European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                _ us 1 the stars and stripes b Page 27 combat for women of d on most ships not planes thursday november 5,19923 Quot Navy aviators killed in California Jet crash from wire reports Al Centro Calif. A three Navy aviators based in Washington state died tuesday when their Jet crashed and exploded on a training flight in Southern California. The ea6b prowler Jet went Down in an open Field about a half mile East of the naval air facility in Al Centro about 180 Miles West of san Diego. The electronic warfare Jet exploded and caught fire and All three people aboard a a flight instructor and two students a were killed on Impact authorities said. The Jet and its Crew were attached to the vaq-129 s9 based at Nas Whitbey Island in  research questioned Washington a the army is investigating whether a prominent researcher presented misleading results from tests of an experimental aids vaccine a published report said. The investigation focuses on it. Col. Robert Redfield of the Walter Reed army Institute of research and an aids vaccine made by Micro genesys of West Haven conn., the scientific journal science said tuesday. The vaccine known As Vax syn or up 160, is undergoing testing for delaying illness in those already infected by the human immunodeficiency virus his which causes aids. Congress last month appropriated $20 million for the department of defense to conduct Large scale testing of the Micro genesys  jobs protected Washington a the postal service announced tuesday that it has agreed not to Lay off any postal worker who loses a current Job because of the Agency a massive reorganization. The agreement reached with a postal Union will also extend indefinitely the salaries of workers forced to accept lower paying positions and will allow those displaced workers to retain their current Grade level an administrative step that could give them greater Access to Job vacancies. Postal spokesmen said the agreement does not guarantee that postal workers will retain jobs in their current communities. Some workers May have to move if they wish to remain postal  hike leukaemia risks Washington a breathing dust or chemical Vapours or handling solvents on a Job for five or More years appears to substantially increase the risk of leukaemia researchers reported tuesday. A study of 62 leukaemia patients revealed those who worked in occupations that involved chemical exposure were most Likely to have a genetic defect linked to acute myeloid leukaemia a cancer of the blood forming organs. The defect known As an a activated Ras Oncogene a has been linked to numerous cancers including acute myeloid leukaemia and cancers of the Colon lung breast pancreas and ovary. Or. Jack Taylor of the National Institute of environmental health sciences in research Triangle Park n.c., said people who worked five or More years in occupations he classified As High risk were six times More Likely than others to develop acute myeloid  patients at risk Chicago a uninsured Hospital patients suffer negligent medical injuries More than twice As often As insured patients according to one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of its Type. One possible reason is that uninsured people often Lack regular medical care and tend to take regular care problems to emergency rooms where treatment is accelerated and More prone to mistakes researchers said. Also hospitals May be reluctant to admit uninsured patients the researchers said m wednesdays journal of the american medical association. The researchers Analysed 30,195 patient records from 1984 at 51 hospitals in Urban suburban and Rural new York state. The team found 1,278 injuries caused by medical treatment including 306 caused by negligence the failure to meet expected standards of care. By Ray Rowden Washington Bureau Washington a military women should serve on most combat ships a but not in com Fht aircraft or in ground combat units says a presidential commission studying women in combat. The commission on the assignment of women in the armed forces endorsed assigning women to combat in the interest of military readiness but rejected opening Aerial combat roles to women then suggested that women sailors should serve on All combat ships except for submarines and amphibious Craft. The commission also determined tuesday that women should not serve with ground combat units including special forces units and should not be subject to a military draft. In a move that one panel member decried As a blackmail a five of the 15 members staged a half Day walkout. Led by arc conservative Kate Walsh of Beirne of the heritage foundation the renegades succeeded in winning control of a Section of the commissions final report which will be presented to president Bush on nov. 15. That Section originally open to any panel member who wished to present a dissenting View will now reflect a the Case against placing women in combat a according to Walsh of Beirne and will not be subject to the editorial process used with the bulk of the report. Many women a groups and some commission members have charged that the composition of the panel stacked the deck against putting women in combat from the Start. The National women a Law Center issued a statement protesting the commissions makeup the pit Ohui is about the size of a Blue  find foul fowl by the new York times toppling traditional notions of How Birds defend themselves scientists have discovered the first known poisonous Bird a Brilliant Orange and Black creature whose feathers and skin Are laced with a potent toxin that is thought to deter predators. Researchers were astonished by the discovery because they had never before found an example of a Bird using a chemical defense against its enemies. The Bird called a hooded pit Ohui pronounced pit of hooey lives in new Guinea. It is about the size of a Blue Jay. A it blew our socks off a said or. Bruce m. Beehler of wildlife conservation International a division of the new York zoological society. Beehler is an author of the report on the poisonous Bird which appeared last week in the journal science. The biologists believe the Poison works by instantly repelling any Snake Hawk or other predator that so much As licks one of the Birds feathers. Shortly after the voting tuesday. A a in a extremely disappointed but not surprised a said Navy it. Paula Doug Fin of the vote against allowing female pilots to Fly combat aircraft. A what transpired Here was just As damaging to the morale of women in the military As what i and other women endured in a hallway in Las vegas a year  Coughlin is a Navy flier and the most prominent victim of the notorious third floor Gauntlet at the Tail Hook convention that led to a Navy scandal. She attributed the findings of the final recommendations on the commissions composition. In a thinly veiled reference to Walsh of Beirne and another conservative panel member Elaine Donnelly of the Michigan based coalition for military readiness Coughlin questioned the propriety of a professional homemakers evaluating naval aviators. Arguing in favor of assigning women to combat aircraft panellist Brig. Gen. Thomas v. Draudy the Marine corps Public affairs chief noted that his daughter a Navy officer is in training to Fly the 17a-18 Hornet. A i have to ask myself would you let your daughter Fly in combat with the possibility of her becoming a pow prisoner of War ? the answer is yes a Send the Best a he said. The air combat vote served As a Wake up Call for retired army maj. Gen. Mary Clarke who up until then had let her vote do most of her talking. A i want the record to show that my positions on this commission have nothing to do with equal Opportunity but Are based on 50 years of proven performance by military women a Clarke . Reportedly made secret deals in iraqi arms Case by the new York times the Justice department secretly agreed not to prosecute top executives of a company that supplied Iraq with millions of dollars in Western arms making equipment according to documents and interviews. The disclosure of the agreements reached in 1990 and 1991, is expected to deepen the controversy Over the Bush administrations failure to Stop the flow of arms to Baghdad. And the agreements with two executives of matrix Churchill corp., a British toolmaker with a Branch in Solon Ohio mean that despite two years of investigations the United states May not be Able to build a criminal Case against major participants in iraqi president Saddam Hussein a arms buying network. Documents made available in a trial in London last week showed that in the late 1980s, the British government allowed matrix Churchill to illegally ship arms making equipment to Iraq because two of the company a British executives were acting As informants for British intelligence. Atlanta prosecutors reached the agreements with Gordon Cooper who ran the company a Ohio operation and Paul Henderson managing director of matrix Churchill a main operation in Coventry England. Henderson was one of two British informants inside the company. There has been no evidence that Cooper who lived in the United states had been an informant. Gerrilyn Brill acting , attorney in Atlanta said tuesday that the immunity agreements were necessary to get the executives to cooperate with a multimillion Dollar Bank fraud investigation there. She said the agreements Only prevented prosecutors from taking information from the executives and using it against them. But an examination of the documents and interviews with other Law enforcement officials show that the agreements apparently prevent other prosecution of the two executives for their roles in the arms buying network. Some of the officials who asked not to be identified said the agreements have been criticized within the government because they apply to investigators in Cleveland who Are also examining matrix Churchill a activities