European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday. February 2.1986 people express May buy troubled commuter airline Naples Fla. A people express airlines said Friday it has tentatively agreed to provide Provincetown Boston airline with a desperately needed Cash infusion and to eventually buy the troubled commuter Carrier. As part of the arrangement Between Naples based Aba and Newark  people express Aba s secured creditors agreed to pump an additional $500,000 into the Carrier once the largest regional airline in the nation. People express said Friday evening. In addition. People express said it has agreed to provide As much As $700,000 in additional Loans to Aba. The terms of the proposed acquisition have not yet been negotiated people express said in the release. Once negotiated the Deal must be approved by Aba s creditors and a bankruptcy judge. If the Purchase is approved Aba will continue to Fly As a separate Carrier serving its traditional routes in the Northeast and Florida people express said. Aba president Peter  Arsdale had indicated he would shut Down the airline founded by his father unless it could solve its Cash problems. Negotiations with a potential investor continued than Day and  Arsdale emerged from the talks confident that an agreement would be signed. This Deal a to work oat or that s it he said thursday. The negotiations were believed to have been with people express. Van Arsdale said then that Aba had a better than 90 percent Chance of securing an investor or buyer for the airline which failed to meet its payroll  for the first Lime in its history and faced another $650.000 payroll for its 650 workers late Friday. It eventually met its Jan.15 payroll in three instalments during the past two weeks. Meanwhile attorney Haricy Riedel said the airlines lawyers obtained permission in is. Bank a  to take out an emergency $500,000 Bank loan but Only if it found a buyer. Aba was once the nation s largest commuter line. It has been operating under chapter 11 of the Federal bankruptcy Laws since last March. With about $18 million in debt it he sought a buyer for several months. Donna Fiala. A spokeswoman for Aba said the airline s bookings have held up fairly Well despite publicity about the possible demise of the Carrier that once had a Fleet of More than 100 planes and 500 daily nights. The airline began to decline in 1984 when the Federal aviation administration shut it Down for two weeks be cause of falsified Pilot training records. The earner resumed flying but it was rocked by a fatal plane crash in Jacksonville two weeks later. Hundreds of lawsuits prompt firm to Stop marketing 2 Luis in . Chicago a . Searle & co. On Friday withdrew from the . Market its two intrauterine birth control devices including the nation s most prescribe did. Because of costs stemming from hundreds of Law suits the Luis to be withdrawn immediately Are marketed under the Trade names Tatum to and ctl-7, or Copper 7. The id most often prescribed in the United states since it was approved by the food and drug administration in 1974."we and Many physicians deeply regret this action because it limits the choices of the american Public in birth control methods Tod Hullin vice president of communications for the Skokie based pharmaceutical giant said at a news  move leaves Only one id on the . Market the protest Ascot made by Alza corp., the Fra  the 775 Lud related lawsuits filed against Searle in the past 12 years Hullin said the company maintains full Confidence in the safety Efficacy and medical Utility of the  Luis be added join the growing list of beneficial prescription drags voluntarily withdrawn from the us. Market because of unfounded  of the lawsuits contended that the devices caused infertility or bacterial infections Hullin said adding 470lawsuits had been resolved and 305 were pending. Searle acquired by St. Louis based Monsanto co. In september sold Between 300,000 and 400,000 Luis in the us. Annually he said. As Many As 1 million of the devices considered effective for three years May be in use Hullin said women using either id need not have any immediate concern Tat should consult their  any questions. He cited findings by planned parenthood s National medical committee in october that both of Searle s Luis were Safe and effective. Faye Wattleton president of the planned parenthood federation of America said in a statement Friday that Advent publicity about the Copper-7 does not appear to be justified by the medical  Luis an Small devices usually plastic or plastic and Copper that Are inserted into the uterus by a physician. Experts Are unsure exactly Bow they work but it is believed that they cause a slight inflammation in the uterus that keeps the fertilized egg from being implanted. In a statement the american College of obstetricians and gynaecologists said it regretted that because of the Legal climate products with relatively few Side effects jul not be available for family planning purposes even with informed patient consent both devices will continue to be sold outside the United states. Hullin said. He added that Searle is considering Selling its foreign id business. The company also will continue marketing its line of Oral contraceptives and win continue research in the Are of birth control he said. About 2j million women in the United states now use Luis said or. Warren Pearse executive director of the physicians group aha corp based in Palo Alto calif., Sells about 100,000 of its  Luis a year and has no plans to discontinue safes said spokeswoman Betty Burdett. Protest assert is considered effective for Only one year. Another id the Dalton shield went off the Market in the mid-1970s. Its maker Ash. Robins co filed for reorganization under Federal bankruptcy Law in August. Saying it bad paid out 1520 million to 9,500 women who claimed the device caused sterility miscarriage and serious Janics. Other claims Are still pending. One third of the 470 lawsuits against Searle that have been resolved did not require any payment by the company Hullin said. But four recent trials in which the company paid no damages Cost $1.5 million to defend. Wedding May affect legislator s trial los Angeles a is. Rep. Both Fiedler s impending marriage to top aide Paul Clarice May affect the Case in which they Are accused of trying to pay a Campaign rival to quit the us. Senate race a prosecutor says. Chief Deputy District attorney Gilbert Garcetti said Friday that the marriage could be used As a defense strategy if Fiedler and Clarke face separate trials because either one can refuse to testify against the other. Under California Law a husband or wife has the right to refuse to testify against us or her  added the marriage would Only be As Issue if there were separate  want to keep the two cases together Garcetti said this might form a basis for them to request Severance. I cod the tuning of the announcement quite Peculiar he added both the congresswoman and her attorney Roger Diamond denied there was a connection Between the wed Ding announcement and the  re in love and they want to get  Diamond said. I never made that recommendation totem. Fiedler. 48, Aad Clarke. 39, her longtime aide were indicted by the los Angeles county grand jury on Jan. 23 on  stateside House closes gym at night after legislator uses it As hotel Washington a rep. Richard k. Armey la the eyes of his colleagues was apparently resting a Lite too Long after workouts at the House gymnasium i the Rayburn House office building. Armey 45, a freshman Republican from Texas had Given up his $700-a-month apartment in suburban Arling ton va., and had been sleeping in one of the gym s Inlet  the 7-by-.hoot cubicles equipped Wita a bet and chair Are intended As places for congressmen to rest after workouts on body building machines. Armey said he took up residence in die gym because he frequently worked As late As Midnight and found it  to return to his rarely used but expensive apartment j acting on complaints from House members that Armey was turning the gym into a hotel the three member House gymnasium committee decided to close the gym from 10 . To 6  aide to Armey said the former economics professor has moved his Pillow Blanket and alarm Dock to the sofa in Bis fifth floor office in the Cannon building. Philadelphia Stock Exchange to Trade european currency unit Philadelphia up the Philadelphia Stock Exchange will become the first Exchange to Trade options on the european currency unit beginning feb. 12. The european currency unit is an International currency whose value is based on 10 european currencies. The addition of the european currency unit brings the number of foreign currency options traded on the Phila Delphia Stock Exchange to seven. Options on the British Pound were introduced by the Exchange in 1982. Since then options on the japanese yen Swiss franc Deutsche Mark Canadian Dollar and French franc have been added. Samantha Smith s Mother Given soviet song about Lovely Gin Portland. Maine a a group of soviet schol ars has Given the Mother of Samaatha Smith a Chil Drca s song written by a russian composer in memory of the schoolgirl who took her message of peace to the soviet Union in 1983.the delegation ended a three Day visit to the University of Southern Maine by presenting Samantha a Smik to Jane Smith after a banquet at the school our planet hears the voice of that Lovely girl with kind smile and her voice is like a tiny Bell calling for peace and Friendship says one  am glad that these exchanges Are taking place said mrs. Smith. We need More of in Samantha her father and six other people were killed. In a plane crash in Auburn last  quitting smoking cuts chances of 2nd heart attack study finds Boston up heart attack victims woo quit smoking dramatically reduce their chances of having a other sudden cardiac arrest researchers have said. An 11-year study of 310 smokers who suffered heart. Attacks showed those who kicked the habit had a sign flt those who continued to use cigarettes a study  new England journal of Medicine stud. The researchers from the University of Washington an the Arborview medical Center in Seattle sail clean in smoking i " act in the  is possible that cessation of cigarette smoking May offer As much or More Protection from sudden a stiff death As Many drug  that have been Fri posed the researchers said. Man Dies after breaking neck in fall from Barber s chair Orange Texas a a. 38-year-old Mali after apparently falling from a Barber shop Zehak j breaking his neck authorities say. Aft Jimmy Lee Brandon of Orange was apparently sitting to it re full. Ulk a 4k. .1.1-.i k.1i a i Fol for bind t to tet