European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes May 1985 7 5 Baltimore Barbers enlisted to test blacks1 blood pressure stateside Baltimore a recognizing that Many Black men dont go to doctors yet face the greatest risk of a psychologist has enlisted Barbers to help Check for High blood fifteen Barbers will be licensed to provide the tests at their the first seven Barbers trained to be blood pressure measurement specialists will get certificates next week from the Urban cardiology research Center and the University of Maryland school of eight More Barbers will soon be trained and certified to Lake blood pressure counsel customers and refer them for medical the program is the brainchild of Wayne an educational psychologist who is the executive director of the nonprofit Urban cardiology Center in Kong began in 1978 to reach out to the Black Community through nontraditional he began by training Lay volunteers at 100 Black churches in a program that has since been used As a Model in other As successful As the Church program it did not reach he noting that 70 percent of those at tending Church were Kong next turned to the idea of having Barbers help fight which can Lead to heart stroke and kidney he secured a list of Barbers from the state and sent invitations for training in measuring blood pressure to 60 Barbers with shops in two areas of the fifteen agreed to i would like to see it done said Willie owner of harrys afro one of the first Barbers to undergo the ill try to sell it to my col most of the Black males will come in to a Barber shop every three to six weeks so i can see where this can have a tremendous Impact for Black he Roger a High school journalism teacher and one of the afro huts said he also believes the program is a Good idea because not enough Black men see doctors regularly and its catching up with a 1982 statewide Survey by the University of Maryland found that nearly 27 percent of All Blacks had hype ten compared to 20 percent of part of the problem in identifying and treating Blacks with High blood pressure is the result of inconveniently located health centers and Lack of Money for health said Elijah president of the Urban cardiology research Center and clinical director of the High blood pressure Center at the University of but misconceptions and inadequate knowledge by inner City Blacks Are also serious he Many Blacks still believe that High blood pressure is always symptomatic that one can Tell when his or her blood pressure is he in he High blood pressure usually has no 250 suspected illegal immigrants protest conditions at California Campel up about 250 suspected illegal immigrants being held at a detention Center entered the second Day of a hunger strike to protest conditions at the there Are physical psychological punishment of solitary verbal abuses and violation of human like living conditions that Are completely the detainees said their read by a spokeswoman for the Impe rial Valley immigration where the detainees Are being the Only crime we have committed is fleeing our countries in search of Protection for ourselves and our the spokeswoman said the protesters come from All Over the but the majority Are from latin about 300 of nearly 500 suspected illegal immigrants detained at the Center declared the hunger strike she said 50 mexicans involved in the protest were de ported in the the immigration and naturalization service declined to comment on the hunger which the spokeswoman said would continue until wednesday morn when the men hoped to meet with ins the spokeswoman said most of the approximately 500 detainees at the facility Are from Al the second largest group is from and the third largest is from but there also were Many from and other latin american As Well As Tahiti and some of them have been held for Many she and others have been there Only a few she said major complaints include not enough toothpaste or too few toilet and bathing facilities and inadequate the Imperial Valley immigration project a Legal serv ices organization that provides help for Many of the men held at the Camp have sought or plan to seek political she Post card from Sakharov wife a fake a a Post card that implied Andrei Sakharov was at Home and not on a hunger strike has been proven to be a the soviet dissidents step daughter said we have proof it was a Tatiana Yankelevich she said she and her received a Post card May apparently written by Sakharov be Lens that gave the impression there was no hunger it was written by my but it was tampered Yankelevich but we have explanations of every Point and handwriting analyses to show the tenses and Date were changed by a different hand to produce the impression it was written april 21 when we know Sakharov was already on a hunger the family has received varying reports about the condition of Sakharov and his wife in recent Sakharov has undertaken hunger strikes since 1975 in an attempt to win permission for his wife to leave the country for medical touching moment a photo Anne Morrow the widow of aviator Charles bows her head As she touches the hand of a Lindbergh sculpture unveiled in the by Paul Granlund of shows Lindbergh As a Young child and As the Pilot who won Fame with a Solo flight across the Atlantic 58 years 13monthold girl drowns in 6 inches of water in bucket Santa a a 13monthold girl who wandered away during a baby Shower for her Mother drowned when she fell into a bucket containing about six inches of police Mary Lou Bonella was pronounced dead at Western medical Center in Santa nursing supervisor Betty Chrisco the whose is eight months was playing in the House and was not missed for about 15 police Randy Eldridge when the family went to look for she was found in a laundry headfirst in a five gallon pail with about six inches of water in the she must have been looking in it and fell nose gear collapses As 727 lands in Chicago no one Hurt Chicago a the nose gear on an american airlines Boeing 727 jetliner collapsed on Landing at o Hare International officials but no injuries were reported to any of the 121 people on american flight in route from was carrying 115 passengers and six Crew Accord ing to a Federal aviation administration duty officer at japanese couple to revisit internment Camp North Little a Sam Yada plans a quiet pos memorial Day Observance this week with a visit to the Camp where he and his wife and son were interned for 3tt years during world War ii because of their japanese who turned 80 last was one of people relocated from the West coast in 1942 to Camps surrounded by bar bed wire at Rohwer and other Camps in eight states wore the eventual Homes of More than half of them citizens by the relocation was ordered because the Federal government feared that the concentration of japanese americans in califor Nia threatened National Yada and his the Only surviving prisoners of Robwer who still live in Arkan say they have revisited the site Many including a 1982 Monument Dedica Tion it is not so i am he said in an interview of it was not right in the first i think most people would now agree with people from Hawaii were not italians and germans were not Many of us were that Why i think memorial Day is we charged with no then was moved with his wife and 4yearold son to where a second son was born in a 15year resident of los Yada had to quickly sell a car and furniture and pack his family aboard a train bound for they lived in a Barracks and he earned a month doing Camp prison tedium was punctuated by Brief chaperoned trips to neighbouring rowers Gates were opened when the guns fell silent in and Yada got a Job at a Little Rock he eventually bought a which he and his wife operated until they retired in i Honor these people who these american i am an american Citi Yada at everybody in the Camps was it was wrong to imprison and Many of those who were relocated wanted to Volunteer to fight for the United they wanted to show their