European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 6 the stars and stripes tuesday March 22.1988 new study fails to support alcohol breast cancer link Daytona Beach Fla. Api a Federal study has found no suggestion thai drinking alcohol increases a woman s Chance of breast cancer a result that clashes Wilh other research. Conclusive statements or general recommendations concerning the relationship Between alcohol consumption and breast cancer seem premature said Susan Chu of the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta. Perhaps some alcohol related factors rather than alcohol itself account for the effect shown by other test Nib cacti she said. We have difficulty explaining Why our study differs from those other  nobody his shown any biological reason Why Alco hol would raise a woman s breast cancer risk she said. At a science writers meeting sponsored by the american cancer society Chu described results of a study of 3,252 women Between the Ages of 20 and 54 with newly diagnosed breast cancer and 2,971 other women chosen Tor comparison. The women interviewed in their Homes were asked about their alcohol drinking habits in the previous five years. If they drank they were asked 10 estimate How Many Days a week they drank and How much they consumed on each Day. When data from the two groups were compared Chu said we found no relationship Between drinking in the past five years and breast cancer  two a Tuples that gained a lot of attention when they were released in May did find an increase in risk she said. The studies directed by scientists at the Harvard school of Public health and the National cancer Ingli la a died an apparent increase in risk with As few As three drinks a week. But the principal authors of both studies said the data were not Strong enough to recommend changes in drinking habit for american women. The cancer society has no formal recommendation on alcohol and breast cancer. Lawrence Garfunkel the society s vice president far epidemiology said sunday that several studies had shown no added breast cancer risk from moderate drinking. Future studies should focus on the age that alcohol consumption began and How Long it has lasted Chu said. Hospital closings at new High 4 Southern states hit hardest Chicago a rising costs last year forced a record 79 hospitals to close their doors the american Hospital association reported Mon Day that the closings mostly of hospitals with fewer than 100 Beds were heavy in four Southern Stales but were evenly split Overall Between Rural and Urban arts the Hospital group said. Hospitals that barely Borcuk even or continually lose Money c3nn�l buy needed medical equipment replace  buildings or add important services Carol Mccarthy president of the Chicago based organization. Said in a statement. Federal medicare payments which represent 40 per cent of a Hospital s income May be partly to blame for ifil1 closings she added. Hospitals saw the Price of goods and services they Purchase Rise 22 percent Between 1984 and 19b8. While medicare raised he prices it pays hospitals. Only 11 percent she said. Of Ilic 79 hospitals that closed in 30 states 35 were Tor profit 30 were non profit and 14 were govern. Mini him cd the association said. Twenty five hospitals closed in four states Arkan Sas. Louisiana Oklahoma and Texas. Most of the closed hospitals ranged from 23 Beds to 99. In the past year nearly seven in 10 Rural hospitals in this country lost Money caring for patients and so percent of Urban hospitals operated in the red Mccarthy said. Aha spokeswoman Jan Shulman said inc previous record for closings was in i486, when 41 hospitals closed. In addition to the 79 hospitals that shut Down last year 17 specially outlets in 13 Stales also closed. Most were rehabilitation or  centers the association said. Average charge per stay in dollars i i i 11 11 chemo to fam graphic Bow Seq Toor stateside Honda begins work on 2nd . Cor Plant Marysville. Ohio a Honda has broken ground Tor a second . Auto Assembly Plant. The Honda of America manufacturing East Liberty Auto Plant ii scheduled la open in August 1989, com Pany officials said. The 1380 million factory will employ 1,800 workers and will be capable of producing 150,000 on a year. This lends a message around the world that Ohio i workers can product world class prod Unis Cov. Richard Celeste said Al sunday s ceremony. Honda began manufacturing in the United Stales in 1979. Working class residents sought by Mcdonald s Boca Raton Flo. A Mcdonald s ii recruit ing in a working class area for employees at a restau rant in this affluent Community 70 Miles to the North. Radio commercials last week urged bilingual Iob seek i to apply Tor the openings Fere Al a Hialeah mcdonald1. Workers would be bused to and from Palm Beach county with he travel Lime counted Ai work hours. It s just an Extension of our age old tradition of always trying new creative ways 10 staff our stores said Les Lucas Mcdonald s regional personnel Manli or. He declined to give details about the program ii. Eluding Why the company was seeking bilingual work ers. Scottish Bank planning to buy financial group Providence . Up the Royal Bank of Scotland that country s largest Bank has been identified As the proposed buyer of citizens financial group. The negotiations arc gathering Pace and we Are pushing ahead As fast As we can said Charles m. Winter group chief executive of Royal Dank group Parent of Royal Bank of Scotland. Although talks started last year officers of both Cili Zens and the Royal Bank said an agreement is far from completed. I if he Deal goes through it would be the first foreign takeover of a major new England Bank and would catapult citizens into the top tier of regional banking companies in the Northeast. Citizens Best known business is citizens saving Bank which has assets of 12.6 billion while he Royal Bank of Scotland reports about 135 billion in asset. Warden who ran Center for aliens being promoted Oakdale la. A the Warden of the Federal detention car mar that was destroyed last november in an uprising by Cul a prisoners is being promoted to a regional position in California. . Johnson became Warden in september 1916, about five months alter the Center opened and about the time it was changed from a Center Tor alien await ing trial or detention to a holding place for Tome of the cubans who arrived in the Freedom flotilla boat lift but were deemed undesirable. He moves to san Francisco on april 24 to become assistant director of he Bureau of prisons Western division overseeing the nine prisons in the weft Era Region. Tip leads to capture of most wanted fugitive Seattle a Fri agents acting on an Anonymous lip captured one of the Agency s 10 most wanted fugitives is killer sought in three kidnappings since his escape from a Louisiana prison 19 months ago authorities said. Danny Michael weeks 34. And a com Panion Jorene h. Rorea 56. War arrested sunday by a to member Fri team said Don s. Tokunaga who Heads the Agency s Scallie office. The two apparently were just passing through when agents received an Anonymous tip from someone who had recognized a leks As being on the most wanted lit Tokunaga hid. It Wai one of ethnic four of the moment things he Aid. We were Fortu Nate there were no  the two were scheduled to appear be fore a . Magistrate monday. Weeks was wanted for escape and interstate flight and on warrants alleging kidnapping in Houston and kidnapping and robbery in Greensboro . He also has been implicated in a kidnapping in Alexandria la., the Day after his aug. 24, 1986, escape from the Louisiana state Penn Miary. Flores was warned by officials in Greensboro on a warrant charging her with kidnapping. When arrested the pair were unarmed and were looking into the trunk of a car. Weeks originally of Koswell. , was serving a life sentence for Arnica robbery and murder when he and Jamo Lee Calvin 33, of Shreveport la., escaped from the prison. The Nett Day authorities said Colin and weeks kidnapped a woman Al knife Point in Alexandria and forced her to drive to Houston where she was freed unharmed. Later that Day authorities said the two forced another woman at gunpoint into her car in Houston. She was forced to drive them to Al Paw Texas but was unharmed. Calvin who was captured in 1986 in los Angeles was convicted in August in i Louston of Federal kidnapping charges. Tokunaga said the Greensboro War Ranis stemmed from the feb. 23, 1988. Kidnapping at gunpoint of Guilford county ., sent i Deputy Susan Kathleen Vincent 27. She was released unharmed in Chicago on feb. 26. Vincent mid that during her abduction her captors robbed a Nank in Davenport Iowa. Greensboro police said they were seek ing the extradition of weeks and bore in Vincini i abduction. Weeks was serving a 99-year sentence for armed robbery when he was ten to need in 1985 to life in prison Tor the Christmas 1981 contract slaying of army sgt. Major Hubert Ester. Weeks a Todd Giuy to second degree murder. Ester s wife Patricia was convicted of fim dog acc murder in 198 for hiring weeks and she is serving a life sentence. Weeks escaped twice from aul Orilie in ouachita Parish la. He committed the armed robbery in Shreveport after his first escape