European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday february 10, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 presidential grandchild Sharon and Neil Bush show off Ashley Walker Bush the Lith grandchild of president Bush. The baby born tuesday morning is the parents third child. Cancer advisers Call for stronger limits on tobacco Manson denied parole in unanimous decision san Quentin Calif. A a parole Board on wednesday rejected free Dom for the seventh time for Charles Manson convicted Leader of the Infa Mous family that in 1969 murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate and eight other people. He s still at War with society and definitely a danger said Albert Leddy chairman of the three member panel of the state Board of prison terms which voted unanimously against parole. Manson declined to attend the hearing after a dispute Over whether he would be shackled during his appearance. The Board considered the latest psychiatric study and his prison history which listed six citations for behavioural problems since his last hearing in february 1986. He is vicious and he is terrible Ste Ven Kay a Deputy District attorney from los Angeles told the panel. He certainly is one of the most vicious killers behave Ever had in the history of our coun outside the prison three men and woman dressed in Black demonstrated in favor of parole waving signs one of which read find a new Boogieman give Charlie a it s sort of a human rights thing said demonstrator Tina Williams of san Francisco. Everybody in americ should be allowed a fair hearing and he did t get Manson saved from the Gas chamber by a state supreme court decision Over turning California s death penalty Law i serving a life prison term. Wednesday s hearing was the seventh time a state parole panel has considered releasing the mesmerizing guru of the deadly Manson family a group of men and women who obeyed his Ever whim and killed at his command. At his last hearing Manson was turned Down after telling the panel he spent his time in prison making dolls of scorpions with the Power to torment and vowed to pursue violent world Revo Lution if freed. Washington not if the nation wants to reach a goal of cutting the cancer death rate in half by the year 2000, it should greatly restrict the use and availability of tobacco and make Early diagnostic tests available to All the National cancer advisory Board said wednesday. The Board which was appointed by president Reagan advises the National cancer Institute on policy. It said a series of nationwide Public hearings has convinced members that More aggressive programs at All Levels of government Are needed to combat cancer. We know what to do said or. David Korn of Stanford University chairman of the group. But we have to get people to take responsibility and do among its suggestions the panel recommended that Congress reclassify tobacco As a drug and make it subject to food an drug administration regulation. Under Fra regulation tobacco use could be eliminated from Public place Sand its Commerce better restricted said a Board member Helene Brown of the Jonsson comprehensive cancer Center in los Angeles. Tobacco is the most preventable agent causing cancer the committee said. It added that tobacco played a role in a least one third of cancer deaths and it should be a main target. The 18-member Board includes scientists Public health specialists and con Sumer representatives. The nation should have a goal of creating a tobacco free society by the year 2000, it said to go along with the govern ment s previously stated goal of reducing by half the cancer death rate by the same year. At current death rates 576.000 Ameri cans will die of cancer in the year 2000, As against 494,000 in 1988, the Board said. In addition the group recommended that smoking be banned on All airline flights and on other Public transportation plus in the workplace Public build Ings and All schools. The Board also said smoking an smokeless tobacco should be banned in schools. The panel also emphasized the Nee for better cancer screening and Early detection. Diagnostic tests for breast cervical Colon and rectal cancers arc available but Many americans do not use them. Local governments citizens groups another organizations should promote availability of such Early tests and Assur that they Are available at a fair Price it said. Among its other recommendations the Board called for More and better can cer prevention information aimed a poor people the elderly and Blacks plus the hispanic and asian american populations. Spotted owl Holts Oregon logging Portland Ore. A a Federal judge has temporarily halted logging on five Timber tracts in Western Oregon that conservationists say Are Home to the Northern spotted owl. . District judge Helen Frye s temporary restraining order came in response to a motion filed tuesday by environmental groups fighting the Federal Bureau of land management s plans to log mature forests near spotted owl nests. Bob Rivers acting Bureau of land management state director said its District representatives had been told to notify logging companies to cease operations As soon As possible. A sixth tract affected by the judge s order has not yet been awarded. The Bureau of land management in reckless disregard for the spotted owl selected these six Timber sales As a target of Opportunity to make their Point through Chain saw Justice said Wendell Wood of the Oregon natural resources Council one of the plaintiffs. In Seattle nine conservation groups sued the . Forest service wednesday to 117 to Stop logging on publicly owned stands fold growth Timber that Are habitat for the Northern spotted owl. The environmental groups contend a Forest service plan for spotted owls does t protect the species. The plan said 374,000 acres of mature and old growth Timber in 13 National forests in the Pacific Northwest should be designated As owl habitat. Jerry Brown eyes comeback in California politics Sacramento Calif. A to the Delight of republicans and discomfort of some democrats Jerry Brown is Back in the political spotlight campaigning for the once obscure Post of chairman for the California democratic party. The political comeback of the former governor and two time presidential candidate follows six years of self imposed political exile part of it spent i seclusion writing in Mexico and Japan and part working in Mother Teresa s Hospital in Calcutta Andon a care hunger project in Bangladesh. Brown s latest Campaign will conclude with voting saturday among the 2,800 delegates credentialed for the California democratic party s annual Conven Tion. Another Liberal Brown Ronald h. Brown is expected to be named chairman of the National democratic party on Friday. Jerry Brown 50, once dubbed gov. Moonbeam by his critics has lined up endorsements from an impressive array of party leaders and is regarded Ashe favorite Over investment banker Steve Westly 32, of Menlo Park. Westly is the current vice chair Man for the party and traditionally would be unopposed for the chairman s Post. Brown s critics note that As governor from 1975through 1983, he shunned the party. They also con tend he would use the chair s office not to serve the party but As a stepping Stone to Advance his own political career. They also say one of his weaknesses As governor was neglect of the sort of administrative detail that is a major part of the state chairman s Job and that Brown s election would give new life to what have become stale Republican attacks against controversial aspects of Brown s governorship from medal pesto his appointment of Rose Bird As chief Justice. Bird was recalled by voters in 1986, largely because of her opposition to the death penalty. Brown acknowledges and dismisses such criticism saying that the 18 primary and general election campaigns he has conducted Over the past two decades give him the experience contacts and fund raising ability to revitalize the party. I think that Issue of negative baggage is Over stated. People Don t replay history forever Brown says making jokes exaggerating his past political problems. I guess i feel a Little bit like typhoid Mary he joked in one interview shortly after announcing his candidacy late last year. I walk in and people want to step Back a Little. Och huh boy it s going to be Hayden and Bird Willie Brown death penalty Cesar Chavez farm workers the wow but Brown s past image is not a joke to some democrats. He has too much baggage to help the party re coup says assemblyman John Vasconcellos of san Jose a Democrat generally supportive of Brown Dur ing his governorship. And assemblyman Richard Katz a san Fernando Valley Democrat who has formed an exploratory committee for his possible entry in the race for the lieutenant governorship in 1990, does t want Brown to become a fresh Campaign Issue. I Don t see any evidence that he s changed. What has Jerry Brown done in the last six years to show he s in touch with the people of California he seems to think he has to go to Calcutta to see people in need Katz says
