European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday. March 5, 1939 ran sends serum to treat space often Man in . Salt Lake City a physicians treating a Snake venom researcher i Hose need for rare Medicine prompted White House intervention were awaiting a shipment of scrum 1o arrive saturday from Iran to counteract a deadly Liper bile. In an uni a Effort initiated by sic phen Studden special assistant to presi Dent hush anti coins effective against the bile of a pakistani pit Viper were located in Iran England and the soviet uni Rin. And . Customs rules were waived 10 plate the shipments quickly on flights to i he United Stales. The Ami veins were sought Liam e. Haast 78, who was in serious but stable condition at the University of Utah health sciences Center saturday after being bitten in the left hand. The British shipment from the English National Poison unit n London arrived priday night. But doctors did not admin ister it to Haast deciding instead to wait for Chr More effective iranian scrum. Haast was being Given plasma intermittently to replace coagulating elements of his blood. The Snake s venom pre vents blood from coagulating and Vic Tims often bleed to death. Haast director of the Miami Serpan barium laboratories at the University s research Park has been bitten 148 times by snakes and is immune to the venom of dozens of reptiles. The pakistani pit Viper or saw scaled Viper is one of 1,000 exotic poisonous snakes Haast keeps at the lab where their venom is extracted for Sale to universities and organizations for use in re search and the manufacture of Amic of Salt Lake City said he be came involved thursday night when he received a Call from one of Haast s associates. The associate who had read accounts of a speech Studdert gave in Utah describing Bush s Kinder gentler approach to human problems said the scrum could Only he located in the soviet Union and Iran and asked for us Bush administration s help. Studdert said he immediately set up conference Calls with people around the United Stales and in other countries after specialists advised the White House that the scrums Haast needed were unavailable in the United states. Using an american interpreter who Speaks Farsi Studdert put Haast s representatives in Telephone Contact with scrum specialists in Supply of the serum was being sent by the Tashkent test flute of vac Cines in the soviet Union. Grounded ii Tanker free after workers lighten Load Honolulu a an Oil Tanker that had run aground floated free when Salvage worker lightened the ship s Load to prevent More crude Oil or fuel from spilling into the Pacific Ocean and washing up on Hawaii s beaches. The 800-foot Exxon Houston suddenly just started Toast guard spokesman Ila via Goff said Friday night. Officials had planned 111 Wail until High tide Early saturday but workers who pumped off More than 9.401. Urns of ballast water and some of inc remaining 3.b million Gallons of crude Oil lightened the ship enough in that it floated free on its own said Scott hindi Wjk no her const guard spokesman. Lie said the ship was being Lowed to deeper water uni two ships would stay with in overnight but every thing s gain great so on saturday officials were to assess the damage to inc ship As Well As the is Lenl of the Oil spill already in tie thousands of Gallons he. Suid meanwhile state and Federal agencies launched a cleanup of the thick smelly Oil washing in along a,2 mile stretch of Little used Shoreline 15 Miles West of Honolulu and famed Waikiki Beach. Bligh winds and rough seas lore the vessel from its of Hore mooring thursday night i ran aground on a Coral reef and ruptured a fuel tank. The Exxon Houston had unloaded 400,000 barrels of Alaska crude Oil at an offshore mooring a mile off the hawaiian Independent refinery when � lore tree. The skipper Kevin Dick notified inc coast guard no need for assistance Oul 2 i hours Laier the ship radioed it had run aground in 27 feet of water about one third mile offshore of Barbers Point located on the Southwest Corner of Oahu Hawaii s main Island. When the ship Tore away from its mooring floating hours unloading the Oil pulled free spilling about 25.000 Gallons of crude Oil into the sea. Although valves automatically closed the Oil spill ing from inc hoses created a three mile Long ail Slick grounded Oil Tanker lies of flu Casl of out spreading parallel to the Shore to the East toward Honolulu. By Friday night dissipating arid posed no immediate threat Lothe Shoreline officials said. Sex education has Little effect study says by the Washington Pom High school sex education courses which have been Bolh advocated to prevent teen age pregnancy und denounced As encouraging sexual experimentation appear of have Little or no Cit Clion teen agers sexual activity birth control use or pregnancy rates Accord ing u a Norw report. In an ankle in last week s Issue of the journal Pedi attics two University of Washington re viewed All existing studies on the Chi Cchiv chess of school sex education programs and found that while students do learn about sex and contraception they do. Not appear to alter their behaviour sex education in schools has been widely rcom mended As one measure to reduce Llie number of been age pregnancies and More recently to prevent the spread of aids. The report notch that the United states has the highest teen age pregnancy rate of any de eloped country with More than a million teen pregnancies each Vear. There s nothing unique about transmitting information about sex As opposed to algebra or history 101." said or. James a Stout a Pedia iric resident at the University of Washington and the study s principal author. Kids Don t late one and become engineers and rocket silent Sioui called ice education an important pan of a school s curriculum but added that society should not is pct such programs alone to Leach teen agers to n
