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The Inside Front
Thursday November 13,1997
News
from campus, the state,the nation and the world
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON: Officials at the FBI crime lab said yesterday that new techniques for processing and analyzing DNA evidence enabled a federal scientist to testify that the suspect was virtually the only person on earth who could have raped a Milwaukee woman.
ST. LOUIS: Elizabeth Dole may have what it takes to be the next U.S. president, but she is not jumping at the chance to lead the nation.
ORLANDO, Fla.: For the first time, doctors have shown that cholesterol-lowering drugs can help healthy middle-aged people with ordinary cholesterol levels reduce their risk of heart trouble by more than one-third.
INTERNATIONAL
UNITED NATIONS: The Security Council voted unanimously yesterday to condemn Iraq and put a travel ban on selected Iraqi officials because of Baghdad's decision to exclude Americans from the U.N. arms inspection team.
BETHLENEM, West Bank: A recent shooting of a 9-year-old boy was a grim reminder that despite years of on-and-off peacemaking, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict still is simmering and continues to claim victims.
HANUBA, Japan: Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius,
the world's first gas-electric hybrid car, handles
and responds much like a regular car.
It was made available to reporters for a test
drive yesterday.
NATIONAL
New FBI crime-lab tests shed light on rape case
WASHINGTON — The Wisconsin rape suspect stoutly claimed he did not do it. Four alibri witnesses, including his police-officer wife, testified to his innocence. But a new FBI technique for analyzing DNA evidence told a different story.
Officials at the troubled FBI crime lab said yesterday that new techniques for processing and analyzing DNA evidence enabled a federal scientist to testify that the suspect was virtually the only person on earth who could have raped a Milwaukee woman.
The evidence persuaded the jury to convict Iran L. Shuttlesworth, 25, a prison guard, of kidnapping and first-degree sexual assault.
Jenifer L. Smith, head of the FBI's DNA unit, said the Wisconsin case proved the agency's techniques had matured to the point that DNA analysis could produce extremely compelling evidence that left no doubt.
She said that DNA science now was so certain of matching a single individual to a blood or semen sample that the odds could be one in a trillion that the specimen could have come from anybody else. The Earth's population is about 5.8 billion.
Under a new policy that started Oct. 1 for FBI expert witnesses, Smith said that if the probability exceeded one in 260 billion then an identification statement would be given in testimony. This means, she said, that the witness can state flatly that there is a DNA match with no need to qualify the finding with probability numbers.
In a news conference conducted with great fanfare, FBI laboratory director Donald M. Kerr said that the new techniques constituted a major breakthrough in the use of DNA analysis of crime specimens.
But the announcement had as much spin as substance. Officials admit the new process almost is identical to the laboratory and statistical analysis used on specimens from the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles. Simpson was acquitted in the murders of two people, including his ex-wife.
Republicans will not have Elizabeth Dole as candidate
ST. LOUISE — Elizabeth Dole may have what it takes to be the next U.S. president, but she is not jumping at the chance to lead the nation.
"We may well see a woman as president in our lifetime," Dole said after a speech in downtown St. Louis yesterday. But it won't be Elizabeth Dole in 2000.
"I have no plans to run," she said firmly.
"The Red Cross is my mission field now."
Dole, president of the American Red Cross and wife of former presidential candidate Bob Dole, addressed a luncheon honoring the Women's Leadership Giving Initiative of the St. Louis United Wav.
She told 90 women she had been criticized by feminists and others when she took a leave of absence from the Red Cross to help her husband campaign.
"My decision was to support my husband," Dole said. "It was a wonderful, positive experience, win or lose, but either way I was committed to coming back to the Red Cross."
Women bring important soft skills to the workplace and board rooms of corporations and civic and volunteer organizations. Dole said.
These skills and qualities include listening, communicating, getting at the root of problems and a higher tolerance for ambiguity because of experience as homemakers and mothers, she said.
ORLANDO, Fla. — For the first time, doctors have shown that cholesterol-lowering drugs can help healthy middle-aged people with ordinary cholesterol levels reduce their risk of heart trouble by more than one-third.
Cholesterol-lowering drugs could help middle-aged
A major study released yesterday looked at the use of these drugs among men and women — mostly in their 40s, 50s and 60s — whose total cholesterol levels were about 220. A reading of 220 is considered somewhat higher than ideal but is average for American adults.
The study, conducted on 6,605 men and women, was stopped earlier than planned after researchers found that the treatment significantly reduced the risk of first-time heart attacks and serious chest pain.
Researchers said the findings meant that cholesterol medicines should be considered for an additional 8 million Americans. The drugs typically cost about $100 a month.
The results were released by Antonio M. Gotto Jr., a physician and dean of Cornell University Medical College, at a meeting of the American Heart Association.
The study is the latest to show the power of a 10-year-old class of medicines called statins, which protect the heart by lowering cholesterol.
Until now, the drugs have been reserved largely for people with significantly elevated cholesterol or those who clearly already have heart disease. In these people, cholesterol-lowering drugs have been shown to reduce their risk of heart disease by more than one-third.
INTERNATIONAL
UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council voted unanimously yesterday to condemn Iraq and put a travel ban on selected Iraqi officials because of Baghdad's decision to expel Americans from
United Nations votes to condemn Iraqi actions
Immediately after the vote, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tarqi Aziz said Baghdad would neither back down nor rescind its order to expel the Americans.
the U.N. arms inspection team.
The resolution condemns Iraq for its initial Oct. 29 expulsion order and demands it be rescinded immediately and unconditionally. It also imposes a foreign travel ban on Iraq officials who interfere with U.N. inspections and suspends further Security Council reviews of economic sanctions against Iraq until the arms inspectors certify that Baghdad is cooperating.
The resolution warns of further measures if Iraq refuses to comply but does not include an unequivocal threat to use military force. However, Bill Richardson, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, made clear that the prospect of a military response remains.
"The Security Council has been united. The message has been clear: Iraq must comply or face consequences," Richardson said. "We are not precluding any option including the military option."
Russia, France, China, Egypt and others had refused to go along with any military threat as part of the resolution, and the Americans and Britons decided not to push for it to gain unanimous support.
The Security Council imposed economic sanctions against Iraq in August 1990 after Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait. A condition for lifting the sanctions is Iraq's compliance with a U.N. order to destroy all weapons of mass destruction.
The U.N. inspectors monitor Iraqi compliance, but Baghdad claims that the Americans on the team are holding up the required certification so sanctions stay in place.
Shooting of child reminder of Palestinian-Israeli conflict
BETHELHEM, West Bank — Nine-year-old Ali Jawarishe was on his way to buy pencils for school when he ran into other youngsters throwing stones at Israeli soldiers.
It's not clear whether Ali joined the stone throwers on the outskirts of Palestinian-controlled Bethlehem. But when a soldier took aim and fired rubber-coated steel pellets at the boys, Ali was struck in the head.
Yesterday, Ali remained unconscious and hooked up to a respirator as his 30-year-old mother, Leila, tried to come to terms with the tracedy.
"I know we are enemies, the Arabs and the Jews — but he is only 9 years old," she said. "I wish they had arrested him. I wish they had beat him, but not this."
The shooting was a grim reminder that despite years of on-and-off peacemaking, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict still is simmering and continues to claim victims, including children.
A representative for the Israeli army said that the boy ran into the line of fire and that the soldier had aimed at an older stone thrower. He blamed Palestinian police for failing to control the riot.
"This would not have happened if the Palestinian police would have done what they were supposed to do. They did
not do anything," said the representative, who cannot be named under military regulations.
Mahmoud Himdan, who witnessed the shooting and evacuated the boy, said that none of the stone throwers were older than 11 and that they were running away when a soldier took aim and fired in their direction.
Jawarishe said that she did not believe her son was throwing stones. She said he had left their shack in the Aida refugee camp on the outskirts of Bethlehem Tuesday afternoon to buy pencils.
The stationary store is just up the road near Rachel's Tomb, an Israeli enclave where some 30,000 Israelis, most ultra-Orthodox Jews, attended a ceremony Tuesday. Throughout the day, there had been sporadic stone throwing near the tomb, and Jawarishe said she had told Ali to be careful.
"If he lives, he will most likely be mentally disabled," Jawarishe said. "They destroyed his life."
Toyota reveals hybrid car that runs on electricity, gas
HAKUBA, Japan — Turn the key, there's only silence, no revving engine. Step on the accelerator, the car glides quietly, only the electric motor at work.
Even when the gasoline-run engine kicks in at higher speeds, it is hard to notice. The only hint is a slight, murmuring vibration.
Still, Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius, the world's first gas-electric hybrid car, handles and responds much like a regular car. To make sure the distinction is not lost, the Prius — made available to reporters for a test drive yesterday — comes with a monitor on the dashboard where images show whether the car is running on gasoline or electricity.
The most obvious differences will be seen at the gas station — since the Prius gets 66 miles to the gallon in test drives — and on emissions monitors.
Its tailpipe carbon dioxide emissions are half those of a conventional engine, and other toxic gases have been slashed by 90 percent.
Toyota engineers say the Prius can pass California's stringent emission standards, which are considered the toughest in the United States.
The Prius will arrive in Japanese showrooms Dec. 10. Toyota has said it will wait about a year before thinking about selling it abroad. But Yoshio Shishido, a Toyota official in charge of new products, said the company has the U.S. market in mind before any other foreign market.
—The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's Kansas license plate was stolen between 9:30 p.m. Sunday and 1 a.m. Monday from the 1600 block of Tennessee, Lawrence police said. The item was valued at $55.
A KU student's Trek 850 men's mountain bike was stolen between 6 p.m. Sunday and 10 a.m. Monday, Lawrence police said. The bike was valued at $475.
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