European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday. January 23, 1990 drug testing stands in sensitive Federal jobs Washington a the supreme court giving another signal that it is willing to allow random drug testing of government employees in sensitive positions. Monday rejected appeals by Justice depart ment employees and civilian army Counselor. The justices in their first drug testing rulings last March upheld drug and alcohol tests for railway work ers in solved in accidents and for . Customs service employees applying for jobs in drug enforcement or jobs that require carrying a gun. Neither of those rulings however determined the constitutionality of randomly administered drug tests. On monday the court without comment rejected appeals by Justice department employees with top Security clearance and civilian army drug and alcohol Counselor my said mandatory random tests Molale their Priido f Fhle in Oiler u in. The court. L us i Lac blowers who say they were disciplined for complaining about lax safety May sue under stale personal injury Laws. The justices said they will review a North Carolina Case in which a Federal appeals court said such workers must sue under a special Federal Law. Agreed to use a decade Long dispute Over the rights of supreme court round haitian refugees to decide when the government must pay Legal fees to people who successfully sue it. The court said it will hear a Bush administration Appeal aimed at limiting such fees. Kcf used of require arbitration for hundreds of thousands of Federal workers when they Are fired demoted in otherwise disciplined. I he court. Without Tommei. Reier cd a palls in a labor Union and the Federal i relations authority i iiu1. a -4 . 1iviifn i a Tiv. v . A. I 1 -. M .sv,1 1-1 i m-.-. Alai Urne rapid in a.�. .,.1 Jwj 1 us a. A Vii m,.pr Tyllie ,.,- i Mil. F the.1 it,-h"-.tlii s. I -. ,. T. i. I k no i � i up -. I i " -1- Luis i a c ii a i . It -1 Liu in Ici " " n 1w " in jul a he i inane. Niacin coins la win ill r is Lull Thil is cup Lou i. It1 1 s Iti Loti no into i Ilu he Riu ii n urm.ik1--. R1 r. If Iii i in f -1 in in i a in to in Ivul to " m Ilu in Miv till test in Ansur i in to Liu in us Wiiki ill in i Rte ft1 he the appeals court said. Random testing for thousands of other civilian army workers who Fly and service planes and helicopters and hold Law enforcement jobs was also upheld bythe appeals court. Those employees did not Appeal. The drug Counselor Appeal was made by their Union the National federation of Federal employees. In the Case involving top ranked Justice department employees the appeals court said the government s interest in protecting top Security information out weighs individual privacy interests. Hut the appeals court barred the government from imposing random tests for other department employees. Such As Federal prosecutors and workers with a Cess to grand jury information. Hush administration lawyers did not ask the supreme court to permit More widespread drug testing n of Turnini that portion of the appeals court ruling. Hut administration Lawn is a Rcd the court not to Stuib the ruling s that permit testing of the run dry univ liars and Justice derailment employee within ii . I in Uip. A u e., Wilh a p re .iratue. I i of eminent said it is re i Cho i with the government s Inosia i Losck l a n is in. He drug free. The snuffed out and these folks May look Happy but the cigarette and they re posing in has made some people fume. Uptown a Brand made specifically with Black smokers in mind was to be test marketed in Philadelphia. Strong opposition however. Forced . Reinolds tobacco co. To cancel its plans. Doctors ready of fest implantable artificial lung in human recipients Hersi Iii. I a. Hum doctors at i Enn state University s Hershey medical Center say they Are ready to implant the world s first artificial lung into a human recipient. Or. Kane High a professor of Anc Slac biology said the membrane lung similar to those used on a heart lung machine is ready to he tested and the search for patients has begun. The new device will be the firs to be directly inserted in the body where Doc tors Hope it will Lake Over lung function until the patient s own lungs can heal. Artificial lungs for humans have been around for years but All have involved removing blood to an outside unit for oxygen enrichment. If the artificial lung works it could help victims of what doctors Call adult respiratory distress syndrome serious respiratory failure caused by trauma or infection. Among the candidates for the lung would be victims of near drowning smoke inhalation and pneumonia. High said lung cancer patients in the Early stages of the disease also May Benefi from the artificial lung. High said doctors will choose a patient in a life threatening situation to receive the first implant. As soon As a suitable patient is identified. He will be transported to Hershey. And the device will be in High said. We want to test the safely of the device and Sec How it performs in humans. In this phase of the study we re hop ing it will assist patients who Are connected to ventilators and can t get Carbon dioxide out of their High device will take Over for the food and drug administration recently gave approval for human experiments on the temporary artificial lung. High said while the artificial lung will he tested first at Hershey. Subsequent implants will be performed at three other . Hospital Hospital in Salt Lake City the Angeles Cunti University of Southern California medical Center and the University of Michigan medical Center in Ann Arbor. Doctors will insert the device called an , or 1vox in the patient s Central vein situated inthe Chest to help in the process of filling the body s blood with oxygen and rid Ding it of Carbon dioxide waste. The Vox will remain in the patient for week while doctors Check for blood clot Ting and other Side effects. While doctors say the temporary lung has performed Well in animal tests they caution that those tests arc no guarantee of Success in humans. The Ivor lung was developed by or. . Morton san of Salt Lake City. Doctors say about 10 severely ill patients would participate in the initial testing of the device. If All goes Well the Ivor the will be tested in up to 200 patients in Over a do in hospitals across the country. High said that for now patients who receive the i vex lung will have to re main in a Hospital setting. Bui he said it is conceivable a permanent artificial lung someday will be developed. Georgia governor s had enough1 of racial protests Atlanta a Georgia gov. Joe Frank Harris wants an end to the racial demonstrations that have Cost state taxpayers More than is million this month. Enough is Barbara Morgan the Gover nor s news Secretary said sunday. The Point has been More than 2,500 police and National guard troops lined the streets near the Tomb of slain civil rights Leader Martin Luther King or. On saturday As four White supremacists led by Richard Barren of missis Sippi demonstrated on the National historic site Adja cent to the Tomb and the King Center. About 75 counter demonstrators jeered from a Dis Tance. Barrett then travelled to Forsyth county where he and one supporter marched. Civil rights Leader Hosea Wil Liams and about 60 supporters also marched in the count saturday. The two events passed without incident. Barrett said monday that in an attempt to be reasonable he would consider heeding the governor request if he could meet with Harris. We would like to meet with gov. Harris and president Bush Barrett said to discuss reforms that would help bring about More democracy and greater majority Rule. Something constructive might come from Morgan said monday thai the governor s office had not heard from Barrett Anu would have no immediate response to his statements. Harry Heath spokesman for the Georgia depart ment of defense estimated it Cost the department $500,000 for its weekend Security work in Atlanta in addition to costs for National Park service personnel. A Kun flux klan rally at the state Capitol on Jan. 6, which Drew about 50 klan members and supporters and 100 . Also Cost taxpayer $500,000. When people put in for a permit we know How Large the nucleus is going to be. But we have no idea How Large the will be because they Don t have to have a permit Heath said. We have to prepare for the absolute
