European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday january in 1988 Dole s finance chairman bows out pending probe stateside Kansas City to. A the general finance chairman of Bob Dole s presidential Campaign lays he is stepping Down until questions regarding his business activities arc resolved. The announcement by David Owen mine sifter Don Campbell Deputy director of the office of govern ment ethics said his Agency would exercise its supervisory capacity to Lake a look at a real male trans action involving hit Blind Trust of Dole s wife Elizabeth. Owen served us p consultant 1o the Trust. Dole campaigning in Iowa told reporters that Nei ther he nor Lus wife had done anything wrong. There s nothing there. Dave Owen May have a problem but that s his problem said Hie Kansas sen Ator. Later. Dole s Campaign chairman William Brock issued a Brier statement saying under the Circum stances we believe it was appropriate for Dave Owen to suspend his participation in the Dole for president  Owen said he was not Oskco by Dole to step Down Dave Owen with his wife Beverly but a few hours Mart his announcement Dole said Oyun probably would be leaving the . Owen said he decided to temporarily suspend his Campaign activities after consulting with Campaign Leaden. To me nothing is More serious than to have my honesty questioned and when it is i am die one who demands the answers. The facts when fully under stood will demonstrate that my actions in every re Tard have been entirely proper said Owen a former Kansas lieutenant governor. Tie said he hoped to rejoin the Campaign and said answers to Many of the questions raised recently would be forthcoming soon. The Issue has been railed in the Republican presidential Campaign. Aides to vice president George Bush circulated newspaper accounts or the Rea estate Deal to reporters. Dole has compared Bis own Humble origins to Bush s wealthy upbringing while the vice president has challenged All his rivals 10 make full financial Dis closures. Owen blamed the Bush Campaign for raising questions about the Blind Trust. It is my personal belief they have been motivated by the Bush Campaign he said. Campbell said the Doles could revoke the Trust which would allow them to make All the details Public. Brock announced earlier in the week that the Kansas senator would be making a financial disclosure statement by the end of the week. Officials Are Dis cussing whether to revoke the Blind Trust to include its information in the Public disclosure. At Issue is the handling of an office building Pur chased by mrs. Dole s Blind Trust in Overland Park Kan and later sold according to published report the office of government ethics 11 trying to see whether the managers of the Blind Trust failed to insulate the rust from peo ple associated with the Doles. According to reports in the Washington Post and elsewhere the real estate Deal took place in december i9b6. When Owen was the Iron s investment adviser. The trustee was Mark Mcconaghy who was chief of staff of Congress joint committee on taxation while Dole was chairman in 1981-1983, the paper said. The Post mid the former Dole aide whose company served As intermediary in the december Deal. John Palmer was awarded a 126 million contract with i Hearty 11 months earlier. Hawa / ans Utah ans lightweights  heavies study says Atlanta a residents of Hawaii mid Utah ate the lightweights in a new Federal Survey of weight by state while West virginians Are the heavies say Federal health researchers who Aren t quite sure Why. We Don t have any solid answers or. David f. Williamson a nutrition specialist with the centers for disease control said thursday after the cd released the Survey of scale readings from 2s states and the District of Columbia. Of Fth West virginians surveyed in 1986,24 percent qualified As overweight. In Hawaii and Utah the Fig ure was a lean mean 14 percent. The median overweight percentages for the Stales and the District were 20 percent for men and in per cent for women. A variety of factors could account for Why hawaiians Aren t heavy and West virginians arc Williamson said. Hawaii has a warm year round climate More conducive 10 outdoor exercise and also has a Large asian population. Asians Don t tend la put on As much weight As non asian people Williamson said. Utah is a state with a Large mormon population. And they do lend to be very health conscious people he said. Weil Virginia has pockets of severe poverty and poor people in this country have the greatest problems with overweight and obesity he said. But All of this is to some degree conc lure Williamson added. After West Virginia on the Pudgy list came Wisconsin and North Dakota each at 23 percent overweight. Those arc predominantly suites with people from a Northern european ethnic background. And die perhaps and genetics May predispose those people to Ward having higher weights Williamson said. Those arc also very cold areas and there May be less Opportunity for people to have year round  also surveyed were residents of Alabama Arizona California Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Kentucky Massachusetts Minnesota Missouri men Tana new Mexico new York North Carolina Ohio Rhode Island South Carolina and Tennessee. A formula using height and weight was used to figure oui whether Survey respondents were on the hefty Side a 5-foot-Io, 193-Pound Man or a 5-foot-, 169-Pound woman for instance would be Al the cutoff Point. Want to figure out if you re overweight Here s How 1. Multiply weight in pounds by 0,454 5 2. Multiply height in inches by 0.0254 3. Square no. 2. 4. Divide no. 1 by no. 3. If you re a Man and the result is equal to or greater than 27,8, you re overweight. For women the cutoff is 27.3. Pregnant women Don t count. The Survey was part of the cacs behavioural risk Factor surveillance system which measures behaviour dial can be harmful to health. This is the first year cd has used this height weight formula but applying it to 1984 and 198 sur vey results found no distinct trends Over the three Yean the cd said. In their 1990 goals for the nation. Federal health officials have said they Hope by then that Only 18 per cent of . Adult males and 21 percent of women will be overweight. Us 40 percent now says the do Havana says ., Cuba held talks on immigration Miami a us and cuban rep Aetna lives met this month in Mexico City to discuss their recently resumed immigration agreement according to a Havana radio broadcast Friday. Discussions look place in a constructive form with the objective to reach the fulfilment of the agreement in an orderly manner said the radio Rob code broadcast monitored Here. The report did not identify officials it said met Jan. 12-13. A 1984 immigration pact Between the United slates and Cuha was suspended after the United Stales radio Marti started broadcasting to the communist Island in May 1955. The pact revived in november Calls for re Luming to Cuba about 2.500 so called exclude blocs who arrived in the i9so boat lift from the port of Mariel. Excl Dable generally Are people with criminal convictions in the United Sutra or in their Homeland. It also Calls for Cuba a let about 20,000 Resi dents come yearly to the United Stales. Entrepreneur Whiz kid arrested in los Angeles los Angeles a former 7232. Bell carpet cleaning Whiz kid Barry Minkow has been arrested and jailed for investigation of Vio lating Federal securities regulations. Test 21-year-old entrepreneur who amassed a Fortune on paper with the company he founded in i parents garage came under Federal scrutiny last year when Zzz brat hit hard limn. The Woodland Hills resident was taken into custody thursday night said police set Marvin Morton. I can confirm Hal Minkow is in custody at Parker Center police Headquarters for securities violations and no bail Hsi been is sued but More i Don t  the arrest followed a yearlong investigation into allegations that Minkow s company was part of n nationwide narcotics Money laundering operation with tics to organized crime. The Row bankrupt 777.7. Best ceased operations last july amid lawsuits from creditors an stockholders that amounted to j25 million. The lawsuits claimed Minkow and other directors of the company had misled them about company assets had stolen company property and falsified reports about company operations. 15-year-old boy in coma after drinking rum on dare Sedro woot lev Wash. A a 15-year old boy has been in o coma since new War s eve when he drank two eight ounce glasses of 15i-proof rum on a dare his family says. We live for a Little Hope today a Little Hope for tonight and Hope for tomorrow said Vicky Salomon Mother Osl Cphen Solomon. Stephen was unconscious when he was brought to United general Hospital on dec. 31 with a blood alcohol level of 0.4. Health officials say blood alcohol Levels As Tow As 0.3 can Lead id coma and 0.35 can be fatal. A 0.1 Reading is Legal Inton Calion in Washington stale. The boy went to an  Neil year s eve party Wilh teen age friends. Mrs. Solomon said her son look a dare and quickly drank two glasses or at least 16 ounces of the ram. Which is 75 percent alcohol. Soviet scientist Given permission to emigrate los Angeles up Plant geneticist Val Ery Soyfer has been Given Permia Ion to leave the soviet Union and will become the sixth Refu Secnik to Leach in the United Stales As part of n Campaign by the University of Southern califor Nia officials said Friday. Soyfer was director of the soviet Institute of applied molecular biology and genetics and chief of the Institute s Laboratory Omot Leutar biology before applying to emigrate from the soviet Union in 1979, officials said thursday. He is expected to arrive in the United Suta within the month to Bryin teaching it Ohio state University us spokesman Kent Robinson said