European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes february sickle cell trait no longer a bar to of Academy Washington a the air Force announced tuesday it has dropped its ban against admission to the air Force facade my of anyone who has a sickle cell firm retains Security of despite breach los Angeles an optical firm convicted of illegally shipping High techno orgy laser mirrors to the soviet Union will be Able to temporarily keep its government Security a Federal judge has the Riverside county company told the court Here tuesday that it has developed an optical device needed for Protection against laser attacks and that revocation of its clearance could imperil National District judge Mariana Pfaelzer signed a temporary restraining order prohibiting the defense department from lift ing the clearance of Spawr optical re search pending a hearing on March in its request for the restraining the company said it holds a Patent for an optical Mirror that comprises the sole Means for testing the survivability of satellites against High Energy laser the firm asked for the restraining order after being notified by the defense department last month that its clearance was being the department said revocation is authorized when continued a Cess to classified information and material would constitute an immediate threat to the National the company contended during the trial that the mirrors had no military applications and were designed for Industrial Pur poses Spawr optical and its Husbandman wife Walter and Frances were convicted by a Federal court jury in los Angeles last december of illegally sending laser mirrors to the soviet Union through a West German Walter Spawr was sentenced to six months in and both he and his wife were placed on probation for five their company was fined the convictions Are being Paul air Force sur Geon said As of candidates for the air Force Academy who have the sickle cell trait Are now Eligi ble for provided they Are otherwise medically qualified and meet the Standard Entrance persons with sickle cell trait have been barred from admission to the Academy and from duty with air Crews since medi Cal studies have shown that Blacks have a greater prevalence of the sickle cell trait than do air Force officials the ban at the Academy in Colorado and on service with air Crews was imposed by the air officials after a couple of Black cadets exhibited serious health problems in it was found that these cadets had the sickle cell trait and that such a trait could cause medical difficulties at High the air Force Academy is located High in the air Force sources said a former Black Cadet who was separated from the Academy in 1979 has filed a class action suit in min challenging the Douglas an air Force said that the dropping of the ban resulted from an order by Carter administration Deputy defense Secretary Graham Clayton Myers said a special medical program will closely Monitor the health of each Cadet found to have the sickle cell this precaution will assure that any health problem will be promptly recognized and the air Force surgeon general the information gained from this review will add to the much needed body of knowl Edge concerning the possible effects of the sickle cell trait on an individuals health in stressed the air Force said it is re viewing a revised policy concerning acceptance of individuals with sickle cell trait for air Crew iraqis get soviet tanks Washington up a substantial number of soviet made tanks from Eastern european countries have been sent to Iraq via saudi official sources they said the tanks mostly have been supplied by stateside billion invested by foreigners in firms Washington a foreign investors spent billion buying substantial interests in 389 firms and establishing 403 new companies in the United states in the Commerce department the new Survey covers new businesses established by foreign groups or their and existing businesses in which the foreign investors bought at least 10 per cent investment outlays by the foreign groups totalled billion for acquisition of exist ing firms including buildings and other assets and about billion for establishment of new most of the acquisition Money was in vested in manufacturing and while most of the Money for new firms went to establish real estate Compa the report details on specific investment deals were not Many Maryland youths admit sniffing glue a a growing number of Maryland youths Are getting High by sniffing paint thinner and other products that could damage their according to a Survey of the study done by the state drug abuse administration says 15 percent of the 8th graders surveyed admitted getting High by sniffing such the report said it was providing Only conservative estimates of the number of Youthful inhalant the incidence of sniffing appears to decline As children get the study Only percent of 12thgraders surveyed admitted to inhalant As compared with percent of daa director Richard Hamilton said Many inhalant abusers May drop out of school before reaching 12th nutrient of is Good news for Hospital patients new Orleans a Federal approval of a High calorie liquid nutrient should mean an end to weight loss for Hospi Tal patients who have not been Able to get enough calories from intravenous according to a spokesman for a drug Manu food and drug administration approval of the will be announced in next weeks Issue of the Federal said Ronald Devore of Cutter laboratories of which will Market up to intravenous solutions fed into an Arm vein could provide fewer than calories a Mel a Cutter said at a meeting of the Ameri can society for parenteral and enteral no that was not enough to keep most patients at their usual he what the doctor and patient basically Pray for is that the patient will get Well Quick enough to begin eating before he depletes the blood proteins which protect him against Snyder has Secretary reassures american hospitals Washington a Secretary of health and human services Richard Schweiker promised the Hospital Industry that the Reagan administration wont single out hospitals for Federal Cost the Carter administration tried without Success from 1977 to 1979 to persuade Congress to impose limits on How much hospitals can increase their in a speech to the american Hospital exhorted Hospital administrators to keep up their voluntary efforts to control study says air pollution contributes to deaths adultery award upheld by appeals court Cincinnati up a Federal study nearing completion indicates air pol Lution from Coa fired Power plants May contribute to the deaths of As Many As people a year in the Ohio the 5year study estimates that if trends up to per sons in the Ohio Valley could die of poll Tio related heart and lung disease in the next 25 tighter pollution controls could Cut that number by about the study lax enforcement could increase it to More than those Are among findings of the Ohio River Basin Energy a project of 100 researchers at 10 the group was organized in 1975 and its final report is now under review by advisers before going to a main concern was which form mainly after Power Plant emissions escape into the sul fates have been linked to lung acid rain and poor Louis a an appeals court tuesday upheld a Jurys award of to a Man whose wife had sexual Intercourse with another the court said it would not interfere with damage awards unless they were shockingly the wrongful invasion of a husbands marital rights has no precise Market value and its valuation is a matter about which reasonable persons May and do the appeals court during the a defense attorney for Eugene who was being had told the jury that if the Rich Ard Dale suffered anything it was due to his own the attorney urged the jury to bring in a verdict of one circuit judge Edward Hodge ruled that was an admission of guilt and submitted the Case to the the jury then awarded Smith on Appeal to the Missouri court of a Whalen argued the judge should have instructed the jury to determine whether Smith suffered actual Whalen said the opening statement was an admission of not of actual the appeals court said Whalen did not understand the concept of actual adultery with a wife interferes with the husbands marital and relational interests and this interference usually is labelled criminal the appeals court defendants admission Here of a Vio lation of plaintiffs marital rights is sufficient to support plaintiffs cause of Only the amount of damage remained in dispute following the lawmakers vote Down lessons on creation a committee of the South Dakota House of representatives has killed a Bill that would have forced schools teaching evolution to devote equal time to religious creation Terrel an ordained said the Bill was needed because we Are in a state most of the because of their do believe in creation and not education officials sharply criticized the which was voted Down by the House education committee j 2 coast guardsmen rescued on stuff nose Island the coast William Spencer and Mark were in route from Manana Island to nearby Monhegan Island to fix a Light when their 15foot pea pod ves Sel overturned in 4foot seas and 30knot they waded ashore on Sherman and Steve Rollins were alerted and they rowed the 300 Yards from Monte Gan to smutty nose in a Small they brought the Petty officers Back to Monte Gan for the smutty nose Maine up its usually the other Way around for coast but when a boat carrying two Petty offi cers capsized off Maines a couple of civilians rescued them from a tiny Rocky they would have gotten pretty cold out on Sherman Stanley one of the civilian i was All turned in and got a Call at in the morn