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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Thursday december 17, 1992 Allen May give presents to his kids judge rules new York apr Woody Allen still May not visit his adopted daughters school but he May give Christmas presents to her and his two sons a judge ruled. State supreme court Justice Elliott Wilk also ruled that Allen May have a copy of the videotape in which the girl 7-year-old Dylan allegedly says he molested her. T he rulings came during a hearing in the bitter child custody dispute Between Allen and actress Mia Farrow who was his companion for More than a decade. Allen adopted two of Farrow a 11 children a Dylan and a son Moses 14. Allen and Farrow have a biological son Satchel 4. In August Farrow accused Allen of sexually molesting Dylan she has kept the three from him since. Allen is seeking custody of the three claiming that he is innocent of the molestation charge and that Farrow is an unfit Mother. Allen told reporters outside court a i got nothing out of this except that i could give my kids Christmas presents. I am pleased i am  the filmmaker also said lie was sorry he Ever became Bush says . Must maintain leadership role College stat Ion Texas a president Bush in a valedictory address tuesday cautioned the nation and president elect Clinton against turning inward and shrinking from americans responsibilities As the worlds leading democracy. A history is summoning us once again to Lead a Bush told 7,500 people on the Texas a amp a University Campus where his $41 million presidential Library and museum i 11 be built. A the alternative to american leadership is not More Security for our citizens but less a said Bush in an emotional speech that warned grimly of the economic and strategic Pitfalls of isolationism. He credited . Resolve with helping bring about a series of cold War triumphs from the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of soviet communism to Iraq s defeat in the persian Gulf War. He criticized those who say the United states burdened with Domestic problems no longer needs to get involved in International affairs Given the soviet unions collapse. A Lei me be Blunt a Retreat from american leadership from american involvement would be a mistake for which future generations indeed our own children would pay dearly a he said. A we must not stumble As we travel toward a world without the brutal violence of Bosnia the deadly anarchy of Somalia or the squalor that still haunts so much of the  involved with Farrow. A if cd known this id have never taken Mia to that first lunch years ago a he said. Wilk continued to bar Allen from contacting the Brearley school which Dylan attends until the investigation of the molestation allegations is Complete. Meanwhile Farrow moved in Manhattan surrogate court to void Allens adoptions of Moses and Dylan. She said Allen 57, defrauded her and the court by not revealing his a virtually incestuous affair with her oldest adopted daughter soon i Previn 21. Eleanor alter Farrow a attorney said she has hotel records that prove Allen had sex with his former leading lady after he began his affair with Previn a College student in new Jersey. Allen has said he began his affair with Previn years after his Romance with Farrow had died. Allen deadly zoo attack Rick Estrada a worker at the san Antonio zoo collects his thoughts after zoo keeper Jubal Cox was attacked by an elephant tuesday. Cox later died of his injuries it was the first death at the zoo since it opened in 1910. Navy cancels radar Jammer contracts Washington a t he Navy on tuesday cancelled $835 million Worth of contracts for an electronic radar jamming system criticized for years inside the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill. T he airborne self Protection Jammer was being developed by the Navy for a variety of Carrier based warplanes such As the f-14, f/a-18 and the ea-6. T he Pentagon had spent More than 15 years and $1.5 Hillion to develop the system. It had ordered 136 of the devices which were supposed to confuse enemy surface to air missile radars. But the system which was being developed by a number of companies never passed its flight tests. At one Point the Navy acknowledged that the testing standards had been relaxed but the system was unable to meet even the lowered standards. In its statement the Navy said a the decision to terminate. Was made because it was determined in operational testing that the system was not operationally effective and not operationally  the Navy said it was cancelling nine production contracts with a consolidated electronic countermeasures which is composed of . Of Nutley ., and Westinghouse of Baltimore. A . And Westinghouse operating separately. A Westinghouse electronic systems co., Welsco of Baltimore. A and Smith industries of Morham Park the Jammer system has been criticized harshly for years. Sean o Keefe acting Navy Secretary consistently opposed it when he was Pentagon  test May help gauge inherited risk of cancer from wire reports Boston a a new test May someday help people born into cancer prone families learn whether they Are Likely to get the disease. The test provides a Quick Way of detecting whether people have inherited a defective copy of a Gene that ordinarily protects against cancer. The bad version of the Gene called p53, is linked to Many kinds of cancer and in some families is passed from generation to generation. P53 is one of a group of cancer suppressor genes. The tests principal Developer or. Stephen h. Friend of Massachusetts general Hospital said the test should shorten the search for bad versions of p53 and similar genes from a few Days to a few  admits oversight Washington a nuclear regulatory commission spokesman admitted tuesday that the Agency a did not do thorough follow up when an Ohio Hospital gave radiation overdoses to hundreds of cancer patients. The Plain dealer of Cleveland reported tuesday that 28 people died in 1975 and 1976 after an employee at Riverside methodist Hospital in Columbus miscalculated their treatment times. But the arc documented Only two of the deaths. A clearly in the Riverside Case we did not do a thorough follow up a said arc spokesman Joe Fouchard adding that procedures used today Are far More aggressive than they were 16 years ago. The disclosures come a month after a Pennsylvania cancer Center failed to notice that radioactive material had broken from a surgical device inside a woman a body. She died four Days  stamp on Sale Jan. 8 Washington a after nearly a year of hype and hoopla the postal service decided tuesday to spare stamp collectors that last 24 hours of waiting for the new Elvis stamp. Postmaster general Marvin Runyon announced that the stamp honouring the King of Rock a no Roll will go on Sale nationwide Jan. 8, the same Day it is first issued at Graceland the Presley mansion in Memphis Tenn. Normally sales of new commemorative Stamps Are limited to one City the first Day becoming available in the rest of the country a Day  policy draws reprisals Seattle a the City Council has banned official City travel to most Colorado communities in response to that states passage of an initiative denying civil rights protections to homosexuals. City funded travel is still authorized to the cities of Denver Boulder and Aspen where officials have said they will continue to enforce Laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination despite the referendum vote. Councilwoman Sherry Harris who proposed the Resolution monday night said the measure a is a statement of the values we have toward opposing bigotry wherever it  called cancer foe Washington a the risk of Colon or rectal cancer could be reduced by nearly one third in the United states if people would eat More fiber Rich foods researchers reported tuesday. Epidemiologist Geoffrey Howe of the National cancer Institute of Canada compared the results of 13 different studies involving 15,757 patients in 10 nations. He found striking consistency. All but one of the studies showed a decrease in Colon and rectal cancer risk of at least 26 percent in persons who consumed at least 27 Grams of fiber per Day Howe and colleagues reported in the journal of the National cancer Institute. Americans eat an average of 16 Grams of fiber a Day. Howe said the fiber boost should come from a variety of foods not from a fiber supplement or a single kind of High fiber fare. He suggested a eating an extra Apple a Day an extra helping of vegetables and Cereal products or a slice or two of whole wheat  while the study did not determine an actual cause and effect relationship the researchers said the findings were Strong enough to recommend lugh fiber diets  
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