European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes . Friday january 8,1993 Rocker Clapton captures 9 grammy nominations Universal City Calif. A Rock guitarist Eric Clapton who turned to music to help Hun Cope with the death of his son received a leading nine nominations thursday for the 35th annual grammy awards. Billy Ray Cyrus . Lang Vanessa Williams and the team of Celine Dion and Perabo Bryson joined Clapton in earning major nominations. Nominations for record of the year honoured Clapton a tears in heaven Cyrus achy Breaky heart Lang s constant craving Williams Saveh he Best for last and Dion Bryson a Beauty and the beast. Other lop nominations for Clapton included album of the year for unplugged and song of the year for tears in heaven written after his 4-year-ofd son died in a fall from an apartment window. _ also nominated for alb uni of the year were Lang s in Genue Annie Lennox s a a u2�?Ts Achung baby and Beauty and the beast from the hit Disney movie. In the song of the year category nominees included Cyrus achy Breaky heart Beauty and the a Cost Lang a constant craving and Williams save the Best for last. The song of the year award goes to the songwriter. A divergent Field was represented in the Best new artist Competition country music s Cyrus Rocker Sophie b. Hawkins rappers Kris Kross and arrested development and pop Singer Jon Secada. The nominations for country male vocal performance amounted to a five Way shootout among the genres top stars. Garth Brooks was nominated for the album the Chase while Cyrus earned a bid for the single achy Breaky heart. _ Vince Gill got a nod for the album i still believe in you while Randy Travis was nominated for the single better class of losers. Travis Tritt was nominated for the single lord have mercy on the working Man. Contenders for female country vocal performance were Mary Chapin Carpenter for the single / feel Lucky Wynonna Judd for the album Wynonna Reba Mcentire for the single the greatest Man i never knew Lorrie Morgan for the single something in red and Pam Tillis for the single maybe it was Memphis. Clapton also showed up in pop and Rock categories. Tears in heaven was nominated for male pop vocal Quot performance and unplugged had a bid for male Rock vocal performance. An acoustic version of his classic Layla was nominated for Best Rock song songwriter Jim Gordon shared that nomination. Clapton a other nominations were for instrumental composition for a motion picture or television As composer of the album Rush and two bids for the Best song written for a movie or to show. He shared nominations with songwriter will Jennings for tears in heaven and with Michael Karnen and sting for its probably me. �?u2 was also nominated for the Rock duo or group vocal performance award for its Achung baby album. The Competition included in Vogue for the single free your mind Little Village for its self titled album los Lobos for the album Kiko and the red hot Chili peppers for the single under the Bridge a High powered lineup was put in Contention for female pop vocal honors. Dion was nominated for Celine Dion while Lang earned a bid for constant craving and Lennox for diva. Mariah Carey and her mtg unplugged album and Williams save the Best for last single rounded out the category. For pop duo or group the nominees were the Dion Bryson team genesis George Michael and Elton John Prince and the new Power generation and Patty Smyth and Don Henley. The grammy awards will be broadcast on lbs on feb 24 from the shrine auditorium in los Angeles. Comedian Garry Shandling will be the Host. The nominations were decided by members of the National Academy of recording arts amp sciences. Winners Are then chosen in a final balloting of the 6,500 voting members. Enter the King the Glrst Day postal cover of Elvis Presley was to go on Sale today at Graceland in the background in Memphis tenn., where Elvis Presley lived before his death. A commemorative stamp sporting a picture of a the King Quot was to have been released at 12 0 . Friday at Graceland. Nationwide sales were to begin at noon. Perot to boost grass roots group Dallas up. A Ross Perot who won nearly 20 percent of the popular vote nov. 3 in his Independent 3uest for president will launch a National membership rive next week for his grass roots group United we stand America. Perot officials said the Texas billionaire win hold a news conference monday at a North Pallas hotel to kick off the drive for the Reform organization born during his unorthodox Campaign. Perot officials said United we stand which they Call a nonpartisan National coalition of citizens will work to bring about reforms in the Economy government and election Laws. Since the election Perot has largely remained out of the Public Eye. There had been reports that the group which evolved As a grass roots movement to place Perot on the ballots of All 50 states would be turned into a third political party. But Clayton Mulford Perot a son in Law and his general counsel during the Campaign told the Dallas morning news that Perot had rejected the idea of creating a third party out of United we stand America. He said the Volunteer group will be More educational than political in its role As a watchdog group. A the idea would be that its an education vehicle to discuss and delineate Public policy issues a Mulford said. A a it a not a lobby or something where you try to influence legislation. A a there a no intention to tie it to a presidential election. Its just a continuation of the  Perot spent $60 million of his own Money on the 1992 Campaign which used talk shows. Paid a infomercials Quot and Little personal campaigning. Because of his effective use of television Perot was named adman of the year by advertising age. Perot told the Magazine that he had no idea How his Campaign would affect the future of politics. A i Haven to spent a lot of time thinking about that a Perot told the Magazine. A i Hope there will be some Good effects. Well find that out Over  misleading claims linked to silicone ii from wire reports Washington a a congressional report says misleading claims by manufacturers and government inaction left women uninformed about the risks of silicone gel breast implants. A top health official says the companies Are under investigation. The report praised specialists at the food and drug adminis Fatin for trying to bring attention to the problem but it said they were Quot repeatedly undermined Over a period of 15 years of decision makers within the  Quot that pattern continues to the present Day Quot the report said. The report attributed the Fra s slow response largely to lobbying efforts by plastic surgeons and manufacturers As Well As being kept in the dark about possible health problems appearing in the companies own  books on loan Washington the  which has More than 15 million books of its own is borrowing a few from the Vatican Library in Rome a including a 470-year-old volume of love letters from King Henry Viii of England. Why would the Vatican Library keeps love letters of the much married Monarch Quot they Are the originals of 17 notes from Henry to Anne Boleyn later his second Queen. They belong to a loan exhibition called Rome reborn that opens saturday just off the Library of Congress Century old great Hall. The occasion Marks the Hall s reopening after three years of restoration. The Rev. Leonard e. Boyle the Vatican Library s prefect said the letters must have been stolen and then sent on to the Vatican. Gene linked to diabetes Boston a scientists have linked a particular Gene to the common inherited form of adult diabetes. But they say the Gene is probably not the cause of the disease just a signpost of it. Finnish researchers reporting in thursday s new England journal of Medicine said they found that a specific form of this Gene occurs in 30 percent of diabetics but Only 8 percent of no diabetics. The Gene controls the Way muscle stores sugar. The adult form of diabetes sometimes called non insulin dependent diabetes afflicts about 10. Million americans. U runs in families but is a Complex disease. Experts suspect several genetic variations May be responsible for it. Steps taken to shield dogs Toledo Ohio a officials have warned residents of East Side neighbourhoods to keep their dogs inside following the fatal shooting of one dog and the wounding of two others. Diana Murphy supervisory investigator for the Toledo humane society said wednesday that neither a motive nor a suspect had been found. The shootings occurred tuesday in neighbourhoods that Murphy said were accustomed to hearing gunfire. Honoree held in theft Washington a the 19-year-old Man arrested for illegally driving the car of former District of Columbia mayor Marion Barry is a gospel Singer whom president Reagan honoured with a National youth hero award in 1986, the Man Tyrone Ford has performed at the Kennedy Center and at Wolf trap and at age 12 directed three Church choirs. News articles note that he attended Barry s inaugural party in 1986. Barry reported his Chrysler new yorker stolen on monday just hours after he parked it at the City office building for his first Day As a newly elected City Council member. Court records say that Ford had a marijuana cigarette laced with cocaine in his pocket when he was arrested and that he tested positive for drug use. He was charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and cited for driving without a permit. Barry was in no hurry to reclaim the car saying he first wanted police to inspect it thoroughly. Bariy was convicted in 1990 on cocaine Possession charges and served six months in jail