European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes tuesday february 25.1986 coca cola to test Market Tab diet cola with Calcium Wesley Chapel Fla. A coca cola Usa plans to test Market its Tab diet cola which has suffered a Sharp drop in sales since 1982, with a new formula con Taining Calcium a company official says. Tab frankly has been declining since the introduction of diet Coke. We be been looking for a major Point of difference de my Lect executive vice president of coca cola Usa said at the annual conference of the consumer analysts group of new York. The Atlanta based company said in a statement that test markets for Tab and caffeine free Tab both with i ilium Haven t been determined. In a 12-Ouncc serving each product contains 10 percent of the . Recommended daily allowance of Calcium. Judge overturns libel award granted sex Michigan official Detroit a a judge has overturned a $266,840 libel award to a former Michigan official who sued the Detroit free press Over a series of articles alleging that he helped defraud the stale unemployment Agency. In throwing out the jury award Wayne county circuit judge Marianne Ballani ruled that Robert Perm had failed to prove the newspaper showed a reckless disregard for Lac Rulh in running the 1979 stories. At the Lime Penn was an assistant to the Michigan employment Security commission director. The articles alleged that Penn helped a business associate and the associate s son defraud the Agency of thousands of dollars by filing phony Benefit claims. Maryland moves to protect Pound animals from experiments Annapolis my. A the state Senate has voted overwhelmingly to Stop the City of Baltimore from Selling unwanted Pound animals to hospitals for research rejecting claims such a move would impair medical experiments beneficial to humans. I know the City wants every Penny it can get. But i really believe we be got to draw the line in this Case said sen. Norman Stone. Baltimore sold 267 Pound animals last year at $10 apiece for use in medical experiments said Stone. Minnesota county declared a nuclear waste free zone Crookston Minn. A commissioners have declared Polk county a nuclear free zone in a Resolution opposing nuclear waste repository Sites in Northwestern Minnesota. The Resolution which was proposed by members of the Crookston pc coworkers was unanimously adopted by the five member commission. The . Department of Energy has identified 20 Sites where crystalline Rock formations could be used for Dispo Sal of nuclear waste. Eight of the Sites Are in Minnesota including four in the Northwestern Corner of the state. The Resolution which says that no radioactive wastes shall be stored within the county carries no Force of Law. Sen. Paul Simon a proud Bow tie wearer examines some of the complimentary lies people have Beta sending to his Washington office. The assortment of All tied up lies began flooding in after newspaper ran Story saying thai the Illinois Democrat we running oat of the Bow ties he likes to Ghe to Charity. Court again prevents aids victim from returning to Public school Indianapolis a aids victim Ryan while had looked Forward to starting his first full week Back in school monday but the 14-year-old Kokomo boy was at Home again a Telephone Monitor his Only link to his class mates. Ryan was barred from Western Middle school on Fri Day for the second time this time by a judge who agreed with parents arguing that the boy s condition threatened the health of his seventh Grade schoolmates. Howard circuit judge Alan Brubaker s temporary re straining order was a major setback for Ryan in his 7 month old Legal Battle to be readmitted to classes after school officials barred him last summer. He went Back to school Friday but officials said almost half the school s 360 students stayed Home and parents sought the restraining order. The fight to enrol Ryan is not Over his attorney Charles r. Vaughan sr., said from his Lafayette office Over the weekend. I Haven t decided what i m going to do yet but i m going to do something. I think everybody who heard the evidence in a court hearing Friday at which the order was granted was startled with the decision. But Well be Back. Maybe Well have our Day  Ryan s Mother Jeanne White said she expected the judge monday would schedule another hearing on the Issue. Bra Baker said Friday his order could be made permanent and he added that the Issue deserved another hearing. White had thought the fight was Over feb. "3 when Howard county s chief health officer ruled that Ryan s condition posed no health Hazard to fellow students or teachers. Or. Alan j. Adler s certificate said there was no reason the boy should t be Able to attend school As Long a proper precautions were taken. But because of the restraining order Ryan was to once More Monitor classes monday through the Telephone Hook up in his room As he has since september. But his books Are still in his locker while said. You know it s so crazy. One Day you re in school and the next Day you re out. I just Don t  Friday was Ryan s first Day in classes since december 1984, when his disease was diagnosed. He contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome through blood treat ments for Haemophilia. Father of missing flier optimistic some pos alive Phoenix. Ariz. Up Earl hop per s retirement has not been the life of ease and relaxation he had planned. The retired army colonel has been on a non Stop schedule since 1969 trying to de Termine the Fate of his son and the other sons and husbands fathers and Brothers who disappeared during the Vietnam War. His son air Force it. Col. Earl Hopper jr., was shot Down Over Vietnam Jan. 10, 1968. The elder Hopper ended his 30-year Mili tary career the following year and since then has been in the forefront of the pow Mia movement. Hopper says he reached the Low Val Ley level a decade ago when it seemed the american Public had lost interest in its missing servicemen. He now sees a revival of interest and with it a revival of his spirits. I m very optimistic How based on information that is coming out Hopper said. Finally the american people Are con Vinced there Are live pos Over there. Finally after hearing their constituents scream congressmen and senators Are get Ting an interest in it and i know the presi Dent of the . Has been informed there Are live pos Over  when his son was shot Down. Hopper recalled families of missing servicemen were advised not to speak out. He said they kept quiet As requested until 1969, when nine american prisoners were released from North Vietnam and came Back and told us of their inhumane treatment by their captors. Family members began working out of their Homes and that grew into the nation Al league of pow Mia families be said. Hopper got involved first on the state level and then As a National officer serving on its Board of directors from 1973 to 1984 and As executive director in 197s-76. He remains a member but feels it has not been aggressive enough and that its officials became rubber Stamps for government officials who insisted there were no pos in Southeast Asia. That frustration led him to help Start a new group task Force Omega inc. Three years ago and to become increasingly Active in its crusade. In the past 214 years i be been to 35 different slates on speaking engagements he said. I be spoken to civic organizations veterans organizations. I be spoken to Viet Nam veterans at rallies. I be put on sem Inars. I be also spoken to National conventions the american legion the veterans of foreign  last month Hopper testified before the Senate veterans affairs committee urging that human intelligence forces be sent to Indochina to help find american prisoners. He said he did not know if Bis son who would be 42 would be among those wait ing to be rescued. Hopper also has joined in a suit filed against the government in september by three men who had been assigned to a Spe Cial forces unit in South Korea and said they had information about american pos in Laos. The suit is based on a 19th-Century Law requiring the president to take All possible action to recover american citizens held captive by a foreign Power. Hopper also is in Contact with Intelli gence sources who claim to have evidence of american prisoners in Southeast Asia. He says he is puzzled about what be sees As the hesitancy of government to investigate the claims. Watergate will look like a picnic he said. A lot of High ranking Middle rank ing Low ranking officials. Are going to not Only be highly embarrassed but not sir charged with criminal  Hopper s son was listed As missing in action after he ejected from his fighter plane. He was declared dead in 1982. Air Force searchers heard his son s Emer gency radio Beeper which had to be manually activated for three Days after his plane went Down. The plane s Pilot capt. Keith Hall Abo ejected. He landed several Miles away from Hopper was taken captive and was eventually released. Hall had no further communication with his co Pilot but Hopper said the Vietnam Ese did question Hall about him. Hopper also said Hall asked a Vietnam Ese captor if the younger Hopper was also a prisoner but the vietnamese just shrugged his shoulders and walked