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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 5, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 7cancer Institute retreats on mammograms in 40s prom wire reports Washington the National cancer Institute is no longer advising women Between Ages 40 and 49 to get mammograms on a regular basis if they do not otherwise have symptoms of breast cancer a published report said saturday. The Institute cited studies saying that routine mammography reduces the death rate for women Over age 50 but the research does hot show a drop in mortality for younger women the Washington Post reported. The Post said a number of outside groups including the National cancer society and the american College of obstetricians and gynaecologists have criticized the studies on which the cancer institutes decision is based and advise women in their 40s to continue getting regular screening rep. Pickle to step Down Washington rep. J j. Pickled Texas a political protect of president Lyndon b. Johnson who has served in the House since 1963, announced Friday he will not run for another term. Pickle 80, a member of the highly influential tax writing ways and Means committee said he is in Good health enjoys his Job and is not a a burned  he first won election to Central Texas 10th District in a special race in 1963, succeeding Homer Tho Berry. Johnson once represented the same Basic District and the seat became available when lbs nominated Thornberry to a Federal judgeship. In the 1992 election Pickle swept to Victory with 68 percent of the vote. Virus delays governor Pittsburgh a a recurring viral infection has delayed a not derailed a gov. Robert p. Casey a plans to return to work his doctor said. Casey who received a heart liver transplant in june had a tissue Sample taken from his stomach thursday that confirmed the presence of the same infection that put him in the Hospital for three weeks in september. He May go Home by today if he has no serious Side effects from medication said or. John Fung transplant chief at the University of Pittsburgh medical Center. A sex servants sue saudis Houston a two former servants of the saudi Royal family Are accusing the kingdom of saudi Arabia Ana King fahd of being involved in an. International conspiracy to recruit women into slavery. _ in a suit filed last week in Houston Josephine Alica 37, of the Philippines and Siyani Marian Fernando 35, of sri Lanka say the late Prince Saad bin Abdul Aziz a1 Saud and his former wife Princess Noora forced them to work against their  women say they were virtual slaves until they escaped from Houston a Ritz Carlton hotel in late 1991 while Prince Saad who died in july was in Houston for medical treatment. A similar suit was filed by the women earlier this year. Lawyer Jerry Payne said thursday the new Legal Challenge was filed against the saudi government because estate of Prince Saad May not Nave assets in the United states to collect from although the saudi kingdom  official remembered Wauwatosa wis. Students parents and others used carnations and the glow of candlelight in a memorial tribute Friday night to the slain administrator at a suburban Milwaukee High school. Carrying White carnations in their right hands and lit candles in their left they marched around the outdoor running track before the service for associate principal Dale Breitlow. They snuffed out the candles As they filed into the gymnasium at Wauwatosa West High school where speakers often breaking into tears said they would never forget Breitlow s caring attitude toward students and colleagues. The event attracted some 1,400 people. Breitlow 46, was shot to death in a hallway at the school wednesday. A 21-year-old former student was charged with the slaying Friday. Bail was set at $500,000 for 21-year-old Leonard d. Mcdowell who faces a first degree intentional homicide count. Reno policy on Gay Bias Means Little lawyer says. Washington a a lawyer suing the Fri Over treatment of homosexuals says attorney general Janet Reno made no real change in ordering the Bureau to discard a policy making it difficult for Gays to be hired. Under the hew polity written by Reno the Bureau will forbid discrimination based on sexual orientation. Until 1979, the Fri had banned homosexuals. Since then its policy was that homosexual behaviour would make it a a significantly More difficult to be  Richard Gayer attorney for former agent Frank but Tino a 48-year-old homosexual said Friday that the Fri repeatedly has claimed during the lawsuit that it does not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation but rather on the basis of homosexual conduct. A a this statement from the attorney general says nothing about conduct a he said claiming the statement Quot was issued for the purposes of deception to derail the class action aspect of Buttino is. Fri. Reno a statement a issued thursday As Buttino Scase began in san Francisco a prohibits All kinds of discrimination including Bias on the basis of sexual orientation throughout the Justice department. The order was a restatement of existing policy for most of Tho department but the language concerning sexual orientation produced a major change for the Fri spokesman Carl Stern said. The Bureau issued its own statement Friday a the Fri like the attorney general is committed to ensuring that applicants and employees arc judged on the merits of their  Buttino a decorated 20-year Veteran was fired in 1990, two years after his supervisors in san Diego received an Anonymous note saying he was Gay. Buttino denied it at first explaining later that he knew he would be fired if he old the truth. Several weeks later he acknowledged his homosexuality and lost his Security clearance and then his Job. The Fri says he was tired because he lied not because he is homosexual. One Fri agent who declined to be identified by name said that under the new policy a Job applicants chances will no longer be ruined simply because someone interviewed during a background Check says the applicant is homosexual when asked about a a conduct that would make the person  homosexuality atone would not disqualify applicants but going to Gay bathhouses every night might just As a if a heterosexual is going to singles bars every night you could make the Case that that could Compromise the person a said this agent. I Jose roman reaches to his 10-month-old daughter Josclyn in a Philadelphia Hospital thursday. Infant receives piece of father s liver Philadelphia apr a softball size portion of a fathers liver transplanted into his 10-month-old daughter began functioning thursday giving the baby a second Chance at life surgeons said. Joselyn romans new liver went to work almost immediately after wednesday s operation producing bile and filtering her blood St. Christophers Hospital spokeswoman Teresa heavens said doctors were a a cautiously optimistic Quot about Joselynn condition. A everything seems to be functioning Well. She Salert a Hospital spokeswoman Lisa Benson said. Her father Jose was in fair condition in the Topi talks intensive care unit with his daughter heavens said. His liver will regenerate the Quarter portion removed in the operation doctors said. Kathleen Falkenstein liver transplant coordinator for the Hospital said Joselyn s chances of surviving Are about 80 percent. The liver transplant procedure was pioneered in Brazil in 1988, As of Friday there had been 101 living donor liver transplants at 11 . Hospitals according to the United network for Organ sharing in Richmond a. Sisters Friend convicted of murdering mom Harrisonburg a. A two Sisters Ages 12 and 13, and the 14-year-old Boyfriend of one of them have been convicted of murder in the stabbing death of the girls Mother. Juvenile court judge Charles s. Mcnulty jul handed Down the verdict shortly before Midnight thursday concluding the two Day trial court officials said. All three were tried As juveniles in the sept. 4 death of Marilyn Fries 35. Fries a nurse died in her Home of multiple Stab wounds in the neck and Back. Two of the children were found guilty of first degree murder and the third was found guilty of second degree murder. Because of state Law in juvenile cases other details of the trial were not disclosed. The three were ordered held in a juvenile Home for an indefinite time prosecutor Bruce c. Morris said. Under state Law they cannot be held past their 21st birthday. The older daughters lawyer Walter f. Green in said the conviction would be appealed. Lawyers for the other two in Alvied to comment or said the Appeal question had not Ocen decided. Friends said that Fries had disciplinary problems with her children and that the girls were angry because she had enrolled them in a private military Academy for the upcoming school year  
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