European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes u.8. Thursday july 29,1993 administration eyes ban on plutonium production by the Washington Post Washington the Clinton administration is drafting an arms Accord that would ban All production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons around the Globe senior . Officials said tuesday. The officials said the fissile materials cutoff idea is the chief proposal to emerge from an administration review of potential measures to hah the future proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The aim of the cutoff proposal would be to Cap stocks of highly enriched uranium and plutonium at existing Levels and then begin to reduce those stocks by International Accord. This would effectively remove the principal building blocks of nuclear weapons from glob Al circulation. Tic proposal to be presented soon to president Canton arises from a consensus within the administration that too much of the material already exists Ere rating substantial risks of its theft or diversion by a Ter doctor training must be limited official advises Washington a the United states has too Many doctors not just top Many specialists and should consider restricting the number of residencies to train new ones a top Federal health official said tuesday. Or. Philip r. Lee the new assistant Secretary for health at the department of health and human services said there has been a very dra Matic increase in the last five years in the num Ber of foreign trained doctors doing their residencies in the United states. Currently there Are 80,000 physicians in residencies or fellowships. Lee said the total number of those slots is 35 percent higher than the num Ber occupied by graduates of . Medical schools. Specialists outnumber generalists Amon the 600,000 practising . Physicians by More than 2-to-l, and the imbalance is growing. Whitehouse officials have said they Hope to redress that by changing Federal subsidies for graduate medical education. Lee a top academic researcher and adminis Trator from the University of California at san Francisco said he is convinced that we have too Many physicians not just the wrong types. That s Why we need to decrease the total number of residencies he told health reporters. He said some lawmakers have suggested allow ing the number of residencies to exceed the num Ber of . Graduates by Only 10 percent. Another option would be to allow no More than half the residency slots to go to specialists. % Lee said be has suggested a review of Resi Dency programs by experts convened by the National institutes of health and the elimination of residency programs that failed to meet the experts criteria. Forest or rogue state the officials said. The Stockholm International peace research Institute recently estimated that 910 tons of plutonium and 1,300 tons of highly enriched uranium were stockpiled at the  1990. Only a Small fraction is subject to International safeguards against proliferation it said. The plan May be opposed by some . Allies such As Israel and France who have been reluctant to shutdown their nuclear weapons production lines. It May also be opposed by China and India which also pro Duce fissile materials for nuclear weapons. North Korea has been asked to suspend its production of plutonium while it is engaged in High level talk with the United states and Russia declared recently that it had halted plutonium production. Other Friendly nations that produce fissile materials such As Britain and Japan have been wary of taking any Steps that might undermine the use of weapons Grade materials to fuel civilian nuclear reactors that provide electricity. Fifth graders made eligible for condoms by the new York times new Haven Conn. The Board of education seeking to fight aids in a City that is the Center of Connecticut s epidemic has approved a plan to provide condoms to students As Early As the fifth Grade. The Board s 6-1 vote on monday night apparently makes new Haven the nation s first school system to adopt such a program for children so Young. Some Board members said they Felt they had to act after a student Survey found that 27 percent of sixth graders and 49 percent of eighth graders said they were sexually Active. ,. City officials said aids caused 33 percent of the deaths among men Between 25 and 44, and 28 percent of the deaths among women in that age group in 1990,the most recent year for which statistics Are available. Any time that you have children at risk of dying then i can t imagine anything More urgent than that said Patricia Mccann Vissepo the Board s chairwoman. Under the program school health care workers will give the condoms to students in Middle school and High school students will receive the condoms Only on re quest and Only after they have been counselled about sky sexual behaviour and Safe alternatives. With the Board s vote new Haven becomes the firs City in Connecticut and the second in the new York re Gion to give condoms to Public school students. New York City adopted a condom distribution plan for High school students in 1991 that angered some parents who complained that they were not allowed to prevent their children from taking part. The dispute contributed to the downfall of school Chancellor Joseph a. Fernandez whose contract was not renewed by the new York City Board of Educa Tion. $1.5 million paid in Las vegas abduction Las vegas a the daughter of a Casino executive was bound gagged and held by two kidnappers for several hours before being freed for a $1.5 million Ransom authorities said. Kevin Vynn 26, was shaken but otherwise unharmed tuesday when she was found tied up on the floor of her sports car at Mccarran International air port four Miles from her Home. No immediate arrests were made. We have a number of leads we re checking Fri spokesman Burke Smith said. The important thing is that the girl is Back and she s  the kidnappers were waiting at her garage when she came Home monday night. They threw her into her car and sped away said a Law enforcement source speaking on condition of anonymity. The kidnappers contacted her father Steve Wynn chairman of Mirage resorts inc., the source said. He paid the $1.5 million at an undisclosed location the source said. A Mirage spokeswoman Jenn Michaels would not comment on the Ransom. Steve Wynn and his wife Elaine were in seclusion tuesday along with daughters Kevin and Gillian. Stan Hunterton the wynns1 attorney said they had no com ment. Mirage resorts inc. Owns the Mirage hotel and Ca sino on the Las vegas strip and the Golden Nugget re sorts in Las vegas and Laughlin. Kevin Wynn works in the marketing department at the Mirage. Delivery Man finds cocaine where he expected bananas from wire reports to fort Myers  delivery Man open Dup a Box of fruit to find that yes he had no bananas. Instead he had More than 200 pounds of cocaine. The unidentified Driver had picked up crates of Chiquita bananas shipped from Colombia at an importer s Bradenton warehouse to deliver to supermarkets tuesday. He can feel Here s something wrong with the weight of them they were too heavy sheriffs spokeswoman Gerry Poole said. The Driver opened the Box to find cocaine packed in plastic bags. He immediately called police. Can you imagine opening your cocaine shipment and finding bananas she said. Basically somebody s going to be dead  customs agents and police searched the warehouse but found no More drugs Poole said. No immediate arrests were made. Company cited Over leak Richmond  chemical company has been cited for creating a Public nuisance in the Wake of a toxic leak that sent More than 7,000 people to local hospitals. The action by the Bay area air Quality control Board was Likely to be the first of several following monday s leak at the general chemical co. The Richmond company could be fined up to $25,000 by the Board. Medical officials said people lined up at facilities tuesday seeking treatment Tor burning eyes and throats. They said More than 7,000 people were affected. Authorities assured them there would be no Long term health effects. Siamese twins separated Lexington by. Surgeons separated 2-month-old siamese twins tuesday knowing beforehand that one would not survive. The twins joined at the Back shared one kidney the 9vi-hour operation gave the kidney to Brittany Lynn Renee Lewis and left Tiffany Lynn Bren Alewis without one. Or. Andrew Pulito who led the operating team atthe University of Kentucky medical Center said Tiffany s life would not be artificially  chemical imbalances in her blood caused by the Lack of kidney function will cause her to die within Days doctors said. Pulito said it was too Early to predict the prognosis for Brittany the healthier of the two. Cobra bites Snake handler Homestead Fla. A Snake handler calmly announced to his audience that a cobra bad just bitten him on the hand. Then the Rush began. Albert Kilian 37, was sped to a Hospital after the attack saturday at the Everglades Alligator farm. Then As his hand swelled grotesquely police rushed in antivenom serum in a 250-mile, three hour relay by car and then helicopter. Kilian helped inject the serum himself and was unfair condition tuesday. The nearest serum was at a Snake farm near Orlando but bad weather made flying impossible. Kilian began handling snakes at age 6 and hat been bitten 16 times four times by cobras. Billions and billions. Centreville a. Dave Lampson figure she la have his new tax Bill paid off in about 11 million years not counting late fees. His Bill $68 billion. That s billion with a  it s mind boggling Lampson said  s More than my share of the National  Lampson a 36-year-old systems Engineer said heis paying off an old $30,000 internal Revenue service debt with $500 monthly payments. So the Bill he got this week seems a Tad inflated. Irs spokesman Wilson Fadely told the Washington Post that As Many As 1,000 erroneous Bills with very High figures were mailed from the Agency s regional office in Kansas City mo., within the past week. Fadely said the glitch occurred when someone ined to reprogram a computer to Stop mailing Bills to people in flood ravaged states who have Bee paying off Back taxes in instalments