European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday july 30,1988 Koop urges intense Campaign against addiction to tobacco Washington a surgeon general c. Everett Koop said Friday the nation should mobilize resources to fight tobacco addiction As it has tonight illicit drugs. We should give tobacco use and tobacco Addic Tion the serious attention it deserves Koop told a House subcommittee. Our nation has mobilize enormous resources to wage a War on drugs Illic it drugs. We should also give priority to the one Addic Tion tobacco addiction that is killing More than 300,000 americans each year he said. Koop testified before the House Energy an Commerce subcommittee on health and the environment on a 618-Page report he issued in May i which he said careful examination of the data makes it Clear that cigarettes and other forms of tobacco Are addicting. An extensive body of re search has shown that nicotine is the drug in Tobac co that causes addiction. Moreover the processes that determine tobacco addiction Are similar to those that determine addiction to drugs such As heroin and  Koop told the House subcommittee that More than 2,000 scientific articles were reviewed in pre paring the  told the panel that tobacco like other addictions can be treated  wide variety of behave rial interventions have been used for years he said. In recognition of the important role that nicotine plays in maintain ing tobacco use nicotine replacement therapy Isnow available. Nicotine gum has been shown to relieve withdrawal symptoms following smoking cessation and May enhance the effectiveness of Beha vioral treat  surveys indicate that 75 percent to 85 percent of smokers would like to quit he  than 40 million americans have been Able to quit smoking despite the addiction Koo told the subcommittee. For Many smokers a genuine desire to quit and if necessary persistent an repeated attempts to quit May be All that is Essary. For others self help materials formal treat ment programs and nicotine replacement therapy May be  surgeon general c. Everett Koop a file photo Reagan vows to help next administration find my As Washington a president Reagan said thursday he will pass on to his successor a program for the fullest possible accounting of servicemen still missing from the Vietnam War acting on the Assumption that some of our countrymen Are  addressing the National league of pow Mia families Reagan also called upon the government of Vietnam to move rapidly to determine the Fate 9f the 2,394 amen can servicemen still missing or unaccounted for from the Southeast asian conflict. He urged the cambodian government to return the remains of americans that the cambodians have said they Are hold ing. Reagan said efforts to secure an accounting of the missing will continue on a priority basis during the less than six months remaining in his administration. We must Call upon the next administration to do the same he said. I preparation for transition i am directing a comprehensive study on the pow Mia Issue detailing our efforts accomplishments and what remains to be done to achieve the fullest possible account  he said the study would be made pub Lic. I implore the governments concerned to respond to our previous proposals Reagan said. Should there be anyone remaining voluntarily their family de serves to know. And every american who has perished deserves to rest on . Soil. And until our questions carefully answered we will assume that some of our countrymen Are  the United states lists 1,758 Ameri cans As unaccounted for in Vietnam 547 in Laos 83 in Cambodia and 6 in China. Reagan said the government in Hanoi has once again raised our Hopes for a breakthrough by agreeing to a joint .-vietnamese search for some of those missing in Vietnam. The president also took note of Viet Nam s recent announcement of plans to withdraw its forces from Cambodia. If they Are serious then it is time to move rapidly to resolve the pow Mia Issue for the deep pain that this Issue brings to the american people will turn against Hanoi if it lingers past a cambo Dian settlement he said. It is in the interests of Hanoi to Posi Tion itself for a new Era and to help bring this to  As for Cambodia he said the government in phenom penh has announced they Are holding the remains of Ameri cans but have yet to agree to our proposals to receive them. I Call upon the today to do  As Reagan finished his speech woman in the audience called out Don t abandon them please Don abandon  at the National press club building the National steering committee for Vietnam War veterans announced plans to float vietnamese currency Down the Mekong River stamped with a $2.4 Mil lion offer for the return of any live Amer ican pow from Vietnam Laos or Cam Bodia. The Reward offer has been made by several members of the House of representatives and  chairman Ted Sampley of Kinston n.c., said the group plans to Send a delegation to Thailand in october for distribution of stamped vietnamese200 and 500 Dong Bills. He said 20 million Dong would be distributed wort Between $5,000 and $8,000. Relatives of missing american floated balloons on the Mekong carrying the same Reward offer last september after thai officials stopped their plans to launch the balloons into the air. . Officials criticized the balloon launch plan saying it might hinder government efforts to gain an accounting of those miss ing. Political bid Patrick Kennedy 21, son of  Kennedy is following family tradition and embarking on a political career. Kennedy is running for the Rhode Island House against  m. Skeffington jr., a Democrat who has held the Job for nine years. Reagan Nixon hold 1 hour meeting Washington a president Reagan and former president Nixon met for about an hour at the White House thursday evening presidential spokes Man Marlin Fitzwater disclosed fonday. Fitzwater said Nixon came to the White House at Reagan s invitation. I can t discuss the Content of their conversations he said. He said first lady Nancy Reagan and White h9use chief of staff Kenneth m. Duberstein also attended the meeting held in the residential quarters of the White House. Nixon was last at the White House for meeting with the president Early last year. He also was at the White House in octo ber 1981, along with two other former presidents Carter and Ford when Reagan asked them to meet with him before going to egyptian president Anwar Sadat s funeral As his representatives. John Taylor Nixon s spokesman Athis office in new York said Nixon and Reagan also met at the Waldorf Astori hotel in new York in september 1984, just before a speech by Reagan at the United nations. Taylor said Duberstein called Nixon about 10 Days ago to say he would like to meet with him and to arrange a  said Nixon and Duberstein met at the White House thursday morning and Nixon returned for the late afternoon meeting with the president and first lady. Taylor said he did not know what was discussed. 800-Pound Man loses eviction Appeal Wesley Hills . A unless the Scales of Justice tip in his favor in the next few Days an 800-Pound Man unable to get out of bed will be evicted from his Home hoisted by a forklift and hauled off on a Flat bed trailer. Michael Edelman who fell out offed in december and needed a Tow truck to get up lost an Appeal of the eviction thursday. His landlord Ronald fish wants to level the dilapidated Bungalow where Edelman has lived with his Mother for two years in order to redevelop the land for single family Homes in this suburb North of new York City. Edelman s attorney George Rosen Baum says hell fight any attempt to use a forklift to remove his client. He said Edelman could be Rem vedas Early As next week. My understanding is that if Michael is touched and if they try to move him his health would be jeopardized Rosenbaum said. We re putting the county and police on notice that to touch him would jeopardize his  Ken Seltman a spokesman for Westchester county said the county probably will seek an Independent physician s opinion before removing Edelman. The county concluded earlier that the Best Way to remove him would be to hoist him by forklift onto a High Way department flatbed truck. If this could Hurt him Well ask a judge what to do Seltman said. Real estate agents have failed to find a place for the pair to live be cause of Edelman s size. The county also has unsuccessfully sought land for a trailer his landlord was willing to give him. Edelman 24, has been accepted into an obesity program at St. Luke s Hospital in new York City but said he does t want to go because the pro Gram won t accept his Mother who weighs about 400 pounds