European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes Friday june 12, 1992 army recruits Start to give samples for Dan dog tags Usman guns Down one wounds two in Phoenix from wire reports Phoenix a a gunman wearing a bulletproof Vest opened fire in a City office building thursday killing one woman and injuring two other people before he was killed authorities said. Fire department spokesman Steve Jensen was unable to say if the gunman committed suicide or was killed by officers who fired at him. A woman shooting victim was pronounced dead at St. Josephus Hospital and medical Center and a second woman was in surgery in critical condition said Debra Gelbart a Hospital spokeswoman. Good Samaritan regional medical Center reported treating another woman but would give no details on her condition. Jensen said that in addition to the three people wounded by the gunman another was treated for psychological stress. The gunman appeared on the sixth floor of a downtown building that houses offices of the City personnel department about 11 . And began shooting Jensen said. One of the injured was shot on the sixth floor he said. The spokesman was unable to provide names of the injured or information about a possible  mounts Challenge Washington a former District of Columbia mayor Marion Barry who left City politics 18 months ago disgraced by a drug conviction will run this fall for the . Council seat in Ward 8, the City a most impoverished area Barry is mailing letters to about 8,500 Ward 8 voters this week to declare his candidacy As a Democrat. That will pit him against longtime Ward 8 Council member Wilhelmina j. Rolark and much of the City a political establishment. Barry returned to the District in late april after serving a six month prison  hits Mojave area Yucca Valley Calif. A a Small earthquake struck near this Mojave desert Community wednesday. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The 5 24 . Temblor registered 4.3 on the Richter scale and was entered nine Miles North cast of Yucca Valley said Riley Geary a seismic analyst at the California Institute of technology in Pasadena. The quake was Felt in the nearby towns of Joshua tree and Twenty nine Palms said Mark Laggren of radio station Krub in  Casino advances Chicago a mayor Richard m. Daley a gaming commission voted unanimously wednesday to approve a proposed $2 billion Ca sino entertainment Complex Tor the City but said developers should be prohibited from offering sports betting and should reach some sort of agreement with the horse racing Industry. The commission issued a 90-Page report that rejected gov. Jim Edgar a opposition to the project and urged Daley to seek legislative approval. It is unlikely that lawmakers win take up the proposal in the final three weeks of the legislative session observers said. The commission said rigid controls would have to be implemented to minimize gambling related  victim mom charged Hartford Conn. A a woman has been charged with trying to kill her dying aids afflicted daughter by getting her to take a drug overdose. Geraldine Hansen 46, of East Hartford pleaded innocent tuesday to attempted murder and was released on $50,000 bail pending a june 23 hearing. A judge citing a confidentiality Law regarding aids cases ordered court files sealed and instructed attorneys not to discuss the Case. But sources said Hansen was arrested May 6 after a visiting nurse alerted authorities that Hansen a 23-year-old daughter Gina had been Given an overdose of sleeping pills. Fort Knox by apr in a grim Concession to wars ability to leave victims without fingerprints or Teeth for identification the army has begun taking blood and saliva samples from recruits for a a genetic dog tags program. A we Hope there will never be another body buried in the Tomb of the unknown Soldier a army maj. Victor Weedn chief of the armed forces Institute of pathology said wednesday. A service members want to know that if they pay the ultimate Price proper respect will be  sgt. Joe Ricondo a fort Knox nurse said 1,000 to 1,500 recruits will give samples each month at the army Post. Soldiers at fort Mcclellan in Alabama will be tested beginning next month. Eventually the program will be expanded to the entire army. Dan or detox ribonucleic acid is the molecular genetic blueprint found in every living cell. By Cross Matching the smallest tissue specimens with genetic samples on file pathologists can make identifications with High reliability. The blood and saliva will be used Only to identify a body and will be destroyed once a Soldier leaves the military said Weedn chief of the institutes new armed forces Dan identification Laboratory. The blood smears Are on cards that also contain a fingerprint signature and bar code. One card will be Washington apr the american heart association on wednesday urged that secondhand smoke be treated As an environmental toxin that should be banned from offices and Public places. The group also dismissed claims by the tobacco Institute that there is no Clear evidence linking environmental tobacco smoke with lung and heart problems. A in terms of carcinogenicity there is nothing even close a said or. Homayoun Kazemi a physician who helped prepare an association paper on the topic. A the second closest environmental cause of lung cancer would be  the paper contained no new scientific data but summarized what its authors said was an overwhelming amount of evidence that exposure to the smoke of others increases a persons chances of getting lung cancer heart disease or emphysema. The group said it is contacting health and human services Secretary Louis kept with the medical records the other will be vacuum sealed Frozen and stored. The samples Cost about $3 per recruit and the repository will Cost approximately $500,000 annually. Weedn said it costs less than present identification methods which have their limitations. Only about 70 percent of military personnel have fingerprints on record he said. And dental comparisons Are not always possible because soldiers done to need As much dental work As they used to and thus Lack dental records he said. Moreover fingerprints and Teeth can be destroyed in combat. A a it a not bullets and bayonets anymore Quot said Navy capt. Glenn Wagner Deputy director of the Multi service Institute. A a it a stuff that can really cause a Good Deal of  in an explosion in Kuwait last july for example investigators found Only one Small portion of a jaw with intact Teeth among tissue from two dead soldiers. Dan comparisons helped make identifications in those cases and helped sort out body parts in others. But using Dan in operation desert storm was challenging because the military did not have Dan samples from soldiers. Investigators had to Check the Dan of victims relatives for guidance. And in one Case they compared tissue with hair found in a pilots electric Shaver. W. Sullivan and William k. Reilly director of the environmental Protection Agency to urge them to toughen Federal smoking standards and increase Federal Aid for education about the risks of smoking. Educating the Public about the dangers of secondary smoke will receive special attention the group said. Or. Aubrey e. Taylor another physician who helped draft the paper said that since a landmark 1964 surgeon general a report highlighting the dangers of smoking there have been thousands of studies showing that secondary smoke increases the risks of heart and lung disease. A i done to think in 1992 we have to debate whether environmental tobacco smoke causes disease a Kazemi said. A the evidence is  that statement was sharply challenged by the tobacco Institute which insisted that a less than 100�?� studies have been done on the effects of secondary smoke. Summers Here students at the Council traditional school in to awaited by children around the world the last Day bile ala., on tuesday celebrate an annual event of class before summer vacation. Federal agencies urged to treat secondhand smoke As a toxin