UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 19, 1994
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Simpson jurors to avoid all media
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — An explosive new book threatens O.J. Simpson's right to a fair trial, a judge says yesterday as he abruptly suspended jury selection and ordered prospective jurors to avoid newspapers and TV and to stay out of books stores.
Earlier, Superior Court Judge Lance Ito handed the prosecution a major victory in refusing to throw out DNA tests on a bloody glove and other key evidence.
Ito dismissed prospective jurors for four hours while he and lawyers reviewed the book "Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted," which was released
Monday and co-written by Faye Resnick, a friend of Ms. Simpson's. Afterward, he sent them home until Thursday.
The book portrays Simpson as stalking his ex-wife and threatening to kill her if she ever slept with another man. Simpson, 47, is accused of the June 12 murders of Ms. Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
"There are certain recent developments regarding the publication of a book that caused the court great concern about the ability of Mr. Simpson to get a fair trial." To told the jury pool.
"Because of the change in the intensity of the coverage, I'm going to have to increase the restrictions to you," he said. "I am going to order you not to
read any newspapers, any magazines, or watch any TV or listen to any radio."
Later, he added, "You are to stay out of bookstores."
Ito apologized for the inconvenience but said the restrictions may last for some time.
Ito said he would talk to the attorneys on the case and "other authorities" before deciding what to do next.
"Keep in mind those who are selected to serve on this jury may be de facto communicated for a significant period of time," he said.
The judge has said he is reluctant to sequester jurors but would do so if he thought publicity would affect them.
Group says weed killers found in our water
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Permissive standards and lax monitoring allow dangerously high levels of the most widely used weed killers into the tap water of millions of Americans, an environmental group said yesterday.
The Environmental Working Group said its analysis of data on Midwestern water supplies found that more than 3.5 million people were exposed to atrazine, metolachlor and alachlor, which is used mostly on corn.
But the group made its own determination of what constitutes safe,
arguing that federal standards lag behind. It used the most conservative possible benchmark of cancer risk in arguing that some supplies were dangerously contaminated.
"The drinking water in every Midwestern city south of Chicago is contaminated with agricultural weed killers," said Richard Wiles, lead author of the study. "Throughout the late spring and summer months, millions of Americans routinely drink water with unsafe levels of these herbicides."
Some water systems routinely monitor rivers and reservoirs for those chemicals, and some use
advanced carbon filtering techniques to lower the residue levels.
An estimated 14.1 million people in the Midwest, Louisiana and the Chesapeake Bay area get some of the pesticides in their drinking water from rivers and reservoirs, the group said.
The report said the dangerous levels were in water supplies to 98 small communities and 23 larger cities, including Springfield, Ill.; Indianapolis; Columbus, Ohio; Kansas City, Mo.; and Omaha, Neb.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency said the report should be viewed with concern but not alarm.
HOUSTON — A firefighter's coat draped over her shoulders, Oma McCalister clutched her mine cane and a few other possessions yesterday as she was lifted in a rescue boat from flood-waters that had reached door-boob level.
Texas floods leave thousands without homes
The Associated Press
"In 18 years no water's ever been in my house," said the 56-year-old McCallister.
She and thousands more across southeast Texas were driven out of their homes by three days of rain that have swollen rivers and other waterways.
The floods were blamed for at least seven deaths. Three other people, including a 2-month-old boy, were missing and presumed drowned.
About 10,000 people were out of their homes, and 30 counties were threatened by floods. The Red Cross opened at least 30 shelters for the homeless.
The storm that hit Sunday brought as much as 30 inches of rain to some areas and was expected to continue at least until today. Flash-flood warnings were issued across a wide area.
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