European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sweet on nutcrackers see Page 3 d learning lessons of City War up. 13,14,15 d staff picks bowl winners Page 26 c3 first woman gets artificial heart Page 28 vol. 44. No. 246 Friday december 20, 19b5 d 8693 a soviets May allow . To inspect nuke test Sites Washington a Sniel Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev in a idler to presi Dent Reagan Lias offered to let american inspectors visit soviet underground nuclear Lesl Siles. A . Official said thursday Gorbachev s letter also urged Reagan to approve a resumption of .-soviet negotiations next month to ban All such tests the official told the associated press the Oiler has the potential of giving the Gorbachev urged Reagan to join him is control process a major push Forward extending the moratorium. A . Uncle the aftermath of the Reagan Gorbachev test due to be conducted thursday w postponed but there was no indication l action was related to the soviet proposal in offering to open soviet testing area is observers. Gorbachev suggested re the official who demanded anon Milf. Aid he did not know what the  s a spouse would be to Gorbachev who Elf imposed ban on soviet underground l its expires Jan. 1. To accept an offer by the leade see soviets on Page 23 new report warns workers who smoke Washington ny1 cigarette smoking is increasingly a Blue Collar habit most prevalent among waitresses and construe Ion workers the . Surgeon Gen eral said in a report released thursday. For most american workers smoking is a greater cause of death and disability than their workplace environment. The report warned and workers who smoke Are More Likely than their nun smoking colleagues to be struck by Job related diseases. Those arc some of the findings presented by surgeon general g. Everett Koop in his 516-Page report. The health consequences of smoking cancer and chronic lung disease in the workplace. The report Aims to show How smoking increases a worker s risks involving work related diseases smoking and occupational exposures can interact synergistically to create More disease than the sum of the separate exposures Koop wrote. For example tie explained All Asbestos workers have a statistically High rate of lung cancer. Among this High risk group an Asbestos worker who smokes is k7 times More Likely to die from lung cancer than a non smoking Asbestos worker. The report says Blue Collar workers Are More Likely than White Collar workers to smoke cigarettes. About 47.1 per cent of men with Blue Collar jobs smoke cigarettes the report said. About .13 percent of the White Collar men smoke. Among women the smoking rates Are in. 1 percent for Blue Collar workers and 31.9 percent for White Collar workers. Among men. The highest smoking rates Are found among construction painters truck Drivers construction labourers carpenters Auto mechanics guards and watch men. The lowest Rales Are found among electrical Engi neers lawyers and secondary school Leach re among women waitresses have the Hinesl smoking rate followed by Cashiers assemblers nurses aides and machine operators the lowest rates of smoking occur among elementary school teachers food service workers see smoke on Page 28 More than just Chilly in Chicago the Windy cite of Chicago wednesday Awu to Ero degree temperatures which foil like 40  s mow because of a Strong biting wind. But Wilh Only a few More shopping Days before Christmas it be women braced the icy blasts by bundling up while waiting for the downtown bound bus. Last second problems postpone shuttle launch Cape canaveral Fla up the launch of the rebuilt shuttle Columbia with a congressman on Board was postponed thurs Day until after Jan. 4 because of mechanical problems detected just 15 seconds before launch time Nasa officials said. The countdown for the Lola and last shuttle flight of the year was stopped at 7 54  Est just 5 seconds before the Start sequence was to begin for the ship s three liquid fuelled main engines. Fuel had not started to flow to the engines and there was no danger to the Crew National aeronautics and space administration spokesman Hugh Harris said shuttle engineers determined the computer commanded countdown hah was prompted by problems Wilh a Hydraulic Power unit on the shuttle s right solid rocket Booster. The unit provides Hydraulic Power to steer the  on the end of the towering solid rocket . We have to change out one of the Hydraulic Power units Harris said. The delay was a bitter disappointment to the seven member Crew and to Nasa which is gearing up for a 14-Flighi schedule in 1986. At the controls were commander Robert Hoot Gibson and co Pilot Charles Holden. Their arc Maies Are Steven Hawley George Nelson. Franklin Chang i i Ria satellite Engineer Robert Cenker and rep. Dill Nelson. D-flu., on Board As a congressional observer. About k 20 ., the astronauts left the shuttle smiling and looking relaxed despite the disappointment. I Aunch originally was scheduled for 7  Thursday after a 24-hour delay be cause of unfinished work at the launch pad. Heavy Cloud cover however forced Nasa to wait for better conditions and when the countdown was interrupted it was Licking toward a Blastoff at 7 54