European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 16, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7limited logging of d in spotted owl areas by Tom Kenworthy the Washington Post Washington by the narrowest of margins the Bush administration won limited authority thursday to Cut Timber in Pacific Northwest forests that Are Home to the threatened Northern spotted owl. The decision came from a special Cabinet level panel that voted to override the endangered species act and permit logging on about 1,700 acres of Federal land in Oregon. The seven member endangered species committee often called the a god squad a voted to exempt from the act sales of Timber from 13 tracts of Federal land proposed last year by the Federal Bureau of land management. But the panel denied the by my a request for an exemption covering another 31 sales and ordered the Agency not to offer any new Timber sales until a plan has been developed for a a recovering owl populations on land the Bureau manages. The decision was denounced by environmentalists who said they would go to court to prevent the Timber sales and by allies of the Timber Industry who said it does no to go far enough to help workers in the battered Forest products Industry. The decision is unlikely to have an immediate Impact because Federal judges have barred logging in most of the ancient Northwest forests in the course of pending lawsuits filed by environmental groups. Immediately after the voting the panels chairman Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan jr., made Public the governments official recovery plan for the owl and an alternative plan a devised at Lujans direction a that would Cost fewer jobs but save far fewer owls. The official version would meet the mandate of the endangered species act by requiring efforts to restore owl populations to a level that would remove the Bird from the threatened species list. La Jan s alternative would preserve a lower number of owls but not enough to get the species off the list. A if we take a common sense Middle ground approach we can preserve the owl but at less than one half the Cost a said Lujan As he presented what he called his a preservation plan for the owl which was declared a threatened species in 1990. Lujans alternative would require approval by Congress which Capitol Hill sources regard As unlikely. The full recovery plan required under the endangered species act would set aside 5.4 million acres in the Northwest and result in the loss of about 32,000 Timber Industry jobs according to the Interior department. Lujans alternative would set aside 2.8 million acres and Cost about 15,000 jobs. A a it Snow up to Congress to make that decision a Lujan said. Environmentalists immediately dubbed Lujans version the a extinction plan a be cause even the written proposal estimates that it is Quot highly Likely that the plan would a eventually result in extinction or near Complete extirpation of Northern spotted owls after More than a Century. Thursdays actions came As the Long running debate Over the spotted owl and the disappearing old growth forests it needs to survive appears headed toward a Climax sometime this year. Congress wrestling with its desire to protect the environment and Timber Industry jobs is working on comprehensive legislation governing old growth forests. Two House subcommittees have taken divergent paths one approving a Bill that would establish a 6.8 million acre owl preserve in the Northwest the other voting to set aside about 9 million acres of Federal land. Court decisions involving the owl have front millions of acres of Federal land off limits to new Timber sales and Cost thousands of loggers and other Forest related Industry employees their jobs. Advocate of Vitamin c s Power to prevent cancer gets disease Palo Alto Calif. Apr for a Quarter Century two time Nobel laureate Linus Pauling has taken Mega doses of Vitamin c and a lot of flak from sceptics for trying to stave off the deadly c a cancer. Time and disease finally caught up with him in his ninth decade he said this week in revealing that he has prostate cancer. But at 91, he says he a recovering. A practically All old men Are found to be developing cancer of the prostate sooner or later a a Rosy cheeked Pauling said in his office at the Linus Pauling Institute of science and Medicine. A it May be that my Vitamin c put the cancer off by 20  Pauling said the diagnosis was made in december about two months before his birthday. He is being successfully treated with a hormone blocking drug Fluta mide. A few weeks ago he said doctors at Stanford University medical Center told him that he was no longer producing a prostate specific Antigen a substance to which the body reacts by producing antibodies. That suggests the disease is no longer present he said. Pauling whose hands and age weary voice each shake a bit was told to come Back for a checkup in four months. Meanwhile he is taking flu Amide along with his regular Vitamin c dosage a 18,000 milligrams a Day or 300 times the recommended daily requirement a in two heaping spoons of powder in his juice each morning. A it looks As though this drug that in a taking is doing the Job a Pauling said. A but i feel that High intake of Vitamin c and other vitamins can increase life expectancy by up to 24 years. That Means someone who a supposed to live to 70 or 75 has a Good Chance of making it to 100. A i done to expect to live forever. But in a feeling Fine now. And the doctors done to seem especially  he a feeling so Fine that he has kept up his research publication rate of 10 to 15 papers a year More than 1,000 since the 1920s. When be Isnit travelling Pauling works part time at the research Institute he founded nearly 20 years ago in Palo Alto and part time at his big sur ranch. Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1954 for Nobel laureate Linus Pauling talks about his prostate cancer and his continued belief in the value of Vitamin c. Unravelling the mysteries of chemical Bonds in molecules. And in 1962, he won the Nobel peace prize for his Effort to ban atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. A sometimes in be been wrong Over the years a Pauling said. A but in be been right so often that some scientists out there Are saying a Well maybe Pauling is right about Vitamin  a researchers have been divided about whether Large doses of Vitamin c can help Ward off cancer and heart disease. Last week a study by the University of California at los Angeles found that a daily intake of 300 milligrams May increase life expectancy in men by six years and a daily dose of 150 milligrams could extend life two years. But few doctors have agreed with Pauling a View that taking Vitamin c could extend the life of cancer patients As Well As help prevent disease. Alabama bans funds for Gay groups Montgomery Ala. A gov. Guy Hunt signed legislation prohibiting Gay student groups from receiving Public Money or using buildings at state universities. The american civil liberties Union vowed to Challenge the Law passed in response to the juror surrounding a Gay student groups drive for recognition at Auburn University. The measure signed thursday makes it illegal for state schools to give Money to or allow its facilities to be used by any group a that Fosters or promotes a lifestyle or actions prohibited by the states sodomy and sexual misconduct  Hunt a primitive Baptist preacher has said Little about the Auburn controversy and made no statement when he signed the Bill. The Law was passed by the Ala Bama legislature without opposition. Last year Auburn a student government association refused to Grant a charter to the Auburn Gay and lesbian association. Administrators overruled the student government and granted the charter. Ruth Harlow of the american civil liberties unions Gay and lesbian rights project said her group was prepared to fight. A if any Public University in Alabama revoked funding for a Gay and lesbian group we would Challenge that a Harlow said thursday in a Telephone interview from new York. A we Haven t made any determination whether we will Challenge the Law on its  Pat Sefton president of Auburn a student government association said he expects administrators to follow the Law.3 More sent to prison for Utah tourist s slaying from wire reports new York a three Young men convicted of killing a Utah tourist and robbing his family for admission Money to a dance Hall were sentenced thursday to 25 years to life in prison. Brian Watkins 22, was fatally stabbed in september 1990 after defending his Mother during a robbery on a new York City subway platform. His father was knocked Down slashed across the buttocks and robbed of $200. Prosecutors said the attackers used the Money for admission to a nearby dance Hall. Sentenced were Yuli Gary Morales 19 Anthony Anderson 20 and Ricardo Lopez 20. They were convicted in april. Four other men convicted in december were previously sentenced to 25 years to life. The Case of an eighth defendant Luis Montero 23, is  s the Holdup Joliet Iii. A Kevin Ruth became really annoyed when Bank employees Dawdle at handling his transaction. He did no to realize the tellers thought he was trying to Rob the Bank. Ruth owner of a motorcycle Dealership went to the Bank and handed Over a withdrawal slip that a unbeknown to him a had a message written on the reverse Side a this is a stick up. I have a bomb and Armor piercing  the Teller took Ruth a withdrawal slip and turned it Oyer to a supervisor who called police. The supervisor detained Ruth by telling him she had to transmit his signature Over a fax to another Bank Branch for verification. A i was getting kind of annoyed after about 15 minutes of waiting to make a withdrawal a Ruth said thursday. A i was sitting in the lobby stewing when the squad cars pulled  Ruth said he never looked at the Back of the withdrawal slip before he filled it out. A like i told the cop when was the last time you looked at the Back of a Bank slip a he  Post filled Washington Constance b. Newman one of the highest ranking Black women in the Bush administration has been named to the no. 2 Job at the smithsonian institution. Newman who has led the office of personnel management since 1989, was named thursday to succeed the late Carmen Turner As undersecretary of the smithsonian. Turner died of cancer last month. Newman 56, also has served As an assistant Secretary of housing and Urban development a member of the consumer product safety commission and As director of volunteers in service to America or Visi a the Federal Volunteer Agency