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Monday, February 26, 1996
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Three arrested in tourist murder
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Three people were arrested Saturday in the fatal shooting of a Dutch tourist at a gas station after police found an important tip among the hundreds they received.
The suspects — two teen-agers and an adult — were charged with first-degree murder and robbery, according to Metro-Dade police. The vehicle that the alleged robbers used was confiscated.
"This sort of thing can't go on. We have to send the message out internationally that this type of thing won't be tolerated. We have to put these animals away," said Dade County Commissioner Bruce Kaplan.
Charged were Max Brazley, 16,
Barry Chandler, 20, and Xaviein
Bendross, 1. Chandler also is
charged with possession of
firearms by a convicted felon.
Tosca Dieperink, 39, was sitting in the passenger seat of a rental car with the windows up and the doors locked when she was shot once in the upper torso Friday morning.
Her husband, Gerrit-Jan, had pulled into a Shell Oil station to ask directions in the Liberty City area of Miami. The neighborhood is known for its crime and was the setting for fatal riots in 1980.
While Dieperink, 43, asked directions from the station's manager, he was approached by an armed man who frisked him. Another armed robber approached Mrs. Dieperink in the vehicle and fired through the window.
She died two hours later at the hospital.
The couple was traveling from Miami Beach to go shopping when they got lost. They may have stopped at the Shell station because it is a Dutch company known worldwide.
The two assailants fled with a third man in what police described as a late 1970s, early 1980s Chevy Impala or Caprice Classic. Police said the trio robbed the couple, but they wouldn't say what was stolen. The items were recovered.
Authorities said the three would not have been arrested without the public's help. They said one tip was pivotal to the arrests, but police would not disclose any details about that information.
The shooting put South Florida tourist officials immediately on the defensive. The area had struggled hard to rebound after 10 fatal random attacks on foreign tourists tarnished Florida's image as a safe vacation spot.
The state's $31 billion tourist industry had rebounded in 1995. A record 9.4 million visitors came just to the Miami area in 1995, up seven percent from the previous year.
The last previous fatal attack was on Mahmet Bahar, 17, of Finike, Turkey, who was beaten to death Sept. 17, 1993, in Tampa after an apparent traffic altercation.
Prior to that, Gary Colley of Great Britain was killed during a robbery attempt at an interstate highway rest stop near Monticello in rural North Florida.
Blunt mail taps wallets
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Pat Buchanan's fund-raising letters are bluntly pitched to those who fear recognition for gays, renegade federal judges, illegal immigrants and the government itself.
In one of his many direct-mail letters of this campaign, Buchanan sounded dire warnings for the Republican Party.
There's "a bloody assault" on the GOP's stand against abortion, and "liberals in our party are already demanding the addition of a homosexual rights plank in the next Republican platform," the former commentator wrote three months ago.
That letter offered believers an opportunity to fill out a petition called the "1996 Republican Platform Demand" and send it in with $10 or $15.
Unlike many of the GOP presidential suitors who raise large sums of money at $1,000-a-plate dinners, Buchanan has relied mostly on a direct mail fund-raising operation that in years past
helped raised huge sums of money for fellow conservatives like Oliver North.
Scott B. Mackenzie, Buchanan's treasurer, was out of town and unavailable for comment, the campaign said yesterday.
The Associated Press reviewed a dozen direct-mail letters sent out by Buchanan during this campaign. They included appeals to parents that they were losing control of their children's education to a liberal, intrusive government.
One letter decried "the social radicals and gay-rights activists who wish to indoctrinate America's children in 'positive attitudes' toward homosexuality, using as propaganda tools, books for first-graders like Daddy's Roommate and Heather Has Two Mommies."
The same letter also blasted the "judges and justices who drove prayer and the Bible out of our public schools, and opened the floodgates on pornography."
Another letter accused rival Sens. Bob Dole and Phil Gramm of "undermining the use of English as America's unifying national language" by voting to "use your tax dollars to print ballots in Spanish."
One letter is devoted entirely to one of Buchanan's favorite themes on the campaign trail:
"Uncontrolled immigration" is wrecking the "price-less coin of national unity."
Sprinkled throughout Buchanan's letters are
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also plenty of code words for Perot voters, the Christian right and anti-government advocates. There are attacks on the "Permanent Establishment" and the term "professional politicians" is frequently underlined. There's also talk of closing America's borders "with troops if necessary," recalls of "renegade" federal judges and greatly reducing the powers of the Internal Revenue Service.
Clark L. Corey, 74, of Farmington, Mich., has donated $850 to Buchanan during the last year. Corey said Buchanan's ideas about downsizing government, punishing wayward judges and stemming the flow of illegal immigration appealed to him.
If elected, Buchanan writes, he'll "run a sword through the ruinous and failed ideology of Big Government Liberalism, and finish it off once and for all."
Bottled brains rediscovered
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"I thought this was a wonderful thing," said Dennis Spencer, Yale's chief of neurosurgery. "Many of the faculty knew they were there, but the outside world really forgot."
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Cushing's brain tumor registry contains more than 2,000 case studies, including whole brain specimens and tumors, more than 50,000 pages of records, notes, journal excerpts, and some 15,000 photographic negatives. The material dates from the late 1800s to 1936.
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Through some research, Wahl learned that the specimens were collected by Harvey Cushing, a pioneer in brain surgery and, at his death in 1939, Yale's Sterling Professor of Neurology.
"I could just see telling my parents I got thrown out of medical school for this."
Wahl made his discovery in 1991. For a year, he kept it secret but remained haunted by the photographic negatives that accompanied the specimens: the faraway look in the eyes of a little girl in agony, a bony woman with a massive brain tumor seeping out of her skull.
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Cushing was responsible for transforming brain surgery from a bizarre novelty to a legitimate science, even as some of his grossly disfigured patients were relegated to freak shows and institutions.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — With so many great minds at Yale University, the last place Christopher Wahl expected to find 600 of them was in dusty old jars beneath his residence hall.
As a first-year medical student, he listened keenly as upperclassmen told him the eerie legend of a cache of bottled brains located deep within the subbasement of Edward S. Harkness Hall.
Sometime after midnight — and after a few drinks — he and four other students descended to the former bomb shelter. Their voices hushed so as not to be detected, they picked the lock using a piece of wire.
Then, his curiosity got the better of him.
Then they found them: on dirty shelves were rows and rows of brains. Each floated in a gallon jar of formaldehyde.
"This is not like finding canned fruit in the basement," he said. "It was almost harrowing finding them, because you realize these were people. The photos are riveting, compelling, very emotional."
Wahl had no idea that they had found a meticulously gathered collection that chronicled the scientific beginnings of neurosurgery. He was more worried about getting caught.
"I could just see telling my parents I got thrown out of medical school for this," said the 28-year-old Wahl, who graduates in May.
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Cushing followed his patients' cases for years, and they usually gave him permission to perform their autopsies and use their bodies to help science, Wahl said.
His use of equipment to monitor a patient under anesthesia and surgical tools that he invented to stop bleeding during operations were considered revolutionary.
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