European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page6 the stars and stripes monday tuesday july 4/5,1988 . To continue funding artificial heart research stateside new York up the Federal government reversing an earlier decision has decided to continue a$23 million program to develop a new electrically powered artificial heart the new York times reported . James Wyngaarden director of the National institutes of health told the newspaper we jus thought it would be prudent to reinstate the  currently artificial devices require Bulky external Power sources to drive a mechanical pump by com pressed air inside the body. The hearts have caused infections and blood clots in patients. The times said that All five patients who receive the most commonly used mechanical heart the Jarvik 7, designed by or. Robert Jarvik have died within two  May the National heart lung and blood Institute a division of Nih announced it would concen trate on developing a partial artificial heart instead of a total artificial device. The partial device would help one ventricle of a diseased heart pump blood. This week however top officials within the Federal Agency decided to reinstate the program the times  key official who did not want to be identified told the times that the Agency had no Choice but to reverse its position after sen. Edward Kennedy d-mass., and sen. Orrin Hatch a Utah threatened to a photo condemned to die convicted murderer Gary Michael Heidnik is escorted from a holding cell in Philadelphia Fri Day after being convicted of the murders of two women he imprisoned in a basement torture chamber. On saturday the same jurors who convicted Heidnik ordered that he be put to death in the electric chair. Introduce legislation that would Block new programs atthe Nih until All Long term commitments to previous programs including the artificial heart program had been largely honoured. Kennedy is chairman of the Senate committee on labor and human resources which oversees Nih financing and Hatch is the ranking Republican on the  senators the times reported have contractors in their states that Are receiving Money under the pro Gram for the development of an artificial heart. Or. Mona Safarty a health policy analyst for Kennedy s committee said that Kennedy agreed with an advisory committee made up of experts that the artificial heart has Long term Promise and that the $3.6 million required in the next fiscal year is attainable. The decision in May to terminate the program which the Federal government has already pumped$240 million into since 1964, generated controversy with some health experts saying the new heart would Benefit relatively few patients at a very High Cost. Research groups including the University of Utah the Hershey medical Center of Pennsylvania state University Abi Omed inc. Of Danvers mass working with the Texas heart Institute in Houston and the Nimbus company of Rancho Cordova Calit. Working with the Cleveland clinic Are expected to receive $22.6 million Over the next six years. Rare Butterfly found in mass. Pittsfield mass. A the steel Blue Early Hairstreak Butterfly has been seen in Massachusetts for the first time in nearly a Century a naturalist says. Edna Dunbar said she saw 20 Early Hairstreak considered one of the rarest butterflies in the United states in the beginning of june on mount Greylock the state s highest  saw four Early Hairstreak on june 13, one of which she netted. In the two weeks that followed several More were sighted by her and other Audubon members on  i netted it i knew it was something i had t seen before she said. I looked it up in the guide and realized what i  Leahy director of the Audubon society s Conser vation department and coordinator of the Massachusetts Butterfly Atlas project called the Early Hairstreak one of the great mysterious species of the world. It was last seen by Edward Scudder himself the Patron Saint of new England Butterfly collectors Leahy  made the rare Butterfly legendary by including it in a Book on butterflies in 1898 after he also sighted it on mount , a retired general electric co. Secretary who lives in Pittsfield said she came upon the butter Fly on a dirt Road in the mount Greylock reservation near Adams. The Hairstreak which usually dwells in treetops was sitting in the Road. Less than an Inch Long the Hairstreak is generally steel Blue with Black wingtips it May also have a Row of Reddish White rimmed spots a White fringe or a dusting of Orange. Seattle archdiocese oks mass for homosexuals Seattle a the Seattle archdiocese of the roman Catholic Church plans to sponsor a mass for homosexuals the archbishop has announced. While accepting homosexuals within the Church archbishop Raymond g. Hunthausen made Clear that Church teaching rejects Homo sexual  Hunthausen said the decision was in response to the Challenge offered in a sept. 30, 1985, letter from Rome in which he was strongly criticized for allowing a homosexual group called dignity to celebrate weekly mass in St. Joseph s Church in Seattle. 2 killed 2 injured in . In partial building collapse new York a the front stoop and archway of a Manhattan apartment building col lapsed killing two people and injuring two others authorities said. Authorities searched for other victims but believed no others were trapped in the Accident in the East Village neighbourhood. One Man was killed. More details about him and any details of the second fatality were not immediately known said a police official David Scott. A 13-year-old girl was in critical but stable condition with multiple injuries said John Clark administrator on duty at Bellevue Hospi Tal. A Man also was rescued. His condition was not immediately known Scott said. Bomb threat forces plane to return to new York new York a a Pakistan International airlines jetliner with 274 people on Board returned to Kennedy International Airport Early sunday after police received a threat of a bomb aboard the Boeing 747, officials said. No bomb was found and there were no re ported injuries. The Anonymous threat was called in to the 911 police emergency number at 10 58 . Sat urday. The plane flight no. 712, a 10 15 . Departure to Paris and Karachi Pakistan was already airborne said port authority police officer Michael Palermo. The airline was notified and the Pilot decided to return to new York Palermo said. The plane touched Down just before 2 30 a.m., he said. The passengers were taken off the plane while the Craft and the Luggage were searched. Passengers were expected to Leboard and resume their flight later sunday morning pal Ermo said. Experts link ice age to huge asteroid s plunge Washington a a Mountain sized asteroid smashed into the South Pacific 2.3 million years ago and exploded with a Force of 12 billion tons of int sending so much water vapor aloft that it could have helped accelerate the last ice age scientists reported sunday. A study published in the journal science says the asteroid More than a Quarter of a mile across an weighing More than 6 trillion pounds hit the Ocean just Southwest of South America near Antarctica and splashed billions of tons of water vapor into the upper stratosphere. Frank t. Kyte a member of the research team at the University of California at los Angeles said the Aster Oid actually could have been much larger than a Quarter mile across but researchers can confirm Only a minimum size. Kyte and his colleagues Lei Zhou and John t. Was son of Urcla calculated the size of the asteroid by studying the composition and distribution of Core Sam Ples taken from six Sites on the Pacific Ocean  said the researchers were Able to identify some of the samples As unmelted asteroid material heavily laced with Salt. Other samples had Metal grains and Al were Rich in Indium a chemical characteristic of mete  said the asteroid would have hit the Ocean at about 12,000 Miles an hour. The Energy of the Massand velocity would instantly have been converted into an explosion that would have blasted water aloft an vaporized most of the asteroid he said. It would have made any atomic bomb look like a toy Kyte said in a Telephone  explosion would have equated the Force of 12 billion tons of int he said. The . Bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 had a Force of 19,000 tons of int. In what he called strictly speculation Kyte said tons of water vapor sent into the upper stratosphere by the blast could have formed Clouds that reflected sunlight away from the Earth. This he said could have been sufficient to cause a rapid decrease in global tempera Ture and an increase within a season in the amount of land covered by Snow. Kyte said the asteroid hit the Ocean about the Tim that the last great Glacier age started about 2.3 million years ago. But he said he and his co authors Are no claiming that the asteroid triggered the Glacier age Only that the two events occurred about the same Tim and that the asteroid Impact May have contributed to the  scientists believe the glacial age which lasted until about 10,000 years ago was brought about by gradual global Cooling perhaps triggered by a move ment of the continents that blocked the Exchange of warm water Between oceans at the Equator