European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes Friday March 2,1990 the festivities were too much for this Mardi gras reveler found sleeping on a trash strewn Orleans starts to sober up after record Mardi gras turnout new Orleans apr Ash wednesday dawned in this heavily roman Catholic City with thousands attending mass while workers collected tons of garbage left by a raucous record setting Mardi gras crowd of 1.5 million. Quot it was a much different picture in the French Quarter this morning Quot said Tom Finney a spokesman for the archdiocese of new Orleans. Quot some of the people who went to the 6 o clock mass at St. Louis Cathedral were still wearing Mardi gras beads but they were a lot quieter than they were nowhere was the contrast Between fat tuesday and Ash wednesday More evident than at Pat o Brien s famous Patio bar in the Quarter. Employee Michele Dolaway said the bar packed with Rowdy revellers on tuesday opened at 10 . Wednesday to Welcome a smaller gentler crowd. Quot a lot of people want to just sit on the Patio or in the piano bar and have one last Hurricane a she said. Quot and then there Are some who just need a Little of the hair of the layers of debris that covered the St. Charles Avenue Parade route included paper cracked drink coolers fast food containers and discarded or lost clothing. Quot if you can gauge a Good time by How much people left behind everyone left this one very very Happy a said a fines w. Lee jr., director of sanitation. Workers will have collected More than 2,000 tons of trash by Friday up from 1,895 tons last year Lee said. Arrest figures were not available wednesday but Deputy police chief Arnesta Taylor said he thought arrests went Down by 25 percent this year despite the crowd. Tourists took their time leaving the City. Wednesday morning crowds at the new Orleans International Airport were Light but afternoon and thursday flights were heavily booked said Larry Johnson chief of Airfield operations. Quot i guess most people booked late flights so they a have the morning to sober up a he said. Stateside videotape scheme cuts fraudulent injury claims Pittsburgh apr Twenty eight City employees have stopped taking workers compensation since officials announced a plan to crack Down on fraudulent injury claims by catching cheaters on videotape. The employees began returning to work last week City finance director Ben Hayllar said tuesday. Hayllar said last week that the City is watching and taping some employees who claimed their injuries left them unable to work. Some were seen roofing their Homes and doing strenuous Yard work Hayllar said. Most employees who Are Hurt on the Job return to work As soon As possible but 10 to 15 percent of the City s $ 17 million annual workers compensation expense results from fraud and abuse Hayllar horses honoured in proclamation by Bush Washington apr president Bush signed a proclamation wednesday designating March 1-7 As National Quarter horse week. Quot this horse is uniquely ours having been developed in colonial America and bred for Speed a Bush said. The american Quarter horse association founded by a group of ranchers in the Southwest is marking its 50th anniversary on March 15. Its registry of horses numbers More than 2.8 reject plan to ban new playing Field lighting Piedmont Calif. Apr voters overwhelmingly rejected a referendum to ban new lights from Public playing Fields which had turned ugly when fliers came out warning residents to beware of Black youths drawn by night games. With 83 percent of the vote counted in this exclusive City there were 2,096 ballots against the ban and 1,086 for it. The referendum would have prohibited any new night lighting at Public playing Fields in Piedmont which is nestled in Aldand Hills and boasts the highest property values and lowest crime rate in Alameda county. The measure already had divided residents of this nearly All White Community before More than 50 of the fliers were placed on cars and Homes sunday night. No one took responsibility for the fliers which warned that lighted Fields could draw a Black disadvantaged inner City Oakland youngsters Many from single head of household families and some from drug rehabilitation Zero in on cholesterol misconceptions Boston apr Hearl conscious eaters who Are fed up with Low fat diets can safely add some Olive Oil and other monounsaturated fats to their daily fare but the extra dose probably wont reduce their cholesterol a study concludes. A second report has found that getting lots of potassium. Another nutrient with a wholesome image is no substitute for taking High blood pressure medicines. Scientists have been searching for foods that prevent disease rather than cause it and potassium and monounsaturated fats have been among the possible candidates. Two studies examining these substances were published in thursdays new England journal of Medicine. Some studies have suggested that foods High in monounsaturated fat such As Olive Oil actually might lower blood cholesterol Levels. However the new work found that while monounsaturated fats Don t raise cholesterol they done to seem to lower it significantly. Or. Henry n. Ginsberg and colleagues from Columbia University randomly assigned 36 healthy Young men to eat specially prepared meals for 10 weeks. One group followed the american heart associations Quot step 1�?� diet. In this regimen they limited their daily fat intake to 30 percent of total calories. Ten percent of the calories were from saturated fat 10 percent from polyunsaturated fat and 10 percent from monounsaturated fat. A second group followed the same diet except that 18 percent of the daily calories were from monounsaturated fat. The third group ate a Standard american diet in which 18 percent of calories were from saturated fat 10 percent polyunsaturated and 10 percent monounsaturated. When the study was Over blood cholesterol Levels had fallen 8 percent in those who followed the heart association diet and 10 percent in those who got extra monounsaturated fat. Aids notification plan focuses on sex partners Atlanta up1 a state health officials should find the sex partners of aids carriers and Tell them they have been exposed to the deadly virus . Government officials said wednesday in a draft report. In a 49-Page Quot blueprint for dealing with aids in the 1990s, the Federal centers for disease control said emphasis should also be placed on notifying intravenous drug users who share hypodermic Needles with aids infected people. Only 11 states now have procedures for tracing sexual partners of people infected with the aids virus. Under the proposed system All states would have to notify partners and then counsel them. The draft report places the main Burden for dealing with the aids epidemic on states rather than on the Federal government. Aids activists were critical of the draft saying it does not go far enough in addressing the nation s need for treatment programs. Mike Meridian director of the National association of people with aids said the strategy of the Atlanta based cd Falls Short because it deals mostly with detection instead of treatment. Quot once we test All these people what Are we going to do with them a Meridian said. Quot you can to talk about testing without talking about or. Gary Noble the cd cd a Deputy director for aids programs said the Federal government should provide the leadership for state aids programs. But Noble emphasized a the Federal government does not have primary responsibility for Public health. That is the responsibility of state and local health the cd will provide about $170 million this year for state and local health departments to fight aids. The report said Federal support for aids programs now set at about $1.6 billion a year is not Likely to grow As much As it has in the past. The Federal proposal which still could be modified before its official release also Calls for a study to determine How the spread of crack cocaine May be contributing to the aids problem. Some studies have indicated crack addicts frequently Trade sex for the drug
