European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday february 26,1989 food peril to children called great group cites pesticide consumption Washington Fuji american children consume about four times More cancer causing pesticides than adults and one youngster out of 3,000 May develop cancer from eating chemical Resi dues on fruits and vegetables an environmental group said Friday. In a report that Drew a barrage of criticism the National resources defense Council said the average preschool child consumes fruit and vegetables at a significantly greater rate than adults Caus ing a much greater exposure to most pesticides. According to the group s calculations one child out of 3,000 May eventually get can or solely As a result of their expo sure before the age of 6 to eight com Mon pesticides in fruits and vegetables. Under present policy the Environ mental Protection Agency will not allow a pesticide to be used on food if it will result in any More than one additional Case of cancer per i million people. Current Federal regulation of pesticides fails to protect the  has virtually ignored infant and child food consumption practices according to a copy of the report. The report titled intolerable risk pesticides in our children s food was expected to be released at a news Confer ence monday. In its two year study the group found that preschoolers generally consume six times As much fruit As the average adult and 18 times As much Apple juice. Overall the typical preschooler receives four times greater exposure to eight carcinogenic pesticides than adults the report said. One of the pesticides studied is Dami Noide known by the Trade name alar which is used on apples and peanuts. The Epa recently announced it would move to ban alar citing new studies showing increased cancer risk. In addition to alar the study exam ined the Levels of 22 other pesticides known to have Adverse health effects in 27 foods. The report said that in addition to underestimating children s pesticide con sumption government regulations Donot reflect the Young s increased vulnerability to toxic chemicals. Laboratory experiments have indicated Young animals retain More of the chemicals they eat than older ones. I addition their developing bodies particularly the brain and nervous system Are More vulnerable to toxic effects the re port said. To resolve the uncertainty about whether children May be especially Sensi Tive to pesticide residues the Epa has asked the National Academy of sciences to study the Issue. That report is due in Hud chief Kemp Tours projects vows to boost housing for poor do Attar Ratni Sta at t 1-Ty a. 1990. However John Moore acting Deputy administrator of the Epa said food containing Legal Levels of pesticide Resi dues is Safe for people of All Ages. Epa believes its use of safety factors adequately protects the  or. Elizabeth Whelan executive director of the non profit american Council on science and health was outraged bythe report. There is no risk whatever to children from eating fruits and vegetables in the United states today there is none Zero said Whelan noting that the can cer risk projections were based on stud ies in mice and rats. The doctor expressed concern that the report might prompt parents to reduce children s consumption of Vitamin Rich fruits and vegetables As Well As divert attention from what she considers real health risks failure to Wear seat belts or get vaccinations. Stateside Philadelphia a Jack Kemp the Secretary of housing and Urban development toured Public housing alternatives Friday and told advocates for the homeless that he wants to use Federal Money and his Agency to expand housing projects for the poor. "1 Don t want to spend my time wallowing in poverty i want to combat it Kemp said after touring the Richard Allen Homes Public housing Complex in a drug infested North Philadelphia neighbor Hood. The new Secretary former Republican con Gressman for new Yor who is closely identified with conservative sup ply Side economic theory acknowledged that dealing with homeless Ness would not be cheap. Sure it takes Money tax Money but it s aimed Kemp at socially desirable goals on which we can reach consensus. In this country he said. I think there is a lot of Good will today that people Are ready to set aside some of the polemics and get Busy and make an important contribution to working on this tragedy and i plan to be an  his two Day visit to Baltimore and Philadelphia waste second in a number of Tours he plans across Ameri Ca to see what s going on about housing he  this month he was in Atlanta. Officials estimate that Philadelphia the nation fifth largest City has More than 18,000 abandoned houses and More than 10,000 homeless people. Kemp s tour guide Robert m. Hayes a lawyer forthe National coalition for the homeless said Kemp is hearing that Federal housing is needed desperately needed and the message we get from him is that he is anxious to  at the Richard Allen Homes Kemp visited the apartment of Virginia Wilks 36, president of the ten ants Council. She told Kemp about vacancies vandalism drug trafficking and the Lack of Security but expressed Hope that a $7 million Grant from the department of hous ing and Urban development will turn things around. We Are going to take this place Back but we need his support she said. Kemp responded it s yours to take but it s More than a Federal Effort. It s a state Effort a City Effort and also help is needed from the private  Kemp also visited a Home rehabilitated with Cit help by the non profit group dignity housing and then rented to a former homeless family. He also toured downtown residence for 44 once homeless adults. The downtown Center was sold by the City to thenon profit Bethesda project organization which obtained $1.5 million from Public and private sources for renovations. After visiting a soup Kitchen and a shelter in Balti More on thursday Kemp stopped at several locations in Philadelphia before spending the night at a Hud supported apartment Complex for the elderly and the handicapped. Jury orders ouster for Marine officer Camp Lejeune  a an officer convicted in the death of a Marine Lance Corporal who was abandoned in the Mojave desert last August was sentenced saturday to four months in the Brig and will be dismissed from the Marine corps. A jury panel of eight officers deliberated about two hours before recommending the sentence for 1st it. Allen Lawson. Earlier the same jury convicted Lawson of dereliction of duty and an unrelated charge of appearing drunk in Public in december. Those deliberations ended about Midnight Friday. The jury found Lawson innocent of a More serious charge of wilfully disobeying an order to Post Road guides in pairs and to submit a list of the guides to the officer charged with picking up the marines. He was the Only commissioned officer charged in the Case but two sergeants were convicted earlier. Lance Cpl. Jason Rother \9 of Minneapolis was posted As a Road guide during night Maneu vers at the Marine base in Twenty nine Palms calif., last  showed that Lawson the officer in charge of posting the guides positioned Rother about 200yards away from his partner although the guides were supposed to be in pairs. When the Maneu vers ended Rother was overlooked by a truck Convoy and accidentally left behind in the desert. He was not reported missing for nearly two Days. Searchers found his equipment and an Arrow made of stones at his Post but his remains were no found until dec. 4. Lawson 25, of Flint mich., showed no emotion Ashe sentence was read in the nearly deserted court room. Prosecutors had asked that he be Given six month sin the Brig before his dismissal. In final arguments Friday defense attorney John Sparks said others were to blame for the failure to pick up Rother. Why Are All the fingers pointing to Lawson Sparks said. What we have to do is Stop shooting the  several officers in Rother s battalion were re assigned after a Marine investigation of the incident and two sergeants who were Rother s immediate superiors were convicted by a court martial and reduced in rank. Aids linked to increase in tuberculosis worldwide Houston up tuberculosis thought by Many to be a disease of the past is on the increase worldwide and the aids epidemic is primarily to blame doctors warned Friday. The tuberculosis problem seems to be worsening or. Dixie Snider director of the division of to control at the centers for Dis ease control in Atlanta said at a conference on tuberculosis. The aids epidemic has had a marked in fluence in the increase of tuberculosis sni Der said. We Are finding Many aids victims have to and we Are now recommending that All to patients be tested for  the weakened immune systems of aids victims make them particularly susceptible to tuberculosis experts said. 100 parrots other Birds rescued from House fire Imperial to. A firefighters rescued about 100 parrots and other exotic Birds from a House fire Friday but about 200 More caged Birds died in the Blaze officials said. It got too Smoky and hot and we had to Back out of there said fire marshal Elva Asberry of the Rescue attempt. Asberry said no people were injured in the fire which broke out on the second floor of the two Story Wood Frame House about 25 Miles South of St. Louis. Most of the Birds that died were caged on the second floor he said. Sex sen. Cotton of ., a fierce conservative Dies Lebanon  A former sen. Norris Cotton who earned a reputation As a laconic fiercely Independent and conscientious states Man in three decades in Congress died of pneumonia Friday. He was 88. Cotton who called himself a Rock ribbed conservative and proud of it died at his Home said Jane Bassick a spokeswoman for Dart Mouth Hitchcock medical Center in Hanover. Cotton went to the Senate in 1954 after being elected to fill the two remaining years of the late sen. Charles Tobey s term. Cotton retired from the Senate in 1974, but returned for about six weeks the following year while voters settled a disputed election