European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes . Friday March 5,1993gop shift on abortion Issue predicted Washington apr two conservative activists predict the Republican party would moderate its abortion stance in 1996 even while warning that the gop could lose support on that and other social issues. William Bennett a former Reagan and Bush administration Cabinet member said wednesday that he thought the party should drop its Call for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion. Instead he suggested language casting abortion As a state Issue and endorsing significant restrictions. Ralph Reed executive director of Pat Robertson a Christian coalition said he favored keeping the antiabortion platform Plank yet predicted it would be changed for the 1996 presidential Campaign. A it is a winning Issue. It has always been a winning Issue a Reed said sharply disagreeing with gop moderates who believe the party a position has Hurt it with Weipen and moderate voters. Study links but Reed who is Robertson Stop political aide said it was too soon to predict How the Plank would be changed. He said the platforms a support of the Sanctity of human life should remain the  but he suggested it would be possible to delete language that could be interpreted As critical of those with differing views without alienating the religious right. Both spoke at a news conference at which the Christian coalition released a Survey that it said showed the Republican party risked losing Core voters if it heeded the advice of some moderates and deleted controversial social issues from its platform. The event was the latest in a tug of War Between moderates and conservatives and the religious right within the conservative movement Over the party a direction Between now and the 1996 election. Specifically Reed said the Survey showed that a significant Core of voters was drawn to the gop because of its opposition to abortion and support of voluntary school prayer and Federal support of private and Reli Gibus schools. A National Survey of 1,529 registered voters conducted for Robertson a Christian coalition found that protestants and catholics who attend Church at least twice a month represent 39 percent of All registered voters. Of those a churchgoing voters a 51 percent characterized themselves As republicans 31 percent As democrats and 17 percent As independents. According to the marketing research Institute Survey taken last month 37 percent of the republicans said they would leave the party if it dropped its anti abortion platform position. Some 58 percent of this Republican subgroup said they would abandon the party if it dropped from the platform a family issues such As voluntary prayer and school Choice. To Boston apr could the next health craze be nuts a new study concludes that they lower cholesterol. Just How is a matter of dispute. But researchers have assembled two different lines of evidence suggesting that nuts in general and walnuts in particular Are Good for the heart. A including walnuts in the everyday diet May be an easy Way to Tower the risk of heart disease by improving the cholesterol profile a said or. Joan Sabate of Loma Linda University who directed the latest study. The study funded by the California Walnut commission was published in thursdays new England journal of Medicine. The Story began with a study of 31,208 seventh Day adventists who generally avoid smoking and drinking. Researchers questioned them about their consumption of 65 different foods to researchers Surprise those who ate nuts at least five times a week had Only half the risk of fatal heart attacks As those who had nuts less than once a week. That discovery was published last summer in the archives of internal Medicine along with a sceptical editorial by or. William Ca amp Telli director of the landmark Framingham heart study. A has the magic Bullet arrived a Cas Tylli wrote. A is it the Humble nut Quot Casteliz did no to think so then. But the latest evidence from the same team strengthens the Case and even Casteliz is becoming a believer. This time the researchers put 18 healthy volunteers on two carefully controlled diets for two months. One was a nut free version of a Standard Low Choles Terol diet. The other was nutritionally similar except 20 percent of calories came from walnuts. On the no nuts diet the volunteers cholesterol Levels fell 6 percentage Points. When they switched to the Walnut diet their cholesterol declined an additional 12 percentage Points. Everyone a cholesterol dropped while eating null and the average decrease was 22 Points from 182 to 160. �?o1 think they Are really onto something a Casteliz said in an interview. Why though is unclear. The total amount of fat in both diets was the same but its composition differed. Walnuts Are a Good source of polyunsaturated. While eating walnuts Peoples consumption of polyunsaturated fat Rose 90 percent but their intake of saturated fat dropped 40 percent. The researchers said this change in fat could account for less than half of the reduction in the volunteers cholesterol. A baie said other kinds of. Nuts May turn out to be just As Goot for the heart. River Rescue a deckhand on a passing tugboat slips a noose around a dog ing swum several hours in the River. The rescued animal Bun dinging to pilings in the Chicago River on tuesday. The dog Gry and frightened was taken to a shelter where it will recover was coaxed onto the pilings by passersby after apparently hav for a week and then be put up for adoption. . Navy sued by amerasian children Washington up a $69 million class action lawsuit was filed against the Federal government thursday by 8,600 amerasian children who claim their . Military fathers abandoned them in the Philippines. A coalition of eight philippine organizations brought the suit against the . Navy in the . Court of Federal claims. The action concentrated on the amerasian children of Olon Gapo City a nightclub area known for prostitution outside me now closed Subic Bay naval facilities. Cecilia Hofman a spokeswoman for the my fila based Gabriella said the group attempted a dialogue with the . Embassy last year but was ignored. A this lawsuit is the result of our frus rations a Hofman said. A the Navy regulated Access to these bars. They required the women to go to the health clinic. What this implies is that the Navy Felt it was of for their personnel to have sexual Contact with these  Hofman said the lawsuit does not seek to have the children granted citizenship. Instead it asks for $8,000 per child to cover such expenses As food clothing and medical care. Attorney Don West who drafted the lawsuit said he hoped a precedent would be set by the filing that would allow the children to file for support from their Absentee fathers through the . Legal system. A right now these children Are in limbo a West said. Medicare payments highest in Miami fort Lauderdale Miami apr Miami and fort Lauderdale lopped a Survey of the most expensive areas in the country for elderly people to fall ill and doctors say that a because their patients Are older sicker and quicker to sue. A you done to find Many 85-year-Olds in Boston a said Robert Cline vice president of the Broward county medical association. A if they Are still alive they Are in Florida.�?�. Researchers at the Urban Institute in Washington reported that the metropol Itan areas with the highest medicare payments to doctors Are Miami $1,874 per patient and fort Lauderdale $1,636. The cheapest was san Francisco $872. Medicare is the Federal health insurance program for people 65 and older and the disabled. A it suggests to us that there Are differences in the Community practice standards a said or. Mark e. Miller one of the researchers who worked on the study published in thursdays Issue of the new England journal of Medicine. The researchers weren to sure Why the variations exist and said they found no differences in people s Overall health that could explain the findings. But South Florida doctors said they serve More of the oldest sickest patients because so Many retirees Settle there. Florida has about 2.5 million retirees 65 or older. Doctors also said Florida residents have a propensity to sue that has driven up costs. Malpractice insurance in Florida is among the most expensive. W