European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday january 3, t9b6 85 called one of aviation s safest years Washington up Federal aviation administration chief Donald Engen said thursday 1985 was one of aviation s safest years despite a record number of deaths As a result of Pjanic crashes and Ter  eighty five truly was one of the safest years Wilh respect to one of the major safely indicators that we be had in the Insl to years and that is the Accident Fate Enge said. More than 2,000 people were killed in civil airline disasters worldwide in 1985. Making it the deadliest year for civil Ovi Filion in  records were set in 19&s with the worst single plane disaster in aviation history when a Japan air lines Boeing 747 slammed into a Mountainside to Central Japan killing 510 people on aug. 12. On dec. 12, j56 people including 248 . Soldiers coming Home for the holidays were killed in the Wurst single chartered plane and military dinner disaster in Avi allots history when a pcs crashed on take off from Gander Newfoundland. On june 23, All 329 people aboard an air India Boeing 747 died when i he Toronto Bombay India flight plunged into the sea off Southwest Ireland. It was the worst air disaster at sea. Authorities arc investigating to determine whether the crash was caused by a terrorist bomb was. As 1985 ended Imp coptic died in a crash in Chile and former teen age singing idol Rick Nebon his Fiancee and five members of his band were killed in a crash in North East  said More people Are flying in air planes and "1 think that was More a matter of happenstance than anything Melieve that the Accident Rale. Shows us that ims was continuing to come Down just As it has for the last 10  have great conf Uwe that 1 98 will be belter Engin u a said on he Abc dec there is not a com Mon thread in the causes of aviation trag " we be looked it everything re can and we re dealing with maintenance and we re dealing wish the operational factors. We i re trying 10 Deal with terrorism and we re developing new Means to detect explosives. We re working across a Broad front so make things  said the government has come Down resolutely on air earners with re Spect to their procedures adding that fines for regulation violations in 1985 were four limes what they were for 198. We have severely curtailed or grounded 57 airlines in the last 20 months Origen said. We re also bringing up and working on our air traffic control system. Engin denied deregulation has Coin rib Fulcd to the aviation disasters saying the Accident rate has declined some 37 per cent since deregulation became effective in 1978. And he said he expects the aviation Industry to nol Only meet air regulations and standards but to surpass them. " cannot Abido anybody just barely get Ting by Wilh the fed rpm air regulations Engin said. They arc designed As a mini mum. We expect Pforte to Csc eed the fed eral air  soviet woman has a Miracle reunion with husband in . After 3 years los Angeles a a former soviet school teacher who met her american husband while sharing a taxi during a Moscow snowstorm said that leaving the soviet Union to begin a new life in California feels like a  Bondareva Bartholomew 27, arrived at los Angeles International Airport with her husband Tony Bartholomew after spending new year s Day in new York  still think it was a Miracle said mrs. Bartholo Mew a of 10 soviet i towns permitted to emigrate to be Wilh spouses or other family in the United states. Bartholomew 47, an Engineer from suburban Glen Dale said their three year struggle of be together was a painful ordeal that was ended by president Reagan � personal intervention. One period of my life is Over and another is Start ing said mrs. Bartholomew a linguist who spoke in  soviet Union s decision to permit the Depar Tures was announced four Days before president Rea Gan s november Summit with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It s been z living Nightmare Bartholomew said it s hard to realize what it s like when you re m love with someone who you can t get out. It is like a hos Tage , he added most hostage situations last 10 or 15 Days. This lasted three  the Bartholomew were reunited in Baltimore on  their arrival in los Angeles the couple was handed a pair of Small . Flag by Harold Ezell Western regional commissioner for the immigration and naturalization  want to present you Ami Yout Bride with a Symbol of Freedom Jim said. Also at the Airport were Bartholomew i Mother Mary brother Dick and sister in Law Jessie. They said they planned a. Traditional Kalian feast of spa Ghetti and lasagna for the couple later in the week. Bartholomew was on a. Business trip in Moscow in late 1981 when he hailed a taxi during a storm and she was in the car. They were married ton March 23, i9s2.mrs. Bartholomew first applied to leave the soviet Union shortly after the wedding. Her current Petitan was the fifth Bartholomew said. Tatyana and Tony Bartholomew he said they maintained their relationship by writ ing Meliers two or three limes a week and placing Tele phone Calls twice a week. Her arrival Bartholomew said will Cut about Sion from his monthly Telephone Bill. His wife s departure from her Homeland was an act of Floc and not one of political dissatisfaction he said. The Bartholomew ate the second California couple reunited by the soviet decision to let the 10 citizens emigrate. On sunday polish bom Kazimierz Frt us 82, of Pomona was reunited with his wife Kylle Fri jus 50, after is years and three months of separation. Bypass survival rates vary with procedure used Boston up patients undergoing coronary by pass operations have a better Chance of surviving 10 years if the surgeon uses a Chest artery instead of veins from lie legs the most common method. Surgeons at the Cleveland clinic foundation reported thursday that patients receiving leg vein grafts also Are at greater risk of having heart attacks and of requiring an other  actuarial survival for patients who received an internal mammary artery graft was b6.6 percent As compared with 7s.9 percent for those who had leg vet grafts said or. Floyd Loop and 10 colleagues in a report in the new England journal of Medicine. In the group Wilh three vessel disease 82.6 percent of those with an internat mammary artery graft survived 10 years As compared Wilh 71 percent of he rat inti win grafts from the leg vein the study said noting actuarial curves also demonstrate a significant difference in patients with double vessel disease in the study the largest Ever undertaken the surgeons compared 3,s2i individual grafts done with leg veins 10 2,306 performed with mammary arteries. Improved survival with the mammary artery graft was evident after five years with the improvement even More pronounced at 10 years the researchers found. The use of the internal mammary artery for coronary artery disease has had a Long and Check ered history. While the ability of the artery to remain unobstructed Over Long periods was first demonstrated in the 1950s, its use dropped to Only s percent to 10 percent of cardiac surgeons Acca use of concern a bout adequacy of the blood flow Rale. Use was increased in 1984 following a favourable study of bypass grafts from Montreal explosion kills guard at Montana state prison Deer Lodge Mont a an explosion blew up a Security lower at the Montana state prison killing one guard and injuring another and authorities said a Gas leak or faulty propane Heater May have been the cause. The blast destroyed the Security lower on the West perimeter of the institution and damaged three other buildings. Stranded couple finds salvation far from Home Cleveland Cap a British Brick layer says he did t think of the salvation army As arty Hing Mare than brass bands unti he and Bis wife became stranded in Ohio. Jack and Sharon Reynolds Bath 35. Had to sell even their wedding rings to raise Money quickly for plane fare from ply Mouth England to Bowling Green to see their pregnant Leen age daughter who Doc tors said was in danger of dying. Soon after the couple arrived dec. 9, they Learned their daughter Ashley Carson 17, was out of danger. Corson and her Sis Ter Sherri also 17, had arrived in Ohio 18 months ago to look for work. Their parents were left without a Way Home having no return tickets and Only 68 cents in their pockets. The salvation army has Given them Shel Ter most of the time since then As they have worked to raise Money for their return i m cram England where the salvation army was founded but i always thought it was just brass band and you put a couple of pounds in their Kettle on Christmas. But without them i Don t know what would have happened to us Reynolds said. They could not stay with a relative in Bowling Green because there was not enough room and the Reynold s relatives in England could not Send Money for return tickets us the couple had hoped. A Bowling Green Church group bought the couple bus tickets to Cleveland to seek help from the British consulate which recommended that they seek help from local service agencies including lie Sak lion army. They have been living at a salvation army shelter for the homeless since dec. 12 and working at various jobs supplied through a temporary employment Agency. They have saved 300 of the 1300 needed to get Back to England and hop to earn the remainder by Early next week Reynolds credited the salvation army with saving our  they have helped us All along the Way with kindness he said. We spent Christmas in the shelter and saw the pm coming in and being served. I cant say enough for maj. And mrs. Edward v. And Dorothy Dimond who run the  Reynolds said the poor Here must work harder than anyone he knows in England