European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page s tobacco called nation s no. 1 killer Reynolds heir doctors Issue new warnings Anaheim. Calif. Dpi tobacco kills More americans annually than alcohol heroin cocaine fire Auto accidents homicide and aids combined doctors and a descendant of the founder of the Reynolds to Bacco Empire said sunday. A lot of people want to know How i became involved in what 1 do said Patrick Reynolds grandson . Reynolds founder of the giant conglomerate that now includes food and other products divisions. When my Grandfather began manufacturing Cigar relics at the turn of the Century he did t know that Lens of millions of people were going to die said Reynolds who donated profits from his shares in the corporation to California s anti smoking proposition 99. Speaking at the 118th Western scientific Assembly of Floc California medical association Reynolds joined doctors in a discussion of new evidence on the dangers of smoking and inhaling secondhand smoke cigarettes kill 1,000 americans a Day said Rey nolds citing statistics from the american lung association. Two to three million people died each year world wide As a direct result of cigarette smoking he said. He also Cilcy evidence showing that tars in cigarette smoke cause severe illness and possibly even death in people who inhale it secondhand. Or. Thomas Povolny of the National institutes of health in by Thesda md., said statistics Over the past several years indicate such smoking Rel Ald diseases As lung and uterine cancers cardiovascular disorders and emphysema arc on the Rise especially in population groups newly targeted by tobacco manufacturers. Women minorities the Young the poor the Margi Nally educated and people in third world count nes have provided expanding markets for cigarette sales which Are declining among White american males Novotny said. Women did t begin smoking in Large numbers until after world War a Novotny said. And women who smoke like men. Die like  Between the 1960s and mid-1980s, smoking by women increased again becoming 12 times More com Mon than in previous years. Lung cancer is no the no. I cause of cancer death in women surpassing breast cancer he said Reynolds said his interest in he anti smoking move ment is neither a passing fancy nor a Way to earn Money on the lecture circuit nicotine is As addictive As  he said my Only memories of my father. Arc of him lying on his Back dying of emphysema t lost my father when 1 was Only 16, the More i Learned about the tobacco Industry the angrier the More disturbed i  Reynolds who also called for a smoking ban on air planes and a regulation of tobacco sales abroad said cigarette companies Are primarily responsible for the Rise in cancer deaths in the United Stales and the world Kitty Dukakis returning from alcoholism Center brookl1ne, mass. A Kilty Dukakis is eve peeled to return Home his week after four weeks of treatment at a Rhode Island Alco holism Center a former aide said sunday. The wife of Coy. Michael s. Dukakis entered Edghill Newport in new port r.i., feb. 5 Dukakis because of excessive drinking after her husband lost the presidential election. Most patients undergo a 28-Day pro Gram sometimes followed by three Days of observation on the premises i understand that Shell be Back in Boston later in the week Paul cosillo press aide to mrs. Dukakis during the Campaign told the associated press. Costello now a Public relations executive in Washington old the Boston sunday Herald that mrs. Dukakis 52, is expected to resume an Active life when she returns Home. The newspaper quoted Cost cello As say ing she s in Good physical shape in terrific spirits and she s raring to  he said mrs. Dukakis will probably share her efforts against alcoholism with the Public because she likes to use her life As a Way to help others. And i think Shell do that through her Book or in her speaking engagements which Shell re sume a Alicr  when mrs. Dukakis Hospital ration wis announced on feb. 6. Her husband said exhaustion stress and the letdown of the Campaign loss had caused her underlying chemical dependency to flare into bouts of excessive drinking. She earlier was treated for addiction to diet  said the governor talked with his wife every  her slay at Edghill and visited her every  governor s Stal Chrusc press aide Steven Crawford declined to say when mrs. Dukakis will come Home or Whellis crime governor will Lake part in any fam ily therapy counselling. La s a private family matter and it s the family s wishes that it remain that Way he , u 160-bcd facility was founded in 1980 by businessman Chester Kirk a recovering alcoholic. It treats More than 1,000 patients a year. Washington putting More police on the streets Washington up1j the District of Columbia began pulling More police on the Street monday to combat escalating drug related violence that has made the City the nation s new murder  under a crime emergency imposed by police chief Maurice Turner about 400 officers Are being re assigned from desk jobs to walking a beat one or two Days a week. Although the move will increase police presence in the cily s toughest areas most officials agree much More is needed to restore order to a City under siege one whose exploding crime crisis is receiving world wide attention. At embattled cily Hall numerous measures rang ing from bringing in the National guard to tightening already Lough guns Laws to finding enough Money to hire 700 More police officers Are pending a curfew for Lccy a crisis to begin Friday. There Are some nights where we could use police on every Corner shoulder to shoulder an undercover narcotics agent said sunday. It s bad out there and it s getting worse. We be got to do something. Everybody s got a gun and they Don t think twice about using Ilas of Early sunday police reported 91 homicides in the District this year far ahead of last year s Pace when the City had a record 372 murders that total a 65 percent increase from 1987. The 1988 death loll gave Washington the highest murder Rale among inc nation s major Urban areas 59.4 per 100,000 residents. Detroit which had the highest rate the previous three years was second with 58 and Dallas was a d instant third at 36,5. The vast majority of the Murd Cra in Washington arc drug related and involve gangs battling for turf. Most occur in Black and impoverished neighbourhoods that Are another world from the Power and Glitz of official Washington. These areas lined with boarded up buildings broken Glass and shattered dreams have become bloody battlefields where drugs and life Are cheap. I be gone to murder scenes where residents arc lined up laughing and joking said assistant police chief Isaac Fulwood or. Something is wrong. Some thing is terribly wrong "1 think part of the problem is that this Community has t really gotten angry about crime and violence. It. Needs to put pressure on the City for change he said. Last week residents apparently took matters into their own hands. Six crack houses were gutted and police believe it May have been vigilante action. Crime Overall is on the Rise in Washington clogging courts with drug related cases jamming Hospital Emer gency rooms with shooting victims and backing up inc City morgue with unclaimed bodies in schools Homes and churches there Are desperate Calls to convince children Many used by drug gangs As runners spoilers or dealers to stay away from the riches and violence of narcotics. At a recent meeting of ministers clergymen a Laid horror stories and searched for answers. The Kev. Dick Statler of the capital Hilt United methodist Church recalled a minister told  Young Man. A former member of the Church who came up to him and said do you remember me tie was All decked out. 1 be had become a drug  said three of his friends drug dealers had been blown away. And he said he knew this Lime was com ing. But he said what do 1 have to live for anyway " police believe that a chief reason Why the cily s Mur Der Rale is so High is the violent nature of its Young drug gangs who Sec narcotics As a Quick trip out of poverty regardless of the danger. 2 children killed in Alabama fire russellv1lle, Ala a lightning caused a House fire thai killed a 7-Ycar-old boy  his teen age sister sunday but their lather Saed his wife and two younger children by dropping them Oul a second Story window authorities said. The lightning came Down through a tree and Tore through the Wood Frame Home s tin roof around 5 so a.m., said fire la. Jerry Boyd several neighbors said it sounded like a dynamite explosion he said. The family was sleeping upstairs when the fire broke out and the Blaze consumed the stairs said Boyd. Elton King threw his 34-year-old wife Ruby 3 Rno nth old daughter Kelli and 4-year-pld son Nikki out a window then escaped himself he said. Firefighters who arrived a few minutes later found the Home engulfed in flames. They found the bodies of Elton Ray King jr., 7, and misty Dawn Hatton King 14, in their parents bedroom Boyd said. The father who was burned Cut and bruised and mrs. King who also suffered cuts and bruises were in satisfactory condition sunday Ai Humana Hospital in this Northwest Alabama City Boyd said. Mrs. King was also being treated for a lung injury. Kelli and Nikki were treated at the Hospital for cuts and released to Clai Ives. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 7, 1949 defense Secretary James v. Forrestal said legislation should be passed authorizing the creation of an air Force Academy since the  s and Navy s academics could t Supply officers for All three services. 30 years ago foday. March 7, 1959 leaders of six Iroquois in dam tribes regained control of their 30.000-acre Reserve near Brand Ford Ontario in a bloodless takeover then telegraphed the news to prime minister John Diefenbaker 20 years ago foday. March 7, 1969 during a television interview Chicago mayor Richard j. Day strongly criticized Hubert Humphrey s 1968 Campaign for if presidency saying Humphrey should never have been Nomi Nalcy by inc democratic party 10 years ago foday. March 7, 1979 Iran s provisional revolution Ary government announced that Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his family would be put on trial in us Scotia in Tehran in the next few Days