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U.S. angry about shooting in Pakistan
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KARACHI, Pakistan—Hoping for a repeat of last month's arrest of a World Trade Center bombing suspect in Pakistan, Washington offered a $2 million bounty yesterday for the gunmen who killed two U.S. government workers and wounded a third.
The injured American, an ex-Marine who worked in the consulate's post office, said he escaped getting killed by diving to the floor of the van carrying the three to work. After the shooting stopped, he ordered the Pakistani driver—who had been playing dead—to drive to the hospital.
Mark McCloy, 31, of Framingham, Mass., said he didn't get a look at the gunmen, who had jumped from a stolen taxi at a crowded downtown intersection Wednesday morning.
"We stopped at a red light, and I then heard the shooting." he told his hometown newspaper, The Middlesex News, in a telephone interview. "I just know they started firing. They went up and down the van."
He dove to the floor and was partially protected by the driver's seat.
he said. "The other two were behind me and a little more exposed," he said of his co-workers.
When the attack ended, McCloy said he saw the driver slumped over the steering wheel and thought he was dead. But when McCloy went to move him, he found the driver was unhurt. McCloy ordered him to drive to the hospital while he radioed the consulate from the van.
Gary C. Durell, 45, a communications technician from Ohio, appeared to have died right away, McCloy said. Jackie van Landingham, 33, a secretary from South Carolina, died at the hospital.
McCloy remained hospitalized yesterday in good condition with a bullet wound to the ankle.
The attack Wednesday on the U.S. consulate workers highlighted the runaway violence in this sprawling port city, Pakistan's industrial hub with more than 10 million residents.
Seven people were killed yesterday in four separate drive-by shootings, police said. Most or all were related to the sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslim groups, one of several running feuds in Karachi.
No suspects have been named in the attack on the Americans.
Washington sent an FBI anti-terrorism team to help in the police search. U.S. Ambassador John Monjo said the team and other American security officials would not take over the investigation but would lend assistance.
In addition, the United States is offering up to $2 million for information leading to the arrest of those responsible. The U.S. government will ensure complete confidentiality for people with tips and even relocate them and their families to the United States, if necessary, the State Department said.
A similar reward apparently motivated an informant to provide tips that led to last month's arrest of Ramzi Yousef, who is accused of masterminding the 1993 Trade Center bombing in New York. Yousef was arrested in Islamabad, the capital, and immediately sent to New York, where he remains in custody.
There has been speculation—but no evidence—that the shooting was revenge for Yousef's extradition, which was opposed by some Pakistani groups. The country's powerful drug mafa or militant Muslim groups also have been named as possible suspects.
Other terrorist attacks in Karachi, including recent mosque massacres, have followed a similar pattern. Witnesses have described the attackers in those cases, as well as Wednesday's attack, as men in their 20s armed with AK-47 assault rifles.
"They are so confident not being caught that they don't bother to cover their faces," said Jameel Yusuf, co-chairman of the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee, a private group that works closely with police.
The attack came at a sensitive time for Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who is planning an official visit to Washington next month to try to rebuild relations strained by Pakistan's nuclear weapons program as well as to lure U.S. investors.
Earlier this month, the Clinton administration praised Pakistan for its efforts to curb the drug trade, which include sweeping new laws that make selling even small amounts of heroin a capital offense.
LONDON—A defect in the way the body controls blood pressure can trigger chronic fatigue syndrome, according to a small study.
Study links chronic fatigue to blood pressure
Chronic fatigue symptoms can include: long-term fatigue, irritability, confusion and inflammation of the brain.
The findings, if confirmed in larger studies, suggest that some sufferers could be helped with a high-salt diet or with drugs that boost blood pressure.
The Associated Press
"We don't know how many people can blame chronic fatigue on this imbalance yet, but if this is an important part, it would be an incredible advance for a syndrome
that up until now has had no consistently effective treatment," said Peter Rowe, the leading investigator from The John Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore.
Despite a news conference to publicize the research, doctors in Europe said that the American study merely confirmed what had been known for years.
The findings will be published in tomorrow's The Lancet, a medical journal.
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"This may be new to the people in America, but it's not new to us," said Peter Behan, a professor of neurology at the University of Glasgow. "I'm delighted to draw attention to this syndrome, but unfortunately it
does not further our knowledge very much."
Normally, when standing, heart rate rises a bit—about 10 to 15 percent—helping pump blood from the toes to the head.
Behan said that the underlying cause of chronic fatigue was probably brain cell damage triggered by either an infection or trauma.
In Germany, doctors blame patients' fatigue on low blood pressure.
In some people this compensatory system fails. The result is a dramatic drop in blood pressure after standing for some time, even just 10 minutes, Rowe said.
They examined seven teen-agers who had chronic fatigue syndrome for about seven months. The teens were given a standard test for this type of hypotension, called a tilt-test, in which they were strapped to a special table that rotates from a horizontal to a nearly vertical position.
All the volunteers felt faint as the table rose, proving they had the defect in regulating blood pressure, Rowe said.
Rowe's team wondered whether the blood pressure problem, called neurally mediated hypotension, might be responsible for some cases of chronic fatigue syndrome.
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