European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday december 10,1988 no. 1 for no. 1 pm Ideal Lecci George Bush adjusts a no. I presiden tial inaugural License plate on his limousine in Washington thursday. Looking on Are Pune Korth and Bobby Holt co chairmen of the inaugural committee. Usa today concerned by Rafe of news workers Piscor ridges Washington a officials at Usa today Are giving close attention to reports of an unusually High number of miscarriages suffered by women work ing in its Arlington va., news rooms the newspaper s editor said Friday. The Washington Post said 14 of the 100 women working in the news rooms have had miscarriages since september 198 to. It s a personal situation involving people s lives editor i ctr s. I Ridard said we re giving it close attention.". The newspaper said that an informal Survey revealed the number of miscarriages and that the matter was discussed with the staff at a meet ing last month. It quoted Allen , an epidemiologist who has studied miscarriages of Mac National Institute of environmental health sciences As saying the number of cases at Usa today fails squarely in the category of something that ought to be looked  Gannett co. Inc., which owns the internationally distributed newspaper recently hired a consultant to lest materials being installed in a renovation project that began at the newspaper last april the Post reported. Some employees suspect the construction May have contributed to he miscarriages the Post said. The Post said about a dozen cases of miscarriage clusters have been investigated by . Or Canadian scientists since 1980. All of the cases involved women working at video display terminals which Are used extensively in newspaper offices but no link has been established Between the terminals and miscarriages the report said. -. Limited Access to secret files sought in trial Washington a Iran Contra prosecutors on Friday suggested a procedure under which classified documents could be presented As evidence against for Mer White House aide Oliver l. North without being disclosed at trial. The suggestion was contained in a memo filed with . Dis incl judge Gerhard a. Gesell who concluded seven Days of hearings on censoring 395 classified documents prosecutors want to use As evidence against North. Sescil held the closed hearings to consider North objections to deleting sensitive information about intelligence operations and secret dealings with foreign governments from the proposed Trio exhibits. North contends he needs to disclose the material plus 30,000 pages of classified documents to adequately defend himself against charges that he illegally conspired to divert More than j14 million in .-Lran arms Sal profits to the new Raglan rebels. In a Brief filing Independent counsel Lawrence e. Walsh suggested a procedure that would allow jurors the judge witnesses and lawyers in he Case to loot at uncensored versions of classified documents according to the procedure which was adopted in two other cases involving government secrets those attending the trial would not Cam of the Complete contents of the material. Witnesses and jurors would be referred to specific portions of the documents during questioning but spectators and reporters would not be allowed to in Spect the documents. At hearings convened in the Iran Contra Case last Spring Sescil expressed reluctance about minding Public Access to documents that arc introduced As Evi Dence in court even if the material were classified. Walsh who has accused North of seeking to disclose Many secrets simply to soul Lac the cose also has pro posed substituting factual statements about documents As another alternative to revealing sensitive material in open court. He also has agreed to concede the legality of some of North s activities notably efforts to five . Hostages to head off any defense need to disclose particularly sensitive material. Cusell has yet to Rule on any of the major issues posed by the Large number of classified documents in the Case. The problem was brought into sharper focus last week when president Reagan said he would refuse to release virtually All of the material sought by North for his defense. If Gesell rules that North needs the material to get a fair trial he could decide to drop the Central conspiracy charge against the retired Marine lieutenant colonel. Such a decision also would affect North s three co defendant in the conspiracy Case former National Security adviser John m. Foniri Doxier and arms dealers Albert Hakim and retired air Force maj. Gen. Richard . They arc scheduled to be tried separately after North. -. Reagan Nancy enter Hospital for checkups Washington Al j president Rea Gan and his wife Nancy entered Bethesda naval Hospital Friday for physical exams and Post cancer surgery tests to Sec if they have remained free of any malignancy. Hoth reagans called out Fine when reporters asked about heir Well being As they entered Bethesda naval medical Center in suburban Maryland. Cagan wearing Bright Blue running shoes said he was going to be on a Treadmill As part of his Batten of exams and therefore had donned the footwear. In cause of u Light snowfall dusting the nation s capital the president and his wife dropped plans to Fly by helicopter and instead 1 rave led by motorcade from the while House to the Hospital. The president was 10i undergo a Range of tests including his sixth colonoscopy or examination of the intestine. The first Ady was. Scheduled to have her second nost surgery breast a Ray White House spokesman Martin Fitz water said he did not i Peci a report from the president s physicians until later Friday. The reagans were slated to leave the Hospital for Camp David my around s . Earlier in the Day the spokesman said Reagan had gotten a positive report from his dermatologists who examined him on thursday and pronounced him free of any new skin  had skin cancers removed from his face in August 1985 and again injure 1986. Fit Twaler said three physicians including capt Theodore part cute the chief of dermatology at the by Thesda naval Hospi Tal conducted a visual examination of Ria Gan s skin on thursday and they did not detect a change in his condition. Col John Huston the presidential1 physician said in a statement released thursday thai neither the president nor the first lady has shown any clinical suggestion of recurrence of cancer both the president and the first lady have remained completely any Motomal. In Mutton said. Reagan who turns 78 in february had a two Inch cancerous polyp removed from his Colon in july 1985, the 67-year-old first lady had her left breast removed in october 1987 after a cancerous tumor was selected. Mutton s statement also included a plug for. The importance of such routine examinations  .--.-. The first lady continues to emphasize the importance of mammography breast a Ray for Early detection of cancer of the breast. The Mammogram remains the most essential diagnostic test for Early detection Ofa malignancy he said. Button s statement said Reagan will have a colonoscopy a Chest a Ray a cat scan a cardiac stress lest and a pulmonary function evaluation the first lady will have her second Mammogram since undergoing the sur Gery an pc ration known As a modified Radical Mastectomy in which the entire breast is removed along with some Lymph nodes. Physicians involved in the evaluation will include Hutton and a colleague in the White House medical unit. Or. Mar tin Bacon or. Bruce Lloyd a cardiologist or. Thomas Walsh a specialist in pulmonary disease or. David  radiologist or. Rocco Volpe a specialist in gastroenterology and or. Elsworth Weatherby a specialist in nuclear medi Cine. All arson the naval Hospital staff. Also participating will be or. Oliver Leahra. A retired Mayo clinic surgeon his son. Or. John Randolf Bahra who is a physician in private practice in St. Paul Minn. Or. Robert Bearl and or. David Utz of the Mayo clinic the statement said -. V the elder Beahrs is an old Friend and associate of mrs. Reagan s Stepfather the late or. Loyal Davis of Chicago. In the president s initial cancer sur gerj1, doctors removed the two Inch can Cerous polyp and nearly two feet of Colon As Well As the surrounding tissue sinn1 ii i9s5 surgery Reagan has Undi for to five colonoscopies to Check for any recurrent of cancer. Each time except Tor he last such test in january doctors found Small Fleshy growths known As polyps and removed them. In each procedure the polyps were found to be non cancerous