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News Briefs Reagan ppliey challenged WASHINGTON ( AiP% Inpwthe* challenge to the Reagan administration's policy in El Salvador, 11 House Democrats have filed a suit aimed at forcing the withdrawl of U.S. advise *s in the war-torn country and halting military aid to it^.-uling junta. The suit, filed Fridav in ITS nictfiM rvu.t* h* 7 . . .... . v IVV V/VU1 V 11V/I charges that the administration violated the Constitution and the 1973 War Powers Resolution by sending 54 military advisers and training personnel to El Salvador without explicit congressional approval. Named as defendants in the suit were President Reagan, Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr. and Secretary of Defense Casper W. Weinberger. The suit requests that the court ask the defendants to "withdraw immediately all U.S. armed forces, weapons, military equipment and military aid to El Salvador." At the White House, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes declined to comment on the suit. Mayor to remain in politics ATLANTA? Mayor Maynard Jackson, who cannot run for re-election in November, said Friday when he leaves office he will remain in politics fighting for liberal causes in thp "When I got into politics I made a commitment that as long as I lived, I was going to be in politics," said Jackson, who has been mayor for eight years. "I may not hold office... but I will stay in politics no matter what," he told about 90 members of the Southerners for Economic Justice at a luncheon. The group, holding its fifth annual meeting, works to improve the status of Southern workers. Jackson serves on the group s board of directors. Jackson dpo 1 inori tn what rnlo ho ~. Iinuv ?U1V uv f/lUlll l^U 111 Ct 1 i_y political action group, or whether he would form a new group. But he said Southern liberals and blacks need a stroi p weapon to fight potent conservative political action groups. Sands on verge of death BELFAST, Northern Ireland, (AP)- Jailed IRA Guerrilla Bobby Sands clinged painfully to life Sunday in fVin CvlfVi rlatr nf o V* lii- 1 ? * nit vnin uaj ui a nuiigci ail IIVCIUI poillLCcll concessions IOF Irish Republican Army prisoners. Sands' resistance to death at Maze Prison near Belfast despite more than two months of consuming only water was explained as "mind over matter" by a supporter. "He has great tenacity," the supporter said. The prospect of his death touched off more disturbances in Northern Ireland Friday. Shots were fired at police patrols in Roman Catholic West Belfast, but no injuries were reported, rrattic was disrupted during the evening rush hour when hijacked trucks containing parcels that could have been bombs, were abandoned across major roads. Police said there were no explosions. Accident paralyzes player CHAPEL HILL. N.C. <AP)- Doctors sav thpv arp ""mf V uncertain whether former University of North Carolina football player Steve Streater will walk again, following an auto accident occurring just after he signed a freeagent contract with the Washington Redskins. The Tar Heel defensive back was returning from Raleigh-Durham Airport Friday when his car apparently skidded off wet pavement and ran into an emabankment. Dr. Joseph DeWalt, team physician for the Tar Heels, said Streater suffered a frature dislocation of the sixth cervicalveriebrap lpflvina him naralv/7tJ f-nm , >a.0 a |/v?? Ml J CiVVt A A V/l 1A 111C YV CI Id I down. Another team physician said in a telephone interview lat Friday that chances are slim that Streater, a native of Sylva, N.C., will regain the use of his legs. King admits to gay affair LOS ANGELEG <AP)? Saying she loved her husband and had "made a mistake," tennis star Billie Jean King has admitted having a homosexual affair with a former secretary. But she says she never promised a thing to the parapalegic former secretary,who has filed a "palimony" suit seeking lifetime support from Mrs. King. "First, you have to live with yourself," Mrs. King said Friday during a surprise news conference. "That's why I'm here todav." Miss Barnett, 33, now a paraplegic, filed suit earlier in the week claiming the tennis star had been her lover and owed her lifetime support and title to a Malibu beach house. She described Miss Barnett, a former hairdresser, as "unstable" and said of their love affair: "I made a mistake. 1 will assume that responsibility." Tax paid, on bent wheel1 LANSING, Mich. (AP)?Keith Smith's check to pay his city income tax didn't bounce, but it caused city officials consternation just the same. Smith, upset because his car was damaged after it hit a piece of asphalt on a city street, fashioned his check out of one of his auto's bent wheels. we ana nis wite, t ranees, drafted the $7.42 non-resident i tax check that way to let officials know they weren't pleased over the city's refusal to pay $78.91 for the damaged wheel and tire. Smith, 27, who lives in Mason, Mich., wrote the round, metal check with an engraving tool. He had to get written authorization from his bank, which later accepted the wheel when the city deposited it. But the city got the last laugh. The protest more than doubled Smith's tax bill because the bank charged him $7.50 for the extra trouble of processing the unusual check. |y ^^&gjjg?|&:-:-?w- "ff ^^-SsSff^BBfljfiCL. JB HT . :<-^,<' "^^^ra? 4mv r" Pf ^J" :1Wks8|B jgfifej? Hp ' r: - .-. v*> ^^^H-^- T-i'-' ?-",%-^_V - r^r^r L~' J^Krel^B^ g^VN It wttni^ i^a ~ - bMMBPMBB . hm H Thousands of USC studem the outdoor concert. (PhoU faste hel BOSTON (AP) Reasearchers have developed a gooey paste of ground-up human bones that can spark the body to grow new uuura, providing renei for victims of deforming accidents or children born with misshapen faces. The paste has been used to treat about 60 patients with results that were sometimes Today at RH Film Mrindswnrl 9:30 for 50 cents. Weather Monday: Fair skies wit Low Monday in low 50s 70s and low 80s. Tuesday: Continuing jor the Midlands with ic the 90s. A good day for i ^^9I^Sh?i jIPBJ fff>: yM id unu L/inoo 11latacj %*atuiu 7 by Chip Lowell) Ips body "spectacular" according to doctors who have used it. One of those treated was a boy born with fused bone where the soft spot in his 11 _i i i - skuii snouia nave oeen. in a series of operations, doctors removed the top of his skull and replaced it with the paste. "By a year, he had a brand-new skull," said Dr. LJcdLJ th." 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But when it is i i ? unpianiea, each speck of bone dust is surrounded by cells that ordinarily form connective tissue cells. Those cells, called fibroblasts, somehow change to their function to produce cartilage becomes bone. ^jj^BtiwKs; >S*^V^V- > v ^.v:>^; ISSBBE SSHB eir ferocious partying at u bones "The powder becomes amalgamated in the new bony material, like nuts in a chocolate bar," said Dr. Julie Glowacki, who conducted animal experiments with the material. The doctors say the powdered material is easier to use than transplanted bone, because it can be crammed into hard-to-reach cavities. And since the powder can be stored, the researcners say surgeons can have it on hand to treat accident victims. The new material also may last longer than transplanted natural bone, which in as many as half the cases is reabsorbed by the body. So far, that has happened in only 9 percent of the cases treated with powdered bone. A team of Harvard doctors developed the treatment at ^nuaren's Hospital. A report on their work is being published in Saturday's issue of the British Journal Lancet. The first recipients of the concoction have been children with birth defects. JL.