European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 19, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7stack-up show five cars in a Volvo exhibit at the new current Model is at its base topped by York Auto show in Manhattan stack a Vintage 1955 Auto. The show runs up 3 i cars higher than this visitor. A through sunday. Gene discovery boosts Hopes of aiding alcoholics by the new York times new York a a Gene that puts people at risk of becoming alcoholics has been identified for the first time scientists say in a study published wednesday. The finding should open new avenues of research for prevention and treatment of alcoholism which affects one in every four families in the United states the researchers said. The finding holds Promise that a blood test could someday be devised to identify people who Are most at risk the scientists said in a report in the journal of the american medical association. The team was headed by or. Ernest p. Noble of the University of California at los Angeles and or. Kenneth Blum of the University of Texas health science Center in san Antonio. The researchers said the Gene linked to alcoholism was the receptor Gene for dopamine a chemical that plays a crucial role in helping brain cells communicate with each other. The scientists studied the brains of 35 people who died from alcoholism and 35 others who were not alcoholics. The Gene was present in 77 percent of the alcoholics and absent in 72 percent of the nonalcoholic in the study. The researchers said they identified the Gene through Laboratory tests and analyses. While scientists consider it important to identify a Gene they say it is Only a first step in determining what effect the Gene has on a persons biochemistry and physiology. It will take Many additional Laboratory studies to document those effects and then studies on humans will be needed to correlate the findings with the presence or absence of alcoholism in individuals and families. Theoretically the Gene could increase or decrease the number of receptor Sites in brain cells where dopamine can act or affect How Well it binds to the Sites. If the Gene altered the number of Sites it could affect the amount of pleasure created by a Given amount of alcohol and Lead to a craving for alcohol to release More dopamine. Scientists generally accept the notion that alcoholism is based on Complex genetic cultural and social factors. Increasing evidence Over the last 30 years that heredity plays a role has set off an intense search for proof. The researchers said no single Gene including this one causes All forms of alcoholism. Some people with the Gene they studied did not become alcoholics whereas some who lacked the Gene did become alcoholics they noted. Social and cultural factors May set off the affliction for Many alcoholics who arc not genetically predisposed to the disease. In an editorial in the same Issue of the journal. Or. Enoch Gordis the director of the National Institute of alcohol abuse and alcoholism and three other scientists from the Institute in Rockville md., said the statistical evidence for the newly reported Gene link to alcoholism was surprisingly Strong. But Federal scientists said the findings had to be repeated on much larger numbers of alcoholics in part because the new study was necessarily Small. Gordis said in an interview that the newly reported Gene a May not be specific for alcoholism but it might have a More general influence on appetite personality and  Noble agreed saying that a the Good lord did not make an alcoholic Gene but one that seems to be involved in pleasure seeking  More than 18 million americans suffer from alcohol abuse and about 100,000 people die from it each year. Fetal alcohol syndrome which causes mental retardation and facial deformities affects about one in every 500 babies born in the United  submariner Ramage Dies by the new York times Washington a Lawson p. Ramage a retired vice Admiral who served in the Pacific in world War ii and was one of the Navy a most decorated submariners died of cancer at his Home in Bethesda my. He was 81. Ramage a 1931 graduate of the . Naval Academy at Annapolis md., retired in 1969 after spending most of his career in submarines. Ramage a native of Monroe Bridge mass., was stationed at Pearl Harbor when the japanese attacked on dec. 7, 1941. He served As navigator aboard the Grenadine from april to june 1942, and was awarded the Silver Star a for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity As navigator in a patrol of enemy controlled Waters. In june 1942, As commander of the submarine Trout he won the Navy Cross for valor in action at Midway Truk the Solomons and in the South China sea. He won the medal of Honor after he attacked a heavily escorted japanese Convoy in the South China sea off Taiwan on july 31, 1944, while commanding the submarine Parche. He Sank two enemy vessels and damaged several others. He was commissioned As an Ensign at Annapolis in 1931 and spent the next four years on several ships before taking submarine training and serving As executive officer on the Sands. In april 1963, As Deputy commander of submarine forces in the Atlantic Fleet he led the search operation for the nuclear submarine Thresher which sunk 220 Miles East of Boston with the loss of 129 lives. He was promoted to vice Admiral later that year and became commander of the military sea transportation service in 1967. Ramage a survivors include his wife of 55 years the former Barbara Alice Pine two sons James of South Boro mass., and Alfred of Winthrop mass. Two daughters Joan Mitchell of Washington and Virginia Ross of Silver Spring my. Two Brothers Donald of Oceanside Calif and John of Rome. . Eight grandchildren and a  tests find High aids rate among teens Tenn up a about one in juju . Teen agers who applied for military service during a 3 a year period tested positive for the aids virus indicating the infection May not be As rare fk100? y�un8 people As previously ought scientists said tuesday. Tests of More than 1.1 million teen Len a Tail applicants found the prevailing human immunodeficiency virus i among non Whites who lived in i. Osc y populated Urban areas known to sin d i rates of aids said col. Don us of the Walter Reed army medical Center in Washington. Burke and colleagues who studied the results of data collected Between october 1985 and March 1989 concluded that a Shiv is a real and immediate threat to american  among the teen agers tested 393 were found to have his. The rates in women and men were comparable which the researchers found in a Sharp contrast to the nine times greater ratio of males to females among adult aids cases. The study said the discrepancy might be due to under diagnosis of aids among Young women. Another explanation might be that Young men with his do not apply to the military in representative numbers. If either hypothesis is True the a prevalence of his infection among . Teenagers in the civilian population May be substantially greater than one in 3,000, burkes report said. His infected teens in the study came from 200 counties in 41 states and from the District of Columbia. The states with the greatest numbers were California new York and Texas while the state with the highest rate was Delaware at More than one per 1,000. Nine states had no his positive applicants a Alaska Colorado Maine Montana North Dakota new Hampshire Rhode Island South Dakota and Wyoming. The study found that in the District of Columbia Baltimore and parts of new York City the his rate among teen age applicants was More than two in 1,000. By contrast the rate in an eight state area in the North Central United states was Only one in 25,000. The Overall infection rate was six times higher among Blacks than Whites and three times higher in hispanics than in Whites Burke found