European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 05, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and strip Friday february. 1993 study finds dreams May trigger heart attacks Boston a now it looks As if even dreaming May be hazardous to your health. A new study has found that the periods of sleep when dreams occur kick the body into High gear. The heart speeds up. The blood pressure climbs. And stress hormones prepare the body to run or fight. Researchers believe All this internal turmoil which happens while the Sleeper is tucked in bed May trigger heart attacks. Their study found that during dream sleep the sym pathetic nervous system which helps the body prepare for emergencies Cranks up in a surprisingly powerful Way. In fact they found it is twice As Active As is Normal when people Are awake. Even at 4 in the morning when you think the Bod should be fast asleep and quiet everything is pounding away. The sympathetic nervous system is in overdrive said or. Virendo k. Somers of the University of Iowa at Iowa City. The idea that dreams May be bad for the heart re Mains highly speculative but researchers say it makes sense. Doctors have Long noticed that angina attacks which occur when the heart fails to get enough oxygen some times happen during sleep. Furthermore people dream the most just before they Wake up. And this might help explain Why heart attacks Are More common in the morning than any other time of Day. Even if dreaming does prove to be bad for weak hearts there May not be a lot anyone can do about it. But maybe we can protect the heart from the sym pathetic nervous system activation that occurs during dream sleep said Somers who directed the study. One Way to protect people who have heart trouble i with Beta blockers. These widely used drugs Blunt the effects of stress hormones on the heart. While generally considered Safe they can have Side effects including reducing people s capacity for Strong exercise an worsening lung diseases. Somers study published in thursday s new England journal of Medicine was conducted on eight healthy volunteers. While the volunteers slept researcher measured heart rates blood pressures and the activation of the sympathetic nervous systems. They found that during most stages of sleep the heart rate and blood pressure fell and the sympathetic nervous system grew less Active. The exception was Dur ing rapid Eye movement sleep the stage when dreams occur. Killer and a kid killer whale Kalona swims with her calf shortly after it birth tuesday at sea world of Texas research and Breeding facility in san Antonio. Kalina 7, is the firs of her species to be born and thrive in the care of humans. Her calf whose sex is not yet known is Esti mated to weigh 300 to 350 pounds and measures 6 to 6vi feet in length. Kalina is 17 feet and weighs about4,800 pounds. Parents held in baby making Case fort Pierce Fla. A the Mother act Stepfather of a 15-year-old girl were in custody wednesday accused of trying to impregnate the teen Ager to make her the surrogate Mother of their child. The girl who agreed to have the baby in Exchange for their permission to marry her Boyfriend had sex at least twice with her Stepfather while her Mother watched police said. This was strictly a baby making thing. The girl was going to be used As a surrogate Mother police Detec Tive Charlie Wharton said wednesday. The Stepfather Francisco Carrillo 30, and the girl smother Gail Quitain Carrillo 42, were arrested tues Day and charged with two counts each of sexual  daughter s last name is different from the parents police  wednesday county judge Dan Vaughn ordered the couple held on $80,000 Bond each. The girl and her 11-year-old sister who was not involved in the arrangement were placed in state Custo  Carrillo was divorced from the girl s father who now lives in Michigan police said. She had undergone tubal ligation but wanted a child with Carrillo. Reversing a tubal ligation was too expensive and the Mother worried that adopting a baby would be a Long bureaucratic process that could leave them with a prob Lem child investigators said. The couple approached the daughter with the Surro Gacy idea but she initially walked police said. She agreed Only after they said she could marry he Boyfriend something the family had been arguing about investigators said. They said if you la do this Well sign and let you get married " Wharton said. The first sexual encounter took place in november week before the Mother and Stepfather married. The girl Lay in the bed with her arms folded across her Chest. The first time the Mother was standing in the door watching Wharton said. The second time the Mother got into bed with the Stepfather and daughter Wharton said. The girl apparently never got pregnant said police spokeswoman april Portar. Police found out about the Case monday when the girl spent the night with a runaway Friend Wharton was trying to locate the detective said. When Wharton found the runaway she told him the Story. He then called the daughter into the police station. The Mother and Stepfather later came to the station and confessed he said. All 7 aboard cargo plane killed in crash near base from wire reports Marietta a a one of a kind cargo plan described As a flying Laboratory crashed and burned after taking off from an air Force base wednesday killing All seven aboard. The plane clipped a Corner of a Navy medical clinic but caused minimal damage and no injuries there said it. Pat Blassie spokeswoman for Dobbins fab in suburban Atlanta. About 50 workers had been in the clinic. The plane was a modified l-100, the commercial version of a c-130 Hercules transport. It was built and owned by Lockheed aeronautical systems co.,which has a Plant next to the base. The victims were Lockheed employees company spokesman Doug Oliver said. The plane crashed and broke apart about 200yards North of a Dobbins runway about 1 30 . It came to rest on a Low Hill and burned. All seven aboard were killed said Roff Sasser Iii a National transportation safety Board investigator. The cause of the crash was under  said the plane was conducting an engineering test at the time but he would t elaborate. Fossil finders lose suit rapid City . A huge tyrannosaur re Skeleton does t belong to the professional Fossil Hunters who excavated it because it was take illegally from Indian land held in Federal Trust a judge ruled wednesday. . District judge Richard Battey ruled in Favoron Federal prosecutors who seized the massive Fossil last May. The Black Hills Institute of geological research had sued to get it Back. The private Fossil Hunting company discovered the 65 million year old Fossil on the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation on land held in Federal Trust for rancher Maurice Williams. Prosecutors said Federal approval was needed before the Fossil billed As the largest and most Complete of its kind could be taken from the  votes to protect Gays j Telluride Colo. In the first municipal counterattack on anti Gay rights amendment 2,voters in this Mountain resort approved an anti discrimination ordinance that includes Protection for homosexuals. Telluride with a 484-151 vote outlawed discrimination in housing employment and Public services based on sexual orientation race gender religion and other categories. The measure directly opposes amendment 2,which prohibits state or local Laws that protect Gays from discrimination. The amendment was approved by Colorado voters nov. 3. A Denver judge last month suspended the measure pending the outcome of a court Challenge. Telluride and surrounding san Miguel count voted heavily against amendment 2, As did most Colorado counties that rely heavily on income from ski tourism. Gay activists have called a Boycott of the state to protest the amendment. Voters in Denver and Boulder counties also opposed the amendment. Parents lose rights to child lbs Moines Iowa a mentally disable couple must give up parental rights to their 2-year old son because they can barely care for themselves a divided Iowa court of appeals panel has ruled. In ending the couple s parental rights two of the three judges said the boy was at risk because the parents can barely attend to their own  me Case Are sealed. The boy suffered severe brain damage and other medical problems at birth and has been in Foster care since then. Caring for him would require an almost superhuman Effort the parents cannot make the majority judges decided. The judges said they were bound by state policy that makes the welfare of the child the overriding Issue in parental rights cases