European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday november 20, 1987 the stars and stripes Paga 3 lessons in Iron Contra probe noted Mutual respect needed Between branches Washington a the agonies of the con Gressional Iran Contra investigation will have been Worth it if they teach Congress and the White House to respect and Trust one another the chairman of the House Iran Centra panel said thursday. Speaking a Day after the House and Senate commit less released their final report on the secret arms deals rep. Lee Hamilton d-lnd., said on lbs to s mom ing news Pitini ii in Haw arcu 1 i Stract a our government it really does t work very Well unless there is Mutual respect and Confidence and_1rusi be tween or among the branches of if we be Learned that lesson at least belter than we have in the recent past the agonies of this past sum Mer and the hearings will have been Well when the report came out wednesday Hamilton said be thought hat president Reagan already had suffered the biggest blow to his standing and that the report would have Little additional effect on Public opinion. In a very real sense the american people Are Oul in front of us Here by a Good measure by months he said. So i Don l think the report will change sen. Sam Nunn doa a member of the Senate Iran Contra committee agreed thai the affair Al ready has seriously eroded Public Confidence in our numerous surveys of he american Public show Hal Reagan s popularity consistently High during his firs term As president fell sharply after revelations last november hat his administration had sold arms to Iran and diverted some of he profits to the Nicara Guan Contra rebels. The taif now lawmakers a Rcd a 2 series of interviews will be to restore the american Public s Confidence in government and rebuild the frayed relationship Between the legislative and executive branches the key failure in the Iran Contra affair was the administration s conscious decision not to consult with Congress and not to follow the Law said rep. Louis Stokes a Ohio a member of the House panel and chairman of the House intelligence committee Reagan is singled out in the House and Senate re port on the Iran Conler affair for allowing a Cabal of the zealots in his administration to seize control of policy. The committees said that while Reagan authorized the secret weapons sales to Iran they found no direct evidence that he knew the profits were subsequently diverted o the nicaraguan Contra rebels. Nut the committees said Reagan failed in condemn the actions of his subordinates even after detail of their roles began to come out. Reagan should have acted Swilly. Said sen. George Mitchell a Mainc. He added that he president still has thai responsibility. One of the conclusions of this report is that the president did not Lake pc of it Sinh an Altitude in she Var Tilic House with respect to the Law Mitchell said. And it was thai failure that led to the Altitude among his sen. Daniel Inouye a Hawaii chairman of the sen ate panel agreed. The president has failed to use his bully pulpit to condemn the lies the destruction of government documents or the cover up that have been mailers of re Cord for months Inouye said. By his continuing silence the president creates the impression that he does not find these actions while House spokesman Marl in Fitz Walcer said Rea Gan already has accepted responsibility for those mis takes and there really in t much Mure that can be asked Why Reagan has t condemned the activities of his Conner aides Filz water said the answer is Sim ply obvious and does t require a born non smoker Newborn Renmin Lon Sanchez ended by Massachusetts i tic health commissioner Deborah Prothrow sell a ports i to shirt proclaiming i m born the Liny in Fant born at Boston City Hosp Luj pro moved the american cancer Soddy s great american smog Seoul thursday. Women found of High risk from us a few cigarettes Boston a smoking less than five cigarettes a Day can double or triple women s risk of heart disease and no level of smoking should be considered Safe a study thursday concludes. The researchers whole that their find Ings leave Little doubt that smoking is a dominant cause of coronary heart Dis ease among Young and Middle aged women in the United their work based on a Survey of nurses says that about half of All heart Dis ease an Ong women in this age group can be blasted on cigarettes. Until a few years ago Many experts believed that cigarettes did not contrib Ute to heart disease in women. But recent studies have concluded that smoking is an important Hazard for women s hearts just As it is for men s. Any doubt about the effect of smok ing on acquired heart disease in women should be erased by the latest study. Or. Jonathan e. Fielding of the University of California los Angeles wrote in an editorial published with the report in the new England journal of Medicine. Smoking already has been linked by overwhelm ing evidence with lung cancer and emphysema in both series. In addition there is evidence that special hazards for women in clude cervical cancer Early menopause and damage to the fetus during pregnancy. The latest study demonstrates the Over whelming importance of smoking for Cor onary heart disease in Young and Middle aged women said its director or. Walter c Willort of the Harvard school of Public health. It looks like cigarette smoking can account for approximately 50 percent of the total number of cases of coronary heart disease in that among the study s findings approximately 46 percent of fatal coronary disease and 54 percent of non fatal heart attacks in women can he attributed to cigarette use among women smoking More than 25 cigarettes a Day 81 percent of deaths from coronary heart disease arc caused by smoking. Even the lightest smokers those who smoked one to four cigarettes a Day were 2.4 times More Likely than non smokers to have heart disease. The risk rises dramatically if smok ers also have other risk factors for heart disease. For instance diabetic smokers and those with High blood pressure were 22 times More Likely than non smokers to have coronary heart disease. When women stopped smoking their increased risk of heart disease re turned to Normal. The nurses health study is following the diets and living habits of 119.404 nurses across the country. When the study began in 1976, they ranged from Ages 30 to 55, and about 30 percent smoked cigarettes. This was virtually the same As women nationwide. During the next six years 65 died of coronary heart disease and 242 had non fatal heart attacks. During the Middle years heart attacks Are far More common among men than women. However Willcut notes it is not a rare disease. It s one of the most important causes of death among women in this age German tourists get smelly reception of India resort new Delhi India up anti tourist activists smeared cow dung and Rotten fish Over busts carrying West German vacationers As part of a Campaign against the detrimental effect of tourism on the Western Beach resort of Goa a newspaper said thurs Day the times of India reported the hostile reception to the first weekly charter flight of the Holiday season had prompted police to deploy officers to prefect tourists As they landed at the popular destination on the Indian Ocean coast. It said a package tour from Frankfurt flown in by the Condor airlines charter company earlier this month was met by 10 members of the Jagrup Koenka Rachi Fouz Jeff group opposing the growth of tourism in the former portuguese Colony. The newspaper said the activists distributed pamphlets written in German among the Holiday makers arriving in Goa a tropical Region renowned for its languid lifestyle and Miles of Golden beaches and Palm Trees. Tourists Are nol Welcome in Goa because the construction of luxury hotels has deprived fishermen,.,. Farmers and others of their land their use of the sea Shore and even their traditional vocations the times quoted the pamphlets As saying. The foreigners lifestyles have a detrimental effect on local youths the pamphlets read also claiming that chartered Toura gave few benefits to the Economy and locals were suffering water shortages so hotels could have adequate supplies. As the vacationers boarded buses the Jef members smeared the vehicles with cow dung and Rotten fish prompting some tourists to record the event with video cameras the times reported. It said three Jef leaders had been placed in custody possibly heading off a demonstration against the arrival of a second Condor flight on saturday. The times quoted the president of the Goa travel and tourism club l Pinto As saying the Jef had no local support and was actually backed by an unnamed hotel Chain that wished to Block planned construction of competitive resorts
