European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes thursday april 30, 1992 a whale of a flight workers from the Miami a aquarium push a juvenile Short finned Pilot whale from an air Force helicopter into the Ocean tuesday about 150 Miles East of Miami. The whale was among 15 found stranded near key West in March 1991. The a aquarium nursed it Back to health and then freed it tuesday. Non prescription drug rules dangerously lax Gao says Washington apr the government has Cyl to develop sound rules for medicines sold without a prescription and Consumers risk overdoses. Congress was told tuesday. A the consequences sometimes Are life threatening for elderly Consumers overwhelmed by inaccurate Overly general or simply inadequate information a rep Ron Wyden d-ore., said tuesday. The general accounting office the investigative Arm of Congress found that the food and drug administration does t even know How Many different non prescription products Are being sold. Fra officials told the hearing they were moving toward completing an examination of ail non prescription drugs on the Market but they could not give any timetables on when that will be finished. Many adults either done to read dosage instructions and warnings or consciously violate them in a desire to get enough of a Good thing a with the result that they get too much witnesses told two House subcommittees. A Consumers May become frustrated with the Lack of desired effects and take two to four times the recommended dose to achieve More rapid and greater results a said or. Raymond Lake of the uniformed service University in Washington. Wyden chairman of the panel on Small business operations blamed the drug Industry and the Fra for not providing stronger More prominent warnings and dosage instructions. He wants Congress to set new Labelling standards. After Long delay food Pyramid revealed by Cox news service Washington a agriculture Secretary Edward r. Madigan unveiled his department s Quot food guide Pyramid tuesday a year Ana $855,000 after objections from meat and Dairy interests caused him to interrupt the printing of a similar design. The new Pyramid illustrates a Hierarchy of different food groups making up the departments official recommendation of what a Good for you. From a Broad base of six to 11 daily Servings of bread cereals and pasta the design Narrows toward progressively fewer Servings of vegetables and Truus then meat eggs poultry dried Beans and milk products and ends at a Quot use sparingly Point depicting fats oils and added sugar. The design is to replace the familiar Quot food wheel a which has Hung in classrooms for nearly 51 years. Madigan said the design will be used in classrooms and by government Home demonstration agents. Commodity interests complained last april that the Hierarchy in the Pyramid created the impression that meat and poultry products were less important than other food after Madigan pulled the Pyramid off government printing presses the department spent $s55.txkl on surveys to make certain the design would convey the intended information. The Center for science in the Public interest said the surveys represented a a waste of Money Quot but praised the department for deciding finally on the Pyramid. New food guidelines Here is what the government believes americans ought to eat every Day to stay healthy. Breads cereals Rice and pasta six to 11 daily Servings. A serving could be one slice of bread. A vegetables three to five daily Servings. A serving could be a half cup of vegetable. Fruits two to tour daily Servings. A serving could be one medium Apple. Dairy products two to three daily Servings. A serving could be one cup of milk or 2 ounces of processed cheese. A meat poultry fish dry Beans and peas eggs nuts and seeds two to three daily Servings. That could total 5-7 ounces of cooked lean meat poultry or fish a Day. Source the associated press a amps Wes Booher . Man becomes suspect in wife s stabbing death from wire reports Milwaukee a a businessman who told authorities two men stabbed his wife to death and wounded him was charged tuesday with first degree intentional homicide. Police chief Philip Arreola announced the charge against Jesse Anderson a 34-year-old businessman from suburban Cedarburg. The chief declined to speculate on the motive. Police confirmed earlier that there was a $250,000 life insurance policy on Barbara Anderson. Barbara Anderson 33, was fatally stabbed april 21 in a restaurant parking lot. Anderson who also was stabbed told police the attackers were two Black men. Anderson is White and so was his wife. Wrong Man convicted Greenville . A Federal officials have admitted they convicted the wrong Man of robbing an automatic Teller machine even though three eyewitnesses identified him As the thief. Stephen Luda Eddings 36, of Lugoff was sentenced in december to nearly nine years in prison. But another Man has confessed to the feb. 14, 1991, robbery and Federal officials have asked the judge to set aside Eddings conviction. A i feel really bad that this happened a assistant . Attorney Bill Yarborough said monday. The new suspect Donald Richard Miller 25, of Irmo confessed after he was indicted in a separate Bank robbery authorities said. Yarborough said Eddings and Miller look alike. Eddings probably wont be released from prison even if the conviction is set aside. He pleaded guilty to three other holdups last year authorities said. Keating hospitalized Phoenix a former savings and loan Boss Charles Keatingjr. Was hospitalized tuesday for treatment of an Elbow infection delaying his return to a California prison. Chief Deputy . Marshal Ken Poore said Keatings life was not in danger but did not have details on his condition. A Hospital spokeswoman declined to discuss Keatings condition. Keating 68, was flown to Phoenix on sunday from California where he is serving a prison sentence for securities fraud for a hearing by the office of Thrift supervision the Agency accuses Keating and his associates of looting $36.5 million from Lincoln savings and loan a former subsidiary of Keatings american Continental corp. The thrifts collapse Cost the taxpayers a record $2.6 billion. Killer bees in san Antonio san Antonio a the so called a killer bees have reached san Antonio the largest . City where they have shown up on their migration from South America scientists confirmed tuesday. A . Agriculture department lab in Beltsville my tested bees from a swarm exterminated on the City a South Side april 22 and determined they were Africani Zed Honey bees. The bees get their nickname from their aggressiveness inherited from african bees accidentally introduced into Brazil in the late 1950s. Sat fraud brings charge Rockville my. A the administrators of the Scholastic aptitude test Are seeking $5,000 in court costs from a High school entrepreneur accused of hiring another student to take his College Entrance exam. Lawrence h. Adler of Potomac md., paid University of Virginia freshman David m. Fanner $200 to take his sat last november according to a motion filed tuesday in Montgomery county circuit court by the education testing service. The motion claims Adler should have to pay the court costs because he a perpetrated a fraud by insisting under oath that he took the test. The testing service cancelled adlers scores and will allow him to retake the test if he chooses the Washington Post reported. On the disputed test Adler scored a 660, in the 97th percentile in verbal and 750, in the 99th percentile in math. Four of the ii colleges to which Adler applied accepted him although his Grade Point average was 2.6 a in the Bottom Quarter of his class the service said
