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The North Texas Daily
Page 3 Wednesday, September 21, 1988
Emperor Hirohito becomes ill
TOKYO (AP) - Emperor Hirohito, at 87 the world’s
longest-reigning monarch, received a blood transfusion
overnight after vomiting blood and was in stable condition
on Tuesday, palace officials and news reports said.
An official at the Imperial Household Agency said
Hirohito’s condition was stable and there was “nothing to
be concerned about.”
Court physicians were summoned to the palace in central
Tokyo after the emperor vomited blood shortly before 10
p.m. (9 a m. EDT) Monday and they gave him a blood
transfusion for four hours beginning at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday
(11:30 am. EDT Monday), the imperial official said,
speaking on condition of anonymity. The doctors ruled out
hospitalizing the aged emperor.
The government decided Tuesday to place Crown Prince
Akhito, 54, the emperor’s eldest son, in charge of all matters
of state until the cm|x;ror recovers, Defense Agency head
Kichiro Tazawa said.
Tazawa told reporters Tuesday after a regular Cabinet
meeting that the Cabinet was expected to formally approve
the appointment Thursday.
Following the transfusion, the emperor’s temperature fell
to a range of 98.6 degrees and his pulse was a normal 90
beats per minute, according to the imperial official
Hirohito’s condition grew worse late Monday, after two
consecutive days of fever. Imperial officials said court
physicians found traces of jaundice in his blood and would
perform minor surgery if the fever continued.
Hirohito suffered at 100.4 degree fever Sunday.
Almost one year ago on Sept. 22. the emperor underwent
an intestinal operation, and doctors found a hard, egg-size
enlargement of the pancreas, which blocked the duodenum
Surgeons dal not remove the blockage but performed u bypass
around it.
Akhito, heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne that Hirohito
has held since Christmas Day 1926, and Crown Princess
Michiko came to the palace Tuesday morning. Nationally
broadcast television reports showed limousines bearing
members of the imperial family arriving at the palace to
pay their respects.
Federal police to take stand in trial
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — All federal judicial
police agents stationed in Juarez when television acnchor-
woman Linda Bejarano and two others were gunned down
were ordered to undergo judicial questioning, officials said
Monday.
One federal agent and five associates are accused of murder
in the early-morning attack on the car carrying the victims.
The assailants shot at least 50 times into the car with
semi-automatic weapons.
Fifteen federal agents, including the former commander
in Juarez, are scheduled to tell Federal District Judge Jose
Librado Fuente Chavez, where they were and what they
were doing July 23, the morning of the shooting said
Guillermo Terrazas Villanueva, spokesman for the Juarez
Press Association.
Terrazas said the purpose of questioning the federal agents
is to determine whether police participated in a cover-up
alter the shootings. They arc scheduled to appear in late
September and early October.
The press association has monitored the case closely
because Bejarano was a member. Also killed were her
mother-in-law, Lucrccia Martinez; and a family friend, Carlos
Alfonso Garcia. Bejarano’s husband. Manuel Gomez Mar-
tinez, has said he survived the attack by crouching on the
car floor.
Police have said they mistook the victim’s car for one
carrying drug smugglers who had shot at the police south
of Juarez earlier that morning.
On the day of the slayings, police came up with a white
Chrysler New Yorker similar to the victims’ car. They said
the bullet-riddled car had been found abandoned, with 38
kilograms of cocaine in the trunk The alleged occupants
were never found.
Officials say minority
enrollment has grown
AUSTIN (AP) — Enrollment of
minority students at the University of
Texas appears to have increased this
semester in what may be evidence that
the school’s long-term minority recruit-
ing efforts are paying off, officials said
Tuesday.
School officials said they expect that
enrollment of blacks will be up by about
8 percent, with Hispanics higher by 10
percent. The gains won’t be known
exactly until today, the 12th day of class
for the university's fall semester.
Association says city
of Dallas discriminates
DALLAS (AP) — A federal lawsuit
filed by a black firefighters’ organization
against the city claimed that a “good
old boy” network discouraged hiring
and promotion of minorities.
The suit was filed Monday in U S.
District Court by the 207-member Dallas
Black Firefighters Association, seeking
to end what it calls discriminatory prac-
tices, including subjective testing for
promotions.
“You've got a good old boy system
running that fire department, and it’s
not being run in an objective manner,
where everyone is given a fair oppor-
tunity,” Roger Albright, a Dallas attor-
ney representing the association said.
But acting Fire Chief Mike Freeman
denied the discrimination allegation,
saying the city has worked with the
association to increase the percentage
of blacks on the force.
The department’s promotion system
is objective, following civil service
guidelines, he said.
Association members want to increase
the number of blacks on the city's
1,648-member department from the
current 17 percent to 30 percent
Officials investigate
failed insurance plan
AUSTIN (AP) — The attorney
general’s office and the State Board of
Insurance arc investigating the recent
financial collapse of a statewide health
insurance progam that left nearly 7,(XX)
teachers and school employees facing
about $8.5 million in medical bills
Officials said the bills were supposed
to have been covered by the insurance
plan.
While the two state agencies look at
the program, the Texas State Teachers
Association said it may file a lawsuit
in the case.
Any legal action will be aimed at the
individuals and entities that the teachers
organization believes are also liable lor
those unpaid bills, said lawyer David
Richards, representing TSTA
The Educators Group Health I rust,
a 5-year-old self-insurance program
serving the Texas Association of Com-
munity Schools, was declared insolvent
by its trustees on Sept. 2
The following week, the health trust
filed for liquidation under federal bank
ruptcy laws; and listed its assets <>i
$363,663 and its liablilities which wer
essentially the unpaid medical claims
Unlike instances where state-regula
ted insurance companies fail, nonregula-
ted self-insurance programs such as
Educators Group have no industry
inanced assistance to pay oft claims
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Authorities confer
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Texas
and Utah lawmen have concluded a
secretive weekend conference aimed at
coordinating their separate investigations
in the slayings of five former followers
of the late polygamist leader Ervil
LeBaron.
However, officials were tight-lipped
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which began Friday about 11 months
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Study notes increase
in homeless children
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least
100,(XX)of Amcriea’schildren are home-
less on any given night and that doesn't
include those who have run away from
home or been kicked out by their par-
ents, the National Academy of Sciences
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Boy writes hot checks
on $30,000 spree
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 15-year-
old boy made a bogus deposit of nearly
$30,(XX) at an automatic teller machine,
then started w'riting checks for a new
car, clothes and two nights hotel and
lodging with his girlfriend, authorities
said.
Police and others involved in the
investigation said the boy went to a teller
machine Saturday at a branch of Com-
mercial Federal Savings and Loan and
punched in a combination of numbers
to register a deposit of $29,990 into
his checking account.
During the weekend the youth wrote
i 1 checks for a new car, food, clothes
and other items, police said.
Passenger flees plane,
leaves 7 lbs. cocaine
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An airline
passenger abandoned about $1 million
in cocaine aboard a jetliner Monday and
tied during a stop at the Indianapolis
International Airport, police said.
Police Sgt Bobby J Flowers said
the cocaine weighed more than 7 pounds
and has a sheet value of $1 million. It
was found about 6:15 a m. in a gray
bag aboard a USAir flight from Los
Angeles to Pittsburgh with a stop in
Indianapolis.
The passenger was scheduled to con-
tinue on to Pittsburgh, but as the jet
left the terminal, a flight attendant
noticed the luggage on the seat where
the man had been sitting.
Worried the bag might contain a
bomb, the attendant notified the pilot
and the plane returned to the gate,
Flowers said.
Airport Police Officer Charles Has-
sleburg opened the bag and found it
contained four large and six small bags
of a white substance and $6,945 in cash.
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