European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 6, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7cia locked on soviet dangers Gates says from wire reports Washington a the United states is watching the a former soviet Union a like never before because of the threat to peace resulting from an Uncertain mix of ethnic feuding and 30,000 nuclear warheads the new Cia chief says. In his first speech to Cia employees since taking office nov. 12, Robert Gates also said wednesday that the intelligence Community is embarking on its most sweeping changes in More than 40 years. Gates said the intelligence Community was producing 10 reports within three weeks to help the administration understand soviet disintegration. Such estimates Are generally produced several times a year. A there is no precedent in history for an Empire As vast As that of Russia or the soviet Union imploding so suddenly a Gates told Cia workers. Having spent $2 trillion to defeat communism the United states now faces a different menace a one with a potentially Large scale civil disorder and breakdown of social discipline a Gates said. A we must mind the lessons of history when empires collapse and forewarn of the dangers a As Well As the  he added a we have undertaken an unprecedented Effort to gather information from throughout the lands of the former soviet Union in order to assess the political economic social and military  Gates also said he intended to shrink americans espionage agencies by billions of dollars and thousands of employees. He said he would reorganize them for a world in which the soviet Union is no longer the primary threat to world order. He warned that unless espionage agencies abandoned their lingering cold War Bent and Quot focused More on threats such As nuclear proliferation and drug smuggling the changes would be quickly forced on them by Congress. He said top officials of espionage agencies Are still too obsessed by habit and by organization with the actions of a soviet military that is no longer thought to possess a major threat. Although his proposals could eventually be far reaching Gates appeared not to envision scrapping the . Spying bureaucracy As some critics have called for but reordering its functions and eliminating overlapping responsibilities. Some organizational changes would probably have been required in any Case because of impending cuts in the Pentagon budget in which espionage spending is included. Gates said the Cia would Cut its staff believed to number about 2xxxby 15 percent in the next several years mostly by not replacing employees who retire or leave for other jobs. Similar staff reductions Are expected at other intelligence agencies including the National Security Agency which monitors diplomatic and International communications. Spending in the entire $30 billion a year intelligence bureaucracy of a half dozen agencies is expected to decline at roughly the same rate As the Pentagon budget which is being Cut by 20 percent from fiscal 1090 to fiscal 1005. It was unclear if Gates planned budget reductions beyond those already  found to Cut risk of Colon cancer Boston apr people who regularly take aspirin Cut their risk of Colon cancer by nearly half concludes a major study on the nations second leading cancer killer. The finding could make the common Medicine an important weapon against both cancer Ana heart disease the two most common fatal diseases. The latest study found that men and women who took aspirin at least 16 times a month had a 40 percent lower risk of dying from Colon cancer than did nonusers. The research was conducted on 662,424 people by the american cancer society. The findings part of a study that began 10 years ago were published in thursdays new England journal of Medicine. A smaller study released recently by Boston University researchers came to a similar conclusion. Many people Are already taking aspirin to prevent heart disease. Studies Nave shown that an aspirin every other Day cuts the heart attack risk nearly by half too. A if people Are on the advice of their physicians already taking an aspirin every other Day for heart disease it is also possible that they May be reducing their risk of Colon cancer a said or. Michael j. Thun who directed the study. However he and others said they believe considerably More research is needed before the evidence is Strong enough to advise people to take aspirin solely to prevent cancer. A it is certainly plausible a said or. Peter Greenwald of the National cancer Institute. A this is a Well done  Colon cancer kills about 50,000 americans annually making it second Only to lung cancer. Aspirin stops heart attacks by preventing blood clots from forming. But the Way it might prevent Colon cancer is unclear. Some theories hold that a aspirin reduces the body a production of substances called Prosta Glandino which make cells grow. Prosta Glandino might also be involved in tumor growth. A aspirin might somehow improve the body a natural immune defences against cold of cancer. A aspirin could make Colon cancer bleed so people seek treatment earlier when the Chance of a cure is better. The study was based on people who filled out questionnaires in 1082. Researchers compared the risk of dying of Colon cancer of those who regularly took aspirin and those who did not. The researchers said that a variety of other factors that could influence cancer such As diet obesity and family history of the disease did not account for the lower risk among aspirin users. In the study published earlier this year doctors from the Sloan epidemiology unit at Boston University medical school examined the effects of non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs largely aspirin. They compared the medicines use in 1,326 people with Colon cancer victims and 4,801 healthy people. The work showed that regular users had a 50 percent lower risk of this cancer. Another study conducted in Australia reached a similar conclusion. However one done at a California retirement Community found just the opposite aspirin users had a slightly increased risk of Colon cancer. Studies in rats and mice support the Case for aspirin. They show that aspirin and similar drugs reduce the appearance of Colon cancer when animals Are Given cancer causing chemicals. In an accompanying editorial in the journal drs. John a. Baron and e. Robert Greenberg of Dartmouth medical school said that if aspirin s cancer preventing Powers prove to be True this will be an important therapy since the Only other possible ways to prevent Colon can cer involve changing living habits. A a Pill even one that requires regular administration would probably be More acceptable to the Public than an overhaul of lifestyle or diet a they wrote. However or. Lynn Rosenberg who directed the Boston University study cautioned that aspirin increases the risk of unwanted bleeding and is not completely harmless. Aspirin a role in cancer prevention a certainly is not proven a she said. A if it does get accepted As the truth it will be a matter of weighing the risk and  or. Charles Hennekens of Brigham and women a Hospital in Boston said a study just getting under win should an aspirin study results published in thursday s new England journal of Medicine say that people who take aspirin regularly Cut their risk of Colon cancer nearly in halt. A the effects of aspirin eases pain. Reduces fever. Relieves inflammation. Stops heart attacks by preventing blood clots. Side effects of aspirin. Irritation of the stomach lining. Ringing in the ears. Reye s syndrome. Increase in the risk of unwanted bleeding. Answer the question in five to 10 years. The project will involve More than 40, my women. A we think that will provide reliable data on which clinical decisions and Public policy can be made Quot he said. Congressman s protest brings Down nude work los Angeles a a sculpture of a nude woman and baby girl was hauled Down from outside a new Federal office building after complaints from the congressman for whom the building is named. A it would attract the homeless that come in perverts Graffiti artists everything a said rep. Edward r. Roybal a Calif. The sculpture by Tom Otterness shows a woman squatting and a baby girl lying on her Back legs open holding a Globe. Both figures show genitals. Another prominent complaint came from . District judge Dickran tev Rizian who called the sculpture a a shrine to  the figures were the Centrepiece of a $266,000 work called the new world depicting a Battle of the sexes that creates new life. They were taken Down monday by the general services administration which is overseen by a subcommittee of which Roybal is chairman. Roybal 75, said he decided to com Elain after seeing two boys touch the abyss genitals. Otterness was in Germany on wednesday and could not be reached. The general services administration was at the Center of another Art controversy in 1984 when a Gas regional administrator in new York ordered artist Richard Serra stilted arc removed because the huge steel Wall obstructed a Federal Plaza. Partly in response to that controversy Congress passed an artists rights Bill in 1990. It requires that artists be notified in some situations if their works Are to be altered. Arson expert charged with torching 3 stores los Angeles a a chief arson investigator who authorities said was promoting a novel he wrote about a firefighter who torches buildings was charged with setting fire to three stores. Capt. John l. Orr of the Glendale fire department was charged wednesday with three counts of arson said Carole Levitzky a spokeswoman for the . Attorneys office. Conviction carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison. . District court magistrate Elgin Edwards ordered Orr held without bail and set arraignment for dec. 23. Orr 42, is accused of setting fires in the Peoples department store in suburban Highland Park on dec. 10, 1090 the builders Emporium in North Hollywood four Days later and at Damp a yardage in Lawndale last March 27. Employees saw Orr at each of the stores about the time the fires occurred prosecutors said. He was arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms on wednesday at his Eagle Rock Home Levitzky said. Assistant . Attorney Stefan d. Stein said authorities also suspect Orr set a number of other store fires Between 1987 and 1989. His attorney Drew Edwards said Orr is innocent. Quot Federal agent Michael Matassa said Orr was trying to publish a novel called Points of origin which described fires with a uncanny similarities Quot to the ones Orr is accused of setting. A letter Orr apparently wrote to a publicist said the Book was based on a real firefighter arsonist who a has not been identified or apprehended and probably will not be in the near future a prosecutors said. Glendale fire chief Richard Hinz declined to comment on the arrest