European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6, the stars and stripes sunday March 2, 1986 linked to peace a photo girls with the Camp fire girls group Kiccio Noka at Black elementary school in eau Claire wis., work on a peace Chain they plan to present to president Reagan in May. Residents of eau Claire Are helping the girls make the 1 million links that will be needed to finish the 18-mile-Long Chain. Young smokeless tobacco users unaware of health risks report says Washington a Young people Are dangerously confused about the health risks of smokeless tobacco and Are dipping and chewing at rapidly increasing rates the government says. A health and human services department report is sued Friday said use of chewing tobacco and snuff has seen a dramatic resurgence in social acceptability among youth in the past decade. Health problems and difficulty in kicking the habit have shown up too it said. Solid data now confirms that our youth Are using smokeless tobacco products without knowing the health consequences Secretary Otis r. Bowen said in releasing the study. This report shows a dangerous confusion on the part of too Many of our youth the mistaken belief that smoke less tobacco somehow presents a Safe alternative to cigarette  the report was released one Day after president Reagan signed a Law requiring that health warnings appear on smokeless tobacco packages and Banning advertising of the products on radio and television. The has report said four of 10 Young dippers experienced Leuko Plakia or wrinkled patches inside their Mouths at the site of the tobacco. It said 37 percent have experienced sores blisters and ulcers on their Gums lips and Tongue and 20 percent have receding Gums. The report based on a Survey of Young people Educa Tion officials and health experts also found the average age of first use was 10, or the fifth Grade and regular and daily use begins As Early As 12. The rate of usage has increased rapidly in recent years and Young people say they were encouraged by advertising including endorsements by famous athletes. Users among Young people Are overwhelmingly boys 90 percent or More. Dipping and chewing have wide social acceptance among the Young with 70 percent of users saying students generally regard it As More acceptable or equally acceptable As smoking. 78 percent of those who said they tried to quit failed because of addiction craving or habit. 60 percent of Junior High school users and 40 percent of senior High users say there is Little or no risk to regular use of smokeless tobacco. One fourth think snuff does t contain nicotine and 80 percent think smokeless use is much safer than smoking cigarettes. 30 percent to 40 percent said they use snuff in the classroom despite school prohibitions. A National institutes of health scientific panel concluded last month that there is convincing evidence linking snuff and chewing tobacco with increased risk of Oral cancer. The american medical association s journal in a special february anti smoking Issue said users is tobacco Are exposed to Adverse health effects such As Oral  the report was based on a Survey of 525 people More than half of whom were current or former regular users of smokeless tobacco. Besides High school and Junior High school students the Survey included school officials Doc tors and health and education officials. It recommends educational campaigns on the risks of smokeless tobacco. Comet starts to pop like Popcorn los Angeles not Halley s Comet is losing water at wildly fluctuating rates and May have an extremely Lumpy surface according to a scientist who has been following the Comet s journey behind the Sun Over the past few weeks. Or. Jeffrey Cuzzi a Comet expert at the Nasa s Ames research Center in Mountain View calif., said at a news conference the Comet seemed uniform and unspectacular before it made its closest approach to the Sun on feb. 9. All of a sudden the thing starts to pop like Popcorn Cuzzi said. We can now ask questions of How heat penetrates the Comet s surface. Is it Fluffy or hard How Clumpy is it or. Ian Stewart said wednesday that the rate at which the Comet s ice flashes into Gas As it is heated by the Sun has been varying enormously. He said the Comet lost 30 tons of water a second on feb. 18 and lost 70 tons of water a second the next Day. That Means that the nucleus of Halley s Comet is More irregular than anyone expected Stewart said at the news conference. It must have on it regions of fresh ice and other regions where crusts of dust insulate the ice from the heat of the Sun said Stewart a senior research associate at the University of Colorado at Boulder who has been following the Comet since december. The Comet of dust and ice which is something like a dirty snowball hurtling through the solar system is losing water regularly but scientists were surprised at the rate of variability of evaporation disclosed by Stewart. Stewart said the Comet was losing about 12 tons of water a second on new year s Day. By Early february the rate was 45 tons a second he said. After making its closest approach to the Sun the Comet began to fluctuate even More wildly Stewart said. On its current visit to the inner solar system lasting several months the Comet is expected to lose 20 to 30 feet of ice Stewart said. Remains of baby Mammoth discovered at Texas site Waco Texas a the remains of a baby wooly Mammoth have been uncovered at an excavation site that has yielded the Bones of 14 of the ancient creatures. The dig known As the Waco Mammoth site has been under Way for four years and was described by a smithsonian institution archaeologist As one of the most important in the  Smith director of Baylor University s Strecker museum and director of the Waco Mammoth site said the site is estimated to be almost 28,000 years old. The animals have been identified As the columbian Mammoth the most common elephant in North America during the pleistocene Era. 3 who refused to testify begin serving House arrest Tucson Ariz. A three people who refused to testify As witnesses in the trial of 11 Sanctuary movement activists have begun House arrest that was ordered As punishment for their Defiance. The defendants Are accused of conspiracy to smuggle Central americans into the United states. On feb. 18, . District judge Earl h. Carroll ordered the Rev. George Lockwood 39, and Kay Kelly 62, both of Tucson and Mary Ann Lundy of Wayzata minn., to begin their confinement. Each was ordered to remain at Home until the trial ends except to attend one religious service per week to obtain medical care for themselves or another family member or in Case of emergency such As a House fire. Each of the three said testifying would violate their first amendment rights to religious Freedom. Lockwood is a pastor at Menlo Park United methodist Church Kelley became a presbyterian Deacon last year and Lundy whose husband is a minister is coordinator of the National student Myca based in new York City. Professor to be awarded $50,000 for work on cancer new York a a Massachusetts Institute of technology professor whose research focuses on the immune system will receive a $50,000 award for his work on cancer. The Bristol Myers award for distinguished achieve ment in cancer research will be awarded april 17 to Susumu Tonegawa a professor at Mit s biology depart ment and Center for cancer research. Tonegawa found that rearranging the fragments of genes the chemical blueprints for cells activates cancer causing genes in blood cells known Asb cells the scientist said in an interview. . May have to close Down ride because of insurance costs new York a the spiralling Cost of insurance May Stop the Cyclone roller coaster a Coney Island land Mark in its tracks this summer. The City wants us to have $5 million in Public liability insurance. Unfortunately $5 million is not obtainable in the marketplace said Howard Kahn vice president of a Troland amusement Park which has operated the 55 year old City owned ride for the past 11 years. The Cyclone will not open this year if the City is going to be insistent on $5 million in liability insurance he said. Kahn said state and City Laws mandate $1 million in Public liability insurance for any amusement ride and that much coverage is available. But Jon Lukomnik spokesman for City comptroller Harrison Goldin said the City wanted More insurance forthe roller coaster. Coast guard rescues swede who ditched plane near Miami Miami up a swedish Man ditched his Light plane in Biscayne Bay and was rescued by the coastguard officials said. To Hans Gartner 36, was in route from Curacao to Miami when his 1966 skyhawk lost Power in both engines forcing him to land the plane in the water coast guard Petty officer Brenda Toledo said. She said he ditched the Craft off Vonesta Beach on the Atlantic Ocean Side of Biscayne Bay. The Federal aviation administration Tower in Miami heard a distress signal from Gartner and notified the coast guard. A helicopter from Miami and a 41-foot patrol boat from coast guard base Miami Beach were launched to search for Gartner. The patrol boat located him. Gartner was checked by local paramedics at the coastguard base and was released