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Show THE DAILY HERALD, Ue&ieaby. Sqacmba 2. ' IjS fosses teJkjM only now beginning to be fully ' ' felt. ; blinded were Twenty people outright in the bombing and up to 50 others likely face something akin to the Western definition of legal blindness, with the perception of light and motion, but serious impairment of their vision, hospital and other officials said. Hundreds of others have varying degrees of impaired vision, and many of them will need follow-u- p treatment to their prevent sight from deteriorating further. Because recovery is extremely slow and prognosis difficult with injuries of this nature, it kMUJl StVl The Kmactmc firm may be weeks or months before the true toll of blindness is Douglas Siadolo lies in a hospital bed in the Kenyan capital Tuesday. Siadolo was blind known, doctors say. ed when glass pellets shot into his eyes during the U.S. Embassy bombing last month. Kenya's single national rehabilitation center for the blind is slices that damaged all parts of vision drop off sharply if the already struggling to accommoEye injuries date the surge in demand. And In the chaotic aftermath of victims' eyes retina, iris, victim does not receive specialSome half to doctors said Siadolo like the people had ized surgery within the first cornea, are eyelid. blast, up patients trying to come to grips with their dis- of those hurt suffered some their eveballs cut completely in three weeks, according to Dr. half. Martin Kollmann, a German kind of eye injury. The enorability. national working at Kenyatta Also were sent a Before the bombing, he mous percussive impact devastating worked as a data processor in tornado of glass whirling perforation injuries, hospitals eye ward. A surgical team from Munich Nairobi while his schoolteacher through congested city streets caused when debris or glass wife stayed in their home vilpellets from bus and car win- University arrived 11 days surrounding the embassy. Razor-shar- p lage. Now he may have to abanshards, many dows were driven deep into peo- after the bombing and labored don his fledgling career and from sheer glass walls of an ple's eyes. daily from 7:30 a.m. to midmost serious caused the return there. bank night for more than a week on Treating building, adjacent most critical cases. "Going home would be the horrific eye injuries, mainly in eye injuries was a race against the end of me" he said bleakly. the form of deep horizontal time. Chances of restoring Kollmann said more than three By LAURA KING 'riw s NAIROBI, Kenya Douglas Siadolo is slipping into darkI ness. Despite the best efforts of a team of German eye specialists, the Kenyan is unlikely to regain the sight he lost in the US. Embassy bomb blast, when glass from a shattered car window shot into both ld eyes. After several operations, he can see a little light from the one eye that doctors were able to save, but it is dimming. There is almost no chance, his doctor says sadly, that he will recover any useful vision. 1 had hoped at first that my sight might somehow come back to me," Siadolo, a husband and the father of a baby girl, said Tuesday as he lay flat on his back in a cot in Kenyatta National Hospital's clean but austere eye ward. "Now I have to think about a different kind of life," metal-frame- d so-call- Heavy burden ,. Nearly a month after the devastating Aug. 7 embassy explosion, which killed 247 people "and injured more than 5,000 others, the heavy burden of having dozens blinded is Emotions vary over Clinton problem r' The Awciattd should go away. Asked what would be the turning point for them, what would warrant the president's resignation, most settled on lying under oath. There was lots of talk about upholding the Constitution and the rule of law. 1 feel he should be man enough to resign if he has actually committed perjury," said Schaale. "All politicians know what perjury is." "He doesn't deserve to be there if he lied," agreed Marvin Anderson, quality manager who describes himself as a strong Democrat. "He's the ultimate leader and he's the one who sets the example." Before long, it came out that most participants thought Clinton had in fact lied under oath. And then the backpedaling began. Should the president really be forced from office in the fallout over his dalliances with a young woman? A pall descended. be shocked." Td Unbelievable." Td be disheartened." Hart said the talk in this focus group shows how the nation "needs a lot more time" to sort out the ramifications of the Lewinsky investigation. the job Clinton is doing as president yet profoundly disappointed in him as a man. d Angela Crum, a homemaker and a Republican, paid 8.5 percent on her first mortgage and has a 6.5 percent rate on her new one, Press Jodie Tierney YORK, Pa. taps mn index finger on her lips. get misty. Her voice drops. Tm at a loss," she whispers. The sadness with which she pondered the possibility of President Clinton resigning echoed a dozen among Americans of all political persuasions who sat down this week to sort through their feelabout the Monica ingsLewinsky investigation. In'earnest talk over pretzels and rhips, they opened up to Democratic pollster Peter Hart aspart of a focus group designed to look beyond public opinion polls that give the president high approval ratings and poor marks personally. Their zigzag emotions, laid bare during two hours of talk in conference room, a small-tow- n mirror those of a nation still coming to grips with matters of truth and consequences. They want the Lewinsky matter resolved but say they wont give Clinton a free pass. They're firm that the president should uphold the law but wary of punishing perjury with impeachment, ; jMost of these Pennsj lvanians Republicans, Democrats and are happy with independents Thirty-year-ol- Her-eye- s Tm the high-fivin- g econo- my," she says, explaining her approval for Clinton. But she doesn't condone his private conduct. 1 think that we're all human, that's fine," she says. "But you can also control it. ... He chose to do that." Karen Schaale, 39, a fiscal officer and a Democrat, speaks of "great reservations" about Clinton morally, then sixes him up this way: "Take out the scandal, and how many bad things can you write down on the list?" Jeff Kirkland, a youth counselor and a political independent, feels most disappointed that Clinton would jeopardize so much to indulge himself personally. "He knew he was under scrutiny It seems like he'd have better sense than even to try it," says Kirkland. "He had a great thing going, a great plan going." The focus session turned out to be a journey of sorts. Participants started out generally satisfied with Clinton and dismissing the Lewinsky affair as a private matter that .II.1 - : i 3" Envirovrood 7-U- Dn p, These incredWe coJnposte(ood blmds gwe you Ihe dassk. wged look of wood shutters, but at up 70 less e price! Hus iheyl never warp, peel chip or crack. Cal now for your free estimate and saw 75 off the manufacturer's feted price; nstalation exfra. j J rr- - r .. ETJ 1 :-- 5 , f; ., r ir r urn.?, - r' Vs y Salt lakeWest Valley J7S-74S- 7 OoMMrNRWFanningion 57-457- 7 Cottonwood 37947SS SouTowoe OSdeMaylon OremffHMo . . . ,t : 7 If v - ,;: ' rjrr ....;......... 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