European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday May 4, 1991paper reports planned Paris junket Washington a . Taxpayers could end up paying More than $1 million to Send a 100-person congressional delegation on a 10-Day trip to Paris in june to watch an International air show according to a published report. The Washington times reports in Friday s editions that the group comprised of members of Congress their spouses,1, aides and others will travel in air Force jets and May stay at a Paris hotel where room rates Start at nearly $300 per night. The military flights alone Are expected to Cost Between $49,959 to $71,351 to Fly one Way on a.c-137, a military version Ofa Boeing 707, the newspaper reported the total travel Cost for the group using three planes is expected to Cost Between $300,000 and $428,106, the paper said citing unnamed sources. The defense and state departments have also ordered officials at the . Embassy in Paris to Reserve 80 rooms at the luxurious Meridian hotel. The Jums Cost Between $298 and $325 per Day which would make the total lodging Bill Between $298,000 and $325,000.panel warily oks plan to clone Lincoln s Dan to test for rare disease White House physician Lawrence Mohr left and or. Victor a. Mckusick of Johns Hopkins University explain their views on a plan to clone Dan from the remains or president Lincoln. A a a a a a a a Quot Cox news service Washington a six score and six years after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated a panel of scientists and historians on thursday wanly endorsed an Effort to clone genetic fragments of the dead presidents remains. Cloning the genetic substance Dan gleaned from bits of Lincoln s hair blood and Skull would help medical investigators determine if honest Abe suffered from an inherited disorder called Marianas syndrome the panel said. Historians have Long debated whether Lincoln had the rare incurable disease whose sufferers grow tall and jangly with Long arms and legs. About 40,000 americans arc now afflicted with Marfano a syndrome. The cloning could Lead to the creation of a Library of the 16th president s genes but not to the creation of a new Lincoln. However critics have cautioned that the Lincoln Experiment could inspire widespread genetic examinations of the remains of other historical figures. The commission of experts was assembled to consider the ethical and Legal ramifications of cloning remains of Lincoln that arc kept in the National museum of health and Medicine these remains include locks of hair and pieces of  around a Bullet wound that were kept from an autopsy and blood stains from the shirt cuff of Lincoln a medical examiner. The panel said the project should proceed but cautiously. A the dammit teen a conclusion is not to. Tended a generic recommendation that it is permit stable to test the remains of dead Public a gurus for genetic and other disorders Quot said or. Victor a. Mckusick chairman of the panel and a professor of medical genetics at Johns Hopkins University. A a. A a a a a a a. -.v. A a Hie commission gave what or. Mckusick called a a qualified Green Light Quot for the project. However it could take up to a year to develop the technology needed for the genetic tests As the technical work continues the developing ethical guidelines on Dan testing should also continue to be studied the panel said. The final decision on the cloning will be made by the Board of governors of the armed forces Institute of pathology which oversees the museum where Lincoln a remains Are stored. The historical significance of the project is marginal the commission conceded whether Lincoln had Marfano a syndrome is Quot an interesting historical curiosity but hardly a a compelling question Quot said panel member Collom Davis director of the Lincoln Legal papers project in Illinois. But the commission concluded that the project would help in the modern study and treatment of genetic disorders. A careful investigation of whether or Lincoln had marfan syndrome May help counter problems of genetic discrimination in our society arid will enhance the self Esteen of persons who Are carriers of the Marfa syndrome and other disabling conditions a said or. Mckusick. If Lincoln had Marfano a syndrome he May have been near death from natural causes when he was shot at the age of 56, by John Wilkes Booth at Fords theater in Washington in 1865. The disorder can cause the main artery to the heart to burst judge acquits father in child restraint seat Case Ramiro de Jesus Rodriguez wipes a tear away during he opening statements of his vehicular homicide trial. Miami apr a judge acquitted a father of vehicular homicide charges Friday in the death of his 3-year-old daughter in a car Accident when she was not in a child restraint scat. Circuit judge Sidney Shapiro said the prosecution failed to present enough evidence and issued his verdict without hearing defense testimony or submitting the Case to the jury. _ Ramiro de Jesus Rodriguez who Learned of the judges decision through a Spanish interpreter looked relieved and called the verdict a a  prosecutors charged that reckless driving and failure to confine his daughter Veronica Silva in the seat warranted the homicide charge. But Shapiro said Quot whether two infractions equate to a crime this court does not believe they  Veronica was ill w Ith a rash and fever when the Accident occurred last August. Rodriguez and the child smother had gone to the store to buy pain Medie Jne and were a couple of blocks from Home Wrhen his car collided with a Van at an intersection. Veronica it a Hows sitting in her mothers Lap hit the car s Windshield and died later at the Hospital from severe head injuries. Rodriguez hugged his supporters and said a i feel nervous and Happy but the pain i have wont go away. It never will. This is a  states increasingly Are legislating stricter Auto safety measures for Young children and Rodriguez Scase is believed to he the first to go to trial for violation of such a Law of Zwyers in the Case said. Rodriguez a attorney Remberto Diaz maintained Veronica a death was. A tragedy and that prosecution of Rodriguez 30, was a miscarriage of Justice. If he had been convicted Rodriguez could have faced up to five. Years in prison. But prosecutor Mark Vargo told the six member jury that Rodriguez failed to abide by traffic  passenger safety Laws during the Short car trip. A if Veronica Silva had been in a child restraint seat in the Back of the car she May have been bruised. But she would be alive today a Vargo said. A instead so was thrown Forward so fast that the Force of the Accident literally split her head open. /. A the tact that the Man who did these things was her  not ,�?� he said. Or. Richard Raffaele an emergency room paediatrician at Miami children a Hospital who treated Veronica testified in graphic detail about the child Scondi a lion. He said her face was virtually ripped off and her Skull exposed but she had no Marks on her body indicating she had been restrained in the car. _. The child probably would have survived had she been properly buckled into a safety seat the. Doctor said. Honda Law requires restraint devices for children under 4 and seat belts for 4 and 5-year-Olds. Rodriguez came to this country in 1988. He brought the child s Mother Carmensilv a few months later and then Veronica on Febi 14, 1990. Veronica was buried in her family a nicaraguan Hometown of chichi Alpa. Her parents  afford plane ticket so attend her funeral