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STATE NATION Wednesday June 5 2002 The Spectrum A5 Sex abuse lawsuit names LDS church by the archdiocese to leave the Lawsuit: Drug maker illegally limited Taxol ipBjWW i 'ergerMD How To Reach Us increase Delivery Services really only one way to find out Walk into Warning MT MH IS lW IS Washington Mutual and in just 60 seconds you could walk out with approval on a home equity line of credit get an amazingly low interest rate and our On The House card that lets you access your credit line wherever Visa is accepted Best of all the interest you pay might even be tax deductible Which could make you feel smarter than your average genius Stop by or call 1 800 933 3590 and open a home equity line of credit today Got a OUR HOME El Dermatologist Skin Surgeon brought by generic drug makers actual events at issue are several years old and have been the subject of litigation for some Laverty said "We will continue to Taxol has always been an espe cially contentious issue for con sumer groups because it was dis covered by the taxpayer funded National Cancer Institute which licensed the drug to Bristol Myers irst approved in 1992 as second line therapy for advanced ovarian or breast cancer Taxol is now also used against AIDS related Kaposi's sarcoma and lung cancer Robert Laverty a Bristol Myers spokesman said the states were to act on those reports permitted a perpetrator to continue to said Mary Corporon the attorney church membership allowed him access to minors who trusted him by nature of his posi tions within the church the suit said It does not allege that any abuse took place on church proper ty or while Tilson was specifically serving ecclesiastical duties The Roman Catholic Church has been at the center of a national storm this year over clergy sexual abuse but the Mormon church also has a troubled recent history The lawsuit is one of a string involving the Mormon church On May 30 a Portland Ore man sued the church and the Boy Scouts of America for $10 million alleging abuse during the 1960s and 1970s Another Oregon case still pend ing seeks more than $120 million from the church for 12 victims who say they were molested as children by a church elder during the 1970s and 1980s Also the church settled an abuse lawsuit with a 22 year old Oregon man last year for $3 million But the Utah case the many many cases (in which) the reporting of child abuse does not often occur by LDS said Marion Smith a retired thera pist who worked with abuse sur vivors is very damag No religion is exempt from the taint of abuse said David Clohes sy a representative of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests The group held a news conference Tuesday to announce the lawsuit nSICUIMCESS rnmtST MOT IE TAI HNCT1BU SEcan own it mrai Washington Mutual MORE 81111 INTEREST" If you haven't received your newspaper by 7 am call the number for your area before 10 am and a copy will be sent THE SPECTRUM 674 6212 DAILY NEWS 435 6746212 NEWSPAPER DELIVERY The Spectrum is an 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descriptions of abuse Included were files showing: The archdiocese had heard numerous graphic complaints against a priest when it recom mended he return to public min istry in 1997 Complaints about another priest abounded throughout the 1990s including one from someone who twice attempted suicide and a letter from a lawyer claiming one boy was so scared of the priest he jumped off the sailboat and swam more than 100 yards to gm shore That priest was removed following year then later pressured trom parish duty in 1993 reas signed to a Cambridge church the priesthood IU EEL WITH IE CREDIT? 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Call The Spectrum at 674 6270 actions delayed generic versions of Taxol from entering the market by at least 30 months That forced hos pitals cancer patients and states to pay almost 30 percent more for Taxol treatments the lawsuit said Taxol treatments generally cost $6000 to $10000 per patient The states are seeking unspecified dam ages marketplace practices have had a dramatic impact on the ability of people and health care systems to obtain affordable effec merely joining ongoing litigation tive drugs said Uhio Attorney General Betty Montgomery Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff called the drug alleged behavior I KNOW THf BOILING PoMr LEAD QUAls a I ovz The Spectrum is audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations Rezulin DA cites liver failure deaths of diabetes patients )0(h Rezulin users may be entitled to compensation Call to confirm deadline and recovery rights 1 866 668 4699 (Call 24 hour toll free) Housing costs on PIPE The West or Over 70 Welding St George SCHOLZEN 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proportion of Americans stretching finances to house themselves comes as no shock But the new numbers bring into sharper focus the dimensions of problems related to the run up in home prices In April regional median home prices the sales midpoint ranged from $213300 in the West to $129900 in the Midwest the last five years been more concern about affordabili ty" says Patrick Simmons a annie Mae oundation demogra pher Lenders at one time insisted that mortgage borrowers keep monthly housing costs to less than 28 percent of household income But that standard has largely dis integrated Lenders now are more willing to assess risk case by case Simmons says the increase in households devoting 35 percent or more of income to housing costs raises the possibility of more mortgage delinquencies and home foreclosures though he sees no evidence of a serious problem yet On Tuesday the Mortgage Bankers Association of America i reported that 465 percent of mort Igage borrowers were behind in 1 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to attorneys pursuing a law suit on behalf of a man who says he was repeatedly raped by retired priest Paul Shanley MacLeish made them public Tuesday More than 1600 pages of Shan personnel records already have been released Shanley is jailed on $750000 bail on a child rape charge He has pleaded inno cent The Rev Christopher Coyne a spokesman for the archdiocese said he had not seen the files and could not comment specifically on WWWTHESPECTRUMCOM Stay up to date online at The Spectrum Web site By ANDREW WELSH HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS Ohio Bristol Myers Squibb Co was sued Tuesday by 29 states including Utah that said the drug maker acted illegally to maintain its monopoly on the cancer fighting drug Taxol and keep cheaper generic versions off the market The lawsuit alleges that Bristol Myers fraudulently obtained pat ents that had no legal validity for Taxol one of the most widely used treatments for breast and ovarian cancer Ohio was the lead plaintiff on the lawsuit which said the Census: By KERSTEN SWINYARD Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY A mother and son who say they were sexual ly abused by the same man are suing the Mormon church claim ing the church knew the his tory of abuse but failed to tell police or other officials The mother and son referred to as Jane and John Doe claimed George Tilson abused both of them when they were children He was convicted of attempted sexual abuse of a child in 1996 It was not clear if the conviction was related to this lawsuit He served six months in prison and paid a $1295 fine The lawsuit filed Tuesday in 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City asks for unspecified damages The suit names The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day as a co defendant because church officials "failed and refused to report the child abuse to the police or civil authorities knowing numerous children had been abused" the suit said Tilson has more than a 30 year history of sexually abusing minors the suit alleges Church officials did not immedi ately return a call from The Associated Press seeking com ment Tilson reached by the AP on Tuesday refused to comment The mother and son contend the lay clergy encouraged Jane Doe to forgive Tilson and those who had protected him from scrutiny failure to report the abuse to proper authorities and the failure 'A 'll 1 4 1 9 yllMWWMa MH fl I I I 1 KI 11 HI I At 1 I KK fs i I I 1 I I I I Hi 0 gto fj A Ji I IB1 ff 111 gHM? 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