European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday january 29,1990 group Calls for . Action to regulate Antarctic Tours Washington a environmentalists urged the government saturday to protect penguins and other Antarctic wildlife by regulating Tours to the ice bound continent. Repeated tourist visits will cause animals to aban Don their Breeding Sites or increase the vulnerability of their eggs and Voung to  said Bruce Man him. A lawyer for the environmental defense fund. The new York based group issued a report calling on the National science foundation the state depart ment and the coast guard to establish a licensing system to ensure no damage to Antarctica from tour groups. Although Remote and generally inhospitable Antarctica is now visited by thousands of tourists each year who wish to Sec the continent s Pristine Environ ment before it could be  the report said. Most tourists arc seriously concerned about protecting  the report said but the visits arc often to the same spots and frequently occur at Breed ing grounds for penguins seals and other  the report added that frequent helicopter visits bythe first tourists to Antarctica diplomats and dignitaries visiting Mcmurdo station quickly resulted in Legal pot a 33-year-old South Texas aids patient lakes a Loke on i marijuana cigarette saturday at the san Antonio aids foundation. Steve who asked that Bis lust name not be used is the first person in the nation with aids to be approved for the drug. He got his first Supply of government grown. Food and drug administration approved pot from the Audie l. Murphy memorial veterans Hospi Tal in san Antonio. A 50 percent reduction in the southernmost ail lie Penguin rookery at Cape  it said Antarctic tourism was growing and one australian company hoped to develop a hard surface run Way and luxury hotel on the continent. Most of the Lour companies Are still american How Ever and thus the Federal government could do much to limit environmental damage the report said. The group urged a ban on flights within 1,650 Yards of wildlife sics and called for guidelines on govern ment observation of animals management plans for wildlife Sites Advance information from expeditions and coordination of hours to wildlife areas. It also urged a monitoring program to assess the Impact of such visits a ban on the disposal of Oil plastics and garbage from tour vessels and strict regu lation of vessel operations off Antarctica. The report was released on the first anniversary of the grounding of the Bahia Paraiso an Argentine tour vessel that spilled More than 180,000 Gallons of Oil into wildlife Breeding areas the report said. A year after Antarctica s most significant Environ mental disaster it said we still Don t have regulations to prevent similar  of policemen sentenced to prison terms Salt Lake City a two former air Force base Security polic Nien who pleaded guilty to stealing three fighter Jet engines Worth nearly $10 million have been sentenced to Federal prison terms. The Case grew from operation punch out a two year Pentagon investigation of thefts from bases in the West and Southwest. The sting operation resulted in charges against nearly three dozen military personnel and civilians. Undercover a cols running a phony military sur plus business in the town of Roy outside Hill fab bought millions of dollars Worth of stolen military hardware Over the two year period including the three f-16 Jet engines.. District judge David Sam sentenced airman 1st class Brian David role 23, to 10 years on each of five counts of theft of government property. The terms arc to be served concurrently. In addition the judge ordered Roth of Chesterfield Ohio to pay $24,749.50 in restitution and placed him on three years probation after his sentence is com  airman Danny Joe Stroud 24, of Newton. Kan., was sentenced to 37 months in prison ordered Topay $14,711 in restitution and Given three years Proba Tion. Stroud pleaded guilty to a single count of theft. Under a plea bargain last october government prosecutors agreed to drop 17 of the 22 original charges against Roth. Assistant . Attorney Bruce Lubeck argued for a stiff sentence for Roth noting that the theft of the f-16 engines valued at $9.9 million caused a Monu mental disruption of operations at inc Northern Utah base. He said role was guilty of an aggravated abuse of  Stroud s attorney Stephen Madsen said his client was a Follower recruited into crime by Roth. He said he had been involved in thefts less than a month at the Lime of his arrest on july 10, 1988, and had cooperated extensively with government lawyers. Stateside american weather vane auctioned for $770,000 new York a a 19lh-Cenlu r weather Anc was sold for $770,000 at an auction sat urday a record for an american Folkart Sculp Ture. Rotheby s said. The Copper and inc weather vane which por trays a Well dressed rider on a horse was Pur chased by Stephen score an Essex mass. Dealer said Matthew Weigman a spokesman for the auction House. It was the top lot in the Sale of the collection of Bernard m. Baronholtz who co founded the toy manufacturer creative playthings and was a widely  collector and author. Barenholtz died last August. The collection brought a total of $2.6 million a record for an american Folk Art collection rotheby s said. The piece which is 42 inches High and was created in i860 by j. Howard & co. Of West Bridge Walcer mass., has a Bullet Hole through the top hat of its rider. Citizens group pushing National medical care Washington a the Public interest group citizen action has announced a nation wide Campaign to push for passage of a comprehensive National health care program. The current system is too expensive inefficient and wasteful and docs not provide routine medical care for everyone citizen action Lead ers said at a news conference. We really can t wait any longer to push for a solution to our health care crisis said Robert m. Brandon vice president and political director of citizen action. The current system is bankrupting american families hurling american businesses and threatening the very health of our whole econ omy he said. 2 construction workers die in fall from 14-Story building new York a two construction work ers plunged to their deaths saturday when a lad Der they were using on a Mill floor Terrace toppled. Police sgt. Norris Hollomon identified the victims As Benjamin Perez 22, and Manuel sub Credo 31, both of new York. According to police and witnesses the work ers were doing Brick and Stone restoration work on the 14-Story Midtown apartment building when the ladder Perez was standing on twisted and fell. Sub Rdo tried to right the ladder but lost his fooling and fell with his co worker to the Side walk said sgt. De Burns a police spokesman. The contractor. Key restoration was is sued a summons by the City department of buildings for working on saturday without permits said Hollomon. Hair firm scalped balding Man jury agrees Baltimore up a Federal jury has awarded $205.000 to a balding Musi Cian after agreeing that a new Jersey firm promised him hair replacement but sewed a wig to his Scalp instead. Gil Fleming. 25. Borrowed $1.650 from his Mother in 1985 to have a new hair replacement procedure. International cosmetic laboratories inc. In Cinnaminson n.j., performed a three hour hair enhancement operation billed As neither a Hairpiece nor a trans Plant. But a Federal jury in Baltimore agreed with Fleming last week that the proce Dure involved not hair enhancement but a wig sewn to his head. The jury awarded him $200,000 in punitive damages and $5,000 in compensatory damages. The jury found the new Jersey firm liable for breach of contract breach of warranty fraudulent inducement fraudulent deceit and fraudulent concealment. Fleming testified that he was led to believe synthetic hairs would be attached to retainers imbedded in his Scalp which would blend with his own hair the Balti More Sun reported saturday. But Fleming said he received a hair piece with holes in it. They pull your hair through the  Ocean City musician said he was shocked at what had transpired i was frantic he . You can go to any department store and find something like it but you Don t sew it onto your  testified that after 18 Days he asked the new Jersey firm to remove the wig. The company consented but soon afterwards Fleming began losing fistfuls of hair and his Scalp is permanently  Donald Katz argued that his client also suffered an infection because of the procedure. They arc knowingly subjecting peo ple to a medical procedure that has a risk of infection and disease Kalz said add ing that other lawsuits arc pending against International cosmetic laboratories in new Jersey and Philadelphia. The company s attorneys were unavailable for comment the newspaper reported