European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday August 4,1988 House votes impeachment for . Judge Washington a the House with Only three dissenting votes wednesday impeached . District judge Alcee l. Hastings of Florida and told the Senate to try him for High crimes and mis Demea  on a vote of 413-3, the House sent a Resolution containing 17 articles of impeachment to the Senate which might not take up the matter until next year. If found guilty by a two thirds majority Hastings would be removed from his $89,500 Job. As the vote was being taken Hastings met with re porters in his office at the Federal courthouse in Miami and he once again protested his innocence of the charges. We Are witnessing the decline of jurisprudence with this investigation and this vote Hastings said. The vote today is a manifestation of institutional  the Resolution charges that Hastings conspired with Washington attorney William Borders to receive a $150,000 bribe from two convicted racketeers lied about the bribe during a criminal trial compromised three Fri investigations by leaking wiretap information Over which he had jurisdiction. Hastings had few defenders on the House floor. Two weeks ago the House judiciary committee voted 32-1, in three separate votes on the articles of impeachment against Hastings the first Black appointed to a Federal judgeship in Florida. The Senate trial might not begin until next year when a new Congress will be seated. The principal charge against Hastings is that he conspired with Borders to obtain $150,000 from two convicted racketeers in return for reducing their sentences. Borders was convicted in a Federal court trial but Hastings was acquitted of the charge in 1983. The Issue was raised again by judges of the Lith circuit court of appeals which conducted an investigation. The judges said Hastings had engaged in the conspiracy and had lied at his anal. Mcdonald s restaurant eats into Denver Hospital revenues Denver a business at Denver s general Hospital cafeteria has been victimized in an attack of big macs health and hospitals manager John Fairman says. So he wants to reopen negotiations with the fast food Chain. After just a month of operation the Mcdonald s at the Hospital has been eating into cafeteria snack bar and vending machine revenues he said. The restaurant apparently has Cost the cafeteria $500 a Day even on bum to Day and an additional $ 150 at the snack bar operated by Hospital volunteers. By projecting the daily drop we re having right now we could lose $20,000 a month Fairman said tuesday. The City is guaranteed a yearly rent of $80,000 plus 6 percent of Mcdonald s sales exceeding $1.3 million. When the contract was signed last year City officials believed the arrangement would bring in a total of $150,000 yearly. We re clapping our hands Over $150,000?" Fairman asked. That s an embarrassment. The $ 150,000 did t take int9 consideration the loss Factor in the cafeteria and vending  Fairman has written a letter to Mcdonald a Sug Gesting that we renegotiate the financial terms of the Deal with the Hospital. A top flight catering service you can Tell by new yorker Ray Ramirez s rapt expression that he s a dedicated Bird Lover. And there s no doubt his feathered pals love the fast food Ramirez serves up on top of his car. He started his Bird feeding project on impulse and the results were so Happy he has made it a daily ritual. Women s risk of heart attacks found Cut by moderate drinking new York not a new study of More than 87,000 women has shown that moderate drinking de creases the risk of heart attack and the most common kind of stroke. Previous studies have found similar effects in men but similar findings in smaller studies of women have been subject to debate. The study by or. Meier Stampfer and or. Charles Hennekens of Brigham and women s Hospital in Boston and their colleagues was by far the largest Ever conducted. It involved 87,526 nurses nationwide who Over four years were asked about their drinking and other dietary habits and made their medical records available. The women who drank moderately defined for the study As three to nine drinks a week had fewer heart attacks and fewer strokes caused to blocked blood ves Sels in the brain but they had More strokes caused by bleeding in the brain a less common cause of strokes. Alcohol continued to have a protective effect when women drank As Many As 15 drinks a week the research ers found. But researchers cautioned against non drinkers turning to alcohol to prevent heart problems. The study which was to appear in thursday s Issue of the new England journal of Medicine was reported by Reuters news service before its official release. What makes this notable is that we Are now finding with Small to moderate drinking exactly the same effects with women As we found with men said Hennekens. In the study women who drank moderately had about 60 percent As Many heart attacks As the women who did not drink at All. They had 30 percent As Many strokes caused by blocked blood vessels. But they had almost four times As Many strokes from bleeding in the brain As women who did not drink. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women older than 58 years. The chief cause of death in younger women is cancer particularly breast and lung cancer Hennekens said. Heart attacks take Over at 58, the Doc Tor added killing More than 200,000 women a year. Another researcher or. William Castelli had found in a federally financed study of heart disease in Fra Mingham. Mass., that moderate drinking protected women against heart attacks. But there were Only about 2,500 women in that study so the results were less conclusive. It s Good to have our findings recon firmed with a Large cohort Castelli said. Hennekens and Castelli said the reason moderate drinking seems to offer some Protection against heart attacks is that it increases the amount of High density lipoproteins or Hal in the blood. These proteins which carry cholesterol out of the blood vessels Are associated with a lower risk of heart disease. Exercise also raises Hal Levels. Hennekens said the effect of moderate drinking on strokes is probably due to alcohol s tendency to make blood less Likely to clot. Like aspirin which has been found to have a similar effect on strokes alcohol would then be expected to protect against strokes from blocked blood vessels and increase the risk of strokes from bleeding. In an earlier study of male doctors the researchers found that Aspi Rin reduced the risk of non fatal heart attacks. Hennekens and others cautioned that the findings do not mean that women who Are non drinkers should Start drinking moderately. They said that not everyone who starts drinking can keep their alcohol consumption in the moderate Range and that once a Man or woman starts drinking heavily the risk of death from heart disease strokes and cancer increases sharply. In All group studies the people who do worst Are heavy drinkers Hennekens said. Other than cigarettes alcohol is the leading avoidable cause of  t l hear head cigarettes l the. Olde r alcohol Pacific is writer says Gao probe caused firing by Chuck Vinch Gao teams visited the Pacific and eur wehry claimed he was an easy target he was put on notice but his work Sui Washington Bureau rope an editions of the paper after sen. Because he was in an initial one year pro did t improve. The action to Relief the South Korea Bureau chief of the Pacific stars and stripes is claiming that he was fired for speaking with govern ment investigators reviewing charges of censorship at the newspaper. But editors said Butch wehry 40, Wallet go because of inadequate writing skills evident before the general accounting office began its probe of the censorship Issue earlier this year. A rope William Proxmire d-wis., Learned of censorship charges made by civilian employees. The Gao report is expected in late August. Wehry who retired from Active duty in the army 19 take the civilian Job in september claimed tuesday his july 18 dismissal notice was part of a calculated Effort to destroy his credibility. While others also talked to the Gao Wehr he was an target be causation. Civilian and military editors at the Pacific edition said wehry s work did not meet commonly accepted journalistic Stan Dards even after several counselling ses Sions designed to help improve his work. We made several attempts to Send people to try and work with him Over the past eight months said air Force col. Edwin Montgomery editor in chief. A s did relieve him was finally recommended by hot. Military and civilian  wehry admitted that his us per began criticizing his work before i a Gao visit but said it intensified Aiu the Gao probe. The 21-year army Veteran served a South Korea Bureau chief in 1976-77 while on Active duty. He will remain in his Posi Tion with the paper until aug. 31