European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 25, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 Chicago apr Mcdonald a corp., taunted in newspaper and television ads by an anti cholesterol crusader announced monday that it will Cook its French Fries in cholesterol free vegetable Oil. Burger King customers got an Oil change last week and Wendy a followed Mcdonald a in announcing a switch to vegetable Oil on monday. A the Best French Fries in the world have just gotten better a said de Rensi president of Mcdonald a . He said the new Oil would produce Fries without any cholesterol and with 45 percent less saturated fat. Mcdonald a based in suburban Oak Brook denied that Public pressure or Competition had anything to do with its decision. But Phil Sokolof an Omaha industrialist who waged an anti fat Campaign against Mcdonald a and other restaurants said his work put pressure on the company. In april Sokolof placed ads headlined a the poisoning of America a in several major . Newspapers. The ads criticized Mcdonald a and other restaurants for cooking foods in beef tallow rather than using a heart healthy  vegetable oils done to contain cholesterol but cer Are getting an Oil change Tain kinds of vegetable oils contain saturated fats which the body converts to cholesterol. Thus eating a cholesterol free food does no to necessarily protect a person from cholesterol. Doctors advise Consumers to seek food cooked in polyunsaturated fat or Mon saturated fat. Mcdonald a officials said the move was based on More than eight years of extensive research and months of customer tests of the new Oil in about 500 restaurants in Seattle and Kansas Gity to. Mcdonald a and Burger King outlets overseas will follow the stateside less cholesterol Lead. At Burger King Headquarters for West Germany m Munich Nick Barkow said All cafes Burger King outlets already Are using vegetable oils for cooking. A there will be Only a Short delay before German Burger Kings make the switch a he said. Walter Thielemann of Mcdonald a Headquarters in Munich said that the German Mcdonald a chains will begin using vegetable oils for cooking next month a change in consumer habits May have been partly responsible for the restaurant chains decisions Industry analysts said. A Survey conducted by the Gallup organization and published in the july Issue of advertising age found that Many people reported cutting Back their fast food consumption because of fat fears. The poll said 31 percent of 1,001 adults surveyed by Telephone were aware of the Issue. Thirty nine percent of the polls respondents said they a somewhat decreased or a greatly decreased Quot their patronage of fast food chains. It Wendy a International also will Switzen to vegetable Oil said Charlie Rath a vice president of the Ohio based Chain. He said the decision was a response to consumer demand two other fast food rivals Arbyl a and Kentucky Fried Chicken already Fry their food in vegetable oils. Mike Jacobson executive director of the Washington  Center for science in the Public interest praised the fast food chains decisions but said there still is work to be done. A i Hope that Jack in the Box and other smaller chains that still Fry in beef fat will move quickly in the healthy direction a Jacobson said. Went nuts s son los Angeles up a Marlon Brando a son said he killed his half Sisters Boyfriend in the actors House during a struggle that began when the Boyfriend a went nuts Quot a police officer testified monday. Christian Brando said the fatal shot was fired accidentally As the two men wrestled Over a handgun kept for family Protection in the actors Hollywood Hills mansion. A a Christian Brando said he Wasny to sure who was trying to shoot who a officer Steve Cunningham said. Cunningham was the first witness called at the preliminary hearing to determine whether Brando 32, will stand trial for murder in the May 16 death of Dag Drollet. Drollet 26, son of an influential political figure in Tahiti was the Bojt Riend of Cheyenne Brando who recently gave birth to his child in Tahiti. Cunningham said he was summoned to the Mulholland drive mansion of Marlon Brando by reports of a shooting. Seeing a dead Man shot in the face in one room he found Christian and Cheyenne Brando sitting on the floor of the living  first thing Christian said to the officer was that he a did no to mean to shoot him a Cunningham said. As they waited for detectives to arrive Christian Brando started talking sitting handcuffed on the Couch the officer said. A the stated that he and his sister had gone out to dinner. And when they got Back to the residence things got crazy and that a when the deceased went nuts and the struggle Over the weapon occurred. A the stated he did no to care for the Guy Drollet a whole lot but he did no to want. A Marlon Brando with another son Milo left listens to testimony at the hearing. Him to be killed but if something would happen to him to that effect it would be of with him Brando Quot Christian Brando said he kept the loaded gun under the Couch for family Protection and the struggle began when Brando told Drollet to a get off the Couch a Cunningham said. A the deceased grabbed his hand and that made the gun go off Quot Cunningham said. Marlon Brando listened from a front Row seat in municipal court judge Lany Fidleris courtroom packed with reporters photographers and the Public. More than a dozen other photographers waited in the hallway. Defense attorneys said Marlon Brando will not testify at his songs preliminary hearing. Police and prosecutors have dismissed defense claims of a struggle Between Drollet and Christian Brando they contend Drollet was shot in the left Cheek As saying while reclining on a Couch with a cigarette lighter in his left hand and a television Remote control in his right. Christian Brando remains in custody without bail. If convicted he could be sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison. In proceedings tuesday Fidler was expected to announce if he would allow prosecutors to offer As evidence a statement made to authorities by Cheyenne Brando before she left for Tahiti last month. Cheyenne had been subpoenaed to testify but prosecutors said Ner doctor will not. For medical reasons allow her to make the trip. Before leaving los Angeles for Tahiti on june 15, Cheyenne stated Christian told her he intended to kill Drollet because the latter had mistreated her police said. Prosecutors citing the witness Protection provisions of the crime fighting proposition 115 passed by voters last month arc trying to use cheyennes statement even though the defense would not have the Opportunity for Cross examination. The prosecutors say Cheyenne Brando is suffering from severe emotional problems As a result of the slaying and cannot be brought to the United states against her will. The defense contends that proposition 115 should not apply retroactively to an alleged crime that occurred May 16, about three weeks before the measure was passed. Also the dead Many a father Jacques Drollet told reporters last week Cheyenne was charged in Tahiti As an accomplice to the slaying. But the District attorneys office said Friday that authorities in Tahiti have not charged Cheyenne in drool Cir a death although she remains under  testimony Given in Barry trial Washington not a a defense witness in the drug trial of mayor Manon s. Barryjr. On monday directly contradicted earlier testimony by a witness for the prosecution who said she sold crack to the mayor in a City office building and at the same time handed him a Job application. Mondays witness Clifton Roberson a mayoral aide told the Federal court jury that the earlier witness Lydia Pearson gave him the Job application and nothing else and that the mayor was not m the City office at the time. A we talked briefly and then she left a Roberson said. Early in the trial Pearson testified she supplied Barry with crack about 30 times in the summer of 1988, sometimes delivering it to him at a City Hall Annex. She said he usually bought three $30 bags of the drug and often let her keep the change from a $ 100 Bill. On sept. 7, 1988, she testified the mayor asked her to make a delivery to the Annex. She decided to submit a Job application with the delivery she added. A i handed him the crack cocaine and i also handed him my Job form Quot Pearson said. She also testified that she had since Given up Selling drugs and was herself a recovering addict. Roberson one of a series of witnesses called in recent Days by defense lawyers seeking to undermine the credibility of prosecution witnesses told the court that he distinctly remembered meeting alone with Pearson because a phone Call held him up for 15 minutes. A she was annoyed about the wait a he said. Eventually Pearson was hired to work in the City a housing department. One of the 10 cocaine Possession charges against Barry resulted from the sept. 7 incident. The mayor also faces three charges of perjury and a charge treat he conspired to obtain and use drugs. The defense also tried monday to discredit Pearson a testimony by entering evidence that she visited a place where crack was used at one Point during the four Days she was on the stand. With the jury out of the courtroom the Lead defense lawyer r. Kenneth Mundy. Told judge Thomas pen Field Jackson that the evidence should be admitted because Pearson had testified that she was no longer using drugs. Mundy then called to the witness stand a City police officer Oatha Batts who told Jackson that Quot a lot of evidence is coming to us As the Case develops Quot and that during Pearson s testimony he had seen her leave a White Van and enter a House that was a a crack and heroin  but under questioning by prosecution lawyers Batts said that the a crack House was actually an apartment building with at least a dozen units and that he was not sure which residents were involved with drugs or which unit Pearson had visited