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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday december 1985 the stars and stripes dec Ember Aoa it Aina it run mini co wow Royo to extravaganza will hype opening of Capone s vault Chicago a a Blo Klong vault one of inc Kings of the underworld. He Joslyn  in a is rumoured that Carlg Vaul that to promoters say m in contain Ira surfs or even bodies linked to a inns tar Al Capone will be opened april 14 during a live television special. The vault is in the basement no a Smith Side hotel Capone used As his Headquarters in the 1920s and 30s.the vault is 125 feet Long 8 feet High and h feel wide la was discovered in May by a group renovating the building. No one associated with the project knows what is in the vault said Doug a Ceclyn. He is senior vice president of the West Gate group the California company producing the two hour television program which will be syndicated  could be  he said Ai a news conference thursday. Capone was  eliminated it least 300 people or had them eliminated that we know of. Perhaps some of those people Are there Llewelyn  could be tots of boo a. There could be a lot of Money in  Patricia Porter executive director of Sunbow foundation which is renovating the hotel As a museum and housing and office Complex for women said her group would be paid 550,000 and a share of the profits from the television program. An attorney representing Capone s heirs has expressed interest in the vault s con tents. The internal Revenue service filed alien seeking  in Back taxes penal ties and interest that it says is owed by the Capone estate said John Joslyn. President of he . Josly  t a c a Pone had the a full wired with explosives and that tests would be conducted before inc pro Gram to Mike sure there inc no Booby raps. A c would t want an exp oium in live television he said. The Lexington hotel once catered to Chicago s upper class. Capone moved into a fifth floor suite in 192. Capone used secret tunnels to sneak out of inc hotel during police raids said Llewelyn Host of the syndicated series the peo ple s  Capone kept his Headquarters there until 19.12 when he was sentenced to prison Lor income tax evasion. He died in Florida in 1947. Possible baldness cure waiting Fra approval Kalamazoo Mich. A Upjohn co. On thursday asked inc food and drug administration to approve Sale of regains topical solution a formula that the com Pany believes cures baldness in men. Final approval could take up to two years and the drug would then be sold by prescription Upjohn said. The product which is applied externally has been tested on about 4.000 volunteers since 1977, Upjohn said. Preliminary data showed about one third of the test subjects had acceptable hair grown one third grew Fine Wispy hair and one third grew no hair said Jan Aulder he id Upjohn spokeswoman. No decision has been made on when to release specific final results she said. Obviously the company believes it has shown Efficacy or in would t have filed Lac drug  Upjohn filed an application with the Fra containing information on manufacturing and Quality control procedures in addition to the research findings. The company asked approval to sell the drug As a specific cure for male pattern baldness the receding hairline Many men rubber band Fig if prompts $700,000 suit san Diego a a Secre tary Al the san Onofry nuclear Power Plant is suing its principal owner Southern California Edison and a co worker for injuries she says she suffered in a rubber band fight. Jeanette Mojica claims in a Supe rior court lawsuit filed wednesday thai she suffered injuries to her neck Back and left shoulder Jan. 10 when she was grabbed by one of two men who were firing rubber bands at each other. Monica is seeking s70q.qoo from Edison which owns 80 percent of the Plant and Vince Mercado whom she accused in the suit of assault and  spokesman for Edison which co owns the Plant with san Diego Gas & electric co., said he rot aware of the incident and declined comment on the lawsuit. Experience with advancing age. An Esti mated 30 million men in the United states Are losing their hair. Aufderheid a said. Re gain topical solution is believed to be the first scientifically studied potential hair growth medication for which a new drug application has been filed with the Fra Upjohn said. Minoxidil the Active ingredient in re gain has been Solo since 1979 As an ingredient in Lon itch tablets an Upjohn product used to treat High blood pressure. During tests of the drug in the Early 1970s, scientists noted a significant num Ber of lest participants growing hair on Var ious parts of their  Upjohn said. This observation ultimately led to the development of an experimental minoxidil liquid for external application to the Scalp. With the objective of localizing hair growth stimulation to the  Upjohn started a major study of re gain in late 1982 involving More than 2,300 volunteers in 28 locations nationally. The volunteers used the product for a year during which they were examined regularly by the dermatologists conducting the study. 5 attempts at Access have ailed picture phone for the deaf in new York professor George Sper Ling demonstrates a picture phone. The machine allows def people to communicate by using sign language that is transmitted in High contrast images Oscr a Monitor. Try image at right on the screen is the original image. The one on he icel is the transmitted image. Suit seeks release of Nixon papers Washington a on the he anniversary of a Law ordering Richard Nix on s papers and tapes to be made Public at the earliest reasonable Date a Federal court is being asked to Speed the process of releasing the first Batch of documents. None of the 1.5 million papers has found its Way into the Public Domain although the congressional act was signed into Law dec. 19, 1974. Only 1216 hours of inc 4,000 hours of tape recordings have been heard. Now a suit filed wednesday in . District court seeks to Force Gover Imant officials to release the materials which have languished in the National archives since Nixon resigned in disgrace aug. 9,1974. Five previous attempts Al drawing up regulations for Public Access failed for Var ious reasons including objections by Nixon and some of his aides a sixth set was sent by the archives to the office of manage ment and budget for review in july but has not been heard from since. The suit names James Miller director of bomb and acting archivist Frank Burke As defendants. By failing to act expeditiously the complaint said bomb and the archives have former president Nixon unreasonably delayed implementing the regulations. We Are unaware of the suit and there fore have no comment said Jill Merrill spokeswoman for the National archives. The plaintiffs Are Public citizen a lobbying group founded by Ralph Nader the reporters committee for Freedom of the press and David a. Bollier of new Haven Conn. Bollier is identified As a free Lance journalist who wants to study and write about such  the bomb is inexcusably  said Eric  attorney for Public Citi  ill a Stein said bomb was serving Nixon s interest in thwarting the purpose of the  bomb routinely reviews regulations from executive Branch agencies to ensure that they conform with while House policy. John Roberts of the White House counsel s office said recently that political considerations had nol entered into release of the Nixon papers. This has been in litigation for 12  Roberts said. The concern is that we do this . Another round of unsuccessful litigation is simply going to delay the Day these regulations gel  under rules drawn up after the last Chal Lenge to the regulations Congress has 60 legislative Days to change inc regulations once they Are forwarded by the executive Branch  
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