European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Be 8 the stars and stripes sunday december 8,1991 Nobel winners see studies producing breakthroughs Stockholm Sweden apr the winners of the 1991 Nobel prize in Medicine physiology said saturday that research breakthroughs such As theirs could bring an explosion in treatment for regulatory disease within 20 years. A it s like 100 years ago when medical doctors found out How to fight epidemic diseases. We saw a breakthrough in Basic science followed 10 to 20 years later by a breakthrough in treating disease a said Erwin Neher who shared this years prize with Bert Sakmann. The two cell biologists affiliated with the Max Planck institutes in getting in and Heidelberg Germany will receive their $1 million award tuesday in ceremonies coinciding with a Celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Nobel prizes. This is the first time since 1948 that no one working at an american institution has won one of the three science prizes endowed by swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel. A there have always been Waves of scientific Success in different parts of the world a Sakmann said. A i believe there has never been a slump in european Sci ence. Neher and Sakmann were honoured for discovering the existence of Ion channels and the role they play in helping molecules communicate with one another to allow the body to move see hear taste and touch. A the immediate possibilities for treatment we have not improved this Sakmann told a news conference. A but to understand regulatory diseases which involve these functions we must know How the drugs which act on the Ion channels work. One Way to improve drugs is to know More closely their effects on the molecular  pharmaceutical companies Are using the results of the Nobel laureates work to try to improve drugs and create new treatments for diseases such As diabetes cystic fibrosis and Calcium deposits in the blood vessels of the heart. A in Basic research we learn to understand How an organism functions a said Neher. A this will Lead Over time to better treatment of regulatory diseases. Now we Are pretty helpless. But in 10 or 20 years Medicine will be in a better position to fight these  Sakmann said he agreed. He believes a Ion channels Are almost certainly behind epilepsy but its not known which of the channels Are involved. A Basic research leads to unexpected results a said Neher who said the teams discoveries of How insulin helps diabetes sufferers was unplanned. Up to then these drugs were applied without knowing what they do a said Neher adding that now the treatment can be improved. Give Honecker Chance to live quietly soviet newspaper urges Moscow apr pravda made an impassioned front Page Appeal Friday that ousted East German Leader Erich Honecker be allowed to stay in the soviet Union. A there has been much tragedy and injustice in our history. Do we need to add to it a the daily newspaper asked. A a let a Stop and give our former Friend the Chance to live quietly throughout the rest of the  Honecker 79, has been in Moscow since being spirited away in March from a soviet military Hospital near Berlin allegedly for medical treatment. The exact a Lis illness i a of it Ture of his has never been disclosed. His flight blocked efforts by German authorities to try him on charges of issuing shoot to kill orders to  the Berlin Wall and along the Border of formerly divided Germany. Germany has been pressing the soviet government to extradite Honecker since he arrived in Moscow. The russian government earlier decided to expel Honecker from russian territory but soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev has opposed his extradition citing a moral  russian federation president Boris n. Yeltsin has since said that Honecker should be allowed to resettle in Chile where his daughter lives. A Erich Honecker is the head of former East Germany a hero of the fascist counteroffensive a Man who dedicated his entire life to ideas which not Long ago were our ideas a pravda said. A now he is once again in Russia thanks to our help. He has no Home no motherland he lives in Russia and he a not Only our guest. He belongs to our history As Well As to All of the 20th Century history of humanity with All its  Margot and Erich Honecker take n stroll in n pork near their Moscow Home. Train crash in Tunnel injures 100 London up1 a two trains crashed saturday inside a four mile Long Tunnel under the Severn River Between England and Wales injuring about 100 passengers whom emergency workers had to evacuate. The British broadcasting corp. Said one train slowed into another that had stopped about two Miles inside the Severn Tunnel at 10 40 . Near Bristol some 95 Miles West of London. Emergency workers used breathing apparatus to evacuate passengers in the Tunnel where rescuers tried to determine the extent of the casualties. Nick Wolf of the Bristol ambulance service told the bbl that 100 people and possibly More were Hurt. A Only about three of those Are reported to be serious injuries. The rest Are Able to walk and hopefully can be brought out by train from the incident to the surface a Wolf said. One person was trapped in the wreckage but no deaths had been reported he said. A however an incident of this kind is obviously quite involved and a lot More information will emerge later a Wolf said. British rail said the two trains were travelling Between Paddington at London and Cardiff Wales and Portsmouth England to Cardiff. The Tunnel runs under the Severn River near where it Broadens into the Bristol Channel Between Avon England and Gwent Wales. Independent radio news said one of the seriously injured included the Driver of the Paddington train which apparently crashed into the Back of the stationary Cardin train. Officials did not say Why the train had stopped. World . Planning to open Mia office in Cambodia Bangkok Thailand a the United states will open an office in Cambodia Early next year to try to resolve the fates of americans missing from the Vietnam War cambodians official news Agency reported saturday. The spa news Agency said Nuon Saret head of cambodians Mia committee met thursday with Blythe Thomas head of a visiting . Delegation seeking information about missing americans. They agreed to accelerate efforts to find the remains of americans missing in action and to set up the Mia office in phenom penh said the report seen in Bangkok. Last Spring the United states opened an Mia office in Hanoi to search for the remains of americans missing in that country. Bambi near deportation Toronto a a Canadian judge on Friday cleared the Way for the deportation of Wisconsin prison Escapee Lawrencia Bembenek when he dismissed the former policewoman a latest Effort to stay in Canada As a refugee. Bembenek 31, known As a a Bambi to her sup Ceis escaped in july 1990 from Wisconsin so a Reedah correctional institution where she was serving a life sentence for murder. She was arrested in october last Vear in Thunder Bay Ontario. She is seeking refugee status in Canada on grounds that she was framed for the 1981 killing in Milwaukee of the sex wife of her then husband Elf Rcd Schultz. An Ontario court judge dismissed a motion by Bembenek a lawyers to Stop deportation beatings on grounds they were a disguised form of extradition. Bomb victim moved Belfast Northern Ireland a a schoolmaster who has been in a coma since he was injured by an Ira bomb four Yean ago was taken from the Hospital for the first time Friday. Noreen Hill moved her 60-Ycar-old husband Ronnie to a 16-resident care facility she purchased in suburban hot Wood. Ronnie Hill was injured in an explosion that killed 11 people in Enniskillen on nov. 8, 1987. The Irish Republican army bomb was planted near a world War i Mcmo tial it exploded during remembrance Day ceremonies held to Honor people killed in world War i world War ii and Northern Ireland a sectarian violence. Crashing for cigarettes Calgary Alberta with Canadian a sin taxes sending the Price of cigarettes As High As $7 a pack using a car or truck to crash into a store to steal cigarettes is a growing trend police say. Lee Riege owner of a convenience store was the latest victim of a crash and enter break in in Calgary. The theft Early thursday was the 12tn break in in four years for his store and the second time thieves used a vehicle. A a it a awfully frustrating a said Riege who is considering installing Concrete pillars to prevent another crash in. Dwarf wants Job Back Paris a a Dwarf known As a mister sky to drop its Bayman wants the French government to drop its ban on Dwarf tossing so he can have his Job Back. The 4-foot Manuel Wackenheim went to the Interior ministry on Friday and tried  to meet with minister Philippe Marchand. Wackenheim a Job was to be a human projectile with customers at bars or night clubs seeing who could fling him the farthest onto an inflatable mattress. But publicity a and protests a surrounding mister Skyman a career prompted Marchand to Issue an order last month Banning the sport As an insult Toi Wackenheim 24, was paid about $1,800 per appearance said his attorney Serge Pautot. He said Wackenheim makes use of his Handicap to have a career. A today he a had his Job taken away a Pautot said