European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday novembers 1992 . The stars and stripes Page 273 Navy aviators killed in California Jet crash from wire reports Al Centro Calif. Three Navy aviators based in Washington state died tuesday when their Jet crashed and exploded on a training night in Southern California. The ea-6b 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 so 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 Yax 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 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 in 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. Panel rejects greater combat role for women by Joseph Albright Cox Newt sender Washington a a presidential commission on tuesday said yet to women on aircraft carriers and no to females in fighter planes submarines and tanks. It will be up to the incoming Congress and the White House to act on the commissions recommendations next year. In a signal that the women in combat controversy is far from settled the National women s Law Center immediately issued a statement charging that the commission picked by president Bush was a stacked against women in  after seven months and $4 million of research the 15 commissioners decided by a one vote margin that the risk of women aviators being taken prisoner was too great to justify allowing qualified women pilots to Fly combat missions. They also went on record against allowing women to face the Rigours of direct land combat. A the idea that we would position women so that they could be subjected to depravity violence and death As prisoners is one that i will not sign up with said the swing voter retired army Gen. Maxwell r. Thurman who commanded . Forces during the 1989 Panama operation. The general joined a bloc of hard line conservatives on the commission to Deal an unexpected defeat to the aspirations of Young female officers who contend that their military careers will be Hurt if they Arentt eligible for flying in combat. But because sailors face a smaller Chance of getting captured Thurman sided with moderate commission the pit Ohui is about the size of a Blue  find foul fowl by the new York tires 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 it 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 Bird s feathers. Or �?�ud1hwpo 19  Alfh Iofi am Mia i will no Ivvan up Vonh a a iwo we Meiqi Ivl my Dpi no i ovum we ers in recommending that Congress permit women to serve on All Navy ships except submarines and Marine Landing Craft. The net effect would be to open More than 150,000 Navy Seaboard billets to women a provided they can pass new tests for endurance and upper body strength. One conservative retired army col. W. Darryl Henderson argued that women pilots cannot withstand a fighter planets High a forces during their monthly menstrual periods. Henderson also said that women pilots would interfere with the a male bonding that builds morale in elite flying units like the Navy so top  commission chairman Robert t. He arcs a retired air Force general led a soft spoken counterattack maintaining that the air Force would be stronger if it were allowed to choose qualified women As combat i. Lots.. 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 Multi billion 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