European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday. February 16.1987 gop revamping its spending rules in face of debts a Shin Citon api the National kept Halican party outs Chi Nic democrats m Irli s 1o i in last year i elections and. Losh it ii i Ilie Ming of losing control of the Senate ended the year with twice As much Delm its us opponents ree Ordi show i lit1 in Lionel Republican senatorial to Omillee blasted by party members for Bivins a workers Large postelection to miss despite i Senate loss was responsible for most of inc debt in Aii Ergi ii from till november election owing More Ihan am of the six National level democratic and if i Commilles  million a air Emu to reports the committees filed i ill ill-.1 Federal election commission. Dial compared  million debt fur the Denux Rnic Sena Iorizi Campaign c Ommi Locc which was Able to celebrate the Mimer of seven Fiji senators. With the i inn tilt democrats lined Amrol of the Senate for the first time since 1980. In Llie Wale of complaints from Many Onmi tutors and party officials inc Cpl a Nuit Ruil com Millic under us new chair Man. Sen. Kudy Bosch Witz of Minnesota re Dinty contributory letters of a Assur ii it and is revamping its fund raising and six tiding Structure said the new director Midi a kick. In All. Spending for the i 86 elections b the is committees the two Senato rial committees two congressional committees and the Republican National committee and democratic National f oin Milieu totalled j2s3 million Fec records show. Thai compares with $217 million in 1982, inc last non presidential Ckel Ion year the three Republican committees spent $209.5 million on their candidates compared Wilh $43.5 million spent by the democrats. In addition to having he biggest debt the Republican senatorial committee also spent More $85 million com pared with si3.5 million spoil by the democratic senatorial committee. In House races the National demo cratic congressional committee under the stewardship of rep. Tony up Coho. D Calif., nearly doubled its spending of the 1982 election spending $ 12.6 million. The opposite pattern occurred Wilh the financially troubled National Republican congressional committee to spent $41 million in the 1986 elections com pared with 157 million spent on its candidates in 1982. Records Snow. Overall the republicans ended the year with debts of $8.4 million while the democrats were $4 million in the red. The democratic National committee spent $17 nillion and ended up Wilh s2.i million in obligations. The gop had a total of nearly $2 Mil lion in cosh on hand compared with just Over 1293,000 for All the democratic committees. In the Wake of the negative publicity about the National Republican Sena Iorizi committee s bonuses Olsten said a letter was going out to the committee s contributors to assure hem that we re taking a Good hard loot at How the Money is being  Olsten said the committee s finance director Rodney Smith will be replaced by two people. Mike Burch will handle the mail operation that Smith masterminded and Rick Nelson will increase the commit tee s emphasis on major donors to augment the smaller donations that mass mail brings in. A suit you can take a Shine to designer Marlene a Haizhu adjust a gleaming suit of Armor from mar of Newport Beth Calif. The lightweight plastic and alums in Noil. Introduced it the american a cull association convention in new Orleans last week. Is one of the hottest items in inc rental business. The i her material is said to allow greater dancing movement the better for rescuing distressed damsels fighting off steamed dragons or facing the Boss on a Hud Day. Proxmire s award strikes sour note Washington a sen. William pros mire d-wis., presented his Golden recce award sunday to the government s animal and Plant health inspection service for organizing a song contest among its employees. It May be of to whistle while you work but i think this is going too  Proxmire said in a statement announcing the unofficial award which he confers monthly for the most Wasie Ful. Ridiculous or ironic use of inc taxpayers  this is a prime example of a ridiculous expenditure of Federal dollars and that is what makes in a recce Winner Proxmire said. The inspection service is pan of the agriculture department. A Nolice from the inspection service s admin imijini1, Bert w. Hawkins telling employees of the contest said the song would be Sung on occasions both Grevil and Small. To remind us of tin.1 team spirit thai guides us in our Job of protecting .  John Duncan director of the Agency s legislative and Public affairs staff said the idea came from inspection sen ice employees and thai Hawkins approved in. Believing in would be a popular Way to boost morale. He said there would he  no Mone tary award for winning llu1 Ranics. Fifteen Al ready have been submitted lie said but Haw Kins will have to determine whether logo ahead Wii Hho Competition. I would t see Why lie Ifould not go for Ward Duncan added. Female longevity May be linked to x chromosomes study finds Chicago a recent studies suggest thai one reason women tend to outlive men May be their bodies do better repair work on the chemical strands carrying genes a scientist says. Researchers have tracked a Gene or genes involved in repairing Dan the Sloan like chemical that makes up Gene bearing chromosomes to the sex related x chromosome said researcher David . Smith. Women inherit two x chromosomes while men have one x and one y. The female s double dose of the repair genes which oversee production of an enzyme called Una polymerase Alpha May mean they can better repair damaged Dan Smith said. This is an absolutely vital Gene involved in Dan repair which docs seem to have something to do with longevity and Dan replication which is necessary for cell division which is another thing that runs out of steam with age he said. If males and females differ with respect to the amount of enzyme this could be a contribution la the gender Gap said Smith a Northwestern University pail ology professor who is studying he longevity Dif Ference at the National Institute of aging. Smith was interviewed on the tracking known As git napping before speaking sunday at the annual Mcelin gof the american association for the Advance men l of science. He said the Gene mapping was done by a group led by David Korn a Stanford University and a second group in Japan. Other scientists arc sceptical about relating the map Ping to longevity differences saying that sinous questions have to be answered before a Case could be made for the idea. According to inc National can scr for health Statis tics a baby born in 1983 could Eipel to live 71 years if male and 78.1 years if female. Pan of the Gap is due to behavioural differences. Smith said. Males arc involved in More accidents homicides and suicides he said and drinking and smoking among men contribute substantially. Hormonal differences Between sexes also influence bodily processes that in turn affect longevity such As blood cholesterol Levels he said. As for a role of the Dan repair Tenes. We Don t know whether hat s important or not. ,. It s a speculation that requires a lot of work to denote its contribution he said. Or. Richard Scottow a researcher on Dan repair and aging said he will remain a septic on the idea until More experiments Are done. I would say there s no firm evidence that More effective Dan repair increases the lifespan of humans he said. The Best suggestive evidence comes from experiments showing that longer lived species of animals show More Dan repair than Shorter lived species said set Tow senior Bia physicist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory but several mechanisms repair Dan. And in is not Clear How Many of them show inc relationship he said Thomas Johnson assistant professor of molecular genetics Ai the University of California a i Irvine said Smith s speculation does l make sense because one of the x chromosomes in women is almost entirely  there would be no difference a Eiwen men and women in the amount of the Dan repair in yme he said. Smith replied that the in yme could still be involved if inc double dose of cents gives women iwo chances to have properly functioning polymerase Alpha genes while men have Only one Chance