European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday january 28,1990 German Unity worries Europe More than ., poll says stateside los Angeles a americans Are generally in worried about the Prospect of a unified Germany but the idea concerns some europeans according to a joint poll by the los Angeles times and the econ  Survey conducted by the California newspaper and the British Magazine asked 2,677 adults in the United states. France. Britain and Poland the same list of questions. Results were published in the times sat  the 502 poles surveyed. 69 percent said they would worry about a reunified Germany becoming the dominant Power in  among 504 British and 511 French people surveyed about 50 percent said they would be disturbed by a dominant Germany. In the United states where 1.160 people were surveyed by Telephone saturday 29 percent said a Domi Nant Germany would worry them. Sixty two percent said a reunified dominant Germany would not bother  europeans were surveyed by the economist during an overlapping four Day period. The margin of special Friend first lad Barbara Bush sits with 5-year-old Angel Oris during a ceremony at the White House Friday honouring people who have adopted disabled children. Angel who suffers from Spina Bilda was adopted by Ray and Nancy Orsi of Plainfield Conn. Sampling error for the  Poll was plus or minus 4 percentage Points. The margin in the european poll was plus or minus 5 Points. In the United states and France 61 percent of those surveyed said they favored a reunited Germany. In Britain 45 percent responded in favor of a reunited Germany and 41 percent of the poles said reunification would be Best. Forty four percent of poles surveyed opposed any plan to reunify the two German nations while 30 per cent of the British subjects queried also opposed Ger Man reunification. In France 15 percent opposed re unification. When asked whether democratic Reform in Eastern Europe depended on soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev retaining Power 50 percent of British respondents said it did. Thirty eight percent of  Citi cons surveyed agreed followed by 32 percent in France and 23 per cent in Poland. Seventy two percent of the poles surveyed said their fledgling democratic reforms would gain strength even if Gorbachev loses control of the soviet Union. Churches face punishment for ordaining Gays san Francisco a formal disciplinary charges have been lodged against two lutheran c9n or cations that violated Church policy by ordaining three Gay ministers who have refused to renounce sexual relations. St. Francis and first United congregations face punishment ranging from censure to expulsion from the evangelical lutheran Church in America for wilfully disregarding membership requirements. The organization the largest american lutheran denomination bans ordination of self avowed practising  the congregations have said they Are prepared to accept expulsion. All three ministers who were hired in november by their congregations were removed from a list of ordain Nablo clergy after they refused to agree to Celi Bacy. The practice is often required of known homosexual pastors but not of heterosexual ones in the lutheran tradition. Jeff Johnson. 27, was ordained As assistant pastor at first United a working class congregation with no acknowledged homosexual members. Ruth Frost 42, and Phyllis Zillhart 32, wore ordained at St. Francis near the predominantly Gay Castro  find ourselves in a very unpleasant situation forced upon us by circumstance said Synod Hish of Lyle Miller in a statement issued Friday. He had warned the congregations they faced possible expulsion. ."1 very much support our Church s ministry to and with Gay and lesbian people. I have a lived to maintain a pastoral relationship with these two congregations and continue to care for them he added. Tampon maker ordered to pay $905,750 in death of woman Chicago a a Cook county circuit court jury has found a tampon maker responsible for a Wom an s death from toxic Shock syndrome in 1978 and has ordered it to pay her family s 905,750. The jury deliberated 11 hours Over two Days before deciding on Friday that Johnson & Johnson consumer products inc. Maker . Tampons was responsible for the deals of Donna Marie Davis of Decatur. Ten years ago toxic Shock syndrome was linked to dozens of women s deaths and studies suggesting that tampons were a major cause prompted scores of Law suits against tampon makers. Davis. 31, was using the . Tampons just prior to her death said attorney John Nickly. Who tried the Case for the woman s estate. Spokesmen for Johnson & Johnson said the company will Appeal the verdict. The spokesmen said the company believes the tampon Brand is Safe and was not a Factor in the woman s death. Toxic Shock syndrome is a rare but sometimes a Al condition linked to tampon use. The common bacterium staphylococcus aureus can use tampons As a Breed ing site in the body and produce poisonous waste which can enter the bloodstream and cause the illness. Davis died sept. 2, 1978, after suffering from vomit ing diarrhoea fever and a rash. All Are symptoms of toxic Shock  verdict Means More to me than the award docs said Davis husband Harold 46, who owns and operates a service station. We have tried to find an answer to Why she died for 12 years. We would t rest until we found the answer and now we feel that we  Connecticut governor has Colon polyps removed Hartford Conn. A gov. William a. O Neill disclosed Friday that two benign polyps were removed from his Colon the pre Vious week and that doctors said he was Fine. O Neill 59, has been plagued by Colon polyps for More than a year. One of two removed previously was cancerous. O Neill made the announcement during a tap ing of the on the record program on Connecticut Public television. I went to the Hospital monday 1 had a Check and two minor polyps were removed o Neill said. They were benign non cancerous quite Normal quite natural according to my own Doc tors. I feel Fine i really do. Physically Fine and mentally  o Neill said. Soviet general collapses while touring Navy ship Norfolk a. A a soviet general fainted Friday while touring the amphibious As Sault ship Nassau with the soviet Union s inde pendent performing band Navy officials said. Maj. Gen. Nikolai m. Mikhaylov collapsed while the 91 band members were walking through the Nassau at the Norfolk naval base said an Atlantic Fleet spokeswoman it. Cmdr. Carrie Hartshorn. He was listed conscious and in stable Condi Tion at Portsmouth naval Hospital. Doctors arc working on a diagnosis and right now we Are awaiting the arrival of officials from the soviet embassy in washing ton Hartshorn said. The band has been touring military installations playing at a new base each night since Jan. 21. Hartshorn said Friday s night band performance at Hampton University was planned to go on As scheduled. Fired whistle Blower loses bid to receive jury trial Portland Maine a a former Bath Iron works employee who was fired after charging that some steel in Navy warships went a inspected cannot have a jury trial Maine s highest court has ruled. Leon e. Bard or. Contended in his wrongful firing lawsuit that he lost his Job Over the whistle blowing but big said he was dismissed for inadequate Job performance. It will go to trial before a judge big attorney Constance p. O Neil said after the High court ruling. The court said Bard had no grounds for appealing the Superior court ruling that took his Case offa list of lawsuits to be heard by jurors. The justices of the Maine supreme judicial court ruled unanimously that they were Able to consider appeals Only when cases had proceeded further than Bard s Case had gone. Shuttle victim Mcauliffe s father Dies of cancer Framingham mass. A Edward c. Corrigan the father of teacher astronaut Chrisla Mcauliffe who was killed with six other Crew members in the challenger explosion four years ago has died of cancer. He was 67. Corrigan had fought to make sense of his daughter s death seconds after the space shuttle s  in a fiery explosion. He missed Christa every Day of his life said Corrigan s wife of 42 years Grace. We incorporated her in everything because she was part of us. He spent the last four years doing what she had left  in recent years Corrigan had travelled from Alaska to Jordan to deliver lectures in his Daugh Ter s behalf at school and scholarship dedications fund raisers and the annual governor s ski invitational in new Hampshire