European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday. August 27,1987 Landers column on cancer withdrawn report on treatment Over optimistic paper says Minneapolis a Ann land has with drawn her column scheduled for sunday thru described a new treatment for advanced prostate cancer after questions were raised about the report s accuracy a  reported wednesday. Tanders had used glowing terms to describe the experimental treatment and had said the column May be the most important column i have Ever  however the Minneapolis Star and Tribune said the column was withdrawn because a mix up in understand ing medical terms led to an Over optimistic report. But experts said the treatment still could Lum Oul to be a significant Advance. Ann Landers has postponed the original column until sept. 20 to include some additional information wind Doris Nolan general manager of creators Syndicate in los Angeles which handles the column. She has received some additional reports and wants to Check them  the Syndicate began sending notices to newspapers monday Nolan said. She said Landers was out of the country on vacation and unavailable to provide details. In a note to editors that accompanied the original column. Landers said it is no exaggeration to say it the treatment Wilt save a great Many lives so help me get the word Oul thai they need not  the column opened with a Reader s letter about the treatment pioneered by or. Fernand fabric of Laval University in Quebec saying she had heard of 100 percent Success in Otic group of patients who had undergone the  reply said she had confirmed that the i real mint had a remarkable Success  which she said was 95 percent  if no other treatment thai would interfere with it had been Given  experts told inc Star and Tribune Liat such a cure Rale would be unusual because the trea ment is for advanced prostate cancer meaning the malignancy has begun spreading. Or. I. Gregory Curt Deputy director of the treatment division at the Federal National cancer Institute in by Thesda md., which has been studying the in Calmont said the response rates of 95 percent reported by the Canadian team included All a aliens who appeared to be helped in anyway by the treatment not cured. . Sues defense firm Over my device testing los Angeles a the Federal government has sued Northrop corp alleging that the defense contractor fraudulently charged inc Pentagon for tests it did not conduct on an my mis Sile guidance device. The civil suit filed tuesday in . District court seeks to recover $3 Mil lion the government claims it was improperly charged for labor and equip ment. The government claims Northrop lied in saying that guidance units for inc mis Sile had been pressure tested. The government said in Learned of he alleged fraud when a unit blew up during a Tysl requested by a military inspector. Northrop was awarded contracts in 1975 and 1979 to design and manufacture the my s inertial measurement unit a basketball sized device made up of More than 19,000 parts and used to guide the nuclear missile to its target. An investigation showed Northrop had not properly tested about 20 heat exchangers inc complaint says. The heal exchangers Cool the guidance unit. In june 18 testimony Northrop group vice president David n. Ferguson told the House armed services committee thai the company admitted to not having performed inc letting. On tuesday Northrop spokesman los Daly reiterated the firm s previous assertions that it did nol deliver  equipment but acknowledged the faulty testing. Several Northrop employees were not properly carrying Oul their duties and i Host workers were Rem Beds he said. We were the finders of this thing Daly said. In addition to the suit the air Force is withholding from the corporation a j108 million payment. The firm is under investigation by two congressional committees and a los Angeles grand jury for Lale deliveries of my equipment. The company s delayed deliveries mean one third of the country s my mis Siles Are without guidance devices. Opponents of fight veto of Illinois Confra Cerf ves b/7/ Springfield 111. A gov. James r. Thompson vetoed a Bill thai would end teen agers Access to contraceptives at Public school health clinics but opponents rallied tuesday to try to override him. I can guarantee we will try for an  said rep. Ralph Capparilli of Chicago a chief House sponsor of the Bill. We expected the veto and will give him some headaches when we come Back for the general Assembly s fall session which starts in Early october. The legislature approved the contraceptive ban during its Spring session under intense lobbying pressure from anti abortion groups the roman Catho Lic Church and the conservative Eagle forum i think it was a mistake for Thomp son to veto the measure said Phyllis Schlafly head of the forum it s pretty Clear that the Way to go is to teach Chil Dren sexual  Cardinal Joseph Bcrnardina head of Chicago s roman Catholic archdiocese said he was disappointed and dismayed by the governor s action calling distribution of contraceptives in High schools poor Public  All the evidence we be seen under scores the fact that even wholesale distribution of contraceptives loss Denis. Is significantly linked to increased Abor Tion Rales among sexually Active teens said Jim Lago executive director of the Catholic conference of Illinois. In quietly vetoing the Bill late Mon Day Thompson said he did nol believe the Bill reflects the Correct policy of the slate of Illinois in this important and sensitive  there arc four Public school health clinics in Illinois. The dinks at Chi Cago s Orr and a usable his schools Dis Pense contraceptives while an East St. Louis clinic prescribe them. Han dog expression a Phalda i Johi srum la half a homed expression but sup behind insists his jog enjoys their Hung Lii line excursion. Lassie and her 18-Yi or old Mas Ter arc soaring oter inv Countryside near c Tari Mannl . Beland had a special harness made so shut Lassie a mild join him in his jaunts. School in aids turmoil gets 2nd bomb threat Arcadia fat. A a bomb threat again forced evacuation of an the Menway school where in acc Hemo Philias Brothers carrying aids antibodies Are enrolled under court order and Community protest. The threat was telephoned just before 8 . Thurs Day to a local radio station. Sheriffs deputies evacuated children and staff while they conducted a half hour search. Nothing was found and lasses were resumed said memo nil elementary school principal Donald Knoche. Two bomb threats had forced the evacuation of the school on tuesday. The Ray Brothers Ricky 10, Robert 9 and Randy. K returned to class monday after a Federal judge ruled they should be educated with other Chil Dren. The school Board a the urging of Many other parents had barred the boys from the Clai Ruom last fall. The youngsters All Haemophiliacs carry aids Arili bodies but show no simple Nam of the disease Accord ing to their doctors. Physicians say they probably were a ipos cd to the acquired immune deficiency virus through plasma products used