European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 17, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7pentagon to reveal data on biological warfare from wire reports Washington a army documents detailing secret cold War Era research on biological warfare will be released the Pentagon says. The army recently acknowledged that it sprayed Zinc cadmium sulfite a fluorescent chemical Over Minneapolis and numerous other areas of the country in the 1950s and 1960s. Several women who attended a Minneapolis elementary school that was in the path of the Spray in 1953 say they have experienced health problems including sterility Early cancers disabled offspring or miscarriages a we re prepared to release everything a army spokesman Norm Covert said wednesday. A that Means we have to find it. If we can find it Well release  the army has insisted there was no danger from the spraying. Documents released by the army said other experiments involved spraying deodorant on stockyards in six cities Ana dousing some wheat Fields with a biological herbicide. Researchers were testing ways of killing livestock and crops in soviet bloc  Flag suit falters Columbia . A a lawsuit to get the Confederate Battle Flag off the top of the state House was withdrawn shortly before a circuit court hearing was to begin wednesday. Gary White an attorney for a group of residents who sued said they decided there would be a quicker Resolution if the Case was heard by the state supreme court. He said he hoped to refile the. Lawsuit directly with the state supreme court within the week. The group has also filed a similar lawsuit in Federal court but a judge delayed action on it until the state Case is resolved. Judge Larry r. Patterson reprimanded White for seeking the dismissal saying he wasted the court s time and Money. Lawyers for the state asked Patterson to bar the Case from being retried in state court. Patterson said he would consider that question. The group argued that As taxpayers its members Are forced to support a Symbol of which they disapprove. The Flag with its Blue a red background and White stars rallied the troops for the slave holding South during the civil  s Wisdom lives on Havana 1u, a a judge employed the Wisdom of Solomon in deciding the Fate of a 12-year-old Accident victim s remains. After a car struck and killed Timothy Phillip Shuff As he Rode his Bike on june 9, his divorced parents argued Over what to do with his remains Timothy a father Timothy Wayne sheff who had custody of the boy said his son once said he wanted to be cremated. The boys Mother Carla seelye Irvin sued to have him buried. Like King Solomon who in the Bible ordered a child Cut in half and divided Between two women claiming to be the Mother judge Thomas Brownfield said the boy could be cremated but his ashes were to be divided Between the parents. As in the Story that decision forced one Side to Bac  a he a not to be split up a said the boys Grandfather Carl seelye who represented Irvin. A a kid ainu to no piece of  Irvin agreed to let keep her former husband keep the  squatters arrested Honolulu a supporters blew conch shells and cheered wednesday As 23 hawaiians who damned native rights to a popular state Beach were arrested after More than a year of squatting. Wooden shelters at Maka Puu Beach Park were dismantled Over the weekend and moved Inland on land provided by the state. State officials had Given approximately 150 sovereignty activists the weekend to leave the Beach. Most did. But 23 holdouts arrested wednesday after they performed a religious ceremony around two Stone markers of ancient Sites. The 23, mostly women walked peacefully to waiting vans As supporters waved banners and hawaiian state flags flown upside Down. They a Gatej pc booked on trespassing charges but Likely will not be prosecuted. Study uncovers no ills tied to breast implants by the new York times a a new study of silicone breast implants has found no evidence that they cause connective tissue diseases or other illnesses. This is the third Large epidemiological study in the United states to find no harm from implants leading some experts to say that if they cause any disease at All it must be unusual or rare. The study is generating a debate Over the sort of medical evidence that courts have accepted in ruling that women were injured by implants. The new England journal of Medicine in an editorial also questioned the food and drug administrations decision to remove implants from the Market two years ago. The study was conducted by or. Shrine e. Gabriel of the Mayo clinic in Rochester Minn and was published wednesday in the journal. Gabriel studied the 749 women living in Olmsted county in Southern Minnesota from 1964 to 1991 who had breast implants. She found no obvious excess medical problems Gabriel said in a Telephone interview that the study was possible because the county has Complete medical records on computers of All of its residents dating Back decades. A two were Able to identify every woman who had implants from 1964 to the end of 1991, just be fore the Fra pulled them off the Market a she said Quot and we were Able to diagnose every medical problem they had no matter which doctor they  Gabriel a study could not prove that there were no ill effects of implants a it is nearly impossible to prove a negative. But she said except for the rarest of diseases said to be caused by the implants the study could pretty much Rule out an association with any common Dis Case like arthritis. Even vaguer complaints like muscle aches and pain were taken into account a what 1 Hope is that these results can reduce some of the anxiety that Many women with implants feel a she said. Big one that got away fishing for Boss off Groton conn., Roland Straub apparently was about to get More than he bargained for. But the strategic missile submarine Rhode Island on us Way to Long Island sound Tor sea trials managed to slip away tuesday without being hooked. Straub is a retired submarine safety expert. 5% of . Teens say they tried to commit suicide poll reveals new York apr five percent of american teen agers say they have tried to commit suicide and 12 percent say they have come dose to trying according to a Gallup organization study. Those who said they considered suicide were asked the reasons and allowed to name More than one. They cited problems growing up 36 percent drug abuse 35 percent peer pressure 31 percent and relations with parents 28 percent according to the poll released wednesday. Thirty two percent of those polled said their most difficult daily problems included doing Well in school and 24 percent cited career uncertainties but those were not directly identified in the study As suicide triggers. The poll was conducted nationwide in april and May among a random Sample of 903 youngsters Ages 13 to 19, who filled out confidential questionnaires. The polls Sample had an average family income above $50,000, had More White teen agers than the general population and had 43 percent reporting one or both parents As College educated. George Gallup jr., co chairman of the polling company said the results were adjusted to account for that upscale profile which other experts said might result in underestimates of the  poll co sponsored by Gallup a nonprofit Institute and Empire Blue Cross and Blue shield reported a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage Points. The study is a follow up to a 1991 Gallup Survey which found that 6 percent of teen agers had tried to commit suicide and 15 percent came close to trying. In the current poll 59 percent said they knew a teenager who had attempted suicide and 15 percent said they knew a teen Ager who succeeded in taking his or her own life a virtually unchanged from 1991. The Survey found that teen agers who consider suicide overwhelmingly turn to friends for support. More than 85 percent said friends exerted a great Deal of influence Home and school were the second and third most frequently cited places to turn for help. Only 29 percent of the teen agers polled said their school was doing something to prevent teen suicide compared with 41 percent in 1991. Gallup suggested that  drop did not actually mean that schools were abandoning efforts to prevent suicide. Instead he said it May reflect a that Peoples expectations have been raised about this Issue and that the Community and school in fact Are not doing anything