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NEWS IN BRIEF
TUESDAY, NOV. 13,2001
NATION
Lawsuits settled in deaths from recalled mouthwash
FARGO, N.D. — Relatives of six hospital patients who died after using a contaminated mouthwash have settled lawsuits with the companies that manufacture and import the product.
manufacture and import the product. Terms of the settlement are confidential, said Stephen Plambeck, lawyer for the mouthwash's maker, Hi-City Manufacturing.
facturing. Hi-City was sued in U.S. District Court in Fargo, N.D., along with Donovan Industries, a Tampa, Fla., company that imported Dawn Mist Mouth Rinse. The companies do not admit wrongdoing under the terms of the settlement, Plambeck said yesterday.
beck said yesterday. The deaths occurred in 1999 at Fargo's MeritCare Hospital, where infection control workers discovered the Dawn Mist Mouth Rinse used by some patients had been contaminated by Burkholderia cepacia bacteria. The waterborne germ can be harmful to people with weak immune systems or respiratory ailments.
The mouthwash was later recalled.
Plane escorted to airport after no response from crew
DENVER — A United Airlines plane with 90 people aboard was escorted by military jets to Denver International Airport, where it landed without incident yesterday morning.
The Federal Aviation Administration ordered the escort after Flight 1145 failed to respond to an inquiry, said United Airlines representative Chris Braithwaite.
Braithwaite.
The escort came after an American Airlines jet carrying 255 people crashed in New York. The plane, en route to the Dominican Republic, went down minutes after taking off from Kennedy Airport yesterday.
"Following the accident in New York City this morning, we put a call into our flights. The crew from that flight did not immediately respond," Braithwaite said. "We quickly realized it was nothing to be alarmed with."
Case of anthrax possible before the date of letters
TRENTON, N.J. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is testing the blood of a New Jersey physician who thinks he might have contracted skin anthrax in the first week of September.
The date is significant because it precedes the mailing of anthrax-tainted letters sent out on or around Sept. 18.
Gerald Weisfogel is one of 4,300 people who have called the state worried that they might have anthrax, state health officials said yesterday.
yesterday. So far, no actually had the disease, they said. The person with New Jersey's first suspected case of anthrax infection developed symptoms on Sept. 26, eight days after the first of three anthrax-tainted letters was postmarked at a central New Jersey postal facility.
facility. New Jersey has seven suspected cases of anthrax infection; all but one are postal workers. Authorities think all the infections can be traced to the Hamilton mail processing plant where the letters were routed.
The Associated Press
NATION&WORLD
Astronauts venture out, test space station crane
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut ventured out on a spacewalk yesterday to hook up cables and to test a crane on the International Space Station.
Space Station:
It was the first spacewalk for station commander Frank Culbertson — and almost certainly his last. His four-month mission is nearing an end, and if he ever returns to space, it will be in his old shuttle piloting job.
JOB:
Space station Alpha was soaring 250 miles above the Pacific when Culbertson emerged in a bulky white spacesuit, nearly an hour late.
a bulky white spaces,hearing Culbertson had trouble getting around the exit ladder on the outside of the Russian docking compartment, which doubles as an air lock.
"Like I thought, the ladder is a problem here." Culbertson told his space walking partner, Vladimir Dezhurov. "It's hard to get past the ladder, but I'll keep working at it."
Culbertson was assigned most of the exterior work: routing seven antenna cables for the Russian docking system and inspecting a Russian solar wing that never fully deployed.
Russia's Mission Control outside Moscow managed the spacewalk.
managed the space. Culbertson, 52, a retired Navy captain and former space station manager, has been living on the orbiting outpost since August with Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin. They will trade places early next month with a fresh threeman crew delivered by space shuttle Endeavour.
Endeavour's liftoff is scheduled for Nov. 29
Journalists killed by Taliban fire
The Associated Press
KHWAJA BAHUADDIN, Afghanistan — Two French radio reporters and a German magazine journalist were killed when they came under Taliban fire while traveling with Northern Alliance forces, their employers and colleagues said yesterday.
coffeeshakers since 1973. The journalists were identified as Johanne Sutton of Radio France Internationale, Pierre Billaud of RTL Radio and Volker Handloik, a free-lance reporter for *Stern* news magazine in Berlin.
Bernin. The three were thought to be the first foreign journalists killed in Afghanistan since the war began on Oct. 7.
Levon Sevunts, a Canadian journalist with the Montreal Gazette, said they had been invited to accompany Northern Alliance troops inspecting Taliban trenches reportedly
captured by the alliance near Taloqan.
The journalists were traveling on an armored personnel carrier when the Taliban opened fire with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The blast threw some of the journalists off the vehicle, reporters said.
Paul McGeough, a correspondent for Australia's Sydney Morning Herald who was in the group, said in a dispatch published yesterday that the Northern Alliance commanders had told the journalists the Taliban had left the trenches.
Opposition forces said Sunday they had captured Talaqan, the capital of Takhar and their former headquarters. The Taliban denied the city had been overrun.
"When we got there, they had not surrendered," McGeough said.
Court allows firing of teacher for repeated drunken driving
NATION
PHILADELPHIA-A teacher at a drug and alcohol treatment facility convicted three times of drunken driving can be fired for immoral conduct, a state appeals court ruled.
The Commonwealth Court said officials were justified in firing Nancy J. Zelino.
The state education chief backed the firing, citing a state law on teacher immorality and intemperance.
Zelno, 44, pleaded guilty two years ago to drive under the influence, her third offense. Upon learning of the conviction, officials at the facility near Gettysburg, Pa., dismissed Zelno, saying her conduct was a bad influence on students
Zelno, a tenured teacher at a residential treatment facility in New Oxford, near Gettysburg, fought the dismissal, saying no students had been corrupted and that her ability to teach hadn't been affected.
ability to teach near a bench.
But the appeals court upheld the firing.
Workers, visitors screened at Sears Tower for safety
CHICAGO — Employees and visitors at the Sears Tower will be screened with metal detectors and have their bags X-rayed as part of increased security at the nation's tallest building.
The X-ray baggage scanners made their debut yesterday in the tower's two main lobbies, where metal detectors will be operating in a week.
In a memo to the building's 125 tenants, officials from TrizecHahn Corp., the building's management company, said anyone failing to comply with the measures will not be allowed inside.
Long lines formed yesterday morning as workers and visitors waited for their baas to be X-rayed.
Mark Spencer, a representative for TrizecHahn, said federal authorities have not warned of any "specific or credible" threat against the 110-story tower. Its observation deck reopened last month.
- Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU employee reported burglary and theft at Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall between 6:30 and 10 a.m. Saturday, the KU Public Safety Office said. A Sony Playstation 2 controller and game were stolen. The stolen goods were valued at $385.
A 19-year-old KU student reported a theft at Robinson Center about 1.30 p.m. Thursday, the KU Public Safety Office said. Two bank cards, a driver's license, a KUID,$8 and a wallet were stolen. The stolen items were valued at $850.
A 19-year-old KU student reported burglary, theft and criminal damage to property in the Jayhawk Towers parking lot between 9:45 p.m. Nov. 6 and 10:30 a.m. Thursday, the KU Public Safety Office said. Damage to the student's vehicle was estimated at $150. A stereo and compact disc were stolen. The stolen items were valued at $210.
A 20-year-old KU student reported a theft from a vehicle between 6 p.m. Saturday and 2:21 p.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of Emery Road, Lawrence police said. A Pioneer CD player was valued at $99.
arrested early Saturday morning in the 1000 block of Indiana Street on charges of operating under the influence, driving with a suspended license and leaving the scene of an accident, Lawrence police said. An officer saw the student strike a parked car on Mississippi Street and then drive away. She was released on $850 bond.
A 23-year-old KU student was
A 19-year-old KU student reported damage to and a theft from a vehicle between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 2 p.m.
Thursday in the 1800 block of Naismith Drive, Lawrence police said. Damage to the dashboard was estimated at $200. An Alpine CD player was valued at $250.
A 22-year-old KU student reported criminal damage between 2:50 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Friday at a residence in the 1300 block of Valley Lane, Lawrence police said. Damage to a television cable was estimated at $10.
A 20-year-old KU student reported damage to a 1991 Toyota Camry between 1 a.m. and 1:05 a.m. Saturday in the 2500 block of West 1st Street, Lawrence police said. The damage was estimated at $500.
ON CAMPUS
Hispanic-American Leadership Organization will meet at 6 p.m. today at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union, Contact Michael Luna at 760-4852 or Sarah Zaragato at 312-2134.
Asian-American Student Union will meet at 7 tonight at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union. Contact Jerry Wang at 550-5061 or at asu@ku.edu.
KU Men's and Women's Ultimate Frisbee clubs will meet at 4:30 p.m. today in the Shenk Sports Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets. Contact Clay or Tony at 843-7099 or at clayed@ku.edu.
*Student Union Activities committees will meet tonight in the Kansas Union. Live Music meets at 6 at the Walnut room; Forums meets at 6:30 at the Oread room; Feature Films meets at 6 p.m. at Alcove D; Fine Arts meets at 6 at Alcove B; Spectrum Films meets at 7 at Alcove B; Recreation meets at 7 at the Walnut room; Public Relations meets at 7 at the
Oread room; Special Events meets at 7:30 at Alcove D. Contact SUA at 864-7469.
Latin American Solidarity will have an organizational meeting to discuss its SOA protest at 7 tonight in Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Contact Rebekah Moses at 312-1985.
Student for a Free Tibet will meet at 8tonight at Alcove in the Kansas Union. Contact Ryan Pratt at 838-9858.
University Christian Fellowship will have a Bible study at 7 tonight in the basement of Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Contact Rich at 841-3148.
■ KU Environs will meet at 6:30 p.m. today on the fourth-floor lobby in the Kansas Union. Contact Sam Lane at 312-1395.
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