European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 8,1990 the stars and stripes a Page 5 study finds risk in cutting cholesterol ten chm a _ a firings have. Inner Feu f a a Boston apr doctors have Long Felt justified urging americans to lower their cholesterol. Even though Many of them probably wont Benefit cutting fat out of the diet certainly cannot Hurt anyone. Or can it evidence is mounting that people who lower their cholesterol do indeed reduce their risk of dying from heart disease. But a new report concludes that is completely offset by an increase in other ways of death. For reasons no one can explain when people reduce their cholesterol they seem to become More Likely to die from accidents suicides murders and other violent tragedies. A the questions about Adverse effects of cholesterol reduction Are not at All answered a said or. Matthew f. Muldoon who directed the study. A that causes a lot of problems for the strategy that you give cholesterol reduction to everybody because it does no to do any harm. That can to be said with much  one of the most puzzling aspects of this discovery is that there is no obvious scientific explanation. Muldoon raises three possibilities a cholesterol is an important ingredient of the body a cells. Perhaps lowering the body a Supply changes brain chemistry and behaviour and this somehow makes people More reckless or aggressive. A people find it a chronically frustrating to give up food they like and this makes them More Apt to die tragically. A the cholesterol lowering drugs tested in the studies tasted awful and canola Oil q 6% safflower Oil i it 9 Sunflower Oil 111 Corn Oil Coz 13 Olive Oil l 1 soybean Oil i or Peanut Oil l 113 cottonseed Oil i i 27 lard i cooking oils and fat Content comparing percentage of saturated fat in each Oil Palm Oil a beef tallow a butterfat a Coconut Oil r a 41 351 a 52 366 j 92 Chicago Tribune graphic source . Department of agriculture caused intestinal problems. A there May be a susceptible group of folks where this pushes them Over the Edge a he said. The discovery is so difficult to understand that experts Are cautioning people against suddenly going Back to Wolf my Down slabs of roast beef and gobs of ice Cream. Stick to the Low fat regimen they urge until they sort out what a happening. Health policy rarely changes As a result of a single study. And in this Case Muldoon and a few other sceptics Are up against the inertia of Public belief in the evils of Choles Terol As Well As the interests of a corps of influential heart specialists who want to change americans Way of eating. Hints that lower cholesterol is linked with some forms of cancer and strokes have not cooled anti cholesterol Zeal. Neither have niggling doubts about whether old people women and children need to worry about their cholesterol. The chief vehicle for promoting the mainstream View is the governments 5-year-old National cholesterol education program. Its goal is to persuade people to get their cholesterol checked eat less saturated fat and lower their average cholesterol level by 10 percent. A it is a very prudent Public health policy a said or. James Cloeman the programs coordinator. A this study docs not shake my Confidence in the Wisdom of that  nonetheless the latest research creases doubts for some. A the finding that there is no Clear Benefit in total mortality is of concern a said or. Paul Meier a statistician at the University of Chicago. A a it a cause for being More circumspect in insisting that everybody has got to get his cholesterol  lowering cholesterol reduces the risk of heart attacks. Since heart attacks kill 500,000 americans a year Many assume that lower cholesterol also helps people live longer. But proof is skimpy. Several studies that have delved into the health effects of cholesterol reduction have been too Small or too Short to yield definite conclusions. So Muldoon a University of Pittsburgh researcher decided to Combine results of several studies to see if a statistically meaningful picture emerges. His report published recently in the British medical journal joined the statistics of sue comparison studies conducted on a total of 24,847 healthy men. These people either reduced their cholesterol Levels an average of 10 percent or carried on without change. Muldoon calculates that for every 100,000 people who Cut their cholesterol there Are 28 fewer deaths each year from heart disease. But there Are also 29 More deaths from suicides homicides and accidents. Indian Leader Means allowed to Lead Parade Denver apr organizers of a Columbus Day Parade saturday permitted american Indian movement Leader Russell Means and about 150 supporters to Lead the procession to avoid a threatened demonstration. Means whose backers carried signs denouncing Christopher Columbus As a murderer called the Concession by the City a federation of italian american organizations a a historic  a one of the most Beautiful things. Is that they understand that we have a political Agenda a Means said. A because of their belief in the first amendment we re More than Welcome to Lead the  Means supporters who included non indians marched a Block ahead of the main Parade participants beating a drum and chanting Indian ceremonial songs. At the reviewing stand the group waved to the Parade organizers who waved Back. Afterwards the group passed around a ceremonial pipe at the state Capitol and made plans to rally at the Christopher Columbus statue in civic Center Park on monday. Means initially had been denied permission to March in the Parade because he has called Columbus a genocidal killer on a Par with Adolf Hitler. Last year Means was arrested for pouring fake blood Over the Columbus statue. But less than an hour before the Parade began saturday Bill Marinella chairman of the Parade committee said the Indian activists and their supporters would Lead the Parade. He said organizers gave in because they feared a disruption of the Parade could endanger spectators. Denver a first Columbus Day Parade since 1981 was organized in anticipation of the 500th anniversary of Columbus first voyage to America. The 1992 anniversary is a cause for Celebration of italian american Pride in Columbus who was born in Genoa Italy in 1451 but sailed under the Spanish Flag. The american Indian movement sees the an Niver Saiy As a Chance to educate americans about Columbus involvement in slave trading and the deaths of natives of the lands he discovered. The parades grand marshal was character actor Vito Scotti who is featured locally on cub foods  fuel left dangling from Plant s Crane by the new York times new York a workers using a Crane to open the nuclear reactor vessel at the Indian Point 3 Plant just North of new cd acc dentally lifted two bundles of highly radioactive fuel and do not know How to lower them again without damaging them. Officials of the new York Power authority which owns the Plant in Buchanan n.y., said they did not know How the Tuel bundles which were lifted four feet above the Core became snagged thursday on the parts that were being removed. The fuel bundles or assemblies Are too radioactive to permit direct human Contact. He assemblies each consists of 204 a add Metal rods about 14 feet Long and Nolde a hundreds of Ceramic uranium pellets each about the size of a Pencil Eraser. The assemblies were dangling from theotto of a heavy Metal plate which itself is hanging by a Cable from the overhead Crane. Has agreed with the fed Al nuclear regulatory commission to halt work until the authority and the gov rement agree on a solution. But the a no declared an emergency. Arc spokesman Karl Abraham said saturday that there did not appear to be any potential for the release of radiation outside the Plant. A release inside the containment dome could be managed fairly easily he said. A the key is that they done to want to drop them a a Power authority spokesman said. If a 1,500-Pound Assembly fell far enough it could break open releasing radioactivity. The new York Post and the Gannett Westchester Rockland newspapers reported the incident saturday. The Crane was being used to move the Metal plates and other mechanisms above the Core to one Side so the assemblies could be picked up one by one for refuelling. The Core holds 192 assemblies and one third of them in the Center of the Core Are removed at each refuelling. The other two thirds Are moved toward the Center and new assemblies Are set in place on the outside of the Core. They Are placed precisely to assure an even controllable nuclear reaction. Workers could not lower the plate because the Crane had finished lifting the plate and had moved it horizontally before workers discovered through closed circuit to and direct observation that they had life the assemblies. If the assemblies fall Back into the Core the Power authority spokesman said the worst that could happen is that the dropped bundles or the bundles that they landed on would break open releasing radioactive Gas produced inside the rods during nuclear operation and dumping thousands of Ceramic uranium pellets inside the  of time the gases he said a would set off All the alarms All the people would Rush out if there were any in the containment at the  when the alarms went off he said a the ventilation system would isolate the containment and everything would get buttoned  the air inside the containment dome could then be filtered to remove the radioactive material he  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. 8,1950 a the new York Yankees won the world series for the 13th time.30 years ago today. Oct. 8,1960 a one person was killed 25 were injured and two were missing in a ship collision that set nine vessels afire on the Rhine River near Emmerich germany.20 years ago today. Oct. 8,1970 a president Nixon called for a ban on the disposal of Poison gases and other kinds of toxic materials and for strict controls on dumping trash and wastes at sea.7 0 years ago today. Oct. 8,1980 a Iraq intensified its bombing attack on the iranian Oil Center of Abadan and Iran responded with a similar attack on Kirkuk an iraqi Oil Center. The United states said ships from Eastern Europe India and Lebanon were being diverted to Jordan to help Iraq