European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday november 12, 1985 Hijack victim Stethem s brother joins Navy in special ceremony Washington a the brother of the N.Y.diver who was killed i Limp the hijacking of a Twa jetliner in june was inducted into the Nav in a special ceremony conducted Al link time of  s National i outfall league game Between the Washington redskins and dal Las cowboys. Patrick St them. The 20- air old brother of Robert Dean Stethem. Joined 79 other recruits who were administered the oath by Navy Secretary John f. Lehman or in a ceremony timed to come just before veterans Day observations on monday. Stela pm received a two minute standing ovation from More Ihan ?5,000 fans attending the game. He has been selected to receive his recruit company s official Flag which will be carried throughout Basic train ing. In was presented to him on sunday by Bobby Milch Ell a redskins i jail of Tamer. Robert Stethem 23. Was a Navy diver who was flying on Twa of put h-j7 when in a is hijacked by terrorists june 14 shortly after Takeoff from Athens Greece. On june 15, St chem was singled out by the hijackers As a member of the . Military. He was brutally beaten and then shot. His body was dumped on the Larne in Al the Beirut International Airport. Patrick St chem is extending a Long tradition of Navy service by the Sec them family. Another brother. 24-year old Kenneth is a Navy frogman. Their hither up Cal 26 years in inc Navy before his retirement and i hair Mother also worked in a variety of Navy administrative posts. The recruits inducted sunday arc volunteers from the District of Columbia Northern Virginia and Maryland and parts of Delaware and West Virginia Letham is from Waldorf my. Denouncing . Resolution sen. Daniel p. Moynihan d-n.y., gestures As he Speaks outside the United nations sunday against the 1975 . Resolution equating  with a com. Standing with Moynihan Art from left so. Alfunse d Avalo . New York mayor Iedward Koch and Jeane Kirkpatrick. Former ambassador to the United nations. On fhe move americans travelled average of 34 Miles daily poll says Detroit up americans arc on the move last year flying sailing Riding driving biking or walking 2.97 trillion Miles up 4.8 percent from 1983, Hertz corp. Reported sunday in its second annual Mobile America poll. The Survey by the nation s top rental lease company based on a Sample of More than 150,000 adult americans showed that the nation s population estimated by Hertz at 236.2 million travelled an average 34.4 Miles per Day by air plane train ship car bicycle and on foot. Personal boating and private flying were omitted from the study which also reviewed americans spending for food and lodging on trips away from Home. Can and trucks including the popular minivans. Accounted for 91 percent of All travel last year the study showed. The mobility Cost americans $961 billion or 54.068 per person per year up 8.4 percent from 1983, when $863 billion or s3.81 it per person was spent to travel 2.83 trillion Miles. The poll also found travellers spent $205.7 billion extra or $871 per person on entertainment clothing and Luggage. Commuting to and from work accounted for almost 22 percent of the mileage and look an average 45 minutes each Day. Almost 96 percent of All commuting was by car or truck. The study also found that working women tended to have a Shorter commute than men and More women than men travelled alone in their cars in 1984. Business trips accounted for 11 percent of the mileage with work requiring More than 63 million americans to take an average 56 trips last year. This compared with 51 million americans who made an average 44 trips in 1983. Fewer women than men held jobs requiring travel. Business women averaged 11 nights on the Road compared to is Formen. Together work related travel accounted for 33 percent of the 1984 mileage the Hertz report found. Pleasure travel accounted for Only 25 percent of the mileage with 106 million adult americans taking an aver age of five vacations per year counting weekend jaunts. Women equated men in this category women spent 22 nights away on vacation last year compared to 19 for men. Women also tended to use non automotive transportation a their primary Means of Leisure travel and spent an average $ 1,557 on vacation compared to s1,878 for men. Total vacation outlays last year amounted to $216.4 billion 9.7 percent More than 1983 s $ 197.3 billion. The distance people travelled for vacation Rose by More than a third from 1983. Other travel such As shopping school trips or churchgoing accounted for about 37 percent of inc nearly 3 trillion Miles travelled. Overseas travel accounted for the remaining 5 percent. Hertz spokesman Leigh Smith is looking for the trend to continue. In seems americans arc continuing their mobility and Hal 1985 will be higher yet because More people will be working. Wages will be slightly higher and people will be Vaca toning and commuting More he said. But Smith said he expects the increase will not be very sub Stantial. In will be no great increase. 1 Don t think it will be up by More than 5 percent he said. Stateside sensitive military secrets Block scientist s suit against Penthouse Richmond. A. Impi the possible revelation of sensitive military secrets has precluded inc possibility of a Sci Lisl trying to prove Penthouse Magazine lib eled him by claiming he offered in sell bomb toting dolphins to foreign governments. The 4th . Circuit court of appeals has upheld a ruling by i he i a. District court in Baltimore to dismiss inc libel Case brought by scientist James l ii Gerald. The Navy which requested the dismissal had argued that military secrets would be made Public if the libel Case went to trial originally scheduled for december 1983. Because there was simply no Way this particular Case could be tried without compromising sensitive military secrets we conclude the District court did not err in ruling that the Case must be dismissed the court said. Woman s cancerous Vertebra replaced with Metal one Cleveland a a 54-year-old woman with a cancerous Vertebra has received a Mola replacement in an operation believed to be the first of its kind in the country a surgeon says. The Cleveland woman received the Metal Vertebra Dur ing five hours of surgery late last month. The artificial Vertebra developed by or. Athur Steffee and the Cleveland research Institute replaced a diseased Vertebra and inc disks above and below it. The implant is held in place by screws attached to Metal spinal plates. The spinal plates strips of Metal anchored to each Vertebra Wilh screws have been used Over the Pait three years to straighten spines damaged by fractures or Lumores. Staff cd implanted the artificial Vertebra in Helen Murhy on oct. 25. He said cancer had destroyed the third Lumbar Vertebra in Murphy s lower Back causing her Phy. Lumb pain. Chubby contestants compete in Short fat Guys Road run . . A organizers say it was t so much a test of endurance As a lest of tasteless Ness. La was the fourth annual Short fat Guys Road run and it was held in this Onondaga county Village at the end of Skaneateles Lake  the Finger lakes Region of Centra new York. As always the rotund contestants prepared for the Ihrck mile race inside Morris bar and Grill then set off knowing they d be stopping for Beer pretzels and cigarettes a few blocks Down the Road. Short fat men could enter the run in one of four categories according to organi cars heavy drinkers smokers fasl lancers or Iron men. Who possess the talents of theother three no one paid much attention to Lime but most of the men ambled across the finish line about 35 minutes after they started. Pregnant woman steals car leaves owner stranded in Woods Terrytown la. A a pregnant woman who said she needed a car More than its owner did stole the automobile and left the owner alone in the Woods police said. Judy Guinea. 46, of Tarrytown said she was kidnapped by a woman who pulled a gun in a supermarket parking lot said Cap. Lynn Sherman of the Jefferson Paris sheriffs office. The woman said she was seven months pregnant her Boyfriend had left her and she needed the car More thang Umla Sherman said. Guinea told police she was  to drive around the Tarrytown area. She finally was told to Slop near the Woods where her Abductor forced her out of the car taped her hands together and drove off Sherman said. Kennedy 88 fund reported but he says he s still undecided Boston up sen. Edward Kennedy d-mau., says he is undecided whether to run for president in 1988, but a published report says he has already raised nearly is million and has taken other preliminary Steps. Kennedy has made a series of personal and Telephone contacts with key democrats around the country and has scheduled a series of Campaign like speaking and fund raising appearances after Christmas the Boston Globe has reported. While speaking optimistically about his prospects Ken Nedy told the Globe he plans to postpone a final decision on whether to run until after the 1986 elections