European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes . Thursday january 13.1994 Una tech to test smoke free overseas Chicago up United airlines says it will begin testing smoke free flights on some new York London and los Angeles Australia routes beginning March 1. We believe customer demand will support the smoke free col cent but we intend to validate our thinking by sampling customer reaction betwee March and the end of september United spokes Man James m. Guyette said monday. The smoke free test will apply to one of two daily round trip flights United operates Between new York s Kennedy Airport and London s Heathrow Airport. The other daily flight will continue to have the customary 34 of 168 seats set aside for smoking passengers. The nonsmoking test also will apply to United daily round trip service Between los Angeles and Auckland Melbourne Australia. The airline normally sets aside 50 of 418 seats for smokers on the route if you take a look at what s happening in society in restaurants and of Domestic flights there is an Overall movement away from smoking " explained United spokesman Joe Hopkins. Hopkins said United will track which flights Are More popular and will decide by the end of septem Ber whether to make the smoking ban total and per manent. We re the first of the . Carriers to try this test ban on International flights Hopkins said. Air Canada bans smoking on All its flights Domestic and overseas and some american carriers have offered occasional smoke free flights for Over seas travel United said the smoke free policy also could be extended to other flights if the move proves popular in addition United said that As of june 8, it in tends to designate As smoke free certain flights through the summer months Between London Heath Row and the following cities los Angeles san fran Cisco and Washington  Dulles. In All of these markets except los Angeles auck land Melbourne we will be Able to compare Passen Ger loads on smoke free flights versus other unite flights where smoking is permitted Guyette said. United will offer the customer a Choice of flights within a couple of hours of each other Between the new smoke free flights and traditional flights that set aside seating for smoking. Smoking is prohibited on United flights to from and within All 50 . States and to and from Canada the Caribbean and mexican resort destinations. In addition United bans smoking on the upper decks fall its Boeing 747 aircraft. Bobbin hit wife Early in marriage court told Manassas a. A Loren Bobbitt testified wednesday that her husband first struck her soon after the were married starting a pattern of alleged abuse that the defense claims finally led to her cutting off her husband s Penis ".". John Bobbitt got drunk one night when they were out drinking with his brother Todd Lorena Bobbitt testified. He was driving Home very fast. She grabbed the steering wheel and he punched me she said. When they got Home he slapped her around she said. Asked Why she did t Tell anyone about the incident Lorena Bobbitt said i thought he might change. I thought he d never do it  she claims she Cut off her husband s Penis with a Kitchen knife june 23 Only after he sexually assaulted her. John Bobbitt 26, was acquitted last year of that charge. He testified monday on the first Day of his wife s trial that he was too exhausted to have sex when he returned Early june 23 from a night out. Lorena Bobbitt 24, also testified about her upbringing in a Loving Catholic family and her storybook Romance with Bobbitt. She described How they met at an enlisted men s club on Quantico Marin base where Bobbitt was stationed How they dated for 10 months and How he proposed to her when she was 19 in front of her Mother. I was in love with him. To me he rep resented everything she said. As for him she Felt he was in love with  Lorena Bobbitt is charged with Mali Cious wounding. If convicted the ecuadoran born manicurist could get up to 20 years in prison and be deported. A neighbor of the bobbins testified earlier wednesday that he heard the Cou ple having sex and a woman s screams of pain on the morning Bobbitt s Penis was cutoff. The woman was screaming it sounded to me in pain neighbor Mike Dibblee testified. She would scream out every few  or. Sue Inman testified that Bobbitt laughed at his wife when she complained of respiratory problems during a visit to the physician. I thought it was unusual he was laughing at her for being sick Inman said.,. She said Lorena Bobbitt also complained that her husband forced her to have sex but that she was not beaten. On tuesday witnesses testified that John Bobbitt liked rough sex and slapped his wife around in front of others. He said he liked to make girls squirm and yell make them bleed Jonathan Whitaker testified. Another witness Jonathan Kaupua said Bobbitt once told him he liked women to scream and squirm away. That turned him  " two other acquaintances of Bobbitt s testified tuesday that they saw him hit his wife As the defense tried to show that Prena Bobbitt was subjected to years of sexual physical and verbal abuse that caused an irresistible impulse to maim her husband. Terri Mccomber who once worked with Lorena Bobbitt at a manicure Salon took the stand to describe a soured week end Outing to a Maryland Beach in 1989, shortly after the bobbins were married. She said Bobbitt dragged his wife fro the Boardwalk at Ocean City accusing her of inviting whistles from passing men. He came up grabbed her by the hair. He said the weekend was Over. We redoing Home. That s it Mccomber said. In the car Bobbitt shoved and slapped his wife the witness said. Bobbitt retook the stand to deny that he Ever abused his wife saying she often scratched kicked and hit him. I never hit my wife. I just pushed her restrained her and held her Down to keep her from hitting me he said. She s Only like 90 pounds and i m 185." drug be n Ter Reid e n t s i i in Ess traced to rodent borne virus Miami a a resident of a drug treatment Cen Ter spent 12 Days on a Respirator his lungs filled with fluid in the first documented Case in the East of a rodent borne virus that has killed 32 people West of the Mississippi. Kenneth Spence 33, of North Miami recovered after 22 Days in the Hospital. The lung ailment attributed to the Han tavirus has killed 32 people in 14 Western states since it was recognized last Spring. Mice Are believed to be the prime carriers. People Are infected by dried droppings and urine. -.". Spence developed a flu like illness in october while he lived at the treatment Center in the Redland area which was ravaged by Hurricane Andrew in August 1992. Spence said he believes he contracted the virus at the Center. That s the Only place 1 was at and constantly saw rats he told Wolg to. Investigators Are tracking other residents of the treatment Center to. Obtain blood samples said or. Gary Hlady state director of communicable disease epidemiology. Test results will take several weeks. Ever since the Hurricane health officials have Wor ried about the potential for diseases linked to bad Sani tation. Piles of debris became Ideal Breeding grounds for vermin. Residents complained when their neighbourhoods be came infested with mice and rats but the Federal government was unwilling to give financial help for the problem said will Rudd assistant City manager in nearby Homestead. Since the Han tavirus Case was confirmed monday the City decided to renew its bid for rodent control Money and plans to ask the Federal centers for disease control and prevention to determine the effect of demolition work on rodents. The cd planned to Send a rodent trapping expert to help. And sanitation officials scheduled a meeting for Friday to strengthen rodent eradication programs. Schools fear kids May be Moonstruck Elpaso Texas a school administrators Are worried that a May 10 eclipse will overshadow More than the Sun. They say the rare annular eclipse which will partially Block out the Sun for six minutes will disrupt a crucial student academic test that Falls on the Sam Date. They have asked state officials to change the test Date. After an exciting morning of viewing the eclipse it is doubtful that the afternoon would be an optimum time for our children to test superintendent Stan Paz wrote to state officials. More than 2 million Texas students including thou Sands in Elpaso Are scheduled to take the required Texas assessment of academic skills test May 10. Elpaso is the Only major City in the state that will Seea Complete annular eclipse which is similar to a total eclipse except that the Moon s disk does t completely cover the Sun but leaves a ring of sunlight around it. The Texas education Agency has not decided whether to Grant Elpaso s request. Waiting for a lift space shuttle discovery Pilot Kenneth Reighter or. Left and Sergei k. Kri Kalev the first russian scheduled to Fly aboard a shuttle arrive at the Kennedy space Center fla., for a practice countdown  discovery is scheduled to lift off feb. 3