European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes monday november 18,1991 its Only a movie ii. V i if 11 to a a a a a a a map a Cut up Boeing 727 is placed Over an old Bridge in Piru calif., on Friday for a Columbia pictures production. The site is being used for the film hero which stars Dustin Hoffman and Geena Davis. Hoffman portrays a Man who drives to the scene of a nighttime air plane crash and helps in the Rescue Effort. Inmate s to death raises fears of health crisis in . Prisons the new York times new York a another new York state prison inmate suffering from a new Strain of drug resistant tuberculosis died at a Hospital in Syracuse on saturday officials announced. They also told of fresh evidence that the new Strain has spread to widely separated Points in the prison system. The deaths brought to 13 the number of state prison inmates along with one guard who have died from a rare Strain of the disease. Health and correction officials have called the outbreak the most alarming medical development in state prisons since aids was discovered a decade ago. Correction officials also received More had news about the disease Friday when Federal health officials confirmed that a single new Strain of drug resistant to was responsible for All the deaths even though eight victims died in new York City and six others died upstate. This Means the new Strain of the disease was apparently spread by inmates Between at least two widely separated Points in the correctional system officials said. The disease May also have been transmitted through the Transfer of infected inmates to other units of the 68-prison  it s the worst Case Senario Quot said James Flateau a spokesman for the slate department of correctional services. Quot it Means that the Strain has moved through the system. It Means it was carried and we believe by inmates Between the two facilities. And it May be at  word that a single Type of bacteria was responsible for All the deaths came from the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta where samples were sent for analysis More than two weeks ago Flateau said. Separate strains for the two clusters of deaths would have suggested no spread Only different infections limited to their respective prisons he said. To combat the outbreak Thomas a. Coughlin Iii commissioner of correctional services announced Friday that the state health department had provided a sweeping plan to identify isolate and treat victims of to in the prison system. Mandatory to tests for All inmates and employees of the prison system will begin this week in an Effort to control the new Strain Flateau said. Quot we re going to Blitz the system a he added. Quot medical experts said the new Strain which was recognized earlier in the year at hospitals in new York City and Miami is treatable. But they said treatments were difficult to devise costly and had a Low rate of Success especially when the victims immune systems were depressed. Correction officials said Friday that the inmates who died All had frail immunological systems because they had tested positive for his the virus that causes aids while the guard who died had a depressed immune system because he was suffering from cancer the ambitious screening program is expected to reach All 60,000 inmates and 28,000 employees in the system by the end of the year. Disturbing jump in cocaine use seen by the Washington Post Washington a Federal health officials will report shortly that the number of cocaine related visits to Hospital emergency rooms has risen for the first time in More than a year sources say. The 15 percent jump in such visits recorded by the government s drug abuse warning network during the first three months of this year May indicate a Resur Genic Ottic nation s hard Core cocaine problems. Quot this is a disturbing trend. Its a real jump Quot said and Csc Harrell senior research analyst at the Urban Institute who specializes in drug abuse trends. White House drug advisers have used the Dawn figures As one of their principal yardsticks in measuring the nations Progress against drug abuse. When declines in cocaine emergencies were first reported last year. Secretary of health and human services Louis w. Sullivan hailed the results As showing Quot significant headway Quot in the War against drug use a theme that has been repeated frequently by president Bush. But the recent increase a especially if it continues a could undermine the president s ability to make that argument during next year s Campaign and give democrats new ammunition that his War on drugs has failed particularly in the inner cities. Rep. Charles b. Rangel d-., chairman of the so Lect committee on narcotics abuse and control sail the new figures belie Quot ridiculous a claims by the administration of Progress. Quot the administration is constantly talking Abou Dawn reports. They re always looking for Good news he said. Quot but the truth of the matter is the done to want to acknowledge that in the inner Neitie it there is still an explosion of cocaine  Ingrid Kolb acting Deputy director for demand reduction in the office of National drug control Povic said the drug office had not seen the new Dawn Fie tires and could not comment. Quot Hie figures had been scheduled to be released by the National Institute on drug abuse within the next to weeks. Hut a spokeswoman for the Institute said Frida that the Agency will not release the study until mid do include updated figures Tor the Sprinot 1991 that have yet to be Analysed. The Dawn system consists of reporting from a sum pie of 53> Hospital emergency rooms in 21 Citie throughout the last half of the lulls cocaine relate Hospital emergencies reported by Dawn Skvor Fekete when hospitals were hooded with the victims of the crack cocaine  who fled Kuwait won t be deported from wire reports Washington a president Bush will allow hundreds of palestinian families who fled Kuwait after iraqis invasion to remain in the United states for four years the White House said saturday. An executive order issued by Bush last week removes the fear of deportation for the palestinians who arrived in the Wake of the aug. 2, 1990, invasion. Many were allowed into the United states on the basis that one family member often a child born while the parents were attending universities in the United states was a . Citizen. Without Bush a special order immigration Law would not allow citizens to have their foreign born parents admitted automatically. Bush issued the order on the basis that the War ravaged Kuwait a a is not ready to take them Back a said White House spokesman Gary Foster. �?T3-ton rocket lifts off White Sands missile Range . After a four Day delay a 3-ton rocket blasted into space saturday carrying experiments that could help boost the commercial space Industry. The 52-foot starfire 1 rocket jetted into a Clear morning sky after a six hour countdown. After its 15-minute flight peaking at 185 Miles above Earth researchers recovered the rockets payload in the missile Range 50 Miles from the launch pad. The rocket spent seven minutes in microgravity an area of Little Gravity on the Edge of space where nine experiments were conducted. An Experiment to see if Strong foam can be made in space appeared to have worked researchers said. The rockets scheduled launch wednesday was delayed when batteries that powered a Furnace for a materials processing Experiment  linked to 4 deaths Cincinnati Ohio a a Man was charged in the deaths of his four children who died when he locked them in a garage while he went on an errand and the building caught fire authorities said. Edward j. Cook 46, of Cincinnati was charged saturday with four counts of involuntary manslaughter and four counts of child endangering. Killed in the Friday night Blaze were Layonda Johnson 8 Christopher Johnson 6 Essie Johnson 4 and Latrina Johnson 3. Cook allegedly locked the children in a garage in a downtown Industrial area where he worked before leaving on an errand police  found in tight spot Brigantine . A 4-year-old girl whose disappearance sparked a massive land sea and air search was found wedged under her parents water bed police said saturday. The parents awoke Friday morning to find their daughter missing from their Home and alerted police around 8 40 . State and local police officers and volunteers combed the area coast guard units checked the Island Community s coastline and a state police helicopter packed with tracking dogs conducted Aerial searches. Two hours later officers keeping the child a distressed Mother company heard muffled cries coming from the parents bedroom. The officers found the girl stuck under the bed Tram said a police sergeant who declined to give his name. Police declined to identify the child or her  forces Jet to land Omaha neb. A a United airlines Jet on a Light from los Angeles to Boston landed solely at Epply Airfield on saturday after reporting a Power loss in one of its two engines airline officials said. The Boeing 767 s left engine shut Down and was restarted several times after leaving los Angeles and the Pilot decided to land in Omaha airline spokesman Andy Vassios said. The air plane carrying 143 passengers landed without incident and taxied to a Gate. Mechanics were trying to determine the cause of the problem airline spokesman Joe Hopkins said