European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 10, 1990 the stars and stripes a Pago 7to . By the associated press word of americans stranded in Iraq and Kuwait is trickling out to worried relatives in the United states. Though news reach my some Homes is Good other families say they have yet to hear from loved ones. Poor Telephone connections and confusion in Baghdad have made Contact difficult if not impossible since Iraq invaded Kuwait on aug 2. The state department estimates there arc 500 americans in Iraq and 3,000 in Kuwait. A a a a Edwin and Irene Davis of Koran la., last heard from their daughter in a 4 . Telephone Call a week ago Quot daddy done to worry. We re under  "1 know what warfare in the cities is like Quot trigger Happy and nervous. I advised them to stay in the House. 1 Hope that s what they did Quot said Davis a retired Baptist minister. Their daughter Martha her kuwaiti bom husband Mahmoud Ai Ghareeb and two children Millie 18, and Michael 14, were visiting Al gear Cebu a parents Kevin York of mount Prospect iii., has not talked to his wife Faye who was in Iraq to visit friends and family since before the invasion. A she called her sister Amy at i ., bawling her eyes out saying that she was at the Airport in Baghdad but  get on the plane because the airline  accept her ticket. Then they closed the Airport a he said. Mrs. York a 31-year-old naturalized american of iraqi descent is two months pregnant with the couples first child York said. Pat Hartman of grand Island neb., received a much awaited Call tuesday from her son Mike Nickman who had been in a desolate area of Northern Iraq helping install irrigation systems for valmont industries of Valley  36, was at the american embassy in Baghdad on tuesday trying to find a Way to leave his Mother said. A the said there a just so much confusion at the embassy that its hard to find two people with the same Story a Hartman said. Kevin Bazner his wife Dawn and daughter Elizabeth 6, shown in a recent photo Are among 28 americans being held in Baghdad. Not pictured but also among the 28 is the banners a s i month Oid son David. Valmont has been trying to Contact its three employees in Iraq. The others Are from Pennsylvania and Yugoslavia. The state department said the 28 americans picked up monday by iraqi troops in Kuwait were in a Baghdad hotel along with 11 others taken there last week. Spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said the americans were not free to leave but that those who had been seen by . Diplomats appeared to be in Good shape. Among them was a Redmond wash., businessman his family said. Fred f. Harrington 59, president of the american pulp and paper co., was among several americans who arrived aug. I in Kuwait on a business trip said his son Vafa fou Roohi who is vice president of the family company. Harrington a last direct Contact with the company office was on aug. 2. He said from his hotel in Kuwait that he heard gunfire and fighting. Also at the hotel is Penelope Nabokov 10, of Albany Calif whose family said she was among 367 passengers taken from a British airways jetliner in Kuwait while the invasion was under Way. She was travelling alone to India where her Mother was doing  of marijuana May Lead to new brain painkillers new York apr scientists say they have isolated and cloned a a a Button that marijuana pushes in the brain to produce its effects. Its an Advance that May Lead to new painkillers and other medications. Marijuana a main Active ingredient attaches itself to the protein Structure on the Unace of brain cells triggering alterations in mood and thinking researchers said. The new work suggests that the brain contains some natural substance that resembles the marijuana ingredient called a Canna Vinoid scientists said. The work was presented in thursdays Issue of the British journal nature by scientists from the National Institute of mental health in Bethesda my. Their paper describes details of the brain cell Structure As it appears in rats. But further study showed the human Structure is virtually identical said study coauthor Tom Bonner. Marijuana is Best known for producing a Calm mildly euphoric state. Time seems to slow Down and users become More sensitive to sights sounds and touch. Ideas May flow rapidly through the mind while Short term memory is suppressed. Marijuana ingredients can also relieve pain and ease or prevent High blood pressure epileptic convulsions nausea asthma and the Eye disease glaucoma scientists say. The new work opens the door to developing derivatives that mimic those therapeutic effects while lacking undesired ones commented or. Solomon Snyder director of the neuroscience department at Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore. The newly cloned Structure is called a receptor. Many drugs and natural substances bind to particular receptors to exert their effects on the body. Previous studies suggest that cannabis nods exert a variety of effects because they bind to a variety of receptor variants called subtypes Snyder  for Moos a Jim Wells of Elmira Ontario has been chasing Down Dairy cattle in seven countries and throughout Canada for the past year promoting his self described a shoes for Moose attachment. The shoes As attached to this 8-month-old Holstein calf at an Empire farm Days exhibition in Seneca Falls n.y., Are designed to promote the Healing of injured , Black agent Settle suit filed Over racial Bias Washington apr the Fri settled a lawsuit filed against it by a Black agent who complained he had been a victim of racial discrimination the Agency said wednesday. A the Fri statement announcing the agreement did not give details including whether any payment was made to Donald Rochon the special agent who sued Over alleged discrimination against him in the Bureau s Chicago office. In january the Fri settled racial discrimination complaints by two other employees Iwanej i Are a Chicago agent and Genie Armstrong a clerk in Omaha neb. Rochonn a lawsuit in . District court in Washington alleged he was the butt of racial jokes and death threats in the Chicago office. Rochon also had worked in Omaha and complained of racial harassment there. That complaint was upheld in administrative proceedings and was not part of the lawsuit. The lawsuit accused Fri supervisors of tolerating racial harassment against Rochon and his family and retaliating against him for complaining. Rochon had been assigned to the Philadelphia office. The Fri statement wednesday said however that part of the settlement provided that he Quot will not return to Active duly with the Fri a it did not say when he sell Active duty. Fri officials were unable to answer questions about the Case wednesday night. The Fri agreed to Settle the Case to a avoid the disruption to the of big a operations and the Drain on its resources which j believe would have resulted from a bitterly contested trial a Fri director William sessions said in the statement. In january Rochonn a attorney David Kairys said his Case was strengthened by sell lenient of the complaints by tee and Armstrong