European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 4, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 7vice Admiral splashes on Reform officer asks to retire by Susanne m. Schafer. A military writer Washington a a top Navy Admiral has asked for Early retirement after delivering a scathing attack against one of defense Secretary Dick Cheney a pet projects for Pentagon reforms. Vice adm. Peter m. Hekman the head of the sprawling Navy sea systems ,.informed his staff tuesday that he intends to retire several months Early in May rather than August Pentagon sources said tuesday Quot 77. A a a a. A the realized what a position head put the Secretary of the Navy in and so he opted for retirement a said a knowledgeable Pentagon source. A the did t want to become the  a a Hekman commands the Navy Branch that designs and oversees development of its billion Dollar ships and weapons programs. Last week at the annual Navy league conference in Washington he denounced the defense management review program that had been highly touted by Pinta gon brass. Hekmann a comments make him the first Flag officer to openly criticize the Reform plan. 7 Quot Cheney outlined the Complex reforms in 1989, predict i no h end save taxpayers $30 billion within five years by overhauling the defense department s bureaucracy and tightening controls Over its massive arms Purchas in systems. A7x v. Cheney aided by Deputy defense Secretary Donald Atwood began paring the number of people involved. In a a a a we from the individual services. Hekman according to an account carried by the Industry newsletter aerospace daily recited a laundry list of problems with the reforms. A i fear for the future a the Admiral said. Hekman complained that the management review reforms while Wel intentioned were a advertised As streamlining the reporting chains within the Pentagon. However he said they actually put the managers of weapons programs a under the Nina Gemont of bureaucracy where individuals can a insert personal in weapons purchases by the thousands and gave More authority to Atwood thereby trimming some Powers agendas withhold funds from programs and exact concessions in order to move projects Forward Quot aerospace daily reported. / Hekman argued that a Basic Tenet of management holds that streamlining should remove approvals that a a Bear no relation to Success a but the new process has actually added to the number of approvals required from various commit to is an d aut Hori t ies in t he defense Secretary a office the newsletter reported. The Pentagon source said Mem and a complaint can be translated for those unschooled in the Complex Mili Lary procure sent system this Way a a a he a saying i want a ship and i know what i need but somebody else does the buying for me. I m not the Guy who shops for what i need and the Guy who does the buying will never have to use what he  a he a just warning that these reforms wont be a Panacea a the source added ,. The source insisted that the decision to leave was. Hekmann a and that the Admiral was not fired. A i know of no one that asked for his resignation Quot the source said. A a a a a. If you re left handed you May die 9 years sooner scientists say soothe by a David Redden holds the discovered copy of the declaration of Independence mine new York apr a Pristine copy of the declaration of Independence printed on july 4, 1776, was discovered tucked behind a painting bought for $4 at a Flea Market. The document could fetch More than $1 million an auction House claimed. A Philadelphia financial analyst bought the old torn painting of a country scene two Summers ago in Adamstown a. He bought it because he liked the Wood Frame said David Redden vice president of soothe by a which authenticated the document. When the Man removed the painting the Frame fell apart and he found a folded document Redden said. A when we discussed the value he was completely stunned a Redden said. Rotheby s estimated the copy is Worth $800,000 to $1.2 million. The auction House will offer it Tor Sale june 4. In january 1990, another copy of the Declara Tion of Independence sold for a record $1.59 million. _ the owner w wishes. To remain Anonymous and turned Down an interview request relayed by soothe by a. Redden said the document is one of 24 known surviving copies of the declaration made by a Philadelphia Printer John Dunlap on the Day the Continental Congress adopted the document. The copy is printed in Black Ink on 15 / -by-19y4-Inch rag paper that is slightly yellowed. By new Day Southpaw s face More than their share of woe living in a world that is biased to., the right. Now there is a new worry scientists say they have found that left handers die nine years sooner than right handers. A it is very scary a said Stanley Coren a right handed psychologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. A Coren and psychologist Diane f. Hal pern of California state University in san Bernardino published their studies in the. Current new England journal of Medicine and in the journal psychological Bui Letin in january the scientists examined the randomly selected death records of 987 people in Southern California and sent questionnaires about handedness to the deceased a relatives. J the researchers said that right handers about 94 percent of the group died at an average age of 75, White the left handers died on average at age 66. Coren said the size of the group was statistically valid. He suspects that left handers die sooner because of the Way the world is built to accommodate right handers. A a. The researchers found that left handers were six times More Likely to die from an Accident arid four times More Likely to die while driving a vehicle a left handers do not seem to fare As Wrell in the constructed environment As do right handers because most tools equipment and patterns of activity Are a there was the most important single printed Page in the world in the most spectacularly Beautiful condition a red Den said. A it took one second to know it was right. But what really astonished us  condition a so fresh so  Redden speculated that Dunlap printed 201 copies for distribution to government leaders and the army and throughout the 13 colonies. Sex i for damaging is mount Clemens Mich. A a woman has been ordered to pay her a husband $2,800 for damaging his collection of Frank Sinatra records according to court records Barbara Mossner 41, of Shelby township was so embittered by her divorce that she damaged the 400-record collection and Drew a moustache and glasses on a poster of old Blue Lyes. Shi said however that she took out predicated on right handed operation or predispositions Quot the researchers said. A. In past studies Coren has. Found that about 15 percent of the teen age population is left handed. But by the time they reach 50, Only 5 percent is left handed and by 80, virtually no left handers Are still alive a the decrease in left handers is1 puzzling a Coren said a reduced longevity m a seem to he a so in new hair a d i Ca i a rid macabre  Alan Searleman a professor of psychology at St. Lawrence University in Canton n.y., and an expert on handedness said that the latest finding is a Liard to believe Quot but that the work is still into re s t i Rig a 11 to u go i t n e e  or e a n a a Sis. / a. A  -7 a v v a a we Are talking about a nine year Dif Fere Nee a sear Eirian said. A if this were really True you would not have to wait until 1991 for someone to publish a study on it. It would mean that chronic smokers have longer life spans than left handed  a a a a a a a in 1988, Coren and i Walpern examined the death records of More than 2, he it major league baseball players and found that left handers on average died eight a months before tight handers. 7 Siren said that study was skewed because the group was composed of professional athletes. The California study was of a broader population. Other studies have linked left handedness to birth trauma and autoimmune disorders which could also explain Why. Lefties Are at risk for Early death. To pay $2,800 a a a him a Ings her anger on the discs before her 1983 divorce from Arthur Mossner. A when he told me he was having an affair before the divorce was filed i threw a lot of his records in his Den Quot she said. Quot her attorney Paul Joelson said mrs. Mossner considers the $2,800 payout ordered by a circuit court judge a Victory. Her husband had valued the collection at $80,000, Joelson said. The court valued the records at about $7 each