European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes Friday june 29,1990 Louisiana legislature passes abortion Bill veto expected Baton Rouge la. Apr the legislature gave final approval wednesday night to the strictest state abortion Bill in the nation and passed it along to gov. Buddy Roemer who has promised a veto. The Bill Calls for prison terms of up to 10 years hard labor for doctors who perform abortions and offers no exceptions for women who wish to abort fetuses that Are the product of rape or incest. The Bill a sponsors Hope to use it to Challenge the . Supreme courts 1973 Roe is. Wade decision legalizing abortion rights. Roemer has 10 Days to act and the legislative session ends in 12 Days. Roemer and abortion rights advocates predicted wednesday that the legislature would sustain Roem or s promised veto. The House passed the final version by a 80-23 vote wednesday night accepting amendments the Senate had added to clarify that abortion would be allowed to save the life of the Mother. The Senate tuesday passed the Bill by 24-15, two votes shy of the two thirds majority needed to override a veto. �?o1 believe the vote yesterday in the Senate showed that there will be sufficient Voles to sustain the veto. But that will be their decision a Roemer said at a news conference. A we have the votes to sustain both in the Senate and in the House a said Robin Rothrock Leader of a coalition of slate abortion rights groups. A a in a feeling  rep. Woody Jenkins the Bill a author met with Roemer privately for More than an hour wednesday but they failed to reach a Compromise Jenkins said. Wednesdays House vote and a 74-27 vote on a version of the Bill last week provided margins Large enough for an override. But anti abortion lawmakers have conceded privately that they might not be Able to carry All those votes to override. Louisiana legislative historians say there is no record of a veto being overridden this Century. At his news conference Roemer reiterated his opposition to abortion on demand and criticized groups who have threatened economic Boycotts of the state if an anti abortion Law is adopted. In California tuesday the president of the los Angeles chapter of the National organization for women said the chapter is drafting a Resolution calling for a Boycott of All tourism and conventions in Louisiana to what a up shorty an adult Giraffe Peers Over a Barrier to take a look at a 3-Day-old Giraffe at the zoo in Brookfield 111. The unnamed male weighed in at 125 pounds and measured 5 feet 5  endorses abortion Pill Chicago apr the controversial French abortion Pill has won backing from the american medical association the nations largest doctors association. In a voice vote wednesday the amass 436-member policy making House of delegates endorsed testing and possible use of the ru-486 abortion Phil. A the abortion Issue pro and con should not interfere with our ability to conduct All kinds of investigations for All kinds of problems a said or. Charles Sherman chairman of the Ama committee that recommended support for the Pill. The Pill is not available in the United states and no . Companies have applied for food and drug administration approval to Market it in this country because doctors say they fear running afoul of the anti abortion movement. Some doctors in the Ama whose 290,000 members account for about 45 percent of the nations physicians said the Pill appears safer and cheaper than surgical abortion and May be useful in treating brain tutors breast cancer and other illnesses. A leading abortion opponent attacked the Ama action. �?o1 think it is outrageous for doctors to be thinking up better ways for killing their Little patients a John Willke president of National right to life said in a Telephone interview from his Washington office. Be considered at now a annual meeting beginning Friday in san Francisco. Jenkins said the exceptions could easily be used by women falsely claiming to be rape victims to get a Legal  also said such exceptions would contradict Louisiana s past abortion Law a 19th-Century measure that included no  study merits closer look new York apr a Nevada size area of the Arctic lost about 15 percent of its ice in 11 years showing the Region should be better monitored for signs of global warming a study suggests. The decline is Large for an area where scientists had thought ice was consistently thick researcher Peter Wadhams said. But it is impossible to know whether global warming played a role he said. Scientists predict a global warming because of a buildup of gases such As Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The gases trap solar Energy that the Earth would otherwise radiate into space. Such a warming could Lead to hotter Summers and altered rainfall patterns that would disrupt agriculture and cause flooding in coastal areas scientists say. The British journal nature will publish the Arctic ice study by Wadhams of the University of Cambridge in England in thursdays Issue. Using data from submarine based studies in 1976 and 1987, Wadhams calculated changes within a 112,000-Square-mile Triangle North of Greenland. That is a Section slightly larger than Nevada. Wadhams studied the thickness of the submerged portions of huge floating chunks of sea ice which is a Good indicator of total ice thickness. He found that the average thickness dropped from 17.5 feet in 1976 to 14.9 feet in 1987, about a 15 percent decrease. Over the study area that corresponds to a loss of nearly 55 cubic Miles of ice he said. The missing ice did not necessarily melt away. The main reason for the decrease Wadhams suggested May be that thick ice broke apart in the months before the 1987 Reading leaving open water that would freeze into relatively thin ice. This would reduce the Overall average thickness for the Region he studied. Such a mechanism would have nothing to do with global warming said John Walsh a University of Illinois meteorology professor. But other factors May have been at work too he said. A the jury a still out on this a Walsh said. Stateside controversial sex mayor in Rhode Island runs again Providence . Apr convicted Felon radio personality and former mayor Vincent a. A a buddy Cianci or. Announced wednesday that he was running for mayor again. A a in be been wrestling with a decision to run for the mayor of Providence for the past five or six years. Its been a very trying time for me to make this decision a he said in an emotional speech on his talk show on a Hajj am. Cianci was elected mayor As a Republican in 1974, when he was 33. In 1982, he changed his affiliation to Independent to avoid a primary Challenge and is running As an Independent this time. His administration was marked by the convictions of several City workers on corruption charges. On March 20, 1983, Cianci beat up the Lover of his estranged wife while several associates and his chauffeur a policeman watched. A Cianci pleaded no contest to two assault charges and resigned from office in 1984. His sentence was suspended and he was put on  to set aside 3 half Price Heaters new York apr Broadway theater owners unions and producers have announced a plan to set aside three Heaters where patrons would pay no More than $24 for tickets a nearly half Price. The plan announced tuesday is aimed at stimulating the development of More productions and drawing theatregoers who can to afford Broadway anymore. Seats at most non musicals Cost $25 to $45. Under the plan the three major Broadway theater owners a the Shubert and Nederlander organizations and jul Jacyn Heaters a will each set aside one of its Heaters for the productions including dramas and comedies but not musicals. The productions will be booked on a rotating basis and the theater owner has the right to reject a play As Well As to Book a regular attraction and drop out of the  Leader wins Runoff for Ala. Governors race Montgomery Ala. Apr Union Leader Paul Hubbert who built Alabama a school work Force into a political Force became the democratic nominee for governor tuesday defeating state attorney general Don Siegelman in a Runoff. With 97 percent of the precincts reporting Hubbert had 297,843 votes or 53 percent to Siegelman a 259,471 votes or 47 percent. Hubbert will Challenge Republican gov. Guy Hunt a Farmer preacher and Ronald Reagan loyalist who in 1986 became the states first gop governor in 112 years. A i intend to be the kind of new South progressive governor who will give the people of Alabama the kind of leadership they deserve a Hubbert told cheering supporters tuesday  my therapy proves Safe for Large Muscles new York apr an experimental muscular dystrophy therapy has proved Safe and feasible Tor treating Large Muscles a researcher says. Immature muscle cells were injected into the biceps of three patients who have shown no Side effects said or. George Karpati. But it will take months to find out whether the therapy succeeds in improving muscle strength he said. The muscular dystrophy association said it was the first such demonstration in a Large muscle. The experimental procedure is aimed at Duchenne muscular dystrophy a genetic muscle destroying disease that disables in childhood and kills in Young adulthood from destruction of respiratory Muscles. In the treatment immature muscle cells called my blasts Are injected into a patients muscle Ine Hope is that the my blasts will Supply muscle fibres with a Gene to produce Dystrophic a protein the fibres Lack. Loss of this protein leads to the disease