European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday november 14,1986 Nasa won t release photos of Crew Cabin Cape canaveral Fla. Up the space Agency refused thursday to release photographs of wreckage from the space shuttle challenger s Crew Cabin apparently because astronaut fam ily members objected on grounds of per Sonal privacy officials said. The National aeronautics and space administration decision came in response to Freedom of information Art requests filed by United press International and other news organizations. " understand unofficially from head quarters yesterday wednesday the Deci Sion has been made not to give out an of the Crew Cabin said Charles Hollinshead director of Public affaire at the Kenned space Center. My understanding is it s based on the privacy the subject of the shuttle Crew Cabin has been treated As strictly off limits Binasa Ever since the Jan. Is disaster and Only one photograph has Ever been released showing any debris from the module. That picture which showed the Al Bulkhead of the Cabin was released by the presidential commission that investigated the disaster. Despite the tight lipped approach to an topic dealing with i in Crew module a re Porter interviewing an air Force official wednesday was shown several photographs of Cabin debris including the cockpit win Dow frames an Airlock Hatch and the Emer gency air packs used by the doomed Astro nauts. Challenger was destroyed when its right Side solid fuel Booster leaked deadly Tongue of flame that detonated the shuttle s giant external fuel Lank. Bishops urge changes in Economy to Aid poor Washington up the nation s roman Catholic Bishops called thursday for a Radical restructuring of the . Economy saying the amount of poverty in America is a social and moral scandal that we cannot the obligation to provide Justice for All Means that the poor have the single most urgent claim on the conscience of the nation the Bishops said in approving a 115-Page pastoral letter entitled economic Justice for All. The pastoral was approved by a 225-9 vote As the Bishops wound up the final Day of the annual four Day meeting of the National conference of Catholic Bishops. Three years in preparation the pasto ral letter Calls for a change in economic practices on a Par with the american revolution. While not specifically condemning the capitalist mixed Economy of the United slates and praising some elements of the system the Bishops nevertheless found the system wanting in providing for the poor and the unemployed and said biblical principles demanded the nation do better in particular the pastoral called for an increased role for government in eco nomic planning and activity a Call that has been sharply criticized by a Small but influential group of catholics led by former Treasury Secretary Wil Liam Simon. The pastoral placed much of its emphasis on the problem of poverty. Central to the biblical presentation is that the Justice of a Community is measured by its treatment of the powerless in society the letter said. The pastoral document drafted by a committee headed by archbishop Rembor Weakland of Milwaukee was approved virtually without debate and the body of Bishops agreed to Only minor editorial or clarifying amendments to the statement. A bridging the Gap explosive charges transform the Hoff Man endure into mass of torn me tallying in the Cotta Aba River at Drexel . About 450 pounds of plastic explosive was used to Send the 70-year-old Span crushing into he water. Breakthroughs in alzheimer s announced Boston a a researcher who discovered what could be the first effective treatment for alzheimer s disease says he fears his encouraging results will spark mass hysteria among people cat iterate for the experimental drug. Or. William k. Summers disclosed his results in study published in thursday s new England journal of Medicine. Of 17 senile people treated with the pills 16 showed sometimes remarkable improvement in their memory and ability to Cope with daily life. If this is validated i think we will have our first viable treatment for alzheimer a be said in an interview. Cynthia Graves Summers research assistant said thursday that her office has received Calls from All Over the country not Only from reporters bul from relatives of alzheimer s victims. I be gotten hundreds of Calls and i Don t know when it s going to quit she said. I m sure from this Point Forward it Wilf be thousands 1 expect it to continue. In separate announcement wednesday a researcher said he had identified the first Gene to be linked to alzheimer s disease and another scientist said he has developed what could be he first definitive test 10 diagnose the illness or. Dmitry a Goldgaber and colleagues at the National institutes of health said they have located the genetic source of a protein thai appears to be involved in the depos in that clog the brains of those with the disease. The Gene triggers the production of a material called amyloid that collects in the brains of alzheimer s disease victims. Scientist said it could be a key tool in learning about the brain deposits associated with the disease. Peter davits and associates at new York s Albert Einstein College of Medicine said they have detected an alzheimer s disease associated protein in the spinal fluid of eight out of nine alzheimer s patients tested. The presence of the protein dubbed a-68, might be used to confirm the diagnosis of alzheimer s disease and to distinguish it from other forms of senility. There is currently no Way to be certain of a diagnosis of alzheimer s disease until an autopsy after death. This kind of discrimination of closely related diseases May be important in determining which patients receive the drug tested by Summers researchers said. The drug known As or tha is not available for routine use. Doctors cannot prescribe it. Until it is approved by the food and drug administration it will be Given Only to people in scientific experiments and no one knows How Many years approval will take. Want lot to avoid this because it will be some period of time be fore it s Summers a researcher at the University of califor Nia at los Angeles based his study on the treatment of people with moderate to severe alzheimer s senility. R of these 17," he said four of them got dramatically better seven got clearly better and five of them got better to anybody s Eye. Summers stressed that the drug does not cure Alz Heimer s disease. Instead it eases the symptoms of the disease much As insulin controls diabetes or a Dopa relieves Parkinson s disease. Tha also does not Slop the progression of the Dis ease and victims probably will reach a Point when they Are not helped by the drug he said. Another alzheimer1 expert. Or. Kenneth l. Davis of mount Sinai medical Center in new York was cautious about the drug s potential. It s not a Golden Bullet he said. I do think this drug will help some people and there is a Market for i i Sec it As a Short rational step toward controlling alzheimer s disease. He noted that Simitar drugs have failed to produce dramatic results and he suggested that summer study might have benefited from fortunate selection of study subjects and careful monitoring of the patient drug Levels. Alzheimer s disease is the major cause of senility among the elderly. An estimated 1.5 million to 3 Mil lion americans Nave the illness and it causes More than 100,000 deaths each year. Summers said he is trying to obtain a Patent on the Medicine s use so a drug company will take Over the expensive Job of its ring it and getting approval to sell it. Alzheimer s disease diminishes the body s ability tomake acetylcholine that carries messages be tween nerve cells in the brain. Summers said tha helps the acely choline that remains to work More effectively. Davis said any treatment strategy based on using the brain s acely choline making system is ultimately flawed since that process will eventually be destroyed by the disease. Even though Many researchers have experimented with acetylcholine boosting drugs Davis said foursome reason Summers has. Gotten better results than anybody else one explanation might be that summer treated Only people who appeared to truly have can be caused by Many disorders and about a third of the patients referred to Summers were not enrolled in Bis studies because tests showed they didst have alzheimer s disease
