European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 it if the stars and stripes july 1985 official Calls for tougher pesticide Law up spurred by the health threat from tainted California the states top farm official is calling for tougher penalties against growers who illegally use pesticides on use of the banned pesticide Aldi carb by some Watermelon growers has been blamed for widespread illness in Ore Washington Michigan and British the penalties that currently exist Are not sufficient As a and i cannot and will not tolerate intentional misuse of state food and agriculture i Helms derided for stance on South Africa Washington up Alan ridiculed Jesse wednesday for opposing sanctions against South saying Helms probably would have rejected abolition in the 1800s for throwing 4 million slaves out of Cranston opened debate on proposed legislation to impose an immediate ban on Bank Loans to South Block the Sale of computer equipment that police May use to track dissidents and ban the Sale of nuclear technology to negotiations Between Helms and senators seeking even tougher penalties against South Africa were although Senate majority Leader Robert said the two sides Are making Prog opponents such As Helms want to bar amendments for tougher sanctions in Exchange for ending delaying tactics blocking full consideration of the who favors the said the Senate was to return to it who has said there is an under current of racism in opposition to the Sanc ridiculed Helms statements that the sanctions will Cost Blacks jobs and the soviet Union is behind the opposition to the Pretoria if the senator from North Carolina had been in the Senate 122 years he Proba Bly would have opposed emancipation be cause it would throw 4 million slaves out of Cranston he says its the soviet Union not racist apartheid that is causing the upheaval in Cranston said without mentioning Helms by if Russia had been communist 122 years the senator from North probably have accused the abolitionists of being soviet 888 vote against Helms the Senate voted 888 against Helms motion to Block consideration of the the House passed tougher sanctions june including a ban on new american business investments in South Africa and a prohibition against the Sale of South african Gold Krugerrand in the United the Bill passed showing enough strength to override a presidential if the House sanctions could be delayed for a year if Congress and the president find South Africa is making substantial Progress toward dismantling the Senate Bill sets the sanctions As measures the president could enforce with in 18 months unless and Congress agree South Africa is moving to end Bank president Dies a Bryce president of the Federal Home loan Bank of new has died of a heart attack at Rector Clare Berryhill said his comments came As the first water melons certified by state inspectors with Greenan Dwhite stickers As Safe to eat went to Market in los Angeles and the san fran Cisco Bay retailers continued carrying out government orders to de stroy a million melons suspected of pesticide Berryhill asked the legislature to stiffen current Misdemeanour penalties for the mis use of violators now May be fined and jailed for six watermelons harvested before the contamination outbreak were removed from Sale last thursday after 300 people reported vomiting and Diar Rhea after eating the other victims were a pair of 5ton Afri can elephants that became ill monday after eating watermelons at a Southern califor Nia animal preserve run by actress tippi Laboratory tests showed the pres ence of the Aldi carb similar contamination by the which is widely used on Cotton in califor was reported in cucumbers last month in British we Are doing some sampling and test ing on some other melons and on Cuc Umb state health director Kenneth Kizer were testing Crenshaw melons and weve not found any positive while agriculture officials have blamed a few South san Joaquin Valley growers for using Aldi carb illegally on Watermelon Kizer suggested melons might also have been contaminated by absorbing the residue of pesticide sprayed on other crops harvested earlier in the same with the where there is a Shorter time Between planting and it would not be sufficient time to break Down in the soil and would be concentrated in the he visitors to a amusement Park react with various expressions to a on a Roll ride on the Parks newest roller called the z the ride features a a photo series of six vertical dives and reaches a top Speed of 35 Miles an doctor uses zippers on surgical patients up a univer sity of Maryland surgeon says he has Success fully substituted Ordinary zippers for stitches in 28 pancreas dramatically lower ing the death rate for acutely ill All of us have talked about but it was passed off As a Harlan Stone said a comical pipe dream has become a beneficial said the first sur Geon in the United states to try it by using the seven Inch Zipper exactly the same Type used on women polyester skirts on a patient recovering from pancreas Stone said he is Able to avoid repeated operations to change internal ban after some pancreas there is a lot of bleeding and you need to put pack ing against the Hospital spokeswoman Joan Shnipper you constantly have to remove it and put in fresh surgeons Are forced to operate repeatedly and use Standard stitches to close the the repeated hour Long operations under anaesthesia took their toll on critically ill who recovered Only 10 percent of the Stone he he can merely unzip the change the and zip the wound Back up a Safe five minute proce Dure done at the patients the rate of recovery for those patients has risen to 90 Stone it seems appropriate to use a Zipper to allow us to change the packs without repeated Stone its use has dramatically simplified a Complex chief of surgery at University hos said the procedure has been used by several physicians in Germany and but never before in the United he said the zippers Are used for five Days to two weeks before they Are of checkup May have saved a hostage Chicago a military doctors in Germany probably saved the life of a 57 year old former Twa hostage when they found a skin cancer on his Back during a Post hijacking a physician said Simon who underwent sur Gery wednesday to remove a dim size was instructed to seek medical at Tention immediately on his return to the United said doctors at Northwestern memorial were it not for the hijacking he probably would not have had this tumor identified at this said James chief of general who re moved the lesion in a 90minute the physicians at the american medical Center of West Ger deserve credit for such a thorough Hines was quoted As saying in a news in it probably saved his the Hospital listed Grossmayer in Good condition and resting comfortably thurs he was to be released said Hospital spokeswoman Pat Grossmayer was one of 34 roman Cath Olic pilgrims from Illinois who were return ing from a holy land tour on Twa flight 847 from to Rome on june 14 when the plane was hijacked by shiite moslem