European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday. December 24,1988 i it fat mlle Hull of Gulf a to 1m? if atm Nautu o  a North Carafern study. Kim Tumot  mmtintr4 a Aan a tax n 47% 937 -18% -1bw -bo1 1,0% Jap -10% of i Kab i onion to seat Belt Laws Cut injury death rate 2 studies report Chicago a seat Belt Laws dramatically reduce serious injuries and deaths and Accident victims who did t buckle up had medical Bills three times higher than those who did re searchers reported Friday. The two studies which examined traffic Acci dents in Chicago and North Carolina were published in the journal of the american medical association. In the North Carolina study of nearly 100,000 people involved in accidents from 1983 to 1987,researchers found that after scat Belt legislation was enacted arid especially after fines were imposed inc number of deaths or serious in juries dropped dramatically. The second study examined 1,364 Accident victims taken to trauma units of four Chicago area hospitals. When the victims wore safety belts Hospital admissions decreased nearly 65 percent and related costs dropped 66 percent. Safety belts turn out to be an economical Way of trying to reduce that health care Dollar said or. Elizabeth orsay of the University of Illinois Chicago. She was primary author of the cos study. Thirty one states and the District of Colum Bia have seat Bolt Laws. The North Carolinn study estimated that the stale May have 1,100 fewer severe and fall Highway injuries each year As a result of Manda for Seal Belt use.  the study suggests is that each and every state could Benc Wilfrom Seal Bell Laws with primary enforcement said or. Donald Reinfurt of the University of North Carolina a Chapel Hill a co author of the study. Primary enforcement pan of North Carolina s Law Means police May Stop a vehicle if the occupants Aren t wearing scat Bells. Other Stales with primary enforcement Laws include Connecticut. Hawaii Iowa new York new Mexico and Texas. Potent synthetic heroin returns 18 dead in a Pittsburgh a China White a powerful synthetic heroin that plagued California in the Early 1980s, has resurfaced in Western Pennsylvania killing is people and authorities blame a drug ring allegedly headed by a research chemist. The rash of China White deaths and illnesses in the Pittsburgh area led loan investigation that officials say broke up the drug operation earlier this month. Twelve people have been arrested in the Case. China White its chemical name is 3-Methylfenla nyl a several Hundred times More powerful than heroin and even extremely Small amounts can be fatal. It can be manufactured by anyone with a background in College chemistry according to the National Institute on drag abuse in Rock Vilic my the drug has been confirmed As the cause of 18 area deaths according to Allegheny county Coroner Joshua Perper. Lab tests Are under Way in five other deaths China while also is suspected in As Many As 60 non fall overdoses in the Pittsburgh area. This is really the first major incident outside of California from a Clandestine Laboratory putting mate rial on the Street said Gary Henderson professor of pharmacology at the University of California Davis medical school. Henderson developed a method Oft Sling for the pres ence of China White and drugs with similar compositions fun Tanya analogs in overdose victims and he is helping officials in Pittsburgh with their investigation. Federal authorities first noticed the presence of China White also known As persian heroin and Gaso line dope in december 1979 when two users died i California Henderson said. Since i960. Is people have died from  in California Arizona and Oregon he said. The number of deaths in California peaked at 30 in19b4, just before the Federal drug enforcement administration busted a drug ring in los Angeles. Most of the dead in the Pittsburgh area were men i their 30s who look the drug either by itself or with heroin and cocaine Perper said. The victims were at the mercy of drug dealers who did not Check the Quality of the drugs they manufactured and sold. Our information from the Street is thai they marketed it As a real powerful heroin assistant police chief Chester Howard said. They had no idea of its Potency. Three granules Are enough for one  James Porten head of the Pittsburgh office of the Dea said he believes the suspects sold varying amounts of the drug mixed with other substances to determine How much was needed for an effective dose. Seven people were arrested dec. I including Thom As l. Schaefers 43, of suburban Aspinwall a Cal on corp. Chemist suspected of being the source of the drug. Schaefers who lived with his elderly parents bad no record of prior involvement with illegal drugs investigators said. All seven were charged with manufacturing and distribute ing the drug. Four were charged with supplying the dose that killed Jay a. Duschl 38, of Verona on june 2 an injured Brenda Drinnan 29, formerly of Harmar on May 22. Three arc charged with Selling the dose that killed Daniel Kotsopodis 41, of Bellvue on jul4. Five other people suspected of being lower level dealers were arrested in november. Posen refused to say whether any More arrests Are expected or whether additional charges would be filed but indicated the investigation is continuing. The seven arrested this month apparently met each other at the Allegheny country Rifle club in the fall of 1987, Porten said and decided to set up a drug network schaffers a research and development chemist at Cal on s Robinson township Headquarters has been suspended without pay pending results of the investigation company spokesman Tom Erdner said. . Attorney Bruce Teil Claburn said an informant who led authorities to Schaem alleged that the chemist researched the composition of the drug at a Library and manufactured it from chemicals he obtained from Calgo nand from a pharmacist who wrote phony prescriptions. 2 officers accused of making dealer eat drugs to be Grid Detroit a two police officers accused of forcing a drug dealer to cat 20 pieces of crack have been ordered to stand rial on assault charges. Ricardo Darbins 22, and Cedrie Scott. 27, were also charged along with six fellow officers with conspiracy and entry without permission. They were accused of breaking into crack houses without a warrant in order to terrorize occupants. I certainly have no sympathy for dope dealers District judge a Patrick Donahue said thursday after a preliminary hearing. But he said the officers tried to do something Legal in an illegal Way Steven Johnson 26. Testified that officers with guns drawn broke into his House where he had 20 bags of crack on a living room table and forced him to cat e. Lie testified one officer said i cocaine make you addicted to  going to a witness in an apartment across the Hall testified to overhearing someone say eat this., if you Don t i la take you to jail followed by laughter Johnson was treated at a Hospital for an overdose. Prosecutors said he May have saved his life after the police left by drinking vinegar to induce vomiting. The alleged Urc ported raids on crack houses were made just before Dawn on feb. 21. ". Defense attorneys said the action resulted from frustration in the Battle against the City s drug Trade. When police officers Start playing it very very very Safe the City becomes very unsafe said Thomas How Ard Scott s attorney  the eight officers have been suspended Wilhour pay since August and arc free on $10,000 bail each. Dar bins and Scott face up to 1 sol years in prison if convicted inc rest could receive up to 5 w years. $ wish comes True to Pital raises funds for Kalamazoo Mich. A a cancer stricken girl died one Day before a foundation could fulfil a Promise to take her to buy Christmas gifts for her impoverished family. But the Hospital made her dying wish come True anyway. -"-.-. Branson methodist Hospital raised 11,500 for the family of 13-year-old Sherry verily and on thursday a nurse took the girl s Mother shopping for Sherry s two teen age Brothers and two infants and a Friend who Liv with the family. -. -,.--. Before she it As discharged from the. Hospital to spend her last Days with her family in Paw Paw Sherry told a nurse about her desire to bring Christmas to her family said Hospital spokesman Bill Russell the make a wish foundation in Lansing arranged a free shopping trip for the child and her Mother. Limousine was to pick them up wednesday. But Sherry died tuesday. -. ". The following Day the foundation informed the family that it could not go ahead with the shopping trip because its purpose is to fulfil the wishes of living children who arc terminally ill said Wayne Schact executive director of make a wish As soon As the Hospital found out employees and physicians started raising Money collecting toys get Ling Christmas Irtys decorations food baskets you name it Russell said. "1 think it s wonderful what they re  is what Sherry wanted and i would t  if i did t do it said her Mother Julia v Erik choking Back tears during the shopping  r. She said she was buying clothing for the family including a jogging suit Sherry had asked for."., Sherry s probably looking Down at me now and smiling and Lau Jhing her Mother said