European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes sunday february 28,1993 at a glance wearing a hat that says i have Adream Benny Russell 11, tells about the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King or. At a Black history month Celebration at Frankfurt elementary school in Germany. See Story on Page 11. White House invitations. President Clinton has invited key world leaders to the White House for separate meetings Over the coming weeks including the leaders of France Germany Israel and Egypt. Page 4 More storms coming Al Nino the global weather disturbance that has drenched the West coast is growing stronger again. Pages lobbyist charged one of California s most powerful lobbyists and a former state senator were indicted on charges stemming from an Fri sting operation at the state Capitol. Page 7 baby switch an inquiry released into a maternity Ward switch that Ted to two British mothers taking the wrong babies Home blamed Hospital supervision and a Lack of qualified staff for the mistake. Page 9 buying frenzy disappointed by Ever shrinking re turns in the fixed income markets Small investors Are pouring their Money into stocks at an unprecedented Pace. Page 17 Index j Abby Ann Landers 16 classifieds. 2024 commentary. 15 faces a places 16 Horoscope 23 Jumble 23 letters 14 Money matters 17 Mutual 17-19 sports 2532 weather t 13 in await word to Start Airdrop. _. I the Nln nned Airdrop. Targeted mall a from staff and wire reports american cargo Crews from Rhein main a Germany were waiting saturday Forward to launch flights that will drop food and Medicine to bosnian War victims. The defense department is not disclosing a starting Date for the flights but some officials in Washington said the Airdrop could begin today. We still Haven t got the execute order staff sgt. Johnny Rea a spokes. Man for the Mission said saturday afternoon at Rhein main. We re gearing up but Haven t got the final word to press ahead Rea said. The air Crews would first drop 600,000 leaflets warning those on the ground directing them not to fire at our aircraft and for your own safety keep out of the Way until the bundles hit the ground a senior . Defense official said late last week. The aircrews have been making practice drops for several Days and can drop sup plies within 200 Yards of their targets . Official Conan Peisen late saturday at Rhein main. President Clinton announced thursday that the . Air Force will drop emergency supplies to War victims without regard to ethnic or religious  an Esti mated 300,000 muslims besieged by serbs Are in desperate need of Aid in the area the associated press reported saturday. The bulk of the supplies will be meals ready to eat and medical items Accord ing to col. Don Maple director of the joint information Bureau at Rhein main. A command Post officer at the .european coma Headquarters in Stutt Gart Germany referred All questions sat urday afternoon to Maple s office. Three to five planes will Fly in each Mission and each plane can carry 16 one ton bundles of food and Medicine the defense department officials said. The missions will include High Altitude an night Parachute drops to avoid fire from the warring factions on the ground. During meetings Friday in Brussels Belgium Secretary of state Warren Christopher told nato allies details of the planned Airdrop targeted mainly a isolated Muslim enclaves besieged by serbs. The plans Drew Praise but few Concrete offers of help from Allied pow ers. Germany said it could Send an extra Aid flight to ferry supplies to the Bosnia capital of Sarajevo relieving american planes so they could take part in the air drop. Italy said one of its air bases could be used. And nato said its a acs surveillance planes already monitoring a no Fly zone Over Bosnia would also Survey the Airdrop. Turkey and the Netherlands also have volunteered to help. These Airdrop Are being carried out strictly for humanitarian purposes Clin ton said in his thursday  combat aircraft will be used in this  however Navy jets aboard the aircraft Carrier John f. Kennedy will be on guard in the Adriatic sea off the coast of for Mer Yugoslavia Pentagon officials said. No benefits from mammograms found for women in 40s, . Experts say new York a women in their 40s do not appear to Benefit from mammograms according to a study that found those who undergo the tests have the same death rate from breast cancer As those who do not. The findings disclosed at a meeting thursday of mammography experts in Bethesda md., confirmed a Canadian study published last year the new York times reported Friday. The new analysis was based on a re View of a variety of prior studies from around the world. It also confirms a re port earlier this month by mammography experts in Paris. The Canadian study found that 40 per cent of cancers in women under 50 were not detected by mammograms and that women who underwent the screenings had a 2 percent Chance per year of having a Biopsy for a noncancerous Lump. Both the French and Canadian studies found that mammograms were of sub Stantial value to women 50 and Over. The National cancer Institute and the american cancer society have recommended that women in their 40s have mammograms every one or two years or. Suzanne Fletcher an editor of the annals of internal Medicine who chaired the meeting said the effectiveness of mammograms in women under 50 has no been demonstrated. She said she and four colleagues were asked to convey the results to the president s cancer advis Ory Board next month. Experts from the european society of Mas ology in Paris announced in Earl february that women in their 40s need not get routine mammograms. The Bethesda meeting sponsored by the organization concluded at a breast the Institute sought to clarify whether cancer screening conference that routine the recommendation should be changed mammograms in women older than 50 doctors and consumer advocates at the Are clearly linked to lower death rates meeting urged that women in their 40s be but that current research has not shown Given All available information and make decisively that women in their 40s Benefit their own decisions the times said. From regular breast cancer screening. Kohl discusses Trade issues during Japan visit Tokyo a despite tensions Over a growing Trade imbalance visiting Ger Man Chancellor Helmut Kohl chose sat urday to stress the problems his country shares with its former wartime ally. Kohl s apparent conciliatory stance May reflect irritation shared by Germany and Japan Over what they View As excessive pressure from other members of the group of seven industrialized nations to More aggressively stimulate their own economics. As g-7 nations prepare for their annual economic Summit in Tokyo in july Japan also faces pressure from Germany another Western nations to do More to Aid russian economic reforms despite a Long standing territorial dispute. Perhaps taking a Cue from then presi Dent Bush s Trade Mission to Japan Las year which included top . Auto executives Kohl arrived in Japan on Friday witha Busload of German business leaders. Germany shares its dec allies frustration Over Japan s Trade surplus which surged 63 percent to $31 billion last year from $18.5billion in 1990. Germany s reunification created a huge demand for imports in the formerly communist East pushing its Defi Cit with Japan up 57 percent to $9.6 billion in 1992. Blast from Page 1 the fact that traces of nitrate were  it looks like a bomb and it smells like a bomb gov. Mario Cuomo said although he stressed that it was too Early to be certain. Cuomo who has an office in one of the damaged towers toured the area for 20 minutes saturday morning walking Downto the crumpled parking garage to see the enormous Crater carved by the blast. New Jersey gov. Jim Florio also visited he site. The world Trade Center is operated by the port authority of Newyork and new Jersey a quasi govern mental entity chartered by both states. President Clinton promised in his weekly radio address saturday that the full measure of Federal Law enforcement resources will be brought to Bear on this  one source told the associated pres that one group claiming to represent croatian militants called 15 minutes be fore the beast. If the explosion is confirmed to be bomb blast it would be one of the largest acts of Urban terror in . History. While the explosion s source remained in some doubt its Impact was Swift and certain. The blast hit at 12 18 p.m., creating a200-by 100-foot Crater in the garage below the Center s Vista hotel it demolished parked cars including a Fleet of secret service vehicles tossed beams and Concrete debris into a commuter train station and jolted both towers a virtual Small City of some 130,000 people. It Felt like an air plane hit the build ing said 34-year-old broker Bruce Pomper. Electricity and heat were Cut off to the entire Complex. Some broke windows to get ail. Other remained stranded for hours in elevators Frozen Between floors when the Power went out. Hundreds poured out of the towers into the streets of lower Manhattan piping their faces Black with soot after groping their Way from As High As tbe105th floor