European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday july 13,1986 civil rights panel rejects affirmative action plea Washington up a bickering and Divide civil rights commission faced with a congressional threat to Cut off its Money rejected a Resolution Friday asking the Justice department to quit opposing affirmative action  a 5-3 vote the commission rejected a statement proposed by commissioners Mary Berry Blandina Ramirez and Francis guess supporting last week s supreme court rulings upholding the use of race an gender conscious remedies to overcome employment  Defeated Resolution in a reference to the Justice department said that now that the court has spoken the time for undercutting the Law is Over. Anything Short of Strong enforcement is  called on the commission to admonish the jus Tice department and the equal employment Opportunity commission to discontinue the expenditure of taxpayers funds in opposition to affirmative  refusing to go along with the Liberal minority on the embattled eight member panel commissioner Joh Bunzel said he had not yet read the court decisions and commissioner Robert Dcastro expressed opposition to the Tenor of the statement arguing i am for affirmative action but i m against  Clarence Pendleton and vice chairman Morris Abram who oppose All forms of race and Gen Der conscious remedies along with Esther Gonzalez Arroya Buckley also opposed the Resolution. Debate on the Resolution and on a congressional move to Cut off the commission s Money delayed the panel s consideration of a draft report on european ethnic groups until late in the afternoon. The vote on affirmative action came after the com Mission spent More than 90 minutes discussing the june 26 vote by the House appropriations committee to end commission funding. Although the ideologically divided commission could agree on no action to take in an Effort to Block the House committee s move nearly All members lamented that the panel appears to be threatened with extinction. The members could not agree on the motives of members of Congress backing the Effort with Pendle ton and Bunzel charging rep. Don Edwards a Calif and rep. Julian Dixon d-Calif., with having a hid Den Agenda in trying to kill the commission because they Don t like the message of the conservative dominated panel. However Ramirez said that the commission which once represented a very important link Between our system of Justice and the people who need Justice had by its controversial pronouncements weakened that link and the effect the tone of this commission on the lives of people who Are still vulnerable to discrimination has been damaging and that damage has been  diff rent strokes9 co Star Given year foil term for bomb threat san Fernando Calif. Up actor Todd Bridges co Star of the recently cancelled to show Dif f rent strokes was sentenced to a year in county jail for making a bomb threat against a Man he hired to customize Nis sports car. Superior court judge Robert Fratianne imposed the jail term Friday As a condition of the three years pro Bation he ordered Bridges 20, to serve. The judge postponed the jail sentence until Jan. 7, when Hewill review psychiatric and pro Bation reports and will evaluate How Well Bridges is faring. If the actor is obeying All conditions of his probation the judge will then postpone the jail term further or May even can cel it entirely the judge s clerk said. Bridges was also ordered tomake restitution up to $6,000, Bridges pay a $2,500 Fine continue psychiatric counselling an perform 300 hours of Community service. The actor was further ordered not to possess any weapons. Deputy District attorney John Spillane said Bridges who says he is a Hunter owns a gun collection that he will have to give  was arrested March 28 at his Northridge Home on suspicion of making two bomb threats Over the Telephone against Greg Tyree whom the actor had hired to make alterations on his  said Bridges threatened March 21 and March 26 to blow up Tyree s car after the two argued Over whether the work was properly done. Prosecutors said Bridges set off a primitive explosive device in Tyree s car that caused minor damage. In a plea bargain. Bridges pleaded no contest Las month to a felony charge of making one of the bomb  of possessing a destructive device with in tent to inflict bodily harm placing a destructive device near an occupied dwelling and possessing the materials to make a destructive device were  had been actor Gary Coltman s older brother w Ilis in the Abc comedy series different strokes since it first aired in 1978. He has also appeared in other series including Barney Miller Little House on the Prairie and the Waltons and in the mini series  skin stretching May combat baldness Chicago a a breakthrough in treating Par tial baldness has been discovered using a plastic sur Gery technique to stretch skin tissue that still has hair a new study  is no Quick easy solution to baldness or. Sheldon Kabaker said thursday. But for patients committed to surgical treatment for baldness this represents a significant breakthrough in enabling us to eliminate Large areas of baldness where we could t  Kabaker a plastic surgeon from Oakland Calif.,said the surgery involves implanting balloon like de vices called tissue expander underneath the Scalp to stretch skin tissue that still has hair. Over six to eight weeks doctors stretch the Scalp areas with hair by gradually inflating the balloons with Salt water. Surgeons then remove the Bald skin an stitch together the newly expanded Scalp in its place. The tissue expander Are removed at the same  and three colleagues reported on the tech Nique in the july Issue of archives of otolaryngology head and neck surgery published by the american medical association in Chicago. Skin expansion is a naturally occurring process during pregnancy but until recently we have ignored this potential Means for producing extra tissue the report said. The new technique is important Kabaker said be cause one in three men will begin balding by age 40, and two in three will by age 60.he said be has successfully treated 30 partially Bald patients using the technique and it can be used to treat male pattern baldness and baldness caused by bums or other skin , who specializes in facial plastic surgery and teaches at the University of California san fran Cisco said tissue expander have been used in other kinds of cosmetic surgery such As breast reconstruction after cancer operations. The treatment s greatest drawback the report said has been the reluctance of patients to be seen in Public with the Scalp deformity created by the  said the new technique will complement not replace the two most common methods of surgically treating baldness transplanting hair and implanting a skin Flap of hair to create a new front  a Man who is Bald except for a ring of hair around the sides of his head a combination of the technique would be needed he said. The final Cost for the combined procedures could Range from $ 5,000 to $ 15,000.none of the techniques he said is for people who Are looking for a simple answer like rubbing something on their  stateside grateful dead guitarist hospitalized after collapse Greenbrae Calif. Up Jerry Garcia Lead guitarist and a founder of the grateful dead Rock group has been hospitalized for exhaustion a Swift attack of diabetes and a tooth infection a band spokesman said  dead publicist Dennis Mcnally said Garcia collapsed at his Marin county Home thursday night and was admitted to Marin Gen eral Hospital in Greenbrae North of san fran Cisco. Garcia 41, was receiving treatment for the sudden Onset of diabetes an infection resulting from an abscessed tooth and general exhaustion following a Road tour Mcnally said. Garcia was in a diabetic coma when first admitted Buthis condition had improved greatly Friday. He s going to be of Mcnally said. Boy George look alike robs Bank in Maine Village Blue Hill Maine a a Man described As a boy George look alike wearing a Lavender and White Chenille Bedspread held up Bank in this tourist Village on Friday and escaped with some Cash authorities said. The Man believed to be armed and about 30yean old wore the Bedspread draped around bit shoulders a yellow turban on his head with Straw hat on top Blue jeans White sneakers Tad dark sunglasses said sheriff William f. Clark. The Man had covered his face with a White facial powder or Cream and carried a Brown rip Perez Luggage bag the sheriff  at the bar Harbor banking and Trust co. Were going Over the books late Friday to determine now much Money was stolen. We do believe it could be substantial Clar said. A number of people reported seeing a Man Matching the robbers description in the three hours before the robbery Clark  Holdup Man escaped through a Back door. No one was Hurt in the  employees described him As a look alike of Rock Star boy George the sheriff said. Columbus buildings Sway As tremor jolts 3 states Columbus Ohio up an earthquake Early saturday caused buildings to Sway slightly in Columbus and reports of tremors were heard across the state and from Michigan and Ken Tucky officials said. Seismologists were trying to determine the magnitude and epicentre of the quake which struck at 4 23 a.m., said John Minsch of the  Survey s earthquake information Center in Golden  paddock at the National weather serv ice in Cleveland said several callers from the Northeast Section of the state reported feeling the tremor which lasted about 10 seconds. We got our first Call from the Milan police department As it was happening paddock said. From what we have heard it been Light and there has been no damage  chinese language Playboy big Success in Hong Kong Chicago up the first Issue of the chinese language Playboy Magazine virtually sold out its initial print run of 50,000 copies into Days in Hong Kong its publisher says. 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