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_wi re Cyanide in Tylenol kills three ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, III. <AP) - The deaths of two brothers and a 12-year-old girl in the past two days were caused by pain remedy capsules that had been contaminated with cyanide, officials said today. Dr. Edmond R. Donoghue, deputy assistant chief medical examiner of Cook County, said that officials were examining two 50-capsule containers of Extra-Strength Tylenol in which . "we have definitely confirmed the presence of cyanide..." The containers were taken from the victims' homes. Donoghue identified the Tylenol as lot number MC2880 and added, "We don't know the extent of the contamination, but we don't think anybody should be taking Extra-Strength (Tylenol) at all." Police in the two suburbs where the victims lived had been alerted and were attempting to learn the source of both bottles, Donoghue said, adding that the Federal Drug Administration's regional office in Chicago had been notified. "It is impossible to tell when the tampering occurred," said Dr. Michael Shaffer, chief toxicologist with the medical examiner's officer. "We tested three capsules from each container of 50 and one of the three from each contained cyanide. Officials at McNeilab Inc. at Fort Washington, Pa., manufacturers of Tylenol, said company executives were meeting to prepare a statement concerning the medical examiner's findings and no comment would be made until that statement was ready. Fireflies light way for doctors BURLINGTON, N.C. (AP) - It behooves the fireflies of Burlington to keep a low profile. Fireflies here have a price on their heads. In most other parts of the world, fireflies, also known as lightning bugs, luminesce with impunity. Coming out in the early evening, they flash on and off, eating a few aphids now and then and doing whatever it is fireflies do. The worst that can happen is to be captured briefly in the sweaty palm of a small child. Not so in Alamance County. Carolina Biologicai Supply Co. pays two cents apiece for the bugs and plans to buy about 30,000 this year. It's the tail section of the bugs the company wants. The firefly tails contain a substance called lucnerase, a complex enzyme that cannot be made synthetically. It is used by doctors to help screen for urinary infections, evaluate blood cells, test antibiotics and explore the workings of cancerous tumors. "When people bring the fireflies in here, we count them, we chloroform them and cut off their tails," said Harry Stone, head of the company's chemistry department. Then the tails are freeze-dried. The company uses the tails ? properly known as lanterns ? in two ways. Most of them end up in prepackaged laboratory test kits, for use in college and advanced high school chemistry classes. The rest are used in research. Stone said luciferase is used to test for the presence of adenosine triphosphate, also known as ATP, the universal energy currency of all organisms. i aik Delaware provides cnna seats WILMINGTON, Del. (AF) - Child restraint seats are being made available by the state at low cost so parents can comply with a new law requiring children under five to wear the device while in vehicles. Residents who can prove they are parents or legal guardians and have current Delaware driver's licenses and vehicle registration cards can rent the seats for $10 a year under a program that began Wednesday. When the seat is returned after a year's use, the parent will receive $5 back, said Henry J. Decker, secretary of the Department of Public Safety. Gov. Pierre S. du Pont IV signed the child restraint bill June 2, but police won't start enforcing it until Dec. 1. Pnllontnr mnloimo nointinno uuiiuuiui iGuminio paiiiiiiiijo GREENVILLE, S.C. <AP) - Greenville textile executive Arthur Magill has threatened to remove his nationally renowned collection of Andrew Wyeth paintings and sketches from the Greenville County Museum of Art. As a possible climax to a stormy, three-year-old relationship between Magill and museum administrators, Magill has informed the museum that he intends to remove the $6 million Wyeth collection and any other artwork he and his wife, Holly, have loaned the institution. The 26 Wyeth paintings and about 230 of the artist's drawings and preliminary studies put the museum on the nanon s cuuurai map wnen mey arrived a lew years ago. But the philanthropist confirmed Wednesday that he sent museum commission Chairman Dick Herdklotz a onesentence letter Aug. 3 saying the artworks would be removed in 6() days. That deadline is Sunday. In an interview with The Greenville News, Magill refused to say why he is thinking about loaning the Wyeths to another museum. However, he alluded to a May appearance before the Greenville County Council in which he criticized the museum commission for the institution's problems, including tht departures of two directors in as many years. The art patron told The News the only thing that woulc change his mind now would be if the "county council woulc take seriously our request to restructure the museurr commission and Dut Deoole on that commission who have shown they care about the museum." use today RH film: "Gallipoli" starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee, 2:30 p.m. $1; 7 and 9:30 p.m. $1.50. Theater: "Birthday Party," 8 p.m. Longstreet Theatre. Vietnamese HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM (AP) - Eleven Vietnamese American children ? some nervous with anticipation, others in tears ? flew out of Vietnam yesterday on their way to new homes in the United States. It was the largest group of children allowed to leave since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Vietnamese officials vowed that thousands of other Amerasians could follow them if the U.S. government allowed it. Most of the 11 children in the group ? aged 7 to 15 ? are to be reunited with fathers some cannot remember. One father ? Gary Tanous of Vancouver, Wash. ? flew into Ho Chi Minh City, formerly called Saigon, for an emotional reunion with his daughter. "I have never been happier in my life," Tanous said, tears streaming pPHBI"" mgn stakes Card games and beer-can pyramids we Russell .House Ballroom. Political killin SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOl killings of civilians have increased shi months since the Reagan adminis Salvador was improving its human monitoring groups claim. President Reagan said July 27 that I nation's government was making sii abuses aeainst civilians Reaean mi months to Congress that El Salvador rights policies, continuing with refoi vestigations into the slayings of six Ami Congress has made such certificate U.S. military aid to continue flowin government in its fight against leftist n Figures from the Central American office released Tuesday showed thei ; slayings of civilians in August, up shar in July. The figure for the first half of Se| political slayings, less than the same more than the first half of July. The office is considered the most r< human rights monitoring groups in El ? On Saturday, the Roman Catholic chi Legal Aid Agency reported 701 polit August and 357 more through the first h Evangelist to | CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) Evangelist Billy Graham, denying any political motivations, announced , that he plans to visit six cities,in East ! Germany and Czechoslovakia, next , month. "I'm going to preach the gospel. I'm I certainly not going on a political I trip," Graham said. , The 63-year-old evangelist visited ? the Soviet Union in May, addressing a conference of religious leaders and speaking out against the nuclear arms race. He was criticized for saying he found no evidence of religious persecution during his visit. riraham cniH hie rr?iccir??-? (Viie M1UIUU1I k>UIV4 I1IO UllOOIWII tl llo IHUU is different. "I'm not going on a peace mission Ias I was on in Moscow," he said. It will be the first time the two communist nations have allowed Graham to preach inside their borders. reunite with down his cheeks after hugging 15year-old Jean Marie. "I hope thousands of other American fathers will follow me. I just feel sick at all the important years of her life I missed." "When is the airplane leaving?" asked Kieu Thai My Philips, a lively 7year-old girl with fair skin and large hmu/n pvk Prpmatnrplv horn iust days before the 1975 Communist victory in Vietnam, her parents left her in the care of relatives when they evacuated the beseiged South Vietnamese capital, an escort said. Kieu, a photograph of her mother pinned to her neat frock, will be traveling to Fairburn, Ga., where her father, Joseph M. Philips, and Vietnamese mother are living. Representatives of seven American voluntary agencies, who flew in to receive the children and nine Vietnamese relatives, were told by Foreign M;nistry officer Nguyen Phi ire some of the activities at Viva Las Vega! qs in El Salva \ (AP) - Political An open letter fr irply here in the two of 309 people wer tration declared El preceding the July rights record, two The letter urgec once and for all the Central American civilian populatior ticere efforts to stop In a speech last ist certify every six Garcia directly re is improving human against civilians, rm and pursuing in- "Despite all the ericans here. authority continue on a requirement for perhaps the one g to the Salvadoran abroad." ;bels. Church and hur University's statistics people have been 1 N/v /?01 1 Al ' ' * ? ic wuc ooi puiuiccu inem vicn.is 01 ] ply from 316 recorded and some indep security forces, ptember showed 192 Authorities hav period in August but progress in stoppi current or formei liable of at least five for alleged abuses Jalvador. Two former nai arch-related Christian have been arraig ical assassinations in slayings of two alf of September. Salvadoran land r preach in comn Graham said his itinerary is not complete and he'll release the list of cities he plans to visit later. His visit to East Germany is scheduled for Oct. 15-25. He said the invitation to speak there was extended by the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches. The trip to Czechoslovakia will begin Oct. 29. uranam said all of his lectures in the two countries would be given in state churches, mostly Lutheran. Graham made the announcement during a news conference to kick off a five-day lecture series at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His topic Monday night was on the nuclear arms race. Graham declined to discuss politics. "I won't get into local, state or federal politics," he told reporters. However, he did speak out against U.S. fathers i Tuyen that 26 more Amerasians and 21 relatives would be able to depart Oct. 7. Tuyen estimated there were 15,000 to 20,000 Amerasians in Vietnam and that "the majority would like to go to America because they have American blood in them." Western estimates range from 8,000 to more than 50,000 Amerasians ? offspring or marriages or fleeting liaisons during the long Vietnam war. j Under current U.S. legislation, most of the Amerasians are not eligible for acceptance by the United States. Several hundred have already left Vietnam, either as "boat people" or through a complex United Nations ] J w sponsored uepanui e pi ugi am. The 11 leaving today ? all documented as U.S. citizens ? were the first Amerasians to come out as a group, U.S. Embassy officials in Bangkok, Thailand, said. ? *!' ' hWIWBBF I" m m y\ ' ' ' - - - - - M * mm > v>. . .>:>x r-':', s * * * *' iSSofcx^-. Photo by Win McNamee ?, held Wednesday night in the idor increasing om the agency to Reagan said an average e slain during each of the three months certification. I Rpncfun to "nrpccnrp thic dnuprnmpnt tfi - ?om" vv e?v f ? ? detail its crimes against a defenseless i." Friday, Defense Minister Jose Guillermo iferred to continued security force abuses ; measures we have taken, the abuses of Garcia said. Such abuses, he said, "are thing which most weakens our image nan rights groups estimate at least 38,000 tilled in the 35-month-old civil war, many of right-wing "death squads," which leftists endent observers say collaborate with e said that prosecutors are making some ng violations. In the last week at least five r security-force officials have been seized Lional guardsmen and a former lieutenant jned in a San Salvador court in the 1981 American land reform advisers and a eform official. nunist countries nuclear arms and said he believes the world is on the verge of nuclear destruction. "We are, in my judgement, on the verge of a nuclear holocaust and I think that we as Christians have a responsibility to warn the people." Graham said he has a plan, which ne cans SALT 10, for complete nuclear disarmament. He said his plan calls for the elimination of all weapons capable of mass destruction. He said 15 countries now have atomic weapons. He said the number of countries with nuclear weapons will probably increase to 35 by the end of the decade. Graham said that after the trip to the communist countries he plans to cut back on his schedule and may postpone several engagements at the first of the year.