European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. January 5, 1991 the stars and stripes a a up to 7 a j. Out of the Doghouse Cheyenne a retriever owned by Bob Smith of Rural Mazeppa minn., sits outside his Home after yielding it to a Bird with something to Crow about. Cheyenne befriended the rooster and let it move in rent free. Critic blasts $5 Yule gifts . Governor vows Aid for depositors tax revenues could be tapped Providence r i. A Rhode islands governor promised that depositors will get most of their Money Back from closed credit unions. He said hell dip into the state Treasury and hinted he might raise taxes. Gov Bruce g. Sundlun said thursday depositors would get up to $100,000 each in state funds it the credit unions go broke. A we will see to it that they will be paid a in due course a he said. He warned however that getting a to the Bottom of this my ssh would take years based on similar crises in Maryland and Ohio during the mid-1980s. He said there were no immediate plans to boost taxes to pay depositors Back. Eleven closed credit unions were turned Down for Federal insurance on thursday. The Fate of 10 Banks also insured by the now defunct Rhode Eland share and Deposit indemnity corp., a private insurer was also Uncertain. Just three hours after taking the oath of office on tuesday Sundlun ordered 35 credit unions and 10 Banks to close. The move came after Ridic reporting a severe Cash shortage caused by a Bank failure and a run on a credit Union asked to be placed under state conservatorship. Last month examiners for two Federal insurance funds told him the state might have to provide $475,000 to $1 billion to bail out the ailing institutions Sundlun said. A i think both those figures May be High Quot he said the National credit Union administration the federally backed insurer on thursday announced tentative approval for 22 of the credit unions. They could open monday. Those institutions hold just $381 million of the $1.7 billion Frozen in 300,000 Quot accounts statewide. Among those still uninsured Are the $352 million Marquette credit Union the $276 million Rhode Island Central credit1 Union the $167 million Davisville credit Union and the $121 million East Providence credit Union. The Federal Deposit insurance corp. Is considering applications from 10 Small Banks. Two Small inactive credit unions that never applied for Federal insurance were unlikely to reopen. Jefferson City to. A a state senator thursday criticized the giving of $5 each to nearly 15,000 Missouri prisoners As Christmas presents saying the state can to afford such Holiday Goodwill. A i feel very strongly that at a time when we Are talking about overcrowded prisons Low salaries Tor corrections officers holding off on new buildings and a state budget shortfall this was in poor taste a said sen. Danny Staples. The gifts a totalling $72,595 Tor inmates at 16 locations a came from receipts at prison canteens that sell toiletries cigarettes and other items said Gail Hughes Deputy director of the Missouri department of corrections. State Law requires proceeds from the canteens which had balances totalling $3.6 million in october to be used for recreation education or religious services for prisoners. Inmates receive an average $10 a month for their prison jobs i Lughes said. Staples called the giving of Christmas Money a bad judgment on the part of the corrections department.�?T7 there is no provision Lor any state employee to receive a Holiday Bonus trom the state and none did in 1990, said commissioner of administration Jim Moody. It is a Holiday tradition to give inmates presents but this was the first time Money was Given to All prisoners i Lughes said. Gis in Gulf face drug Experiment waiver granted for inoculations by a in a Kol a i v la he new York la Inu s 1 he defense department plans to add minister experimental drugs which experts say include a botulism vaccine to troops in the persian Gull. I he vaccine which May protect against a deadly bacterial toxin that could be used by Iraq  Only by Laboratory workers who handle the toxin. 1 his experience provides too Little data Tor the Pood and drug administration to  the vaccine effective. Experts say the vaccine seems reason. Ably  definitive data Are lacking. On dec. 21, the department of detente obtained a special waiver needed to require troops to take experimental drugs and vaccines in Case of combat or a threat of  although troops must accept Standard medical treatments until now they have not had to accept experimental ones without signing an to Rcd consent statement. A was far As i know there has never been another situation in this nation where people waived their right to give informed consent a to receiving experimental treat merits said or. Arthur cancan director of the Center Tor biomedical ethics at the University of Minnesota. In a letter to the Fra asking percussion Lor the waiver or Enrique Mendez assistant Secretary Tor defense health affairs said that the department wanted to give troops a a vaccine Long recognized by. The centers for disease control As the primary preventive treatment for a particular disease a but for which there was too Little data to support a License. This vaccine exports say is against botulism toxin. The toxin that causes botulism is produced by bacteria that stay dormant in spores m soil. The spores grow into toxin secret my bacteria in airless conditions like cans of food that receive insufficient heat treatment. The toxin can paralyse even in minute amounts because it adheres to the ends of nerves preventing com Numi eation. Defense. Department officials referred Calls to Susan Hanson a Pentagon spokesman who said that the department a very carefully stayed away from stating which experimental drugs or vaccines it wanted to administer to troops but that a there Are some clues in the letter to the Fra a _ of.  an i a spokesman Jeffrey Nesbit said he could not discuss any requests by the defense department to administer experimental drugs or vaccines to troops. But or. Michael Grodin who is the associate director of the Law Medicine and ethics program at Boston University said he Learned of the Pentagon a plans in a Telephone Call to or. Edward a Martin Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for health affairs. Martin he said did not request that Grodin keep their conversation secret. Reciting from his conversation with Martin Grodin. Explained that the Botu jism vaccine is experimental because too few people have received it to know if it works. But although the vaccine s Efficacy is Uncertain Grodin said a it is fairly sate   _ _ _ Martin told Grodin Quot that the other experimental drugs that the. Troops might receive were  an antidote to nerve Gas and diazepam Quot sold under Brand names like valium which can combat seizures associated with nerve Gas attacks. Both drugs Are approved Martin said but not Tor these uses. Woman Washington a the Senate on thursday elected its first woman sergeant at arms ing Harge of enforcing order in the chamber. A but nobody will expect Martha Impe 45, to he dragging wayward senators to the chamber a rare duty of the Job created by the Constitution in 1789. 7 today a sergeant at arms is the head of a Large bureaucracy serving the sen ate in ways never envisioned by the founding fathers. Among other things Pope will oversee the Senate a Telephone printing and computer operations. And closer to the original intent of the Job she also becomes the Senate Stop Security officer working with a counterpart in the House and the Capitol police Force on measures to prevent terrorism and other violence in the legislature. The Job pays $ 100,401.  George Mitchell a Maine nominated Pope last fall to become sergeant at arms for the 102rid Congress which convened thursday. She succeeds Henry k. Giugni a Burly former policeman. Pope a former Art instructor who came to Washington in the 1970s, became an advocate of environmental legislation. She climbed through the ranks and became Mitchells chief of stall one of the most influential behind the scenes legislative  the Capitol. The sergeant at arms however is traditionally a non partisan non legislative Post. Pope said she plans to break tradition and keep her hand on  i done to want to feel that becoming sergeant at arms. In a still not involved with the Senate s work she said. Quot i want to in a More direct Way continue in to work on specific important issues that  / experts already in place can handle the Day to Day services provided the Senate she  Pope said that though the new Job might seem an Odd fit she viewed it As a natural step from her positions As Mitchells legislative director and then chief of staff. Both of these jobs carried heavy administrative burdens along with her legislative duties. A i done to think it is As big a change As it May appear a she said. Pope laughs at the Prospect that she one Day might be called upon to round up and arrest senators who fail to respond to a Call of the quorum. Giugni once carried sen. Bob Packwood k-ore., to the chamber when the Veteran lawmaker declined to go voluntarily. A a in la try to be persuasive a she said