November 20,1984
NATION AND WORLD
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The University Daily
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Personal income growth may prompt holiday rush
WASHINGTON - Personal income continued to grow at a modest 0.6 percent rate in October, the Commerce Department said yesterday, and a top government economist predicted a good Christmas-buying season.
During October, however, Americans curtailed their buying, particularly of automobiles and furniture. Analysts said declining auto sales probably were due to strikes in the United States and Canada. Auto stores also declined. Furniture sales often fluctuate.
TV movie off limits to jurors
Despite the spending decline, chief Commerce Department economist Robert Ortena he said thought Christmas sales would be good. "I think retailers should be encouraged by the continued growth in income," he said.
ROCKFORD, III. — The trial of a man charged in the ax murders of his wife and three children was held late for a second straight day so the jurors would not be able to watch "Fatal Vision," a movie about a set of murders, on television last night.
The first part of the movie aired Sunday night, while jurors in the trial of David Hendricks, now in its eighth week, listened to testimony.
The movie is about Jeffrey MacDonald, a former Green Beret doctor convicted of killing his pregnant wife and two children with a club, an ice pick and a knife MacDonald is serving three consecutive life sentences in a federal prison at Bastrop, Texas, and is appealing his case.
Blood bank tainted by AIDS
SYDNEY, Australia — Homosexuals blamed by angry Australians for the AIDS contamination of the nation's only blood bank are being violently beaten and threatened with dismissal from their jobs, officials said yesterday.
Thirteen of the 18 people who received transfusions of blood contaminated with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome were admitted, including two babies, officials said.
The crisis erupted last week when health officials discovered the nation's only blood bank was contaminated with AIDS, which is almost always fatal.
Medical exports suspect AIDS is transferred through blood products, and a majority of the cases have been found in homosexuals.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Candy bars not tainted group says
By United Press International
LONDON — A militant group of animal lovers yesterday said their claim to have spiked Mars candy bars with rat poison was a hoax aimed at hurting the firm's sales because it had financed medical research involving animals.
"Members of the public are in no danger. No Mars bars on general sale have been injected with poison," a spokesman for the group, Animal Liberation Front, said. "Mars bars were never continuing to inspect the estimated 10 million candy bars still on store shelves.
Scotland Yard said that suspect candy bars had turned up in six cities since the scare began Saturday night but that there was no evidence any had been poisoned.
Ronnie Lee, a spokesman for the group, said the hoax was intended to clear Mars bars from shops as part of the Animal Liberation Front's campaign to cause "economic loss and sabotage to companies which are involved in cruelty to animals."
He said Mars was targeted because it had financed medical research into tooth decay using monkeys that were force-fed sugary food.
"Why should monkeys suffer because too many people eat sweets?" Lee said.
A company spokesman said that Mars had sponsored research into a vaccine against tooth decay that involved animal research and which was involvement with the program last July.
Scotland Yard said they would seek to question Lee about the poison hoax.
"We would like to speak to this man," a Scotland Yard spokesman said. He would not discuss grounds for possible charges against the group.
As the chocolate scare passed, the animal rights campaigners hinted at a campaign against Christmas turkeys reared on intensive poultry farms.
A group member using the name "Vivien" told The Standard newspaper she "would not be surprised" if action was taken against farms where turkies are reared in cages.
Last year, the group laced bottles of shampoo with bleach in a protest against
The Mars hoax was similar to an extortion attempt in Japan. Three Japanese confectionary companies have had their products laced with cyanide this year in extortion bids. No suspects have been caught and no money has been paid.
NEW YORK — Muhammad Ali, considered by many to be the Rocky Marciano award given to him by the Downtown the single greatest sports personality in history, plays with Athletic Club
Planned Parenthood office bombed Blast damages Maryland abortion clinic
By United Press International
WHEATON, Md. — Twin bomb blasts yesterday damaged a Planned Parenthood office and an abortion clinic that was the scene of a weekend demonstration in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
There were no injuries and no arrests.
The blasts also shattered windows in neighboring buildings.
"This is obviously an act of terrorism," said Gail Frances, owner of the Metro Medical and Women's Center. "We won't close."
"It was one hell of a bomb," a police
personnel told the Whiston explosion.
Damage was estimated at $500,000 in Wheaton, and $50,000 in Rockville.
The explosions, reported only minutes apart at about 6:15 a.m., blow in the rear of the abortion clinic and seriously damaged Planned Parenthood's tiny office at the Randolph Medical Building in nearby Rockville.
Clinic administrator Penny Smith said the office was sometimes guarded at night and added, "Thank God no one was in there. There's always some extremist who calls himself pro-life."
Phil Caswell, a Montgomery County police spokesman, said no one had accepted responsibility for the blasts, which were investigated by fire marshals and agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
the blast at the clinic near her home, said. 'It looked like the whole place was in flames.
Forty-six praying protesters were arrested Saturday when 100 members of the Pro-Life Non-violent Action Project picked the Wheaton clinic. Police said they were accused of blocking the entrance The protesters were charged with disorderly conduct and released.
Frances spotted one of the protesters in a crowd of spectators yesterday and told police, who questioned and released Chip Ward, pastor of Covenant Life Christian Community in Wheaton.
Andrea Prochotsky, who was awakened by
"I have no idea who would do this." Ward said of the bombings. "Jesus didn't give us the example of violence with violence."
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