European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. September 29. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 Senate oks anti drug funds vote ends legislative logjam Washington a the Senate voted overwhelmingly for a bipartisan $9.4 billion anti drug package wednes Day. This is the first step sen. Robert Byrd. D-w.va., his party s chief negotiator said before the 97-2 vote. Weak shots across the Bow will not cripple the garbage scow of drug violence and drug  sen. Mark hat Field r-ore., who led the gop negotiating team said the package addresses a problem being battled in every congressional District. The Byrd troops Are out there said Hatfield. All they re waiting for is the orders a plan of attack and they re ready to  agreement on the proposal finished thursday night ended a fight that had blocked Senate passage of spending Bill for the new fiscal year that begins Sun Day. Its Eye on the Calendar the Senate passed two spending measures for fiscal 1990 late tuesday a $14.4 billion for eign Aid package and a $157.4 billion measure for labor health and education programs. But with congressional leaders con Vinced lawmakers will never finish All 13annual appropriations Bills by sunday the House adopted legislation keeping government agencies operating through oct. 25. When a Deal among democrats. Re publicans and the White House for a acc cd up drug plan was announced the Senate s legislative logjam dissolved and things moved quickly. Senators voted 89-11 to adopt the for eign Aid Bill boosting assistance to the new non communist government of Poland to $45 million. The measure also brings . Military Aid to Al Salvador to $90 million a $5 million addition to this year s total. Lawmakers also adopted by 81-19. A $157.4 billion measure for labor health and education programs that includes slightly relaxed abortion restrictions. The measure expands the medicaid program for the poor to pay for abortions for women made pregnant by rape or incest. House Senate negotiators must now write Compromise versions of both Mea sures before offering them to Bush for his signature. Senate passage of a $67.2 billion pack age for veterans housing and space pro Grams was delayed while lawmakers weighed adding Aid for victims of Hurri Cane Hugo. Also delayed was final approval of an $11.9 billion transportation measure. The anti drug package was to be inserted into that Bill before its passage. Senate leaders said that when added tothe $7.9 billion Bush has already pro posed the new anti drug package will bring next year s spending on the drug problem to $9.4 billion. Of the remaining $900 million senators agreed to seek $100 million would be for Taw enforcement and the rest for treatment education and rehabilitation Overall the package would Lack nearly$3.2 billion to the government s $5.7 Bil lion anti drug Effort this year. The extra spending would come from a nearly one half percent Cut on Federal spending with social Security and other Benefit programs exempted. 100 inventions honoured by Magazine new York a a High fiber Zero caloric flour substitute and a plastic engine Are among the winners of this year s re 100 awards for inventions. Research and development Magazine  winners chosen by the Magazine include a miniaturized television or computer screen that fits Over one Eye a device that converts letters on a computer screen to braille and a system for making sure infants arc getting enough oxygen to their  100 awards for what the mag Azine called the most innovative and significant technological advances that have resulted in new products in the past year were announced thursday at ceremony at the museum of science and Industry in  had less original creative work this year fewer of what is popularly referred to As a breakthrough but More products that Are actually ready for use by Consumers said Magazine editor Robert Jones. The research centers of the National aeronautics and space administration won six awards followed by do Pontico. With four and the Argonne. Oak Ridge and los Alamos National laboratories with three  award for the flour substitute was won by j. Michael Gould of the . Department of agriculture in Peoria. I. The product makes it possible to bake reduced caloric breads and increase the fiber Content of frostings. Pic fillings puddings and snack  said several companies have taken out Patent licenses to produce the substance and speculated some already May be using it As a secret  award winning predominantly plastic internal combustion engine pro Vides an unusually High one horsepower for each of its 175 pounds its developers  engine was designed by Matthew Holtzberg of pol motor research inc. Of Franklin lakes n.j., with plastic devel oped by Rogers corp. Of Manchester. Conn. It is under evaluation by an unidentified . Automaker. Rogers said. Allen Becker of reflection technology in Waltham. Mass., won for i Matchbox sized eyepiece that gives the wearer the illusion of looking at a 12-Inch-Diagonal computer or to screen. The 2-ounce Pri vate Eye can be hooked in front of one Eye with a Headset or attached to a hand held computer the company  braille mouse that permits Blind or visually impaired people to read computer screens was invented by 11. Douglas Garner of Nasa Langley re search Center in Langley a. No Compa Nies arc manufacturing it yet. Langley officials  photonic systems corp. Of Bridgewater n.j., won for a system already on the Market that prevents brain damage in newborns by Monitor ing the flow of oxygen to their brains. The winners were chosen by past and present editors of the Magazine As Well As by scientists and engineers on its advis Ory Board. Or. Eli conc Milc Baulieu abortion Pill inventor gets . Award new York a America s most prestigious medical award was Given wednesday to the devel oper of the controversial French abortion Pill a decision criticized by anti abortion activists. Or. Etiennw Emile Baulieu won a Albert Lasker medical research award for his discover of the Druru 486, which prevents a fertilized egg from maintaining ils hold in the uterus. The discovery was a result of a 30-year study of hormones. The drug reportedly being used for about 15 percent of elective abortions in France has not been approved in the United states but has provoked a storm of controversy. Or. John Willke. President of the National right to life committee in Washington criticized the award. Other winners of Lasker awards kind plan american Nobel prize for medical research were writer and doctor Lewis Thomas and four scientists who study How cells receive chemical and physical Mes sages. Charleston mayor wants More help fast Charleston . A thousands of Hurri Cane Hugo s victims lined up wednesday for food clothes and building supplies while officials pleaded with the Bush administration to Cut Federal red tape and get Aid to stricken areas. We re very appreciative for All the help. But if it could have been done quicker and had been done quicker it would have been better mayor Joseph p. Riley or. , who earlier this week was full of Praise for Federal Relief efforts told reporters he has had to seek help from sen. Ernest Hollings d-. To get More military generators to provide electricity. An estimated 233,000 Utility customers in South Carolina remain without Power More than Halfin the Charleston  Washington Hollings called officials with the Federal emergency management Agency a Bunch of bureaucratic  Hollings said he would seek $400 million for victims in South Carolina North Carolina puerto Rico and the Virgin islands. Sen. Strom Thurmond r-., said he has asked for $1.1 billion and has the support of Hollings and sen. Jesse Helms.  Carolina gov. Carroll Campbell announced wednesday the . Department of labor has Given the state $5 million to hire jobless workers to help inthe cleanup. An estimated 270,600 people lost their jobs at least temporarily because of the storm. If the Progress of Feder Al Aid disappointed some the outpouring of com passion from around the country did not. Twelve food and cloth ing distribution centers opened wednesday around this 300-year-old City and coordinators expected to give away the contents of 20 to 30 trac Tor trailer trucks filled with necessities every Campbell Day for Days to conic. Goods rolled in from All Over the country nearly a week after the worst Hurricane to hit South Carolina in three decades rampaged through the state. Twenty nine people died in the United states. 18 of them in South Carolina when Hugo made its Way North and West before dissipating. A National phone Bank has brought in 10,000 pledges of donations from individuals communities and corporations. The red Cross had an additional 32 Relief centers operating in three counties hard hit by the storm sept.21 with More were scheduled to open spokeswoman Liz Leopard said. At the Citadel  National guard troop Sand sailors helped in the handout lines there were boxes of used shoes blouses Slacks and other items for people who fled the storm with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. Ralston Purina co. Sent four tons of pet food to replenish the Charleston humane society s food sup ply which was destroyed in the storm. Riley said about 50,000 Charleston residents remain displaced by the storm. The mayor said there were 55 collapsed buildings in the City and 310 with moderate to severe damage. A nighttime curfew remained in effect and National guard troops continued to patrol the streets. But Power was slowly being restored to the historic District and traffic lights were again working in the heart of downtown Charleston. Some were making the Best of the storm s destruction. Chain saws were being sold from the backs of rental trucks. And to shirts appeared proclaiming Hugo i Charleston 0." everybody s buying them. People were knocking on my door said Daren Sawyer 22, of the shirt Shack which had 1,000 shirts to sell for $8 apiece. For Many residents there was no end in sight to the struggle for survival. I m just trying to get my life Back together said Karen White. 25, As she waited for milk and canned fruit for her 2 year old son. "1 Don t think it la Ever be the