European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 c the stars and stripes thursday August 15, 1991kuwaiti Oil smoke called health Hazard. / by Matthew l. Wald the new York times Cambridge mass. A nearly six months after the iraqis blew up hundreds of kuwaiti Oil Wells about 40 percent of the Wells have been capped but the Short and Long term health effects still look grim. At an International conference in Cambridge on the kuwaiti Oil fires professor Richard Wilson a Harvard University physicist and specialist in risk analysis estimated that 50,000 people in the Kuwait Region a will have their lives shortened in some Way in the next several years because of the smoke. The conference was arranged by Harvard a school of Public health and Center for Middle Eastern studies. Wilson a estimate covering an area from Basra Iraq to Bahrain assumes that there is no Safe threshold dose for pollutants known to be poisonous in High doses such As Fulfur dioxide and Small particles of soot. But another speaker George d. Thurston of the new York University Institute of environmental Medicine said a preliminary analysis of average concentrations of pollutants indicated there could be 1,000 extra deaths in Kuwait if the fires took a year to put out a schedule that he noted was optimistic. He based his data on analysis of severe London fogs of 1952 and 1962. Some of the components of the pollution in London including soot and acid Are present in Kuwait. Others were less willing to attach numbers to their health estimates but Many expressed frustration with gaps in knowledge about what is being emitted and How much most people Are exposed to in a situation with wide variability in air Quality from place to place and time to time. A French team and a japanese team compared air Quality in Kuwait with 24-hour average values in respectively Paris and Tokyo and found that Kuwait was no worse. But the Kuwait average hides tremendous variations Over periods of a few minutes researchers found. Short lived High concentrations of Fulfur dioxide can trigger asthma attacks in people who Are susceptible medical experts say and the Middle East has a higher incidence of asthma than Many other places. However the significance of Short severe doses of other forms of pollution is not so Clear. One question concerns the effects of chemicals called poly aromatic hydrocarbons which Are known to cause cancer Over extended periods and appear in Kuwait at far higher than Normal Levels. A much of the analysis contrasted with the Early verdict of the environmental Protection Agency which said there were no acute  investigating scandal found dead Casolaro Charleston . A an investigative reporter found dead with his wrists slashed had warned others that he was on to an explosive government scandal and might wind up dead in an  the death of free Lance journalist Joseph d. Casolaro 44, of Fairfax va., Ini Dally was believed to be a suicide but an autopsy was ordered after family members were contacted police said tuesday. A the told us if he got killed in an Accident not to believe it. That was three months ago a said Casolaro a brother or. M. Anthony Casolaro of Alexandria a. Casolaro was found dead in his Sheraton inn room in Martinsburg on saturday with both wrists Cut. A suicide note was found in the room police said Casolaro had been working for a year on a Book about allegations made in 1983 that the . Government stole software from i Slaw inc., a Washington company. The company has alleged in court that after it won a $10 million contract with the Justice department the department stole software designed to help Law enforcement officials track cases. The department has denied the charges. The software useful in tracking dissidents May have been traded to foreign intelligence agencies said company owner Bill Hamilton. A House judiciary subcommittee is in faces n1 places Vest gating. Several of Casolaro a sources had warned him that he would be in danger if he continued his investigation Hamilton said. Or. James Frost an assistant state medical examiner said a preliminary report on the death would be completed wednesday. A the wounds Are consistent with being self inflicted but that does no to mean that someone else  have done this if he were not Able to defend himself Quot he said. The body had already been embalmed before the autopsy was held. Frost said that was because Early indications were that Casolaro had killed himself. Acquaintances said that they had seen no indications of depression in the reporter and that Casolaro was in West Virginia to get information from a source. A tips absolutely ludicrous to think that Danny Casolaro would kill himself a said Virginia Mccullough a free Lance journalist based in Sunol calif., who shared i Slaw information with Casolaro. A the was excited. He was enthused. He told me he had information that would Bury the Justice department in the i Slaw Case.�?�. I Slaw filed for bankruptcy reorganization in 1985, saying the Justice department did not pay proper royalties on the software package. . Bankruptcy court awarded i Slaw $7,8 million. But a Federal appeals court overturned the ruling saying the Case does not belong in bankruptcy  suspect claims More than 60 victims Biloxi miss. Apr a Man who admitted kidnapping and slaying a Young homeless girl has told investigators he killed More than 60 people in a 10-year rampage across the county the Sun Herald of Biloxi reported wednesday. Fred Lusk court appointed attorney for suspect Donald Leroy Evans told the paper that the claimed count could go higher. Police and a prosecutor could not immediately be reached to comment on Evans claims. If they prove True he would be responsible for More murders than any known serial killer Evans to Date. Evans 34, of Galveston Texas was. Being held without Bond on a Federal kidnapping charge in the aug. 1 abduction of 10-year-old Beatrice Louise Routh from Gulfport miss. State authorities had not yet charged Evans with Beatrices murder. Because he admitted killing the girl at Covington la., then bringing her Back to Mississippi authorities said jurisdiction had not been determined. After a monday hearing for Evans in . District court in Biloxi assistant . Attorney Jay Golden said Evans admitted sexually assaulting and killing at least six women before 1987 in Florida Illinois and Texas. Evans asked for the death sentence in Exchange for cooperating Golden said adding a the begged me to give him the death  Lusk told the Sun Herald that other states in which Evans claims to have committed murders include Alabama Arizona California Washington Idaho Colorado Wyoming Michigan South Dakota Kentucky Pennsylvania North and South Carolina and maybe Georgia. Only three of the slayings including that of Beatrice have been confirmed Lusk said. But two 1985 killings in Florida a basically match in detail what Evans told  Lusk gave no details about the Florida killings but said they were believed to be the last Evans committed before he was jailed in Texas in 1987 for rape. He said Evans told investigators the killings began about 1977 after he was discharged from the . Marine corps. Lusk said that according to Evans the victims were mostly Womer Vmay of whom were sexually assaulted Evans told him Many of the victims were prostitutes Lusk said. On sunday Evans led police to Beatrices body in Woods 110 Miles Southeast of Jackson police said. The girl had been raped and strangled an autopsy concluded. Gulfport police arrested the girls Mother Tammy Giles Routh on monday. The woman who is homeless was not charged but was jailed on a $10,000 Bond to ensure she would testify against Evans police  denies he s to blame for Giamatti s death from wire reports Pete Rose rejects any suggestion that he was responsible for the death of a. Bartlett Giamatti. Howard Cosell asserts in his new Book Tiar s wrong with sports that the Rose gambling Case induced the heart attack that killed the baseball commissioner in 1989 two weeks after he banished Rose from the game a Giamatti did no to go through half the stress that 1 went through May god rest his soul Quot Rose said at a news conference tuesday in Boca Raton Fla. A i liked him. We both cared about the game loved the game and worried about  the former Cincinnati reds Star owns a Home and plans to open a Steakhouse in Boca Raton. He pleaded guilty a year ago to cheating on his taxes and served five months in  goes on patrol Willem Dafoe spent time on patrol in Santa be county n.m., to learn what its like to live and drive As a Deputy sheriff. The Star of the lust temptation of Christ Rode around with a Deputy in preparation for his role in the suspense film White Sands a a it a not some method actor preciousness a he said recently. A a it a really about listening and observing Matching up certain procedures with the script. It gives you a Little authority to your  fees draw fire the Cost of dying could be going up for some de troit citizens following a demand by a group of Baptist ministers for a minimum fee of $100 for perform ing funerals for Church members. The move has angered area funeral directors. Leon Jackson a funeral director at Swanson Fune ral Home said he was appalled by the demand which he termed a a disgusting and  the letter from the Council of Baptist pastors o Detroit demands an answer to the proposed fee b sept. 23. R v the Rev. Sampson Matthews president of the Pas tors Council said ministers want to be paid for Tneia services Only from the Money funeral directors collect and to assert their rights to be in charge of funeral they conduct. The Baptist Council represents about 400 pastor irom at least four Baptist denominations As Well a from Independent Baptist churches