
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 16, 1990                   TAG: 9003162203
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY . . .

Natural chemical processes in the body not contamination - may be behind hundreds of cases of a rare, painful blood disorder in people who took the health-food supplement L-tryptophan, researchers say. The substance has been recalled voluntarily by several makers at the urging of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which suspected contamination.

\ Imelda Marcos, the widow of ousted Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, arrived in New York Thursday for her racketeering trial scheduled to start next week.

Dr. Eric Foretich, the Washington, D.C., oral surgeon who has been fighting for custody of his daughter Hilary, left New Zealand late Thursday to return to the United States but acknowledged before he left that he had seen his daughter in Christchurch earlier this week.

by CNB