Newswatch
By Star-Bulletin Staff
Tuesday, September 10, 1996
Alana was released from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center yesterday, 54 days after receiving a bone-marrow transplant from an unrelated donor in Taiwan.
During a routine test at the hospital today, Alana was found to have a "positive blood culture."
She was placed on a round of intravenous antibiotics while doctors work to determine the cause of her positive cultures.
Officially, the hospital lists her condition as satisfactory and says there is no reason for alarm. Re-admittance to inpatient care is a common practice when there is a potential infection, a bulletin from the hospital said.
Alana was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia April 5.
Doctors released Alana to outpatient care yesterday on the eve of father Stephen's 44th birthday.
Home for the next seven weeks was to be a condominium overlooking Lake Washington.
Supporters based their comments on reports by independent observers at the vote tabulation who saw more gold-colored "yes" ballots than orange-colored "no" ballots.
"I'm in a celebrating mood and I'm not going to let any court order take that away from me," said Poka Laenui, an attorney and member of the Hawaiian Sovereignty Elections Council.
"Generally the mood of the council is that we are anxious to share the news with the general public. There was debate whether we should even let the courts stop us."
On Friday, U.S. District Judge David Ezra ruled that the vote, challenged by two lawsuits, was constitutional and that the results could be announced yesterday if the ruling was not appealed.
But less than an hour before the announcement was scheduled, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco faxed a temporary stay to gain time to consider Rice's appeal.
The companies were grounded Saturday because of safety questions.
Terms of the interim agreement announced last night by Gov. Ben Cayetano include:
The parachute operators will comply with all provisions of Federal Aviation Administration regulations and cooperate with an FAA investigation and routine surveillance of operations.
The operators will participate in a task force to adopt a formal agreement to establish "safe operating procedures" at Dillingham over the next 30 days.
"These drug traffickers are being prompted by greed," said federal drug administration spokesman Sidney Hayakawa. "They have no regard for public safety."
Police found evidence at the scene of a kitchen fire at a Crosspointe townhouse on Mananai Place that indicates the unit was being used as a makeshift lab to convert powder and liquid methamphetamine into the smokeable crystal form, Carvalho said. Seized were five gallons of acetone and denatured alcohol -- both key ingredients in the conversion process.
Police are searching for a 44-year-old Asian woman, believed to be the apartment tenant, who approached firefighters during the blaze, then disappeared, Carvalho said.
Edwin Teramoto was to be arraigned in District Court today on charges of second-degree attempted murder, burglary and kidnapping. Bail was set at $170,000.
His wife was taken to Castle Hospital, where doctors determined that numerous blood vessels had burst in her eyes, nose, ears and neck from being choked, police said. She also suffered cuts to her feet from being dragged.
Teramoto allegedly dragged her out of her apartment to a nearby stairwell, police said.
Officers who responded to a 911 call arrived to find the woman, 29, unconscious and Teramoto nearby. He allegedly asked to be arrested, police said.
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