European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes thursday March 15,1990 woman wins her 4th id Tarod race Butcher reclaims title from Runyan in record time Alaska apr Musher Susan Butcher crossed the finish line wednesday to claim her fourth Victory in the last five years in the 1,158-mite id Tarod Trail sled dog race. Her Victory in record time turned the tables on defending Champion Joe Runyan. Who edged her last year at the finish of the Anchorage to Nome race. Runyan trailed Butcher on the Trail by More than an hour. A she just had a better  said Libby riddles the first woman to win the Raee in 1985. Watching the finish on the sunny streets of this Gold Rush Era town. A she Outra cd these Guys. She maintained her dog team belter. A it s an incredible unbelievable High. You go through All those ups and Downs on the Way to Nome. You can to believe you be done it till you get  smiling As she ran beside her dogs in her Bright red snowsuit. The 33-Ycar-old Butcher finished the race shortly before 11 . Her official time was i 1 Days. I hour 53 minutes 23 seconds beating both her record for the route taken this year and her Overall record for All id Tarod races. Earlier following a mandatory six hour rest. Butcher left the while Mountain checkpoint 77 Miles from the finish one hour 20 minutes ahead of Runyan. She stopped for Only three minutes at safely to move a few dogs to different positions in the harness before striking out on the last 22-Milc leg of the race at 8 36 . Quot its Runyan who i have to worry  Butcher said while still on the Trail. Quot he has a hot team but he a got to gel ahead of  Butcher had dropped another dog at Elim. Leaving her with 11 dogs to Runyans 15 Over the last 123 Miles of the race. Butcher s Lime handily broke the Speed record for the identical route in 1986 a 11 Days 15 hours and six minutes. Her 1987 id Tarod record of 11 Days 2 hours 5 minutes was set on an alternate route. Anticipating wednesdays finish id Tarod organizers spent tuesday hanging traditional trails end banners and setting up the racers Chute on front Street in Nome. Lavon Barve reached White Mountain in third place. Four Lime Winner Rick Swenson was reported out of the checkpoint at Elim while Tim Osmar Robin Jacobson and Deedee Jonrowe were at the checkpoint 123 Miles from the finish. The leaders had switched to lightweight sprint sleds instead of the heavier Long distance sleds with which they began the race at Anchorage on March 3. First prize is $50,000, with the rest of the $200,000 purse divided among the next 19 finishers. Teams bucked a stiff Side wind across the ice pack tuesday night and drove through near whiteout conditions that Are common on the sound. Butcher had expressed Hopes of finishing in under 11 Days. A a in la have to see How this team responds going Over White Mountain before 1 go for the All time record a she had said earlier. Named for an abandoned Gold mining town along the Trail the id Tarod was started in 1973 to commemorate the 1925 emergency delivery of life saving diphtheria scrum from Anchorage to Nome by sled dog teams running in relays. Of the 70 teams that began the race seven mushers were scratched and another was disqualified because of sick dogs. Susan Butcher races her team across a Frozen Section of the Bering sea near Elim a Alaska fire at Arkansas nursing Home kills 3 patients Dardanelle Ark. Apr fire that consumed one Wing of a nursing Home killed three patients officials said wednesday. Two firefighters suffered smoke inhalation fighting tuesday nights fire and one was hospitalized officials said forty three Home residents were also hospitalized but Many of them were being treated for problems unrelated to the fire officials said. The Blaze broke out in the West Wing of the two Wing Dardanelle nursing Center about 9 30 . And was extinguished two hours later said Betty Smith a police dispatcher in the town 70 Miles West of Little Rock. The Center had 87 residents. Forty three nursing Home patients were kept Over night at three hospitals spokesmen said. Twenty six patients were housed at a National guard armory where the nursing Home set up temporary operations. Some were taken to other nursing Homes in the area. Sgt. Albert Moats said the patients at the armory were devastated by the tragedy. A there were a lot of wet eyes Here last night a Moats said. A there were a lot of people that were upset. You done to expect it to happen in our town something like  police chief Montie Sims said a preliminary investigation by state fire officials was inconclusive. A it appears from their investigation that the fire started in and around a living area of the building. As to what the exact cause is we done to know a he said authorities did not immediately release the names of the dead. Yell county Coroner Mike Cornwell said they were two men and a woman. Donald t. Cline administrator at Dardanelle Hospital said most of the 27 people hospitalized there were being treated for medical problems unrelated to the fire. Four patients including the firefighter were taken to Baptist medical Center in Little Rock where they were in satisfactory condition with smoke inhalation. One also had Burns. Thirteen others were at St. Mary a regional medical Center in Russellville where spokeswoman Cindi Chase said All were in stable to fair condition. Three people were treated at the Hospital and released Chase said. Sex lies and a we Check this Survey s findings Boston apr Here san insight that May fail to Shock dedicated students of the mating game people often Tell lies in order to have sex. Honest. Two California researchers reached that conclusion about dating behaviour after taking a Survey of College students. They say its a Point Worth keeping in mind when trying to decide whether potential sexual partners have Ever done anything to put themselves at risk of aids. In the Survey 34 percent of male respondents and 10 percent of women admitted they had a told a lie in order to have  even More said they would lie if a situation arose where it would be to their advantage. The researchers noted that Young people Are advised to choose sexual partners who Are at Low risk of infection with his the aids virus. One Way to do this is to question partners about their sexual pasts. A the implications of our findings arc Clear a they wrote in thursdays new England journal of Medicine. A patients should be cautioned that Safe sex strategies Are always advisable despite arguments to the contrary from  the Survey which gave no margin of error was based on questionnaires filled out by 196 men and 226 women at colleges in Southern California. It was conducted by drs. Susan d. Cochran of California state University in Northridge and Vickie m. Mays of the University of California los Angeles. They published their results in a letter to the journal. In the Survey 47 percent of the men and 60 percent of the women believed they had been lied to for purposes of sex. Asked about hypothetical situations Many people said they would be willing to Tell lies. For instance 20 percent of the men and 4 percent of the Vromen said they would lie about having negative aids tests. Forty three percent of the men and 34 percent of the women said they would never disclose a single episode of cheating 47 percent of the men and 4-percent of the women said they would understate the number of previous sex partners. A one can probably assume that their reports of their own dishonesty untie a estimate rather than overestimate in problem a added the researchers no also presented their findings in 1 the annual meeting of the Ameri psychological association