European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday october a 1988 population of . Exceeds 245 a Ion Washington a continued Strong Immi Gration and natural growth have pushed the . Population past the 245 million Mark the census Bureau reported tuesday. As of Jan. 1, the nation was Home o 245,110,000 people the Bureau said up from 242,825,000 a year earlier. Contributing was last year s natural growth of 1.7 million resulting from 3.8 million births minus 2.1 million deaths in addition there were an estimated 600,000 immigrant arrivals the Bureau said. The Overall increase of 0.9 percent is consistent with Long term trends the Agency reported As the nation s population has been growing about i per cent annually since about i960. Last year births averaged 15.6 per 1,000 people. Up from 15.4 in 1986 but below the 15.7 rate of 1985. While this is Well above the All time Low of 14.5 recorded in 1976, there has been no trend in recent years. Population experts note that the Post world War ii baby Boom generation has produced Many women in their prime child bearing Ages thus producing More potential mothers to raise the birth rate. Even so the birth Rale is nowhere near the High Rales set in the Wake of the War when it climbed to a record 26.5 in 1947. Deaths occurred at a Rale of 8.7 per 1,000 people and have been fluctuating in the 8.5 to 8.7 Range since 1977 after declining from 9.4 in 1972. There were 2,5 net immigrants per 1,000 people including an allowance for illegal arrivals the Bureau said. That s Down from 2.7 in 1986 and Well below the 3.7 Mark of 1980, the highest level at least since world War  Overall growth Rale was 0.7 percent last year for whiles anti 1.5 percent for Blacks both Down substantially since i960. Sas set for deregulation links with Texas air in my Tom i _ i new York will tags air corp. Unil scandinavian airlines system tuesday signed a s50 million agreement linking the night mules and service offerings of Tobias air s two Domestic carriers and the scandinavian airline. The companies said the Alliance will make it possible for passengers to reach .190 major cities in the in the Stales and Scandinavia As Well As Australia new zealand and countries in Southeast Asia with just one connecting Slop. Our aim is to maximize efficiency and provide the Best professional service to business travellers anywhere in the world Frank Lorenzo chairman of Houston based Texas air said at a news briefing. Under the agreement Sas will sub lease three Gates and related service facilities from Texas air s Continental air lines in the newly constructed a terminal at Newark International air port in Newark no. Lorenzo said Sas will initiate daily sen ice Between Newark and capital Cit ies in Sweden Denmark and Norway inlay. A second daily flight Between new Ark and the scandinavian cities will be added about a month later. Passengers can reach a number of Cit ies in Southeast Asia from the scandinavian cities he said. A similar arrangement will be made at Texas air s Eastern airlines terminal in new York s John f. Kennedy Airport after renovations Are completed at the Sas chief Jan Carlzon listens As his Texas air s  Frank Lorenzo takes the podium. Facility. Lorenzo said this phase should be completed by the Spring of 1991, the Deal will also allow travellers to make ticketing arrangements for Sas East Ern or Continental flights with a service representative from any of the airlines. Sas and Texas air will set up a train ing Institute for All sales personnel. Jan Carlzon chief executive officer of Sas said the Texas air Deal was partly an attempt to prepare for the deregulation of european airlines in 1992. He predicted five or six major airline would take Over the european Market we foresee a Sha Coul in Furone As happened in the u United Stales Carl on  Sas has been confined to three Small Home markets with a total of 17 million people the earner claimed about 10 percent of combined european airline pretax profits in 1986.the airline has been looking to other carriers including Brazil s Varig air lines acro Lineas arg Colinas and austra Lia s Qantas airlines to boost its pres ence As it prepares for deregulation. Our strategy is to seek Quality part ners with which we can establish local Hub and spoke systems in different parts of the  Carlzon  said Sas would continue to work toward being one of the top five euro Pean airlines in 1995.Lorenzo said Sas will pay Texas air an initial fee of $25 million for Airport facilities 10 be followed by payments of $15 million to Continental and 110 Mil lion to Eastern. He said the scandinavian earner will be entitled to buy up to 10 percent of Texas air s common shares on the open Market Texas air was off 12.5 cent to$14.25, in mid afternoon trading on the new York Slock  air will be entitled to similar share purchasing rights if Sas becomes a Public company in the near future. The scandinavian airline is half owned by the governments of Denmark Norway and Sweden. Regulation called big hang up in getting videophones on line Washington up burdensome regu lation is keeping the nation from the Day whenever Home will have a video Telephone that will allow callers to Sec As Well As hear each other Commerce department report said tuesday. The report put out by the National telecommunications and information administration said that the country largely has reached the goal of providing Universal Telephone service and should concentrate on expanding the service to take advantage of new technologies. By the year 2000, americans could use Home video terminals to gain Access to a wide Swath of services from linking tutors and students in Rural areas to getting health care information it said. But the report titled "nt1a telecoms 2000 charting the course for a new Century warns that government regulation of the telecommunications Industry could put a Damper on innovation. The Agency s administrator Alfred Sikes told reporters that rules barring local Bell Telephone companies from providing information services should be eliminated. The prohibition is intended to keep the local Telephone companies from monopolizing the provision of such services but in fact it is keep ing the services off the Market. Sites said. To have rules that prohibit phone Compa Nies from doing things that naturally flow from their services does t make sense he said Bel operating companies should be allowed to be come communication  simple new urine test detects bladder cancer in Early stage new York a a simple urine test has identified people with bladder cancer at an Early treatable stage and May be useful in other kinds of cancer the National cancer Institute announced tuesday. Existing tests to diagnose bladder cancer involving removal of some tissue pose some risk and Are often painful. And they sometimes do not detect the cancer until it has spread and can no longer be cured the cancer Institute said. One of the researchers who developed the urine test said it detects a protein associated with the spread of tutors. The lest has also been used to detect kidney cancer prostate cancer and a nerve cell cancer called  he said. It seems to be in All the cancers we have screened said the researcher or. Raouf Guirguis. Guirguis Elliott Schipfmann and their colleagues report the find Ings on bladder cancer in the current Issue of the Jour Nal of the National cancer Institute. Cancer will strike 985,000 americans this year according to the american cancer society. About 49 percent of cancer patients survive five years after diag Nosis. The cancer Institute said that More than 49,000 americans get bladder cancer each year and that about 10,000 die annually. The five year survival Rale is 77 percent the Institute said. The researchers do not yet know whether the new test will identify cancers other than bladder cancer at an Early enough stage for them to be effectively treated Guirguis said. They arc now using the test with volunteers from the Navy and the army and in Egypt where bladder can cer is a serious problem he said. If these expanded trials show that the Lesl is accurate it can be used both As a screening test to diagnose cancer and As a follow up test to deter mine whether cancer has been eradicated in patients who have received cancer treatments. The follow up of these patients is extremely important Gurguis said. Widespread use of the lest awaits the completion or the Large scale trials in Progress Guirguis said. The test is based on the detection of a protein called Auto Crine motility Factor or am. The protein i produced in inc transformed of malignant cells Guir guis said we think it s stimulating the movement of the cancer cells and aiding their invasion Mettala  researchers used a very sensitive chemical test called an el1sa Lesl for enzyme linked Jimmu Mosor Bent assay which allows detection of minute amounts of a chemical. Researchers Hope to develop an even simpler ver Sion of the Iasi entered on a paper Slop that would turn color if the protein were present Guirguis  a test could be manufactured for Only a few cents per test and could thus be used widely to screen the population for cancer. For some cancers the test might be used with urine and for other cancers it might be used to look for the protein in blood