European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes thursday april 12,1990wisconsin adults weigh in As most obese Madison wis. Apr for a third consecutive year Wisconsin adults were the most obese in a National Survey probably due to a diet heavy in the states Best known products cheese butter and brat Wurst a researcher says. A Wisconsin has consistently had the highest percentage of obese adults among the 37 states surveyed Over the past three years a said or. Patrick Remington author of a study released tuesday by the state division of health. One million Wisconsin adults or about 28 percent of the adult population Are at least 20 percent overweight the study said. Women Are More Likely to be overweight than men. Obesity was defined As 20 percent or More above desirable body weight Remington said. Wisconsin nicknamed americans Dairy land was followed by West Virginia Indiana Michigan and North Dakota. States with the highest prevalence of obesity a tended to be in the upper Midwest a Remington said. A i think that in the upper Midwest we probably have a higher intake of dietary fat cheese butter ice Cream Bacon sausages bratwurst another Factor could be the High percentage of germanic and Northern europeans in their population with their greater tendency to be obese he said. A if both your parents were obese you have an 80 percent Chance of being obese a he said. A if neither was obese your chances Are Only 18 percent the 1988 behaviour risk Factor Telephone Survey found 30.3 percent of adult women were obese compared with 25.5 percent of adult men Remington said. For example a Man who is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs More than 193 pounds would be obese. A woman who is 5-feet-4 and weighs More than 158 pounds would be obese he said. Remington said the prevalence of obesity generally increased with age for women peaking m the 45 54 age group and remaining High among older Ages for men however the risk of obesity decided among those in the older age groups he said. Remington said the Telephone Survey in Wismon so invoked 1 272 Telephone contacts7 re Surv a coordinated through the National Cen tests disease control in Atlanta which provided Idem Ira questionnaires to the states and recommended i 200 to 1,800 Survey contacts in each state he said the study contained the following percentages on overweight adults for the top 20 states Wisconsin 28.0 percent of adults obese West Vir Emia 24.4 percent Indiana 24.1 percent a Michigan 24.0 percent North Dakota 23.3 percent District of Columbia 23.0 percent Kentucky 23.0 percent Missouri 22.9 percent South Dakota 22.9 percent1 Illinois 22.7 percent Alabama 22.5 percent Nebraska 22.5 percent Florida 22.3 percent Ohio 2 .9 percent South Carolina 21.5 percent Maine a int Massachusetts 21.4 percent Califore ?.a�?T.2s9bpcrcent Minnesota 20.9 percent new York 20.8 percent a Baltic americans urge Bush to recognize Lithuania Washington apr leaders of Baltic Ameri can groups urged president Bush wednesday to take Steps toward recognizing Lithuania a declaration of Independence from the soviet Union but were unable to persuade him to take that step. A your policy we believe is the Correct one and it does not involve recognition a White House press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said afterwards. A the president did not change his views but was impressed with the strength and depth of their convictions a Fitzwater said. Emerging from the meeting Anthony Mazeika of the Baltic american Freedom league said a we Are disappointed with the official policy of the United states by not extending recognition to president vytautas Landsbergis government. Even so the Baltic american leaders said they were pleased to have had an audience with Bush at last after being turned Down for meetings earlier. A we have a lot of very Good contacts on the lower and mid Levels of the state department. Its just the White House we Haven to been Able to penetrate. We used to Wear out the threshold of the previous administration a said Mari Ann Frikken chairman of the joint Baltic american National committee. Bush and Secretary of state James Baker spent More Slasher convicted after claims he swallowed Blade Leeds Summit to. Apr a former circus performer who prosecutors said can Swallow and regurgitate Sharp objects at will was convicted of slashing a jail guard. The Blade was never found. Benjamin came Soltas 36, was convicted tuesday of assault for cutting the neck of guard John Wickizer on oct. 29. The wound required about nine stitches. The defense said reasonable doubt existed because no one found the razor Blade. A the swallows razor Blades and brings them Back a assistant prosecutor Jim Humphrey told Jackson county circuit court jurors. A i  be surprised if he had one  jail records indicated that guards had seen came Soltas move his Throat and produce parts of razor Blades or Sharp Metal on about five occasions. .fts?�680188 who 031116 to the United states in the 1980 Manel boat lift from Cuba testified he could not Swallow Sharp objects. He said he was a circus trapeze performer in Cuba not a knife artist. Prosecutors said he either was a sword Swallower or Learned that Talent while working in the circus. Came Soltas had been out of a Missouri prison for nine Days after being paroled on a burglary charge when he attacked Wickizer at the jail authorities said. He had been sent there to Complete a term for a 1987 assault conviction and escape charge. Came Soltas faces a possible sentence of one to 10 years. Judge John r. Of Malley set sentencing for May 111 than an hour with americans representing the interests of Lithuania Latvia and Estonia the three Baltic states annexed by the soviet Union in 1940. Mazeika said they pressed Bush and Baker to Grant de Facto recognition of Landsbergis government As an intermediate step toward full diplomatic ties. Asked if Bush left the impression he was sympathetic to that idea Frikken said a no we done to have that feel. But the fact that he met with us the fact that i think we made an impression that this is not some sort of an emotional Appeal. I think that had an  Mazeika said that Bush expressed sympathy for their cause but said he a has to consider the other agendas As Well As his feeling that there must be a Way to support soviet president Mikhail a Gorbachev a Overall efforts for democratic  Bush said tuesday that Gorbachev a tolerance of democratic freedoms in Warsaw pact nations had demonstrated a a commitment to Reform and openness that a  a so give him credit and Deal openly with him on problems such As Lithuania the president said. A but when you have difficulties like we have today talk frankly with him about  Bush a twin edged message of Praise and restraint appeared intended to put pressure on Gorbachev not to use Force or additional intimidation against Lithuania to abandon its declaration of Independence. Bush on a visit to Toronto said no one could have predicted Gorbachev a willingness to accept changes in Eastern Europe. A in other words he has demonstrated that he is committed to peaceful change and the evolution of democracy a he said. Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney was the first of three Western leaders holding talks with Bush Over a 10-Day period. Bush will see British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Bermuda on Friday and Confer with French president Francois Mitterrand in key Largo fla., on april 19. The chief topics of Bush stalks with Mulroney were the tensions in Lithuania and the presidents five Day Summit with Gorbachev beginning May 30. Bush said that if the situation in Lithuania deteriorates a it would be extraordinarily difficult to move Forward As rapidly As id like to see us move Forward with them on a lot of  he said the presence of soviet tanks in Lithuania make it a even More important to have Good Faith negotiations Over the Fate of the Republic. A i would just Appeal to All sides and anyone with any influence to encourage dialogue and discussion a he said. They make the neighbors Grumpy thei new Walt Disney co. Headquarters in Burbank seven 19-foot-tall dwarfs Are a totally out of scale for Caff was unveiled tuesday and the reaction of area the  another said a a we re going to be residents was in general not Happy. One said the known As the City of the huge