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J une 19, 1996 • T he P ori ». and O bserver
EMOTIONAL JORDAH LEADS BULLS TO VICTORY
SERVICES FOR HALL OF FAME BROADCASTER
Funeral services for H all o f Fame broadcaster Mel A lle n w ill be held
Wednesday at Temple Beth E l in Stam ford, Connecticut.
A llen, the longtime voice o f the N ew Y o r k Yankees and one-time host
o l I his Week in Baseball, died Sunday at his home in Greenw ich,
Connecticut. He was 83. The Yan kee s w ill honor A lle n during the
remainder ofth eir current homestand. The flags at Yankee Stadium w ill fly
at half mast through Wednesday and the Stadium ’s marquee w ill read "M el
A lle n , 1913-1 9 9 6 " I here w ill be a briefm om ent o f silence before tonight’s
game against Minnesota as w ell as a b rie f video tribute.
GRAF WITHDRAWS FROM CHAMPIONSHIPS
Co-num ber one women 's play er Steffi G r a f w ithdrew from the Direct
Lin e Insurance Tennis Cham pionships in Eastbourne with m inor inflam m a­
tion on the patella tendon in her left knee.
The injury is not considered serious, but the 26-year-old G r a f opted to
skip the event and rest for next w eek’s W imbledon Cham pionships. She
suffered the injury while practicing in Eastbourne last week and returned
home for a consultation with her private physician before m aking her
decision to withdraw.
C r e a t iv e
M u lt im e d ia and
S p o rts Illu s t ra t e d F o r K i d s ( r )
m a g a zin e an no unce d to day the
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M ichael Jordan said he was so
flooded with Father’s D ay emotion,
he needed his C h ica g o B u lls team­
mates to pull him through. They did,
capping what he called a ’ ’blessed”
season with their fourth N B A cham ­
pionship in six years.
Jordan, haunted by memories o f
his murdered father James Jordan,
scored a hard-earned, team-high 22
points as the B u lls posted an 87-75
victory over the Seattle SuperSonics
Sunday to win the N B A Finals four
games to tw o.
“ T h is is probably the hardest time
for me to play the game o f basket­
ball." Jordan said o f Father’s D ay. “ I
had a lot o f things on m y heart on my
m ind.”
Scottie Pippen added 17 points
and Dennis Rodm an pulled down 19
rebounds for the B u lls, both com ing
up big in the fourth quarter.
Jordan, who finished with nine
rebounds, seven assists and two steals,
tallied only two points in the final
period. He shot ju st 5-of-19 for the
Measles
Update
A Mason County man suspected to
have measles recently traveled to K ing.
Pierce, Lew is, Kitsap and Thurston
counties. Local health departments
areon alert for potential measles cases.
The man, an auto parts delivery
d riv e r, traveled to B u rie n and
Spanaway June 6; Centralia June 7, 8
and 10; Portland. ( tregon June9; I aco-
ma, Bremerton. Silverdale and O lym ­
pia June 10
Early signs o f measles include a
cough, runny nose and sensitive, wa­
tery . red eyes Within four days a fever
ofmorethan 101 degrees and a blotchy
red rash develops The rash typically
starts on the face and spreads to the
neck, chest, back, arms and legs. It
lasts at least three days.
Measles is a highly contagious air­
borne disease that can spread rapidly
from person to person
Michael Jordan
game against the tough Seattle de­
fense.
Jordan became the first man to
win the N B A Fin a ls Most Valuable
Player award four times (1991-93,
1996) andjust the second to add it to
M V P 's for the regular season and the
A ll-S ta r Gam e in a single season.
The New Y o r k K n ic k s ’ W illis Reed
achieved a triple M V P in 1970.
re le a se o f S p o rts Illu s tra te d F o r
K i d s A w e s o m e A t h le t e s ! , an
e d u c a t io n a l, in t e r a c t iv e C D -
R O M fo r c h ild re n
D e v e lo p e d fo r e ig h t- to 14-
y e a r-o ld s as a fo llo w -u p title to
C r e a t iv e M u ltim e d ia and S p o rts
Illu s tra te d F o r K i d s ’ s u c c e s s fu l
E v e r y t h in g Y o u W ant to K n o w
A b o u t S p o rts E n c y c lo p e d ia C D -
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in -d e p th k n o w le d g e o f sp o rts
he ro es past and presen t in a fo r­
mat that e x e rc is e s re a d in g , c o m ­
p re h e n sio n , and s p e llin g s k ills .
Sports Illustrated Fo r K id s A w e ­
some Athletes! is available where
C D R O M s are sold, for $ 19.95.
“ I can ’t even put it in words on
Father’s D ay what it means to me. I
know he’s w atching,” said Jordan.
“ T h is is for daddy.”
The B u lls won the best-of-seven
series after taking the first two games
at home and the first in Seattle, drop­
ping the next two, and securing v ic ­
tory on their return to C h icago , where
during a record 7 2 -10 regular season
they set an N B A record for consecu­
tive home w ins at 44.
“ W ho would have ever written
this season?” asked Jordan.
The B u lls built a 17-point lead in
the third quarter and equal led it in the
fourth after a close first half.
In the fin a l quarter, Rodm an
grabbed seven o f his 19 rebounds,
Pippen scored eight o f his 17 points
and T o n i K u ko c six o f his 10 for the
B u lls and guard Ron Harper, whose
presence had been in question due to
knee problem s, scored 10 points in
38 minutes. H e w ill undergo arthro­
sco pic surgery Tuesday.
“ Equ al opportunity,” said B u lls
coach P hil Jackso n o f the w ay the
contributions were spread around.
C h ic a g o had a 15-3 p la y o ff record
for an .833 percentage bettered by
only five teams ever. The B u lls ’ 87-
13 co m b ined regular-season and
postseason m ark for a .870 percent­
age is the best ever, exceeding the
1972 L o s A n geles La k e rs’ 81-16
(.8 3 5 ) mark.
Germ an D e tle f Sch rem p f had a
gam e-high 23 points for the So n ics,
fo llo w e d b y G a ry P a y to n ’s I9 a n d 18
for Shawn Kem p.
K e m p pulled down 14 rebounds,
had three steals, and three assists.
Payton had four rebounds, seven as­
sists and two steals.
“ T h e y ’re a great basketball team ,”
said the Seattle coach about the B u lls.
“ T h e y ’ve got to be in the top three or
four ( o f all time).
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Support Of Safe Drinking Water Bill Urged
The Am erican Public Health A s -
sociation (A P 1 IA ) commends the
House Com m erce Com m ittee ef­
forts in constructing a bipartisan
safe drinking water b ill w hich pro­
tects public health.
A P H A believes that provisions
incorporated in this b ill w ill protect
public health and promote sound
science, the Association supports
the House b ill’s requirements for
updates for certain chem ical con­
taminant standards, additional re­
search on arse n ic and su lfate ,
waterborne disease occurrence stud­
ies, and the community right to know
provision which w ill provide the
public with information regarding
the content o f drinking water.
“ Th is bill, as written, w ill em­
power individuals, particularly those
at risk for illness, with important
Jordan lay a long moment on the
locker room floor hugging a basket­
ball and sobbing before returning to
the court for the post-gam e cerem o­
nies.
inform ation that w ill allow them,
along with their health care provider
to make important decisions about
the consumption o f tap water,” said
A P H A e x e c u tiv e d ir e c to r. D r.
Fernando Trevino.
Other crucial public health provi­
sions included in the House b ill ad­
dress im proving water system oper­
ator competency, increasing state
capacity to improve water systems,
granting E P A authority to issue in­
terim standards if there is an urgent
threat to health, and implem enting a
national database on regulated and
unregulated tap water contaminants.
“ The Com m erce Com m ittee has
taken a multifaceted approach to pro­
tecting the public from contaminants
and hazards in the public water sup­
p ly ,” continued Trevino.
The greatest public health advanc-
es have been ach ieved through
broad population based programs,
such as sanitation and safe drinkin g
water. Ensuring the safety o f drink­
ing water provides significant health
benefits to entire com m unities.
The Am erican Publ ic Health A s ­
sociation urges the full House to
pass H R 3604 as reported by the
Com m erce Com m ittee and for the
House-Senate conference com m it­
tee to adopt H R 3604 without any
w eakening amendments.
The Am erican P u b lic Health A s ­
sociation, the oldest and largest or­
ganization o f public health profes­
sionals in the w orld, has been in flu ­
encing po licies and setting priori­
ties in public health for over 120
years and has been in the forefront
o f numerous efforts to prevent d is­
ease and promote health.
When Hearing Aids
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“ U nfortunately, thousands o f
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R o n a ld K n o x N a m e d V ic e
P r e s id e n t o f D iv e r s ity
Ronald K n o x , 49, health care man
agement veteran and form er D ire c ­
tor o f Equal Opportunity Program s
for K a ise r Permanente, has been se­
lected as the organization’s new V ic e
President o f D iversity.
In his new position. K n o x w ill be
responsible for developm ent and
execution o f several nationwide d i­
versity strategies and initiatives in­
vo lvin g both the healthcare market­
place and the diversity and im prove­
m ent o f K a is e r P e rm a n e n te ’ s
workforce. He w ill also be a key
member ofthe o rga n iza tio n s nation­
wide D ive rsity C o u n cil, a senior lev­
el group responsible for developing
and guid ing K a ise r’s overall d iv e rsi­
ty strategy.
Befo rejo in in g K a ise r Permanente
in 1973, K n o x held several manage­
ment positions with the C harles Drew
M edical Center, one o f the country’s
gion. A s a leading advocate for d i­
versity in the organization, he was
later named M anager o f E E O and
most recently, D irecto r o f Equal
Opportunity Program s.
K n o x holds a B .S . degree in busi­
ness adm inistration from Phoenix
U niversity.
Ronald Knox
leading A frican -A m e rican m edical
facilities.
K n o x sta rte d w ith K a is e r
Permanente as Personnel D irector o f
the Redwood C ity M edical Fa cility
in K a ise r’s Northern C alifo rn ia re­
K a ise r Permanente is the nation’s
largest non-profit health maintenance
organization (H M O ). Founded in
1945, it is a group-practice with head­
quarters in O a kla n d ,C a lifo rn ia . K a i­
ser Permanente serves the health care
needs o f 6.8 m illio n voluntarily-en­
rolled members in 16 states and the
D istrict o f Colum bia. T o d ay it en­
compasses K a ise r Foundation Health
Plan, Inc.; K a ise r Foundation H o sp i­
tals; and the Permanente M edical
G roups. N ationw ide they include
more physicians representing all spe­
cialties.
Optimistic HIV Forecast
Recent tests o f existing and new
treatments on tens o f thousands o f
infected patients appear to have left
them with nodetectable s ig n s o f H I V ,
the virus that causes A ID S , the re­
searchers say.
Some o f the w orld’s leading A ID S
researchers and physicians have be­
gun talking o ptim istically about the
po ssibility o f elim inating H I V from
infected people.
“ I f you had asked me in January,
“Can you eradicate H IV infection?’
I would have laughed in your face,"
Dr. Ju lio M ontanerofthe U niversity
o f B ritish C olu m b ia was quoted as
saying today in New sday.
“ But now w e’ve been able to dem­
onstrate that we can e ffectively sup­
press viral production. That is lead­
ing to a dramatic change in how we
think o f this disease,” he said.
The clin ica l trials were discussed
Thursday in W ashington, D C ., at a
conference held by the m edical jo u r­
nal A n tiviral Therapy and the U n i­
versity o f Amsterdam.
Scientists cited three factors for
their optimism:
• The development o f a new class
o f a n ti-H IV drugs, three o f which
were licensed by the government
earlier this year.
• Successful tests to com bine d if­
ferent fam ilies o f H IV drugs in a
“co cktail” that assaults the virus'
ability to reproduce.
• Tests that allow doctors to mea­
sure precisely the amount o f H IV
present in a patient’s blood.
Scientists believe treating patients
early with the m ixture o f H IV drugs
may be reducing the virus to a level
that a still-intact immune system can
handle.
The W all Street Journal reported
today that even cautious physicians
are astonished by recent develop­
ments.
“ It now appears, at the very least,
we may fin a lly have the tools to turn
( A I D S ) into a long-term manageable
and treatable disease, much like hy­
pertension and diabetes,” said R o y
G u llic k , research physician at New
Y o r k U niversity M edical School.
“ Alm ost every one o f my patients
is doing sign ifican tly better.”
Between 650,000 and 900,000
Am ericans are infected with H IV ;
almost 60,000 have been treated with
the new drugs, none for more than
two years.
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