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NATIONAL NEWS FROM AROUNO THE COUNTRY Three white police officers charged in death of black man ■ CRIME: Jonny Gammage died of suffocation seven minutes after being stopped by police PITTSBURGH (API — Two while policemen were charged today with homicide and a third was charged with manslaughter in the death of a black business man who suffocated in police custody after a traffic stop Two other officers were not charged, including one who will be a prosecution witness against the other three, Allegheny Coun ty District Attorney Robert Colville said. A black leader expressed dis appointment that all five weren't charged with first-degree murder Jonny Gammage. a cousin of Pittsburgh Sunders football play er Ray Seals, died early Or t. 12 after a low-speed chase by police from Brentwood, a Pittsburgh suburb, into Pittsburgh. Two sep arate autopsies indicated that Gammage. 31. suffocated because of pressure on his idlest and nock "I am deeply committed to the idea that Mr. Gammage should not be dead after seven minutes in police custody," Colville said. Colville said I.t. Milton Mul holland and Officer John Vojtas of the Brentwood police were charged with third-degree homi cide. involuntary manslaughter and official oppression. Third degree homicide is punishable by a prison sentence of 20 to 40 years. Baldwin Police Officer Michael Albert was charged with invol untary manslaughter Colville said Albert arrived at the scene later and did not express the mal ice necessary for a third-degree homicide charge All five officers are white. The Mil is investigating whether Gam mage’s civil rights were violated Earlier, Colville had ruled out bringing first- or second-degree murder charges in the case. He said intent was required for first degree murder und he found none. He also said a death dur ing the commission of another felony is required for a second degree murder charge, and he found that did not apply Whitehall Police Officers Sean Patterson and Keith Htmiimm wort* not charged Colville said Henderson is « prosecution wit ness The three officers who fact? charges surrendered early today, were arraigned and were ordered to appear at a preliminary hear ing !)**< >1 "We an* satisfied with the two top charges." Gam mage's moth er. Nerves. said in Syracuse. N Y "But involuntary manslaughter, that is like a slap on the wrist to tin* It s like someone went in the store and stole a candy bar So we ■»r»* not completely satisfied vvith that det ision ." She said all five should serve time. "None of them tried to stop it." she said A coroner's jury recommend ed early this mouth that all five officers be charged with criminal homicide, a category that encom passes first-, set ond- and third degree murder as well as volun tary and involuntary manslaugh ter The Pittsburgh chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had called for u t barge of first degree murder, the most severe count possible A black leader repented that call today "All five of them should he (barged with murder because unless a strong message is sent here, it will happen again." said Jim Tarpley, a member of the Mil lion Man March organizing com mittee. "We have black people here who are afraid to go outside the city of Pittsburgh.” Mulholland testified at a coro ner's inquest that he began fol lowing the 1‘iHH Jaguar that Gam mage was driving because the (air kept slowing down and speeding up and its rear end seemed low. The car finally stopped, after going through three red lights, and a struggle ensued, officers testified One used a collapsible metal baton to push down on Gam mage's shoulders and the back of his neck to force him io lie still. Dr. At Shakir, a forensii pathol ogist with the Allegheny County coroner's office, testified that Cammage may have lieen flailing and kicking just because he was trying to breathe. FDA approves new drug to fight most lethal form of leukemia WASHINGTON (A!*) — Ihe Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug to fight one of the most lethal forms of leukemia. Promyelocyte: leukemia is bur ly rare, affecting about 2.500 Americans, the FDA said But it is one of the most aggressive forms, causing sudden and seri ous internal bleeding and very rapidly advancing to become life threatening. Standard therapy is the cancer drug anthracycline, but it fails 75 percent of the time, said Dr. Kav Worrell of Memorial Sloan Ket tering Cancer Center, Those patients' last hope is a risky bone marrow transplant. A study of t.500 patients found Hoffman l-a-Roche's drug Vesanoid caused complete remis sions in half of the leukemia suf ferers who had relapsed after standard therapy, the FDA said It approved the drug Monday for this use, a move Worrell said could largely eliminate bone mar row transplants for these patients. Other studies show a! least 65 percent of Vesanoid patients lived five years after their leukemia diagnosis, compared with just 25 percent of patients who receive standard therapy, Warrell said Such promising data has persuaded Sloan Ket tering to use Vesanoid as first-line therapy for newly diagnosed patients, and Roche is preparing to ask the FDA to agree. Vesanoid. known chemically as all-trans retinoic, acid, works by causing the leukemia cells to age rapidly and die off The body then replac es them with normal cells. Anti-abortion activists must pav fees ■ COURT: Supreme Court rules demonstrators will pay lawyer for clinic WASHINGTON [API — Th»> Supreme Court piled on more had news for anti-abortion m tmsts Monday, refusing to frut' five demonstrators from paving nearly SlOO.niK) in lawyer fees to an abortion clin it: they targeted The action, taken without i wnrnont in a i ase from Sa< ra mento, Calif. extended abortion foes' recent losing streak in court, it marked the first time the issue of lawyer-fee awards in abortion-linked litigation had been considered by the [tistit es "That the court would let this $100,000 penalty stand is out rageous, and sends a very chill ing message to pro-life demon strators." said |ay Sekulow. a lawyer with the anti-abortion American Center for l.aw and Justice. In other matters the court • Turned down the appeal of a Tennessee girl who savs her freespeech rights wore violated when she received a grade of zero for doing her ninth-grade English research paper about (twusOwiU file tisxiier fuel told her to choose another topic • Refused to revu e an AlnUc tna lawsuit that accused the South'* timber industry of ille gal ra< ial bins in (wring blacks from c ertain job* • Turned away argument* aimed at limiting the scope of .1 second trial for a former Hare Krishna leader accused of using murder, kidnapping and fraud to protec t a mnltimillinn dollar criminal enterprise the reli gious community he fuundisl in West Virginia In the Sac ramento case, the justu es let stand rulings that said the lawyer-fees award against the abortion protesters did not violate or wrongly ''c hill" their free speech rights Ust month, the court n«)e< t ed a free sps-c li appeal hy Call if urn in protesters t» r r*« st »*vi for pu ketmg too near on abortion doctor-* home And the unirt last month niso rejected a sweeping challenge to federal limits on abortion clinic protests Sekulow said thn court "is sending a message that it s not interested in these iv|M’s of t as es at this time Hut we w ill continue to bring them to the court," " The court was pretty < lear |in past rulings) on setting the boundaries regarding the i hu ll -violent « issue," Priscilla Smith of the ( enter for Repro ductive I-aw and Polit y said 111 the past year, the justit es have turned away appeals hy anti abortion activists who say they are being wrongly suihI as ra< keteers in their efforts to stop yvomen from haying altortioils The court in Pi1),! ruletl that states cannot ban most abor lions, reaffirming the con.stitu lional right of abortion it first announced in tll7i Freshman Seminars Winter Term 1996 Bl 199 INC. 199 INTI 1W C.PSY 199 LIB 199 PH'M 199 GROG 199 MUS 199 CPSY 199 Ml 199 EDPM 199 FSY 199 PHll 199 J 199 MATH 199 SCK 199 Plagues The Past, Present, ami future of Infectious Diseases Science fiction A New Mythology' Australia Through Autobiography Sexual Diversity in the ‘00s Aspects of the Book Building Community Reason vs Justification in f'thno Territorial Disputes Humor in Music Understanding Attachment, Separation, and Personal Relationships Aging as a Social Issue iri the Twenty l irst Century The University of Oregon as a Workplace 1 ife History Understanding and Studying People i Her the I tie Span Applied I thu s A Multicultural Approach Behind the I ront Page News Making Mathematic and Recreation Hiroshima fifty Years After I or more information, see page 8”> of the winter S( hnlulr of ( fusses. 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