Volume X X V I, N um ber 28
C om m itted to cultural diversity.
Game, Set, Match
July 10, 1096
Sri Chinmoy, ABS
solutely amazing!
Junior Tennis Program
introduces kids to the
game.
Reel 2 Real
D mo blurs the boundaries
o f soul and funk with sun-
kissed Caribbean melodies.
65-year-old record
breaker celebrates 9
years o f “Lifting up the
World”.
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See Sports, page B2.
See Entertainment, page B3.
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Senate OKs Minimum
Wage Hike
The Senate has passed a bill to increase
the minimum wage 90 cents over the next
| two years to $5.15 an hour. The vote
follows one earlier today in which law
makers defeated a Republican amendment
that would have exempted small business
es from the wage hike.
Bertha Gathers Strength
Hurricane Bertha has curved slightly to
the north, which is good news for the East
Coast. With winds o f up to 115 mph, the
storm battered the Bahamas and parts o f
the Caribbean.
Perry Blasted By
Senators
Defense Secretary W illiam Perry and
other top military officials were blasted
| today by a Senate committee looking into
the bombing that killed 19 Americans at a
base in Saudi Arabia. The senators ac-
| cused Perry and Qen. John Shalikashvili,
Chairman o f the Joint Chiefs o f Staff, and
Gen. Binford Peay, Commander o f U.S.
Forces in the G ulf, o f not doing enough to
make U.S. forces safe. Perry suggested
better intelligence-gathering to avert ter-
I rorist attacks. President Clinton said today |
he has full confidence in Perry and consid
ers him a good defense secretary.
Lamm Running For
President
Form er C o lo rad o G overn o r, D ic k |
Lamm, has entered the presidential race.
The three-term Democrat has decided to |
seek the nomination o f Ross Perot’s new
Reform Party, which picks its candidate in
a two-pronged convention next month.
Perot is being coy about his plans for |
running, but has invited others to try. In his
announcement today in Denver, Lamm
accused the two major parties o f failing to I
address difficult issues and said he would |
welcome a battle against Perot if the Texas
billionaire gets in. Lamm had his biggest
national impact in the mid-1980s when he |
suggested that terminally ill elderly had “a
duty to die" rather than hang on by being |
hooked up to lifesaving machines.
US-China Trips
President Clinton and Chinese Presi-1
dent Jiang Zemin may make official state
visits to each other’s country. A White
House spokesman said the visit by Nation-
al Security Adviser, Anthony Lake, to
B eijin g this week could set the stage for |
presidential trips. But the spokesman said
the trips probably would not occur this
year, w hich means they would probably be
contingent on Clinton being re-elected in
November. U .S.-China relations have been
touchy recently due to disputes over copy
right protection, trade, human rights and
Taiwan.
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Senator Mark Hatfield (right) was at the Blazers Boys & Girls Club to witness the club's dedication
ceremony. Linda White (left) the club Executive Director is jubilant at recieving a $200.000 gift recieved
from National Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
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policy issues affecting young people.
Every Local Boys & G irls Club is a pri
vate, non-profit agency with policy set by a
volunteer board comprised o f local residents.
Each club is managed by a full-time exec
utive director, assisted by full-time career
professionals, part-time assistants and pro
gram volunteers. It offers daily programs
promoting the health, social, educational,
vocational and character development o f
youth ages 6-18
It also seeks to impact young lives by
building self-esteem and encouraging the
development o f values and skills during crit
ical periods o f childhood growth.
In recent years. Boys & G irls Clubs of
America has experienced dramatic growth,
opening more than 900 new club locations
since 1987 Many factors have contributed to
B & G C A ’s successfu I outreach effort, among
them strong partnerships with committed cor
porations and foundations that provide in
valuable support, and help raise funds and
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Already, Hatfield has used his legislative
power to butter the bread o f the youth clubs.
Speaking at the dedication o f the Blazer
B o y s & G irls C lu b o n M L K Blvd. the Senator
said he relates to the youth Club because o f its
genuine commitment to better the future o f
the inner-cities’ less-privileged kids.
“ Hoover cares for the kids and that is part
o f my motivation,” Hatfield told a crowd o f
city bureaucrats, politicians and corporate
chieftains who gathered at the neighborhood
youth Club.
Ken O ’N eil, ofthe C lu b ’s Board o f D irec
tors, says the Club has demonstrated a level
o f commitment to the community since in-
for children 6-18 years old. The programs
emphasize educational achievement, career
exploration, drug and alcohol avoidance,
health and fitness, gang and violence preven
tion, cultural enrichment, leadership devel
opment and community service.
The youth club also provides vital services
to local clubs in program research and devel
opment, personnel recruitment and training,
facility design, construction and safety,
fundraising, marketing and communications,
evaluation o f club effectiveness against na
tional standards, consultation with commu
nity leaders interested in establishing new
clubs, and addressing legislative and public
aw areness on behalf o f Boys & G irls Clubs of
America and local clubs.
I he clubs' efficient use o f financial re
sources has won national recognition. A sur
vey, measuring private support, reported gifts
to the national organization and local Boys &
G irls totaling more than $286 m illion in
1994
The Boys & G irls Clubs o f Am erica’s
tradition o f service to our nation’s youth
began in 1860, when the first Boys C lu b was
established in Hartford. Connecticut.
I he national organization, o rigin ally
named Federated Boys Clubs and later Boys
Clubs o f America, was founded in 1906 by
the 53 local clubs in existence a, that time.
The purpose was to provide leadership
and programs for its member clubs, while
helping to establish new clubs in disadvan
taged communities.
I he Blazers' Club received a $200,000
donation from its parent body during the
dedication ceremony
Actress Margaux Hemingway Passes Away At 41
n the eve of a tragic family
Authorities said there were no signs o f
a n n iv e rs a ry , a c tre s s -m o d e l
forced entry or foul play. “ We have also
Margaux Hemingway, a grand
eliminated suicide as a cause,” Corral said in
daughter of legendary novelist Ernest
releasing the coroner’s preliminary findings.
Hemingway, was found dead in her home,
Hem ingw ay's friends became worried
apparently of natural causes, officials
earlier on Monday when they hadn't heard
said Tuesday.
from her in days, and that led to the discovery
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The badly decomposed body o f the 41-
year-old Hem ingway was discovered on
Monday in her modest studio apartment near
the beach, said Santa Monica Police Spokes
man Gary Gallinot.
The coroner’s office determined that
Hemingway died from apparent natural caus
es," most likely related to her history o f
epilepsy, “ but a full autopsy will be needed
before any fina1 conclusions can be made,”
said spokesman Fred Corral.
o f her body. It was "very decomposed” from
the heat, and investigators relied on dental
records to make an identification. Gallinot
said.
Hemingway, the older sister o f 34-year-
old actress Mariel Hemingway, had well-
publicized battles against alcoholism and
eating disorders. Friends said she had recent
ly become depressed about her prospects for
reviving her career.
She was the daughter o f Ernest
Hemingway’s first son Jack, and her death
comes almost 35 years to the day her Nobel
Prize-winning grandfather was found dead
from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the
head.
His wife said he accidentally killed him-
selfwhileclcaninghis shotgun in his Ketchum,
Idaho, home on July 2 , 19 6 1. but some friends
said he had been despondent and likely com
mitted suicide.
Margaux Hemingway's death continues a
grim family legacy. Her famous grandfather
author o f such classics as “ For Whom the
Bell T o lls” and “ A Farewell to Arm s"
battled depression, alcoholism and nervous
breakdown. His own father died by suicide.
A neighbor. Peter Österlund, said he had
seen the statuesque actress-model on the
street the previous Saturday night and “ it
looked like she was disturbed.”
David Mirisch, Hemingway’s agent-man
ager, said his wife, a close friend o f his client,
told him she had been crying a lot lately.
Friends had not seen her since Friday.
They went to her building and had a laborer
climb a ladder onto her second-floor balco
ny. She was found dead inside. Hemingway
had only recently moved to the apartment a
block from the beach.
The 6-foot-tall Hemingway became one
ofthe nation’s top super-models in the 1970s,
promoting a line o f fragrances made by
Faberge
She made her Hollywood debut with her
younger sister, Mariel, in the 1976 movie
“ Lipstick."
ACETAMINOPHEN CAN BE HARMFUL FOR KIDS
Heat Wave Death Toll
Several straight days o f triple-digit heat
have been blamed for the deaths o f as many
as 16 people in northern Texas and Okla-1
homa. Nine elderly people died in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area, where tempera
tures have been as high as 105. The deaths
o f at least three, and as many as seven
Oklahom a residents, are being blamed on
the heat. Most o f the victim s either had no j
air conditioning or were too worried about
high electricity bills to use them. C ity
officials are urging elderly people to spend
the hottest hours o f the day at museums,
libraries or shopping centers.
ception.
here is no doubt that when Sen
The Boys & G irls Clubs o f America com
ator M ark Hatfield retires from
prises o f a national network o f 1810 neigh
Congress he intends to follow
borhood-based facilities serving more than
the foot path of his beloved mentor, 2.4
late million young people, primarily from
President Herbert Hoover, who was a
disadvantaged circumstances.
champion for the Boys & Girls Club of
The clubs provide guidance-oriented char
America.
acter development programs on a daily basis
lowly, surely and with loving
and unresponsive while taking Tylenol for a
care, the mother of 14-month-
fever.
old Sophie unknowingly poi
“ It's your worst nightmare,” the mother
soned her precocious blond toddler,
recalls. “ I'm her mother and I was killing
destroying the child's liver and leaving
her.”
her on the brink of death.
Sophie survived, thanks to an emergency
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Not with arsenic or cyanide or exotic
drugs-but with an unintended overdose o f
grape-flavored infant Tylenol, sold over-the-
counter as a safe alternative to aspirin and
other pain-relievers.
In September 1994, Sophie's mother,
Deborah Regosin-Hodges, watched in grow
ing alarm as her lively daughter turned pale,
listless, diarrheic, and finally glassy-eyed
partial liver transplant from her father per
formed at the nearby University o f Califor-
nia-San Francisco But she must take anti
rejection drugs that can cause lymphoma,
and her parents now worry about every sneeze
and cough.
Some children who took acetaminophen,
the active ingredient in Tylenol, Anacin 3,
and many other remedies, weren’t so lucky.
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Lacy Keele, a 5-year-old award-winning
baton twirler from Florien, La., died o f an
overdose o f acetaminophen that shut down
her liver after her mother substituted Extra-
Strength Tylenol for regular Tylenol to treat
a Christmastime cold
"I think people get a false sense o f security
that if you can buy it over-the-counter, it's
safe, says Dr. Marvin Limpman ofConsum -
ers Union, which advocates better labeling.
No one is certain how many other Lacys
and Sophies there are. At least 33 children
below the age o f 13 died o f acetaminophen
poisoning between 1970 and 1991, accord
ing to a Food and Drug Administration re
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port, and 152 others suffered serious conse
quences ranging from hospitalization to per
manent disability.
I lie latest figures available from the Amer
ican Association o f Poison Control Centers
show 71 serious acetaminophen poisoning
cases among children in 1994, with life-
threatening or long-term complications in 10
o f them There were no deaths reported that
year.
Acetaminophen products are “exceeding
ly safe," if taken as directed, says Rose Ann
Soloway o f the Poison Control Centers.
But critics say acetaminophen’s danger
lies in its small margin for error.
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