European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes . Thursday january 13, 1994 United to test smoke free overseas Chicago up United airlines says if 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 concept 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 on 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 United 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. I addition United bans smoking on the upper decks of All its Boeing 747 aircraft. Court told of woman s screams in Bobbitt Home Man ass As a. A a neighbor of John and Lorena Bobbitt s testified wednesday that he heard the couple hav ing sex and a woman s screams of pain on the morning that Bobbitt s Penis was Cut off the woman was screaming. It sounded to me in pain neighbor Mike Dibble testified. She would scream out every few Lorena Bobbitt claims she Cut off her husband s Penis with a Kitchen knife Only after he sexually assaulted her. In Addi Tion her defense is trying to show that she was subjected to years of sexual physical and verbal abuse that caused an irresistible impulse to maim her Hus band -. John Bobbitt 26, was acquitted in no vember of the sexual assault charge. He testified monday the first Day of her trial that he was too exhausted to have sex when he returned Early june 23 from a night out. Under Cross examination by prosecutor Paul a Ebert Dibble acknowledged that he did not report the screaming to police until after he had talked about it on National television. Ebert also asked Dibble whether his Girlfriend streams during sex. On occasion Dibble replied., would she scream loud enough for other people to hear Ebert said. I Wou Diri t know Dibble said. Or. Sue a Ninart testified that John Bob Bitt laughed at when she complained of respiratory problems during a visit to the physician. I thought it was unusual he was laughing at her for Beiring sick in Nan 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 John Bobbitt once told him that he liked women to scream and squirm away. That turned him two other acquaintances of Bobbitt testified tuesday that they saw Bobbitt hit his wife As the defense tried to show that Lorena Bobbitt had been subjected to years of abuse. Lorena Bobbitt 24, is charged with malicious wounding. If convicted the ecuadorean born manicurist could get up to 20 years in prison and be deported. Terri Mccomber who once worked with Lorena Bobbitt at a manicure Salon too the stand to describe a soured weekend Outing to a Maryland Beach in 1989, shortly after the couple were married. She said John Bobbitt dragged his wife from 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 re going Home. That s it Mccomber said. In the car John Bobbitt shoved and slapped his wife the witness said. Another witness Amalia Hoyt said John Bobbitt roughed up his wife in pub Lic. Bobbitt gave his wife a present of Bikini underwear at a Christmas eve party in 1989, then berated her when she walked at showing the gift to a group of men Hoyt said. He grabbed her by the Arm and he pushed her against the Wall Hoyt said. He asked her what s wrong with you Why can t you show it John 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 Center to illness Miami Alt 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. V _. -. Kenneth Spence 33, of North Miami recovered after22 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. " j 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 atthe Center. That s the Only place i was at and constantly saw rats he told Wolg to. Investigators Are tracking other residents of the Rne virus 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 maybe 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 Testate. After an exciting morning of viewing the eclipse itis 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 l 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
