European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes. Thursday december 27,1990 nyc Over new York apr homicide did t take a Holiday in the nation s largest City As eight people were killed in As Many hours Christmas eve and , the victims included a Mother who died after she allegedly was punched in the face by her son at a Holiday gathering a Man who was fatally shot As he carried Holiday packages to his Home and a toddler whose Mother was charged with homicide police said tuesday Maria Martinez 67, died at a local Hospital after her son Heriberto Alt Rcch 37, allegedly hit her during a family get together in the Bronx monday night police sgt. Tina Mohrmann said. The medical examiner was to determine if the punch caused her death Mohrmann said. The toddler 20-month-old Belinda Jackson died monday night at the Bronx Hospital where she was brought suffering from apparent multiple trauma. The Mother Ruby Jackson was charged with homicide and her other five children were turned Oyer to child welfare authorities. Andre Rodriguez 18, was fatally shot monday night As he fled from two men who began shooting at him while he stood on a Street Corner near his Home in the Bronx Mohrmann said. Another pair of men armed with shotguns confronted Brhane Walde Marian 31, in front of his Queens Home Walde Marian who was carrying Holiday gifts put his packages Down on the sidewalk. The gunmen shot him once in the stomach and fled empty handed. Walder Mariana a parents wife and children were in Side the House. \ Walde Marian was taken to a Hospital where he died tuesday morning. Anthony Mack 18, and Vernon Ricks 24, both of Queens were charged with second degree murder in Walder Mariana a death said sgt Mary Wrensen a police spokeswoman. The body of a Man who had been shot in the head was found slumped Over the steering wheel of a car in Brooklyn monday evening. Elsewhere in Brooklyn a Christmas eve shopper shot and killed one Man and critically injured a second who were trying to Rob a furniture store and its patrons. None or the customers or employees was injured. An unidentified 34-year-old was shot and. Killed Early tuesday after he got involved in a dispute at a Bronx Christmas party. A 28-Ycar-old Man standing nearby was wounded from a shot i the Chesh Mohrmann said. Also on tuesday morning police found the body of a Man apparently in his mid-20s, who had been shot in the Back and buttocks and left on a Brooklyn Street Mohrmann said. The Man was shot during an apparent  Ohio mayor Dies Xenia Ohio apr James t. He my a former City commission president arid Ohio a third Black mayor has died at age 80. No Caus of death was Given at the Hospital where he died. He became the state s third Black mayor a after Robert Henry of Springfield and Carl Stokes of Cleveland a when Xenia City commissioners elected him in 1969.that�?Ts my dad a father and son separated by the persian Gulf crisis can thank technology for a temporary but ecstatic reunion monday. At right 4-Ycar-old Billy Waters yells a they dude a As he sees his father staff sgt. William Waters appear on a television Monitor in Boston. A satellite Hookup enabled Waters of the army a 324th data processing unit to speak with his son from the soldiers Post in saudi Arabia. Chicago apr a finding earlier this year that alcoholism May be caused by a single Gene has come under question by government researchers. The new study did not Rule out the possibility that alcoholism is genetically caused at least in part. But the study said the Gene in question is probably not especially linked to the disease. A you ban look at our data lots of different ways but you Don t find support for the linkage a a said or. David Goldman of the National Institute on alcohol abuse and alcoholism. A study published in april found the Gene a called the dopamine d2 receptor Gene a in 69 percent of severe alcoholics studied but in Only 20 percent of the non alcoholics. Goldman a research team found the Gene present in 38 percent of the alcoholics studied and in 30 percent of people chosen at random casting doubt on the earlier report according to a study in wednesdays journal of the american medical association. A co Leader of the earlier study said monday he stands by its findings. It a we never said this particular Gene form would be widespread i All of alcoholism. Were just talking about a group of very severe alcoholics a or. Kenneth Blum said monday. Blum is chief of the addictive diseases division in the department of pharmacology at the University of Texas health science Center in san Antonio. He said the government study had several inadequacies failure to adequately define severe alcoholism failure to screen out possible alcoholics from the control subjects who were compared with alcoholics and exclusion of alcoholics who had Active medical disorders including cirrhosis which afflicts Many longtime alcoholics. A a a. A a / /  Blum steam studied genes from the brains of 35 Alco holies who had died compared them with genes from 35 non alcoholic cadavers and reported the results in the april 18 journal of the american medical association. He said his team had since confirmed its findings in genes of 50 living alcoholic subjects. Though scientists in general have agreed for years that alcoholism is probably caused by both genetics and environment Blum a published report was the first to identify a particular Gene As a possible culprit. Goldman steam studied genes of 40 living alcoholics and 127 living people from a random population Sam Pic a. A a a a a a a a it is always possible that there is a subgroup of Alco holies out there who have this Gene a Goldman said monday. 1 Quot a a a. But his teams study did not support a widespread or consistent association Between the d2 receptor Gene and alcoholism their report said. The. Body contains an estimated 100,000 genes each of which is reproduced identically in the nucleus of every cell and serves As part of a persons hereditary  declined to guess How Many genes could be important identifiers of alcoholism. A the important thing that people should take Home Fromi his whole thing is not that there a not a genetics of alcoholism a a he said a but that we still have a Long Way to go in exploring it. Dublin Texas up a two Lively babies adopted four months ago in Stark romanian orphanages have made Christmas a new experience for a Texas couple. A i used to say a maybe Well have a baby next Christmas a a said Stacey Disney recalling the loneliness of some past holidays the two new arrivals an in month old son and a 7-month-old daughter have changed ail that. The babies have also received special gifts a note Book with an account of How their parents rescued them and videotapes of their homecomings and the Abc news program that made the Disney aware of the children a plight. A a we re putting everything in there so when they re older  know everything about where they came from a Ben Disney said. When Cameron Garrett Nicolae Disney arrived in. The United states on oct. 8, he weighed 18 pounds. The Blue eyed Blond boy is now a sturdily built 26 pounds. Laura who weighed Only 2w pounds at birth is up to 16 pounds a 4 pounds More than when she arrived in Texas then the dark haired Brown eyed girl  sit up co us Dnn to grasp things and did no to smile. Before the adoption Laura had never been turned onto her stomach in her crib Stacey Disney said. Laura sat in front of the family a Christmas tree chattering grabbing blocks and laughing at a tickling from her Mother. A a Laura a the one in a most proud of As far As Progress a her adopted father said. A a she a changed dramatically in a matter of Days we could see. A difference. I think its been due to diet attention and a steady routine Quot. A ,. A Ben Disney is minister of first United methodist Church of Dublin a town of 2,850 about 75 Miles South West of fort Worth the couple both 33, had been trying to adopt local but changed their minds after they saw an Abc 20-2 report Early this year. It described the grim condition confronting romanian babies Many in orphanage several of the babies suffering from malnutrition do ease and neglect gazed Glassy eyed into the news can eras Many of the babies were born during the reign it romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu who was Over thrown and executed i december 1989, in an Effort t increase his nations population Ceausescu halted Birt control and abortions while ordering women of Chile bearing age to have at least five children. A2<l-7? a i cd Friday said about 1,000 of the estimated 130.000 babies and children in romanian institutions have been adopted by americans