parents. Many of the state laws have been invalidated by court decisions. 5 The bill was approved on a vote. After the House finishes, it most likely will be sent to a conference 48-4- 76-1- LAGOS, Nigeria lAPt Ignoring mounting opposition, the military on Friday enacted a decree that legalizes a balloting system in which the voters must stand in line behind the candidate of their choice. The system that officials call "open balloting" will be used in local council elections in Dec. 8 to test the popularity of two political parties the government created to end military rule. Under the decree, voters must arrive at polling booths by 11 a.m. and expect to spend the day there. Nigeria is Africa's most populous country with about 119 million residents. The government's manipulation lias made many voters apathetic, critics say, and waiting in line will only irritate them more, creating a headache for police. Problems are expected particularly in the predominantly Moslem northern states, where religious leaders have said it would be unthinkable for male and female voters to line up together. Professor Humphrey Nwosu, chairman of the National Electoral Commission, said last month the ystem was chosen because it was "something indigenand credi-IjY.- " ous, simple, uncomplicated, the and left-o- - The ANGELES (AP) search for alien civilizations in space expanded Friday to cover the entire sky as a new radio receiver began operations in Argentina. "Today represents the opening up of half of the universe to the search by the human species for extraterrestrial intelligence," said astronomer Carl Sagan, president of the Planetary Society. "You have to be made of wood not to be interested in knowing whether we're alone in the universe," Sagan said by phone from Ithaca, N.Y., where he is a professor at Cornell University. "Here we are for the first time in human history when it's technically possible to find out. And it's very cheap. LOS try of sky-watc- right-leaninf- h Alien watch expands to whole sky r. between candidates National Kepublican Convention vnter Son.il Democratic I'artv. '' Wif.' . An Iranian trying to give Princess LONDON (AP) Diana a silver clock because he admired her climbed over two fences and through rose bushes before being nabbed on the lawn of her Kensington Palace home, police said Friday. The princess was home at the time of Ali Kashabi's entry into the grounds of the palace shortly before midnight Thursday but was "not disturbed" by the incident, said a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman. Kashabi said it was the second time he had been arrested in the Kensington Palace area in as many days. He said he was arrested for drunkenness on Wednesday night but was released. Kashabi told Horseferry Magistrate's Court that he decided to give Princess Diana the silver clock after writing several letters to her but receiving no reply. "I just wanted to see Lady Diana. I think that she is a very beautiful lady and I admire her," he said. "They told me I was lucky that I wasn't shot. ... It was a frightening experience." Police said Kashabi, who gave his address only as California, was caught on the palace lawn after scaling two fences and walking through some rose bushes. He pleaded guilty to breaching the peace and was told to keep out of trouble for a year or he would be fined $200. He was not. however, fined Friday or given a jail sentence. The incident occurred despite the spending of millions of dollars on security at royal palaces after a man broke into Queen Elizabeth IPs bedroom at Buckingham Palace in 1982 and sat on her bed chatting with her for more than a half-houSince then, other security breaches have occurred, including in February 1987 when a masked man with a hammer and a knife was arrested after a violent struggle close to the private grounds of Kensington Palace. Kensington Palace in west London is home to 14 other members of the royal family, including Queen Elizabeth's sister Princess Margaret. V, iters will choose "I think Jimmy is an inspiration the fact that when he was initially turned down he said, 'Well, I still love the president.' Jimmy never lost his spirit," the senator said. StateRegion y year's revolutions to. However, it is White House policy to grant wish requests only through Make A Wish Foundation, a national organization not affiliated with Wish Is Granted. That says Soviet KGB sparked 1989 revolutions Ex-sp- apparently was the main reason Jimmy initially was turned down by the White House. "When the president learned f this young boy's wish, he said he would do everything he could to try to make it a reality," said D'Ama- visit during the Christmas season. "They said that way Jimmy can see the White House when it's decorated like a fantasy land," said Mrs. Kilanowski. g "Wouldn't we be ashamed of ourselves if the answer was there for the taking and we were too shy to look?" The Pasadena-base- d Planetary Society, which advocates space exploration, financed the supercomputer-controlle- d radio receiver and signal analyzer with $150,000 raised from its 125,000 members in more than 100 nations. The receiver, about the size of two large refrigerators, is called Megachannel Extraterrestrial Assay II, or META II. It is located at Argentina's Institute of Radioastronomy, 30 miles southeast of Buenos Aires. It is identical to META I at Harvard University's Oak Ridge Ob committee to work out differences on the notification and other amendments. Big nuclear servatory in Massachusetts. Since 1985, that receiver has listened to Northern Hemisphere skies for signals iv m aliens. Steven Spielberg, who directed the films "E.T., the and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," donated $100,000 for META I. The META project is the world's most powerful operating search for alien radio signals, although nothing has been heard so far. About 100 people watched as the institute's director, Raul Colomb, pointed one of the institute's radiotelescope dish antennas toward the Southern Cross, a major Southern Hemisphere constellation, as the receiver was switched on Friday morning. rattles Las Vegas - Extra-Terrestria- l" Hughes estate and the heirs have received their distributions," Sutton said. DC Mayor Barry Howard Hughes Jr. files for new trial estate is settled - FourWILMINGTON, Del. (AP) teen years after his death, the estate of billionaire recluse Howard R. Hughes Jr. has been settled. Hughes died in 1976 at the age of 72. Records show bulk of Hughes' that $1.13 billion, the estate, was adminis- tered through Chancery Court by his R. Lummas. The cousin, William court approved the final accounting of the Delaware administration of the estate Tuesday. The heart of Hughes' empire was invested in Summa Corp., a personal holding company incorporated in Delaware. Richard L. Sutton, an attorney for Lummas, said that about $150 million in cash awaits distribution to Hughes' heirs across the country. Real estate in Nevada and California also will be liquidated. "For all practical purposes, it is the end of the administration of the WASHINGTON (AP) Mayor Marion Barry's attorney asked on Friday for a retrial, saying deputy U.S. marshals may have influenced jurors by telling them alternate jurors would have voted to convict the mayor of all charges. Attorney R. Kenneth Mundy also argued that a retrial was justified because some jurors witnessed an undercover drug sting operation at the hotel where they were seques- tered. Barry was convicted on Aug. 10 test of misdemeanor cocaine possession charge and acquitted of another. The jury could not reach a verdict on 12 other charges, including three felony perjury counts, and prosecutors have said they won't pursue a new trial on those. Barry had been arrested in an undercover sting operation on Jan. 18. That incident produced one of the misdemeanor possession charges the jury could not decide. a Scientists LAS VEGAS (AP) detonated a nuclear weapon Friday technical delay, deafter a livering a blast that was felt in Las Vegas high rises, 105 miles from ground zero. The weapon was up to 10 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Friday's test was the seventh of the year and the third in three weeks at the sprawling Nevada Test Site. A 5.7 reading on the Richter scale was recorded at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., according to spokesman Waver-l- y Person. Department of Energy spokesman Jim Boyer, who monitored the test 34 miles from ground zero, said scientists seemed pleased with the results. Scene from soap summons police SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Two customers looking at a television store saw. monitor in a a gunman sneaking around the back check-cashin- g room and thought they were witnessing a robbery. But it was a daytime drama of a different sort. The women dashed down the street to call police, who quickly swarmed the store. The women didn't realize the monitor was just a TV set tuned to the soap opera General Hospital, and the man with a gun was an actor. As police positioned themselves outside the on Wednesday, a dispatcher called the store's Chris unsuspecting teller, black-and-whi- te Check-X-Chan- Wiltse. "They asked if everything was OK and I said, 'Yes,'" Wiltse said. "And they said, 'Are you sure'.'"' The police dispatcher asked Wiltse to come outside to talk to the officers. Eyeball exercise for high school couch potatoes - In a PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) vote for brain over brawn, the Pitts-fiel- d School Committee has decided to allow high school juniors and seniors to pursue physical education by reading pamphlets about exercise. An attorney for the state Education Department says the plan sounds illegal. School Committee member George Desnoyers, who proposed the idea, contended that upper grade students are old enough to decide whether they want to exercise. They presently are required to take gym twice a week. "Kids should be encouraged to participate in sports ... intramural sports or joining the Y or the Girls' Club, but the school day is too short, the school year is too short and something has got to give," said lawyer George B. Crane, another school committee member. "The first thing to go should be fluff, and phys ed is fluff." The plan would permit juniors and seniors next September to take gym classes once or twice a week or take the "Minimum Physical Education" option. The option allows students to read an assigned pamphlet every two weeks. No tests, papers or class attendance would be required. The state Education Department was not amused. "We are asking them for a copy of what they have adopted and we will be pursuing this with the Pittsfield schools," Ed Melikian, a spokesman for the state Education Department, said Fridav. The School Conunittee adopted the new requirements Wednesday. Melikian said that hours before that meeting, a lawyer for the state Education Department told School Superintendent Robert L. LaFrankie that the scheme violated state law requiring physical education. "A review of the Physical Education Regulations indicates that a major component of an instructional physical education program is actual physical a movement and activity," lawyer M. Comfort said in a letter sent by telephone facsimile the day of the meeting. "Not only does the new option) not provide for instruction by a certified physical education teacher, it does not De-br- provide for instruction by a teacher, period," she said. LaFrankie was out sick Friday, but David Lucaroni, chairman of the health and physical education department at Taconic Higl,, said the board passed the regulations over strenuous objections from school administrators. "Our program is a model in the area and we are a teaching station for the University of Massachusetts because of our electives and our total physical fitness approach," Lucaroni said. "We don't just throw the ball out in the gym any more," he said. "All the research points to the fact that are not getting enough stu-(nt- s |
