European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 5, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 5everglades fire threatens wildlife management area Miami apr a 4-mile-wide Brush fire raced through Bone dry Everglades saw grass thursday jumping a canal and threatening an ecological Buffer zone that protects Everglades National Park. A a we re in big trouble it jumped a levee 50 feet wide a said Ranger Gene Dempsey. A a there a nothing slowing it Down a there a no water holes no  the fire driven Westward by 15-Mph winds and fuelled by saw grass parched by Florida a two year drought had spread to 24,000 acres or More than 37 Square Miles by Early afternoon. By jumping the canal the Blaze moved into the Everglades wildlife management area an uninhabited 150,000-acre Buffer zone established to protect plants and wildlife in Everglades National Park. It also was headed toward big Cypress National preserve. The fire located about 30 Miles Northwest of Miami and about 15 Miles South of big Cypress Isnit threatening inhabited areas. The wildfire was one of three burning around Miami. A 10,500-acre fire within Everglades National Park itself Southwest of Miami remained Active thursday but firefighters from a Federal team from Asheville n.c., were confident they could control it said Park spokeswoman Darlene Koontz. She said they had determined the Park fire was either arson or caused by an Accident. Seminole Indian firefighters were trying to control a smaller Blaze on their reservation in Broward county said Dempsey. Fires Are a Normal part of the Everglades ecology said Park spokeswoman Pat Tolle. But this years big fires worry environmentalists because the drought has left the Region so dry and areas that usually would be bypassed by Brush fires Are threatened. If the smaller Park fire to the South spread Westward for instance it could threaten the nesting Sites of the endangered Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow a ground nesting Bird said Tolle. Firefighter Leslie Spurlin holds Bandana in place As she watches backfires bum in the Everglades on  is reported in brain research new York not a scientists for the first time have grown an important Type of human brain cell in the Laboratory. The cells Are neurons from the most highly evolved part of the brain the cerebral cortex the seat of human thought memory and artistry. The new results were reported in fridays Issue of the journal science by or. Solomon Snyder a neuroscientist who led researchers at Johns Hopkins University school of Medicine in Baltimore. By getting the cells to flourish in the Laboratory researchers said they can study the human brain in greater biochemical and genetic detail than was possible before. A one of the great mysteries of the brain is How the highest centers function to allow us to think remember and experience emotion a said or. Ira b. Black a professor of neurology at Cornell University medical College in new York who Learned of the work at conferences a with this cell line Well be Able to ask questions that would be difficult or impossible to approach in humans or experimental  scientists said that the line of cells also offers a valuable tool for testing new drugs to treat alzheimer a disease epilepsy Parkinson s disease drug addiction and other disorders of the brain. A i think this work is a real leap Forward a said or. Frederick k. Goodwin the head of the Federal alcohol drug abuse and mental health administration. A a it a a Model cell that could Advance our understanding of things like schizophrenia and drug addiction  eventually the cell line May also be used in transplants that replace tissue that has been destroyed As a result of Parkinson a disease and other euro degenerative  ordered to pay $34 million for libel Philadelphia apr a former City prosecutor won a $34 million libel award from the Philadelphia inquirer thursday in a verdict one expert said was the biggest Ever against the news Media. The jury a decision was set up by the papers Appeal of a far smaller award a $4.5 million. Richard a. Sprague a former first assistant District attorney was awarded $2.5 million in compensatory damages and $31.5 million in punitive damages by a common pleas court jury. Sprague sued in 1983 Over articles dating to 1973 in the inquirer questioning his actions and decisions As a prosecutor. The paper which has won 17 pulitzer prizes in 16 years Many for investigative Sands of time stories will Appeal again said Eugene l. Roberts jr., the inquirers executive editor and president. The judgment surpassed the $28 million libel award won by a heart surgeon last month from a san Antonio television station according to Henry Sprague Kaufman general counsel of the libel defense resource Center in new York. Kaufman however said Only two libel judgments of More than $1 million have been affirmed on Appeal. The award amounts to about one third of the newspapers net Worth said its attorney Samuel e. Klein. Roberts said the newspaper would be Able to stay in business if the judgment stands a but we would be  the verdict followed an 11-week trial before judge Charles p. Mirarchi or. And 2vi hours of jury deliberations. Sprague sued Over articles he said implied that he was involved in an illegal wiretapping incident an allegation he denied. He said the stories also questioned his role in a homicide Case involving a son of a Friend former state police commissioner Rocco Urella. The judge said Sprague had required a a preponderance of evidence to prove that statements defamed him. He also had to meet the tougher Standard of a Clear and convincing evidence to prove falsity actual malice and damages. An eight week trial in common pleas court resulted in the $4.5 million verdict for Sprague in 1983. The paper appealed and the state supreme court in june 1988 ordered a new trial declaring that reporters have an absolute right to invoke the stale a shield Law in refusing to identify confidential sources during Legal proceedings. In the original trial. Judge Charles a. Lord ruled the Law did not apply in the Case and excluded All testimony about information from unidentified  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 5, 1950 a the 89,000 striking United Auto workers ended their 100-Day-old strike at Chrysler after gaining pensions and other benefits.30 years ago today. May 5, 1960 a the Eisenhower administration proposed a $1.2 billion annual Federal state medical care program for the lower income aged. Participants would pay $24 a year for coverage officials said.20 years ago today. May 5, 1970 a the Pentagon announced an end to a series of heavy air attacks against North vietnamese missile and anti aircraft installations but said such raids would be resumed if deemed necessary.10 years ago today. May 5, 1980 a president Tito of Yugoslavia died at the age of 87, the yugoslav news Agency Tan Jug announced. He had been hospitalized almost five months with a blood circulation blockage in his left leg. Mills colleges decision to enrol men protested Oakland Calif. Apr trustees at Mills College voted thursday to admit male undergraduates for the first time in the schools 138-year history triggering cries of a no no a from hundreds of angry tearful female students. A we will not accept this. We have been betrayed a said Robyn Fisher president of the associated students of Mills College. The trustees hoping to avoid dipping heavily into the exclusive schools endowment to offset declining revenues had been considering the move for some time. A if Mills is to maintain academic Quality and financial strength in the Long run it must increase its undergraduate enrolment to at least 1,000,�?� said Board chairman Warren f. Heilman a san Francisco investment banker. He refused to reveal the breakdown of the vote by the 35-member Board. Although men have been admitted to Mills graduate programs for Many years a majority of the faculty had opposed the change and its hard to find a student who favors the idea. Several women at the school have even shaved their Heads in protest. Heilman a voice was All but drowned out by angry shouts As he made the announcement from a podium in Grassy Mills common