European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 26, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 9 i school seniors using by the Washington Post Washington use of illegal drugs Ornong High school seniors last year dropped to the lowest level since the annual Survey of students began in 1975. Fewer than half reported Ever trying illicit drugs and the number who said they smoked crack cocaine dropped sharply according to the Survey of 17,000 seniors released thursday. / the findings fit a pattern that began to emerge in the late 1980s As Public concern about the hazards of drug use began to take hold. Federal officials who financed the Survey said both Public education programs and tougher Law enforcement measures contributed to the latest decline. In the Spring of 1990, about 48 percent of High school seniors said they had used an illegal drug at least once Down from a High of almost 66 percent in 1982. It was the first time since the annual surveys began in 1975 that a majority of students. Said they had never used an illegal drug. But the 1990 results for the Legal drugs of tobacco and alcohol were not As encouraging. Those remained the drugs most often used by High school seniors. And others were sceptical of the findings. Rep. Charles b. Rangel d-n.y., chairman of the House select committee on narcotics abuse and control said the Survey May create a misleading impression because it did not cover High school dropouts. About 29 percent of All students do not Complete High school. Rangel said health professionals Crimi Nal Justice officials and drug treatment workers a do not report seeing a lessening of the drug crisis in the country.�?�. The Survey showed either decreases or no changes in student use of every category of drugs with the biggest drop reported in crack use. The proportion who reported ingesting crack in the last year fell to. 1.9 percent compared to 3.1 percent in 1989. Crack use within the last month was admitted by 0.7 percent a 50 percent decrease from the 1.4 percent in 1.989�?T those decreases were the largest found since the Survey first inquired about crack in 1986, not Long after use of the concen Tratch form of cocaine became known. Similar declines were reported in the use of any kind of cocaine whose popularity among High school students has been diminishing since 1986. Cocaine use in the last year dropped from 6.5 percent to 5.3 percent while use in the last month fell from 2.8 percent to 1.9 percent., Lloyd Johnston the principal investigator and a social scientist at the University of Michigan described the decreases in both cocaine and crack use As Quot quite  Frederick Goodwin director of the alcohol drug abuse and mental health administration said the figures on cocaine use represented a accelerating trends of decreasing use. Health and human services Secretary Louis Sullivan who announced the Survey results at a news conference said they were a Quot significant Milestone of Success a convincing students that drugs Are not a rite of passage but a Road to  1 in 9 women in . To get breast cancer a photo taken from the video tape of Constable Darrell Lunsford a a murder. Murder captured of video Houston not a with the help of a videotape shot by a camera mounted in the victims patrol car two men have been arrested and charged with the murder of a county Constable. The 47-year-old Constable Darrell Edward Lunsford apparently turned on the camera which is commonly used to strengthen cases against Drunken Drivers just before approaching a car that he had stopped on a lonely stretch of Highway near Garrison Texas said a spokesman for the Texas department of Public safety the incident occurred Early wednesday morning. The tape showed Lunsford being beaten by three men and then being fatally stabbed by one of them. A the departments spokesman David Wells described the images on the tape As a very Sharp very  new York a rising breast cancer rates and longer lifespans mean that one in nine american women will develop the disease the american cancer society says. A every american woman should consider herself at risk a a or. Clark Lyleath the society a vice president for epidemic logy and statistics said in a statement. The society had projected a 1-in-10 risk since 1987, based on data from the Early 1980s. The new estimate released thursday is based on Federal figures for 1987, the latest available said cancer society statistician Catherine Boring. The society also released its annual projections saying about 175,000 american women will get breast cancer this year and 44,500 will die from it. Edward Sondik the National cancer institutes Deputy director of cancer prevention and control said the new Rojee Tion changes the average woman a individual risk from 10 percent to 11 percent. The difference is a not that great a he said but a the Bottom line is that there a no question that its going  Boring said one reason for the increase is a Rise in reported breast cancer rates which has not been Well explained. A partial explanation she said is that More women Are getting mammograms so More cancers Are being caught at Early stages which pushes up the reported rates of the disease. Boring also cited changes in diet which Are being investigated As a possible contributor to breast cancer and increases in women who delay childbearing she said. Breast cancer rates the risk of breast cancer rises with age. 400 8 i 8 3 o 300 200 100 amp 85 to amp Ltd it a # $ Ltd it age categories source american cancer Sims. Susan hams society. Women who have not produced a live birth before age 30 face Ari increased breast cancer risk she said. Increased mammography appears to account Tor a Large percentage of the change. But apart from that reported breast cancer has increased about halt a percent per year Over the last .30 to 40 years and a we really Don t know what that due  Sondik said. By William Bunch new Day new York a new Yorkus water line personnel say they Are ready to Block any bathroom Blitz on. Super bowl sunday when millions of football fans Rush to flush during the television commercial Breaks in the new  Bills showdown. A we cannot find any Concrete evidence of the mythical a super Bow 1 flush a even though we know it exists a said Ian Michaels a spokesman for new York s department of environmental Protection. Done to laugh. Water engineers across the nation have reported rapid changes in water pressure Breaks in water Mains and even drops in Reservoir Levels during the highest rated television programs such As the 1909 Moon Landing and the final episode of �?omast1&Quot in 1983, when America s scatological clocks Are synchronized. A. During super bowl xviii m 1984, one of the greatest mass flutes of All time was recorded in Salt Lake. City. It ruptured a 16-Inch water main and left some Homes a without water. The apparent new York City record was the february 1983, a pm a she finale when an estimated 1 million flushes sent 320 million Gallons barrelling through the City a water tunnels at once. V a a a. A sundays problem is expected to be much More pronounced in football fanatical Burtalo than in new York the Erie county water authority which supplies drinking water to Buffalo and its suburbs noticed wide fluctuations in water pressure a including a 25 percent drop at one Point a on Jan. 12 when viewers were fixated on the Bills 44-34 Victory Over the Miami dolphins. The Sharp drops and rises in water pressure led to what water authority Engineer George Markle called a a water Hammer a the sanitary engineering equivalent of a Lawrence Taylor sack on by Ilalov a aging pipes. Still snickering Well consider this the rapid pressure drops during the Birls dolphins game caused four water main Breaks in Buffalo with each costing thousands of dollars to repair. Erie county engineers got some Relief Jan. 20 because the Bills 51-3 Romp Over the los Angeles raiders allowed fans to take bathroom Breaks at their Leisure. But for super sunday Markle and his up workers Are not taking any chances. The two engineers on duty at the command Post in suburban Cheektowaga n.y., will watch the game on to and use 5 million gallon holding tanks to better control the flow of fans on the go. In new York City a giant water system however where sewage plants treat an astronomical 1.7 billion Gallons a Day and twice that much during a rainstorm officials say even the mightiest of flushes is Likely to be diffused Over its 6,300 Miles of pipes. Michaels a  environmental Protection spokesman said a Check of records irom the 1990 super bowl Yawner Between the san Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos shows a minimal increase of 20 million Gallons in sewage flow a my no evidence of sudden surges. Maybe things would be different if they Ever held  bowl at Shea stadium a in 1 Lushing