European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 04, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday. Nov my of 4. J993 sex lawmaker plans study on needs costs of defense from wire re ports Washington the former chairman of the a military base closing commission has formed bipartisan think Lank to study ways of ensuring. Stability of the nation s defences in an Era of budget uncertainty. Former Reft. Jim courier r-nj., informing the committee for the common defense to find out what prudent Levels of defense spending ire going to have to be sustained in the next decade courier was chairman of the defense base a closure and realignment commission in 1991 arid 1993. While a House member., he served on the House armed services committee. We re going to take a. Look at ballistic missile defense courier said tuesday in an want to look at issues of nuclear proliferation the technology Tryc launch capabilities a lot of stuff in Black Market. We will look at foreign intelligence gathering College paper called racist College Park my. Protesters seize about 10,000 copies of the student newspaper at the University of Maryland claiming the publication is place of the missing papers the protesters left a Small computer generated sign monday that read due to its racist nature the Diamondback will not be available today. Read a no one claimed responsibility for the missing newspapers which Are distributed free. Campus police said they were investigating. About 20,000copies were distributed monday. Several students said tic protest probably stemmed from a general perception that the Diamondback is insensitive to Blacks and other minorities on Campus rather than from an particular article. A lot of Black students have just stopped Reading the paper altogether said Jan Cuba k. Jalloh president of the african student association. City honors k-9 Veteran Davenport Iowa it s not often that a City honors satan. But the City Council did exactly that monday commending satan the. Dog a Veteran of the k-9 corps. The Black and Brown German Shepherd has Beeton the Force for nine years that s 63 years in dog time but he s ready to retire and City officials figured satan deserved some recognition for the helping Paw he s Given police in thousands of arrests since1984. satan will make his retirement Home with his on _ duty companion officer Jack Gregg. Wife targets big game sew All s Point Fla. A woman was so fed up with her husband s obsession with football that she shot him twice when he turned on the Dallas Philadelphia game sunday police said. Mariene Lenick 60, was charged with aggravated Battery. She was free tuesday on $50,000 Bond. Michael Lenick. 63, came out of the Shower sunday and settled Down to watch the game. His wife wanted to watch the news. After telling her husband she had enough of that football Martyne Lenick went to the bedroom and returned to the Den with a .38-caliber handgun police Bullet grazed Lenick s Abdomen the other penetrated his left shoulder Blade and exited through his neck. Lenick was in Good condition tuesday at Martin memorial medical Center. Haircut May Lead to suit Mescalero . A Apache family May file a lawsuit against a new Mexico High school Anda coach who forced a 15-year-old boy to Cut his shoulder length poncho who relatives say is a descendant of Apache leaders Cochise and Geronimo was ordered last week to Cut his hair by Ruidoso High school football coach Mike Gaston or not s Mother Frances poncho said monday that the boy was about to participate in traditional tribal ceremonies but cannot now. Gaston who has been coaching at the Mescalero school for about 18 months said the Rule applies to All players and is to ensure proper helmet fit for player safety. President Clinton is flanked Fey dignitaries at a White House discussion of the North american fret Trade agreement on tuesday. From left former secretaries of state Henry a. Kissinger and James a. Baker id the Prosl Dent former president Carter and vice president Al Gore. Keep phones Busy for Naftal Clinton tells Washington a president Clinton urged a group of prominent figures to help him work the Tele phones for the North american free Trade agreements his administration makes a final push for the pact. Make three Calls make 12 Calls make two doze Calls Clinton told a crowd packed into the East room of the White House on tuesday. For goodness Sake make however Many you the administration still tacking the votes to win showdown in the House on nov. 17, planned to submit formal implementing legislation wednesday for the Naftal. The Washington Post reported wednesday that administration officials Hope to win support of lawmaker from sugar producing states with a proposal to limit future sugar from sugar producing states fear that under the agreement Mexico could switch to Cor syrup sweeteners for soft drinks and Export its sugar to the United states capturing business and depressing sugar prices in this country. The administration is considering a unilateral Decla ration that such mexican sugar exports would not be Al Lowed sources told the Post. Clinton s lineup of supporters for tuesday s White mouse Pep rally included former president Carter and former Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii who served in the Bush administration that negotiated the treaty. Others in attendance included five other former Sec state six former secretaries of the Treasury and eight Nobel laureates. Former presidents Bush Reagan and Ford issued statements in support of the agreement. The White House also re released a jury letter from More than 300 economists including 16 Nobel laureates in sup port of the Trade agreement. Administration vote counters concede privately that Clinton is about 50 votes Short in the House. There s a lot of horse trading and head counting going on said White House press Secretary Dee Dee horse-trading1 is probably not a food word she added quickly. Tit president is actually making Good Progress convincing members on the strengths of his arguments.". Tests of schizophrenia drug suspended West Point a. A Merck co. On tues Day suspended trials of a drug against schizophrenia after eight patients in Europe developed Bone marrow problems while using it and one of them died. The drug Roxian is under review by the Federal food and drug administration and is being tested by More than 100 patients at 30 centers nationwide Merck spokesman Roy Walker said. He said eight of the thousands of people using the drug in Europe where it is on the general Market developed plastic anaemia. One died from complications Walker said. A Astra Merck s swedish partner in the Roxian Endeavor reported the problems to Merck. No direct links have been made Between the drug and the illnesses. Still because of the seriousness of that we have taken a precautionary measure Walker said. He said the company advised doctors participating in clinical trials to Stop using the medication. Plastic. Anaemia is rare but potentially fatal. It impedes the Bone marrow s ability to produce blood cells. The four initial plastic anaemia cases were reported in Britain Walker said. Two More were reported in Sweden and two of undetermined origin were reported to the company tuesday. He did not know where the death had occurred. The company has made no final decisions on future marketing of Roxian Walker said. Once missing German leaves Florida Cape Coral. Fla. A Karl Heulu Klug the German tourist found Bug bitten and dehydrated after three Days missing was released from the Hospital an returned Home tuesday. He was in Good shape and looked Forward to getting Home Cape Coral Hospital spokesman Bob Finkernagel said after Klug was discharged and sent directly tothe Airport. Klug 39, of Dortmund disappeared from his Pine is land Camp the night of oct. 26 after drinking heavily and acting strangely. His car was found abandoned the next morning a few Miles from the Camp mired in mud on a dirt track next to a water filled pit. Sheriff s officials launched a three Day search Offoot on water in the air and with a bloodhound. Klug emerged from the dense scrub saturday morning at theme Island water Plant not far from where his car was found. Klug left on his flight to Frankfurt Germany with out granting any of dozens of interview requests Finkernagel said
