European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 the stars and stripes saturday. March d. 1939 heart disease deaths decline cancer rate rises Atlanta a.? . Mortality rates for two of the three leading causes of death heart disease and stroke arc headed downward but cancer deaths Are on the increase As unhealthy habits of yesteryear catch up with the older population. The centers for disease control said thursday thai the . Death Rale from heart disease in 1987 was 313 per 100,000 people Down from 318 the year before. For stroke or  disease the rate was 61 per 100.000, Down from 62. Hut inc mortality rate from cancer fac nation s no. 2 killer has been a is up in recent years the cd said. There were 1% cancer deaths in 1987 for every 00,000 americans up from 19 5 the year before. What we Art seeing is the continuation of some Tang term trends said or. Harry Rosenberg a re Mcarther with the National Center for health statistics. Heart disease cancer and strode account for about two thirds of the 2 million deaths that occur in the United states every year the Atlanta based cd said i Nils weekly report. Health professionals closely Analyse the cacs statistics on the three leading causes of death for use i determining Public health programs. They re used to Monitor the health of the  Rosenberg said. He said the cancer Rale has been rising As americans who had unhealthy lifestyles in their youth get older. But the rate should fall in coming years because of changing lifestyles among the Young. For example among 45-to 54-year-Olds the cancer rate dropped to 166 per 100,000 tn-lmi6 from is per 100,000 in 1979, Rosenberg said. He attributed Preven Tive measures of the past two decades such As improved Diel and Lessi smoking As contributing to the drop. The decline in deaths from heart disease and stroke has been a dec Adelong trend said Thomas Thorn an epidemiologist with the National heart lung and. Blood Institute. Most experts believe thai the decline can be attributed to improvements in personal health greater prevention of disease improvement in medical care for heart or stroke patients or All of those factors. Thorn said. The decline is very real and very consistent he  disease killed 7f.i,8zo of the 2.2 million americans who died in 19b7 cancer killed 477,190, and stroke killed 14 1.220. A year earlier 2.1 million americans died including 765.490 from heart disease 169,376 from cancer and 149,643 from stroke Rosen Berg said. Cutting the irritation or. Milton Mikri. A Musmon a Camuto Lof isl i Mun Strati s in Over the counter Imine Msith of he developed tie says his so Tim can did the10.8 million men in the United states who suffer from an Iiri filed skin condition caused by shaving. The pallant who s trying out lit. System is Glenn Soler economic gauge Rose in january parole Board denies Early release for Goetz Al Bank. , a1 subway gun Man her hard Gapetz two months into a one year jail sentence on an illegal gun Possession conviction. Was denied Early. I Law Friday by the Stulc Board of parole. A Short statement issued by the Board said releasing  would Derc  of he crime and undermine respect for the Law Gantt 41, was convicted on the gun charge in the dec. 22, 1984, shooting of Lour Black Mali. On a new York City subway rain. Gael is uhili.1, the Board s decision in Earl com would Lille Hac 10 Sene his full one year sentence minus any time off for Good behaviour a Board official said. Goetz began serving his sentence Jan 13 after appeals in the stale courts foiled to reverse his conviction. , the . Supreme court also refused to reverse in. Arguing that he feared the four teen agers were going to Rob him after one of them asked for $5, Docte was acquitted of attempted murder assault and Reck less  at his 1987 trial. Golz is serving his sentence in new York City s hikers Island jail where he s teen repairing  the police and fire departments. Washington a the govern ment s chief economic forecasting gauge Rose a healthy 0.6 percent in january after it posted an even stronger gain the previous month the Commerce depart ment said Friday. January s jump in the Index of Lead ing economic indicators a measurement designed to predict economic activity six of nine months in the future. Followed a 0.7 percent increase in december and an unchanged level of activity in Novom. Bar. The Index vacillated during the. Last part of i9s8, which analysts called a sign Liat economic grown Ould slow some what this year.  nevertheless 1989 began on a Strong note and analysts have seen few signals that the Long anticipated slowdown has begun. A analysis expect the Economy to continue its record recovery. This year but they believe the Pace of growth will slow., in response to a yearlong Campaign by the Federal Reserve Board to push up  and Coo Misc Economy to restrain in la fiction White president Bush is Binning his. Budget and deficit reduction plans on an optimistic Assumption of a 3,2 percent rate of growth in the Gross National product during 1989, Many private forecast ers Cipech growth to be closer to 2.7 per cent. In january eight of Why t indicators included in the Index contributed in the increase. The a a gust positive Factor was a Rise in a measure of consumer . .-.,Other factors pulling the Index up were rising Slock prices increased raw materials prices signalling High demand a longer average workweek slower Ven Dor deliveries to companies indicating Strong demand an increase in manufacturers unfilled orders a drop in initial claims for in  benefits and More orders for new plants and equip ment. Three indicators Madu negative contributions led by a contraction in the Money Supply other negative factors were a decline Iii manufacturer orders for consumer goods and fewer building permits. The various changes left inc ind cd at. 145.7 percent of its 1982 base of 100. Over the Pait 12 months the Indes has climbed 5 percent compared with a 1.8 percent gain during the previous 12 Mon i h period the fed Lasi week intensified us Onti inflation fight boosting its key Bank lending rate a half percentage Point to 7. Percent in an Effort  in accelerate in inflation at the we time major Banks boosted their prime rate which is. Charged to of Cir most credit worthy com Mercial customers by s half Point to ii percent the second increase in two weeks. The fed s latest round of credit tight ening came a concerns about inflation had height neti with word that consumer prices Rose 0.6 percent in january and.  prices Rose 1 percent. Friday s release of the leading Index Marks its first Issue in a revised format. The revisions  of 11 components from the Index revised two others and added two new indicators of Foo noetic activity. Using data stretching Buck to 1948, the composite Index Bai correctly predicted la eight recessions by. Dropping for at least three months in orow,.burir also forecast four recessions that never materialized. Ins chief says audit revealed lost citizenship papers Washington a immigration commissioner Alan Nelson told a Senate subcommittee Friday that he first Learned from a Justice department audit