European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Friday March 12,1993 hitting the Trail again Kathleen Swenson running seventh wednesday in alaskans id Tarod Trail sled dog race takes her team Over a berm at Ophir As she starts out alter a rest Stop at Nikolai checkpoint. So far five of the 69 teams have dropped out of the grueling 1,161-mlle race. The test of skill and stamina began saturday in Anchorage. The id Tarod Trail was used during a 1920 epidemic to Rush vital diphtheria scrum to Nome. Star at zipping Miles a second sync woday no its not Elvis even though it is a Star travelling at High Speed apparently dragging a guitar in its Wake. The discovery of an Ultra dense Neutron Star flying faster than any Star seen before in this Galaxy was announced wednesday in the scientific journal nature. The Star leaves a a guitar shaped Wake As it plows through Clouds of dust and Gas adrift in interstellar space. Known by the unromantic name per 22246s, it is a spinning Star known As a Pulsar racing along at More than 600 Miles a second a fast enough to get from new York to los Angeles in less than five seconds. Pulsars usually travel 10 times faster than Ordinary stars but this new object is going 10 to 20 times faster yet. According to astronomers James cords and Scott Lundgren at  in Ithaca ., and Roger Romani at Stanford University in Stanford calif., what they re seeing is probably a tiny Neutron Star the incredibly dense remnant of a larger Star that blew itself to Smithereens in a Supernova explosion maybe a million years ago. They suspect the explosion was asymmetrical or off Center causing the Star to be kicked away at tremendous Speed. It is called a Pulsar because each time it spins a beam of radio noise sweeps past the Earth like the warning Light atop a police car. A a it a the fastest Star we know of in our Galaxy a Cordes said in a Telephone interview. A a it a pretty definite that it did get kicked out of a Supernova explosion sort of an off Center  a Supernova occurs when a Star slightly larger than the Sun bums up its nuclear fuel and begins collapsing into itself. As the onrushing material gets squeezed tighter and tighter by the stars powerful Gravity it gets so hot that the outer layers Are suddenly blown away. Left at the Center usually is a Neutron Star that has been pressed so tightly that it is Only 10 Miles in diameter. And it is so dense that a teaspoonful of Neutron Star stuff weighs tons. Cordes and his colleagues think the Nebula forming in the Star s Wake is generated by the a Bow Shock Quot of the Star and its magnetic Field blowing through the interstellar medium at tremendous Speed. Emergency rooms misused study says san Francisco up a the increasing number of americans seeking treatment in emergency rooms for minor ailments poses serious consequences researchers report. The University of California san Francisco study corroborates evidence of the growing practice of the poor and uninsured substituting Public hospitals for private clinics. Of 700 patients questioned while wailing at san Francisco general Hospital s emergency room in the summer of 1990, Only 13 percent should have been there doctors reported in the March Issue of the american journal of Public health. A once considered a source of care for major injuries and life threatening medical conditions the emergency department has become part primary care physician and part social worker to Many americans a said or. Kevin Grumbach a researcher at the a Csc. His study confirms findings in other . Cities of overcrowding Long Waits and w widespread misuse of the emergency room for nonemergency conditions. A this is a nation id problem with a multifold Impact a said co author or. Andrew Bindman professor of Medicine at the a Csc affiliated Hospital. A although exact figures Are not in yet treating patients in the emergency room rather than a clinic is a far More expensive w a of providing  Cost is not the Only ill effect of the practice. Since the patient sees a different doctor each time continuity is disrupted duplicate and unnecessary tests Are often ordered and preventive measures and follow procedure unplugs arteries by new Day a procedure to unplug clogged arteries within an hour of a heart attack is More effective in the Long term than using drugs to break up clots two of three studies published wednesday indicate. But Given the interest in controlling health care costs experts agree it is unlikely that the United states could afford the billions of dollars needed to make the procedure called angioplasty the Standard treatment. Angioplasty involves threading a balloon tipped wire through the blood vessels. The authors of the three studies published in the new England journal of Medicine note that the Cost of angioplasty or drug therapy after a heart attack is approximately the same and two of the three studies found that patients who underwent the invasive procedure have fewer subsequent heart attacks and a better Long term prognosis. Up Are not addressed Bindman said in an interview. The authors of the study urge More and better coordinated primary care services for the poor including clinics that accept nonemergency patients on a drop in basis. Woman who killed husband freed by governor s panel from wire reports Tallahassee Fla. A woman convicted of murdering her husband was ordered released from Erison wednesday in a clemency decision based on or claim she was a battered wife. She was the first to gain clemency through a new Florida procedure that created panels to review cases of possible battered woman syndrome. Gov. Lawton Chiles and four of Florida a six Cabinet members conditionally commuted the 15 year sentence of Kimberly Bliss Soubielle 27, who was convicted of second degree murder. Soubielle who has served five years of her sentence will be placed on probation for 15 years. Anti Gay violence up anti Gay violence according to the National Gay and lesbian task Force Survey anti Gay incidents reported to Gay agencies in five cities increased to 1,898 in 1992, compared with 1,822 the year before. Over five years the number of incidents tracked by the task Force has risen 172 percent. The task Force gathers its figures from san Francisco Chicago Boston new York and Minneapolis St. Paul based on incident reports to local advocacy groups. Undercover cop killed new York a an undercover detective who had just returned with backup officers to Complete a a buy and Busty marijuana Deal was slain wednesday afternoon when a suspect opened fire at a silk screening store in the East Village. The detective Luis Lopez 35, a father of two from Staten Island died on an operating table at Bellevue Hospital Center an hour after he was shot in the Chest. Three people were arrested. Buried Cash found at House grand rapids Mich a excavators unearthed $11,792 in soggy Cash from water filled t ars buried by a Recluse who lived in a two room a Louse with no indoor plumbing. A Indian Joe Cizauskas who was in his 80s when he died in 1988, a had a hard time with Banks a said his Niece Rose Kerr. The Money mostly $20 Bills was buried a few feet deep in jars Salt shakers Medicine bottles and a Teapot. Editors sued after argument san Francisco a a political consultant filed a multimillion Dollar lawsuit wednesday against the san Francisco examiner and its two top editors saying he was knocked Down during an argument Over the papers coverage. Clint Reilly an adviser to mayor Frank Jordan is seeking damages for the feb. 2o incident in which he broke his ankle. Reilly says he was knocked Down by the examiners executive editor Phil Bronstein. The suit also names William Randolph Hearst Iii the papers editor and publisher. New sex abuse charges Riverhead  A an acquaintance of 10-year-old Katie Beers who was held for 16 Days in an underground Dungeon was indicted wednesday on a charge of sexually abusing her before she was kidnapped. Sal Inghilleri 40, the husband of Katie a godmother Linda was charged with sex abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. In january Katie was found in the Dungeon beneath the House of John Esposito a family Friend. He is jailed on kidnapping and sexual abuse charges. Sex charges filed _ eau Claire wis a a prosecutor has filed juvenile sex charges against two High school students caught having sex in a school hallway. L assistant District attorney Mike Steuer filed the charges wednesday against the girl and boy both 15, a Day after the eau Claire school Board decided not to expel the two. Steuer said he decided to file charges a because a message needs to be  the teen agers each were charged with second degree sexual assault 0 child and fornication