European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 16, 1991 the stars and stripes Kkt a a \ Page 9 a a a  ii i it Quot a i4 a Over Here Sas Effie Anthon spec. Kevin Bright left says he feels like a bartender lending a Friendly Earth wives awaiting mail. Linda Meads is delighted to gel a letter from her  her Day mail from desert will do it by eff1e Bathen Niernberg Bureau Feucht Germany a when mail clerk Kevin Bright posts mail in the boxes at Feucht army Airfield he cheers on the ones who Haven to received a letter from desert shield yet. A come on. Done to worry you la get one too a the specialist says. And when he pops a letter into an empty Box he lets out a  Airfield was the base for the 2nd army Cav regt a 4th so before the unit deployed the first week of december. Bright saw a lot of sad faces before the letters and packages started trickling in from the desert. In his Mai room last week he said he Felt like a bartender lending a Friendly ear to the wives who aired a a Little bit of  it once the letters with a Sandy grit started coming in though there was a big turnaround he said. Some women jumped up and Down with excitement. A one woman started to scream and squeak like a Little schoolgirl when she received a videotape he said. She had been waiting at the mailboxes when he got there. A a a. Kathleen Dameron said she comes to the Mai room every Day. The Best thing that she a received so far was a 17-minute video from her husband chief warrant officer 3 Patrick Dameron an instructor Pilot. Her 4-year-old son kept answering his dads to voice when he watched it but was sad when it ended. A i did no to get to kiss him a he sobbed. Her brother is also in the desert. Some of the letters come in Bunches while others Are scrambled up she said. She received a Christmas card and then a week later a thanksgiving note came. A lot of the wives have a buddy system and take turns driving in to Check the mail Bright said. He does no to know How the wives do it but a if they feel its going to be a big saudi Day they come in together. Some of them Sas map just have that radar. They know when big bundles Are  desert husbands Short on envelopes have become innovative he said. One sent an Are meals ready to eat packet. Another sent a Christmas card sealed with the army a multipurpose Green tape. The waiting wives though Are flooding the mail with letters and packages going the other Way. A we went through 1,000 customs tags in the first 35 Days a Bright said a they started sending them the Day after the squad left. Hefty ones too. When Mai room personnel Tell them that the free military postal service weight limit is 70 pounds they say something like a ooh Good mines Only 52 pounds a he said. And1 the packages seem to be getting to the soldiers Remote desert outpost faster than the letters. Letters arc arriving in 14 to 20 Days but packages ate Ai living in nine to 10 Days he said. A the people at the 12,7th postal collection Center just hate to see him coming said Bright because of the number of packages he totes with him. At the Center personnel pack a 40-foot, desert shield designated truck to the limit. A it takes two or three people to shut the door a Bright said. Then the mail is driven to a Point where its flown out on the next plane to saudi  Millie Mccoy was among the people mailing a package last week. She makes a 40-minute drive to the Feucht Mai room every Day to Send something to her husband warrant oleic or Raymond Mccoy. She a sent things like headphones water toilet paper crackers and popped Orville Redenbacher a Huck wave Popcorn. The Black Hawk helicopter Pilot must appreciate the Effort because she a received 12 letters from him so far. I be also found a Way to order a dozen Long stemmed red roses. When they were delivered to her Home they were accompanied by a note that said a i love you very  a the misspelling happened somewhere Between the saudi desert and the German Florist but she did no to care she said. A Rena Miller was also sending a package id her husband warrant officer Charles Miller. She had drawn a big red heart and marked xxx Ono across the Brown paper wrapping. She writes her husband daily about the things she a done that Day. Not very important things she said. Sometimes she jus Tell Shim what she did for lunch. Miller knew exactly How Long her cobra helicopter Pilot husband had been gone because she writes Day 1, Day 2 and so Forth on each letter. She was mailing no. .36. = a a a Quot a a Quot a Quot wearing a yellow ribbon pin she said that she did no to know How Many More Quot letters there would be or How much longer her husband would be gone. A a we re All praying it will Only be six months a she said. A it will probably be Well i done to want to  suggests Power line link to cancer Washington apr authors of a government report suggesting possible links Between electric Power lines and cancer told a scientific review panel on monday they Lack definite proof a but we re not Way out in left  the draft environmental Protection Agency report is a composite review of dozens of other studies Over the last decade some of which indicate a higher than Normal occurrence of cancers a leukaemia brain cancer and Lymphoma a in children who live near Power lines or Are the offspring of workers in electrical occupations. S the past findings done to prove that electromagnetic Fields can cause cancer but Merit further study said or. Robert Mcgauhy one of the authors of the draft Epa document. A a we re not Way out in left Field if we say there May be a connection a he said. He and other authors of the draft appeared before a panel of the Epars science advisory Board which will assess the findings and provide recommendations for a final report to be issued later this year. Several panel members questioned whether the past studies May have adequately taken into account exposure of the children involved to cancer sources such As passive tobacco smoke or airborne toxics. None of the panel members however directly challenged the Validity of the findings in their questioning a a several studies have shown correlations Between cancer incidents and mortality in children and residence in Homes near electric Power distribution and transmission lines a the la do it report said. F it said that leukaemia cancer of the nervous system and Lymphoma a have been observed consistently in these studies and that separate Laboratory studies on animals show that it is a biologically plausible for humans to get cancer from exposure to electromagnetic Fields