European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. January 4. 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 315th yugoslav cease fire takes effect Belgrade Yugoslavia a a truce meant to set the stage for the deployment of . Troops in Yugoslavia went into effect Friday. It was not immediately Clear whether warring croats and serb led forces were honouring the cease fire across the secessionist Republic. But there were reports of fighting up until the truce began at 6 . Neither Side issued a statement on the Battlefield situation. Fourteen previous Trees in the 6-month-old civil War in Croatia have been ignored or quickly failed and a Leader id a serb enclave in Croatia said Friday that his Region rejected the latest plan. Still the agreement appeared to offer the Best Chance for a lasting peace with All major players in the conflict giving it their backing. Meanwhile serbian leaders met in Belgrade to proclaim a new smaller serb dominated Yugoslavia. If the serbs try to include tracts of Croatia where serbs predominate the cease fire to end the civil War in breakaway Croatia could fall apart. A draft agreement on forming the new state indicated Serbia might be willing to find a negotiated settlement however. Croatian and Federal army commanders on thursday signed the cease fire agreement. But fierce fighting was re ported on battlefields across the Republic. If the cease fire holds the United nations intends to Send peacekeepers to Croatia. Hider the latest truce Federal troops Are to pull out of Croatia and be replaced by up to 10,000 . Peacekeepers. Lands Sei de by the army and serbian irregulars Are to be demilitarized Ami an estimated 700,000 refugees would be allowed to return Home. Residents of contested territories eventually would vote on whether to remain in Croatia or join Serbia. . Envoy Cyrus Vance who brokered the truce called it a an important step  Vance. . Secretary of state under president Jimmy Carter said he was More optimistic than before about peace because nearly All parties in the fighting had agreed to the  refugees flee to Florida aboard copter Miami apr a russian made Cubana airlines helicopter carrying 34 refugees landed Friday in suburban Miami police and cuban exile groups said. A there arc men women and children aboard a said metro dad police spokesman George Reyes. Maj. Bryan Whitman a defense department spokesman in Washington said All 34 refugees requested political Asylum and were in the hands of . Customs service officials. The aircraft was spotted on coast guard radar about 65 Miles at sea off Flom Stead fab which is South of Miami said Kathleen Bergen a spokeswoman for the Federal aviation administration in Atlanta. The helicopter touched Down at Tamami Airport a strip for private planes about 10 Miles Southwest of Miami International Airport said Mike Jones Faa control Tower supervisor. A they looked Happy to be Here. Everybody had smiles on their  said Jim Hunter owner of hmm helicopter service inc., who watched the arrival. A some of them had their Luggage and everything. They were unloading their Luggage just like it was a regular flight.�?�. At least two men aboard appeared to be wearing Pilot uniforms of Cubana airlines. Some passengers told reporters that the pilots had decided to take the helicopter and told friends and relatives who piled onto the aircraft. A obviously in a very Happy a said one unidentified woman passenger. A Freedom is marvelous. I just  take it there  representatives of the cuban american National foundation exile group rushed to the Airport shortly after the 9 . Arrival said foundation spokesman Fernando Rojas. The helicopter was described by the Pentagon and witnesses As a russian built Mi-8 with Cubana airlines markings on it. A it has to be somebody important to have Access to a vehicle like that a Rojas said. Foundation representatives at the scene said the helicopter was escorted to the Airport by two f-16 jets As Well As coast guard and Florida Marine patrol aircraft. The daring defection was led by German Pompa a current or former cuban air Force lieutenant assigned to ferry tourists aboard a russian Mi-8 helicopter in the Paradero Beach resort East of Havana said Tom Bowers spokesman for customs aviation Wing. Pompa said he had been planning the flight for three months and Miami relatives knew they were heading to Florida. They had to abort two previous attempts including one scheduled for last week. Eighty Ford minivans powered by electricity like the one shown Here will take to the Road in c Alifornia in 1993 As part of a Tough statewide anti smog program. Ford and other car makers Are showcasing emission free vehicles at the los Angeles Auto show. Driven by California program Bow Rolls out electric car los Angeles up Bow joined the drive to produce an electric car thursday unveiling the e2 prototype designed to meet California rules requiring manufacturers to Start making smog free cars Over the next decade. Quot clearly this is a test of engineering and marketing know How for All manufacturers but Bow is ready to meet this Challenge in a highly competitive Way a said Klaus Faust president of by we Selec tric car research . Faust spoke at a news conference prior to the opening of the greater los Angeles Auto show. California is requiring major automakers to make at least 2 percent of the new cars they sell in California emission free by 1998. Smaller manufacturers such As Bow will have a deadline of 2003, but Faust said the company is Likely to Start Selling an electric car Long before then. A if you get into the electric car Market late you re not going to do Well in that Market a Faust said. Quot Well probably be in the Market  Faust said the question of when Bow will Start production has not yet been decided and depends largely on the development of an effective Battery to Power the car. T he German automaker s prototype is powered by sodium Sulur batteries. T he Battery question has been under study for a year by a consortium that includes the big t free . Automakers leading Battery producers and the . Department of Energy. Sodium Fulfur Nickel cadmium and conventional Lead acid batteries Are under study. Bow which introduced a european style electric car prototype in september in Munich said the four seater e2 has been designed for freeway driving in California with a top Speed of 75 Miles per hour and a Range of 150 to 160 Miles Between charges. Bow did not disclose what Price it would charge for the e2. The los Angeles Auto show saw the debut two years ago of general motors prototype car the Impact that uses Lead acid batteries. Pm has subsequently announced production goals Lor the Impact and several other car makers have rolled out prototypes since then. Multiple treatments found to curb cancer London up1 a the lives of about 1,Odd women i year in Britain and 10,000 worldwide could be saved if those with Early breast cancer received hormonal or cell killing drug treatment As Well As surgery research showed Friday. The results published in the medical journal lancet were described by scientists As massively significant and will end two decades of debate among doctors Over which women will Benet it trom being Given extra treatment after breast lumps have been removed. The results were the work of a seven year International project a an analysis of 133 breast cancer treatments involving 75.0 10 women comparing those who received backup therapies with those who received surgery or radiation alone. A if just 1 million of them get the extra treatments that we have studied then there will be an extra 100,000 10-year survivors. T his collaboration will save lives a year in Britain alone and about 10,000 a year worldwide Quot said Richard Peto head of the Imperial cancer research fund s cancer studies unit in Oxford. Quot the number of deaths avoided by these treatments for Early breast cancer is actually bigger than can be reliably promised by any other drug treatment Tor any other Type of cancer. Hie research has also disclosed that ovarian ablation which stops the ovaries from producing oestrogen was effective in reducing deaths in younger women. The three beneficial treatments identified by the to search Are the hormonal drug tamoxifen which blocks oestrogen a mix of cytotoxic drugs chemotherapy and ovarian ablation to Stop the oestrogen Supply. Around 25.000 women develop breast cancer each year in Britain which has the highest rates of breast cancel in the world a and More than 15,000 die. About 20.000 cases will be Early cancer which Means cancer that is Conti cd to a single breast or cancer that has  to the Lymph nodes in the armpit