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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday april 5, 1986 plane with a variety of missions a photo a new unmanned aircraft with a fuselage Tarmac at Moses Lake Wash. The strange of the Seattle based company say that surveillance weather tracking recon Ais that looks like a Long Long Cigar sits on the looking plane was built by Boeing. Officials among the jobs it May perform Are drug Sanc and Border patrolling. Eastern to hire 700 new attendants Miami a Eastern airlines says it plans to hire 700 new flight attendants because of increased flights. The announcement thursday came three Days after the transport workers Union which represent Eastern s 6,000 flight attendants ratified a new agreement with the airline. Mark Wegel an Eastern spokesman said the Carrier needs the additional attendants to handle a proposed 6 percent increase in flights this year. We Are seeing a fairly healthy sized growth in our East West Market in the United states in our european Market and in our latin american Market Wegel said. The airline recently added 12 flights at its Kansas City Hub and a 5-Day-a-week i amp Madrid route. It plans to increase flights to latin America Wegel said but has not decided How Many. Eastern recalled 861 of the 1,010 night attendants it Laid off during its contract dispute in january. Wegel said the remaining furloughed attendants were asked to return but they declined. Some of them got other jobs or had flown for a while and realized the Job was not for them and they opted notto accept the recall he said. The 700 new flight attendants will make about $13,000 a year Wegel said. The scale is $2,000 to $3,000 less than new attendants were making before the airline Industry was deregulated. The flight attendants new contract Calls for a 20 per cent reduction of wages Benefit cuts and work Rule changes. The Union and Eastern still disagree on whose version of the contract is valid however and the two sides must report the status of continuing talks to . District judge Eugene Spellman on april 9. Of delivers heart for transplant St. Louis a a donor heart delivered from Montana to St. Louis by an air Force Jet fighter has been implanted in a Missouri Man whose body was rejecting a transplanted heart that did not match his blood Type. Ron evens a spokesman at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis said the 47-year-old patient was in critical Condi Tion in the intensive care unit Early Friday after under going his second transplant in less than two weeks. Hospital officials have not disclosed the patient s name at his request. The second transplant began Early thursday night and ended Early Friday morning evens said. Hospital officials said the patient had been in serious but stable condition since he received a donor heart of the wrong blood Type Ina transplant on March 21. John Miller a Barnes spokesman said that in the first transplant a heart of blood Type b was put into the patient who has Type a blood. The typing error was made at the Texas Hospital where the donor heart came from he said refusing to identify the Hospital. The patient s body began rejecting the heart March 28, Miller said and a search began for another heart of the proper blood Type. Charlene Bancroft a Barnes spokeswoman said Hospi Tal officials Learned thursday that a donor heart was available in Billings Mont. The air Force was asked for assistance because a commercial flight from Billings to Stlouis would take too Long she said. The patient needed the initial transplant because he had cardiomyopathy an irreversible deterioration of heart tis sue. Doctors have Given the Man larger doses of an immune suppressant drug called cyclosporine that has slowed the body s rejection of the new heart Miller said dealer s work on acid rain probed Washinton up Michael Deaver a close Friend of president Reagan who was once no. 2 on the White House staff is being investigated for his role As an adviser to the Canadian government concerning acid rain the general accounting office said thursday. A Gao spokesman said the request for the investigation which came from rep. John Dingell d-mich., asked the congressional investigators to also look into unspecified other issues in addition to Deaver s work on the acid rain problem. Deaver who has known the president and first lady Nancy Reagan for More than 20 years resigned last year As Deputy White House chief of staff to open his own consulting firm in the capital. His firm has attracted a number of big name big Money clients. One of Deaver s clients is the government of Canada which retained him to help lobby the administration on acid rain and other bilateral issues. Specifically the Gao investigation centers on the Fol lowing whether there is any connection Between Deaver s work on the acid rain Issue while he was at the White House his contract with the Canadian government and his influence if any in the administration s change of position and agreement last month with Canada on How Todeal with the acid rain problem. A Eav to who retained free Access and a pass to the White House after leaving the government is legally barred As a former senior official from conducting Busi Ness with the White House for one year. Gao officials said Dingell requested the investigation dec. 10 and Gao investigators met with staff members of the House Energy and Commerce committee which Dingell chairs in january. The investigation is expected to last several months. Singer o Kelly Isley 48, Dies after heart attack Englewood . A o Kelly Isley a member of the Isley Brothers who sold More than 12 million records including the grammy award winning it s your thing has died at age 48. Isley suffered a heart attack at his Home in this new York City suburb and was declared dead of a cerebral Haemorrhage at Englewood Hospital a Hospital spokesman said. Fri checking fake draft notices put into students mailboxes Waltham mass. A officials of Brandeis University have called in the Fri to investigate fake military draft notices that were stuffed into student mailboxes. The notices printed on stationery bearing the Federal selective service system logo and Telephone number warned students to be prepared for imminent change in their draft registration status. These changes could be necessitated by possible Esca lation of military operations abroad. The Pentagon has been coordinating contingency plans concerning the Cen trial America Region the notices said. Fri spokesman Jack Cloherty said the incident was under investigation and that the Agency had been inundated with Calls from students. Directory lists Public places equipped with hearing devices Washington a the National association of hearing and speech action has published a directory list ing Public places equipped with special devices to help the hearing impaired listen to speeches sermons and other events. The 223-Page directory lists 4,000 Heaters municipal buildings houses of worship and museums arranged by state and by Type of facility. In Washington d.c., for example hearing impaired visitors can follow floor debate from the Senate gallery or services at the National Cathedral. In Florida with a High concentration of elderly people More than 100 churches and synagogues have installed the hearing devices. The devices work by sending sound through a transmit Ter to a receiver either at the ear or in the hearing Aid of the listener. The directory $12.95 for professionals and groups and $7.95 for individual Consumers can be obtained from the nah a at 10801 Rockville Pike Rockville,md., 20852. 10% of . City felony arrests involve an alien study shows Washington a about one of every 10 Telony arrests in new York City involves an alien Man y of them convicted criminals or illegal immigrants who should have been deported previously a congressional study has said. The general accounting office an investigative Arm of Congress said Many of the aliens continued to be arrested and convicted for crimes even after Federal authorities had identified them As potentially Deporta i in november 1985, for example authorities in new Riwe a mvesti8ating about 200 aliens considered eligible for deportation the report said. Of those 77 percent had been arrested at least once and 45 percent More than once. Eleven percent had been arrested fiver More times. ,  
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