European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday june 12,1990 new findings throw cold water on earlier a cold fusion research Salt Lake City apr new findings have thrown cold water on a cold fusion experiments at several laboratories but researchers at the National cold fusion Institute remain undeterred. Researchers at two Texas a amp a University labs and at the los Alamos National Laboratory in new Mexico have conceded that the palladium rods used in their cold fusion experiments were contaminated with tritium. Tritium is a byproduct of fusion the bonding together of atomic nuclei to create Energy. The researchers said they now believe that what they took to be evidence of fusion was actually contamination. Ronald Parker director of the plasma fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of technology said sceptical scientists Long have speculated that contamination might be responsible for the evidence of tritium in such experiments. A the thing that does astonish me is that something like this Wasny to detected earlier a he said. A tritium is the thing that would still pique the interest of Many scientists. Now that there seems to be a logical explanation maybe it is the last  but a spokesman for the National cold fusion Institute in Utah said Friday that it used palladium rods from a different source than the other labs and they Are believed to have been uncontaminated. A my impression is that people would be Well advised to Analyse thoroughly the palladium they be used in their experiments a said Institute director Fritz will. Nuclear fusion is usually accomplished at extremely High temperatures and is a costly process. Cold fusion would be highly attractive because it would be a cheap and virtually inexhaustible Energy source. The cold fusion experiments were first reported by Utah electro chemist b. Stanley Pons and British colleague Martin Fleischmann. They involved a palladium electrode wrapped in Platinum wire then immersed in heavy water. In a March 29, 1989, announcement that sparked an uproar Pons and Reischmann said that when they applied elect icily to the room temperature device More Energy fusion Power How hot fusion works in conventional nuclear fusion the positively charged cores nuclei of two forms of Hydrogen deuterium and tritium Are forced together by powerful magnets under extremely High temperatures. The fusion produces common helium and neutrons but less Energy than the amount needed to cause fusion. Ilium hot fusion device corrugated stainless steel vacuum chamber magnets compress plasma to heat it and confine it away from the Wass of the vacuum chamber plasma extremely hot Gas composed of deuterium and tritium two types of Hydrogen Chicago Tribune graphic by Annis Odom source news reports was released in the form of heat than they put into it. The pair have said the cells also produced tritium a product of fusion although they have not published any scientific reports explaining their findings nor have they or other researchers pinpointed the reason for the excess heat. Will who joined the state funded Institute in february said he could not speak for Pons and Fleischmann who conduct separate experiments in their chemistry department laboratories in addition to these at the  Small but big enough to be a Winner Phoenix apr ten cities from eight states a from Little Hamlet in North Carolina to a suburb of los Angeles a were designated All America cities by the National civic league. The winners were announced saturday night after the finalists gave presentations before a 12-member panel Friday and saturday. The top 10 Abilene Texas Bakersfield Calif. Charlotte . Coeur do Alene Idaho Hamlet Harrisburg a. Sioux City Iowa Southgate Calif., near los Angeles South St Paul Minn. And Tampa Fla. A the 30 finalists were picked from a record 113 entries said Chris Gates vice president of the civic league. The All America designation goes to cities that demonstrate an ability to solve local problems through Community leadership citizen participation government civic education and philanthropy. Each delegation gave a 10-minute presentation spotlighting three projects its City has undertaken to show leadership and cooperation Between private and government factions. A we Are very proud a said mayor Abbie Covington of Hamlet with a population of 6,640. The town about 100 Miles Southwest of Raleigh had never before competed in the All America cities program. A thirty percent of our citizens Are on a fixed income a said Covington. A this just shows the support we can get from our  among the three projects highlighted in hamlets presentation was the regeneration of the towns Hospital. President Bush and mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari Confer sunday.u.s., Mexico to open Trade talks Trade advisers to open preliminary discussions with an Eye toward concluding them before Bush and Salinas hold their next meeting in Monterrey Mexico which is scheduled for december. Washington apr the United states and Mexico embarked monday on a major Effort to expand bilateral Trade and investment agreeing to open talks on reaching a comprehensive free Trade agreement. President Bush and mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari who met at the White House sunday night believe that a a comprehensive free Trade agreement is the Best vehicle for forging a More a vigorous partnership a said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwa Ter. The two presidents directed their they agreed that the a greatest possible Mutual benefits would derive from an agreement that entails the gradual and comprehensive elimination of Trade barriers and the fullest possible reduction of non Tariff Trade barriers. Bush and Salinas see free Trade As a a powerful engine for economic development a Fitzwater said. 80% Back state Laws allowing terminally ill to refuse treatment by new Day almost 80 percent of adults support state Laws that allow terminally ill patients to refuse life sustaining treatment or to order that treatment stopped once it has begun according to a new National Survey. Further 71 percent of those polled say that when a patient is no longer Able to make treatment decisions and has not left any Advance directive regarding medical care family members should be allowed to order the withdrawal of medical treatment. At the same time however a majority of those interviewed say that everything possible should be done to keep alive a severely handicapped Newborn. Only 32 percent of those polled would allow parents the option of refusing treatment for their Newborn. The release of the poll of 1,213 adults conducted last month for the times Mirror Center for the people and the press in Washington d.c., comes at a time when the debate Over the so called a right to die and euthanasia has received much Media attention. Last week or. Jack Kevorkian a retired Michigan pathologist announced that he had hooked an Oregon woman with alzheimer a disease to a device of his invention that allowed her to push a Button and kill herself. And the supreme court is expected to Rule in the next few weeks on a Missouri Case involving the right of a family to order life sus taming care withdrawn from their vegetative daughter. One finding in the poll conducted by Princeton Survey research associates was that 63 percent of those surveyed say it is a sometimes justified for a spouse to kill a husband or wife who a was suffering terrible pain from a terminal disease. However Only 28 percent agreed that they could imagine themselves Ever a taking action like this if someone. They loved was suffering terribly from an illness that was  that dichotomy in results Between what those surveyed believe May be justified for others and what they would do or want for themselves is characteristic of much of the surveys findings. For instance while 73 percent believe there Are circumstances under which health care professionals should allow a patient to die and 79 percent support state Laws allowing patient refusal of me sustaining treatment Only 59 percent say they would personally order their doctor to Stop treatment if they were hopelessly ill and suffering a a great Deal of pain. Overall 55 percent say they believe that a person suffering great pain with no Hope for improvement has a moral right to take his or her own life while Only 41 percent responded similarly in a poll 15 years ago. Forty eight percent of those surveyed say they support Ine moral right to commit suicide of a per son who is terminally ill while 41 percent oppose the action. And Only it percent say that a person has a moral Ngn to end his or her own life simply because living has become too great a Hurden. There is a difference Between generations on attitudes toward suicide l to thirds of adults under 30 think a Perso would have a moral right to commit us cide if he or she is in great pain with n Hope for improvement while 39 Perce of those Over 65 agree