European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes wednesday. August 6,1986 Eastern airlines dropping Miami London service Miami up Eastern airlines announced Mon Day it is suspending its Miami to London service oct. I because it cannot compete with Cut rate trans Atlan tic carriers. Eastern president Joseph Leonard said the airline s Miami London bookings dropped sharply when a fourth Carrier. Virgin Atlantic began flying the route in april. Virgin Atlantic Cut fares 30 to 40 percent when it entered the Market and it offers round trip flights be tween Miami and London s Gatwick Airport Tor As Low As $458. Eastern s lowest Tare on that route is s598. Leonard said a dc-10 assigned to the route will be sold or leased. Equi Cor health plan firm to Start business in fall Nashville Tenn. Up equitable life Assur Ance society of the United states and Hospital corporation of America said monday they plan a joint venture to provide managed health care and other employee Benefit products. Equi Cor equitable Cha corp. Will have Prin Cipal offices in Nashville and new York. Initial equity in the equally owned company will be in excess of $400 million. Cash contributions include approximately $90 million by each of the parents. Equi Cor is expected to begin business in the fall of this year and will Combine the equitable group and health insurance co., an unincorporated division of equitable and Cha health plans. Marriott plans to sell 290 Saga restaurants Washington up Marriott on the Day it finalized its Saga merger monday revealed plans to sell 290 recently acquired Saga restaurant properties to a group of private investors. The investors group is led by Anwar Soliman de scribed by Marriott As an experienced restaurant sex  the Saga restaurants included in the Deal Are Stuart Anderson s Black Angus Grandy s. Velvet tunic and spectrum foods primarily on the West coast mar Riott spokesman Terry Souers said. Marriott a food and lodging conglomerate acquired the Menlo Park  Saga this summer Pri Marily in an attempt to consolidate its hold on the institutional food business. Border patrol Van flips killing Driver salvadoran Cotulla Texas up a Border patrol Van ran off a Highway and flipped Over Early monday kill ing us Driver and a salvadoran. Killed were a Border patrolman Norman Ray Sali Nas 25. Father of a 6-year-old daughter and a baby bom just hours before his death and salvadoran car los Alvarenga Martinez 28, who had been apprehended for illegal entry sunday a Border patrol spokesman said in Laredo. The Accident happened at 2 . Monday South of Cotulla the spokesman said. Brain tissue transplants found effective in rats Nashville Tenn. Up Vanderbilt univer sity researchers said monday they transplanted brain tissue to rats and stopped 85 percent of them from dying from a brain disorder similar to Huntington s Chorea. Scientists worldwide have been trying to determine if brain tissue transplants can help treat other brain disorders such As Parkinson s and alzheimer s Dis eases. Some 25,000 americans have Huntington s Chorea a debilitating brain disease characterized by Jerky in voluntary movements and loss of mental processes. Hovering on the horizon soon us Jet which can Horer like helicopter May be ukr no to their. This a test s concept show the experimental Jet project Sikorsky aircraft has Bee develop Long for Nasa mad the defense advanced he search projects Agency. The Stratford Conn firm a photo the Rotor can be stopped in flight to act a Wing la conventional Jet powered flight Navy seeks $11.1 million reduction from contractor by Richard c. Gross up military writer Washington an internal Pentagon audit re leased monday charged Mcdonnell Douglas corp., the nation s largest defense contractor with excess profits in building the Navy s f-18 Jet and recommended an is 1.1 million Price reduction. The report by the Chicago office of the defense contract audit Agency said the St. Louis based com Pany received a $10.1 million Cost reduction from subcontractor and did not inform the Navy of the lesser charges while the firm and the Navy were negotiating for a lower Price for the Al 8 fighter. The contractor made misleading statements during negotiation the 11-Page audit report said. The audit report said Mcdonnell Douglas should offer an $11.1 million Price reduction to the Navy with the additional $1 million an adjustment for excess profit. In addition. Rep. John Dingell d-mich., chairman of the House oversight and investigations subcommittee charged in a letter to defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger that Mcdonnell Douglas did not disclose a $42 million reduction in its contract with the Hughes aircraft co. For f-l8 radars. A spokesman for Mcdonnell Douglas in St Louis de Nied any wrongdoing and said discussions have begun with the Navy about the Al 8 audit. He said the company had not yet Analysed the audit on the radar contract the f-18 audit reviewed a 1983 agreement Between the Navy and Mcdonnell Douglas for the Sale of 168 plane for $2.9 billion for fiscal 1983 and 1984. The Northrop corp. Of Hawthorne calif., was the subcontractor in question. It supplied part of the plane s fuselage. The contractor did not provide the most current accurate and Complete information concerning North Rop subcontract Cost the audit said. Northrop was charging Mcdonnell Douglas $5.9 million for each fuselage Section the report said. In october 1983, a month before the agreement with the Navy the president of Mcdonnell Douglas san Ford Mcdonnell telephoned Northrop chairman Tom Jones and got $100,000 off the Price for each fuselage Section company spokesman Jack Cooke said. The Price reduction was in accordance with Navy demands for lower Price and Cooke said the Navy had been informed about the $100,000 Cut in november Mcdonnell Douglas accepted the Navy s Price for the planes and told the Navy it would have to get lower prices from Northrop and other suppliers Cooke said. The company returned to Northrop and asked for another $60,000 Price Cut or $ 10.1 million for 168 planes Cooke Laid. We got Northrop to agree to $40,000 per aircraft for a $6.7 million reduction he said. He said Mcdonnell was not personally involved in negotiations with Northrop after october. Cooke insisted that the Navy knew Mcdonnell would be asking Northrop and other suppliers for Price reductions after the agreement had been made no before As alleged by the audit. We did t hide anything from the Navy he said. We did t deceive them. We told them exactly what we were  child id programs unnecessary create panic paediatricians say Chicago up the problem of missing Chil Dren is not the epidemic Many people believe and fingerprinting and videotaping children As a precaution Only serves to give them nightmares a National organization of paediatricians said tuesday. Mass identification programs for missing children Are not Only ineffective but they also create an unnecessary sense of hysteria and panic in parents and children said or. George Sterne chairman of the american Academy of paediatrics committee on Early childhood adoption and dependent care. I think the Public thinks that these strangers with their big Black mustaches and fat cigars Are grabbing a million kids off the Street every year and that s not what s happening the new Orleans Pedia Tricia said. Of 350,000 children reported missing to the Fri in 1984, Only 67 were kidnapped by strangers Sterne said. Most were teen age runaways and the rest were primarily children taken by parents in custody Dis Putes he said. I Don t mean to minimize anybody s distress about a real abduction Steve said. It is a horror and a night Mare when it happens but fortunately it is rare.1 Given the actual risk involved mass identification programs do More to spread fear and anxiety than to alleviate it Sterne said. Children Are being frightened and parents Are being frightened and their lives Are being constricted by this he said. This fingerprinting really scares a child and they have nightmares about  such programs also Are unlikely to work Sterne said. In a statement of policy released tuesday the paediatricians group said the identification programs Are of limited value and will rarely be of help in locating a missing  to Date no living child has been identified by fingerprints. One dead child has but that s about it Sterne said. On the other hand he said it is reasonable to take some reasonable precautions. But i think this can be done without creating an unnecessary sense of hysteria and panic and crippling people s ability to get along in life. Certainly it is reasonable that parents Tell their children you do not go off with strangers. You Don t accept Candy from strangers " Sterne said. That s All very