European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes thursday August 22, 1991 lung cancer ranked nor 1 As smokers cause of death Washington up lung cancer has outstripped heart disease As the leading cause of smoking related death in the United states researchers repo Ted tuesday. A team from the National cancer Institute and american cancer society said the latest data show lung cancer is accounting for a growing share of deaths among cigarette smokers. From 1965 through 1985, deaths from smoking related Quot coronary heart disease Rose about 26 percent compared with a staggering 180 percent increase in lung cancer deaths from smoking researchers noted. In 1989, about 117,000 americans died of lung cancer attributable to smoking compared with 107,000 Robert Strauss left is sworn in As . Ambassador to the soviet Union by Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii on tuesday. Also at the White House ceremony Are Strauss wife Helen and president Bush. Strauss was St. Paul Minn. Up a convicted mail bomb murderer Walter Leroy Moody or. Was sentenced to seven life terms plus 400 years in prison for the 1989 deaths of a Federal judge in Alabama and a lawyer in Georgia. The sentences meted out tuesday Are to run concurrently. Moody 57, of Rex ga., was convicted in Federal court in St. Paul on june 28 of building and mailing the bombs that killed Lith . Circuit court of appeals judge Robert Vance of Birmingham and Savannah City Alderman Robert Robinson a prominent civil rights lawyer in december 1989. Moody was also convicted of 69 other criminal counts in what prosecutors termed an assault on the 1 Ith circuit court of appeals. Moody a former Law student and businessman with a history of mental problems was tried and sentenced in Minnesota because of extensive publicity the Case had received in the South. . District judge Edward Devitt also ordered that if Moody were Ever released from prison he would have to serve five years of supervised probation and not possess any firearms or dangerous weapons. In addition the judge ordered Moody to pay $4,254 to the Vance estate $6,916 to the Robinson estate $60 to the Atlanta Branch of the National association for who died of smoking related heart disease Federal health statistics showed. A Given the declining pattern of coronary heart disease deaths and death rates in our society it would now appear that lung cancer has displaced coronary heart disease As the single most important cause of excess mortality Quot the institutes Donald Shopland and his colleagues wrote in the journal of the National cancer Institute. Cigarette smoking is responsible for More than 86 percent of All lung cancer deaths and 21.5 percent of coronary heart disease deaths the researchers said. About 50 million adult americans or 26.5 percent of the population smoke. To leave wednesday for Moscow where he vowed to speak a with undiplomatic Candor Quot about Freedom democracy and the Rule of Law following the overthrow of soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev. The advancement of coloured people $700 to Willye Dennis of the a act in Jacksonville Fla. And $3,550 to the crime victims fund. In explaining Why he imposed the harshest sentence possible Devitt said Moody a actions had a struck viciously at two hallowed principles of american constitutional government a an Independent Federal judiciary and the right of persons of color to legally assert their enjoyment of equal treatment under the  Devitt said Vance was kilted As part of a Campaign against the Federal Rauert system that Moody began after he failed to get a 1972 bomb Possession conviction overturned. The judge said Robinson was slain because of Moody a Quot deep seated hate for Blacks. A these murders and attempts and threats to kill other judges and court personnel and to bring harm and fright to Black persons and the a act and to instill widespread fear for Public safety and to encourage hatred for the courts and minorities were All part of this defendants vicious criminal scheme a a scheme that caused such pain and personal loss to so Many and occasioned disruption and Challenge to continued constitutional government itself Quot the judge said. Devitt dismissed a 72nd count that had been severed from the 71 others on which Moody was convicted. He also appointed de Tolley who represented Moody at trial to be his attorney should he decide to Appeal. .drinking linked to crash that kills five in family from wire reports Northumberland . A pickup driven by a Man who allegedly was drunk slammed head on into a car tuesday killing a family of five authorities said. The Accident happened at a slight curve on route 50 just North of Saratoga Springs during the afternoon said Saratoga county sheriffs sgt. Edward Rooney. Pronounced dead at the scene were Arthur Rouse 31 his wife Sabrina 27 their son Brett 5 and their daughters Kari Ann 6, and Bobbi Lynn 8. The pickups Driver David Hinkhaus 35, was in fair condition at a Hospital. Hinkhaus was charged with Drunken driving Rooney  suffers setback Pasadena Calif. A Nasa says it failed again to get Galileo a Antenna unstuck and will make another attempt in december to Salvage the spacecrafts $1.3 billion Mission to Jupiter. Engineers had hoped that Cooling the Craft by turning it away from the Sun would allow the umbrella like Antenna to open fully. Nasa believes that up to five of the antennas 18 ribs Are stuck. In May Nasa turned the Craft toward the Sun but the heat did not free the Antenna. Turning the Craft into the Shade did not work in july and another such attempt on aug. 12, when Galileo was farther from the Sun also failed. The next attempt will occur when Galileo is even farther from the Sun nasal a Jet propulsion Laboratory said  sued by teen Utica Mich. A a teen Ager is suing Nintendo and toys a a re us Over a wrist injury she says she got from playing Home video games. Nicole Labruzzy 17, claims she received the debilitating disorder carpal Tunnel syndrome from playing Nintendo games for about seven months in 1988 and 1989. The disorder is common among computer users. The lawsuit claims Labruzzy was unable to write or Type because of the pain which eased after she quit playing the game. The lawsuit filed monday in state court seeks More than $10,000, alleging Nintendo of America inc. Failed to warn of potential Side effects. Calls to Nintendo based in Redmond wash., resulted in taped messages. There was no answer at toys a a re us Headquarters in Paramus n.j.. Gas prices Rise Orlando Fla. A the nationwide average Price of self serve regular unleaded gasoline increased 0.6 cent this week to $1,155 a gallon the american automobile association reported tuesday. Aaan a fuel gauge report showed the average Price of self serve regular unleaded is up 2.3 cents in the last three weeks. Prices were Down in the new England and great lakes regions but were higher in other regions of the  shops prevail Orlando Fla. A five Auto tinting shops have beaten Back a Federal lawsuit that threatened to wipe out the nations booming window tinting business. . District judge g. Kendall Sharp last week rejected Highway traffic regulators accusations that the shops violated Federal safety standards by installing window film that was too dark. If Federal regulators had prevailed it could have ended the $100 million a year Industry nationwide said makers and distributors of window film. Regulators began investigating the tint shops a three in  and Twain Orlando a in the late 1980s. Last year the regulators sued to collect $800,000 in fines and obtain a court ban on installing window tint film. The . Justice department on behalf of the National Highway traffic safety administration accused the shops of installing film that blocked More than 30 percent of outside Light in violation of a Federal regulation. Georgia mail bomb killer gets 7 life terms 400 years in prison