European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 02, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday july 2, 1991lowans under 18 to get burned for up a Iowa City Iowa a on mild summer nights 15-year-old Sara Meeker and her friends like to sit around shooting the Breeze and smoking cigarettes. This week the conversation might not be As lighthearted As before because  be breaking the Law if they Light up. Under a Law that took effect monday anyone younger than 18 caught smoking chewing or possessing tobacco is subject to fines of up to $100 or a spell of Community service. A i think its a Bunch of garbage a Meeker said. A a in be been smoking since i was in fifth Grade when 1 was 11 years old. This new Law ainu to going to change a thing. I smoke i m addicted and that Isnit going to change.�?�. Brian Hampton 15, said he is upset by the Law. �?o1 want to get a protest going in the Middle of the downtown mall where we All can. Sit and Chain smoke but everybody a afraid of getting caught and paying 100 Bucks a Hampton said. A i know one thing we wont Stop smoking. We just wont do it in front of  Iowa a anti smoking Law is believed to be the toughest of any state said Carol Sipfle director of programs for the american lung association in Des Moines. Quot part of this Law also has to do with making it harder for kids to buy cigarettes in the first place Quot Sipfle said. �?o1 think it will make a difference probably not a big difference but we see this As Progress that needs to be made in Small Steps a but the state Isnit alone in its antismoking efforts. As of monday measures took effect in Virginia a Vermont and Wyoming that raised the regal age for buying cigarettes to 18, said the tobacco Institute a Trade association in Washington. In Iowa police Are wary of the new Law. A we Are so Busy out on the Street running Down Domestic Calls robberies rapes and accidents and everything else i really done to know How they re going to enforce this Quot said sgt. Gail Dunn Des Moines police spokesman. While on patrol Dunn said he Trade 25 trips a night on average. A and if you told me a Well in Between trips Here would you mind stopping this kid for smoking a id say a right yeah. Get a life a said the 23-year Veteran. Cedar rapids police chief William Byrne said that while a Overall intent of the Law is Good a the Law will be difficult to enforce. �?o1 personally done to plan on sending out roving smoking patrols a he said. A there Are monumental problems fac ing Law enforcement officers and this is by far the least Quot said Clinton police chief Gene Cinke. Democratic state rep. Johnie Hammond the Laws chief sponsor acknowledged that police departments have higher priorities than arresting teens using tobacco. But she a confident the measure will have an Impact. Nearly 60 percent of Young people in Iowa use tobacco before they turn 16, according to the state department of education. A if you put obstacles in the Way you can prevent them from developing a very Nasty habit that Many Many adults wish they never have a Hammond said. A this Cameron Burton 15, fires up a cigarette last week while it was still Legal m Iowa. Is voluntary compliance along with a Little stick. A if you done to there is that threat that you might get caught and you might be the one they make air example out of. That can be just enough fear for a kid to say a Well its just not Worth  a. Heather Willcox 17, of Riverside said she regrets falling into a pack a Day habit two years ago. But she and her friends can to shake the feeling that the Law is being shoved Down their throats. A i mean its not like you re drinking and driving and can kill somebody a she said. A i done to see any Point to  gov. Terry Branstad an ardent nonsmoker wanted even tougher standards. He had asked that the Legal age for buying cigarettes be raised to 21, but legislators rejected that. Also approved were stringent cigarette vending machine restrictions. Starting july 1, 1994, Iowa will have restrictions to ensure that an adult is supervising the machine so youths under 18 can to buy cigarettes. At other times most vending machines will have to be equipped with a lockout  could Rock Earth scientists warn san Juan Capistrano Calif. A Earth is a sitting Duck in a cosmic shooting gallery of asteroids scientists say and they Are plotting ways to prevent a doomsday Rock from wiping out much of humanity. A we want the Public to know there arc these flying rocks out there that May be a menace to Earth a said planetary scientist Eleanor Helin of nasal a Jet propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. The chances however of a big asteroid striking Earth during any one human lifetime Are extremely Small. A the risk that it will say on your Tombstone a killed As the result of an asteroid Impact a is somewhat greater than chances you la be killed in an air plane crash a and much greater the Fly being killed by fireworks tornadoes volcanic eruptions nuclear accidents or terrorism a said David Morrison space science chief at nasal Sames research Center in Mountain View. Helin and Morrison were among More than 160 astronomers engineers and planetary scientists who gathered sunday at san Juan Capistrano for the International conference on near Earth asteroids at the request of Congress a Nasa committee soon will recommend How to improve the search for dangerous asteroids. Another committee will advise How Best to divert threatening asteroids. To accomplish such tasks scientists want More Money to build telescopes to search for a near Earth asteroids a big rocks that Are leftovers from the solar systems formation. Scientists also said its feasible to prevent collisions through such actions As exploding nuclear bombs to nudge the rocks out of Earth a path. Although the chances of a collision Are Small the potential for damage is immense. If the Earth were hit by an asteroid wider than one half to one mile the collision would have the Power at least 77,000 atomic bombs of the size that destroyed Hiroshima Morrison said. V a if you be seen pictures of what its been like in the Philippines with mount Pinatubo erupting just imagine that happening allover Earth a he said. Asteroids wider than one mile strike the planet once every 300,000 to 1 million years Morrison said. An asteroid with a Width of about one fifth to one half mile crossed Earth a orbit at a distance of 400,000 Miles on March 23, 1989, missing a collision by six hours the american Institute of aeronautics and astronautics said in a 1990 report. Evidence suggests that a 6-mile-wide asteroid smashed into Earth 65 million years ago killing two thirds of All species including the dinosaurs. Smaller asteroids pose a More frequent threat. A 10-foot-wide Rock would kill thousands if it hit Midtown Manhattan Helin said. An asteroid one tenth of a mile wide blew up Over Siberia in 1908, leveling hundreds of Square Miles of unpopulated Forest with a blast equal to 1,000 Hiroshima bombs. Scientists have discovered about 185 near Earth asteroids most one half to one mile wide and 20 percent even larger Helin said.-,yet undiscovered Are 1,500 to 2,000 others that Are wider than one half mile and perhaps 20,000 to 50,000 smaller asteroids she  York wins grammy fight new York uple for the second Lime in a Row new York City was selected As the Host City for the grammy awards it was announced sunday the City was selected Over los Angeles which previously had been favored by the award committee. Just after last years ceremony mayor David Dinkins began a furious fight to get the Academy to hold the awards show in new York in 1992, saying that a the Premier awards for music belong in americans Premier music  new York was the Host City in 1988. But before that the annual ceremony had been held in los Angeles for seven years in a Row. Concern for Japan leads . To ban foreigners from Pearl Harbor event Washington a to avoid of fending Japan the United states is not inviting any foreign governments to ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The decision reached after months of deliberations was also meant to defuse anger from veterans and survivors groups opposed to official japanese participation in the events. The dec. 7 anniversary is a delicate Issue for the Bush administration worried about stirring bitter memories and fueling a Japan bashing sentiment generally directed at the asian country for allegedly unfair Trade practices. The state departments solution to the dilemma no foreign dignitaries will be invited to the three Day commemoration. About 2,300 american service members and civilians were killed when japanese planes bombed the Pearl Harbor naval base and other targets in Hawaii drawing the United states into world War ii on dec. 8. Officials said the state department also has been examining a Host of other world War 11 commemorations inching up on the Calendar. The administration has decided for example that foreign governments will be invited to attend the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal next year said an official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Pacific Island was the site of a Marine Landing aug. 7,1942, that began six months of fighting to expel japanese troops. The question of japanese attendance at the three Day Pearl Harbor commemoration was a harder Call for organizers. A for most americans Pearl Harbor represents a historic turning Point in our relations with the world when we shed our traditional isolation and accepted the burdens of global leadership a the state department said. A Pearl Harbor is also a symbolic reminder of the need for defense preparedness. In our commemoration of the anniversary we will Honor the memory of the servicemen who lost their lives and reflect upon this historic turning  president Bush who As a Navy Pilot was shot Down by the japanese Over the Pacific in 1944, is scheduled to visit Hawaii for the events