European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes saturday May 16, 1992 . Adds year to length of stay for salvadorans by the Washington Post Washington a the Bush administration has decided to allow nearly 200,000 salvadorans living in the United states under temporary amnesty to remain for at least a year after june 30, when the special 18-month program expires. The decision ending months of anxiety for salvadorans who feared deportations would begin july 1, was announced thursday in san Salvador by salvadoran president Alfredo Cristiani. In a letter Bush told Cristiani that the administration would not extend the special amnesty program but said the action nevertheless a will provide salvadoran citizens the same rights to remain and work in the United states As they had under the amnesty. The administration a will carefully consider an Extension next year. Let me add that when repatriations begin sometime in the future the return of your countrymen will inevitably occur Over a prolonged period a Bush said. Refugee advocates who had wanted a simple Extension of the amnesty program reacted guardedly to the decision. A on the surface this seems to be Good news a said Austin Texas apr a Texas woman has slashed her breast with a Scalpel to Force doctors to remove her silicone breast implants. A a in be been trying for four months to get my implants out because doctors told me that i had illnesses that were related to it Quot Marlene Hooker said at a news conference at Seton medical Center. Quot i feel better Hooker 46, said she was diagnosed in february with a an autoimmune disease. Such a disease causes the production of Auto antibodies sometimes with damage to Normal components of the body. Her doctor advised her to have her implants removed but her insurance company had refused to pay for removal she said. She forced the Issue wednesday slashing her left breast repeatedly. A i thought if i started it someone would finish Hoelker it Quot Hooker said after the operation. She was the second woman known to have undertaken such action. Last month a Bloomfield n.m., woman Cut open her breasts with a Scalpel fashioned from a razor and trained the gel from one implant then went to a doctor the next Day and had the rest removed. The woman Laura Thorpe said she operated on herself because her insurance company refused to pay for the surgery an allegation the company denied. The . Food and drug administration after studying the effects of the implants has severely limited their use for cosmetic purposes but Ruleff they could stay on the Market for reconstructive use. Atlanta apr a study has found that nearly 40 percent of people killed by falling off horses in one state had been drinking. A it makes As Little sense to drink and ride As it does to drink and drive a said or. Thomas Cole injury control chief with the department of environmental health and natural resources in North Carolina. The study reported thursday by the . Centers for disease control examined blood alcohol Content from 13 people killed in North Carolina by falling or being thrown from horseback from 1979 to 1989. Five or 39 percent had been drinking. That did no to include one rider who Rode into a Lake and drowned his blood alcohol level was just below the Legal definition of drunkenness in most states. The cd noted that the study included Only North Carolina and May not apply to horseback riders elsewhere. But Cole said there a no reason to think horse rep. Joe Moakley d-mass., who sponsored the amnesty plan. A but Given the outrageous behaviour of the Reagan and Bush administrations toward salvadoran refugees during the last decade ill need to read the Fine print very closely before i say a a a in a sure the Community will be pleased to hear the government has extended lawful status in this country a said Pedro Aviles executive director of the Central american refugee Center a however there will be uncertainty about what will happen after one a senior administration official said the White House decided Early this month to find a Way to allow the salvadorans to remain in the United states. The salvadoran government was concerned that mass deportations would Cut the amount of Money sent Back to Al Salvador from salvadorans now in the United states. That Money estimated at $700 million a year is an important Factor in keeping that country a Economy afloat. It was not certain whether the announcement would affect hundreds of thousands of salvadorans living in the United states illegally who did not Register for the program. Immigration and naturalization service officials said earlier this year that it was unlikely that any deportations would have begun before 1993. Hookers action was triggered by fear that the implants had ruptured she said. She awakened tuesday with a swollen face and a rash resembling one that followed a 1989 implant replacement she said. A i thought that this is gods Way of telling me a the time has come. They have got to come out a a she said. Hooker said she first got breast implants in 1975 after a doctor advised her to have her breast tissue removed because of fibr cystic breast disease. Hooker said she has been chronically ill since 1989 with joint pain fatigue Chest pain and shortness of breath. She has been told her Muscles and nerves Are deteriorating. She said she Cut her breast several times in a bathroom at Brackenridge Hospital but officials there refused to admit her for surgery despite the wound so she drove across town to Seton where she was admitted. Brackenridge spokesman Larry Besaw said doctors determined that hookers Cut Wasny to life threatening and were consulting with a plastic surgeon about her Case when she left. Or. Richard Parker removed the implants and said he found them intact. Hooker was released from the Hospital thursday afternoon. Parker said the Media have created a a hysterical situation a although there a no proof that implants cause health problems. A we re empathetic toward that feeling that these women have of despair but its not a situation that needs to be handled like Marlene handled it Quot he said. Hooker said she was insured through a health maintenance organization in Houston called the sans health plan. Martin Rosen National vice president of marketing for new Jersey based sans corp., said restrictions of confidentiality barred him from discussing hookers care. Enthusiasts anywhere else Arentt at equal risk. Having a few drinks before galloping off is too common for too Many riders said or. Doris Bixby Ham Mett Secretary of the american medical equestrian association. A the Fox Hunters always had their Brandy. Its part of the tradition a she said. A but from the medical standpoint we feel this is not advisable. A a you re going to be just As dead if you re drunk and Riding a horse As if you re drunk and Riding a an estimated 30 million americans ride horses. Complete National data Are not available but the cd reported that 205 people were killed on horseback in 27 states from 1976 to 1987. Riders who Are impaired Omav be unable to adjust to the horses movements and May frighten the horse by unfamiliar actions a the cd report said. A a done to drink and .Man s mistake pays off with a double Bonanza from wire reports Louisville by. A Otho Loman blames the whole thing on his Girlfriend. Loman 54, accidentally bought two identical tickets for wednesday nights Power Ball drawing giving him a double win. A a it a hard to believe that such a mistake could a off so Well a said Loman who will receive 100,000 for each ticket. Loman said thursday that he had already bought his wednesday ticket but his Girlfriend urged him to buy a second about a mile from where he purchased the first ticket. A i accidentally played the same set of numbers a Loman said. The winning numbers were 3, 6, 13, 33, 43.thief robs store cabby Beaverton Ore. A a Man took a cab to a supermarket robbed the store and then robbed the cab Driver who drove him there police said. Beaverton police were investigating the robbery of cub foods and the taxi Driver. A Man in his 20s approached a checkout clerk said he had a gun and demanded Cash Early tuesday said police spokesman Mark Hyde. He netted less than $100, Hyde said. The robber ordered the cab Driver to take him to downtown Portland where he fled after taking Cash from the Driver. The cab Driver told police that he picked up the Man in Aloha and drove him to several other stores before stopping at cub has baby on ship Miami a coast guardsmen rescued 999 haitian refugees from crowded sailboats in the past two Days and then helped deliver a baby aboard the Cutter Escanaba on thursday to bring the total to 1,000. The Mother and her son were both in stable condition coast guard spokesman Joe Dye said. The Escanaba was headed for the . Navy base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba where the two were to be taken to a Navy Hospital Dye said. The ship was in International Waters when the child was born. Despite his birth aboard a . Vessel he is not considered a . Citizen said Duke Austin a spokesman for the immigration and naturalization service in actor Dies at 74 Santa Monica Calif. Richard Derr a Veteran stage film and television actor who appeared in such movies As when worlds collide and american Gigolo died May 8. He was 74. He died of pancreatic cancer said Lee Hale a Friend. The actor starred in a few films including the futuristic when worlds collide in 1951, but appeared in Many. They included ten gentlemen from West Point tonight we raid Calais and the drowning Pool. He is survived by a brother Rodman of Southampton group loses Case Washington a Federal jury said a Virginia housing development must pay $850,000 for exclusively using White models in its advertising. Legal experts describes the decision As perhaps the largest jury award Ever in a housing discrimination Case. The jury in . District court cited colonial Village owners of a 640-unit condominium development in Arlington va., for violating the Federal fair housing Law. The Law was first passed in 1968. Two years ago Congress amended the statute and removed the $1,000 ceiling on awards that Federal juries could Grant in housing discrimination cases. In the colonial Village Case plaintiffs argued that the use of White models from 1981 to 1986 sent a message that Blacks were not Welcome. The Case was brought by two groups a the fair housing Council of greater Washington and the metropolitan Washington planning and housing association. 2nd woman does self surgery to Force removal of implants drinking and Riding horses Don t mix study says
