European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday August 20, 1989 bullish on tobacco awesome the Bull has some Well awesome tastes Chow in tobacco from owner Pam bean of Wilmington but who s going to argue with 3,100 pounds of per Ohio at he state fair in Columbus. The big 4-year-old suasion he s sticking out his Tongue for a plug of stands 5 feel 4 i inches and is a Limousin Breed. Affirmative action agreement signed by Shoney s restaurants Atlanta a the Southern Christian leadership conference signed a $90 million affirmative action pact Friday with the company that runs Sho Ney s restaurants moments after the civil rights group s annual convention ended. Under the agreement the Nashville  company will recruit and train Blacks As managers and establish Black owned Jhoncy a Captain d s and Lee s Chicken franchises Over the next three years. The agreement signed by Sulc president Joseph Lowry and j. Mitchell Boyd chief executive officer of Shoney a covers 700 company owned  s owns or franchises 1,600 restaurants in 30 states Many of them in the South. The pact also called for the company to give con tracts to Black owned Public relations insurance and construction firms. The agreement resulted from complaints by Black employees at a Captain d s restaurant in Anniston ala., that working conditions were poor and that management discriminated against them said John Nettles president of the Sulc s Anniston chapter. The National association for advancement of col ored people s Legal defense fund has filed a class action lawsuit against Jhoncy s As a result of similar complaints at a Florida restaurant. Boyd said the agreement was not related to that lawsuit. The agreement followed the end of the four Day convention at which Black leaders mapped out their Strat egy for fighting a Eccl supreme court decisions threat ening the future of affirmative action. In a speech to the convention on its opening Day tuesday vice president Dan Quale said the bus administration and civil rights leaders agree that civil rights gains must be preserved but differed on How to Doit. Lowery said both sides agree on preserving civil rights gains and fighting discrimination but differ Over raising the minimum wage and increasing the defense budget while cutting social programs. The Sulc intends to join other civil rights groups in Washington next saturday for an affirmative action March. Gun wielding teen frees inmates after threatening to shoot in Ward stateside 2 plead innocent in Boston on Ira weapons charges Boston a two men accused of trying to Export weapons including anti helicopter missiles to the Irish Republican army have pleaded innocent to charges of conspiring to violate Federal arms Export regulations. Richard Clark Johnson an electrical Engineer from Harwich and Herald Vincent Hoy a computer scientist from Easton. Pa., were among five people accused in a grand jury indictment handed earlier this month. Johnson and Hoy pleaded Friday before . District judge a. David Mazzoc who set a $23,000 Bond for Hoy and look his passport. Johnson already had been released on bail by a Federal magistrate. Two other defendants Christina Leigh Reid an electrical engineering student from Sunnyvale Calif., and Martin Peter quigly. A citizen of the Republic of Ireland who is in Federal custody in Pennsylvania will be arraigned tuesday. Mazzoc said. A fifth defendant Peter Eamon Mcguire is a Fugi Tive believed to be in Ireland no time for clowning plastic nose riles officer Orlando Fla. A a police officer got his nose out of joint and arrested a woman for wearing a plastic nose and failing to get out of her car during a recent drug crackdown. Nancy c Harrington a 47-year-old Mother of two spent s i hours in jail and faces up to 18 months behind bars and $1,500 in fines. But that won t Stop her from wearing a plastic nose when she appears in court. She was arrested aug. 4 when she and her 20-year old son visited a Friend. Deputies investigating for drug had set up a Roadblock and were stopping All cars entering an apartment Complex. She had popped on one of her favorite dime store noses with Bright yellow glasses attached. But the fake nose failed to tickle Deputy Jimmi Cjones who ordered her to take it off and get out of the car. When she refused she was arrested and charged with wearing a mask in Public and resisting arrest without violence. The nose was confiscated As evidence. She was being a real smart alack the officer said., it was t a situation to make jokes  drug from tree bark used in cancer treatment Baltimore up1 an experimental drug extracted from the bark of an Evergreen tree has shown Promise for treating ovarian cancer researchers say. Taxon which is extracted from the bark of a Small Evergreen tree called the Pacific Yew showed Promise in a new study involving 40 ovarian cancer patients who did not respond to other drugs researchers said. The drug appeared to shrink by at least so percent the tutors in one third of the patients researchers at Johns Hopkins University reported in the annals of internal Medicine. In one Case the tumor disappeared. Thirty percent sounds Low but it is really quite remarkable for this Type of cancer. There is no other drug that has produced this kind of response in drug refractory ovarian cancer said or. William Mcguire 111, an associate professor of oncology. San Diego student makes time in Star search Washington a p9licc were searching sat urday for three teen age convicts after an 18-Ysar-old gunman burst into the crowded paediatric Ward of a City Hospital and freed two  gunman an Escapee from the Oak Hill detention Center waved a .357-Calibcr magnum handgun and told doctors and patients at . General Hospital that he would shoot unless the two teens were freed witnesses and police  just came in out of nowhere with the gun and pointed at the two Young men in chains and said you let them go or i m going to Start shooting " said a paediatrician who asked not to be identified. It was extremely dangerous. Nothing like this has Ever happened Here  the gunman identified by police As Samuel Milliard threatened to open fire some mothers just scooped up their children and left said one witness while others ducked for cover or sat terrified in their seats until the Trio fled. No shots were fired and no one was  two youths had been taken to the Hospital for medical treatment but officials did not reveal their specific  had been serving time at Oak Hill for armed robbery and homicide since March 1987,sources said. He escaped in late july after being sent to . General for treatment of an illness that authorities believe was  youths who fled the Hospital with Milliard were identified As Lamar Jenkins 18, who was incarcerated at Oak Hill in j uly after conviction for assault with a danger Ous weapon and Steven Jones 16, who had been held since March for first degree murder while armed. Police sources said Jenkins was a member of a major washing ton cocaine ring that was broken up last Spring. Police believe the ring is responsible for up to 30 slayings. The Oak Hill facility operated by the District of Columbia corrections department is located in sub Urban Laurel my. Big Pasadena Calif. A a 19-year-old Engi Neering student has discovered a Supernova or exploding Star in a spiral Galaxy More than 137 million Light years from Earth the California Institute of technology has announced. Celina Mikolajczak of san Diego made the discovery while examining photographic films taken on the18-Inch Schmidt Telescope at Palomar Observatory Northeast of san Diego. Cal tech spokesman Robert finn said Mikolajczak was looking for comets and asteroids As part of a sum Mer program in which undergraduates conduct re search under faculty supervision. F my first thought was that it was a speck of dust said Mikolajczak who then examined More film Ana realized wow i think i be found something., the Supernova designated in 1989n, is the 14th discovered this year Ana is much too dim to be seen by the naked Eye. ,