Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 19, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba The world Winnipeg free May 1995 a9 Tvr Jeanie Basurto takes photo of her car in front of her Home in san Diego wednesday after it was crushed by a stolen suicidal army vet goes on ram in stolen Tan Page Reuter san Diego a laughing Man who took a stolen tank on a bizarre crushing dozens of cars and cutting off electricity was an army vet eran who had talked of Shawn stole an m60 tank from a National guard com Pound wednesday drove through a and went on a 30 minute Joyride through san steam rolling parked cars and knocking Down Light poles and fire san Diego police said Nelson had trained As a tank Crew member in the army and had served in a was out of had financial problems and recently broke up with his girl police Nelson had talked to neighbors and friends about suicide and a week ago had told a neighbor he wanted to get a police spokes Man Tom Hall the 57tonne which was not armed with shells or slowed into at least 40 cars and a trailer Home before eventually grinding to a halt when it got stuck on a Concrete Highway police opened the Hatch with Bolt cutters and ordered Nelson to give they said they shot him dead when he tried to Start the tank moving in scenes reminiscent of a Holly Wood action More than 20 police cars pursued the sirens As it careened wildly along Busy freeways and through City some terrified Resi dents fled their Homes in police were powerless to Stop the tank As it headed South toward downtown san Diego at up to 70 Kilometres an hour with the gun tur ret pointed leaving a path of destruction in its no one else was injured during the which one police radio dispatcher said was like a but some residents feared for their lives As the tank headed towards witnesses said whose head was sticking out through the was smiling and laughing As the tank rumbled expression on his face was in having said resident Clinton a photo police pursue tank along interstate in san Diego tank rampage Chrysler m60a3main Battle tank a sniping sporadic As Sarajevo deaths mount Preuter Bosnia Herzegovina Sarajevo front lines were at their quietest in three Days but sporadic shelling and sniping killed at least two civilians and wounded two russian peacekeepers stepped on mines in the ser held suburb of bringing the casualty toll to most devastating was a mortar Shell that slammed into an outdoor killing a Man and wounding six other snipers also shot and killed a Man As he supervised erection of sniper barricades on Sarajevo main the killing continued even As government and serb commanders pledged not to fight unless at the promises followed the most vicious Battles in Sarajevo in More than two United nations spokesman Gary cow Ard justified holding off punitive nato air strikes by saying most of the fighting was Mili tary on not targeted at yet most of the casualties in the past two Days were in officials said the combatants could be jostling for position amid hints that serbian presi Dent Slobodan Milosevic is preparing to recognize Bosnia in Exchange for the lifting of Trade sanctions against Milosevic was a chief instigator of the serb re Bellion that erupted after Bosnia seceded from ser dominated Yugoslavia in april 1992 ancient bacteria revived omillion Vearold spores May yield new drugs scientist by Malcolm Browne times news service a prominent molecular biologist says he has restored 30millionyearold bacteria to a feat so astonishing that if it would Force scientists to reexamine longheld notions about the temporal limits of a report of the achievement is to be published today in the journal but even before its scientific sceptics familiar with the work were Labelling the claim implausible and probably the result of accidental contamination of Laboratory bees in Amber Raul a professor at California polytechnic state University at san Luis is confident that he has revived the ancient bacteria by extracting bacterial form in which the microbes Are in suspended the stomachs of ancient bees embedded in tropical he then grew the bacteria in a culture in a Laboratory he said he had revived More than 100 types of ancient although some investigators have recovered what they believe to be fragments of the genetic from preserved biological tissue millions of years the notion that it might be possible to revive an entire organism of such great age has been generally dismissed As science even a one celled organism like a bacterium is vastly More Complex More vulnerable to the ravages of time than is a chemical compound like it was potent defences a living organism is subject to extremes of chemical oxidation and assaults by microorganisms and and it seems almost incredible that a living being subjected to All that could survive millions of even in suspended but scientists have Long known that bacteria have some potent when bacteria Are subjected to extremely but not they often encapsulate themselves in thick layers of protein and shut Down their they become withstanding the Rigours of extreme heat and although spores hundreds of years old have been nourished and restored to life As the revival of spores millions of years old was widely considered Cano is so confident of his latest findings that he has founded a Ambersene in san to develop pharmaceutical products derived from the putative ancient Ambersene has already applied for patents for at least three of the new antibiotics he believes the bacteria have helped him to produce these he could fill therapeutic gaps created by the increasing immunity of certain disease spreading microbes to conventional Cano said most of the ancient microorganisms he had cultured Are strains of Bacillus a harmless bacterium that is common today in soil and in the bodies of who allege Laboratory contamination resulted in Canos say slight genetic differences Cano found Between his bacteria and modern ones might be explained in terms of Normal variation Between individual biologists Are Likely to argue Over this Point for some asked if ancient bacteria extracted from Amber and introduced into the modern world could pose a health Cano this is certainly an Issue weve had to but the Only dangerous present Day bacterium that could be cultured by the same method Cano used is he the Odds Are enormously against finding any variation of anthrax ancient or in the stomach of an extinct Bee trapped in he but even his group took elaborate precautions to prevent any Contact Between the ancient bacteria and the world outside their sealed culture the microbes remain under lock and the source of Canos specimens was Amber mined in the dominican Republic and chunks of Amber were extracted from layers of sedimentary Rock that formed 25 million to 40 million years ago during the oligocene scientists As Well As fanciers of Amber jewelry prize pieces of the substance that happen to contain the preserved bodies of frogs or other biological material George Poinar of the University of California at Berkeley 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