European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 13, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 9 the face that put the heat on the cold War a worker puts finishing touches on the face of soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev portrayed As the warm Sun melting the cold War Kallur Krieg which i depicted As a snowman. The photo was taken in Dusseldorf Germany where the City s or 1990 Fasching carnival Parade is being prepared. Sake s alive she was t ready to be embalmed Springfield. Ohio a  can t remember what happened to her six months ago when shews nearly embalmed Afler being Mislak in for dead. Thai does t Stop her from joking about it. I said when i die. I m going to Sta dead " she said laughing during an in in Mew last week at a nursing Home. But her experience was no joke Testate officials who Are tightening up the rules defining who is qualified to declared person dead. Stringfellow. Who is 88 and Blind appeared to lose consciousness on aug. 5 at a Springfield boarding Home where shews a resident. The owner. Robbie Cald Well said stringfellow had no pulse. When Dennis l. Porter director of the Dennis l. Porter funeral Home arrived to pick up the body. Stringfel Lowmas slumped Over in a chair and appeared to be dead. Porter took stringfellow to his funeral Home and was preparing to move her to the embalming table when she uttered around. He said it was a very eerie feel  i heard that the Man had taken me to embalm me. Was getting his tools ready. I started talking and he broke and  said in the interview. I laughed about  stringfellow was hospitalized for about a week and then transferred to Odd Fellows Rebekah Home a nursing enter where she still resides. She said a doctor told her about the incident a few Days later. He told me they had me  she said. I said. What he said yeah they had you dead sure enough i said 1 Ain t dead i must have been off in a trance or something like that. I did believe it. I did t pay him too much  but she believed a Nephew who con firmed the incident the next Day. In the Wake of the incident. Ohio at Torney general Anthony j. Celebre eur. Asked a Clark county court to keep the boarding Home from being operated As a nursing Home. The action was dropped alter Caldwell agreed to remove Resi dents who required skilled nursing care. The Case also led to a review of Slat medical rules requiring Only that a competent observer personally examine body before death is pronounced. We Felt very strongly. That compe tent observers should be More definitely defined As someone who has the proper medical training said Kay Ritz an aide to state sen. David Hobson who is led the Reform Effort. A Rule was drafted for the state medi Cal Board defining competent observers As registered nurses licensed practical nurses emergency medical technicians paramedics interns and residents clinical Fellows and licensed embalmers and funeral directors who com plete courses in patient  spokeswoman Lauren Lubow said the Board is expected to vote on the proposed Rule soon possibly in March. Spring follow said she in t angry or upset about what happened to her. I could t blame them for thinking iwas dead she said. She said she in t frightened by what happened but guesses that people Proba Bly have been embalmed alive  he Ever started to work on me. I would have been dead she  god i was t dead that time stringfellow spends her time listening to television talking with friends and visiting with family. Barbara Trimble director of the nursing Home said stringfellow has a Good number of Visi  s a  said Trimble. She s  la us a us. �.�.�,. Aids conferees Nof surprised Bush won t attend r , _ a.  to Nii Mnnie and persons infected still have Tolan Francisco a some organizers of the sixth International conference on aids said they weren t surprised when president Bush turned Down an invitation to speak to the , who declined to address the june conference either live or on videotape was booed at the 1987aids conference in Washington d.c., when he was vice  president s decision Marks the first time in three years that the Leader of the meeting s Host nation has not addressed the Assembly. White House Deputy press Secretary Alixe Glen said Bush has addressed the acquired immune deficiency syn drome Issue and the need for compassion Many  re  said or. John l. Ziegler conference co chairman and a professor of Medicine at the University of California. San Francisco. We fell this was a real Opportunity for the govern Cal 10 make a Strong  Stephen Morin a member of the conference s Community Lask Force and an aide to rep. Nancy Polo is d-calif., was l surprised."1 think inc president has Good reason for not com ing " he said. Neither the people of san Francisco Northe scientific Community think much of his aids poli  was discussing Reagan administration plans for mandatory aids testing of immigrants and prison inmates when he was jeered in 1987. U s policies restricting the Freedom of foreigners infected with the aids virus to enter the country have been criticized. Although restrictions were cased last month any person reveal the condition when applying for a visa and request the waiver of rules barring Ihm from the United  least 16 groups including inc International league of red Cross and red Crescent societies have said they will Boycott the conference of 12,000 scientists and policy makers unless the . Clrance re sri Lions arc  National leaders who have spoken to the inter National aids convention include Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney last year and Sweden s prime minister Ingvar Carlsson in 1988.although Bush declined to address the Gal hiring Glen said inc president  plan 10 Lalk to the nation Al business leadership conference on aids next month in Arlington a