European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes sunday Juno 10,1990 for More than 10 years Jessie w. Sharp of Ocoee tenn., pursued a dream to kayak Over Niagara Falls. He stands next to his car with his kayak strapped atop it in Buffalo n.y., daring his first attempt i daredevil disappears with his dream up 1979 however word leaked out and his parents came to get him. Sharp s second attempt several years ago was foiled by police. Last wednesday the 28-year old Man entered the water above the Falls on the Canadian Side. In the Center photo Sharp is paddling toward the Brink. At right he plunges Over the Falls. His red kayak was found wednesday afternoon below Horseshoe Falls. He is still missing. Soviet Reform is a my destiny a embattled Gorbachev tells bbl London up a soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said Friday that he would fight for his perestroika Reform program As Long As he remains in Power. Gorbachev also indicated m an interview granted in Moscow to the British broadcasting Chiju that he is coming under Strong pressure to change his policy. A to me personally perestroika is my Choice it is my life my destiny my predicament As a person and As a politician a Gorbachev said. A i am not going to deviate from this Road whatever pressure is put on me. Gorbachev speaking to the bbl after a meeting with British prime minister Marearet Thatcher said soviet society was a a sick and needed Radical Reform. The soviet Leader was elected by the supreme soviet to an executive presidency that he formulated. He said his remaining in office could Only be decided democratically. A whether i am at the Helm or whether i am not going to be at the Helm this should be decided in a democratic Way on the basis of the existing constitutional process a he said. A this is the Issue that is linked to life  although enjoying unparalleled popularity abroad Gorbachev has come under mounting criticism at Home including the method by which he was elected to the new presidential office a a legislative vote rather than by nationwide ballot. The next elections Are scheduled in about five years. Gorbachev resumed from a successful Summit meeting with president Bush in Washington Only to be confronted by a growing Challenge from former protege Boris Yeltsin who was elected president of the giant russian Republic. Amsterdam Netherlands apr the Netherlands National airline Kim Royal dutch airlines will begin grounding pregnant flight attendants beginning this autumn. The reason is because of a . Report saying that air plane Crews May be exposed to harm fill Levels of radiation a Kim spokesman said Friday. The study was performed by the . Department of transportation and was released in february. It estimates that the lifetime cancer risk due to cosmic radiation for airline Crew members who Fly 960 hours annually would be from five to 61 deaths for every 100,000 individuals in 20 years of flying. Gorbachev is now trying to induce the supreme soviet to pass a plan for a transition to a Market Economy As a Way of rejuvenating the entire country. He insisted that a revolutionary perestroika was the sole method to heal soviet society. A i am optimistic because we have made our Choice in such a direction a he said. A revolutionary processes Are prevailing All Over this  the soviet president discounted what he called expressions of doom by critics who say that his program of perestroika and glasnost or restructuring and openness and democratization has spawned a breakdown of order. A the process of disintegration that so Many people talk about a i think that this is a superfluous Point of View a he said. A there is no process of deterioration. This is the process of renovation of transition to a new Quality which we Are going to  without trying to minimize his previous differences with Yeltsin whom he expelled from the politburo in 1988, Gorbachev said he believed he could still work with him. A a he will act constructively in the spirit of perestroika and will work like this at the Congress of Peoples deputies and the supreme soviet a Gorbachev said. A then i think that he will find the support of the leadership of this country and he will cooperate. We should not be too emotional Here. A there is no place for personal emotions sympathies. These Are things which i do not refer to As unsure Mountable obstacles. What he said before the election is one thing. How he will act in the future is  it also notes that there is some risk to frequent fliers and to the fetuses of pregnant women during the first trimester of pregnancy. However scientists and . Department of transportation officials caution that the risk data was not based on any study of actual cancer cases. It was based on mathematical models projecting the effects of Low level radiation from the Sun and stars. According to elms new regulation once a flight attendant reports her pregnancy she must be Given the option of an alternative Job on the ground or an extended paid pregnancy leave Union Leader Joop Kosten nans said. World today moslem militants murder Indian officials relative bub Iara India apr an Uncle of indians Home minister was shot to death at Point Blank Range by three unidentified moslem militants at his Home in the Kashmir Valley neighbors and officials said Friday. Guiam Hassan Shah was killed at his Home in big Tiara 25 Miles Southeast of Srinagar. Shah was one of several relatives whom Home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had evacuated to new Delhi last Winter fearing they would be targeted by moslem militants seeking Independence for Jammu Kashmir  Bishops Pope to discuss Church s future Vatican City apr for the first time since the ukrainian Catholic Church was banned More than four decades ago its Clandestine Bishops will meet with the Pope later this month it was announced Friday. Pope John Paul ii set the meeting for june 2526 to discuss efforts to legalize the Church and recover its lost property the Vatican said in a statement. The 10 ukrainian Catholic Bishops living in the soviet Republic will be joined by the 18 ukrainian prelates living in the West said Rome based ukrainian Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky in a separate  was t dropped soviet Gravedigger says Moscow up a the Man who lowered the a a Tiona a last four leaders into their Graves has put to rest a Rumor that he dropped Leonid Brezhnev a Corpse a the sound people heard that Day was was the sound of the Kremlin clock and a Cannon Salute Gravedigger Georgy Kovalenko told the so Besednik supplement to the Komsomol Skaya pravda newspaper. Ever since Brezhnev was buried nov. 15, 1982, soviet citizens have disputed what caused a thud just As the soviet Leader was lowered into the grave. One word of Mouth Story says the Bottom of the coffin was faulty As were most manufactured pr0u.ct" during Brezhnev a time and gave Way under the Bulky Brezhnev. Another blames the gravediggers. But Kovalenko said that he lowered the now loan Elf Brezhnev a by the books As he did Nikita Khrushchev Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko. Kim to ground pregnant attendants