European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 16, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 3640 special athletes visit Alconbury by Meridith Winder  Bureau Raf Alconbury England with cheers and applause from spectators and participants Dennis Hilson raced around the track saturday carrying the Torch to Light the flame to kick off the 1991 special olympics at Raf Alconbury. Hilson represented More than 640 athletes from the Cambridge area who participated in the third olympics for the disabled held at the air base. The event was designed primarily for the British teams from this Region but it Drew the unexpected entry of a team from Heidelberg Germany. A they were visiting a local school and decided to come on out a said Margie Mazor games director and protect officer for this years olympics. A they have about 15 people  Mazor acknowledged that she was worried about How the Day was going to turn out especially since it is her first year being in charge. A a in be been walking around since eight this morning nearly pulling my hair out a she said. A but every things a worked out Fine and everybody a enjoying  Mazor has been a part of the program since it started but Only became the top person after Maggie Mast left. A Maggie was the one who came up with the idea to try and set up a program on Alconbury a Mazor said. Mast enlisted the help of several of the base personnel to organize the first olympics committee on the base. It. Col. Mai Heindel Alconbury a Deputy base commander said of Mast a Osne built the program from scratch. She contacted the . Special olym pics committee on her own and after she got the go ahead she came to the base for  _ this years budget is nearly $15,000, Heindel said. The Money was raised from donations from private off base companies and fund raising activities by units on the base. Almost every sector of the base is involved in the festivities. Events were held at the bases track football and soccer Fields and the gymnasium. Athletes from All age groups participated in such events As running walking High jump Long jump standing Broad jump baseball toss and shot put. Bowling and soccer clinics were also held and the youth Center was the site of a disco and face painting. Mazor said a we get new athletes Here and act As a training and recruiting Camp. This is the initial step to higher Levels of  Mazor said it takes a lot of work to put this program together. For instance officials have to match up 640 athletes to events without the Aid of a computer. A we also have to find buddies for each one of the participants a she said. The buddies stay with the athletes throughout the Day directing them to the events and helping in anyway necessary. A the first couple of years we had to search for buddies on the Day of the olympics a Mazor added. A but this year we actually have More than we can  the Effort has a Reward she said. A to see the end result is beyond words a she said. A just look at the expressions on their faces. Its a great  loses Hope Senate will of pact Manila Philippines apr president Corazon Aquino said sunday she has Given up Hope that the Senate will approve a new lease for a . Naval base and added that she will seek a Public vote on allowing the americans to stay. Twelve of the 23 philippine senators say they will reject a 10-year Extension for Subic Bay naval facilities when they vote today the Date the current lease expires. Approval requires a two thirds majority. In Exchange the agreement Calls for the americans to provide $203 million a year in Aid and give up Volcano damaged Clark a next year. A we All know that there is no More Hope that the treaty will be ratified a Aquino said in a weekly radio broadcast. She said she planned to Aquino launch a nationwide Sig nature Campaign to Call a referendum which would be held Between mid december and March. Well placed sources said the americans would delay their departure until the referendums results Are known. Earlier . Officials said they would withdraw As soon As possible if the Senate rejected the base agreement. In Washington the White House had no immediate reaction to Aquino Scall for a referendum on the base treaty. A a we re sticking with what Secretary Dick Cheney said a Sean Walsh a White House spokesman said sunday. Cheney has said that if the Senate turns Down the base treaty a a we re  philippine senators opposed to the bases pact said the move will further Divide the nation and the presidents brother in Law sen. Agapito Aquino threatened a court Challenge. The administration is expected to announce details of the plan after the Senate vote. Aquino said two options were under discussion calling a referendum to Amend the Constitution or to nullify the Senate action. Critics have said the procedure would be expensive at a time when the government faces an economic crisis after devastation brought by the june eruptions of mount Pinatubo 10 Miles West of Clark. The move also threatens to undermine the very democratic institutions that Aquino restored after the 1986 a people Power revolution that toppled the late president Ferdinand Marcos. Aquino consistently deferred action on numerous social and economic reforms including agrarian Reform and self determination for minorities saying she would leave such decisions to Congress. Her remarks however indicate she is prepared to make an exception in order to keep foreign troops of the country a former colonial ruler on philippine soil. Supporters of the agreement warn that the country cannot afford to Send the . Military away at a time when inflation is running at roughly 20 percent and unemployment is at a Post world War ii High. Thousands of filipinos in Olon Gapo near Subic and Angeles near Clark rely on the americans for their livelihood. Those areas were severely damaged by mount Pinatubo. Government officials also warned that rejection would undermine chances for debt Relief and other economic concessions from the United states the country a largest trading partner. The philippine military also pushed for approval of the base agreement because it relics heavily on the United states for equipment. Angry israeli ministers lash out against Bush Jerusalem apr prime minister Yitzhak Shamir had to intervene to tone Down angry outbursts from his ministers against president Bush at sundays weekly Cabinet meeting Israel radio said. Some ministers urged Shamir to stand firm against the administration and a hit Back fiercely against Bush a insistence on delaying loan guarantees to Israel for the absorption of the soviet immigrant influx the radio said. Bush was called a liar and accused of anti semitism it said. But Shamir along with foreign min ister David Levy and defense minister Moshe Arens counselled against such Strong language and Arens rejected the charge of anti semitism. The angry words reflected the deep and perhaps unprecedented rift that has opened Between Washington and Jerusalem since Bush last week threatened to veto Early congressional approval of the $10 billion Israel is requesting As loan guarantees. But it also demonstrated a desire among senior ministers to Cool the rhetoric and wait for Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii who is scheduled to arrive in Jerusalem today. Israeli Media said Baker appears More flexible than Bush on the subject of the loan guarantees and May seek a Compromise. Shamire Stop political adviser Yossi Ben Aharon said a if there is such an offer we will discuss it and the government will  israeli opinion is particularly incensed at Bush for portraying himself As a lonely individual fighting a powerful pro israeli lobby and for his version of the link be tween the persian Gulf War and Israel which runs counter what most israelis believe. Officials appeared particularly angered by Bush a remark that a american men and women in uniform risked their lives to defend israelis in the face of iraqi Send missiles a during the Gulf War. Israelis feel it was they who were helping the . War Effort by not retaliating for the 39 scuds fired at their cities. Israelis entry into the War might have caused a rift in the anti Iraq Alliance which consisted of Arab and Western nations. Surgeon stresses value of baby Organ donations. _. I. I i a i a i i an  for rom poll nip m Rirl for Enki Pittsburgh apr babies Are some of the Best candidates for heart transplants because their immature immune systems accept organs More easily but there Arentt enough tiny hearts coming from donors a surgeon says. Or. Leonard Bailey said physicians May be timid about suggesting Organ removal to grieving parents of brain dead infants whose hearts and other organs could be saved. But if asked Many parents would be willing to approve donation of their child a organs he said. A a there a a significant Reward in knowing that one or two other babies May be doing Well because of their baby a Bailey said. A a doctor is remiss if he does no to offer parents that  Bailey director of heart lung surgery at Loma Linda University medical Center near los Angeles performed the worlds first successful heart transplant on an infant in 1985. Transplants can save babies from several life threatening heart defects. Most common is Hyp plastic left heart syndrome a group of defects responsible for one fourth of All deaths in the first week of life. Babies with the syndrome rarely live beyond the first few weeks. Since the 1985 transplant 116 children less than a month old have received heart transplants worldwide including 47 last year said the International society for heart and lung transplantation a registry in san Diego. But some paediatricians Arentt willing to present the procedure As an option said or. F. Jay Fricker a professor of paediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh a medical school. He said data on survival rates in infant transplants Are limited and physicians May see More Good in giving an adult a few More years of life than in saving a Newborn who could die in a few years. With a transplant a a 45-year-old Man. Can live to be 50 and see his kids graduate from College a Fricker said. Last week 47 children less than a year old were among the 2,128 people awaiting heart transplants in the United states according to the United network for Organ sharing in Richmond a. Babies Are More vulnerable to infections. But doctors said infant bodies accept organs More easily because their immune systems were suppressed in the womb. Bailey said that characteristic continues for about one month after birth. A a that a so they done to reject mom and vice versa. Transplants Cost about $150,000 the first year of care costs an additional $25,000