NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, May 1, 1985
Page 10
Police chief retires as grand jury meets
By United Press International
NEW YORK — The third highest officer in the nation's largest police force stepped down yesterday as a grand jury convened to consider charges against four officers for allegedly torturing drug suspects.
The "early retirement" came in the third shake up in the force since the torture scandal surfaced last week when a teen-age suspect in a drug case charged he had been burned repeatedly by officers in a Queens stationhouse by an electronic stun gun.
The officer, Chief of Patrol Hamilton Robinson, was hand-picked by Police Commissioner Benjamin Winn in January 1983 and commanded the city's 17,000 uniformed police officers.
Three other Queens commanders working under Robinson also retired yesterday. Four other officers at the 106th stationhouse – dubbed the "Torture Precinct"
- have been arrested and suspended without pay for allegedly zapping drug suspects with stun guns to force them to confess. The integrity officer, who was not charged, also was suspended.
Five people have lodged the charges against the four Queens officers, and the grand jury yesterday began hearing evidence against those officers.
"I have received great support from the people of New York and from my family. I would not have been able to get this far without it," said Mark Davidson, who was allegedly tortured after being arrested on a charge of selling $10 worth of marijuana.
The four officers did not appear before the panel.
Ward refused to directly link the torture allegations with the retirements, saying, "I merely asked them to account for their performance. Some of them expressed a desire to retire. People ought to be able to retire when they are ready."
Swedes begin selling birth control implant
By United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Beginning today, Swedish women can use microdrops to be implanted under the skin of the arm.
The hormonal device, which becomes effective after 24 hours and provides protection against pregnancy for five years, will be on sale in state drugstores by prescription for only 50 kronor ($.50) under the country's subsidized health care system.
About 50 Swedish gynecologists have been trained in how to implant the new contraceptive, which goes on the Swedish market today.
The device consists of six micro-rods, each about the size of a match, or 1.3 inches long and 0.09 inches thick. They are implanted in a fan-shape through a cut in the skin of a woman's inside upper arm.
"Tape is put over the cut for a few days until connective tissue has covered it. It's not much worse than getting any shot," said Dr. Viveca Oldind at Upsala's academic hospital, where nearly 400 women have used the device in the Swedish part of international tests.
The research, which has included longterm studies in seven countries around the world, was initiated almost two decades ago by the U.N. affiliated World Population Council.
Sweden is the second country to introduce the microrods on the market. Made in Finland, the contraceptive became available there in January 1984, but has not been extensively used.
During the first year, less than 1 percent of fertile Finnish women used the microdroids — 4 percent of women using birth control pills. Leiras, the pharmaceutical company that produces the contraceptive
Although the hormonal dose released from the microorods is only about one-fifth of what ordinary birth control pills contain, they provide protection virtually as good as sterilization "by eating a pill quite a bit of hormones are destroyed in the intestines and the liver." Odlind said.
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