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Show r- A The Daily Herald Tuesday, December 19, 1995 Food fight occurs on London flight ;:" tody and may be placed with relatives. Police said they found the scene after following the In a horrifying CHICAGO who had allegedly just sold double discovery, police stumbled $500 worth of drugs. upon two households crammed In the first case, police said they with children living alone amid were led to the apartment by a buckets of human waste and rancid boy they w ere questioning trash, without food or running about unrelated matters. water. Phyllis Davis, 31. and her mothIn one apartment Monday, er, Doris Davis, 47, were also police found eight children, ages charged with child endangerment. 10 months to 15 years, with no All eight children were taken into heat, a toilet that didn't work and state custody. The women were grimy clothes piled high over released on $1,000 bond. garbage. The refrigerator was Jackie Milton, Doris Davis' sislocked and they had apparently ter, denied that the children were been left alone all weekend. left alone. She said she stopped by A few hours later and less than a the apartment Saturday evening mile away, police trailing a teenand took her sister to the grocery age drug suspect back to a burned-ou- t store. abandoned building made an The day's grim finds echoed the equally shocking find: three young case last year when Chicago police children and two teen-ageamid discovered 19 children, ranging rancid trash, buckets of urine and from 6 months to 14 years old, livfeces and a pile of used toilet paper ing in an apartment littered with several feet high. Cold wind whisfeces and crawling with cockroachtled through holes in the walls. es. At the time. Vice President Al electrici d Gore called it a "warning bell" for "They had ty, no running water and only two America's poorest neighborhoods. kerosene space heaters," said "The physical conditions inside this place were much worse," police Lt. Fred Bosse. Theresa Olmetti, 34, the mother Bosse said, referring to the six chilof the teens, and Tasha Cross, 8, dren found Monday. For the Rev. Paul Jakes Jr., who the mother of the young children, were charged with child endanger-men- t runs a homeless shelter in the and remained jailed today. neighborhood and who recently The youngsters, ages 1, 2, 3, 15 baptized Olmetti. the shock over the squalor gives way to a grim and 16, were taken into police cus By BRIAN BERGSTEIN Associated Press Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Fifteen travelers were sent back to London rafter a food fight broke out during a Northwest Airlines flight, officials said. Two others were being held Monday by the Immigration and "Naturalization Service while they .sobered up and a third was arrested 'on charges of interference with the crew for allegedly taking a swing at a flight attendant. Northwest spokeswoman Marta Laughlin said the travelers, who were from three families, didn't like having their drinking limited on the flight, which originated in London, made a scheduled stop in Minneapolis on Monday, then continued on to Los Angeles. They began throwing food, yelling and swearing, the airline said. Laughlin said she was told that children in the group were sent to steal liquor from the flight attendants' beverage carts. ,m i Federal officials herded aside all 1 8 people, ranging in age from about A to 65, after the flight landed in the Twin Cities. They held British or Jpsh passports. Immigration and Naturalization v Service agent Crestino Gonzales said members of the group were sent back to London because of misrepresentations about their destination and inconsistent accounts of the purpose ixil their trip to the United States. Opposition delays WASHINGTON (AP) Legislation sought by President Clinton to fight terrorism is being put aside in the House because of resistance by both liberals and conservatives. Judiciary Committee Chairman decided Henry Hyde, billion the $2.1 against bringing package to the House floor this year because he doesn't have the votes for passage, lawmakers said Monday. --T- he R-Il- l., m The legislation giving federal law enforcement agencies greater power to battle terrorism has been pushed aggressively by the administration since the April 19 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Its latest delay was denounced by the White House. "We need to take aggressive measures to shut down terrorist acts like we've seen recently, and it's a shame that Congress walked away from taking legislative steps in the right direction," Deputy , It was the second fatal shooting in a:liffle more than a year at a Chrysler Jplaat in Sterling Heights, about 15 Jmitjs north of Detroit, parries, ages and hometowns of the j ,. svK'tims were not immediately but Chrysler spokesman Tony !Ceryone said both victims were Jbelieved to be plant employees. The man fired four shots at the J him-'se- jf jwpman, went outside and shot moments later, witnesses told iWWJ radio. No one else was said. There was no limitiediate word on a motive. The Jshbpting happened around the time of jajhift change at the plant. On Dec. 9, 1994, Clarence Woods, 48, killed his supervisor and wounded ! a' at a Chrysler stamping ! plant not far from the assembly plant J where today's shooting took place. 1994 shooting followed an J Jr.The argument over a work assignment. Wttods is serving a life prison term. U avail-iable- wound-leJ.Cervo- - JB- iin d. Bartlett wrote a letter signed by 26 Republican lawmakers urging House Speaker Newt Gingrich to put off action on the bill "until next year at the earliest." Bartlett, who opposes gun control, denied Democratic suggestions that Republicans were withholding support for the bill until the House moved to end a ban on terrorism from raising funds within the United States and required that tracing materials be added to plastic explosives. Two former Army buddies are facing charges in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing in which 169 people were killed and more than 500 injured. rights of state and federal prisoners to appeal their convictions in federal court. Conservatives had already won of a home, having a door and W f: apart- - ment. as long as they have four walls, they feel secure, even if it is a deplorable situation.' test Now. doctors diagnose TB through an intensive laboratory test that takes about a week, and sometimes more, to get results. Typically-- , doctors don't prescribe antibiotics until they see those test results. The test, however, Gen-Pro- is 95.5 percent accurate and gives, results in four to five hours, the FDA said. That means doctors could begin drug treatment almost - : immediately. , , PeUTTER S T "Ruff Hewn" University Mall. Oram 0 Hjm ramhfr alitfifrrfi "wmii. jii. PLUS 5 (Limited Quantities) Save 06.00 December 2 "We M SINCE 1940 A Free Pair of Welding Gloves IllWmH m- " M fi 500 South 300 West DOWNTOWN m Discount Everything... Everyday!" CD-ROMention This Ad And You'll Get 'IN Book & Tape $1 Thru Friday Monday 18-2- mKi . easu LINCOLN WELDER SP-12- PROVO .liMBMiipM' Neuromuscular Diseases . .. 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The Army said last week that it is J: lot; yet ready to give out a postal REWARD from 10 months to 15 years, after officers stopped and questioned the oldest of the children, who led them to the apartment with no electricity, running water or food. Why pay $50 - $100 more? ittp:www.dtic.dla.milbosnia. Call ,.aI L. considerable concessions from Hyde. Earlier this month, he agreed to remove provisions in the bill expanding federal wiretapping jy I drug-resista- Je ail BLUE-EYE- D A , Peace on Earth good Twill Towards Men. sa, "Fighting terrorism is an important and worthy goal," said Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. "But in that fight, we should not trash our most important principles of privacy and free speech." Conyers wants to eliminate language in the bill that restricts the The Pen-- J (AP) established it an elec- has says tngon tronic-m'a- il address to soldiers in Dart of the Defense Depart- Bosnia as nient's BosniaLINK home page on the World Wide Web, which also contains fciaps and other information on Bosnia. Rnvninl INK now hns a message SEEN THIS - - A WASHINGTON (AP) new test promises to tell Americans within hours, instead of days, if they have tuberculosis. The Food and Drug Administration approved Gen-Prolac's new spit test for tuberculosis, called the Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test, last Friday. About 10 million Americans are infected with TB and about 10 percent will develop an active case of the disease, where they become ill and spread the germ by coughing or sneezing. Antibiotics can cure TB if they are taken daily for months, but an incomplete course of treatment can produce bacteria. to terrorism, created a special court to deport aliens suspected of terrorism, barred groups linked to damental civil liberties. E WASHINGTON 1- M FDA approves faster TB m have passed legislation as an emotional response we have regretted - "For many people w ho are homeless, having some semblance assault weapons. But Rep. Charles Schumer, insisted that the decision to legdelay action on islation was a victory for the National Rifle Association. "The NRA is holding America hostage to the benefit of terrorists," he said. In its original form the bill made it easier for federal agents to conduct wiretaps on groups linked knee-jer- - mal a normal life and will just con- tinue to dwell in that," Jakes said. bill liberals and conservatives who contend the measure threatens fun- set up for ir. sum ftiiniiifiT' 8, )rm under the heading "Send your holiday greetings to the troops in Bosnia." It does not allow personal ! messages to specific individuals or units, but rather a generic greet-- ! fog that will be printed in internal J rulitary publications and on military and radio. J i The BosniaLINK address is 1 f AP Photo anti-terroris- m later." Earlier this month, v . realization of the abject poverty people live in. 'The tragedy is that they will make the lifestyle which is unnor- - authority, defining terrorism in terms of firearms use and permitting the use of the military in emergencies involving chemical or biological weapons. But that wasn't enough for many Republicans. "I have a k kind problem with any of legislation," said Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, "Every time we it ilium The dining and living room of an apartment in Chicago's west side show the filth and chaos amid which police found eight boys and girls over the weekend. Police found the children, ranging in age said. The bill passed the Senate, 91-last June but has been blocked in the House by a rare grouping of troops in Bosnia J it i - )J i Press Secretary Ginny Terzano er ! liMiiiirnni 1 A man shot a woman to death this morning at a Chrysler Corp. assembly plant, then killed himself, police said. shooting was reported at 6:30 aSfThe man was dead when officers Sarfiyed, and the woman was pronounced dead about 7:25 a.m. at JVyiliiam Beaumont Hospital in Troy, police Lt. Al Zielinski said. No other injuries were reported, he J y-- jury-rigge- '"'STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. E-m- ail Sf' rs Shooting kills 2 at Chrysler plant i aiii; ' SI ra95 131 - |