European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . A a i new drug May beat malaria potential vaccine tested on african children monday february 14. 1994 Washington a in the wilds of Tanzania 600 children Are testing what could be a medical breakthrough a malaria vaccine. A study shows the drug spf66 stimulates the body a immune system. By 1998, researchers anticipate global vaccination for the disease which strikes 300 million to 500 million people a year. Youngsters Are most vulnerable and malaria kills 1 million african children a year. A if we have the right vaccine and the right resources we could reach 80 percent of the people in Africa in just 24 months. It would make one whale of an Impact a said or. . Henderson a vaccine expert and an assistant . Health Secretary. A but although Henderson said a we Are hot on the right Trail with the testing in Tanzania the fight against malaria May soon be jeopardized by budget cuts. Malaria is spread by Mosquito bites. Larvae enter the body through the bite a a swim to the liver and incubate. Then the mature parasites re enter the bloodstream and multiply while leaching vital haemoglobin and Iron from red blood cells. Doctors fight malaria with insecticides and a Small Arsenal of drugs. But strains in half of Africa have developed a resistance to the Best malaria drugs. A study to be published Friday in the British journal vaccine found spf66 is Safe for children arid significantly stimulates their immune systems to fight malaria. That trial cleared the Way for testing 600 tanzanian children who Are bitten about 20 times a night by mosquitoes. About half were injected with vaccine and the rest with a Placebo. By fall scientists win know if spf66 really works Clearing the Way for its mass production. The concern now is possible cuts in . Aid for malaria research which May cause other donors to Cut Back. Officials say private companies Are not interested in picking up the Tab because the vaccine wont make a profit. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago feb. 14,1984 a Konstantin u. Chernenko son of siberian peasants was named general Secretary of the soviet communist party succeeding the late Yuri v. Andropov in the Kremlin a most powerful Post. 20 years ago feb. 14,1974 a the Kremlin stripped novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn of his soviet citizenship and expelled the most powerful russian dissident to West Germany. 30 years ago feb. 14,1964 a president Maka Rios rejected a revised Anglo american proposal to Send a peacekeeping Force to Cyprus despite fighting in the Island s second largest City that threatened to mushroom into civil War. 40 years ago feb. 14,1954 a soviet foreign minister . Molotov demanded the scrapping of the Europe defense Community and the dosing of . Bases in Europe As the Price for withdrawing its forces from a restored Independent Austria. 50 year Sago feb. 14,1944 a it took 12 missions but 2nd it. Wau Kan Kong of Honolulu the Only chinese fighter Pilot in the european theater finally scored his first kill against an enemy aircraft. World War ii 50 years ago today feb. 14 1 a 9 a 4 4 the red army pushes into Korsun on the Southern soviet front but fails to break the pocket of surrounded German troops fighting to break out to the West. In Italy the american and British invasion Force pinned up by me. Germans in the Anzio beachhead reorganizes during a Lull in fighting and builds up an inner defensive line. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii Bison books corp., 1981 Hutchison fort Worth Texas a a Day after abandoning his prosecution of Republican sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison the District attorney released reams of documents that he said show a a massive misuse of state employees while Hutchison was Texas treasurer. V a preliminary review of the thousands of documents made Public saturday show that state workers wrote thank you notes for Hutchisonn a personal and political speaking engagements and for gifts she received. They tracked checks written As political contributions and kept Hutchisonn a daily schedules both inside and outside of the Treasury office. Prosecutors intended to use the documents to prove that Hutchison ran a Campaign operation from her state office and used employees for political and personal chores while she was state treasurer from january 1991 to june 1993. However Travis county District attorney Ronnie Earle refused to proceed Friday with the criminal ethics trial after the judge declined to Rule on whether the documents could be used As evidence. The defense had contended they were seized illegally in a raid last june of the state Treasury. A. A a. A Quot athe Republican senator was then acquitted by a jury. She had claimed the charges were part of a democratic plot to Hurt her re election chances. A in a Telephone interview from her Dallas Home Hutchison said she was a very glad that the documents Are in the Public Domain but for him Earle to be whining that this shows a pattern of misconduct without my Side of it is unusual for a prosecutor that has just totally failed in trying to prove a  a frankly id like him to just admit that he did no to have a Case and Stop trying to try it in a forum that is not the proper forum a she said. Proposal May bring tax on food Stamps welfare new York apr the Clinton administration is considering financing its welfare Reform by taxing food Stamps welfare benefits and housing assistance the new York times reported. The White House also is considering cutting Aid to Legal immigrants who Are elderly and indigent the newspaper said sunday. No decisions have been made but those Are among the options being considered by senior officials at the White House Treasury department and department of health and human services the newspaper said. Melissa Skolfield an administration spokeswoman called the discussions a very  she said the pain of any cuts would be More than offset by improvements in the welfare program which is intended to help poor women its main recipients find jobs. A the plan is going to provide new investments in child care education and training for poor women who were simply written off by previous administrations a Skolfield said. The cuts represent the difficult options available to the administration As it simultaneously pursues ambitious welfare and health care proposals while seeking to reduce the deficit. Critics of the plan say it will Hurt the very people it seeks to help namely the poor. The cuts being considered Are in addition to the $30 billion in proposed reductions included in the 1995 budget released last week. Quake safety work lags in California paper says from wire reports san Francisco a nearly $3 billion in Bonds and tax Money raised since the 1989 earthquake to make California safer is still unspent the san Francisco examiner reported sunday. At the same time some 1,000 projects to strengthen buildings Bridges and roads have been stalled by paperwork engineering obstacles or political controversy. The newspaper said its Survey found that $2.8 billion of the $5 billion raised by the Public in the aftermath of the oct. 17,1989, quake remains unspent. Many potentially dangerous structures Are in no better shape today than when the 7.1 magnitude quake hit killing 63 people in the san Francisco Bay area and causing $5.9 billion damage. Springfield Ore. Donal russells last wish was to have his body skinned and his hide tanned like leather. Over the objection of funeral directors his widow is asking a judge to help her Honor the request. Russell died feb. 3 at age 62. His will signed dec. 17, directed that his body a be skinned from the head Down and tanned for the purpose of face binding volumes of my  funeral directors walked at the request citing a state Law against Corpse abuse that bans doing anything to a body a not recognized by generally accepted standards of the  russells widow Rachel Barton Russell went to court for help in enforcing her husbands will. Judge Pierre Van Rysselburghe gave her until feb. 26 to file arguments As town Tyne court should be involved. A poet and Fly Fisherman Russell moved to the Eugene area in the 1970s. In 1987, he opened a Fly tying business called russells Bug House which operated with the motto a dangerous bugs since 1943.�?� Man bids to Wear Kkt Robe fort Lauderdale Fla. A White supremacist wants permission to Wear a Kun flux klan Robe and be called a Chi Hitler at his murder trial. Donald Leroy Evans is accused of strangling Ira Jean Smith a fort Lauderdale prostitute in 1985. In motions filed Friday Evans asked to be allowed to Wear the Kkt Robe and for his name to be changed on All court documents to a the honorable and respected name of i  according to courthouse employees Evans thought Adolf hitlers followers said a Chi Hitler rather than a Heil  het7 is German for  _ Broward circuit court judge Sheldon Schapiro did not immediately Rule on the motion. Evans 38, already has been sentenced to death for murdering and raping a 10-year-old homeless girl in Mississippi. Investigators Are examining his claims that he killed 60 people in 21 states. Cia seeks Contra report Washington a Cia unit that investigates wrongdoing within the spy Agency is seeking a classified portion of the Iran Contra prosecutors final report a Cia spokesman said saturday. The secret material focuses largely on Covert Cia operations in Central America targeting the leftist government of Nicaragua in 1985 and 1986, according to sources familiar with a classified volume of the report issued Jan. 18 by Independent counsel Lawrence e. Walsh. The Day after Walsh put out his final report the Cia requested the classified material so that the Cia inspector general could determine whether to open an internal investigation said Agency spokesman David Christian. / the inspector general also wants to determine whether regulatory or administrative changes in Agency procedures need to be made said Christian. 7 kids found in apartment Smyrna a. A police found seven children Ages 1 to 10, unattended in a trash strewn apartment with Bare mattresses overflowing toilets and a sink filled with dirty dishes. The children were discovered saturday when police went to question their father Joseph weeks about a robbery. Weeks had not been seen at the apartment since thursday night and the children smother was on vacation police and relatives said the children were placed in Foster care