European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Baltimore school to offer contraceptive Baltimore a the implanted contraceptive norplant which prevents pregnancies for five years will be offered at a Public High school As the City tries to reduce one of the nations highest teenage pregnancy rates. A City run clinic inside the Laurence Paquin school a school for pregnant students and teen age mothers will offer norplant along with other contraceptives starting next month. A you still have a group of girls that will not use anything no matter what you put out there and that is the group of girls we re trying to reach with norplant a principal Rosetta Stith said Friday. A norplant for me is just another option like having another car to  norplant also is gaining favor elsewhere As a policy option. Washington d.c., is it preparing a project next month to give Fife contraceptive to up to 50 teen agers in the City a poorer sections. Also Arkansas is seeking Federal permission to offer norplant and other contraceptives to women on welfare and Virginia will require Public health agencies to make norplant available to All women beginning next year. In Baltimore nearly 10 percent of girls Ages 15 to 17 gave birth in 1990, nearly triple the National rate according to state health statistics. Nowhere is the City a problem More evident than at Paquin whose 300 students Are either pregnant or have recently Given birth. The student body is predominantly Black and offering norplant has caused concern among some Black leaders. A a it a a Little worrisome to me. Its like a Little bit of social engineering a councilman Carl Stokes said. Women who use norplant have six matchstick size capsules implanted under the skin of the upper Arm. Over five years the capsules steadily release a  chief battled heroin new York apr the head of the nations largest school system nearly died from a heroin overdose As a youth but turned his life around with education according to an upcoming autobiography quoted in the new York times on saturday. Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez says As a teen age dropout he snorted and injected heroin often passing out from overdoses and once nearly dying. Fernandez offers his troubled youth As a lesson in How education a in his Case air Force math classes a can save youngsters from the streets. In a passage from a proof sent to reviewers Fernandez told of one night when he and a Friend a were at somebody a House and got stoned on some really potent  a by the time we got downstairs to the streets we were both reeling a he wrote. A i can barely remember my friends walking us up and Down the sidewalk trying to keep us from fading out. They probably saved our  the Book also comments critically on gov. Mario Cuomo mayor David Dinkins and other officials. The Chancellor said the City a Board of education is so politicized and its actions so a nettle some that he has on occasion threatened to quit. A this is not the same Board that hired me a he wrote. A it May Well be the one that fires  speculation has been growing about whether Fernandez will stay on As Chancellor once his contract expires june 30. To haitian exodus refugees from Haiti lie on the  of the coast guard patrol boat Chande cur on wednesday after being roadblocks urged for High crime areas picked up at sea 25 Miles off fort Lauderdale Fla. The coast guard intercepted 640 haitians on wednesday. Chicago up a saying he does no to want to see Chicago turn into a set for Road Warrior Alderman de Burke has proposed setting up random roadblocks in High crime areas to Stem the wave of drive by shootings. The american civil liberties Union and some Black aldermen Friday decried the proposal saying it would turn some neighbourhoods into a police state. Burke on thursday proposed the roadblocks As a Means of stemming the near record Pace of violence in the City this year where 880 homicides already have been recorded compared with 855 at this time last year. Last years homicide rate was second Only to the Pace set in 1974, when 970 people were slain. A a we can to allow Chicago to become someplace out of the movie Road Warrior Quot Burke said acknowledging his proposal was drastic. Burke chastised aldermen from the violence scarred neighbourhoods for criticizing his proposal saying he would think they would want the police to do something about protecting Law abiding citizens. A the Only place where they a Stop and take Peoples stuff out of the car and set it All on the ground is in the african american Community a said Alderman Virgil e. Jones who like Burke is a former police officer. Acle Legal director Harvey Grossman said burkes proposal infringes on privacy rights. A if we re willing to eradicate the civil liberties of people we can probably fight crime even More effectively but the Cost is too great a Grossman said. Burke said he plans to introduce his proposal for random a Roadside safety checks at next wednesdays City Council meeting. Alderman William beavers another former police officer endorsed the proposal As a not a bad  tobacco executive admits risks in smoking Belleville 111. Up a a the chairman of . Reynolds tobacco co. On Friday admitted that there Are risks involved in smoking but he said he does not know if smoking causes lung cancer. Jim Johnston testified for the second Day in a lawsuit filed by a former Green Beret who blames his pack and a half a Day cigarette habit for his lung cancer. Attorney Bruce Cook who is representing Charles Kueper of of Cahokia finished Nis questioning of Johnston on Friday morning. Johnston who said he smokes two packs a Day said the tobacco Industry accepts the a statistical association Between smoking and lung cancer. A we believe there Are risk factors involved in smoking a Johnston said adding however that he does not know what the risk factors Are. Johnston denied there is any conclusive evidence that smoking causes lung cancer. A i done to know. I believe it May or May not a Johnston said. He said he recognizes the risks in smoking and called them a reasonable a despite statistics showing one in four smokers die of lung cancer. A i recognize there a a risk in smoking just As there is in drinking or Snow skiing a he said. The trial is the first of its kind since a june ruling by the . Supreme court limiting the grounds on which such lawsuits can be filed. The 12 jurors and three alternates include seven non smokers seven cigarette smokers and one Cigar  children die in fire believed caused by stove i a eight children were killed saturday by a fire that May have been caused by a stove being used for heat authorities said. A i woke up and 1 heard this lady Yelling a help my children help my children a a said chante Coleman who was at a friends House next door. . Long an investigator with the Delaware county medical examiners office said he pronounced seven people dead in the House All children under the age of 10. A they were All in the same room huddled together a he said. An eighth child a baby was brought out of the House but died soon after according to firefighters at the scene. The cause of death was believed to be smoke inhalation Long said. The children smother and her fianc6 were in a second floor bedroom and another Man was downstairs Long said. All of them got out safely. According to police and news reports from the scene firefighters found Gas jets on and the oven door open in the Kitchen stove an indication that it was being used to heat the  investigator said a space Heater with a frayed electrical Cord could have been a source of the fire. Electives and state police arson experts were called to investigate