European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday june 5,1967 Sun times picks 2 to replace advice columnist Leran Chicago a the 47-year-Oid Daughl iof the woman who created the original a _ Landers and a 28-year-old feature writer will replace the widely syndicated advice columnist it was announced thursday. Diane Crowley a Long Neadow mass., lawyer and the daughter of Ruth Crowley creator Pfann Landers and Wall Street journal writer Jeff Zaslow will share the spot once occupied at the Chicago Sun times by the Ann Landers column. Our three month search has paid off. We Are delighted with our new team publisher Robert Page said thursday at a news conference. Plans for the column s formal Are still being finalized according 10 editor Matthew Florin but he estimated it would make its debut within three weeks. Diane Crowley s Mother Ruth was a registered nurse associate editor of american family Magazine and a feature writer at the Sun times when she created the advice column. Crowley died at age 48, and her death in 1955 prompted an in House Competition won by Athen unknown housewife named Eppie Lederer who made he column one of the most popular in the nation. The Sun times International search Tor anew advice columnist was launched three months ago when Lederer who kept the pen name Ann Landers moved to the rival Chicago Tribune. Her column is published in More than 1,100 newspapers with 85 million readers daily. Her move to the Tribune also United her with her win just or Pauline who writes the dear Abby advice column. More than 12,000 people applied to succeed Lederer and by mid april the Sun times had narrowed the Field to seven finalists. Four of the finalists were women three  were writers one was a sex therapist and the occupations of two were not released. Laxalt drops his libel suit against Mcclatchy papers Washington a Republican presidential hopeful Paul Laxalt said thursday he has agreed to drop his $250 million libel suit against the Mcclatchy newspaper after extensive discovery found no Evi Dence of skimming at a Laxdall family owned Casino. The settlement clears the major Roadblock to a for Mal Campaign by the former Nevada senator for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination. Today Marks the end of a very trying experience. At Long last the Bee has accepted my demands Laxalt said at a news conference at his Washington Law office. Laxalt had sued Mcclatchy Over a Story that appeared in the Bee newspapers in Sacramento Modesto and Fresno calif., saying the internal Revenue service had evidence of slumming at the Orrnsby House hotel Casino when it was owned by the Laxalt family Laxalt read from a joint statement issued thursday by himself and Mcclatchy newspapers extensive discovery taken in this libel action has not shown that there was in fact a skim at the Ormsby House and has produced no evidence that sen. Lull or any other persons acting on his behalf granted any one the right to skim the Casino in Exchange for improper or illegal financing. Nor has extensive discovery taken in this libel action produced any evidence that Laxa l acted to Binder or defeat any government inv  . Mcclatchy president and editor of the news paper group scheduled a news conference later thurs Day in san Francisco to discuss the settlement. Since the lawsuit was filed sept. 21, 19s4, the two parties have been engaged in complicated Legal Maneu vering in preparation for the trial which had been scheduled to begin later this month in Reno Nev. The parties agreed that a panel of three retired judges would determine whether Lac Alt deserved have his attorneys fees paid by the newspapers. No other amounts Are at Issue the statement said. Hof line for battered women old for local shelters planned Washington a the National coalition against Domestic violence announced thursday that it will Start a 24-hour toll free hot line for battered women on oct. 1. It has been estimated that 3 million to 4 million women Are victims of Domestic violence each year Kedy Nuriel first vice chairman of the coalition said at a news conference. Yet we re finding that a lot of women especially in Rural areas Don t know where they can go Tor  the hot line will be staffed by people Able to give the callers options for assistance and information about local shelters for battered women Nuriel said. Money for the hot line and for the 1,200 shelters across the country will be coming front Johnson Johnson. Mava Heffler director of sales promotion at person Al products co., one of a a s subsidiaries said the company will put up $562.000 to operate the hot tin for its first year. In addition she said tie company will promote the Bot line through a variety of Coupon campaigns Nuriel said the corporate Aid will provide some Wel come Relief to the shelters which Nave often had to scramble to find Money to keep operating. A a has dubbed its efforts shelter Aid. Actress Lindsay Wagner who will be  for shelter Aid called tie Campaign a first step no the answer she said the hoped shelter Aid would general awareness of the problem of Domestic violence. Many doctors fear getting aids from patients surveys show Washington a sixty nine percent of hos Pital doctors believe they can get aids from their Paige no and one in four would refuse to treat aids patients if Given a Choice two new surveys show. The surveys were presented thursday at the third International conference on aids. One Survey found that the stress connected with aids care is greatest among male doctors said or. Molly Cooke Rotthe University of California san fran Cisco. Nathan link of the new York University school of Medicine reported that 25 percent of 258 Hospital Doc tors surveyed would not continue to care for acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients if Given a Choice. Twenty seven percent of doctors treating adults and20 percent of paediatricians said they do not think it is unethical to refuse to care for aids patients. About one third of each group think they should be Able to decide whether to care for aids patients. Such attitudes undermine the social contract be tween doctors and a aliens link said according to which doctors Are pledged to provide care for anyone who needs it. In other developments a researcher with the Federal centers for disease control said similarities Between the spread of hepatitis and aids suggest that the aids virus May eventually infect 5 percent of All americans including 30 percent of the Urban poor and up to 75 percent of male homosexuals. A new aids virus that is spreading slowly from Africa to nearby comments will reach the United Stales but . Experts say it should not Worsen the current epidemic. Cooke reported that 69 percent of 56 Hospital in terns and residents Young doctors completing their training who filled out questionnaires in 1983 said they believe they Are Al risk of catching aids from their patients. When the numbers were separated for male and female doctors however Cooke found that 84 percent of males and Only 48 percent of females believe they Are at risk of getting aids. That could reflect men s discomfort with the Gay lifestyles of Many of the patients their closer personal identification with the mostly male patients or men s greater frustration with being unable to provide a cure Cooke said. Twenty percent of the doctors reported having dreams or nightmares about aids. She also found however that doctors began to enjoy aids care More As they treated More patients. Sixty eight percent of doctors who had treated less than 10 patients said they disliked such care but 65 percent of doctors who had treated More than 10 patients said they enjoyed providing care. Cooke noted that concern about gelling aids has probably dropped since 1983, when the Survey was done. The surgeon general s report on aids released lost year reported that Only three of 750 health workers who had had Contact with patients blood or body fluid tested positive for antibodies to aids which would indicate infection. Link s Survey of interns and residents at two new York hospitals was done in 1986. Yet it found that residents and interns Wen still substantially concerned about getting aids from patients. Forty eight percent of doctors treating adults and 30 percent of paediatricians said they had moderate to major concern about getting the disease. Forty three percent said that if they had it to do Over again they would choose a different medical Spe Fialty in which they might be less Likely to encounter aids patients. Florida state lottery begins in january Tallahassee Fla. A declaring let the game begin stale legislators approved a Jan. Is starting Date for a Florida lottery. Gov. Bob Martinez signed the Bill into Law thursday. It was approved by the legislature on thursday seven months after voters passed a referendum to use lottery games to fund Educa Tion. The lottery is expected to raise an estimated 5 44 million in the last half of fiscal 1987-88 for education and become a billion Dollar Busu Teu in its first year. The Only thing we can do now is let the Gomes begin said rep. Chris Meffert it s a Model piece of  police wont a pizza the action on racing delivery boys St. Petersburg Beach Fla. A police Are watching for desperate pizza delivery Drivers they say Are racing to get pizzas delivered while they re still hot. Police chief de Kelley said those who get caught will be Given speeding tickets which can take 12 nun Ules. That will slow pizza delivery Lime Down Kelley said wednesday. When we catch them it s going to be one Driver to  police will be on the Lookout for All pizzeria delivery cars Kelley said although one Domino s pizza store has been the target of the two dozen complaints police Nave received. People have said they spotted the company s delivery cars going 40 Mph to 50 Mph in 25-Mph zones said mayor Ron Mckenney