European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. January 21, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 5 Reynolds drops cigarette for . _. Fit   to. A  " la. Till if a la Lull l pm ill i Al Lull Kirby the new York times under fire for developing a Cigar Lac aimed primarily Al Blacks the . Reynolds tobacco co. Thru play decided late Friday to cancel inc cigarette the company said a planned Market test that was to begin in three weeks would no longer be reliable be cause of what it called the unfair and biased attention the Brand had  there s a feeling Here that we were cheated on this  David b. Fischl. Reynolds senior vice president Puhac relations said in a Telephone interview from the company s Headquarters in Winston Salem. . Maybe in retrospect we would have been better Oil not saying we were marketing to Blacks. Hut those were the smokers we were going after so Why should t we be honest about it 1" the cancellation followed a speech thursday in Philadelphia by or. Louis w. Sullivan the nation s lop health official denouncing Reynolds for Slick and sinister advertising and for promoting a culture of  Sullivan who is Black and has made the health of minorities a priority As Secretary of health and human services called on the company to cancel the cigarette called Uptown. In Philadelphia where Uptown s Market Lesl was to begin feb. 5 and which has a Large Black population Black groups organi de last week to protest the Cigar Retle s Sale. Reynolds said that because of the heated emotions. Ii would be unable to receive an accurate test Market Reading on  an estimated Cost for cancelling the Campaign was nol immediately available Bill Fischl said it would nol he a relatively Large number since the test was Only in one City. Reynolds officials have previously said Ihal test markets typically Cost at least $2 million. In a statement. Peter moult. Reynolds executive vice president marketing said our intentions in test marketing Uptown in Philadelphia have been mis construed and misrepresented by the anti smoking lobby. Our sole purpose plainly and simply was to test Market a cigarette among smokers who currently buy competitive  we  lie added thai a Small coalition of Ami smoking clots apparently believe that Black smokers arc somehow different from others who choose to smoke and must nol he allowed to exercise the same Freedom of Choice available to All Oiler smok ers. This represents a loss of Choice for Black smokers and a further erosion of the free Enterprise system " marketing cigarettes to minorities is nol new. Bill boards and newspaper advertisements hive featured Black models for years. Hut what provoked critics including the american cancer society was Reynolds marketing Campaign explicitly to Blacks. The packaging the product name and us menthol Flavouring had been consumer tested for Appeal Loblack smokers. Sullivan was especially critical Al a tune when our people desperately need the message of health promo  he said in remarks at the University of Pennsyl Vania on thursday. Uptown s message is More Dis ease More suffering and More death for a group already bearing More than its share of smoke a related illness and  former rep. Robert Garcia and his wife Jane Lee. Leave court after sentencing sex child Star of daddy to series commits suicide by the los Angeles times Rusty Hamer. Once the precocious Voung Star of Danny Thomas make room for daddy television series died of a self inflicted gunshot wound at his Home in acrid Der la. Me was 42. He has t really been Happy since his Carlo 20s." said John Hamer. Who found his brother s body thursday night in the trailer where he lived near acrid Der. North of Lake Charles. But he did t show any signs of this  he added. It was just All of a sudden he also said his brother had been complaining of extreme Back pain Hul refused to see a doctor. Hamer had appeared in several Bud Atholl and Lou costello films before joining the cast of make room for daddy in 1953altheageof6. He was inc Best Hoy actor i Ever saw in my  Thomas recalled Friday. He said that he though of Hamer As his own son. Bolh on and off he set. Hamer s career declined sharply after the series left the air. By the time he was 20 he was working for a los Angeles messenger service and was bitter and depressed his brother said. Sex congressman wife sentenced to 3 years for we tech extortion  York api Robert Gar Cia the Bronx congressman who re signed his seat after he was convicted no extorting payoffs from we tech corp. Was sentenced Friday to three years in prison. Mis wife. Jane Lee Garcia who was convicted of the same charges received the same sentence. The judge however ordered thai both be eligible for parole after serving six months. You yielded to the temptation of betraying your office so you and your wife might enjoy a higher  said . Dist incl judge Leonard Sand. He conceded that Garcia s crimes were less than others convicted in the we tech scandal but said he fell Gar Cia had to spend some time in prison As a deterrent and As an example. Sand did nol Fine the Garcias after their attorneys said they were Desti tute. A jury in a verdict resumed oct. 20. Found thai the Garcias extorted s7n.uo l from we Lech from i �h4 to i s6 in return for their help in obtain ing government contracts. They also were found to base received from we tech a $20.000 interest free loan which was channelled through Garcia s Sisler. Garcia a do social. Said in a statement to the court Ihal he accepted the jury s verdict and apologies to his former constituents. I never tried deliberately to harm  he said. Me asked for leniency for himself and mercy for his wife. The past three years have been More difficult than anything you can  mrs. Garcia a. Lold inc judge. The Marcias were the last major defendants tried in the wide ranging corruption scandal at we tech. A now defunct defense contractor thai had been based in Garcia s District. Evidence at the trials showed that we tech. Once a Small machine shop grew into a multimillion Dollar defense contractor through various bribe schemes. The company collapsed in l