European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday March 26, 1992 preparing for some Good Green fun Jerry Divinc of Columbus Ohio washes the undersides of Lawn mowers awaiting tuneup at the shop where he works. Soon  be Busy with the springtime chore of trimming the Early grass decorating Columbus Yards. High suicide attempt rate found among Indian teens by the Washington Post Washington a nearly one in six Indian adolescents has attempted suicide a rate four times that of other teen agers according to a study that found alarming health problems on reservations. Those were among the bleakest statistics of a generally Bleak Survey of More than 13,000 Indian and native Alaska teen agers published this week in the journal of the american medical association. Quot this is the most devastated group of adolescents in the United states a Michael d. Resnick an epidemiologist and one of the authors of the Survey said at a news conference tuesday. Other studies have shown that Indian teen agers have approximately twice the death rate of teen agers in any other racial group. A in the new study researchers from the University of Minnesota gave a 162-item questionnaire to indians and Alaska natives in the 7th through 12th grades. The researchers compared some of their results with those from a similar Survey of White Rural teen agers inroad health care Bill approved in Florida Tallahassee Fla. Up a landmark health care Bill designed to assure floridians Access to Basic and preventive health care has been signed by gov. Lawton Chiles. The Law mandates health care Access to unemployed poor or Low income working residents by december 1994. But implementation of the plan depends on the Federal government because it requires the waiver of at least eight Federal regulations governing health care funding. Chiles said he would testify today before the oversight and investigations subcommittee of the . House Energy and Commerce committee. He also will present the plan to health and human services Secretary Louis w. Sullivan presidential assistant Gail Wilensky and Senate majority Leader George j. Mitchell a Maine. The plan would ensure that people without health insurance would get Basic Ana preventive coverage through state medicaid which now is tied to Federal medicare eligibility. Insurance companies would be forced to broaden their coverage and would have to accept All Small business groups if they accept any at All. Chiles said that As More people Are covered by group insurance premiums would go Down making the coverage More affordable. Minnesota. Among the findings a eleven percent of Indian and native Alaska teenagers reported that one or both of their parents were dead compared to 5 percent of the Minnesota teenagers. A about <6 percent reported living in dual Parent Homes compared with 87 percent of the Minnesota Sample. A about 27 percent of 12th-Grade youths reported drinking weekly or More frequently. This is not significantly different from the Minnesota Sample. However among indians drinking begins at a younger age with 9 percent of the 8th-Gradcrs drinking at least weekly compared with 5 percent of their Minnesota counterparts. A about 22 percent of the female Indian and Alaska respondents and 12 percent of the males reported attempting suicide at some time in their lives. Thirty percent of teen agers whose families had a suicide history had attempted suicide. Among . Teen agers As a whole in 1990, 10.3 percent of girls and 6.2 percent of boys had attempted suicide at least  Street drug has police worried Albany . Up a a potentially deadly new Street drug worn As a Patch on the skin and giving users a three Day heroin like High has alarmed authorities. Albany sheriffs department inspector John Burke a Veteran narcotics officer said the Fenta nyl Patch legally manufactured for use by cancer patients turned up in a drug bust after a woman wearing the Patch was arrested last week in the Albany county courthouse. That arrest led to a raid on a Home in nearby Cohoes which turned up morphine guns materials to make pipe bombs and several patches Burke said. Fifty Milligram Fenta nyl patches Are Selling on capital District streets for $25, and 100-Milligram doses Are Selling for $50, Burke said. 1 the biggest danger associated with the synthetic drug is that buyers do not know How Strong a dose Thev Are purchasing he said. Most Fenta nyl is 50 to 100 times stronger than heroin but a a then there a some kinds that Are s00 to 3 non times More potent a he said. Two years ago Fenta nyl sold under the Street names Lango and Cash a and a  two movies popular at the time caused the deaths of several heroin addicts. Those addicts died because they thought Thev were using heroin and did not realize How powerful fun Tami is Burke  Man s ouster from Library upheld from wire reports Philadelphia a a Federal appeals court has ruled that a Public Library can expel people who smell bad and make nuisances of themselves. The ruling by the . Third circuit court of appeals on monday overturned a ruling last year in new Jersey. . District judge h. Lee Saro Kin ruled that the Morristown Public Library violated the rights of a homeless Man by barring him from the Library. But the three judge appeals court ruled unanimously that Public libraries can eject people who Are disruptive or have offensive a bodily  the suit was filed by Richard Kreimer who slept on a Park Bench and regularly visited the Library. Kreimer also has been paid $230,000 by the town and the police to Settle separate cases. Kreimer a attorney Bruce Rosen said the ruling does not mean Kreimer will have to return the Money Rosen said he has not decided whether to Appeal the latest  kills youngster Carson Calif. A a teen Ager showing off for friends fired a Bullet into the air that killed a 5-year-old boy a half mile away. The 15-year-old, whose name was withheld because of his age was booked saturday for the killing of Adrian Benitez said los Angeles county sheriffs Deputy Rich Erickson. The boy was being held without bail tuesday in a juvenile detention Center. Erickson said witnesses told sheriffs deputies that the teen Ager was boasting about a gun when he fired four to five shots into the air March 11 outside a House in Wilmington about 20 Miles South of downtown. It Wasny to Clear where the boy got the gun. One of the bullets fell out of the sky a half mile South in Carson where it struck Adrian in the head As he walked with his Mother 2-year-old brother and Cousin Erickson said. He died six Days later when he was taken off life support  trial requested Jackson a. A a judge tuesday took under advisement a request for a new trial for Wayne Williams convicted 10 years ago in Atlanta a notorious a murdered and missing children Case. Butts county Superior court judge Hal Craig is not expected to Rule for several months. The defense team zeroed in on what it considered to be questionable fiber evidence that led to Williams conviction in 1982. Williams 34, is serving a life sentence for the murder of two Young Black men and was linked to the 27 other deaths mostly of children Between 1979 and 1981.mexicans to get Back pay los Angeles a a rancher accused of enslaving hundreds of mexican workers who put in 16-hour workdays on his Flower ranch for As Little As $1 a Day has agreed to pay $1.5 million in Back pay and plead guilty to reduced charges. Under the agreement Edwin m. Ives 55, will plead guilty april 13 to three felony and four Misdemeanour counts of immigration and wage violations assistant . Attorney Carol l. Gillam said. His Ives Griffith co. Will plead guilty to nine counts. In return slavery and extortion counts will be dropped she said.. Professor replaced new York a professor Leonard Jeffries who Drew fire when he accused jews and italians in Hollywood of perpetuating a negative image of Blacks has been replaced As head of the City ollege s Black studies department effective july Jeffries told the new York times that he planned to sue the City University of new York Over his removal. The Cuny Board of trustees voted to name Edmund Gordon As Jeffries successor