European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1978 the stars and stripes Poge 7 nutritionist cites confusion obsession Over diet decried new York not americans have become so obsessed about what constr a healthy diet that they have begun to believe that anything with a nutritional Label on it is a leading nutritionist Joan Dye director of the nutrition program at teachers College of Columbia says the trend has Only led to consumer its easy to find out what Tang has in but its quite hard to find out what Broc Coli has in she said at a forum organized by the Parent teachers she said the press had tended to Over emphasis the subject of but she was critical of saying they had added to the confusion by constantly we dont know enough about the american diet to take a there Are things we do know about diet and nutrition and we can make recommend she Gussow suggested increasing the con sumption of vegetables and whole grains and decreasing the consumption of meat and foods High in she said this course had been recommended in the controversial dietary goals of the United published last february by the now defunct Senate select committee on nutrition and human its not a Radical its what nutritionists have been telling parents for she the Only thing that Radical about it is that it was put out by a Senate of nutritional Gussow i once spent five minutes in front of a can of baked Beans trying to figure out How much i was paying for a Gram of she said that if it took a nutritionist that Long to figure it the Label was clearly not aimed at informing the do we need to learn about 54 nutrients to eat a balanced diet she asked she answered during a question parents looking Down the barrel of an antique Colt galling gun Are hostesses Debra Alyce left and Cyndi Morgan of the old timer still gets a round National sports and boat show in Sao Francisco cow the a 4570 Caliper manufactured in is part of a vast gun collection that is on exhibit in the shooters Row Section of the Dpi photo report says Navy launch collision that killed 49 due to human errors a a Navy launch that collided with a freighter off Spain last killing 49 american allegedly was manned by an improperly trained Crew and contrary to by a according to a published documents obtained by the Norfolk Vir Ginia Pilot show that the Captain and executive officer of the Norfolk based amphibious assault ship Guam were Given punitive letters of admonition and repro As a result of the Acci Dent the executive officers letter of reprimand eventually was replaced by a non punitive letter of the newspaper said in its sunday a Seaman coxswain of the ill fated was court articled for dereliction of but was the launch was returning sailors and marines from Barcelona to the Guam and the amphibious ship anchored off when it collided with the Spanish coastal freighter Urlea the Liberty launch was a a foot lcm6 Landing the documents Are machine copies of original Navy some Are marked for official use but none is Classi fied confidential or the newspaper the skipper of the Guam at the time of the Thomas last week was reassigned to a desk Job in Wash spokesmen said his Transfer from the Guam was routine and was not a result of the Barcelona according to the the executive officer when the mishap Wade a 43year old native of still is in that vice Harry train commander of the 6th told Stanley in a letter dated March 12 that he had disobeyed instructions by permitting a Marine to serve As boat officer and by not ensuring that the boat officer and Crew of the launch were properly instructed about their the Virginia Pilot Stanley argued that the launch had been furnished to the Guam by the and that control Over individual Crew members rested with the latter voiced greatest concern Over the High Levels of sugar in their childrens Barbara a consultant to new York City Public schools and one of the suggested that parents gradually reduce the level of sugar in their Chil Drens replacing it with fresh fruit juices or dried another Parent sought advice on How to get children to eat healthier Friedlander replied that although she didst particularly like fooling parents might begin sneaking foods like Brewers soy grits and wheat germ into baked casseroles and other foods to boost nutrition Epa limited in monitoring of radiation Washington a a Federal pro Gram set up to Monitor the exposure of the american people to radiation covers Only about 60 percent of the Accord ing to a Federal study released the study by the general accounting the auditing Arm of said the environmental Protection Agency monitoring program is operating mini Mally because of reductions in officials said that there is no Way that the Epa network can adequately Monitor radiation emission from All nuclear facilities currently in the Gao it said network monitoring officials told Gao investigators that curtailments in the program result in an estimated 40 per cent of the american people not being since he report Epa has per formed Complete Field studies at Only four of the 63 nuclear Power plants in the coun it said seven studies were conducted on a More limited depend on faculties this Means that the Epa and the regulatory agencies often depend on the facilities themselves for the information needed to regulate the Gao the report said Pas network was the Only nationwide system of monitoring radiation Levels in the As of the network included 21 continuously operating air monitoring 51 air stations on a standby 77 drinking water 55 surface water 64 Mil sampling stations and 19 stations that Sample rain and milk is the most direct pathway to humans of increased air radiation because cows eating contaminated grass concen trate radioactivity in the milk monitoring system run by the Epa and food and drug administration detected increased Levels of iodine131 in pasteurized milk in Alaska and washing ton last september after a chinese nuclear test sent a radioactive air mass Over the but the measurements were far below the danger the Epa radioactive fallout from the chinese bomb blast also was detected in Pennsylva Nia and new dangerous amounts of radioactive fall out taken through milk tend to concentrate in human thyroid glands where they May cause japanese firm is bankrupt Tokyo i up ii Tokyo electronics application a leading manufacturer of digital watches and desktop has gone bankrupt with debts totalling a private credit research firm re