European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse H e Art new Usan drive will seek to reduce number of cardiovascular ailments by John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington is a new air Force program named heart has been established in an Effort to reduce the number of cardiovascular ailments in the service it. Gen. George e. Schafer air Force surgeon general said wednesday. Schafer said that cardiovascular ail ments Are a leading cause of death in Theair Force and a major contributor to health 1976 there were 105 deaths among air Force Active duty personnel caused by Dis eases of the circulatory system. Schafer said that 60. Per cent of those deaths herein the age group of 35 to 44 years. Annually there Are nearly 3,000 Hospital admissions of Active duty personnel with primary diagnosis of cardiovascular Dis ease according to discussed the program now under development at the Usan school of aerospace Medicine in san Antonio. Heart is the air Force acronym for health evaluation and risk Schafer said the purpose of the program is to identify High risk individuals to Beable to measure that risk and modify it by reducing contributing one involves data refinement and program definition he two will include testing of the pro Gram at four or five bases for Active duty personnel Only and is tentatively sched continued on Page 28, col 4 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 36, no. 137 ise Dolly and Tindoy Friday september 2,1977 if 21855 a reformer 77 gets vehicles next step drive the vehicles ashore . Troops hurry to Board the m. Callaghan at Amsterdam As the ship arrives with a cargo of vehicles and other military support equipment from the . The soldiers drove off the wheeled and tracked vehicles sent from the states. The equipment will be use Din support of reformer 77. Other photos Page 3. Is Jim Cole. Tanks pcs unloaded at two ports writer Amsterdam the Netherlands is the unloading of two cargo vessels carrying nearly 1,500 vehicles and other sup port equipment from the . For reformer 77 began Early thursday morning her and at Ghent Belgium. The . William m. Callaghan Roll on Roll off cargo ship docked Here wednesday evening and the unloading of 806 wheeled and tracked vehicles belonging to the 3rd brigade 4th inf div of it. Carson colo.,and the 4th inf div of it. Riley kan., began at 7 30 . Comet a smaller Roll on Roll off cargo vessel also docked at Ghent lat wednesday and the unloading of its 373 vehicles began addition to the vehicles the ships car ried hundreds of other items to be use during reformer exercises. Wednesday afternoon s Docking culminated a 15-Day Atlantic crossing for the two ships which were involved in during the voyage to test the capabilities of nato escort system against attack. According to capt. G. R. Miller master of the Callaghan a Normal crossing takes about seven Days. Unloading of the vehicles was expected to be completed by late Friday evening. If the weather holds up and we have an Luck at All we should be Able to have All the vehicles off. By Friday evening said . De Post executive officer of the 3rd brigade. We Are working three 12-Hourshifts and will be working through the purpose of bringing the equipment continued on Page 28, col. I winds strengthen to 125 . Anita is still threatening Texas Brownsville Tex. Dpi erratic Hurricane Anita thursday drifted South on a course which would take its Eye through fishing villages and dense forests in North East Mexico. However forecasters said Southern Texa remained in danger. Anita the first storm of the season strengthened its winds to 125 Miles an hour while veering southward in the Gulf of Mexico for a strike at the Mainland per haps just South of National weather service said conditions were favourable for further should have a healthy respect for it said or. Neil Frank director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. This is a very Strong said the first of the Hurricane Force winds which measure 50 Miles in diameter around the 28-mile-wide Eye should hit the coast Well before said it was too Early to predict where the Eye would Cross the Mainland but that tides would run five to eight feet above Normal on the Southern Texas and North Ern Mexico 4 p.m., the Eye was near latitude 25.2 North and Longitude 95.8 West about 120miles slightly South of East of Brownsville. It was moving slightly South of West at 10miles an hour. The population in Northeast Mexico i scattered in fishing villages from Matamo Ros across the Rio Grande from Browns Ville to the Oil town of Tampico. La Pesca located generally Between the two Large mexican cities is important for charter boat fishing in the Southern Gulf. The most vulnerable spot in Texas even with the southerly Drift of the storm was port Isabel on South padre Island is connected to the Mainland Only by a Blacktop Road Over Salt county Tex., sheriff Gus Krausse said Anita even without direct blow would test the High Rise apartments and big hotels built in the Las decade at port Isabel. Krausse directed the evacuation of 8,000 persons from the Island but said most residents of the big continued on Page 28, col. I
