European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday septembers 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 americans have by Fhi ref for russian Vodka sales soaring despite earlier anti soviet backlash new York up two years after the soviets hot Down Kal flight 007 prompting a Boston Tea party like rebellion against russian Vodka the american importer of Stolichnaya says demand has outstripped Supply. The . Importer of the Vodka took an and in the new York times wednesday to apologize to the american people for Lack of the liquor on store shelves across the nation. This year the demand for Stolichnaya has been greater thin anyone could have predicted says Edward min Ning president of Monsieur Henri wines ltd., the White Plains n.y., importer. We deeply appreciate your continued loyalty patience and support. The full Page advertisement appeared in the times wednesday City editions and thursday s National editions. Monsieur Henri spokesman Larry soil said Stolichnaya sales suffered greatly in the sin months after soviet fight ers shot Down the new York Seoul flight when it apparently strayed into soviet airspace on sept. I 1983. All 269 people aboard were killed including 62 Ameri  stood in the streets and smashed the bottles in a display of anti soviet sentiment. More than a dozen state liquor commissions ordered Stolichnaya stripped from their store  bans still in effect by liquor commissions in Alabama new Hampshire Utah and Virginia that has All turned around soil said. The White Plains company this year imported More than 500,000 cases of the liquor from the soviets but is running out of certain sizes and proofs of the Vodka. Soil said. The company will not be Able to import More until after Jan. I 1986. Soil c a not attribute the increase in demand to rising pro soviet sentiment but to a change in tastes in the liquor Drinker of the 1980s. It s got a certain mystique to it. It s a very Chic product so to speak said soil. And then Aguin it has a ring of authenticity to it. It comes from Russia. Russia is Vodka and Vodka is Russia. This is the real  a liter bottle of 80-proof Stolichnaya Sells for about $13.83 in new York. A liter of Smirnoff a Domestic Brand Sells in a Midtown new York liquor store for $9.79. Passaic mayor says boys admit they started fire Passaic . Up two Young boys have confessed to setting the labor Day inferno that levelled nearly a Quarter of the City s Industrial District and left about 200 people homeless authorities say. Mayor Joseph Lipari said a sixth grader age 12, and seventh grader 13, were arrested late tuesday and charged Early wednesday. Both lived within three blocks of the ravaged factory Complex. They have admitted to setting the fire la Perl said. They said they were playing with  the two boys not identified by authorities because they Are juveniles were charged with arson criminal mischief and causing widespread damage. Both youths charged had prior brushes with the Law Lipari said. As for specifics i could t answer based on the county prosecutor s  Passaic county family court judge car men Ferrante ordered both youths held in the county juvenile detention Center in Wayne pending a probable cause hearing Friday. Detective it. Richard Wolak said police interviews with children in the neighbor Hood led authorities to the two suspected arsonists. He said the youngsters Are Stu dents at Passaic Public school no. 8. Two other youths were also held tuesday night As material witnesses Lipari said. He said a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old, who had direct knowledge of the incident were later released. Lipari said the two boys admitted they set the fire by tossing matches into a vat or dumpster where chemicals were being stored. The composition of the chemicals and whether they were stored legally or illegally remains under investigation. The chemicals caught fire and the Blaze spread rapidly eventually consuming 23 Industrial building in the Gera Mill Industrial Park Complex and two dozen adjacent residences. Hundreds of residents of a nearby neigh boyhood were evacuated. Many lost their Homes and 2,200 employees of the roughly 60 decimated businesses in the Complex lost their jobs. Honesty Worth $4,040 to 4 Minnesota boys Marshall Minn. A Hon esty turned out to be not Only the Best but the most lucrative policy for four boys who got to split $4.040 they found last month after no one successfully claimed the Cash. Lyon county sheriff Don Stokke on tuesday gave the boys the Money they had found in the Redwood River after efforts to locate the owners through notices to other sheriffs departments and the Media had failed. We had about 10 people Call in that they had lost Money but the amount did t match Stokke said tuesday. When the boys found the Money the sheriff said publicly Only that the amount was More than $3,000, so any claimants would have had to provide the precise figure $4,040 to verify their claim. I had a lot of doubt about actually getting the Money said Mike doom 13. I did t think we had much of a  Mike along with friends Scott Persoon 10, Travis Boerboom 10, and Justin Boer Boom 8, found the Money in an area of the River near a Wayside rest. Mike said they were walking through the River near a Sand bar when Scott stepped on a stack of j5 Bills that had apparently come from a nearby Money bag. We lock it and counted it to about s250. After that we went Back to look for More Scott said. Scott found a Sec Ond bag that had More Money close to $4,000, near the site of the first bag. When there s that much Money we never thought much about keeping it Scott said. The find also paid off for holy re Deemer school principal Phyllis Scala gel when the boys decided to give $100 to the private school in Marshall. I m proud of these boys. We try to teach them values As Well As academics and i think it shows Schlagel said. Smoking inked to reduced Ufer be cancer risk Boston up a study suggests heavy cigarette smoking May reduce the risk of uterine cancer in Post menopausal women but researchers say the risk of smoking far outweighs any Benefit it May  study of 1,230 women  cancer found that Post menopausal women who smoked 25 or More cigarettes a Day were half As Likely As non smoking women to develop endometrial cancer. The a Dometri Emfs the lining of the  study findings were reported this week i the new England journal of medi Cine. In an accompanying editorial. Or. Noel s. Weiss of the University of Washington said that women who smoke cannot take much Comfort from  by his estimates six of every 100,000 women who smoke might be spared from dying from endometrial cancer. On the other hand 180 of 100,000 women smok ers or 30 times As Many Are expected to die from lung cancer. Endometrial cancer and other cancers of the female reproductive system Are believed to be related to a drop in Levels of the Hor Mone Trogen in women during Meno  speculate cigarette smoking has some sort of counter effect on reduced is Trogen Levels. I he data suggest that women who smoke heavily May have a lower risk of endometrial cancer than non smokers the report concluded. The present findings do not have direct Public health importance since cigarettes Overall have serious deleterious  the research was conducted at the National Center for drugs and Bio Logies in Rockville my. The report said the finding May have some Benefit because it May Lead to a better understanding of Why lowered oestrogen lev Els seem to promote cancer of the female reproductive system. The discovery might be useful in the development of strategies for preventing endometrial cancer said the report. There was no evidence of reduced risk among women who smoked fewer than 25 cigarettes a Day nor was there evidence of an effect among former smokers. Nor was any effect found among pre menopausal will get promotion maybe $90,000 of employee wins settlement for Eglin harassment Pensacola Fla. A a Black employee who Smuul cd out a racial discrimination list in her pantyhose for use in a Bias suit against Eglin fab will get a promo lion and May receive $90,000 to compensate for harassment. The suit had been settled in 1981. With the air Force raving $2.6 million to Black employees and Job applicants and agreeing to hire and promote More Blacks. An additional $660,000 was added earlier this year for non civil service workers. Us. District judge Winston Arnow last Friday approved an additional settlement for Linda Miller after special master Harold Crosby found that the base near fort Walton Beach retaliated against her for instigating the original suit. She was denied a promotion singled out for monitoring by supervisors and denied an interview with air Force systems command investigators Crosby determined. Miller has been on indefinite sick leave from her s41,000-a-year Job As a contract negotiator. She claimed the harassment caused her to live in fear and humiliation and drove her to a psychiatrist who has said she is unlikely to improve enough Ever to return to a full time Job. The settlement Calls for her to be promoted one step adding $5,000 to her salary and for her to apply for workers compensation. If compensation is approved the air Force would pay her $90,000. I m Happy that it s Over Miller said. I m very relieved. I m not a vindictive person so i can t even say i m  her Battle with the air Force began in 1975 when she was an equal Opportunity Counselor. She said she Learned that Eglin officials kept a list of Black Job applicants to guard against hiring them. After secretly taking the list off the base she turned it Over to the local chapter of the National association for the advancement of coloured people. The a act the following year joined with the progressive Community involvement organization and 20 civilian employees of Eglin to sue the base. They charged that Eglin hired and promoted Whites in preference to Blacks putting those Blacks it did hire into Low paying Low skill jobs and denying them training opportunities for advancement. They also charged Blacks were the first let go when layoffs were ordered. My i i m