European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 othe stars and stripes sunday. October 13, 1985 hunger busting balloon implantation helps obese lose weight doctors say Miami Beach. I i. Up re searchers have found that a Little balloon in the belly can help the massive obese shed unwanted pounds the balloon therapy was presented to delegates unending the american col lege of  which is hold ing its Mph annual meeting. Doctors said More than 100 massively obese patients shed dramatic amounts of weight through balloon therapy the implantation of a hunger busting bal Loon in their stomachs. Or. Lloyd Garren said 106 obese patients participating in a balloon implant Experiment approved by the food and drug administration shed an average of 40 pounds Cali Over six months. Jit Rren said the balloon works by Tak ing up space in the stomach thus de creasing  Cal hunger. As a con sequence patients cat leu and Are Able to follow a daily 800-Lo-l,000-caloric die More comfortably. Patients also attended classes on be Havior modification and nutritional coun seling. The balloon is implanted in a 25-min ulc procedure that is performed on an outpatient basis. Once properly situated the balloon is inflated and left to float freely in the stomach. After four months the original balloon is replaced and after six or seven months the balloon is removed to Sec How the patient docs on his own. Garron said he got the idea for the proce Dure from observing How animals often lose weight after swallowing hair balls. The balloon experiments were con ducted Over a 30-Montb period at Brandywine Hospital in Coatsville pa., our lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden n.j., and Union Hospital of Cecil county in la Luton. To. Wholesale prices driven 0.6 % Low was 3rd i Washington a wholesale prices driven Down sharply by lower Auto Mobile prices fell 0.6 percent in septem Ber the labor department said Friday. It was the third decline in the last Fiji months and mean wholesale Price declined at an annual rate of Clercent so far this year. Wholesale a Canad declined 0.3 percent in aug analysts a projecting that the govern mint a producer Price Index could show the lne a rent Pace for Tatj i Fusic Olhs would be the i a Erin  wholesale prices increased 1.7 percent in 1984. Retail inflation is running at an annual rate of 3.3 percent so far this year the lowest in nearly two decades. The september Index showed food costs declining 0.9 percent following a 0.7 per cent decline in August. Energy costs edged Down 0.1 percent in sept mar after two months of More Siz Ibie declines. Sjofn the september drop in the mataua result of a 3.8 percent decrease for Pash ars and a 2 percent decline for Light truck it Yia reflection of the Industry s  Model year sales coupled with Low merest financing. News update of help says Singlaub Ashington Ltd re tire Gen. John k. Sing cub has de Nic Dythal he received a guidance from president Reagan of the White House staff for his a fort to raise  support for Nicara Guan re vols. I Wilnot talk to try president. 1 did not Elk to Mem but a of his and ministral Fri. 1 talk to Freedom fighters Singlaub so in denying a report thai re Agana approved the plan of providing  with Pri vate funds Iha White House officials Sulc cd Singlaub to carry it out. Singlaub Vas cached by Tele phone at his of Meb Colorado. For More Van year Singlaub who was  president car Ter in May i from his Post As commanding Onfer of is. Troops in South Korea  an Effort to up  circles for Money for the a cos known As con tras. Oil killer ads glow City no. A As Walterl continue efforts to remove boat remains of a 435.000-Galloail sell on the Dela Ware River a get a save the lives of Oil soaked Irdi is moving largely unsuccessful met calf r cleanup wig the or s shores and Iris tabs will of continue for some time but Oil skimming vessels have finish of removing me heaviest Slicks of to la sea a rfcs. Coast guard i. Ebert Mitch Laid. Sun Oil co. Has Estima cd 8,060 barrels of Cabout 77 percent of the spill have can recovered once the sept. 28 bunding that rip Ltd open the  aianian  he said. The totals Lesti mate was 1c.376 barrels. House votes to reduce textile imports Washington the House of representatives approve legislation thurs Day to Force Sharp Cul Banff in textile and apparel imports but the 2 rw59 Vole was Short of the two thirds margin iced cd to override a threatened Percsi dentist this is the last gasp of this in Don t say you weren t told decl de Jenkins d-ga., the chief sponsor of to measure. It is one of hundreds of Trad before Congress. The measure now goes to the which is considering a less strict Vejl As he left the  after the vote. Jenkins told renders that he would switch 15 people bpm Cen now and the override if the  because the Over rid Ruf a presidential veto requires two the of those voting the number needed mfg specific instance de pends on How maj of the 435 congressmen answer the Roll eth. In a two Jar debate free Trade forces argued thu vice measure which would  averaging perhaps 35 per Centi textile and apparel imports was Bou Rumo Hurt Farmers workers and con s by bringing retaliation in East Asia against american opponents  layoffs of West coast Dock Mars As a result.  called the substantial Suppo stained by the textile forces less a concern about the industries than a Are of irritation at Reagan adm Nistra 5n Trade policies. Proponents waved american and asian Els and shirts As they argued for the saying the Price tags were the ving that american Industry has met the pc Challenge of imports but has been squeak cd by the sheer volume of in coming ship opponents acc a textile state lawmakers of inflating clams about the extent of the damage from i owls. They also said Congress already has put Cidra above aver age Tariff and quotas to inf cent the textile Industry. The Complex measure Backcom the Tex tile and apparel industries and labor unions would Roll Back in year s Levels or those of five years a Owen allow them annual growth of i percent percent depending on an array of variable Thatcher to maintain fiscal policy Blackpool minister Mart near All time lo1 record highs toll her conservative not swerve from Thatcher in h up the four Day Calls by Moerai Economy to Cut 13.8 percent or arguing that Cou raging new 5,000 delegates not do. We will you can t honest Money. To from which no customers who i sneaking to i she narrowly tempt by he Thatcher recall i still Bear the bombing which it reminds i and will continue the 59-year-old i minister since 19 her speech a message to party that she will lose unless she cuts i her party s hard i opinion polls have lost nearly a the past year. T percent in polls h or third in the sout and centrist Oppon but in her hour interrupted by a. Reference to the moderates fears which must be Hal she restated ing government 5 it tight which has percent from a 21 is widely blamed mushrooming Job she also after serious rioting in inner cities Declai is necessary on the if they need mint different Cru them. We Don t it life and property to she accused Radii socialist opposition Spring through uni Erna Cut to break,taw." on arms control upcoming meeting Mikhail s. Gorbac Reagan insisting ii and cohesion that Union Back to nuclei England a prime Thatcher her rating and unemployment at in annual convention of dirty Friday that she Widt Money policies. By not address winding invention flatly rejected to inject Cash into the record jobless rate of milion people. R government was in incs ses she told the Here is one thing w will relate. A secure future on Dis is a fundamental truth rement can escape. It i a  invention one year after an assassination at h Republican army iat some in her audience i of the Brighton hotel five people. The risks we All take take for Freedom said Ler who has been prime Strong no Compromise Legates who maintain r in the next election ploy mint and tempers image. The conservatives ird of their support in try Given around 30 for months run second is against its socialist s. In address repeatedly ise Thatcher made no falling ratings or iut the next election mid-1988. Orous policy of curb Ling and keeping Rcd 1 inflation to under 6 it Peak in 1981 but her opponents for the Rolls. In recent outbreaks of Kitain s racially mixed Shell spend whatever ice. A men More equip it they shall Haw Mize on protecting prime minister said militants within the Bor parly of con i Power or local gov icly and subvert the Hatcher welcomed the tween soviet Leader to and us. President As Western strength and forced the soviet arms control talks. Older nuclear weapons leave Greece Athens Greece a the govern ment  Friday that the withdrawal or Iii Iii ii ii ii weapons from Greece began thursda7tnwifimfia_ncc witha nato decision. Government spokesman costs Laliotis said the operation began under absolute secrecy and with the approval of the  Early Friday Premier Andreas Papandreou told a left Wing greek daily. Hit Roty Pia that nato had decided i no obsolete nuclear scam Fock piled in Greece. He Saih Jii socialist government will  to be replaced. Fas informed by Rogers Gen. Bar Nard Rogers supreme Allied commander Europe during his visit Here last july about nato s decision to pull out Battlefield nuclear weapons from Greece and other coun  the Premier said. Lia reported for Jujj military netic0pliarimnted removing nuclear wcapgmg0m%mjulitary base near Dja a Northern Greece. Is no question of modernizing of updating them Papandreou said. Nato announced in 1983 that obsolete nuclear weapons stockpiled by Alliance nations were to be scrapped. Tactical nuclear weapons have been stockpiled in Greece since the Early 1960s at several locations near athe the bulgarian Borden Gibblr. They re Gnu Al wac Tudic old honest John nuclear lipped shells. Papandreou has threatened in the past to ask the United states to remove All nuclear weapons As part of his plan for a nuclear free zone in the Balkans. Be said Friday that his policy for i Irwin Balkans remains  but Obj Tiol a Turkey the Only other Balkan country Law i Divac nuclear weapons stockpiled on in i itmiqi4iili Cate that the greek plan is unlikely to be implemented