European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday january 28, 1992 Nasa May extend shuttle flight 1 Day space Center Houston a Nasa debated monday whether to add a Day to discovery a we Klong flight As the shuttle astronauts performed More tests to study the disorienting effects of space. A decision on whether to keep the shuttle aloft until thursday to gather More data was expected sometime Mon Day. The space Agency polled scientists on the ground to see if any of their experiments might suffer from an extra Day in orbit. The Crew of seven has used less electricity and water than expected during the first five Days of flight. Astronauts dimmed the fights sunday to conserve Energy. Quot wed be More than Happy to stay up a commander Ron Grabe told Mission control. On monday morning David Hilmers whirled in a rotating chair a nauseating ride he and three Crew mates will endure at least three times during the flight. As they spin their Eye movements Are re Cordeck by a camera in the helmet they Wear. Late sunday Hilmers and physicist Ulf me bold of Germany took turns pushing each other Back and Forth on a sled that glides along 40-Inch tracks. Each Man sat upright and Lay on his Back As he received electric shocks behind the knee. Scientists measure calf muscle reactions to the shocks to see How the nervous system reacts in space. Doctors Hope the experiments will help them understand space motion sickness a queasiness that afflicts most astronauts. Earlier in the Day the astronauts showed millions watching the super bowl pregame show Why a Coin toss does not work in the weightlessness of space. Astronaut Roberta Bondar held a Coin As she did somersaults 187 Miles above Earth. She released the Coin and it floated away. A was you can see in Zero a the Coin never comes Down so Well just have to defer the Coin toss to the official pregame ceremony a said Grabe who wore a Washington redskins Cap. Pilot Stephen Oswald who wore a Buffalo Bills Cap said the Crew had hoped the Houston oilers would be in the super bowl. A but it looks like you be got a couple of fellow astronauts help Roberta Bondar Center take a spin in discovery a weightless environment sunday while she flips a Coin for a superbowl pregame broadcast. Great teams that Are going to go at it and were just sorry that we done to have a wot of receiving the game up Here a he said. A besides that Nasa is keeping us real Busy  Mission control radioed the Crew the final score a Washington 37, Buffalo 24 a and apologized to space borne Buffalo fans. More than 225 scientists from 14 countries Are taking part in the array of experiments on the effects of Zero Gravity and space radiation on plants insects and humans. The cargo includes 72 million roundworms 32 million mouse Bone cells 3 billion yeast cells stick insects slime Mold and Frog eggs and sperm. All but a handful of 480 fruit flies brought on Board were killed by sterilizing chemicals accidentally left on the insect , accuser prepare to slug it out in court by Lisa Levitt Ryckman the associated press Indianapolis a former heavyweight Champ Mike Tyson is facing his most formidable opponent yet in the form of a teen age Beauty pageant contestant who accuses him of rape. Jury selection was to begin monday in the Case against the 25-year-old fighter. The i8-year-old miss Black America contestant told police she met Tyson at a rehearsal for the pageant and went with him july 19 to his hotel room where he held her on the bed fondled her performed Oral sex and raped her. Tyson who has repeatedly been accused of fondling women insisted the woman consented to sex. A the woman knows what happened. 1 know what happened. In a innocent a the Boxer said after a court appearance. If convicted of rape criminal deviate conduct and criminal confinement he could get up to 63 years in prison. Representing Tyson Are Indianapolis lawyer James voyles or. And Vincent Fuller of Washington who defended president Reagan a assailant John Hinckley. Hinckley was found innocent by reason of insanity. Ful Ler reportedly is receiving $5,000 a Day. A if anybody can win this Case its Fuller a said Plato Cacheris a Washington lawyer and longtime Friend. A this magnificent Victory on the Hinckley Case just demonstrates his  the prosecution has sought to match Tyson a High powered lawyers by hiring the flamboyant courtroom Veteran j. Gregory Garrison. Fuller and Tyson a put their pants on one leg at a time the last time i checked a Garrison has said. Among the possible witnesses Are Virginia Foster the chauffeur who drove Tyson a accuser to and from his hotel the night of the alleged rape and j. Morris Anderson the pageant organizer. Anderson labelled Tyson a a serial buttocks fondle re in a $607 million lawsuit against the Boxer. Anderson later dropped the suit. The trial has drawn news Media from around the world. Reporters have been allocated half the seats in the 50-seat courtroom leaving the rest of the Media corps to watch on closed circuit television in a room nearby. The trial will not be televised. State Law bars cameras from the courtroom. Tyson who had a criminal record As a juvenile has been accused of assaulting several people outside the ring since 1987, when he became Champion. He paid $105,000 that year in the settlement of an assault Case. His former wife actress Robin Givens accused Tyson of terrorizing her. They divorced in 1989. In 1990, a new York jury ruled in favor of a woman who claimed Tyson grabbed breasts and buttocks at a disco. She was awarded $100. The 1990 miss Black America Rosie Jones has sued Tyson for $100 million claiming Tyson fondled her buttocks during the 1991 pageant. The $607 million lawsuit by Anderson alleged Tyson molested 10 of 23 contestants at the pageant. In dropping the lawsuit the pageants organizer said some contestants fabricated stories for the publicity. Outside the Canterbury hotel the alleged rape site two dozen guardian Angels marched and chanted on sunday carrying signs that read a do the right things and a keep it clean a done to get  a this will be a real Uphill Battle for women because it involves one of the greatest sports figures of All time a said Lisa Sliwa the Angels National director. A men in be talked to seem to feel it necessary to defend Tyson More urgently because he can  being picked in Dahmer Case Milwaukee up Jeffrey l. Dahmer turned a Small West Side apartment into a slaughterhouse. Y on monday defense attorney Gerald Boyle and Milwaukee county District attorney e. Michael Mccann began selecting a jury to determine whether the former chocolate factory worker was legally insane when he did it. Dahmer 31, pleaded guilty but insane Jan. 13 to killing 15 Young men and boys Many of them picked up in Gay bars and at bus stops in Chicago and elsewhere. He earlier confessed to 17 slayings. He has been charged in Summit county Ohio with the 1978 killing of Steven Hicks his first alleged victim. Sparing breast in cancer surgery varies around country study says new York a a woman Schance of having breast cancer surgery that spares her breast varies around the country in part because of differences in the availability of follow up radiation treatment a study suggests. New England had the highest rate of such surgery and Southeastern and North Central states the lowest researchers said. The numbers May fail to show the True size of regional differences because of the study a limitations said a coauthor or. David Winchester. He suspects differences have narrowed since 1988, the year Analysed in the study. In new England 40.2 percent of patients in the study had a breast sparing partial Mastectomy. The lowest rates were 11.5 percent for the Region that includes Alabama Kentucky Mississippi and Tennessee and 13.6 percent in the area that includes the Dakotas Iowa Kansas Minnesota Missouri and Nebraska. The National average was 25.5 percent. Reasons for the variations Are unknown said Winchester medical director of the cancer department at the american College of surgeons. But differences in the availability of follow up radiation treatment May play a role and a in some instances regional differences might indicate a need for increased professional and Public education a Winchester and his co authors wrote in presenting the analysis in the current Issue of the journal Ca. The study used Hospital data on 41,680 breast cancer patients about 31 percent of the nation s breast cancer patients treated in 1988. About 10 percent of the sampled patients had no surgery. Rather than removing the breast breast conserving surgery takes out just the tumor and some surrounding Normal tissue and samples the Lymph nodes in some cases. The surgery is followed by radiation therapy for five to six weeks. Or. Dan Kenady of the University of Kentucky medical Center in Lexington said Rural geography May have contributed to his regions Low rate of breast sparing surgery. Patients May drive five hours to reach his Center Kenady said. Many women May decide against breast conservation because of the Prospect of making such a trip five Days a week for up to six weeks for follow up radiation he said. Beyond the geographic problem a a there a no question there Are surgeons out there that basically Are not offering the options a Kenady said