Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 ~ digest 12-year-old leaves bubble HOUSTON (AP) ? David, a 12-year-old boy who has lived longer than anyone without immunity from disease, removed the seals from the germ-free plastic bubble that had protected him since birth, and kissed his mother for the rirct ft rv* n I 11 I 11III . His first request was for a drink of Coca-Cola, which he's never fasted, his mother said. But doctors at Texas Children's Hospital still don't know whether an experimental bone marrow transplant performed more than three months ago will help David develop the disease-fighting cells he needs to survive. David, whose last name has been withheld to protect his privacy, was taken out of his 1 'bubble" home Tuesday because doctors feared he would become dehydrated from recuri ing fever, diarrhea and vomiting he has suffered since the transplant, said spokeswoman Claire Bassett. He I I 1 _ * I L.-LLI. - 1 1 win ntrvci iciuiu 10 inc uuuuic now inai ne nas oeen contaminated by the outside world, she said. Until Tuesday, he had never touched another human. After helping doctors remove the protective seals and emerging from the bubble, he kissed his mother and touch- , ed his father and 15-year-old sister, (Catherine, spokeswoman Susannah Griffin said. "Mis \oice sounds different outside the bubble," katherme said. Oswald's widow files suit DALLAS (A I*) ? The widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, Marina Oswald Porter, has filed suit over videotapes and photographs taken when the body of the accused assassin of President John Kennedy w . exhumed to dispel the theor\ that a Sov iet spy had bee" buried in Oswald's grave. Porter contends in tin mii Mi nday in state district court that Hampton Hall anu John Norman Collins of Rockwell. Texas, were paid to record the October 1981 exhumation and autopsy, but never turned over the tapes and photos. She said she and British author Michael H.B. Eddowes, who proposed the spy theory, paid Hall and Collins. Both Hall and Collins have unlisted telephone numbers and could not be readied for comment on the court action. I rank Jackson Porter's a'?o vy. was out of the office Tuesday and could n'M be reached for comment. Oswald, a^useo o ass, . iaiin.r KcnnedyNov. 22, 1963, was shot to death oy nightclub owner Jack Ruby two days iai\ji . The autopsy, conducted by a team of pathologists at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, concluded that the body exhumed was Oswald's. USC today ! DEADLINE - Last day to enter the poster-banner contest spon- | sored by the btunent Alumnt Association, tntries may be made , al the Alu; .ni House. ^ I i RH FILM - Psycho II, directed by Richard Franklin, starring 1 Anthony Perkins, Meg Tilly, and Vera Miles plays at 2:30 p.m. | for $1 and 7 and 9:30 p.m. for $1.75. Rebels kill 2 SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AF) ? Leftist rebels executed 29 soldiers who surrendered after heavy fighting in northeastern El Salvador, a Salvadoran army spokesman said. There was no immediate reaction to the report Wednesday from guerrilla forces fighting the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government. Army spokesman Col. Richard Cinefuegos said leftist rebels shot 23 soldiers and six civil defense patrolmen Wednesday after they had given themselves up to guerrillas at a military post, 35 miles northeast of San Salvador. Reporters who traveled to the area said six were shot in the head and the others were shot in the torso. The reporters quoted a resident as saying , Hi Thinking Arleita Davis studies in front of Thomas Cooper Library * p yesterday morning. I Photo by Barbara Zammit * t v V Pentagon finis WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Pentagon has closed its investigation of the Oct. 23 suicide attack on Marine headquarters in Beirut without strong criticism of any military commands, although some officers will receive mild disciplinary letters. "Non-punitive letters of instruction" will go to an unspecified number of officers whose names won't be made public beacuse of (he federal Privacy Act, Navy Secretary John Lehman said in a statement issued Wednesday. A special Defense Department com I n?jjf*1 =f >Q Qaluarlnr Vf U W %M M 1 "Those who have fled said the situation is hard and that there are many civilians killed." ? Unidentified civilian the rebels executed "some of the troops, but not all." Civilian sources, rec testing anrtnumitu fnr f>ar of renrisals. said about five helicopters and two air force planes machine-gunned and bombed suspected rebel positions. "Those who have fled said the situation is hard and that there are many civilians killed," one civilian source said. PH/Vy t' * KOffiBGHBHBM hes Beirut bor mission that investigated the attack issued a report Dec. 28 that singled out two Marine officers ? Col. Timothy Geraghty and Lt. Col. Larry Gerlach. Geraghty commanded the Marine unit and Gerlach was its battalion landing team commander. A total of 241 U.S. servicemen died in the attack. No officers in the higher levels of the command chain will be punished, according to the Pentagon statement issued Wednesday evening. The earlier commission report had faulted the entire chain of command in addition to singling out the two Marines. ' PfT Cr "lL.-1:. : r'X. U*tf9L i-~ " 1 ~f;^::^--i:-*zfi- - ans say The civilian sources said the rebels also attacked a national guard post in Talcualuya, located about six miles south of the military post. Ten soldiers died and two civilians were wounded in that fighting, the sources said. ' In Nicaragua, the state radio quoted a captured Honduran army sergeant as saying the Honduran armed forces chief and other high-ranking officers have participated in rebel attacks on Nicaraguans. The Voice of Nicaragua also quoted Sgt. Donald Carcamo Ramos as saying the anti-Nicaraguan attacks are "coordinated by high level Honduran, American and Argentine officials." " KdbL % %*nt- ** ' ' * v< % v. v V,^K *T" V A-Ci'iitfwr^ w** S> V ^ Q** ' " * < t ... ' .' _V. "' ? ?1 1 ,%v / . * '^^0 * nbing probe The Pentagon statement also promised to study ways to better protect troops against terrorists, improve intelligence and review medical care. The non-punitive letters are among the mildest options open to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger after President Ronald Reagan ruled out legal action Dec. 27. "1 do not believe . . .men who have already suffered quite enough should be punished for not fully" being aware of the threat from terrorists, Reagan said. I n