European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 26,1989 the stars and stripes pages breast cancer continues to increase Atlanta a Federal cancer researchers said thursday the death Rale from breast cancer continues to increase with the highest rates in the North. Breast cancer killed 40,534 women in the United states in 1986. The latest year for which detailed Statis tics Are available the centers for disease control said. The annual death rate. 32.8 per 100,000 women was up 5 percent from 1979. When it was 31.1. Still breast cancer is survivable in most cases. The National cancer Institute estimates 75 percent or breast cancer patients live at least five years after diag Nosis. The highest annual death rate from breast cancer in Delaware with 41 deaths per 100,000 women was nearly double the lowest rate 23 per 100.000, in Hawaii the cd said. Every state in the top 12 in the rankings was in the North while All but three of the Bottom 12 were in the South or Southwest. We Don t know Why that is said or. Robert Hahn a cancer specialist with the Atlanta based cd. It Likely has something to do with the distribution of risk factors for breast cancer but we Don t know which ones those  the geographic trends Aren t also jute. For example California North Carolina and Maine All have fairly High rates while states As far apart As Idaho and Ala Bama have Low rates. The mortality rate in 1986 was 12 percent higher for Black women than for White women. Overall breast cancer death rates have increased for women born in each succeeding decade in this Century. For example women born in the 1930s Are showing a higher rate than those born in the 1920s, whose Rale was higher than for women born Between 1910 and 1919, Hahn said. This trend is apparently continuing he said Al though Many women arc just entering or have not entered their years of greatest risk Tor breast cancer. More than half of All breast cancer deaths occur in women 65 or older the cd said. Risk factors for breast cancer include family history and childbearing at older Ages. Another possible risk Factor is a diet High in animal fat. Although some re searchers question that Hahn said. It s Likely that dietary Tat has increased since the turn of the  he said. I think there s Good evidence for  cd researchers believe at least 19 percent of the deaths attributed to breast cancer could have been prevented had the victims undergone recommended mammograms which screen for breast cancer. Women Are seven limes More Likely to have mammograms if their doctor urges it but As Many As nine out of 10 doctors Don t follow the american cancer society s advice and recommend the procedure Hahn said. We think it s crucial for physicians to become in formed of the guidelines and recommend to their patients that they get screening mammograms he said. The american cancer society recommends women 40 and Over have a breast examination every year and says women Between 40 and 50 should have Mammo Grams every year or two. Women Over 50 should have mammograms every year it said. Previous studies have indicated that fewer than Ihrck in 10 eligible women reported having a Mammo Gram in the previous year and nearly half of women surveyed said no professional had Ever recommended they get a Mammogram the cd noted. Following Earhart s path Gaby Kennard of Australia prepares for the Hawaii to California leg of her around to orld Light using the route of Amelia a Uriart. Earhart Dis appeared Over the Pacific Ocean Dur ing her 1937 night. Bakker aide gets 8 years in prison Charlotte . A former pal vice president Richard Durtch was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $200,000 thursday for helping to bilk millions of dollars from the television ministry s followers. The sentence was part of a plea bargain in which Dortch agreed to testify again this former Boss pal founder Jim Bakker whose trial on the same fraud and conspiracy charges starts monday. I could not believe that 1 participated in this. In deceiving people in doing some thing i knew was wrong Dortch said be fore . District court judge Robert pot Ter handed Down the sentence. Dortch did t attempt to blame Bak Ker As he pleaded for mercy. "1 lost the thing that i lived for my ministry he said his voice cracking. After the sentence was handed Down however Dortch showed no emotion. Potter gave Dortch four years in Pris on and a $100,000 Tine on a wire fraud charge and four years in prison and a $100,000 Fine on the conspiracy charge. The prison terms will run consecutively. His sentence will begin after he finishes testifying for the government in the Bakker trial. Dortch is one of three former Bakker aides to be convicted. Brothers James and David Taggart were convicted of evading taxes on $1,1 million in ministry funds that prosecutors said they diverted to their own uses. They will be sentenced sept. 8. 3-d video helps explore Lake Superior Shipwreck wiiitef1sh Point Mich. A flush with Success researchers returned thursday to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald hoping for More Sla tingly Clear views of the famed vessel 556 feet beneath the surface of Lake Superior. The tension is off said Carol Swine Hart of Michigan sea Grant one of the sponsors of an expensive expedition to explore shipwrecks with a Small deep water robot that takes three dimensional video pictures. On wednesday the robot obtained the first footage of the Fitzgerald the Best known and most recent major great lakes Shipwreck. The 730-fool american Ore Carrier Sank in a Gale in november 1975 in Canadian Waters 17 Miles off the coast of Northern Michigan. All 29 Crew members died. Their bodies never were recovered. The tragedy became legend within a year when Canadian Ballad car Gordon Lightfoot Sang All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the  observers on the research ship Gray Ling were stunned by the clarity of the images the robot relayed wednesday. This is amazing totally amazing said archaeologist Phil Wright of the Ca Nadian Marine heritage conservation program. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. ,. Aug. 26, 1949 in his fourth Progress report to Congress on the european recovery program president Truman warned european nations they must promote sales and Cut costs to become self supporting by 1953. 30 years ago today. Aug. 26, 1959 air Force officials announced they would Complete testing of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile and deliver the weapon to the strategic air come within a few weeks. 20 years ago today. Aug. 26, 1969 radio Baghdad said the iraqi government had executed 15 iraqis who had been convicted of spying for Israel and the Central intelligence Ncncy. 10 years ago today. Aug 26, 1979 . Officials refused to let a soviet Airliner carrying Ludmila Vlasova a Ballerina and wife of defected soviet Ballet Star Alexander Godunov from taking off for Moscow until they could talk to her