European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday August 13,1988. Board questions rear Lap belts safety l Nii i. In a i Tinb what the safety Board docs know theby he los Angeles times Washington the National transportation safety Board recommended monday Hal the government require shoulder safely harnesses in the rear seals of All new cars after a study of 26 automobile crashes showed Lap Bells can cause scr Ioui even fatal injuries. The recommendation was included in a report that reviewed the accidents All bul one of which were head on collisions and concluded that rear passengers wearing Only Lap Bells Maynold be adequately protected against in jury and May sustain additional injuries induced by the seat Belt itself. The report urged the National High Way traffic safety administration to take immediate Steps to make rear sen shoulder harnesses mandatory As they Are in front seats. In the interim the safety Board said Auto manufacturers should voluntarily include rear sea harnesses in All new models and offer belter kits to install them in existing  a. Goldman acting safely Board chairman cautioned however that the report s findings represented a Small Sample of mostly front end crashes and did nol evaluate the Overall effectiveness Flap belts in All types of Acci  Don t know whether it is Best for rear seat passengers to ride wit Only a Lap Bell or without one Gold Man said. What the safety boar s know she said is thai All motorists Are better protected when they Are wearing should or harnesses. The National Highway traffic safety administration which issues Federal vehicle safety standards. Quickly issued statement disputing the safely Board re port it said its own data involving thou Sand of cases shows clearly that a rear scat passenger has a belter Chance of avoiding serious injury or death by Wear ing a Lap Belt As opposed to wearing no Belt at at no is Bhe is Young hero rewarded Lynn mass. Up1 a 5-Vear-Oid boy who saved his sweetheart with the Heimlich Maneu ver was honoured monday by cily and slate officials who presented him with a medal a com Puter and citations and the creator of the technique called him a life  thank you Tonguc tied Brent Meldru said As local dignitaries surrounded him in a City Hall  saved Tanya Brandon 6, from choking on a piece of hard Candy aug. 5 by using the Heimlich Man Euver which he had picked up from an episode of the sit com Benson. Academy chief named Annapolis my. A rear adm. Ron Ald f. Many Oil president of the naval War col lege in Newport r.i., for the past year has Bee named to the Post of superintendent of the . Naval  career aviator and former naval Academy professor Marryon will be sworn in aug. 19 for Athree year tour of duty the Academy announced. Grad donates 1 St Check Alfred . Up Alfred state Colleg Ewas $244.76 Richer monday Courtesy of a recent graduate who donated his first paycheck to the school As a thank you  Janora 25, formerly of Elma says he gave up his first payroll Check from Genera electric co. In Schenectady because the College was most responsible for his being hired As a chemical  graduated in May with an associate degree in chemical technology. A to close heart units Washington not a special panel has bund that Many veterans administration heart surgery units were performing so few operations that mortality rates were above Normal in som cases and a officials said monday that one third of the 51 units nationwide would be  just under s percent of the a i open heart surgery patients die. A officials Laid the individual tips pita mortality rates vary from below i percent at one Hospital to Over 18 percent Al another. Flogging supported London up British parliamentarian outraged by a new outbreak of English soccer hooliganism urged the government to bring Back flogging Ai a  is needed is a Good sound birthing said conservative party member of parliament John  was referring to a form of judicial punishment abolished in Mainland Britain in.948, in which offenders were flogged with a bundle of Birch twigs. Check forger sentenced san Diego a a Man who cashed his dead father s Navy retirement checks for sin years was sentenced monday to four months imprison for defrauding the service out of 140,161. James Canning ii began cashing the checks made Oul to his father also named James can Ning after the elder Canning died in 1977,Canning, 33, forged eligibility forms to mis Lead the Navy into believing his father was still alive and keep the monthly retirement checks coming. Go reportedly deserts to Cuba Washington not the army said monday thai a cuban Bora american Soldier based in West Germany had apparently deserted to Cuba. The cuban communist party newspaper grandma reported monday that an american officer had fled to Havana because he was unhappy with . Policies in Central  cuban press called the defector a Captain bul army records show that despite holding advanced medical qualifications the Man thought to have deserted Hugo Romeu is a private first class. , a 31-year-old medical lab technician was reported absent without leave from his unit the army Hospital at bad Cannstatt North of Stuttgart on july 3, according to an army spokeswoman. They is declared  a Jelph w a of a Man Elaine Henrion said the Soldier was us. Deserter on aug. 7 when he did not return to duty. At first the Pentagon denied that any Fitch Personeni sled bul later the army discovered Hal it  missed identifying him because the cuban press referred to him by his full hispanic name Hugo Romeu Almeida. The final Nam does not appear on army records. The army said the missing Man held no Security clearance or special Access to military secrets. Storms predicted for Southeast by the Assoc cd press appalachians to the mid Allan Etc  i. ,_. U,4 Kyj Narinn inn a Znuj in Etc a folic or Tiuchty Sancken Southe thunderstorms developed monday along a slow moving cold front promising some Relief from the scorching heat and drought that have plagued the Southeastern United states this summer. But the front also brought the possibility of violent weather with severe thunderstorm watches posted in parts of the Carolinas and Virginia. A storm monday produced half Dollar size Hail in Franklin county  thunderstorms also covered much of the Southeast Ern United stale by Early afternoon from Eastern Texas to Florida and Georgia and from the Southern  u Tuc nn4--_"nn we parts of the drought Stricke Southeast Are a foot or More below Normal rainfall for the year. Relatively Cool weather prevailed across the upper Mississippi Valley and great lakes Region with temperatures Gen rally in the 60s. Brisk Northwest wind ushered cooler air into the northeastern United Stales. Temperatures reached the 90s across South Centra Texas by Early monday afternoon with 90-Degiw readings also reported from Northwest Florida through he Carolinas to Southeastern Virginia and in the deserts of the Southwest to Eggum s staff begins drug tests Lille to a it a or Reagan s senior Stal. T Jet drug use monday and the chief Whitman said the results will be kept conf Larry Speakes said in will the results of the tests " we won t talk a it is of president them Back in the work e stressed that confidential Speakes told news briefing. The object anybody has a problem they should tighten Oul the problem give them help and put sumary system of drag testing senior staff aides to Reagan was. Job a member of the Riaff not by Reagan  said Ai the Lime. Reagan took his  naval Hospital for i Tion. Vice president George Bush was to take monday Speakes  travelling to Shultz criticizes new zealand by the los Angeles times san Francisco Secretary of state George , seeking to prevent a spread of nuclear hyper sensitivity among . Allies said monday that new zealand s ban on port Calls by nuclear capable . Warships can Only encourage those who Hope to tear at the fabric of Western  Shultz spoke to the annual meeting of the Anu space the 33-year-old Alliance of Australia new Zea land and the United states that is coming apart under the pressure of new zealand s refusal to let . Ships capable of carrying nuclear weapons visit its ports. Australian foreign minister Bill Hayden striking a Middle ground Between his nation s two closest allies Sai that he was deeply disappointed that the United Stales Anil new zealand have been unable to Settle their differences after iwo Yean of increasingly frosty negotiations. Shultz told new zealand prime minister David Lange last june that Washington was no longer obligated to come to new zealand s defense in time of War. The Alliance will continue to be known As anus an acronym for Australia new zealand and the United slates but from Washington s standpoint in has become a two country organization of the United Stales and Australia. Found at stealth crash site Miia by the los j-., Bakersfield Calif. One Oay aim 11restrictions were lifted on Access to the crash Mej mystery Jel believed to be a stealth  Crew recovered  and plastic thai apparently Are uhf pc wreckage. It was not Clear Myrff foil significant the discovery might Becj Mmary officials said that they do not behep0ices that May still be at the site pose  National Security. After the july 11 crash in the Sequoia National for est in California the theater  to Idemia took off its Desbina site and Security area out of and Public. Military officials have was killed but have declined the base from which it on Friday a reporter us  Channel 23 maker shield Earth scientist and helicopter pilot20 minutes each gathered up about Parent wreckage fragments. From Kero site with an