European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Friday a try 23,1993 Annapolis graduate wins Jib approval As Navy chief Washington a the Senate on wednesday night unanimously confirmed John Dalton to be the new Secretary of the Navy. He is eminently qualified to assume this position said sen. John w. Warner r-va., Navy Secretary in the Nixon administration. Dalton a native of new Orleans who now lives in san Antonio was confirmed by voice vote without Dis sent. He takes Over a Branch of the service that is still reel ing from allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of officers attending the 1991 Tail Hook convention in Las vegas.--, Dalton a 1964 graduate of the naval Academy who served on two submarines won lavish Praise from re publicans and democrats at his confirmation hearing earlier this month. Dalton is the first Clinton administration nominee for a service Secretary Post reflecting its slow Pace in filling top civilian jobs at the defense department. He deftly avoided providing specifics to the Senate armed services committee on the future of the Navy the planned number for submarines and aircraft and the Fate of destroyers. He described the Tail Hook convention in which scores of women were allegedly assaulted by Navy and Marine corps officers As a very sad chapter in the history of our  Dalton pledged that under his supervision the Navy would never condone such behaviour. Spurned affection no thinks says 3-year-old Jed Luton As he struggles to avoid a wet kiss from a tame female killer whale. Jed a cancer patient in remission was one of a group of sick children visiting Marine world in Vallejo,calif., on wednesday. Trainer Leah Schafer has a whale of a Job holding Jed for the impending smack. Teen goes to jail in twin s Case by newday new York Eddie Hernandez and his twin brother Jesus Are dead ringers so identical that even their Stepmother could t Tell them apart. So when the Stepmother told police that she had been assaulted and slashed in the Throat by one of her Stepsons sunday they questioned both 16-year-Olds. Jesus had an Alibi police said. Eddie would t talk so police arrested him on charges of sodomy at tempted rape and attempted murder out investigators eventually noticed one Small differ ence Between the twins Jesus had Small knife Marks on his hands. Eddie spent two Days in jail for a crime he apparently did t commit rather than accuse his twin brother. He s my brother i love him Eddie said wednes Day after he was cleared of All charges. For him to be taken away from me it s like a part of myself is  out Jesus eventually admitted carrying out the at tack police sources said and detectives found out that his Alibi was a fake. The Stepmother whom authorities declined to identify was still hospitalized wednesday listed in Good condition. Jesus was arraigned wednesday on charges of Sodo my attempted rape and attempted murder said Man Hattan District attorney Robert Morgenthau. Bail was set at $50,000. Linda Fairstein head of the sex crimes unit said twas a particularly complicated Case of mistaken identity because most sex assault cases rely on Dan fingerprinting tests. But twin Brothers have identical Dan structures. With All of the scientific advances we have to work with Dan was useless to us Here she said. These two were dead  in the Brothers Washington Heights neighbourhood residents were stunned that either of los Mellizo the twins was accused of a violent crime. Eddie and Jesus lived with their Mother and were known As role models to neighbourhood children. They were Well behaved kids Good basketball players an talented illustrators who dreamed of publishing their own comic books said a 14-year-old fiend who identified himself Only As Eric. There s a lot of trouble around Here he said but those two Are the last people you would expect to do something  Eddie said he has grown so alienated from his father that he does t even know where his father and step Mother live. When the woman was attacked sunday afternoon Eddie said he was out shopping for sneakers with two friends. Eddie said he never told the police that figuring hey if you re innocent you re innocent so the truth will come  while he misses his brother and Hopes he s cleared of the charges he does t blame police for the Peculiar Case of mistaken identity. Hey they were just doing their Job he said. Peo ele Are always talking about cops beating people up it they were All right by me. Cops got to make a living too you  doubt cast on some drugs used in treating aids from wire reports new York new Laboratory findings cast serious doubt on the effectiveness of a combination of drugs that some experts had called the Best Hope for treating aids a newspaper reported. In february Harvard scientists at Massachusetts general Hospital in Boston said they had found what May be the Achilles Heel of his the virus that causes aids the researchers reported that the drug combination blocked the virus from growing an spreading to other cells in test tubes. The combination consisted of two marketed drugs Artand Del and either of two experimental ones pyridine one and  use of three drugs simultaneously was thought to prevent the virus from mutating to develop resistance to any one or two of them. But two other research teams could not confirm part of the Harvard team s findings. And on thursday the new York times quoted or. Martin s. Hirsch the principal investigator As saying those reports had prompted his team to repeat its original studies. In doing so it found an error in one part of the findings the times reported. Parents want child Back Washington the biological Mother and father of a 2v4-year-old girl urged the supreme court on wednesday to act quickly to Settle their custody dispute with the couple who have Bee raising the youngster. Dan and Cara Schmidt of Blairstown Iowa said in papers fixed with the court that the dispute has gone on too Long. They were responding to a request filed with the supreme court on tuesday by Jan and Roberta Deboer of Ann Arbor mich., who want to adopt. The girl. The Michigan couple Are asking the court to invalidate an order requiring them to the return the child they Call Jessica by aug. 2.the dispute began shortly after the baby was born feb. 8,1991. Cara Schmidt then unmarried signed custody release on feb. 10 but listed the wrong Man As the father. The baby was taken by the deboers attorney on feb. 11. Shortly afterwards Cara Schmidt changed her mind informed Schmidt that he was the father and they tried to get the baby Back. Vitamin a May fight cancer Boston women who consume a diet Rich i Vitamin a appear to reduce their chances of developing breast cancer researchers said wednesday. An eight year nationwide study involving nearly 90,000 female nurses found that those with the lowest intake of Vitamin a had about a 20 percent increased risk of breast cancer compared with those with higher consumption  said they can Only speculate about the effect Vitamin a might have but they indicate that it May involve the substance s ability to inhibit growth of potentially cancerous cells. The report appeared in the new England journal of Medicine. Breast cancer affects an estimated one american woman in eight sometime in her life. Story of torture recited Atlanta three teen agers charged with killing a disabled Man tortured him for 24 hour with seven knives a Barbecue Fork and Salt according to a published report. Charles Conrad who could not walk because of advanced multiple sclerosis was beaten stabbed 40 times and had Salt poured into his wounds Las weekend. His daughter s Boyfriend 17-year-old Mark Edward Jackson and two juveniles aged 14 and 15 Are charged with murder. They re also accused Farmed robbery for stealing his wheelchair equipped Van and stereo  Atlanta journal Constitution reported wednesday that one suspect told police that the three spent 24 hours torturing Conrad 55, beginning Friday night. When they got tired the youths sat on a Couch and threw things at Conrad As he Lay on his bathroom floor begging them to kill him according to the suspect s  journal Constitution reported that Conrad s daughter 13-year-old Katie was not a suspect but that she May have Given Jackson the key to the House. She had told Jackson that she hated her father the newspaper said