European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday september 12, 1977 frs notional program Britain will test for birth defects Portland Maine not British health officials will soon begin what is believed to be the first National program to detect birth defects in unborn children by testing women s blood Early in their pregnancies. The maternal blood test called Asp for Alpha fetal protein can detect two types of birth defects involving the brain and Central nervous system. Princes Sanne and the Duchess of Gloucester were Given the test to assure them that their babies were free of those defects. In the u.s., Public health researchers Are using the test in Maine and in Nassau county n.y., it was reported at a meeting Here. Or. James n. Macri of the Nassau county medical Center in East Meadow,n.y., said the results of tests Given to 3,672 pregnant women confirmed just published British findings that the procedure was valuable As a screening  National foundation March of dimes sponsored the meeting because the United states was described As far behind England in making use of the blood test. Britain had a head Start because the test was developed in Edinburgh by or. David . Brock and because Britain s nationalized health system made it easier to Orga Nize the trials in a geographically smaller country. Also England does not require licensing for such a test whereas the food new Vatican door depicts Good evil Vatican City up St. Peter s Basilica will get a new Bronze door depicting the slave Trade in America and a massacre of roman hostages by the nazis As sym Bols of evil Vatican radio  said the 12-ton door by italian sculptor Luciano Minguzzi will be installed on Pope Paul i s 80th birthday sept. 26, and will replace an ancient wooden one. When it i installed four of the five doors in the facade of the world s largest Church will Bein Bronze. The Central door by the Renaissance artist Filareti has been in Bronze since the beginning. Two wooden Side doors were replaced in recent years with Bronze ones by contemporary sculptors. The fifth is the holy door which is Normall bricked up and opened Only for holy years four times a  door of Good and evil on which the 67-year-old Minguzzi has been working since 1970, portrays scenes ranging from biblical to modern times. Cain and Abel symbolizing evil along with Cain slay ing Abel Ana the Good robber crucified with Christ Are slavers driving Blacks to America and nazi soldiers shooting 335 hostages at Rome s Ardestine  . It. Col. Herbert Kappler sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1944ardeatine caves massacre fled to West Germany last month from a Rome Mili tary Hospital where he was being treated for terminal  of Good include the resurrection of Lazarus Pope John Xxiii opening the second Vatican ecumenical Council and Pope Paul closing it the first time living pontiff is portrayed in St. Peter s and a Black Bishop giving communion to Soldier. In that last scene Vatican radio said it can be easily seen from the helmet that the Soldier is a German. The scene there fore expresses both forgiveness and anti , a sculpture professor at Milan s Berra Academy also has done Abronze door for the Milan Cathedral. And drug administration must approve i before it can be applied in this country on the British  obstetricians Are planning to in corporate the test As a routine part of pre Natal care just As cancer detecting Pap smears have become a Standard part of gynaecological checkups. Beginning in april British doctors Are to take a dewdrops of blood from All women in the 16th to 18th week of pregnancy to detect what Are known As neural tube birth defects according to or. Timothy Chard an obstetrician at St. Bartholomew s Hospital i London and an expert in the use of the tests. Neural tube defects include open spine Spina Bifid and Lack of a brain Anen Cephal. Although the incidence of neural tube defects varies considerably from country to country and even within a Region Ireland has the world s highest rate they Are considered the most Seri Ous physical birth  Don t know the real incidence in the United states but it is believed to be Lowe than in England said Macri. Food and drug administration representatives said Here that the Federal Agency would work toward developing guidelines to help Speed up the licensing of the Asp test. When the fetus has a neural tube defect women often go through an apparently uneventful pregnancy. Then because the Lack of a brain is incompatible with life the Ane Cephalic babies Are  cases of Spina Bifid there is no Bony Protection Over an area of the spinal Corsand portions of this nerve column can pro Trude through the  spine babies Are born alive but the defect can result in mental retardation severe crippling chronic illness and death at an Early age. Spina Bifid infants usually require several operations and lifetime institutional care and such costs in this country can amount to $40,000 a year. Man eating lion slain after a spell dares Salaam Tanzania up massive 10-Day Hunt for a Man eating lion that had terrorized the Countryside near Dar is Salaam has paid off but not with out running into trouble Over local superstition. Soldiers shot and killed the lion which had killed eight persons and maimed four others in the past three months about 30 Miles West of this steamy  several Days ago Many of the civil Ian volunteers abruptly quit the  said the local Hunters told them they no longer wanted to Hunt the animal because they believed it was really a local woman who had recently disappeared. They believed that the woman had gone to a Witch doctor seeking a love potion to win Back the affections of her husband but had been transformed into a lion because the Witch doctor made a mistake when mixing the  superstitions Are widespread in Tanzania and Many even outside the area where the lion stalked believed witchcraft was somehow behind the Large number of fatal attacks authorities said. The beast had terrorized the Kiwaha Region since May and the Hunt involving As Many As 1,000 persons was started after panicked villagers demanded Protection from the government. Soldiers police game scouts members of the people s militia and local civilian volunteers joined in the Hunt in the rolling Brush covered Hill country studded with patches of dense Forest along the Mai Road from dares Salaam into Zambia. Armed game scouts and police were  in villages and people who lived in Flimsy huts were urged to move in with relatives As the lion had a reputation for entering huts and attacking people As the slept. The beast was finally shot As it ran out of the Bush near the Village of Kitongo. The Hunters were surprised to find that the beast had Only three legs. A police spokesman said it was not known How or when the lion s fourth leg was severed but wildlife experts said it is often the Case that Man eating Lions had been injured and have turned to attacking people because they were no longer Able to catch game. Local officials said the icon was 65inches Long and stood 45 inches High. The officials have been exhibiting the carcass to villagers in an attempt to con Vince them that the beast really was a lion and not the unfortunate woman who los the love of her husband. Mao mausoleum dedicated leading a procession of thousands to peking government and party officials pass by the Glass coffin containing the embalmed body of Mao tse Tung who died a year ago after a reign of More than four decades As Leader of the Chi Nese communist party. Dedication of the new Mao mausoleum was attended among others by from left party Leader Hua Kuo Feng and deputies Chien yug Teng Hsio Ping Lissie Nien and Wang Tung Hsing. A