European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday August 28,1988 exercise London a people on Long flights should exercise their leg Muscles if they want to stay healthy particularly if they Are flying coach when they might be More cramped and if they Are also drinking alcohol doctors have warned. The three doctors from Britain and new York said in an article published Friday that passengers on flights of four hours or More risk a blood clot devel Oping in the legs that could Lead to Chest pains and heart failure. They said the problems can occur in any cramped conditions even if flying bed for Long flights business or first class but Are More Likely in the Economy Section. They subtitled their article in the Brit ish medical journal the lancet the Economy class  the article advised exercising the leg Muscles while sitting getting up to walk around the aircraft from time to Tim and avoiding alcohol smoking and in Side seats. High risk subjects should consider taking Low dose aspirin on either a per manent or temporary basis they said. We Are just trying to Alert people tothe possible danger of Long flights particularly under cramped conditions or under conditions of dehydration due to excessive alcohol said or. John , a cardiovascular Consul Tant to Imperial chemical industries Britain s largest chemical company. Cruickshank wrote the article with or. Richard Gorlin of mount Sinai medical enter new York and or. Bryan Jen Nett a neurosurgeon at Southern Gener Al Hospital Glasgow. The two British doctors cited their own experiences of Chest and limb pains after Long flights in Asia and across the  article said passengers Are at risk even if they have no history of heart disease. It cited a 1986 investigation into 61sudden deaths Over three years at Lon Don s Heathrow Airport. The study Esti mated that 18 percent of them were caused by blood clots. Our simple advice is to keep the legs moving do muscle exercises go for Little walks every once in a while and keep off the heavy drinking which occurs on longer flights said Cruickshank. Alcohol causes dehydration which makes this sort of thrombosis More Likely and smoking can make the platelets in the blood More Sticky and encourage thrombosis he said. Moscow misses miss Moscow Mariya Kalinina left shares a laugh with the soviet capital s miss Public Ekaterina Chilic Kina As they arrive at Vienna s Schwec hat air port Friday to Start a 10-Day publicity session in aus Tria. Kalinina 17, and Chilic Kina 19, Are to travel to West Germany after their austrian tour is up. Chief of world chess federation Jyh from Lucerne Switzerland a the president of the world chess federation fide has demanded a formal apology from world chess Champion Garri Kasparov for comments he made about the federation. The federation on Friday released the text of a letter sent to the soviet chess federation by fide president Florencio Campomanes. Campomanes referred to Kasparov s Public utterances that sow discord and that insult and  the letter cited several remarks attributed to Kasparov in talking to the Media about fide including my title alone will Lull this organization they Are like godfathers in the mafia and there is tremendous corruption in  on behalf of fide we officially take offence to these statements Campomanes wrote. On behalf of fide i ask for an apology from the world Champion he added failing this i propose to bring this to the attention of the general  that meeting consisting of representatives from the 126 National member federations of the fide is scheduled nov. 26 in Salonica Greece during the 1988 chess olympiad there. Campomanes letter was dated aug. 11. Kasparov and Campomanes Are longtime Adversa Ries. They exchanged angry words at a news conference in Moscow in february 1985 after the fide president halted Kasparov s first title match with fellow soviet Anatoly Karpov without result leaving Karpov the world Champion. Kasparov won the title from Karpov later that year. Kasparov in april called on the fide to cede responsibility for organizing major chess events including championship matches to a group of the leading players. The chess Champion is president of the grand masters association which was established at his suggestion in 1986 to Challenge the dominance of the fide. World today Japan w. Germany agree to have sister castles Tokyo a a Castle in a Rural japanese town and one in West Germany will become sister castles a local official said Friday. One Castle is in Maruoka in the Northern Fukui prefecture and the other is Marksburg Castle of Brau Bach West Germany a Maruoka official said. Maruoka Hopes the sister Castle agreement will pro Mote cultural exchanges with the West German City 40 Miles South of Bonn town official Masaaki Hayami said. The agreement will be signed in april during Maruoka s Centennial ceremonies he said. Maruoka Castle built in the 16th Century by a Samurai warlord is one of the oldest castles in Japan and has been designated As an important cultural property by the government Hayami said. Marksburg Castle which stands along the Rhine River was built in the 13th Century. Witch doctor s Medicine keeps watch Over trucks Johannesburg South Africa a when his company s trucks kept being stolen Norman Asch called the doctor the Witch doctor. Asch an executive of a Johannesburg paper and packaging firm said electronic alarms failed to prevent the theft of four company trucks in the past two years. A Witch doctor was brought from Tzanien a Rural Center 220 Miles Northeast of Johannesburg. He poured some liquid into various parts of the vehicles and marked the underside of some other parts Asch said. He left a Small plastic doll hanging from each rear View  someone suggested i try a Witch doctor. I was very sceptical but i believe that if you Don t understand something you should at least have respect for it Asch told the Star a Johannesburg daily that reported the Story thursday. Asch said none of the company s vehicles has been stolen during the past six months. Locust swarms in Africa expected to damage crops Rome a dense bands of Locust larvae will explode into massive swarms in the next two weeks in Central and East Africa and the insects will inflict severe damage on crops a . Agency said Friday. The extent of infestation in certain african coun tries is enormous and we Are extremely concerned said edouard Saouma director general of the . Food and agricultural organization. There is no doubt that there will be heavy damage to crops in the Middle of the agricultural  Lukas Brader head of the Agency s emergency Cen Ter for Locust operations said that 14 million to 17 million acres of land in Chad Sudan and niger Are infested with dense bands of Locust larvae. Heavy Rains particularly in Sudan have created favourable Breeding conditions for the locusts. While the situation has been serious for several weeks in Chad and Sudan the problem has worsened sharply in niger recently with about 4.2 million acres infested the Fao said