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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday May 13.1987 Donna Rice s poster Sells Well Miami up leftover copies of a 5-Ycar old poster advertising a defunct Miami bar Are Selling steadily thanks to the newfound notoriety of the Model Donna Rice. Rice now 29, posed for the poster advertising the Gator kick Long neck Saloon in 1982. The poster shows a shirtless Rice wearing Blue jeans and a Cowboy hat leaning against the bar with a Lassord Alligator at her feet. A Confederate Flag i draped around her shoulders covering one breast and leaving the other exposed. Requests for the poster have been flowing in at a steady rate since last week when Rice relationship with sex presidential candidate Gary Hart was nude Public Kathy King he bar s former owner said monday. Rice a Model spent the weekend of May 2-3with Hart in Washington Hart a former demo cratic senator from Colorado withdrew from  Campaign Friday after newspaper reports of hit alleged extramarital affairs. Majority of . Students global illiterates study finds new York up american students Buffer from global illiteracy and do not understand How inter National affairs affect their lives according to a study of the nation s educational system. We found Johnny can t read the Globe because the curriculum is deficient in any significant orientation to world affairs said Andrew p. Smith president of global perspectives in education inc., the new York based non profit National education organization that launched the study. We looked at books teachers use in classrooms and we reviewed Over 100 studies and surveys dating from the Early 1980s, at indicating that there was Littie Content regarding world affairs he said. One study showed that relatively few High school 1,300 Oul of 70,000 in the United slate had a formal required global education component in its curriculum. Global education includes instruction about intercultural and International affairs world Geog Raphy and world history. Governor of 49 states have visited Japan in the last few years yet 40 percent of College student surveyed could not locate Japan on a world map Accord ing to one Survey we reviewed Smith said. The report was drawn up by the study commission on global education headed by Clark Kerr president emeritus of the University of California. Kerr. Who joined Smith in issuing the port funded by the Rockefeller foundation the Ford foundation and Exxon education foundation said "1 am personally concerned to find that the majority of american Public school students Are globally illiterate. At a time when it ii imperative that our next generation of leaders corporate executives and voting electorate fully understands the challenges of the global forces at work there is a fundamental ignorance of How one nation s actions impart on All of  Harlan Cleveland Board chairman of global perspectives says american youth need to understand that Trade economic and military alliances communication and computers have bound the world into a closely linked Community. Hospital claims St living donor heart transplant Baltimore a surgeons re moved a healthy heart from a cystic fibrosis patient in order to give him a heart lung transplant then implanted his heart into a patient awaiting a donor a Johns Hopkins Hospital spokeswoman Laid tuesday. The operation apparently marked the first time that t heart from a living per son was used in a transplant said spokeswoman Joann Rogers. Both recipients were reported tuesday in critical but stable condition typical in such cases she said. Hospital officials said Many details of the Case were unavailable pending a news conference tuesday afternoon. The operation began monday after a unidentified Accident victim died at the University of Maryland Shock trauma Center said another Hopkins spokeswoman Debbie Bangledorf. The deceased person s heart and lungs were removed at the University of Mary land medical system and transported on ice across town to Hopkins where the 28-year-old cystic fibrosis patient had been waiting for weeks for a new heart and  monday the cystic fibrosis patient gave surgeons permission to take his healthy heart for transplant into another patient at Hopkins transplants of lungs alone Are unusual but not unheard of. Doctors in Toronto have performed several of them. Heart and lungs often arc transplanted in tandem when the diseases that dam age the lungs also damage the heart said Thomas Chakurda spokesman for pre by Lerion University Hospital in Pitts Burgh a leading heart transplant Center. Cystic fibrosis is the cation s most common inherited disease affecting ome 30,000 american. Victims pro Duce a thick Sticky mucus that clogs the lungs and digestive system. Johns Hopkins surgeons removed the cystic fibrous patient s heart and  surgical teams then Laboured to implant the new bean and lung into that patient and the living heart into the acc Ond recipient. The surgery lasted until Early tuesday. We believe it is the first Lime that there has been a living donor heart a info Plant said Rodgers. She originally said the operation marked the first time a cystic fibrous patient received such a transplant an the first time a heart and lungs had been removed from a body and shipped for transplant. However the Hospital Beer said thai those procedures were ants Only for Hopkins. Votes leave House budget for Star wars up in air Washington a the House trying to decide How much to spend on president Reagan s Star wars program voted tuesday id reject increasing or deeply cutting the budget for the proposal to find a Fligh Ted shield against nuclear attack. The votes came As the democratic font round chamber worked for a Sec Ond week on a huge Bill authorizing the Pentagon s budget for the fiscal year starting oct. I. Reagan said again tuesday that the House measure contains arms control restrictions that he won t accept be cause they would Hurt .-sovict arms control talks. At a White House meeting with re publicans Reagan expressed grow ing concern with the course of legis lation in Congress that could have a direct bearing on the arms reduction tails. The House already has attached to the defense authorization several unacceptable provisions. The Senate Bill is equally troublesome on the strategic defense  whatever finally emerges from the House eventually will have to be reconciled with a defense Bill that will be passed by the Senate. Thai chamber is scheduled to take up its measure later his week. Although both the House and sen ate Are con trailed by democrats Rea Gan s proposed defense budget has generally fared better in the Senate. For example the House armed services committee proposed $3.5billion for Star wars while the Simitar Senate panel recommended $4.5 billion. Reagan had sought $5.8billion, compared with the current $3.1 billion budget for the strategic defense initiative As the program informally known. The House tuesday voted 286-129 against approving a $4.1 billion Star wan budget then turned Down Asi .2 billion budget on a 307-105 vote. Proposals containing other Money Levels were pending. Also pending were decisions on whether to order development of an Early Star wars system that could be deployed in the next decade rather than wailing for the full scale version that even Pentagon supporters of the project say won t be ready until at least Early in the next Century. Overall the House measure Autho Rizes $288 billion Worth of defense spending a reduction from Reagan s s312 billion request. The current de sense budget is j2b9 billion. The sen ate measure proposes $303 billion. The House worked through a series of relatively minor amendments monday. One amendment approved345.44, would permit the Pentagon to use a limited program of lit Detector tests to try to catch spies. The current system began two years ago when he defense department was authorized to give As Many as7,000 lie Detector tests per year on a random basis for countering Exigence purposes. Monday s amendment would raise that figure 10 20,000 per year still Only a minor proportion of the 3,1 million Pentagon personnel. Load of Africa bound food delayed in disabled ship fort Lauderdale Fla. Cap about 8,000 tons of food bound for fam Ine victims in Africa and refugee Camps in Jordan has been titling for weeks in a ship stuck at port Everglades because of mechanical problems officials said. Ironically Crew members for the mercy Mission had to turn to local Agen cies for help after the ship s refrigerator recently Brake Down. It s a sad situation trying to get food to Africa and now the Crew needs food port spokesman Tim Lewis said Mon Day. The 416-foot Porto Coroni broke Down about 25 Miles of Cuba after Leav ing new Orleans in March and was towed into port Everglades on april 3, Crew members and port officials told re porters. The ship s owner a panamanian com Pany named defender Bay shipping that sails out of Athens Greece apparently has abandoned the vessel and its 18-Mancrew, said harbormaster Robert Rich Ard. But the tamp based company that chartered the ship is trying to buy it an has decided to make the repairs a com Pany official said. Afram lines has tent engineers to port Everglades to repair the Generator and Correct other mechanical problems. Afram president grab am Boll said re pairs will Cost about i 500,000 and could be completed in 10 Days. The s1.7 million Worth of food Pinto Beans commeal soybean Oil and flour has t  pan of Ciai 1010. You Nash i a Pouch go becomes second person to survive Lump from Bridge Tacoma Wash. A a 24-year entry he s a Little embarrassed about the a old intoxicated Soldier jumped Iso feet from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge into puget sound and became Only the Sec Ond person to survive Al fall from the 37 year old Span officials say. Michael variety assigned o fort Lewis was listed in satisfactory and Sta ble condition monday in the intensive care unit at Madigan army medical Cen Ter said Hospital spokesman Mark James. The Soldier s rank was no Given. Variety asked that his Hometown be withheld James said adding apparently whole  police said the Soldier got drunk and apparently climbed onto the rigging be Neath the suspension Bridge. He in about a third of the Way across when be jumped and was pulled Oul of the water by two people in a Skiff below the Bridge police said. Asked Why he jumped police said variety replied because it was there.1 More than 50 people have died in Allstrom the Bridge since it was built in 1950. A 19-year-old College student sur Vived a jump in 1983  
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