European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes . Wednesday. December 1,1993 nominee to name Washington a president Clinton a nominee to oversee the savings and loan cleanup withdrew tuesday citing an Anonymous death threat and opposition from a key senator. The action by Florida real estate executive Stanley g. Tate ended his four month struggle to win Senate confirmation As president of the Resolution Trust corp. Quot Tate s nomination was marred by allegations that he tried to influence Agency matters involving associates while awaiting Senate confirmation and earlier in his role As chairman of a regional Etc advisory Board. A at a news conference Tate said he sent president Clinton a letter tuesday asking that his nomination be withdrawn. K Tate also said he turned Over to the Treasury department documents detailing Quot ubiquitous mismanage in Cut. Waste and possibly fraud at the Etc but he declined to answer questions about those charges. He said he made the decision to withdraw after ube came apparent that sen. Donald w. Tiegle or. D-mich., would refuse to hold a nomination hearing of his Senate banking committee. A �?o1 have absolutely no knowledge or information As to Why sen. Riegle will not meet with me or Why he obviously does not want me to become the chief executive officer of the Etc a Tate said Iii his seven Page letter to Clinton. _ Riegle and his aides did not immediately respond Togene gets blame for startle disease that stiffens victims new York a scientists discovered the genetic cause of a rare disease that makes its victims react excessively when startled even becoming stiff and falling Over. People with the disease can suffer Bone fractures because they can to break their fall said neurologist or. Angelika Hahn of the University of Western Ontario in London. Medication can greatly reduce symptoms but still leaves patients with an exaggerated response to by ing startled by noise or touch. A known cases of the inherited disease Are rare but Hahn said it is probably often not recognized. The disease called familial  or startle disease is one of a number of disorders that  exaggerated startle response. The disease also causes muscle stiffness in newborns that worsens with sudden noise or handling. Babies May choke and die from sudden breathing difficulties. The identification of the defective Gene is re red in the december Issue of the journal Nate genetics by Hahn neurologist or. Stephen Ryan of the University of Texas health science Center in san Antonio John Wasni uth of the University of California Irvine Ana other researchers. The discovery should allow for definitive diagnosis for Many people with suggestive symptoms Ryan said it could also Aidin finding better medications by helping scientists find or create mice with the disorder so that drugs can be tested in the animals Ryan said. By. A request for comment. In the letter he complained of Anonymous attacks from Etc employed reported by news organizations and he said pfc received two threatening Telephone Calls. In the second which was reported to the Fri the caller said Quot Tell Tate he is  in a state Jenl Tate said that Quot Many inside the Etc and those outside with vested interests in the status Quot were Quot afraid of me and obviously afraid of what changes to the system i might bring  Quot these people Are really concerned that some of their actions and activities would be revealed. My guess is that those same people May have Good cause to be afraid he said. Tate 65, a Republican told reporters that he had also planned to release a 36-Page statement prepared for the nomination hearing along with 200 pages of documents supporting his charges of waste mismanagement and possible fraud at the Agency. But he told reporters that he decided not to do that after senior Treasury department officials whom he declined to name reminded him of the confidentiality agreement he had signed when appointed to a position on the Board overseeing the Etc. He took that Post while awaiting confirmation As Etc president. He called on the department to review the material and release Iff Treasury department spokeswoman Michelle Smith said the Agency had not seen the documents and therefore could not  least 45 Kurt As train hits stalled truck intercession City Fla. A an Amtrak passenger train slammed into a tractor trailer stalled at a Railroad crossing and derailed tuesday injuring at least 45 people. The Driver of the Rig could not be found authorities said. _ a we done to know if he a dead or if he jumped from the truck a said Mike Mahoney an Osceola county fire Rescue dispatcher. He said at least 45 were Hurt but the total could be almost double that. The eight car Silver meteor bound for new York City from Tampa was carrying 103 passengers and about eight Crew members when the Accident occurred said sue Martin an Amtrak spokeswoman in Washington . _ four of the tiflis cars were thrown off the tracks in the Acci Deijs she said. 5 Quot a we have right now is that several cars have derailed. There Are multiple patients Quot said Osceola county fire Rescue spokeswoman Marilyn Kinne. She said it was not immediately known if there were any deaths. The derailment occurred near intercession City about 20 Miles Southwest of Orlando. The location was described As old Tampa Highway Between Loughman and Kissimmee. The train consisted of one engine one mail car one baggage car and six passenger cars including a sleeping car Tounge car and four coaches Amtrak said. It was the second derailment of an Amtrak train in a Little More than a week. On nov. 23,16 people were injured none seriously when a Seattle to Chicago train derailed near Boise Idaho. Sex radio Host seeks to oppose Kennedy Springfield mass. A it a former radio talk show Host entered the crowded Field of Republican candidates seeking to topple sen. Edward m. Kennedy a mass. Quot we Are tired of hearing about the need for big government and More taxes Quot said Janet Jeghelian who announced her candidacy tuesday for the gop nomination. Quot we Are tired of seeing a Congress so insulated it can t function in our Best interests. And we Are tired of paying that Bill for government Quot she said. Jeghelian Calls herself a fiscal conservative with a so Cial conscience. She is a former member of the Board of selectman for Westwood outside Boston and is a Veteran of Boston radio stations Wiz Wako and Whdeh. Kennedy has been in the Senate for 30 years. No Democrat has announced a Challenge. The other announced gop candidates include Gary Todd a Fitchburg businessman Darwin Carter of Framingham an International business consultant who ran unsuccessfully Tyr the . House in Georgia and or Mildred Jefferson of Boston who has repeatedly tried for the . Senate nomination in Massachusetts. Ivy. Seven Patton training Sites being looted in California from wire reports Chiriaco Summit Calif. A seven desert Sites where Gen. George s. Patton trained tank Crews for world War ii Are being pillaged by thieves who remove artefacts and gunmen who shoot at brass  thefts and vandalism Are threatening the historic integrity of the remains of Camps at the sprawling general George Patton desert training Center said Mike Mitchell an archaeologist for the . Bureau of land management. Tourists especially Wuu veterans Are attracted by the remains of the Remote divisional Camps and a museum. The blk last week banned removal of artefacts and shooting except licensed Hunting within a half mile of the Camps spread across parts of Riverside and san Bernardino counties. Violations Are punishable by fines of up to $1,000 and a year in  found dead mart1nsburg, , a a Newborn girl was found dead in her 14-Vear-old Mother s backyard authorities said tuesday. ?. No charges were filed pending an autopsy said Berkeley county sheriff Preston Gooden. The infant appeared to be a full term baby he said. Quot we need to see whether it was the abandonment of a dead baby or if it was foul play a Gooden said. Police notified by a Hospital round the baby sunday night in a plastic shopping bag in Yard. A the girl was in the Hospital claiming she was Haemorrhaging a Gooden said. Quot the doctors examined her and determined she had just Given birth to a baby and she did no to seem to know where the baby was or did no to want to  the teen whose name was withheld because of her age remained hospitalized  probe of baby Swap Tampa Fla a authorities said tuesday that they have no plans to pursue a criminal investigation based on a nursing aides claim that Kimberly Mays was purposely swapped with another Newborn in Hardee county sheriffs investigators said there is no evidence to Back a statement last week by former nurses aide Patsy Webb who had testified three times in the past that she knew nothing of the Swap. Quot we have to have More to go on than that a said sheriffs maj. Edward Hendrix he added that even if there were a probe the statute of limitations has Likely run out on any possible crime that May have been committed. Webb who worked at Hardee memorial Hospital in 19��8, said last week that a doctor there gave the order to Exchange Kimberly with a couples ailing baby. Alcohol traffic deaths drop Washington a alcohol related traffic deaths in the United states declined 20 percent from 1990 to 1992 a from 22,084 to 17,699 a in the largest two year drop Ever recorded the transportation department said tuesday. Quot this dramatic reduction shows that our efforts to Stop drunk driving Are getting results. More needs to be done but clearly we Are on the right track a said transportation Secretary Federico Pena. The National Highway traffic safety administration said it attributes the decline to tougher Law enforcement and More awareness particularly among teen agers of the dangers of drinking and driving. Reading deficiencies cited Berkeley Calif a researchers at the University of California at Berkeley said tuesday that More than half of americans work Force is unable to read warning labels chemical labels and other safety materials at their workplace Elizabeth Szudy and Michele Gonzalez Arr Fiyo of the University s Zubor occupational health program found m reviewing hundreds of pieces of material that More than 50 percent of them May be written in language far too complicated. The vast majority of material the reseal a hers said required a College level vocabulary to understand. Only 16  the material was written at an eighth Grade level or below. In comparison the researchers said the average newspaper sports Section was written at a sixth Grade Reading level