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STATENATION The News-Messenger, Fremont, Ohio. Friday. November 3, House votes to scrap EPA restriction Associated Press Gillmor votes with Dems Republican Congressman Paul Gillmor joined with 5 of the 6 Ohio Democrat representatives, including Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, in supporting Stake's initiative. Rep. Jim Traficant of Youngstown was the only Ohio Democrat to vote against the Stokes effort.

runoff into lakes and streams. Imposing new controls on toxic emissions from refineries, cement kilns and some other industrial facilities. Issuing regulations on new standards for arsenic and radon in drinking water. Maintaining jurisdiction over wetlands protection. Expanding a requirement to publicly disclose toxic emissions from manufacturing plants.

Enforcing current sewer overflow controls leading to raw sewage being dumped onto beaches and into bill when it passed the House last September. While the instruction passed Thursday is not binding, it would be difficult for the House negotiators to ignore it, given the wide opposition to the riders. The instruction to drop the riders passed by a 227-194 vote. Sixty-three Republicans joined all but 29 Democrats in opposing the riders. "These riders are poisonous," said Stokes, who warned that one of the restrictions would keep the EPA from issuing toxic pollution standards for the Great Lakes.

The riders' supporters accused opponents of scare tactics and said the restrictions were merely another WASHINGTON In a rebuff of Republican leaders, the House voted Thursday to scrap a string of restrictions on the Environmental Protection Agency. Rep. Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, who led the successful attack, described the limits as an attempt to gut protection for the nation's air and water. Moderate Republicans joined Democrats in directing that 17 riders be dropped from an EPA spending bill when it is taken up by House and Senate negotiators in the coming weeks. The riders, which were not included in the Senate-passed bill, direct the EPA to modify or abandon more than a dozen attempt to rein in "excessive regulations" imposed by Washington.

Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, the majority whip, said the riders would keep the "unelected, overzealous bureaucrats from implementing their own agenda." President Clinton called the House vote "a step in the right direction" but said in a statement that the proposed EPA budget "still dismantles vital protections to keep our nation healthy, safe and secure." Some of the provisions covered by the Stokes-led initiative would prevent or restrict the EPA from: Imposing centralized vehicle emissions testing programs. Controlling industrial and municipal regulatory actions, from issuing tougher toxic air emissions standards on oil refineries to controlling sewage overflows into lakes and streams. They were included in the spending i Bush iiacker: Lawyer suspect in killing Legal secretary vanished in 1 981 1 can't take ressure' thep Immigrant wanted to talk with IRS v. 4 i I 1 Associated Press Associated Press TOLEDO The mystery of what happened to a woman who disappeared in 1981 is close to being solved, law enforcement officials said.

They believe Cynthia Anderson, a legal secretary, was killed by her boss, Richard Neller, a lawyer. The reason: Anderson allegedly overheard a conversation between Neller and Jose Rodriguez Jr. about what police described as a drug operation. Anderson's father, Michael Anderson, holds out little hope that his daughter will be found alive. "I don't want to think about them coming across the remains of my daughter," Anderson said Thursday.

"But they probably will. I'm just shocked, devastated." Cynthia Anderson, 20, was last seen on Aug. 4, 1981, at her desk in the office of Neller's law firm. Her family looked for her for years, hiring private detectives, appealing to the media for help. Her disappearance was featured on an episode of the television program "Unsolved Mysteries." A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted nine people on drug-related charges, including Neller, 49, of Toledo, and Rodriguez, the alleged leader of the drug operation.

According to the indictment, Neller and others "abducted and murdered Cynthia Anderson," of Lambertville, Mich. However, neither Neller nor Rodriguez has been charged with murder. The indictment described Neller as a close friend and adviser to Rodriguez. "If she knew something Neller's drug dealing, she would have gone to police," Michael Anderson said. "That's just the way she was, honest, caring." Law enforcement authorities on Thursday continued to search an area around a suburban Per-rysburg pond.

Anderson said authorities told him they believe his daughter is buried there. They also believe there may be other bodies buried in or around the pond. she helped her autistic son get on. During the hijacking, Sang carried a bag and told police he had a bomb. But the device turned out to be one of the children's respirators and police found no weapon.

After the ride, the 11 crying children, who are in kindergarten through fourth grade, were taken into the restaurant for Cokes, french fries and ice cream. Seven-year-old Brian Morales called the hijacker "a bad person." On Thursday morning, Sang left home and went to the church service, where he ranted even as the pastor tried to calm him down. "He was not coherent and he made several threats. He was disturbed, yelling. He was not rational," said Fred Taylor, director of the Metro-Dade Police Department.

He finally stormed out and walked to a bus stop across the street, pushing his way onto the bus and telling the driver in Spanish: "I'm taking control." Using the threat of the bomb, Sang told the driver he wanted to talk to the IRS, beginning a 15-mile slow-speed odyssey from Miami to Miami Beach with a convoy of police cars and news helicopters close by. The door was left wide open and the bus driver obeyed the rules of the road, traveling at a cautious 35 mph to 40 mph, below the 55 mph limit. Sang ordered the bus stopped four times, letting out Ms. Castellanos, her son, a driver's aide and another child. By the time the bus pulled in front of Joe's, 11 shaken children and the driver remained.

One boy jumped out and police moved in. Snipers fired three shots at Sang and dragged his limp, bloodied body out. The body lay in an alley covered with a yellow tarp for five hours in the 90-degree heat before it was taken to the morgue. A star is born Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. When Nick Sang quit his night job as a waiter, the immigrant who also ran two Chinese restaurants gave out copies of his favorite poem, "Success," and said he could no longer take the pressure.

The next morning, after ranting during his daily visit to church, Sang pushed his way onto a school bus full of disabled children and threatened tn hlnw everyone up. During 75 terrifying minutes Thursday, he at times used the whimpering and confused youngsters some of whom have autism and speech impediments to shield himself from police as he demanded to be taken to an Internal Revenue Service office. Followed by a caravan of squad cars and a national TV audience, the wild ride ended with a crack of police gunfire and the hijacker's bloody body in an alley outside the same restaurant he had left the night before. "I asked him, 'Nickie, what's the He told me, 'I can't take the said Robert Moorehead, general manager at Joe's Stone Crab. "He was talking to himself, walking in circles.

He was accusing people of doing all kinds of tricks." Sang, 42, whose given first name is Catalino, emigrated from the Dominican Republic in 1984, owned two Chinese restaurants and moonlighted at Joe's Stone Crab. He told police negotiators over a cellular telephone tossed to him though the opened side door of the bus that he was angry at the IRS over federal tax liens, which court records indicated totaled more than $15,000. "We were hostages because he owed money to the government," said Nubia Castellanos, a mother ordered onto the bus by Sang as This photo released by NASA and taken in April by of miles long. The stars are incubating inside evap-the Hubble space telescope shows stars forming orating gaseous globules called EGGs by inside columns of gas and dust which are trillions astronomers. Breast cancer gene getting lost not be important for most women.

But now, a team at the University of Texas in San Antonio, led by biotechnologist Dr. Wen-Hwa Lee, has found BRCAl may be responsible for such tumors in a different way by getting lost. Lee discovered that in some non-inherited tumors, BRCAl wasn't in the nucleus of breast cells where it belonged the only spot where genes have all the ingredients necessary to switch on and manufacture vital proteins. Instead, it was located in the cell fluid, or cytoplasm. Associated Press WASHINGTON The gene that is thought to suppress breast cancer is somehow getting lost inside some women's cells so that it cannot do its job, University of Texas scientists reported today.

The discovery, unveiled in the journal Science, suggests the gene BRCAl plays a role in non-inherited breast cancer as well as the hereditary kind. "This finding needs to be confirmed," cautioned cancer expert Dr. William Wood of Emory University. But it is "a very exciting tease." "It means a mechanism we're already learning about may be much more broadly important than our initial thought that it would affect just a small group of families at high risk," he said. Between 5 percent and 10 percent of the 182,000 breast cancer cases diagnosed each year are genetic.

Women who inherit a mutated version of the BRCAl gene are at increased risk of getting this form of breast tumor, as well as inherited ovarian cancer. No one has ever found mutated BRCAl in women who get the non-inherited form of breast cancer, indicating the gene might In this world of hi-tech equipment and sophisticated treatment, Dr. Romena Moorjani realizes Hi JWpp.ll 'IHWl Firm planning private prison Associated Press YOUNGSTOWN The city is negotiating to sell land to a Nashville-based corporation for construction of a privately operated prison to house out-of-state inmates. City officials are negotiating to sell a 100-acre abandoned industrial site to Corrections Corp. of America of Nashville, so the corporation can build the prison.

the importance of a gentle pat, a friendly chat, and old fashioned care and concern. That's why smiles are a vital part of Dr. Moorjani's pediatric treatment philosophy. She knows that a smile iiirtfcmw is worth a million cures to a child who is sick, injured, or just plain afraid. Parents understand first rate care.

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