European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 12, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 5 report claims 2.2 million in . Are cocaine addicts Washington  a study indicating there Are nearly 2.2 million hard Core cocaine addicts in the United states proves the administration has adopted the wrong strategy in the drug War the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee said thursday. A this news is As alarming As it is tragic a sen. Joseph r. Biden d-del., said at a news conference. Biden released a report prepared by his committee that indicated the number of hard Core addicts was More than double an earlier estimate of 862,000 by the National Institute of drug abuse. The study defined a hard Core user As someone who uses cocaine at least once a week. William Bennett director of the office of National drug control policy called Biden a statement a a ridiculous and said it was designed to provide ammunition for next Falls congressional elections. The administration Bennett said has assumed from the outset of the drug War that there Are about 4 million hard Core addicts and that the National drug strategy is working. After being at Odds in separate interviews throughout the Day Biden and Bennett clashed thursday night on the Public broadcasting service show the a Mac Neil Lehrer  Bennett told Biden sharply that a you Are trying to discredit our policy and a we think this is just a bit  a i done to like this rhetoric. Bill Quot Biden shot Back. A i done to like these cheap shots about being  according to the report nearly one of every 100 americans is a weekly cocaine user and some areas of the United states have a extraordinarily High concentrations of addicts. One of every 40 people in new York state uses cocaine at least once a week the study said. The nations capital has the highest per capita rate 32.9 hardcore users among every 1,000 Washington residents according to the report. The judiciary committee findings prepared under the supervision of Mark , Kleiman of the Kennedy school of government at Harvard underscored a dispute Between Biden and a number of other lawmakers and the administration about whether to  the thrust of the drug War against hard Core or casual users. Biden has said hard Core users should be the primary target while Bennett has advocated efforts directed mainly at stemming casual cocaine use. The report estimated that new York state had the most hard Core addicts 434,000, followed by California 325,000 Texas 144,000 Illinois 142,000 and Florida 93,000. Gao says Chinook still unsafe Washington  the army has failed to overcome persistent safety problems with an advanced transport helicopter in which 15 soldiers have died in two accidents congressional investigators said thursday. A there is simply no justification for putting our soldiers at avoidable risk because of mechanically deficient aircraft a rep. John Dingell d-mich., said about flaws in the ch-47d Chinook helicopter. General accounting office investigators said the helicopter experienced failures with its transmission Cooling fans flight control rods that burned and cracked Cross shafts. Army officials however disputed conclusions of the year Long inquiry into the $6.4 million helicopter. A the ch-47d is the safest cargo helicopter in the United states inventory Quot maj. Gen. Donald r. Williamson head of the army a aviation systems come told the panel. The army plans to buy 472 of the helicopters produced by Boeing Vertol of Philadelphia and Avo Lycoming of Stratford Conn. Pentagon plans Call for buying the last 144 helicopters at a Cost of about $900 million. Gao investigators who visited five of the seven army Sites where the helicopters Are used said widespread mechanical problems have forced the service to ground the aircraft nine times including five instances last year. Drugs guns seized on Mohawk land St. Regis Indian reservation . Apr Canadian police seized about $800,000 in drugs and Cash on strife torn Mohawk territory thursday and some indians complained of rampant drug smuggling by the reservations gambling supporters. Authorities said however that the raid was not connected to a violent struggle Over gambling rights on the reservation. About 100 officers led by Ontario provincial police seized cocaine and marijuana from Homes at Cornwall Island on the reservation which straddles the .-Ca-Nadian Border and in nearby Cornwall Ontario. The 4 pounds of cocaine and about a half Pound of marijuana had a Street value of nearly $800,000, said Opp spokesman Peter  of time he said 21 people were charged with drug and weapons counts under Canadian Law while 16 More were being sought. Police said about half of the suspects lived on the reservation. The 6 . Raid came after a 14-month undercover investigation by Ontario and Quebec police the Royal Canadian mounted police and new York state troopers West said. Twelve guns were seized including at least three automatic rifles. Police said they also seized about $32,000 in Cash. The reservation has been quiet since hundreds of . And Canadian police officers swarmed onto the Mohawk land May 1 after two indians were shot to death in a 10-month-old Casino gambling feud Between two rival tribal factions. A Millioni inc s Batter powered wireless  phone system cleared for 2-City testing Washington  the Federal communications commission thursday approved Market tests for a radically new Type of wireless Telephone system designed to compete with wired and cellular systems. The new systems known As personal communications networks will be tested in Houston and Orlando fla., Over the next two years said j. Shelby Bryan chairman of Millioni inc., a new York based cellular communications company. The lightweight Wallet sized phones will use High frequency microwave signals to conned telephones Over Short distances such As in office buildings or within neighbourhoods. A a we la always have wire communications but i think its going to be viewed Over time As an old fashioned technology Quot Bryan said. A i think we will be in direct Competition to  because of the Short Range of High frequency microwave signals a As Little As 600 feet a the pc unlike regular cellular service will be Able to share space with other private microwave users. This feature greatly increases the system s capacity a and its attractiveness to businesses that May find pcs More convenient to use in an office building than wired  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 12, 1950 a a strike by Railroad firemen against four major rail systems threatened Sharp cuts in Many segments of . Industry. Prospects for an Early settlement appeared dim.30 years ago today. May 12, i960 a soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev said the spy plane incident had changed his estimate of president Eisenhower and that the two would discuss in Paris whether Eisenhower should continue with plans for a Moscow visit.20 years ago today. May 12, 1970 a Secretary of defense Melvin r. Laird said the Pentagon would soon launch a program a to locate a Job for every  0 years ago today. May 12, 1980 a Ronald Reagan picked up the Lions share of Wyoming a Republican National convention delegates at the state gop convention in Casper while Illinois republicans handed him a 10-Delegate Bonus. Percy author of a moviegoer a Dies of cancer in la. At 74 Covington la. Apr Walker Percy a whose deeply humane novels and essays made him a unique voice in american letters a died of cancer thursday at his Home. He would have been 75 on monday. Percy a first novel a the moviegoer a won him the National Book award in 1962 and set the themes that would occupy him for his entire career modern malaise in the new South and the tenuous often outlandishly comic Hope for human connection. His Best Friend and fellow author Shelby Foote was in Covington at the time of Percy a death at his Home Here on the Banks of the Bogue Malaya River across Lake Pontchartrain from new Orleans. Services held saturday at is. Joseph s Abbey near Covington. After a the moviegoer a Percy s novels included a the last gentleman Quot 1966a love in the ruins Quot 1971a a Lancelot 1977a the second coming 1980and a the thanatos syndrome Quot 1987. Once described by critic Alfred Kazin As a the satiric Dostoevsky of the Bayou Quot Percy claimed to have been influenced More by the european existentialists especially Kierkegaard than by fellow southerners. He peddled his 1983 a lost in the Cosmos As a the last self help books and set out to a explain Why it is that Man is the Only alien creature As far As we know in the entire