European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 16, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 report lauds breast a rays for women in cancer fight Atlanta a Federal health officials calling for nationwide breast cancer screening programs thursday said fewer women would die from the Dis ease if suspicious or positive mammograms were Fol Lowed up by personal contacts. The National centers for disease control s weekly report said personal Contact As in a program used by the Rhode Island department of health could Cut breast cancer deaths if widely  breast cancer is inc leading cause of death from malignancy among women. We would consider anything that we Learned from Rhode Island s experience As having relevance to All other states said cd spokesman Robert Smith. The pro Gram is relatively new and we re still at a stage of evaluating but i think the Early results Are  the Rhode Island program provides a Low Cost $50mammography breast a Raya review by a panel of radiologists and personal Contact with women who have positive suspicious or inconclusive tests. Rhode Island cancer registry administrator John Ful ton said in a Telephone interview that mammograms give Palic Nitsa two or three year Edge on selecting Small tumor before they spread and when combined with a personal follow up procedure can save Many  physical examination is a very useful technique and we advocate its use but we know in women from drug testing of prohibited by san Francisco a a Federal judge has prohibited the Reagan administration from beginning ran Dom drug testing of All 13,000 Federal prison employees saying no justification has been shown for testing innocent Law abiding and wholly competent work ers. The program would Force Law abiding employees of the Bureau of prison son two hours Telephone no Tice to submit to urinalysis testing even though no suspected of any drug use nor of any wrongdoing negligence or dereliction of duty said . District court judge Stanley Cigel. There arc cases in which compulsory drug testing May be justified in the interest of Public safety or Security or the like. This is not one. Rights guaranteed by the Constitution of he United suites must not Bend to Public  the Bureau of prisons was 10 have been one of the first Federal agencies to implement drug testing under september 1986 executive order by president Reagan who ordered testing of All Federal workers in Sensi Tive jobs. The Bureau has declared that All staff including clerks outside prison Walls hold sensitive jobs. Weigl who on May 20 issued a temporary re straining order against the prison testing program three Days before h was to Start handed Down a preliminary injunction thursday forbidding implementation of the program until the Case goes to trial. But the administration plans to Appeal immediately to the 9th . Circuit court of appeals said assistant . Attorney George Stoll. He said the court would be asked to let the testing program go ahead pending Appeal. The Ages of so and above that mammography can Actu ally select cancers two to three years before a physician can actually fee it in a breast examination he said. To reduce the death rate from breast cancer behave to increase the use of  the National cancer Institute and the american can cer society both advocate the use of mammography which the study says has been shown in previous research to reduce breast cancer mortality among women. The cd said a preliminary Survey of 852 Rhode is land women about 40 years of age showed Only 37 percent of those responding had received a to Mammogram in the past year 70 percent had a breast examination from a physician and 35 percent had done both. The Survey conducted in october 1987, showed 92 percent saw a physician Las year. These Are the numbers we got before we started the program but they Are very very encouraging Fulton Saith we expect increases in the number of women who receive mammograms 10 go up beyond the numbers Here. The National cancer Institute advocates the use of mammography and physical examination in 80 per cent of All women aged so to 70 by the year 2000. We believe our program will increase the number of mammograms because we have lowered the Cost and have received a lot of physician support in the Community Fulton said. Prison workers Federal court a lawyer for the american federation of govern ment employees the Union that sued said the put come is Likely to be decided by supreme court rulings in in diff cases involving Post Accident testing of rail Road workers and testing of . Customs employees seeking transfers. The court is to hear those cases in the fall term. The War against drugs is going to have to be fought against the people who arc using drugs and innocent americans have the right to be left alone said Union lawyer Cliff Palefsky. He said he was confident the 9th circuit would up hold Weigl in Light of its decision earlier this year declaring the Railroad testing program invalid because it did not require individual suspicion of drug use. The supreme court has agreed to hear the govern ment s Appeal in the Railroad Case. Because of the favourable 9th circuit precedent however unions challenging drug testing programs have been filing their suits in san Francisco Federal court including a suit by the afre last month against Reagan s government wide testing program for 345,500 workers. The prison program would require random testing of 5 percent to 10 percent of the total staff each year with additional testing of managers probationary employees and those involved in accidents. Those showing signs of illegal drug use can be disciplined the first time and tired the second time. Weigl also initially prohibited drug testing of Ali prison Job applicants but withdrew that several weeks ago at inc request of the government which said All new prison hiring would be Frozen if the ban stood. Gore endorses Dukakis Bush discusses drugs by the aug stated press Michael Dukakis and George Bush Laid the foundation thursday for their general election Battle in the South with Jsn trumpeting a Lough anti drug stand in Virginia and Dukakis i Tennessee seeking to unify his parly in a Region that was once its  new poll Laid inc two men arc locked in a tight contest  started a regional Campaign swing with a Stop in Nashville to pick up the endorse ment of a former democratic presidential rival sen. Albert Gore or. Of  Dukakis is going to carry our party to Victory in november. He is going to win in the East in the North in the West and he u going to win right Here inthe South Gore said of the Massachusetts governor he criticized during he primary season. Dukakis image inthe South and All Over the country is very different than Many people thought it was going to be when this Campaign began. I think he Gore moves beyond the old labels Gore , with his budget cramped by Federal spending limits went Only As far South As Rich mond va., where the Republican vice president declared drugs the ultimate fatal  also renewed his Call for companies to put anti drug programs in place before they can receive Federal contracts. The Point is that slopping drugs in the work place is not just a Proll and loss Issue it s a matter of protecting the health and safety of workers theall bul Ceram Republican presidential nominee told the . Jaycees annual  Jackson Dukakis remaining rival Testi fied before a Senate committee on drug abuse and basked in the Praise of a senator he competed against in the 1984 presidential  would think Jesse frightened the by Jesus out of them four years ago said sen. Ernest  of South Carolina. I remember him standing up and saying his time has come this time he s run a winning Campaign. He has t frightened anyone. He s charmed them Winall of those different  Rollings the Only senator to Back Jackson said Dukakis has locked up the nomination but he said his vote at the Atlanta convention would be based on South Carolina democrats support of Jackson a new poll in nine Southern states said Duka Kis and Bush arc Nick and Nick in the Region. Indecent years cop presidential candidates have counted a Strong showing in the  Telephone poll of 750 voters gave Dukakis the support of 45 percent and Bush the backing of 42 percent. Thirteen percent were undecided. Stud ends in new Hampshire leapfrog Way to world Mark Hanover . Api amid the empty beverage bottles flattened lubes of Sun Block and Slacks of fetid sweat socks 14 Hanover High school students leapfrogged their Way into the record books thursday. Actually the Pace was More like a few Steps of jogging then a leap. And the 14 who were at it on the soccer Field into hour shifts round the clock since Friday afternoon weren t exactly bounding with Energy. But according to the guinness Book of world records that qualifies As leap frogging and at 11 30 . The students flogged past 662 Miles breaking the record set by a fraternity at the univer sity of Seattle. Thomas Lambert and Steve bon.,both seniors made the record leap. People ask which hurts More the bending or the leaping said Doug North 17."it s the jogging in Between the students arc raising Money for them Orris Cotton cancer Center at the Dartmouth Hitchcock medical Center. So far passers by have donated$2,000, and inc students Aren t sure How much they will raise in pledges. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. June is 1948 the House voted to delay selective service inductions until january 1949, As the peacetime draft Bill met its second stunning upset 30 years ago today. June in 1958 former Premier Imre Nagy and defense minister pal  led the abortive hungarian revolt of october 1456, were executed. The men had been condemned at a secret trial in Budapest. 20 years ago today. June is 1968 the . Supreme court upheld an isfi6 civil rights Law Barr Ingall racial discrimination private As Well As Public in the Sale and rental of property. 10 years ago today. June 18,1978 the House appropriated is billion for military construction in fiscal 1979, including 11.5 billion for construction of housing for military families