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NEWS BRIEFING A LOOK AT THIS MORNING S HEADLINES Toxic chemical found in Coos Bay clams C:tX)S BAY. Ore (AP) s Health officials rfWPPJPj "*■«> warning the i.i i.n.iYi«■ pU(jli, nol to har vest or cat clams from three areas of the Coos Bay natuary after high levels of a toxn chem ical were measured in the shell fish Tributylin. or TUT. is known to impair the immune systems, the brain and nervous systems Clams in the North Slough. Iordan Cove, and the Catching Slough have been found to have high levels of TUT, state Health Div ision officials said Monday MEDFORD. Ore (AP) A Washington state man was sen tenced to 1 ri \enrs in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to murder in the death of a White City man. lames Mriglot, 2*1. of Tacoma. Wash., admitted being an accomplice in the March murder of Donald McMillen. who was shot to death in his trailer home Robbery charges against Mriglot were dismissed in exchange for bis guilty plea Police said lie was one of three people from Pmom.i, Wash , who traveled from Wash ington to rob McMillen of money and drugs Upcoming elections to constitutionalize Saddam's presidency BAGHDAD. Iroo (AP) Iraq will hold parlia NATIONAL mantarv elet lions next year to !rv lo enhance Saddam Hussein's legitimacy following his sweeping victory in a presidential referendum, the deputy prime minister said Tuesday The parliamentary vote is part of Iraq's effort to make the tran sition from "revolutionary legit immy to constitutional legtlimat v." Deputy Prime Mm ister I'ariq Aziz told reporters There has been growing spei illation that Saddam, who has ruled Iraq with absolute power since 1979. would seek to improve his regime's tarnished image after triumphing in Sun day's one-candidate referen dum The referendum endorsed Saddam as president for the next seven years, with 99 9f> pen ent of the vote But the reforms Saddam has promised previously have never materialized and Iraq's 250 member parliament remains a rubber-stamp body called on to endorse Saddam's decisions Aziz said Tuesday the powers of the National Assembly speak or will tx' enhant nd and elec lions for a now assembly will !*> hold early next year " He gave no date for the elec lion Diplomatic soun es have said the regime also plans to pass a law permitting political parties Iraq has boon ruled sinc e l‘>t’>8 by the Ha nth Arab Socialist Party, which long ago became subservient to Saddam Aria: also lashed out at the United States for dismissing Sunday's referendum ns a sham and the promised denux rntic: reforms as a "mockery " "Washington's only goal is to dominate all the oil reserves in the region." he said "Only when we say please come and take our reserves' will the Unit ed states be able to praise us He also criticized the United Nations for saying that Iraq had lied about its weapons of mass destruction, which Baghdad must destroy under the terms of the Gulf War < ease-fire Gist week, Rolf hkeus. the chief U N weapons inspector, told the Security Council that Baghdad had repeatedly misled U N monitors That red in cel Iraq's chances of persuading the count il to lift crippling UN sanctions, imposed after Saddam invaded Kuwait in August 1‘i‘MI, anytime soon. Fatal hepatitis B prevented through infant, teen shots CHICAW) (AD Tht' most cost uffectivt) way to WORLD prev mih poieuiiai iy fatal hepatitis B Infections is to immunize infants, a new study found. Hut if babies aren’t vaccinat ed. immunizing children as ado lest flits is the next host thing, federal researchers sav The findings support a tout federal recommendation that all infants get the vm cine and a fur ther ret oniniendntion m f-ebru ary 1895 that unvaccinated adolescents be immunized, said Miriam Alter, chief of epidemi ulogv for the t enters for Disease Control and Prevention's hepati tis branch. As recent I v as two years ago. only HO percent of children under 2 had ret oived tfieir full three shot series of vaccine. Alter said Tuesday About 200,000 new hepatitis B infer tions ot cur eat h year in the United States and about 5,000 people die annually from i hronii liver disease or liver i ant ers that develop from hepatitis H The infections t* cur more fre quant ly in adults, but they are more sinister in infants In ft* ted infants, who often have no symptoms, have .1 25 peri ent 1 ham 0 of dying eventually from chronit liver disease or < am er New ly infix ted adults have only about a 1 percent chance I’he new study, led bv !>r Harold S Mnrgolis of the OX found that vat 1 mating children lost ti ft or they are born lowers their risk of ever getting hepati tis H bv t'H percent Waiting until adolesi uni 0 to administer the viu 1 me lowers lifetime risk by 45 percent, the researchers reported ill Wednesday s issue of I’he lour mil of the American Medical Association A related report in JAMA from Canada dew ribes a highly successful si hmd based pro gram to immunise adolesi ents in British Columbia It was the first large si ale effort in North Amorii a to offer universal hepatitis H screening outside infancy Mora than -t i 000 sixth graders participated iu the 1992 program More than 95 peri ent nf them completed their shots and only f>9 reported adverse effei Is such as reactions at the illjei turn site, fainting or rashes Some <IH peri ent of the students completing shots developed immunity to tin- hepatitis B, tin report say s Three teens expelled for yelling “Oi!” NEWARK. N | (AC) A garage-band grunt was enough to earn three teenagers a trip to police headquarters and suspen sion from school The lesson is. don't yell "Oi!" in a crowd. Someone mav think you're anti-Semitic The three Hasbrom k Heights juniors performed at n high school talent show Thursday night, where a $100 prize was offered for the group that got the loudest applause. Since the music they play is sometimes called "Oi” — "Oi! Oi! Oi!" is a typical chorus the three lt> year-olds of Utter Con I PJJ I' 111' I H THAN FICTION fusion started yelling. "Oi!” to warm up the crowd. The crowd veiled "Oi!" bm k Then two people in the audi ence went to school officials, complaining “Oi!” is an anti Semitic slur. ("Oi!” sounds like "Oy!” — a Yiddish expression of dismay.) The 16-vear-olds. Len l.ongo. I M Burr and Albert Min. were ku ked out of school for a week and called to police head quarters No charges were filed ' Personally I still don't have a clear understanding of what the whole thins was about," said l.t Mh had ( dinner!, the bias offii or whocondut tt'<l thu brief investi gation "I guess vou could sav it was t liter Confusion. " Naval Academy sailors urinate on command ANNAPOLIS, Md (AP) All 4.040 midshipmen at the U S Naval Academy were given urine tests for drug use after two stu dents were caught with IJSI>. The two midshipmen, who have not been identified, were confined to the grounds Sunday They could tie court-martialed nr. more likely, expelled. As part of the investigation, the other midshipmen underwent urinalysis on Sunday and Mon day The results art* due in sev eral weeks The m adeniy already random ly tests about 2 mi midshipmen eai h week and also tests about 2.000 at a time twine a year, when they return from leave That testing led to the expul sion of two midshipmen for drug possession earlier this year 0.J. returns to the greens for 18 holes PANAMA CUT HI ACH, Ha (AP) () ( Simpson, whose ( hipping in-the-dark alibi was ridtc tiled by prosei ntors at his murder trial, was hack on a gull course Tuesday with glrlfriond Paula Barbieri looking on Harbiori. whoso family lives in the aroa. watched from a golf > art and later left with a woman in a white pu kup trni k. said VVMHB TV reporter David Delirnan Sources told Delirnan that Simpson's game was a little shaky on the first half, hut improved on the hack nine. Sources also said that Simpson didn't talk about the trial dur ing the game After finishing the 18th green. 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