European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse West ready to broadcast to afghans Munich a radio free Afghani Stan will broadcast news and information in native Dari speech to the afghan people starting tuesday radio free Europe officials said monday. In Moscow on monday the official soviet news Agency Tass denounced the new radio service As an example of . Interference in the affairs of a Sovereign nation. Radio free Afghanistan is similar to radio free Europe and radio Liberty . Government funded stations based in Munich that have been beaming broadcasts to Eastern Europe for years. A radio free Europe radio Liberty statement said the new service would be written and edited for broadcast to Afghanistan by native born afghans. It said radio free Afghanistan will be continued As Long As soviet backed communist Rule continues in the poor Central asian nation. Soviet and afghan troops have been battling moslem guerrillas in the country since late 1979. In its commentary from Moscow Tass said disinformation is Washington s favor Ite Iryck used whenever it wants to justify its policy of terror in interstate relations the policy spearheaded against National liberation the latest proof of that is the report Hal a new radio station provocatively Call ing itself free Afghanistan radio1 and patrolled by the United states begins its broadcasts from Munich West Germany starting from oct. 1." Tass said the White House had become upset with the notable headway made in economic development of Afghanistan since the soviet backed government came to Power in the late 1970s. That is Why in a bid to intensify the anti afghan Campaign Washington chose to spend the taxpayers Money in order to fund another Lic mongering radio station Tass charged. Japanese protesters injure 2 Airport guards Tokyo a two guards at the International Airport at Narita were injured monday when demonstrators protesting plans to build an additional runway Hur d homemade gasoline bombs Chiba pc acc Tural police spokesman Shunsuke Shinohara said. One guard was burned seriously on his head and hands Shinohara said and the other received minor leg injuries us he fled from a Van used for sleeping that was parked near he guardhouse. Shinohara said the Van an automobile and the guardhouse were damaged in the attack and the masked and Hal acted at tackers escaped. Tuesday october 1, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 focusing on shuttle training Nasa astronaut candidate Sharon astronaut training to the Johnson space Christ Mcauliffe learns How to Oscr Center in Houston. Mcauliffe a 36 ate a movie camera As she continues her year old High school social studies teacher from Concord n.h., is scheduled to Fly aboard a space shuttle mis Sion in january. Vision Correct no Eye surgery Nof a i if s Cut out to be researchers report san Francisco up Surpris ing study results for a controversial opera Tion to Correct car sightedness May Dampen some of the enthusiasm for the surgery undergone by 100,000 americans the head of the research team reported sunday. The key finding at the end of the second year of follow up of 435 patients was that one third of them suffered visual fluctuations Long after their eyes were expected to heal from the surgery said or. George Waring ophthalmology professor at Emory University in Atlanta. But some initial reports of car taillights taking on a glaring starlike appearance and other fluctuations following the procedure called radial Kera Toomy were expected to diminish with time. Our most important finding was thai about one third of the patients still had fluctuating vision during the second year. This is a big problem Waring reported at the annual meeting of the american acad Emy of ophthalmology. We were surprised that in fact the Cor Nea May take two to three years to heal in some the results of the prospective evaluation of radial Kera Toomy or perk study seemed at least in part to support critics who have questioned the reliability predictability and Long term Side effects of the operation. The study funded by the National Eye Institute was the first major examination of the microsurgical procedure to Correct myopia or nearsightedness suffered by 11 million americans. The researchers also found the outcome of a second radial Kera Toomy performed on patients who did not respond fully to the first surgery was much less predictable than the results of the initial operation. In addition in one fourth of those who underwent the operation in both eyes the results differed significantly for each Eye causing asymmetric vision. Although the surprising results Certai. By do not mean the procedure is worthless they do Dampen some of the enthusiasm Waring Sakl in an interview. The Bottom line is that whereas in 1980 we thought the operation was experimental we Don t think it s experimental anymore but it is definitely in its developing phase and needs to be refined so the outcome is More predictable and safer in the Long in radial Kera Toomy the theory of which was espoused As Early As the late 1800s and the modern version of which was first performed in the United states in 1978 the surgeon uses a Diamond tipped knife to slice into the Cornea. He makes eight cuts that flatten the front of the Cornea a transparent gelatinous cover one fiftieth of an Inch thick that sits Over the Pupil like a Crystal Over a watch face. This shortens the distance from the Cornea to the Back of the Eye thus Correct ing the . Capital crime risk figures contradict National trend Washington a while Resi dents of the nation s capital arc almost twice As Likely As Blacks to be victims of violence who i contradicts the National trend in Urban crime the government re ported sunday. The report by the Bureau of Justice statistics also found the people who work on Capitol Hill arc More Likely than others who work in the City to believe that their workplace is Safe. The study focused on which people arc victimized by certain crimes rather than on whether crime generally is going up or Down. It compared crimes reported by peo ple in the capital to those reported by Resi dents of the Maryland and Virginia suburbs and in other cities. Based on interviews with a random Sample of District of Columbia residents age 12 and above conducted from May 1982 to april 1983, the Bureau found that 110.2 Whites per 1,000 were victims of crimes of violence com pared to 57.4 Blacks per 1,000. In contrast Black suburban residents appeared to experience a higher rate of violent crime victimization than White suburban residents 72.7 per 1,000 compared to 59.1 per 1,000, based on interviews with a Sam ple of people living in the capital s Mary land and Virginia suburbs. The crimes of violence included robbery and assault but not murder. Based on the 1980 census the District of Columbia s population a a 668,000, of which 70 per cent were Black. The study noted that previous govern ment crime victimization surveys have repeatedly found that Blacks suffer higher rates of violent victimization than from 1977-81, for example the nation wide victimization rate for violent crime was 42.9 per 1,000 for Blacks compared to 33.1 per 1,000 for Whites. Analysts weighed such factors As How often Whites moved their residences and sought to determine whether the trend could be explained in terms of victims educational level. This report did nol offer a conclusive explanation for the racial pattern in crime victimization it said. A Well formulated Well tested explanation would require fur ther research beyond the scope of the . Bureau analyst Patrick said the findings arc nol unique to Washington in though it Joes against the National trend. Previous surveys showed higher Black victimization rates in Chicago. Detroit los Angeles new York Philadelphia Atlanta Baltimore Cleveland Dallas Denver Newark Portland ore., and St. Louis. The study done for the bus by the re search Triangle Institute located in re search Triangle Park n.c., also found that District of Columbia residents with More than a High school education were crime victims at almost twice the Rale of . Residents who had less schooling 92 per 1,000 compared to 49 per 1,000
