European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 a the stars and stripes thursday january 9, 1992 aids violence killing More Young adults Quot. Ranch of death in 1988, moved up to 111 by Cox news service Washington a the life expectancy of americans has gone up another notch and infant mortality has declined government statisticians revealed tuesday. But deaths among Young people from aids and violence continue to mount. The annual report of the National Center for health statistics showed that fatalities in 10 of the 15 leading causes of death declined in 1989, after numbers Are adjusted to eliminate the effect of the aging of the population. The average baby born in 1989 could expect to live 75.3 years a record High and the mortality of infants declined to 9.8 deaths per 1,000 live births a record Low. However or. Marian Macdorman a mortality analyst at the government Center said death certificates showed aids and violence hitting hard at americans in their productive years. A death rates were Down for almost All age groups a she said. However fatalities among persons Between 25 and 44 were up primarily because of a 31 percent increase in aids deaths Between 1988 and 1989 and a slight increase in homicides. Macdorman said the figures also show that a a health Gap Between Blacks and Whites is growing. A life expectancy increased for Whites but remained the same for Blacks a she said. Similarly the improvements in infant mortality statistics reflect fewer deaths among White babies and no change among Blacks. Heart disease remains the most common cause of death accounting for 34 percent of All the 2,150.46b deaths recorded during the year. However even that represents a 22 percent decline in heart disease deaths since 1979 and a 6.3 percent decline since 1988. There was virtually no change in the cancer death rate. Deaths from strokes declined about 5.7 percent the Center reported. The fourth most common cause of death accidents declined slightly and there was no change in the death rate from chronic lung disease to round out the five most common causes. Aids which was the 15th leading cause of death in 1988, moved up to 11th in 1989, and homicides moved from 12th to 10th. A the Success our nation has shown in dealing with the major causes of death cannot overshadow the need to conquer those diseases that plague our Young adults a said or. William l. Roper director of the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta. A Shiv infection has meant illness and death for some of youngest and brightest and the violence in our streets and in our Homes is both a malignant disease and a Public health concern of the greatest the Maryland based National Center for health statistics is a division of the tracks Chris fish was driven to use his Cross country skis tues forecasters expected More than a foot of Snow to fall on Day when he needed to get around snowy Englewood Colo. The Denver area. See weather Story on Page 11.commercial use of Vietnam statue wrong lawyer says Washington a the statue at the Vietnam veterans memorial is a copyrighted work of Art and a veterans group should be barred from Selling photos of it without permission a Federal judge was told tuesday. The copyright to the statue of three soldiers is owned by sculptor Frederick e. Hart and the Vietnam veterans memorial fund a non profit group that raised the Money to finance the statue their attorney told . District judge John Garrett Penn. But the attorney for the veterans group. Homecoming ii and chairman Ted Sampley of Kinston n.c., argued that a Public Monument cannot be subject to copyright Law. A a that a a Public Monument. That thing is there for All to see for All to photograph for All to sketch and draw a said the attorney David Fillippeli or. A that statue is there for a purpose. It is the focal Point Lor a National Sampley a group has been Active in the Campaign to obtain accounting of All american personnel still missing in Indochina. It has been Selling photographs and to shirts picturing the statue without getting permission or paying a Royalty said attorney Evan Roth representing the memorial fund and the sculptor. When the memorial fund turned the statue Over to the Federal government the government agreed that Hart and the fund would keep the copyright Roth said. Fillippeli said his group would suffer financially in it were forced to Stop Selling Memorabilia portraying the statue. But Roth said his group is entitled to a licensing fee from such sales and the right to control How its artwork is used. Navy to pay for fixing sea Wolf welding flaws Washington of the Navy said tuesday that it will allow an extra year for delivery and will pay the $58.8 million Cost of fixing welding Haws in the first sea Wolf nuclear powered submarine instead of penalizing the contractor. The settlement amounts to an admission that flawed specifications provided by the Navy rather than an error by the contractor led to the welding problem. Discovered last june the problem forced a virtual restart on construction then 15 percent completed of the first in the new line of attack subs. Meanwhile the Pentagon dodged questions on whether president Bush s defense budget for 1993 will include Sharp cuts in sea Wolf funding. T he sea Wolf was designed As a quiet running computerized attack submarine designed to Hunt Down the most sophisticated soviet subs. T he electric boat division of general dynamics corp. In Groton conn., devised a new welding technique and resumed construction of the 353-foot sea Wolf. The two paragraph Navy announcement said that under the terms of a dec. 18 settlement electric boat has until May 1996 to deliver the submarine. A electric boat considers this to be a Lair the defense contracting giant said in a statement tuesday. During the Early Days of construction the Navy ordered a thicker higher strength steel called 11y-100, to be used in the sea Wolf. The stronger steel required a new welding material to join huge Hull sections. Construction began in october 1989. Routine inspections failed to detect the tiny Weld fractures. But microscopic checks found cracks and other signs of brittleness. Electric boat maintained throughout the months following the discovery that it had followed Navy specifications to the letter. A Navy report released in november said the welding flaws occurred because Quot it was widely assumed by Navy planners that the new stronger steel would behave identically to steel used in other submarines. Readers demand paper apologize for cartoon Chicago up demonstrators on tuesday threatened a Boycott of the Reader newspaper unless its publisher apologizes for a cartoon depicting a Black Chicago Alderman As a gun toting doll. About 150 demonstrators chanting a a respect and a a Boycott marched in front of the free weekly a offices demanding an apology for a cartoon of Alderman Dorothy Tillman. The cartoon depicted t Illman As a paper doll dressed in Bra and heart decorated Boxer shorts. One Side of the cartoon has a business suit with a gun at the end of one Arm and the other has a camouflage outfit holding a Large weapon. Tillman made headlines late last year for allegedly pulling a gun out of her purse during a Public meeting Over redrawing the City s c Ity c Council wards. An obscure state Law classifies aldermen As a peace allowing them to carry guns. The cartoon was drawn by David Nelson who ran afoul of Black aldermen while he was still a student at the Art Institute for painting a picture of the late mayor Harold Washington dressed in women a underwear. The aldermen ripped the picture off the Wall of a display while police watched. Nelson has sued the City Over the incident. Reader publisher Robert Roth said he would not apologize for the cartoon because it was a political satire not a racist statement. A emr. Roth refused to apologize a a spokesman for the demonstrators said. Quot we had a strategy which we will be carrying out. A we will not allow the Reader newspaper or any other White owned newspaper in Chicago to disrespect the african american no arrests were made during the demonstration
