Show sfe---- wHr i 3- - X S: ’ -- ir - --- J- ifSaNiv -- - - Page 6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday October 25 1996 r'?'nHnffET-- i Simpson defense attacks Nicole’s character SANTA MONIC A Calif (AP) — OJ Simpson will challenge the I its Angeles Police Department He will challenge his slain character He will challenge a seemingly damaging photograph But the focus of his defense will he on one man and one man alone — OJ Simpson In 4 12 hours of remarks that consumed nearly all of Thursday's court ses ’s sion defense lawyer Robert Baker portrayed Simpson ax the true victim — a man who was “wrongly accused" and ended up spending “490 days in solitary confinement for two murders he did not filed against Simpson by the relatives of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman Simpson who enjoys no rights against from his acquittal on criminal charges must testify this time around Lawyers say he could he on the stand for several days After two days of opening statements by four lawyers testimony begins today TTic first witness on the plaintiff’s list is Karen Crawford a manager at the restaurant where Goldman worked and one of the last people to see him alive Baker a veteran civil trial lawyer offered a long uneven opening statement that at one moment was touching — as when he spoke of Simpson’s suicidal urges during the Bronco chase — and at other times rambling He ended in a near whisper telling the panel of 20 jurors and alternates “You will conclude that Mr Simpson is wrongly accused You will conclude that ex-wi- fe commit" “If you believe OJ Simpson you must find him not responsible" for the slayings he told jurors In placing most of the burden on the testimony of his client Baker raised the stakes in the wrongful-deat- h lawsuit Mr Simpson would not could not kill anyone” Baker opened his case with a withering attack on Ms Simplon’s character describing her emotional state as “errat- ic” suggesting she may have suffered a drinking problem and sketching a social scene filled with unsavory characters including prostitutes and drug abusers The lawyer said Ms Simpson was promiscuous after her breakup with Simpson and aborted a lover’s baby Santa Ana winds expected to return Breast cancer gene test offered ethics debate continues MALIBU Calif (AP) — Southern California fire crews are bracing for the worst this weekend as powerful Santa Ana winds that fanned massive blazes threatened to return “We arc preparing us if someone gave us an announcement that a fire is on its way” said WASHINGTON Count- y- And farther up the coast in fire continBig Sur a week-ol- d ued to spread across thousands of acres Forecasters in Southern California say northeast winds up to 40 mph could come by Saturday with gusts reaching fit) mph Santa Ana winds have already punished the region with 70 mph gusts this week Winds in the Ijos Angeles area were expected to shift northwest and increase today “So long as things hold cool until Saturday we should be in pretty good shape" said Sarah Maurice a city spokeswoman in Malibu where 700 of 4000 firefighters had been sent home Iw Thursday morning Also on Thursday planes waterhombed hot spots and of crews prowled lor flare-up- s the fires that destroyed more massive effort to identify the body’s 80000 to 100000 genes is spending $8 million next year to study the ethical and social' implications of genetics research Scientists already have found An explosion of genetics research has companies racing to bring the discoveries to genes that when mutated can cause everything from cancer to con- sumers But researchers who celebrated the great gene hunt in a special Alzheimer’s disease Some laboratories are quietly offering tests to indicate whether Americans could get ‘ those killer illnesses decades in the future edition of the journal Science today issued a warning too — through a study that suggests patients may experience genetic discrimination just one societal ramification of gene testing the government is struggling to sort now-healt- Myriad Genetic Laboratories “This is what genetics is all about right now this contrast Allie Marinkovich 8 places than 110 California homes burned 4 (NX) acres and caused an estimated $35 million to $45 million in damage 1 a flower on the (’API- - C’ANAVLKAL Fla (AP) — She’d been warned how weak she would he after a spaceflight Bui loo weak to open a door? th Astronaut Shannon Lueid was worried when she tugged at the fronl door of her home the other night and the door wouldn’t budge “I thought ‘Wow I really am weak’ Then my daughter went and it Then my husband went and he couldn't open it So it was just the house had settled and it wasn’t that I've gotten so much weaker" Fact of the matter is Lueid feels “pretty much normal” one month after returning I I tific advances that carry enormous promise to alleviate a burned out home in Carlsbad Calif By Thursday afternoon the reopened In San Diego County mailbox of Malibu fire that destroyed eight homes was 85 percent encircled and nearly all area roads were thought it was going to be” loicid said at her first postflight news conference Thursday “That was the one thing toward the end of the flight I kept wondering: Well now do I really want to go home?" She even asked a NASA flight suigcon to meet her with lots of aspirin when space shuttle Atlantis brought her back Sept 26 “because I knew that my muscles were really going to hurt But they never an and yet the potential suffering for this information to be used in blaze in Carlsbad that consumed 98 houses was contained late Wednesday 8600-acr- e The Episcopal Church Welcomes You St Mi l Ckarcfe SEatflM North UTMJJ1 7524131 Sunday - Holy Eudurirt (chiU cart available) KMOam did” Her readaptation for the most part took about 24 hours And although she’s lost calcium in her bones and still is undergoing medical tests she feels great and is back to the earthly grind: going to the office in the morning cooking dinner and doing laundry in the evening bicycling when she can While spec station life has its pluses — no laundry to do no groceries to buy no bills to pay — Lucid’s existence suits her for now anyway “I'm not bored I'm really enjoying being back home” she said Lucid has had her fill of junk food in any event She gorged on the stuff during her first week back She’s also caught up on all the news she missed her family had saved magazines for her A voracious reader Lucid sometimes yearned for different books to read while on Mir “You couldn't just run out to the store and pick up something different and it suddenly hit you: You really were isolated therc” she said down-to-ear- from the Russian space station Mir No other woman and no other American had ever been exposed so long to weightlessness and so doctors were worried how the astronaut would readjust to Earth's gravily “I was verv ery surprised at how quickly readapted and ii was so much better than what between rapid and exciting scien- AP photo hy Inc of Salt Lake Gty announced Thursday that on Oct 30 doctors can begin ordering a test that' promises to detect every known mutation on two genes called BRCA1 and BRCA2 that can cause inherited breast or ovarian cancer All previous tests have detected only a handful of mutations out Astronaut says her life on Earth has returned almost to normal she couldn’t open ways that injure people" said Dr Francis Collins chief of the fed- era! 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