European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes thursday May 21, 1992 hero of Rescue helicopter Pilot Bill Ramsey talks about his Rescue of three stranded climbers from mount Mckinley on Mon Day. Quot they were real Happy to Sec us a said Ramsey who works for a company in talk ctn Alaska. The climbers suffering from dehydration and frostbite were in satisfactory condition tuesday at an Anchorage Hospital. Research boosts drug Taxon in fight against lung cancer san Diego apr the experimental drug Taxon made from a Yew tree is among the most potent new treatments Ever tested against lung cancer doctors report. However experts said they doubt that Taxon used alone will prove a cure for the nation s most deadly form of cancer. A the Only thing that will have an Impact on survival is getting our children not to smoke Quot said or. William k. Murphy of the . Anderson cancer Center. Several new reports on the drug were presented tuesday at the annual scientific meeting of the american society of clinical oncology. Doctors said any drug that seems to slow Down no Small cell lung cancer the primary form of the disease deserves attention because no effective treatment exists. In two studies of people with spreading lung cancer 25 percent of the patients responded to the drug. That meant their tutors shrank by More than half. About 140,000 americans die annually from lung cancer and to percent of them have non Small cell cancer. That form of the disease is particularly resistant to treatment. Taxon is made from the bark of the Western Pacific Yew tree. It takes 10 tons of bark to make 2 pounds of Medicine. The drugs Scarcity has limited doctors ability to test it. Scientists Are trying to find new sources of Taxon but none is available. Another Way of limiting use of Taxon As Well As potentially increasing its Power is to Combine it with other cancer medicines. Price of anti cancer drug much too High doctor says by new Day san Diego a Strong Progress against col rectal cancer is being achieved through combined use of two old drugs after surgery a doctor reported tuesday. But he expressed anger that one of the drugs which is also used to worm animals costs 100 times More for humans than for sheep. The Price of leva isole is a inexcusable Quot said or. Charles Moertel of the Mayo clinic in Rochester Minn. Moertel said a years Supply of leva isole As used in sheep costs $14, while a years Supply for treating a cancer patient costs $1,495. The formulation of the drug is different for humans and animals. Robert Kniffin a spokesman for Johnson amp Johnson confirmed the Price difference for the company s drug but said a a we think it is fairly and reasonably priced fora  he said the drug was discovered 30 years ago and had been tried in thousands of patients Over Many years before a use for humans was found. The Cost of the earlier studies is included in the Price he said. Moertel conducted a major study showing the drugs benefits when taken in combination with flu or uracil. Health officials push for new to drugs by new Day with tuberculosis an epidemic in Many nations . And International health officials plan to hold an urgent meeting with drug company representatives next month to discuss the need for new drugs. The disease is on the increase in every country that has a serious epidemic of the aids virus Richard of Brien of the world health organization said tuesday. Of Brien was interviewed at the american lung associations annual meeting in Miami where to was the focus of attention. The association will co sponsor the emergency session in Washington on drug development. Three studies reported at this week s meeting highlight the risks for Hospital workers and patients w to Are around Active tuberculosis cases. Or. Linda Cocchiarella found that nearly half of the physicians who worked in internal Medicine at Cook county Hospital in Chicago became infected with to Between 1988 and 1991. This is about 10 limes the physician infection rates seen in non internal medical areas she said in an interview. Internists provide most of the medical care for people with the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids. Or. Assia Bromberg reported that 16 percent of the to patients at Bellevue Hospital in new York City were infected with strains of the germ that Are resistant to two or More of the available anti tuberculosis drugs. And researchers from the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta described an outbreak of to in a Large teaching Hospital in san Juan puerto Rico which occurred on an his Ward. Seventeen of the his patients and More than half the nurses on the Ward became to infected As a result of exposure. In addition or. Lloyd Friedman of Yale University in new Haven conn., reported on a study of 970 new York City residents All recruited from welfare drug and alcohol programs. About a third of the group had positive skin tests in 1984, indicating they were infected with the to bacteria Friedman said in an interview Soldier pleads guilty in attempted murder from wire reports Colorado Springs Colo. A a Soldier was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges that he tried to kill his Bossy a wife for pay. Army spec. Lee James Jensen jr., 21, pleaded guilty to attempted premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Jensen got 25 years under a pretrial agreement. He will be eligible for parole in about eight years. Jensen testified that staff sgt. James h. Good asked him to kill his wife Tamarra Gonzalez Good on feb. 24. Jensen said Good offered him $35,000 from a life insurance policy he later discovered did not exist and sweetened the Deal by promising him half of $15,000 he expected from Selling the wife a possessions. Jensen shot Tamarra Gonzalez Good with a 9mm weapon when she opened her front door. The Bullet hit tier in the neck but she survived. She and a neighbor identified Jensen to police. Good was scheduled to face a court martial  tortured with Drill new York a four robbers posing As police officers tortured a Man with an electric Drill tuesday until he gave them $800 and his watch police said. Ramon Dejesus 32, underwent surgery to remove the Drill bit from his Skull and was in stable condition at Columbia presbyterian medical Center Hospital spokeswoman Kathy Thompson said. The victim and a 17-year-old boy visiting from the dominican Republic were accosted by two men As they left Dejesus apartment in the Washington Heights Section of Manhattan Early tuesday. The two men who wore fake police Shields around their necks announced they were police officers frisked the pair handcuffed them and forced them into Dejesus apartment said a detective who spoke on condition of  from United Way White Plains . A United Way executive pleaded guilty to stealing $282,500 from the Charity. Evol scaly 41, was director of accounting services for the United Way of Westchester and Putnam inc. For nine years. Her duties included processing checks from employee payroll contribution campaigns prosecutors said. She pleaded guilty monday to stealing about 63 of the checks and depositing them into her personal Bank account Between dec. 20, 1984, and oct. 16,1991. Scaly is to be sentenced july 27.magnate in drug Case Orlando Fla. A one of Ireland a richest men pleaded no contest to cocaine Possession tuesday and agreed to enter a treatment program in the United kingdom. Ben Dunne 42, a supermarket magnate from Dublin was arrested Feo. 20 in a hotel near Walt Disney world after he went berserk and threatened to jump from a 17th-floor railing. On tuesday speaking by Telephone from Ireland to District judge Dorothy Russell he pleaded no contest to Possession of approximately 2 Grams of cocaine found in his pants  nearly collide new York a a United airlines Jet carrying 90 people and a us air shuttle Jet Landing at la Guardia Airport came within 50 feet of colliding monday morning the Captain of the United plane reported to Federal officials. The incident occurred at 11 11 . When United flight 69, a Boeing 727 Jet was taking off for Chicago while us air flight 6430, also a 727, was Landing at another runway after a flight from Washington. Officials said that controllers or air Jet to abort its Landing at runway 22 after it became Clear that it was headed toward the United Jet on runway 31. It passed Over the United plane after it aborted the Landing. Controllers also ordered the United Jet to stay Low Quot during its Takeoff