European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 j 6knte the stars and stripes thursday August 13,1987 6 med As Small plane crashes in Munich the Tail of a Small plane stands oot Side inc ruined Mcdonald s restaurant after tuesday s Munich Accident. Appt to Munich a a Small plane dropped like Astone into a Busy pan of inc City tuesday killing is people injuring 14 and setting a tire that consumed a Mcdonald s restaurant and a City bus officials said. Walter Hermann press officer Tor Munich police said All three occupants of inc plane were killed along with a bicyclist and two people in the Mcdonald s parking lot. At teas 10 of the injured were on the bus. Police said the Pilot was a student practising land Ings in the single engine Piper Cherokee but a spokes Man for air controllers at Munich s Rich Airport said he was experienced and approaching to land Afler a checkout flight on inst Imants. About 30 people were inside the Mcdonald s restau rant but police said All got out safely. The restaurant on inc  in the Trudering Sec Tion of Munich burned completely. Firefighters needed More than an hour to control the flames on one of Munich s busiest thoroughfares slightly More than a mile from the Airport and nine Miles from downtown Munich.  another spokesman for Munich police said the air plane was practising landings at Rich and had made several shortly before  he said the Pilot was being tested by a government aviation Security official and a woman also was aboard but no details about her were available. Scholz said seven of those Hurt were in critical Condi Liun. Karen ocl tier a spokeswoman for Mcdonald a said the people in the restaurant incl Odd 12 employees. The plane dropped like a Stone said one police official speaking on condition of. Anonymity. Accounts of the crash differed Hermann said on Eversion had it that the plane struck the bus and then slowed into Mcdonald s at 3 30 . 58 charged in statewide . Probe new York a government corruption in new York slate is a Way of  Federal officials said tuesday in announcing that 58 people including 44present and former Community officials had been charged in an undercover investigation. Charges from conspiracy and mail fraud to perjury and bribe promotion were lodged against past or present officials of More than -40 cities towns and villages in is counties from the new York City line to the Canadian to incr Saiu . Attorney Rudolph Giuliani today s charges make it quite Clear thai corruption in new York state is by no Means limited to new York City said Giuliani who has personally prosecuted corrupt officials in the nation s largest City. In addition to the Public officials bribery related charges were hied against 14 officials or employees of five equipment suppliers in Orange Putnam and Nas Sau counties said authorities. Nine of those have pleaded guilty. Officials said id other people were chained by Federal authorities in Newark . Trie charges stemmed from a 2 a year undercover Fri investigation known As operation double steel in which an Fri agent posing As a steel products Salesman offered bribes and kickbacks to officials involved in purchasing materials and equipment. Giuliani Aid that of 106 bribe offers made 105 were accepted. The Lone bribe refusal came from unofficial who said the offer was t enough. He said that official who was not identified was being charged with other bribes. California jews will meet Pope los Angeles a Southern California s jew ish Community says it has dropped plans to Boycott Pope John Paul h s . Visit next month now that he has agreed to meet with american jewish Leader in Rome. The decision opened he door to jewish participation in a gathering in los Angeles on sept. J 6 of the jape and non Christian religious leaders. A the los Angeles roman Catholic archdiocese Rani postponed mailing invitations to 100 jewish Leaden scheduled to take part in the interfaith event. We look Forward to welcoming and meeting with the pop i rabbi Harvey Fields chairman of the in Ter religious committee of the Southern California Board of rabbis said monday. American jewish leaders had demanded a meeting with the Pope to discuss his decision to receive Austri an president Kurt Waldheim at the Vatican in june and the Vatican agreed last week to such a meeting. It is expected to take place late this month. Of Waldheim who has been accused of War crimes Dut i ing world War ii has been banned from the United states by the slate department which cited evidence that he participated in the deportation of jews and partisans who later died in nazi death Camps. La is still not certain if . Jewish leaders will meet with he Pope As scheduled sept 11 in Miami. National jewish officials conferring in new York Ion Friday hailed the upcoming jewish Catholic con inference at the Vatican but did not say whether they would drop their Boycott of the meeting in Florida Merican airlines joins in fare hikes new York a american airlines on tues Day became the third major . Carrier to match fare increases and a new discount restriction announced last week by Continental airlines. Stephen Mcgregor a spokesman for Dallas based american said the fare increases which Range from j2 to j20 in selected markets become effective aug. 16 and would be applied Only on routes where the airline competes with Continental Mcgregor said that As of aug. 16 american also would match Continental s imposition of a syst wide three Day Advance Purchase requirement on a previously unrestricted class of discount fares. United airlines and Northwest airlines also have said they would match the move by Continental a unit of Texas air corp. And a major Force in setting fares in the Industry Texas air also is the Parent of Eastern airlines and commands about 20 percent of the Domestic air travel Market. Delta air lines is studying the fare increases on Market by Mark basis but has decided to impose the three Day Advance Purchase restriction a spokesman said. Continental s announcement Friday came against a background of a summer Boom in airline traffic de spite two earlier Industry wide fare increases and a spate of incidents involving air safety. Financial analysts said the move to increase fares by Continental reflected pressure to Start making Money at the airline which expanded rapidly earlier this year and had discounted fares to attract travellers. I think what s significant is the fact that Texas air is the one initiating the increases said Louis Marcke Sano an analyst at the Philadelphia investment firm Janney Montgomery Scott inc. With the losses at Continental and the need to Shore up the Bottom line they re More interested in raising fares now than in creasing  protein linked to sickle cell anaemia treatment Seattle a scientists or tuesday reported the first direct evidence that a naturally occurring Iii stance in the body could be effective in treating sickle cell anaemia. The researchers said injections of a protein known As Clythro Pointin or epo in Baboons dramatically stimulated production of fetal haemoglobin or f cells in the animals blood studies have shown that High of cell Levels can inhibit the distortion or sickling of red blood cell seen in sickle cell anaemia an inherited disease Hal occurs almost exclusively among Blacks. The findings were reported in the current Issue of the new England journal of Medicine. Or. George Stamato Yannopoulos professor of Medicine at the University of Washington and an author of the paper said that a number of substances used in chemotherapy Tor cancer can stimulate of Ceu production. Although much further experimentation it Nec Essary to extend our findings to humans the advantage of epo appears to be that because it occurs naturally in the body it a less Likely to Cauich harm Ful Ono Xic Side effects he said epo is a red blood cell forming Polcin. In sickle Tell anaemia which affects one in every 500 Blacks red blood cells assume sickle like shapes. The fragile cells arc subject to rupture causing Ane Mia pain and jaundice. Many sufferers die of circulatory complications scientists said they injected four Baboons with Large doses twice a Day Over one to three Days of Laboratory made epo. Synthesized through Gene split civil of cell Levels in the animals blood Rose by up to 50 times they said