European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 7, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 3u.s. Standing alone against treaty Rio de Janeiro Brazil apr Europe can be a Bridge Between . Earth Summit negotiators who completed work on a key treaty and the . Delegation that refuses to sign it the top european negotiator said saturday. A we Don t want a slugging match of everybody against the United states a said Laurens Jan Brink Horst chief of the european Community a delegation. President Bush a refusal to sign the Accord protecting endangered species has left the United states a a stance ing alone a brinkhorst  can be the  Bush has been severely criticized for his holdout position on the so called biodiversity treaty. A we Are. Letting other nations of the world take the Load in writing the rules that will govern the world s environmental Agenda a sen. Bob Graham d-ela., who is in Rio for the Summit told a news conference saturday. But sen. Larry Pressler r-s.d., defended Bush and William k. Reilly the Leader of the .  anti american feeling is not based on fact. We should be proud of our environmental  after suspending formal sessions delegates continued to meet saturday to resolve differences Over a document called Agenda 21, a blueprint for environmental action. The talks concern safeguarding oceans Man aging hazardous wastes protecting forests and using biotechnology in environmentally sound was. On Friday delegates put the final touches on the so called biodiversity treaty which Aims to preserve Plant and animal species that Are becoming extinct at a rate of 100 to 300 a Day. Bush says the treaty makes unfair demands on the Industrial nations that would fund it. In another development ecologist Jacques Cousteau of prance said unchecked population growth is a major Factor in the deterioration of the environment. Noting that world population is projected to triple to la billion by 2070, he said a even if we found a was to teed this human tidal wave it would be impossible to provide this multitude with decent living  ambassador reminisces for Baum older seniors a amps Peggy Davidson ambassador Robert m. Kimmitt told Baum older graduates to a aim  by Peggy Davidson Kaiserslautern Bureau Baum older Germany a an cd Baum older High school student told the schools class of �?T92 a to aim High for your future. Because one of you May in the future be standing where i am  . Ambassador to Germany Robert m. Kimmitt said he a never expected to be asked Back As the commencement speaker and i certainly never expected to do so As the american ambassador to a United fully Sovereign  Kimmitt attended the school As a Sophomore and Junior from 1962 to 1964. He proved his attendance to the satisfaction of the 46 graduating seniors by showing what he called Quot exhibit a a his letter jacket with the logo a Baum Holder Bucsi on the Back. The seniors went wild As Kimmitt struggled to fit into the jacket which he said fit him better 30 years ago. Before Friday evenings commencement at Baum older a Rheinlander club Kimmitt visited the school and his brother maj. Mark Kimmitt who is stationed in the Baum older Community. The envoy said the Community has changed in the past 30 years. A a Phe major change i see in Baumholzer. Is that there Are More children including school age children than there were Here in the past. I think that a be cause a lot of our soldiers get married younger now have their families younger. So tonight a graduating class is about twice As Large As graduating classes were in the 1960s." the ambassador said he wanted to stress a that the future looks for people who have the experience that these kids do. Having lived in a multicultural multiracial environment 1 think that tolerance that experience they be picked up Here of living in another country living with people from Many walks of life will stand them in Good Stead whatever direction they  Kimmitt paid a Quick visit to the graduating class before the ceremony As the red Robed seniors paced in a Small waiting room. As he reminisced about the differences Between his class 30 years ago and today a class Kimmitt told the graduates that there were also similarities. A some of you saw your parents go off to War last year during operation desert storm a he said. A i know How that feels. A during the cuban missile crisis in october 1962, our fathers deployed to their Battle stations leaving Many of us convinced that another world War was about to begin. The fear of nuclear holocaust was very real to  Ama reports deaths related to abortion Down dramatically Chicago apr the rate of abortion related deaths has dropped sharply for american women in the years since abortion was legalized according to an american medical association report. Data is unavailable to compare abortion related death rates from before and after abortion was legalized according to the report Friday by the amass Council on scientific affairs. But increasingly improved Access to abortion since the . Supreme court legalized it in january 1973 has helped drop the death rate from 3.3 per 100,000 procedures that year to 0.4 deaths per 100,000 in 1985, the final year covered the report said. The risk of dying from pregnancy and childbirth is nearly 12 times greater than the risk of dying from abortion it said. A this study is confirming everything we have been saying. That since Roe is. Wade we have been saving w omens lives a said Ginny Montes National Secretary for the National organization for women. Abortion foes said the Ama was biased and its figures suspect. A the american medical association has taken a very High level Public position in favor of abortion a said or. Richard Glasow education director for the Washington based National right to . A i would seriously question their objectivity in any kind of analysis of abort Ion related  the Ama report cited Federal statistics and previously published medical studies As sources of its data. It said that from 1973 to 1987, the number of hospitals clinics and private doctors offices providing Legal abortions increased 59 percent from 1,627 to 2,582. And during that time the report said the percentage of first trimester abortions Rose from 38 percent to 51 percent. A improved Access to Legal abortion services reduced abortion related mortality by enabling women to undergo the procedure earlier in pregnancy when it is safest a the report said. A increased physician education and skills in the procedure improvements in medical technology better Access to Safe and Legal abortion services and the earlier termination of pregnancy each helped reduce abortion related mortality a the report said. The report said that requiring such things As mandatory waiting periods for abortions or reducing the number of abortion clinics or doctors willing to perform the procedure would cause delays that would increase the risk. Ama s House of delegates will decide at a june 22 meeting in Chicago whether to adopt the report As a position that abortion should remain Legal said or. I Harvey Estes jr., chairman of the Council on scientific affairs. I he report was requested by medical students at last years Ama annual meeting. The Ama had said a year earlier it would refrain from trying to influence physicians on the subject of  groups kept apart by police Wichita Kan. Up a heavy police presence and barricades erected around three clinics saturday kept hundreds of pro and antiabortion demonstrators from a confrontation. The situation was a standoff As hundreds of Yards of fencing kept about 400 abortion foes away from a similar number of pro Choice demonstrators. The Rev. Norman Westland a spokesman for the anti abortion group lambs of c Christ said his group does not plan to Force a confrontation and would not physically intervene to Stop abortions saturday. Police prevented Pat Mahoney an organizer of last Summers operation Rescue protests that re suited in More than 2,606 arrests from carrying an anti abortion sign onto a sidewalk. A there is no free speech in Wichita a Mahoney said after he was threatened with arrest if he marched near pro Choice demonstrators. Quot its not a Public sidewalk anymore. We be commandeered it for Public safety a police said. City Crews Friday put up hundreds of Yards of Snow fencing and placed dozens of barricades around the clinics and police worked 12-hour shifts in preparation for Large demonstrations. Wichita police maj. Tyler Brewer said the fencing and barricades would be used to keep pro Choice and anti abortion forces apart and to ensure that no one would be aide to Block Access to the clinics. Plans have been made invoking the use of buses and trucks to transport those arrested