European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday february 11.1990 the Bush league a rare baseball card featuring president Bush Shefl he played first base for Yale University found its Way into the hands of Lee Hull a part Ner in the who s on first Memorabilia shop in Champaign. Iii. A Hundred copies of the card were printed exclusively for the White House. Shop owners did t realize the card s significance until a customer pointed it out. Fra proposes to restrict health claims on foods Washington i i consumer activists Ftp Day praised a government move to Cap an explosion of health claims on food products but said even stronger Steps should be taken to protect americans from misleading messages. The food and drug administration proposed new regulations Friday that would sharply restrict food health claims to Well documented links Between diet and disease such As Low fat foods use in reducing the risk of heart disease. The rules would replace a 1987 plan put Forth by the Reagan administration allowing health claims for food products an action that created an Avalanche of labels and advertisements touting everything from cereals to Margarine As disease presenters. Before that the Fra had barred companies for making claims linking a food to prevention or treat ment of a particular disease. In Hindsight the 1987 proposal has proved to be too permissive health and human services Secre tary Louis Sullivan said. An interim policy is needed to serve As a midcourse correction and provide guid Ance to Industry on what health messages will and will not be allowed. Only with such a consistent set of standards can americans be sure of the meaning of health information on food  the new proposal would allow companies to make health claims Only if they fell within a narrow Range of messages on relationships Between diet and health Ben 14-year-old fights gang Rule in her Chicago neighbourhood Chicago a Norvell Smith is a 14-year-old Freedom fighter on her own turf. Approached by Tough gang re curlers at age 12. She decided to resist a decision that has won her lop honors at school. Norvell travels mean streets to and from John Hope Community Academy streets where wearing the wrong color or just walking Home can be a fatal mis take. In january a 13-year-old classmate was killed in after school Cross fire Between rival gangs the second Slud enl slain while going to or from the Public Junior High school in the past six years. I lived in a gang environment All my  Norvell the youngest of seven children raised by a single Mother said Friday. A mama told us to stay away from All those bad ideas and gel an education and that s what we re  last week the school with the help of a drug and gang prevention program called project serve held a drug and gang awareness super bowl to Honor students working to end the violence. And seventh grader Norvell was the show stopper at an Assembly of the school s 950 students. You could hear almost a pin drop that s How Good it  eighth Grade teacher Jacqueline Cooney said of the girl s award winning speech. In the speech. Norvell told her classmates i m sick and tired of these people coming into our neighbor hoods frightening our friends and families and put Ting ideas into our Little Brothers and Sisters minds that gangs Are tool. I say. The Only thing that you can gel out of being in a gang is a Hole in your head or 6 feet under Lake your  John Hope c Community Academy in the City s South Side Englewood neighbourhood straddles an in visible Lino div iding the turf of two gangs. The rules for survival along that Boundary Are some limes deceptively simple students say. You Don t go to that Side of the Boulevard and. If you do. Vou can t Wear Blue an j Black you have to Wear red and Black and Wear Caps to the left 12-year old Kinisha Gaston said. Assistant principal Jim Murray acknowledged that when students left school properly they face harassment by gang recruiters often High school Stu dents. But Murray  school is making some inroads with the help of programs such As project serve in which off duty Law enforcement officials work to Edu Cate students about the dangers of drugs and gangs. Fits. Recent nutritional studies by the . Surgeon general and the National Academy of sciences would be used As the  Fra would consider claims in six areas fats and heart disease fiber and heart disease Salt and High blood pressure fats and cancer fiber and cancer and Calcium and osteoporosis or Brittle Bone disease. As science finds additional links Between diet an health these could also be included in our health Mes sages policy Sullivan  Mitchell a lawyer for the Center for science in the Public interest called the proposal definitely a step in the right  is a real improvement Over the 1987 proposal and if it is enforced Well it should Stop some of the most grievous claims Mitchell  new rules probably would not allow claims such As those trumpeting that Vitamin b in Cereal could boost Energy and that the Vitamin a in butter could make skin smooth he  shortfall of the proposal is that it fails to cover general claims that a food is High fiber or Low cholesterol but which do not mention a specific disease. Mitchell  Fra proposal would set up Mode labels for health claims and require manufacturers to prepare scientific and consumer summaries explaining the reasoning behind their claims. Companies would not have to present test data to support specific health claims unless asked. The proposal will be published in the Federal Regis Ter this week and will be followed by a 60-Day com ment period. Nonell Smith. Sick and tired of violence our students the vast majority of them do not gel involved in the gang Community he said. The children tune in to what is being said and they respond  Nonell said Friday that students join gangs be cause they have Low self esteem and want to  she said she was approached two years ago on a Day when she missed her bus by a group of threatening girl recruiters. "1 did t want to be in a  Norvell said. I was thinking. If i do this i m going to be ruined for life i la miss Oul on everything " she told the girls she would t join the gang a vow she has repealed often. Since winning the super bowl last week she said several gang members have told her they arc thinking about her speech. Most students Norvell said simply Don t want to join a gang and go to an Early  stateside mayor accused of stealing Valentine cards Candle Gaffney . A the mayor of Blacksburg has been charged with shoplifting two Valentine s Day cards and a Candle police said. Mayor Geraldine Dixon 47, was arrested after she was detained by Wal Mart discount City employees Gaffney police sol. Danny Griggs said Friday. Dixon was charged with taking $3.54 in merchandise and released after paying a $237 Bond Griggs said. Dixon was unavailable for comment. A member of the Blacksburg town Council has called for her resignation. I have compassion for her family and everything. I just feel that there s no Way she could effectively Lead us anymore David Llo Guc said. Ailing new England Bank to sell valuable artworks Boston a the Bank of new eng land faced with losses of More than $1 Bil lion for 1989, has collected its paintings go Belin tapestries and other valuables and packed them off for Sale. I Don t know of any of our customers who do business with us because we have a couple of valuable pictures said h. Ridgely bul lock new Board chairman. The nine rare tapestries named fora 15th Century French family once adorned Palace Walls. They had been Hung in two of the Bank s offices. The 50 paintings put up for Sale from the Boston offices included several by Maxfield Parrah George Innes and Robert Rauschan Berg. There was no immediate estimate How much the Sale of the Art works would realize. The Bank which blames its red Ink prob lems chiefly on bad real estate Loans already has sold off assets totalling More than $1.1 billion