European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes tuesday february 11,1992 at a glance Stephanie Jones climbs out of a m1a1 Abrams tank during a morning of a follow the  Jones was one of 15 Mannheim Germany High school students who were paired with Community leaders for a firsthand look at How leaders Lead. See Story on Page 9.haitians beaten . Says haitian refugees have told . Officials that they were beaten or abused after returning to their Homeland. A Pago 4miyazawa under pressure opposition parties in Japan threatened to press their advantage and oust prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa after a candidate from his governing Liberal democratic party was soundly Defeated in a by election. A Pago 8ex-kgb spies Tell tales reviled but respected for running one of the world s most feared intelligence services former soviet spies Are now uniting to Tell what they know of the world s greatest espionage stories. A Pago 9opec wants production Cut the president of open said he would press for a significant Cut in Oil production to prop up sagging prices which have dropped by 20 percent since november. A Pago 17 Index Abby Ann Landers. 20 action line. 16 comics. 18-20 commentary. 13 faces a no places. 10 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 21-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 correction because of an editing error . Sen. Trent Lott r-miss., was incorrectly identified sunday in a list of House of representative members. Firm knew in 71 of problems with breast implants files show Washington a Dow Corning knew More than 20 years ago that its silicone gel breast implants could leak and that the fluid could cause medical problems according to company documents released monday. The breast implants which have been voluntarily withdrawn from the Market while the government determines whether they Are Safe have been the subject of lawsuits and allegations that the company knew they were unsafe. At the demand of the food and drug administration Dow Corning on monday released a phone Book thick stack of internal documents outlining what and when the company knew about problems with its implants. One company memo dated March 9, 1971, told of a new Orleans patient who experienced irritation in her breast about four months after receiving an implant following a Mastectomy. On two occasions the doctor treating her prescribed penicillin for what he diagnosed As an infection. The irritation went away and then came Back. After the third occurrence the doctor found a the irritation had lacerated and the fluid was oozing from the wound a the company memo said. The doctor then removed the implant and found it a was partially empty of gel and what gel was there was extremely fluid and oozed out of the prosthesis and the surrounding tissue a the memo said. The memo said that the doctor was afraid of being sued for malpractice and added that he had done at least a dozen similar operations without a problem. The company acknowledged that silicone gel in the body causes problems. A testing completed to Date shows that the primary observed effect of silicone in the body is that of the classic foreign body reaction a Dow Corning said. A the tests do not indicate any association Between these silicone materials and cancer or diseases of the immune  the documents made Public were to have been released Jan. 27. Dow Corning however delayed the release saying it wanted to add background. A a we be been using that time to put them in some context that is meaningful because its so unusual for documents that Are not valid scientific evidence to be part of this process a Barbara s. Carmichael a company vice president said in a statement last week. Pilot error alleged in club med crash Dakar Senegal apr survivors were airlifted to Paris on monday As investigators in Senegal began checking reports that Pilot error caused the crash of a chartered Airliner that killed 31 people. The con Vair 640 had been chartered by club med to carry tourists to its resort at Cap stirring in Southern Senegal. It crashed before Dawn sunday about 30 Miles from Cap stirring killing 26 French passengers and five Crew members including the american Pilot and co Pilot officials said. One of the 24 surviving passengers Olivier Perret told Frances Rel radio station that the crash occurred almost immediately after the Pilot announced that the plane was about to land. A it was Complete human error a Perret said. A the said we were going to land at Cap stirring and then we landed in the  Bagnick Ndiaye governor of the Region told Senegal a state radio that the Pilot mistook lights in a hotel Garden for the lights of his intended Landing strip. Two of the injured passengers were airlifted Back to Paris on monday in a Small medical plane and others were to be brought Baclic monday night in a Boeing 737. Of the 50 passengers 48 were French and two were belgian. Club med said it was the first time one of its chartered planes has crashed since the company was formed in 1950. Senegalese officials said the aircraft was chartered from a gambian company Gam Crest by air Senegal on behalf of club med the Paris based resort  from Page 1 european Council president Joao de Deus Pinheiro the portuguese foreign minister. The United states so far has committed $5 billion in food and medical Aid to the former soviet Union. Baker was asked saturday if russian president Boris n. Yeltsin were attempting a kind of blackmail when he predicted a revolt unless More Aid were received. �?o1 done to think so. That a certainly not the Way we interpret it a Baker told can. A a he a making the Point. That we spent trillions and trillions of dollars to win the cold War and we therefore ought to be willing to invest something far far less than that in winning the  at the Frankfurt press conference Baker again touched on the United states willingness to invest in peace. A operation provide Hope is not Charity. Above All it is an investment in security4�? the West a Security and global Security and stability for decades to come a he said. The United states was one of 54 nations that agreed last month at the coordinating conference on assistance to the newly Independent states to help the Cis overcome a severe food shortage. After the operation provide Hope ceremony which was hampered by intermit tent rain and Hail Baker was due to travel to the Cis. Five of the american flights departed from Rhein main a on monday the other seven departed from Ankara a and in Ciurlik a in Turkey. Those 12 flights were destined for the cities of Alma Ata Bishkek Tashkent Dushanbe Ashkhabad Baku Minsk Kiev Kishinev Yerevan St. Petersburg and Moscow Petrakovic said. The spokesman could not confirm How Many flights were scheduled to leave today. Over the next two weeks at least 54 flights will carry a total of 2,250 tons of food and medical supplies to 22 cities in the  from Page 1 ships booking passage four times a year to escape ringing telephones and speaking invitations. Haley said in a 1988 interview that he was Able to become a writer because his father pulled himself up by the Bootstraps and left the life of a sharecropper behind. A i was a Sailor i was a Cook and this a no that and it might be said i was bootstrapped up to being a writer but the real bootstrapping was that which preceded me a he said. Haleys father worked four Odd jobs to support himself while he attended High school and College. He later became a Railroad Porter. A passenger who Learned of the financial troubles he was having volunteered to pay his College expenses at North Carolina a amp to state University in Greensboro and Haleys father went on to become Dean of agriculture at four different colleges. Haleys first Book after roots was a Novella a different kind of Christmas which told the tale of Fletcher Randall a wealthy Southern Plantation owner who undergoes a moral conversion and joins the underground Railroad to help free a group of slaves. Last month Haley announced he was giving up life on his Tennessee farm to devote More time to writing. He had put the 127-acre farm in Norris about 20 Miles North of Knoxville up for Sale asking $1.25 million. Haley recently took a sea voyage to finish a Book about the town of Henning. He also had talked about doing one on . Walker the first Black woman in America to earn $1 million. Rites set for Span Dahlem airman s son Span Dahlem a Germany a amps a a memorial service was planned today for an airman a 16-year-old son who died Over the weekend in a traffic Accident. William Forsythe died when the car he was Riding in left a fog shrouded two Lane Highway and struck a tree late Friday night said capt. Michael rein a Span Dahlem spokesman. The memorial service was planned for 2 . At the Span Dahlem base Chapel. Forsythe and the Driver both students at Pitburg High school were Between the towns of Herfort and Binsfeld in route to the air base when the Accident occurred. Forsythe died at the scene. The 17-year-old Driver whose name is being withheld because he is a minor was treated for injuries at a civilian Hospital in Pitburg and later released rein said. German authorities Are investigating the Case. A the investigation Hasni to been completed a rein said a but i would think that the weather conditions were a  visibility was Only about 50 meters rein said. Forsythe is the son of tech. Sgt. Edmund c. Forsythe of the 81st fighter so at Span Dahlem and his wife Lobo lat