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(Her Say)--Assata Shakur, who is serving a life sentence in New Jersey for the slaying of a státe trooper, has pled "Not Guilty" in New York to a six-year-old indictment for attempted robbery.

The indictment against Shakur, who police say is the head of the so-called Black Liberation Army, stemmed from a 1972 incident in which she allegedly robbed a Michigan man of $250 in cash and personal property.

Shakur last March was convicted of murder by an all-white jury for the slaying of a New Jersey state patrolman, allegedly during a shootout on the New Jersey Tumpike.

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(Her Say)--A suit asking $25 million in damages has been filed in Arizona against the Dow Chemical Company by a man who claims his wife died of cancer after being doused twice with that company's herbicide spray.

Dow is the maker of a product called "2,4,5-T" which has been used as a defoliant in Vietnam and in American national forests to kill off smaller trees. The suit by Willard Shoecraft contends that his wife was twice covered with the herbicide as it was sprayed on a nearby forest.

The suit says Mrs. Shoecraft died of cancer earlier this year, and charges that the cancer was brought on by contact with the poisonous spray.

Dr. Granville Knight, who treated Mrs. Shoecraft, has announced plans to testify that he found traces of the Dow herbicide in the ailing woman's tissue and blood. The physician says, "We know that these herbicides will cause cancer in animals. It's logical that large doses might harm humans, and Mrs. Shoecraft did receive large doses."

Dow Chemical, meanwhile, has denied that its product is unsafe.

(Her Say)--A Swiss newspaper, The Geneva Tribune, reports that a young woman named Anna was imprisoned in a mental hospital last summer after she participated in an anti-nuclear demonstration in Switzerland.

The Tribune says that the 20-year-old woman was arrested by police on May 31 in Gosgen, Switzerland after she refused to identify herself at a demonstration against a proposed nuclear plant. She was then allegedly taken to a police station where she was given a complete body search. When she refused to dress again to protest the search, she was reportedly placed in an isolation holding cell and subsequently transferred to the Bel-Aire Psychiatric Hospital in Geneva.

Police contended that her bizarre behavior In refusing to dress indicated she was mentally unstable.

The newspaper reports that once inside the mental hospital, Anna went on a hunger strike to protest her Incarceration. As a result, doctors administered shock treatments against her will in order to treat her so-called delirium.

Anna's involuntary hospitalization for some six weeks, according to her attorney, was completely illegal, Swiss law requires a patient to be judged mentally incompetent by a psychiatrist before she or he is admitted to a mental hospital, not after.

Anna's case has sparked a controlversy in Switzer land over whether psychiatry can rightfully be used to silence political dissidents.

The Geneva Tribune reports, in the meantime, that two doctors at the Bel-Aire Hospital who spoke out in Anna's behalf against electric shock treatment were promptly transferred to research hospitals to keep them from practicing "non-traditional psychiatry".

Mary Hardee, 27, was arrested by Columbia, S.C. police while gathered with forty other demonstrators outside the offices of South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. She is a member of the Grassroots Organizing Workshop and The People Are Coming, two groups opposing a recent rate hike request. She was dressed as Reddy Kilowatt, with lightning flashes coming out of her ears, a yellow fabric lightbulb around her head, and gold tinsel. She was arrested for violating a 110-year-old state law, originally passed to curb KKK activity, which bars persons over the age of 16 from wearing "masks and the likes..." in public. She faces a fine of $500 or one year in jail. No date has been set for her trial.

(Her Say)--A nurse in Los Angeles County was fired after she refused to change her story about an incident of negligence at the hospital where she worked,

Nurse Cheryl Nichols entered Baldwin Park Hospital in early October and found a baby, apparently left for dead, on a counter in the nursery. Nichols says she discovered the baby was alive, though premature, and rounded up nurses and a doctor to care for it. The baby died anyway.

Nichols says after the incident she was approached by a hospital specialist, who asked her to change her account of the baby's death, leaving out details of where the baby was found.

Nichols refused, gave her story to a local television station, and was promptly fired by the hospital for "unauthorized disclosure of patient or hospital information," and "improper conduct."

A coroner's hearing on the infant's death has been set for November 29th. Nichols, in the meantime, says she will file suit against the hospital in connection with her firing.

(Her Say)--In a landmark decision, a California Superior Court has ruled that an Indian child may not be placed in state custody merely because his mother asked a friend to take care of him temporarily. The unusual decision came in a child neglect case filed by state social agencies which asked that 10-year-old Frederick Costello be placed in a state institution for children.

The social agencies claimed that the mother was guilty of neglecting her child when she let Frederick stay with his "kumadre", his Indian godmother, in December of 1976. The "kumadre" relationship is a special custom among the Mission Indians of California in which Indian mothers pledge to become a second mother to other children.

The court turned down the social agencies' request, stating that Indian customs and tradition superseded California Juvenile laws. The court ruled that the Indian "kumadre" relationship carried "all the responsibilities associated with natural parentage,

New York (LNS) -Two Filipino-nurses convicted on murder charges in Detroit last July have been released on $78,000 bail as they appeal their case. Federal Judge Philip Pratt ordered the release of Leonora Perez and Filipina Narcisco on November 5, announcing he would sentence them in January.

Charges against the two women stemmed from the deaths of several Veterans Administration hospital patients in An Arbor, Michigan in 1975. The cause of the deaths is believed to be the administring of the powerful muscle relaxant, Pavulon, which is thought to have led to breathing failures.

Supporters of Perez and Narcisco say that the evidence used to convict them was entirely circumstantial and could have been used to convict any number of people at the hospital. The prosecution was unable to come up with anyone who actually witnessed the nurses administering the drug. The sole motive offered by the prosecution was that the nurses were protesting bad working conditions at the hospital. At the hearing two days before the nurses' release on bail, demonstrators presented Judge Pratt with 30,00 signatures from 12 states protesting the conviction. "In choosing these two immigrant workers as scapegoats for the tragedies at the VA hospital," noted a spokesperson for the demonstrators, "the VA and the FBI-prosecution assumed they would sway public opinion against the two nurses because they are minority workers. This racist assumption, however, has been proven wrong by the widespread support we brought to the courtroom today... We will not let this go unchecked.