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World news AG sues commune for property SALEM (AP) — Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer on Thursday filed a civil racketeering lawsuit against Rajneeshee corporations and groups seeking to pro tect possible state claims to property at Rajneeshpuram. Filed in Wasco County Circuit Court, the suit seeks forfeiture of the 64,000-acre ranch, property in nearby Antelope, the Hotel Rajneesh in Portland, 835 vehicles and other proper ty owned by the Rajneeshees. The suit was filed under a racketeering law that allows the state to obtain forfeiture of property that is acquired by criminal activity. Deputy Attorney General Bill Gary said the purpose of the lawsuit was to "secure our place in line" in the event the Central Oregon commune and other assets end up in bankruptcy court. The mayor of Rajneeshpuram. Swami Prem Niren. said this week organizations set up by disciples of Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh might file for bankruptcy. Frohnmayer’s office Thursday said the Rajneeshee corporations engaged in a “pattern of racketeering activity involv ing conspiracy, attempted murder, assault, arson, burglary, illegal intercep tion of communications and reckless endangering.” Besides the forfeiture of property, the lawsuit also seeks $250,000 penalties against each of the 26 Rajneeshee cor porations and groups named in the suit. It also asks the court to prohibit the cor porations from conducting any business in Oregon. Gary disclosed the plan to file the suit at a meeting Thursday of a legislative Emergency Board subcommittee that was considering the state Justice Depart ment request for money for its investiga tion of reported crimes at the Central Oregon commune-city. The subcommittee recommended that $125,000 in emergency funds be allocated to the lustice Department and the state police for costs of investigating numerous allegations of crimes made by Rajneesh. Cancer treatment excites public WASHINGTON (AFJ - New* of • promising new cancer treatment at the National Cancer Institute pro mpted a flood of calls to the federal center Thursday from people desperate for a cure, "What they’re saying is. our mother, our brother, our sister is dy ing at this very moment. We have nothing to lose We want to be a can didate.” said Carol Case, the in stitute’s chief of public inquiries. "Our 800 (telephone) numbers are jammed this morning.’’ said Paul Van Nevel. the institute's associate direc tor for communications. The callers want information about a new treatment, called adoptive im munotherapy, that turns ordinary white blood cells into "killer cells” that attack malignant tumors. The treatment was announced Wednesday in an article in the New England Jour nal of Medicine. In 11 of 29 patients with advanced cancer, doctors were able to shrink tumors by at least 90 percent end, in one case, apparently eradicate the diseese. Officials cautioned that the treat ment is still uighly experimental, car ries toxic side effects and Is also very expensive, it is available only at the cancer institute in Bethesda, Md., a Washington suburb. “This is really the first step." said Or. Steven Rosenberg. director of the research project “But it demonstrates that it is possible to manipulate the immune system end make a variety of cancers in a variety of locations disappear." Tha institute's Cancer information Service has been swamped with calls to its toll-free number, 1-800-4-CANGER, about Rosenberg's therapy. —-^ —-- Great quality-Great price /mitcufo “ s ,,( PRECISION ' haipwopps M-F 9 30-6 00/Sat 9 30-500 Northwest corner of no appointments 29 th& Willamette 343-1182 LONDON (AP) — Britain an nounced Thursday it is withdrawing from UNESCO because it said the 160-nation organization is inefficient, spendthrift and "harmfully politicized.” Timothy Raison. 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"We are determined that our support for the United Nations should be seen as support for ef fective and efficient organiza tions. Unfortunately. UNESCO is not such a body." Kaison said. Britain had examined closely reforms undertaken by UNESCO since the United States withdrew at the end of last year and since Brituin an nounced its intention to withdraw a year ago, he said The results, he said, "fall well short of what we believe would justify continued British membership." Kaison said some ot UNESCO's work was "harmful ly politicized." there was ineffi cient management and "ex cessive expenditure" at the organization's Paris headquarters. iiitimiiti
