European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Tuesday february 23, 1993 King followed police orders witnesses to his beating los Angeles a an internal police report on the videotaped beating of Rodney g. King says civil Ian witnesses reported seeing King comply with offi cers orders before he was beaten a newspaper reported sunday. Nine witnesses told investigators that King did not Chi but the bizarre behaviour officers on the scene de scribed and that he did not appear to be  police said. It seemed to me he was obeying orders said Dor Othy shims a nurse who jives in an apartment build ing across the Street from where King was stopped after leading officers on a freeway Chase. They told him to get Down on the ground and i looked and saw him on the ground with his arms spread out shines told the Pasadena Star news she lives in an apartment below George Holliday who videotaped the beating and said one of the offi cers appeared out of control to her. He was beating him like you d use a Broom to kill a mouse taking baseball swings at him she said. Police spokeswoman Francine Spada would not com ment on the newspaper s account. She said she did t have Access to the police report which was prepared by the department s internal affairs Section. The report s existence had been reported before the end of a state trial last year but none of the civilian witnesses named in it was called to testify. The fou White defendants were acquitted of most charges in that trial. Some of the witnesses have been asked to testify atthe Federal civil rights trial for the four men. Shims account matches that of other witnesses including a bus Driver who was stopped behind the police cars that surrounded King after the freeway Chase the newspaper said. King went Down to the ground without resistance and was giving himself up Driver Javier Martinez told the newspaper through an interpreter. Sgt. Stacey c. Roon officers Laurence m. Powell and Theodore j. Briseno and former officer Timothy e. Wind face Federal charges of violating King s civil rights. Jury selection was to resume monday. The officers were acquitted of All but one charge inthe state trial in Simi Valley. The acquittals sparked rioting that left 54 dead and More than $1 billion i property damage. Pastor at Reagan Church quits after admitting wrongdoing by the los Angeles times los Angeles members of Bel air presbyterian Church voted sunday to accept the resignation of the Rev. Donn d. Moomaw after he disclosed that he had engaged in unacceptable behaviour with Mem Bers of the  voice vote came after the pastor to former president Ronald Reagan appeared before his2,400-Mcmbcr congregation and asked members to forgive him for unspecified wrongs and to Dis solve their pastoral relationship of almost 29years. Moomaw s decision to submit his resignation Moomaw in which he admitted Only that he had stepped Over the line of acceptable behaviour with some members of the congregation caught Many of the Church s members by Surprise. As his wife Carol stood by his Side Moomaw his voice choking at times with emotion said i have failed. I ask for your  he called it a very very painful moment for Carol and  Well never Ever be anything but family Mooma said. I m grateful for what you have added to my life. I m grateful for the memories. But now i m asking you if you really do believe in me and my life and if you really do love me you will concur with the motion today to accept my resignation. It s not a vote against me. It s a vote for  in offering his resignation this month Moomaw said he wanted to devote his time to  Moomaw and other Church leaders have declined Testate what behaviour prompted his resignation. Along the Way i have stepped Over the line of acceptable be Havior with some members of the congregation he said in his letter of resignation adding that he tried on his own to face unspecified childhood issues and had been Fira Foed in years of denial and faulty coping techniques " Moomaw conducted the religious service for Rea Gan s inauguration Jan. 20, 1981. He is also a former ail american lineman at the University of Californi Aat los Angeles. Smoking May increase leukaemia risk by 30%, extensive studies indicate new York a cigarette smoking May raise person s risk of leukaemia by 30 percent and cause about 14 percent of the nation s adult leukaemia cases scientists reported monday. That would mean perhaps 3,600 cases a year said re searchers who pooled results from 15 studies that included More than 4.5 million people. The estimated 30 percent increase is relatively  longtime smoker runs about a 1,000 percent increase in risk of lung cancer for example. Still the leukaemia link gives you one other goo reason not to smoke said study co author Ross Brownson director of chronic disease prevention at the Missouri department of health in Columbia. The studies could Only demonstrate that smoking was associated with leukaemia not that cigarettes cause the disease. Same unknown factors May be partly responsible for the association especially since the causes of leukaemia Are not Well understood Brownson said. But the consistency of results from different locations and different researchers lends credence to the idea that cigarettes Are responsible he said in a Tele phone interview. Brownson presents the analysis in monday s Issue of the archives of internal Medicine teaming with or. Thomas Novotny of the University of California at Ber new warning on danger of cigarettes by the associated press key findings smoking cigarettes May boost a person s leu Kemia risk by 30 percent. Cigarettes May cause up to 3,600 cases Ofle Kemia a year in american adults. Keley and or. Michael Perry of the University of mis Souri school of Medicine in Columbia. What they be basically done is confirm what has been the growing sense about this topic that Active smoking does increase the risk of leukaemia in adults said or. Clark Heath jr., the american cancer society s vice president for epidemiology and statistics. The estimated 30 percent risk increase fits in wit prior studies he said. Leukaemia is a cancer arising in the body s blood forming tissues. The cancer society expects that 26,700 new cases will develop in american adults this  new study s estimate for cases caused by smoking was based on 25,700 adult cases a year. Cigarette smoke contains benzene and radioactivity which can cause leukaemia. Chicago trains collide on new line hurting 35 from wire reports Chicago one Chicago transit authority train rear ended another sunday the first Day the trains were running along a new route authorities said. Thirty five people were Hurt one seriously. Cat officials were inaugurating a $187 million realignment of train routes to connect two heavily used lines when the Accident occurred in a 4,400-foot Tunnel in the Chinatown area. One train hit another that had stopped Midway into the Tunnel said cat spokesman Jeff Stern. The most seriously Hurt a 22-year-old Man was i Northwestern memorial Hospital with possible neck and Back injuries said nursing supervisor Shirley Jackson. The trains suffered minor damage and left the Tunnel under their own Power Stern said. He said both Drivers were being questioned and tested for drugs and alcohol. Drive starts for Brady Bill Washington encouraged by president Linton s Strong support backers of the Brady Bill announced monday the Start of what they Hope willbe a final successful Effort to enact a Law requiring a five Day waiting period for handgun purchases. Here we go again said Sarah Brady whose husband James was seriously wounded in the assassination attempt against president Reagan i March 30,1981. James Brady was the White House press Secretary at the time. She noted that supporters of the Bill were beginning the seventh year of their Effort and dealing with their third Congress but said we fee the third is the  rep. Charles e. Schumer d-., sponsor of the Bill in the House of representatives told a crowded news conference this is the last time we re going to have to do this because it s going to pass this  Clinton in his address to Congress last week pledged to sign the Bill if it reached his desk. Schumer said it was the first time in 12 years behave a partner in the White House. Willing to work on arms control Domestic arms  athlete s body found Philadelphia the body of a 17-year-Oldhigh school athlete who disappeared a month ago was found in a Park and police said sunday she apparently had been shot. A Man walking his dog saturday found the Bod of Shilie Turner a track Star at William Penn High school in Fairmount Park Woods police capt. Joh Apeldorn said. There was evidence of gunshot wounds but police released no further information pending an autopsy. Turner was last seen getting off a bus near her Home before Dawn Jan. 18. Police found no clues to explain her disappearance. A track coach association and school official offered a $6,000 Reward to find her. Residents and City officials held a March to bring attention to the Case hours before the discovery. Turner ran in several National championship relays and was preparing for a meet on the Day she disappeared. Train cars fall into River Highland Falls . Nineteen cars of Conrail freight train derailed sunday and two tumbled into the Hudson River 50 Miles North of new York City authorities said. Nobody was Hurt and the cause of the accidents an t known. One of the cars that fell into the River was a empty Boxcar and the other was a Tanker loaded with carbonyl in acid a vegetable Oil derivative use to make soap said Chris Wagner a spokeswoman for Conrail in Philadelphia. The chemical poses no Hazard to the River Wagner said. The 76-car train was travelling from Albany to Allentown pa., when the cars went off the track about a mile South of the . Military Academy attest Point