| Show r - 4 1 - - — - - ---- ' --- -- ' f i i i t t I t 1 i LI 1 I 1: The Salt Lake Tribune t I - ' 1 Pig Hemoglobin May Lead To Artificial Human Blood f 4 I 1Li THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 f A 1I t IP said researcher John surgery I - Logan It could be stored much longer and 'apparently without refrig- LI eratkm work in people of any blood type and avoid a risk of viral disease from human blood donors be said Hemoglobin is the Component of blood Blood experts cautioned that the research still faces difficult - I ! test& Logan -- rb e vice president of research at DNX Corp of Princeton NJ is scheduled to describe the pig research today at the 199L World Congress of Cell and Tissue Culture in Anaheim Calif Three pigs have been created that wry geneA for human hemoglobin he said Friday in a telephone interview In the pig 10 percent to 20 percent of its h I 'bin is human he said The human hemoglobin can be oi? 1: !t: ZeZ a:r )62 best-studi- ed 1 I i'Ll t1 k a 'IP - - - Vacate' First N 'es THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DOHLIX Iraq — Allied troops quietly pulled out of the city of Dohuk on Saturday in a test case for a complete withdrawal from north- ern Iraq later this summer Hundreds of soldiers and trucks filled with equipment are leaving Iraq each day and the US military announced that troop strength in Operation Provide Comfort had dropped almost 30 percent since its peak May 21 The pullout makes Dohuk the first city vacated by allied troops during their occupation of northern Iraq The withdrawal was preceded Friday night by a peaceful demonstration of about 1500 Kurds who surrounded the allied compound and pleaded with coalition forces to extend their occupation "No no Saddam! Yes yes Bush!" the crowd chanted A placard read: "Please leave peace when you go" The gathering ended after 90 minutes when US Army ?flat Gen Jay Garner commander of allied combat troops in Iraq assured the crowd that the Iraqi army and secret police would not be allowed back into Dohuk for an unspecified period of time Under an agreement between Iraqi forces and the US command the Iraqi army and other security forces will not enter the city ac d oxygen-carryin- g — 44 '1111 11t1 1 extracted chemically modified to make it effective in the human bloodstream and then pasteurized he said Logan said the hemoglobin is being tested in snimala but he declined to disclose the results The company hopes to start testing in people in late 1992 or early 1993 be said Dr Alfred Katz senior director of biomedical development at the American Red Cross noted that two companies in receat years have been able to persuade federal regulators to allow testblood ing of hemoglobin-basesubstitutes in htmaans "Manufacturing a safe hemoglobin product for infusion into hum qns appears to be a difficult manufacturing process" he said William Drohan bead of the Red Cross plasma derivatives laboratory said he believes it would be difficult to purify the human hemoglobin to an acceptable degree on a large scale He also called the work important because researchers got the pigs to produce relatively large quantities of a human protein That may pay off in production of blood proteins other than hemoglobin he said NBW YORK — Scicntiss have created pigs that produce human hemoglobin in their blood the latest twist in the long quest to makiartificial human blood 'rhe hemoglobin may be able to replace red blood cells for transfusions in such applications as ::il r A i- t '"1 10 three-wee- I I lonomplionnuom k cording to US Army Col Dick Naab a negotiator for the coalition Naab and other allied officers have the right to visit Dohuk after Saturday "to keep the Iraqis honest" he said "We'd like to show a little bit of a presence" Nub said as he sat at the Dohuk Hotel while the last American soldiers cleaned up around him The colonel said he was not worried the Iraqi army would break the agreement immediately Still like most Americans in the operation he expressed concern about the future of the Kurds "I'd worry about the more subtle things" he said "The way they tighten the screws in this country things we can't monitor" American officers expressed little optimism that a UN security force of 47 assigned to Dohuk will deter human rights violations in the long-ter- About 500 of the UN officers should have been in Iraq this weekend but so far fewer than 100 have arrived a problem UN officials blamed on funding By Saturday afternoon all of the 89 American British French and Dutch forces who had occupied Dohuk since May 24 were gone They entered Dohuk to help restore essential services to the city of 250000 people one of the largest in northern Iraq 18 1991 A3 Ari a a7 SLNLkhine - r t a 107 - I Saddam Jails Intelligence Chief' In Baghdad Purge Say Sources Mt ASSOCIATED PRESS DOHUL Iraq — The chief of Iraq's military intelligence bureau has been jailed by Saddam Hussein for activities" allied military officers and a Kurdish political leader said Saturday They said Maj Gen Wang Jasim Sammari was arrested early this month in Baghdad as part of a purge of officers alleged to be disloyal to the Iraqi president In addition allied military officers said Brig Gen Nushwan Danotm the chief Iraqi representative to the allied occupiers of northern Iraq has also disappeared and is believed arrested Nushwan worked under Wafig in "anti-regim- e - Baghdad before coming to northern Iraq for the allied occupation the officers and the Kurdish leader said "Saddam arrested the head of military intelligence for supposed I activities" a senior American officer said on condition of anonymity The sources said they did not know specifically what Wa- fig was accused of Fadhall Merani the leader of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan in northern hag said he heard of Waarrest from Kurdish officials in Baghdad who are negotiating with the Iraqi government over Kurdish demands for an autonomous region in Iraq anti-regim- e : I 1 1 I Their presence also acted as a magnet to Kurds who fled to squalid refugee camps in the mountains between Turkey and Iraq after their failed rebellion against President Saddam Hussein in March More than 180000 Kurds returned to Dohuk since the allies first came to the city Now it busbamar tles boasting a well-stocke- d and lucrative trade in black market electrical goods Nag) said his one disappoint- ment had been the failure of Western aid workers to stay Under an agreement with the Iraqi military the 38 aid workers who came to the city had permis sion to remain in Dohuk for at least another month I 1 e I ' 100 Million Indians Vote Ending: Election Some Violence ReportedLP: 1 t 1 4 I ' ' -- 1$ - ' - - ' -- - i - ' ' i ' P ' ' 4 0 '' ''''''4' - - — ' ''' " - - 'A 0 - i- - 1 4 10t - i t- t V r ae 1 t ' ' i - - : t - 4 e a: e -- 4 '4" ' 1---- 1 4 (0 4 ' - 0 v ''' 4 v'44' - ' ' '- t - -- 4- -- - - Y'a - b 1 a a -- fe '1' - oe ” '" I 84 - mO r t ' ': es 0 '''' 4- T ' ro' oitA - v c ' 4 016 - 4 4 f' 4 V"' ' " — - I 0--- - ' '1 ti : ' ' ! 49' '''' ' 14 ' 0' - - W' ' - 4 ll' tc 4 1 i -- was suspended THE WASHINGTON POST a 4 "' 4 " 4 ri at- - 1' I I i N v I - '0 1 - PI t By Steve Coll SRIPERUMBUDUR India — About 100 million people voted Saturday in parliamentary elections amid scattered incidents of violence formally ending a campaign that claimed former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's life sparked religious riots and threw this fractious country's politics into turmoil With voting officially completed four weeks after it began India is preparing for an outcome that would give no party a majority in Parliament for the second consecutive election M20 commentators fear such an outcome would compound the confusim and volatility that have followed Gandhi's assassination by a suicide bomber on May 21 In the last stage of the disrupted which began May 20 but t 4 44 4 election after Gandhi's slay- ing voters here in Tamil Nadu state several other large southern states and the northern state of Uttar Pradesh returned to the polls Saturday amid tight security At least five people died in scattered shootings religious riots and bomb attacks More than 250 people have been killed in election-relate- d violence since the campaign began In sections of Uttar Pradesh seasonal monsoon rains lashed polling stations and soaked voters standing in long unsheltered lines In a few areas security restrictions kept all private vehicles off the roads foreing voters to trek to the polls by foot or bicycle The reported turnout nationwide was light to moderate Vote counting in nearly all of India's 543 parliamentary districts be riot-tor- n 1ek gins Sunday morning and the basic trend of the results is expected to be clear by the end of the day r The tallied results will clear up 5 two questions that have dominatedi d j the campaign during the last sever- - E'f: t al weeks One is whether sympathy ! :'1'1 generated by Gandhi's death has 411' ' significantly boosted the electoralI " r:1 of his slumping Congress strength Party The other is whether India's p101 : Li rising Hindu nationalist movement t will be able to transform its emo- - t 41—'3 s tional support into real ! Parliament in power I r But larger political questions raised by the assassination of Gan- 0 ! dhi seem likely to remain unan- swered even after the votes aret r !I counted Among these is whether the centrist Congress Party l'r"' i 771 hold itself together without a mem- ' ' '4 at of the ber dynasty I its helm 1 I grass-root- - Nehru-Gand- hi i 1 - c I0- ' ' ' - ' i ? 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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Soviet Union's third major earthquake in eight weeks struck a mountainous region before dawn Saturday killing at least six children The quake measuring 63 on the Richter scale struck in the southern republic of Georgia near an area ravaged by a temblor April 29 that left more than 100 people dead Saturday's quake centered near the Georgian city of Bakuriani a Caucasus Mountain ski resort town about 56 miles northwest of the MOSCOW capital Tbilisi said institute spokeswoman Olga Krylevskaya The worst damage was reported in the north-centrregions of Dzhava and Tskhinval where eight villages were almost completely destroyed and a town was leveled according to the state news agency Tass and an independent agency al Interfax Five of the six children were killed just outside the city of Gori about 22 miles northwest of Tbilisi according to the Georgian Kuwaiti Court Gives 7 More Death Sentence THE ASSOCIATED PRESS w decade Eight employees of the daily were acquitted Most of those tried Saturday were Palestinians A seventh defendant not connected to the newspaper also was condemned to death Saturday Mohan Majid Khalaf who is stateless was sentenced in absentia for being an informant and for forgery His sentence brought to nine the number of people sentenced to court death by Kuwait's martial-lasince June 8 Screams broke out in the packed courtroom when the verdicts and sentences were read Relatives collapsed to the floor crying hysteriAl-Nic- k cally Human rights groups have concourts for demned the martial-lanot producing witnesses in court and the defense lawyers in this case told the judge that they could not defend their clients against "ghost witnesses" The United States has repeatedly cautioned Kuwait's ruling family that the world would be watching the trials There is no appeal in the martial-lagovcourts But the martial-laernor Crown Prince Saad Abdullah must approve all sentences in consultation with three judges from the court of appeals w Defense lawyers were shocked with the verdicts saying it was out of keeping with the laws that prevailed in Kuwait before martial law was declared at liberation and would ruin the country's reputation abroad After the sentences in the newspaper trial were read the six women defendants hugged each other One was condemned to death one was acquitted and four were given sentences Military police cocked their rifles and submachine guns to separate the condemned from their families although 16 of the men had been put in a steel cage inside the courtroom The police pushed the relatives out of the courtroom yelling "Let's go! Let's go!" i Trappings of Congress? Trips Trinkets Galore ME KUWAIT CITY — A martial-lacourt on Saturday convicted 16 people of working on an Iraqi-ru- n publication during Baghdad's occupation of Kuwait sentencing six to be hanged and 10 imprisoned for a 10-ye- '' ASSOCIATED PRESS — The careful reader of Rep Alex McMillan's new financial disclosure form reaches this stunning conclusion: The guy loves cookies WASHING'rON He received homemade cook- ies heart-shape- d cookies and chocolate cookies last year Need seasonal travel tips? Back to the forms If it's winter in Washington you can bet you'll find lots of lawmakers in sunny California Arizona Florida or better yet Bermuda and Jamaica Welcome to the world of quirks and perks trips and trinkets and gifts galore — known as the United States Congress The thousands of pages of financial disclosure filed yearly are mostly routine But keep looking and the forms offer a peek at the favors and freebies enjoyed by rich and members alike Some take filling the forms out more seriously than others Like McMillan who takes the h By Elizabeth Les ly WASHINGTON — Sen Orrin made more than Hatch a speech a month to interest groups last year — raking in nearly $70000 in speaking fees and other honoraria Hatch donated $46000 of that to charity Sen Jake Garn made fewer than half as many speech es as Hatch but kept all but $200 of the $27500 he took in Netting $27300 Garn came in just under the limit for 1990 Senate honoraria Garn also had host organizations donate an additional $15000 to charity in lieu of payment for speeches In 1990 a senator's salary was $98400 and the honoraria limit was $27337 In 1991 the Senate rules change and Hatch Garn and the 98 other senators will be allowed to accept only $23400 in honoraria to supplement their ': '' l a ' is cake — or cookies anyway Lawmakers aren't required to report insignificant gifts But e McMillan filed a appendix to his annual form listing gifts ranging from a $185 tote bag to three Mickey Mouse golf balls from the late Rep Silvio Conte to a banana from a six-pag- 10 ' -- 1 group called People Protecting Primates And don't forget the cookies 41 four almond crescent :A 1 '1 D' cookies A dozen heart-shape- d came courtesy of Rep Tim Val- entine cookies from the LJ Lite Cookie Co of New Mexico and a woman named Wilda Spaulding stopped by with four homemade cookies as the House voted on the Americans With Disabilities Act The gifts come big and small California Rep Mervyn Dy- many reported getting $4716 worth of disposable cameras from Kodak Florida Republican Sen Connie Mack got a $250 framed oil portrait of — who else? — Connie Mack $101900 salaries Members of Congress are required to file annual financial disclosure forms which became available Friday Some figures such as assets and liabilities were listed in ranges Hatch reported substantial diversified assets spread across real estate stocks and securities Hatch's assets are worth between $648029 and $2048000 The only liabilities Hatch listed were two mortgages valued at between $115002 and $300000 Garn listed assets worth between $131004 and $365000 He did not list any liabilities Both senators accepted several gifts and trips for themselves and their wives Both accepted $400 packs at the Senator Ski Cup in Park City last year as well as $200 "Civil War" videotapes from GM Corp : " ! 25-ce- nt Senators From Utah Rake In Speaking Fees Honoraria STATES NEWS SERVICE : " ' —' '' dr al : - a : re - a 'a 0 a a ' a 01 ig ia fdi A ' :4 i o 1 a A :i :i :o — t :1: ) I |
