European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday aprils. .1389 the stars and stripes Page 7 Bush takes Mubarak out to the Ball game of Maureen Dowd Baltimore not the two presidents sat in the sky ban. Wal chm the baseball game with their orioles Caps their hot Dos. Their pickles their horse radish their cokes in orioles plastic souvenir cups i hair player lineup Sheet on while House stationery their Little while binoculars and a Black secure phone. The announcer at memorial stadium came on the Loudspeaker in say there were some celebrities in Atten dance for the season opener Between inc Baltimore orioles and inc Boston red sox there was Ted Williams the Rock Star Joan jell and. Inc announcer boomed there was " he president of Egypt although the name Williams got a Roar from the crowd or some of s4, fans the name Mubarak brought Only is Lenl wonderment Hosni Mubarak tried on his orioles Cap for he egyptian journalists who seemed befuddled at being want skid to Baltimore to watch men in costume hitting balls with bats and was asked by american report ers How he was enjoying his first baseball game. Very Good teacher he said smiling at president Bush he said he had seen baseball on television but never in person. Over he paper plates and a Cut Glass relish tray the Captain of the 1948 Yale baseball team was explaining some of the line Points of the american pastime to his guest. ,. Of course Mubarak said Poi Lin to Bush hews the Captain of the biggest team in the United. -. Bush grinned. That s what i told him he con fessed. the two leaders sitting in a Box with egyptian officials Secretary of stale James a Baker the director of the office of management and budget Richardg. Darman the while House chief of staff. John a Sununu Williams and baseball commissioner a. Bar licit Giamatti mined Light talk about the game with serious foreign policy discussion unclear who was running things Back i Washington since so Many of the president s advisers and aides had fell inc need to accompany him on this important of defense Dick Cheney and Baker flew Over in in Crown helicopters National Security adviser rent scowcroft and while House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater us Weir As several other top aides were also on hand As Well. President Bush explain u Fine Point of baseball to egyptian president Len sol Mubarak. Bush had a hard Lime explaining the game to his guest at first because the first run was not scored until the fourth inning. Bui at one Point the orioles got a runner to second and pointing to him Bush explained thai he had a Chance of scoring by reaching Home. Asil turned out inc orioles did a bit More running around inc bases and won 5-4, in a i innings six innings after the presidential party left As inc crowd cheered Bush had opened the game by running out onto the Field in his Shirl slow pcs and Lack and Orange lie in Honor of he orioles colors to throw out inc first pitch. The president who keeps his old fir51 baseman s Milt from Yale in his desk in the Oval office and says he still gels the Ilch id throw appeared eager monday As he stepped onto the Mound. At Vale Bush was known As Good Field Bat he bats right handed he throws the announcer said he s the 41st president of the the Ball arced up and to the right a Little High an outside and orioles Catcher Mickey act Llalon snagged in Over his right shoulder with Little tort. When the reporters went up to the sky Box later oquestion the president on How he thought he had per formed they mentioned dial it looked a Little High and outside. High and outside he repeated with Nkum Brage insisting that the Catcher Ca Highl it before in started scientists May use tobacco for anti cancer drugs Irvine Calif not tobacco might one Day be Guni Lichtly altered 10 produce anti cancer drugs Sun screen Sand a variety of therapeutic a Rollins and commercial products Raiher. Than cigarettes a biologist said. The scientist Robert , de scribed the technique at an american cancer society seminar for science writ ers. He is president of bios uric Gem lies in Vacaville calif., a company hat is developing a technique for producing human proteins in plants. The idea of turning tobacco plans into factories to produce Ami cancer drugs i kind of said or. Vincent Devotia chief of the memorial. Sloan Kettering cancer Center in new York director of the National cancer Institute. He said thai one of the great failings of congressional members repro scaling to Bacco slates is that they Nave failed to give Farmers an Alie Naii a to he said this could be a Aylo Correct thai Reggie Lester a spokesman for inc information commit tee in Raleigh n.c.,.said, if other uses of tobacco become economically viable Farmers would Lake a look at Erwin said that his company has developed a vector molecule that allows scientists to introduce virtually any for eign Gene into tobacco plans. The vector which is derived from a common tobacco virus is first pack aged or combined with a useful Gene for example one Ihal regulates produce lion of the h Uman Troici n Interlcukin-2. Which is being used in experimental can cer treatments. The molecules Are sprayed or scraped against tobacco leaves so that they enter the Plant cells. Once the vector is inside the cytoplasm protoplasm surrounding the nucleus of the cell Erwin said the Gene is Able to begin directing production of the protein. Inc vector carries the Gene from cell to cell so that the entire tobacco Leaf is altered sufficiently to ultimately pro Duce the desired protein. Up to 40 percent of each Leaf can theoretically produce protein Erwin said Al though in practice Only about 10 percent of the Plant s dry weight is expected to. End up As protein because of processing losses and Field conditions he said the tobacco Plant is being used because it is the Best understood research tool in Plant cell biology. In is a Good launching pad to develop Commer Cial products he said. Flip source a privately held company is now producing human Melanin a pro twin found in human Ikin in tobacco cells grown in the Laboratory researchers plan to incorporate then claim which is the body s natural pro ice or against sunburn into tiny sponges so that it can be applied to the body As a Sun screen. The company has not Yei conducted tests of ils vector in tobacco plants grown in open Fields Erwin said. Bui such test ing could be under Way in a year. An important advantage of the sys tem Erwin said is that inc genetically engineered vector does not enter the nucleus of the Plant Ceils. As a result the new Gene is not incur Pora cd into the germ line and is no passed on from generation to generation. This assures thai harmful mutant strains arc not reproduce and be come a permanent part of the Environ ment. Nor does the vector to arc from Plant to Plant he said. The system is designed to turn itself off. A Gene typically produces protein tora couple Days and then Dies. This transient Gene expression Erwin said is Ideal for producing commercial products inside Planis. A Farmer could introduce different genes into his tobacco crop each year depending on which products fetch the highest prices after the genes have finished producing their desired proteins Erwin said the Farmer harvests his crop and Sells the leaves to a manufacturer who extracts the protein. Along with cancer drugs Erwin said he would like to try to produce Industrial Eny pcs for use in paper making and food processing. Miami woman swipes ambulance to get to work Miami a a 32- ear old woman who claimed she was just trying 10 Sei to work on Lime stole an ambulance and Hil a car with in before she was stopped some to blocks away by Pel ice authorities said tuesday. Aurclia Small told authorities she took the ambulance because she was in a Rush to gel to work on Lime Miami fire department spokeswoman Vicki Wade said. However Wade said records show Small is unemployed. The ambulance was parked with its motor running when Small jumped in and look off sides wiping Stalion Wagon before she was forced off the Road by police. I could t believe in said per Arneric Eduardo Fabregas who was left by the Roadside with two other paramedics and it pal enl who had complained of respiratory problems. "1 thought in was a joke he said. I thought it was some other fireman pulling a joke on us taking in around the Corner or another Miami fire department ambulance was dispatched to take the patient to the Hospital. Small was charged with Auto in Cal preventing an obstructing extinguish ment of fires and driving with out a License the ambulance sustained an estimated $1,000 in damage fire officials said
