Friday, September 1, 1995
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No match found for severed leg
The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — The death toll from the bombing of the federal building here was raised to 169 after authorities said a severed leg found in the rubble belonged to an unidentified young African-American woman.
Tests on the badly decomposed leg determined it did not match any of the seven known victims who were missing left legs, the state medical examiner said Wednesday.
"DNA analysis by the FBI has shown conclusively that the left leg is not male but female," said Fred Jordan, state medical examiner. Hair analysis showed the victim was African American.
The leg, broken in two places,
 belonged to a woman about 5 feet
5 inches tall between the ages of 16 and 30, Jordan said.
Less sophisticated tests conducted earlier found a 75 percent probability that the leg belonged to a light-skinned male.
The leg was wearing a military-style boot and olive-drab strap used to tuck pants into the boot. Since the three men indicted in the bombing were Army buddies, the leg's garb fueled speculation that it may have belonged to someone involved in the April 19 attack.
Stephen Jones, the lead attorney for suspect Timothy McVeigh, had said the leg might have belonged to the "real bomber." He was dubious about the new test results.
"With this contradictory disclosure, no one can have confidence in any of the forensic work in this case," he said. "A white male
becomes a Black female. No wonder DNA testing has been discredited."
Calls to prosecutors weren't returned.
McVeigh and Terry Nichols are being held without bail and could face the death penalty if convicted. Michael Fortier pleaded guilty to lesser charges in return for his testimony.
In the weeks after the bombing, federal agents combed the country in vain for John Doe No. 2, a dark-haired, muscular suspect depicted in FBI sketches.
The sketch has not been withdrawn, though officials admit it resembled an innocent Army private who was in a truck rental agency around the time McVeigh allegedly rented the Ryder truck that carried the 4,800-pound bomb.
Women share ideas at U.N. forum
The Associated Press
HUAIROU, China — In a tent at the world's largest women's gathering, Marria Lazreg was describing to a silent, appalled audience the horror of being female in Algeria.
In another, a more boisterous crowd was attending, "O.J. Simpson: Black Women Speak on Black Men, Violence and Interracial Relationships."
They were just two of 300 workshops and seminars yesterday for more than 17,000 women who have come to Huairou, 30 miles from Beijing, to monitor and lobby the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women.
Whether these exchanges have any influence on the official conference opening Monday remains to be seen. But they are, in a sense, the whole point of the Huairou gathering — a chance for the women of the world to share knowledge, form networks and swap tales from the gender wars.
A multiracial group of about 100
women crammed an open-air pavilion for the O.J. Simpson debate organized by Sisterlove, a women's AIDS support group in Atlanta.
It began with a straw poll, in which most of the women said they believed Simpson was guilty of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole, and Ronald Goldman. Most also said they believed he would be acquitted.
Rene Emely Dubose of Charlotte, N.C., had heard the tape recording of detective Mark Fuhrman's epithets about African Americans on television the night before. It didn't change her belief that Simpson is guilty.
"Now that it's verified, it doesn't take away the fact that O.J. murdered that woman," she said to whoops and applause.
The topic soon broadened. A Danish woman protested that in the furor over actor Hugh Grant's indiscretion, too little attention was paid to the hardships of prostitutes.
The mood was somber at Lazreg's workshop, where the professor told
30 listeners about the hundreds of women who had been killed by Muslim extremists.
in the campaign to force women to abandon Western ways for Islam, victims have been raped, their throats cut, their bodies scarred and their breasts cut off, Lazreg said. "They are the only women in the Middle East who are being targeted for death simply because they are women."
Lazreg, 52, left her native Algeria in
1968 but visits frequently. She
teaches sociology at Hunter College
in New York.
She said the United States was not generous in giving asylum to Algerian women who fled death threats, and appealed to her listeners to write to their legislators.
By the time Lazeg finished her lecture, a dozen women had signed up for her mailing list. The network she is trying to build had grown a little larger, and her journey to the women's conference had been worthwhile.
THE NEWS in brief
The Associated Press
Card 'condoms' urge responsible shopping
GREENVILLE, S.C. — First, there was safe sex.
Now at Clemson University, there's safe spending
School officials are urging students to slip "condoms" over their credit cards to make them think before they charge.
The condoms are simple sleeves of paper carrying financial advice: "Keep this 'condom' over your credit card," they warn. "The few seconds it takes to get the card ready for use can reduce the urge to
SPEND, SPEND, SPEND ... and then you'll have money to save and invest."
The credit card condom is produced by the National Center for Financial Education and is designed to be an attention grabber, said Nancy Porter, a family resource management specialist with the Clemson Extension Service.
"We're concerned that these college students are really getting themselves in over their heads before they even have a chance to learn how to manage their money," she said.
Spanish town tosses tomatoes to honor patron saint
BUNYOL, Spain — Imagine being able to throw, without fear of fisticuffs, a tomato at anybody in town.
About 20,000 people did just that Wednesday, pelting each other with overripe tomatoes and turning the main square of Bunyol, Spain, into a red, juicy pool in an annual festival known as "La Tomatina."
Participants splattered four 25-ton truckloads of tomatoes during the hour-long frenzy in Bunyol.
"It's wonderful to be able to throw a juicy tomato at a neighbor without fear of reprisal," Gonzalez said.
190 miles east of Madrid, said festival spokeswoman Minerva Gonzalez.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
The town of 10,000 people has honored its patron saint, San Luis, every year since the Middle Ages. It added the tomato-slinging in the mid-1950s, when the region's tomato exports picked up.
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