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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, August 11, 1977

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Potje the stars and str1pes August 1977 Texas succumbs to rare up a 17year old Giri who Lay to a coma 10 Days suffering from a rare disease contracted while swimming with her family died an hour alter she was disconnected from a respire Hospital Nfn rials said the Dahlia daughter of mexican american migrant died according to administrator at a Danburg general Hospi Hospital officials said Reyna s physicians and a priest had conferred about whether thu life support system should be swimming with family the girl apparently contracted the Dis ease of the nervous system called me  while swimming with her family today ago at Delta a Tri angular shaped body of water which serves As the Boundary for Hidalgo and Willacy counties in the flip Grande she was admitted to the Hospital in critical condition to the Hospital she was kept technically alive with the Aid of a Respirator which kept her heart but doctors said she had shown no brain responses since entering the Hospi the Center for disease control in Atlanta said Lucyna was Only the second known victim to contract Beningo encephalitis this Only 60 cases of the diseases have been reported in the lost is a doctor disease carried by amoeba Hospital officials said the decision to remove the Respirator was made tuesday and that Cyna died an hour after it was Charles a reghinal officer for the Texas department of said the disease is carried by an amoeba which lives in he said the tests of Delta Lithe water found samples f the hut he said it Luid teen  whether the and Row was present in Dan Genius quantities Slid swimming ins been prohibited ill ii utter main liars if it cynics family have Synill if i in Abernathy says to film portrays King As cowardly Atlanta api an Abc television him about Martin a Uther King por trays the slain civil rights Leader As fright ened and some Kings associates have the Ralph David former head of the Southern Christian leadership said on tuesday that the author of the scheduled for airing Early next year in two three hour at sume Point decided to remake to rewrite the civil rights who Ltd the Sulc after King was killed in in said the movie portrays King As a very weak and cowardly sort of it even implies that once King thought he might have to resort to slate Ulasea another Fanner King said the movie snows King led around by White people and depicts him Asun kind of Uno Pinio the criticism surfaced after copies at the script were circulated among civil rights leaders and former King fiends and an Abc spokesman said much of the criticism has come from persons who Haven read the same script i strangling 2yearold saved by captors beams Newport a Lite these Days int All thai bad Tor Jojo the sea who dumped human help for As loops at tangled fish ing lines slowly strangled ids hours Are spent with trans ally Era to ease the nerve in the sunny backyard of one of Bis human Ben fac the Tye Arald sea lion was finally captured last week by of his concerned human friends trim witnessed his agonizing plight and had been frustrated in Isdr efforts to help Jojo was swim Ming alone aimlessly near Balboa bleeding from an inc deep Gash Cut into his neck by the fishing line around his crowds began to gather to watch to Jos painful and lifeguards tried help but fear made the sea lion last apparently in his final Jojo him still in an empty boat slip ibs concerned friends thought the end was it was Laid Utt Lse who Dally checked on her dying Friend from her Dock he was losing weight and people were trying to teed giving him bread and fish and Jed a lifeguard who had tried to capture Jojo and decided to give it one last i had a comealong1 a rubber Loop on the end of a Horn told re i sneaked of on urn wind while he Wai asleep on the Dock and Mildred there was a struggle to was a pretty powerful said and or 11 looked like Jojo would escape to the water and a painful then an  vacationer and Maclaren came to Home old with a Hind Joe tackle on to Ullh the vacationer holding the Tea Lions Horn caged Jolo and transported him to the Home of Jim a tag Una Beach Marine safety Stanter gave Jojo a removed the fishing line and swabbed the sea Lions Hes doing just Floe Laid win expects his convalescing a Listorto stay for a month or a Silhy la sauce of Tang is one of 10 women who will graduate 2 irom the air air Force Pilot forces first Pilot training class for officiate at Williams air Force said the women had the same training As men and that the experimental program is a Success and will photo Art i c c 1 a i m s pintos a re f i re prone Detroit Ford motor officials sold Pinto cars for six years even though they knew the cars fuel Lank could easily rupture in reared Accord ing to a National Agaune a Ford official characterized As distorted the allegations contained in the tember october Issue of Mother a West coast publication circulated to 000 the articles Mark claimed Kord president Lee Iacocca was in a Rush to Start producing the subcompact Pinto in and the company ignored tests showing the tank was susceptible to Gas leakage after an Acci a text of the article was distributed Here in Advance of the publication of the Maga we Are examining in detail the allegations made in this article which contains distortions and half truths and will com ment further when we have completed our analysis of said Herbert kurd vice president for environmental an safely the article said Ford modified the 1977 pintos to meet Federal safety standards it had lobbied against in the but every preceding reared crash test made by Kord at More than 25 Miles per hour resulted in a ruptured fuel Dowie estimated Sod persons have died in Pinto fires since the car first came lie said unless the cars Are recalled and several Hundred More will die in the ills estimate of according loan interview reported in wednesdays Detroit was arrived at this Way the Pinto accounts for 2 per cent of Auto registry there Are Auto crash Burn a Taj Ilies a the Pinto accounts for 1 per cent of or the car has been produced for eight eight times 70 is it was not immediately dear How the 560 was reduced to an official of the National Highway traffic safety administration said the Agency May investigate the Agency spokesman Trvin cohr said the department received a report Siree years ago which suggested possible fuel Lank safely problems in the interviews by the news with a number of sources Dowie quoted in his article sup ported the authors allegations and even expanded on one of those Leslie a retired safety director for the shall flight Center in contended that the decision to place he pre1976 Pinto into production was one of the most reprehensible decisions m the history of american Ball said nowhere in the development of the Pinto were design engineers required to prevent fire and save William a civil Engineer at the University of who Heads an Accident analysis lest team said his re search indicated thai Ford Indus eng the Pinto and have demonstrated a significantly greater Hazard of fire than any other vehicles Ive looked  
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