European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Sunday june 26, 1994 $1.4 billion Price put on russian Nasa Deal Washington apr russian participation in the space station will Cost Nasa about $1.4 billion cutting a big Hole in the $2 billion in savings that the space Agency had claimed from the agreement with Russia a Federal study shows. The general accounting office in a report released Friday said that russian participation in the space station adds new funding requirements to other parts of the Nasa budget offsetting much of the savings that the space Agency had hoped for on the Cost of building the space station. Nasa officials disputed the report but a senator who opposes the space station said the Gao study adds fuel to his determination to kill the project. The space station is a plan to put up an orbiting Laboratory that would House astronauts in space permanently. Russia has been added to the other International partners Japan the european space Agency and Canada. Administration officials claimed that adding Russia and using that country s space expertise and hardware would save about $2 billion on the Cost of the space station. Dut the russian agreement also adds costs the Gao  a rocket High Houston rockets fans throw confetti from a parking garage along the champions Parade route in downtown Houston on Friday. About 400,000 tans cheered the team which bested the new York knocks to take the National basketball association championship wednesday. See Story on Page 31. Among the added costs found by the Gao about $258 million in space shuttle Fleet modifications $400 million for a contract Between Nasa and the russian space Agency and $746 million for two additional shuttle flights brought on by adding Russia to the group. A when All space station related elements Are considered current estimates would indicate that much of the savings Nasa attributes to expanded russian participation will not be achieved a the Gao report said. Nasa s administrator Daniel Goldin said the Gao report actually proves that russian participation is a a win win situation that will save Nasa hundreds of millions of dollars a the Gao report is a validation of what we be been saying for months russian participation in the space station is a Good Deal for the american taxpayer a  in a statement. Among the advantages said Goldin is that the space station will be completed 15 months earlier will be about twice As Large and will have twice As much electrical  Man wins suit against blood Industry Trenton . A a Man who got the aids virus from a transfusion was awarded $570,000 in the first successful lawsuit of its kind against the organization that establishes blood screening standards for the nations blood Banks. A Bergen county Superior court jury ordered the american association of blood Banks on thursday to pay William Snyder $405,000 in compensatory damages and an estimated $165,000 in interest. Snyder 67, said he contracted his the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids from a blood transfusion following heart surgery in 1984, a for the first time a jury has said the whole Industry was wrong a Snyder a lawyer George Baxter said Friday. Quot you be got an Industry regulating  Baxter had argued that although a test for the aids virus was not available until 1985, the association knew As Early As 1983 that a a surrogate test for a Type of hepatitis would have detected blood donors carrying a devastating still unidentified virus that turned out to be his. The association recommended against using the test in january 1983, Baxter said. The american association of blood Banks argued that the surrogate test was not reliable and that its results would have excluded Many blood donors who did not have his. A the decisions had to be made in 1983 and 1984,�?� before the Industry had Complete information said the associations attorney Edwin r. Matthews. A frankly had we had it the scientists and the medical people May have made different  this is the first time the association has lost a lawsuit brought by a person infected with his through a blood transfusion said officials with the Federal food and drug administration the american red Cross and the association. Although Snyder is dying of aids his lawyer and his wife called the verdict a Victory that will Force the Industry to be More vigilant in safeguarding the nations blood Supply. Traits in blacks7 veins linked to hypertension Atlanta apr veins in Blacks Are less flexible and More difficult to dilate a finding that May help sex fila in Why Blacks Are More Likely than Whites to suffer rom heart disease researchers reported Friday. One reason for the racial disparity May lie in the endothelial the Flat cells that line the inside of blood vessels and the heart according to a team of Georgia researchers. The study was presented at the International interdisciplinary conference on hypertension in Blacks held in Cleveland. The findings May enable researchers to develop drugs that treat High blood pressure and heart disease As effectively in Blacks As they do in Whites said the Leader of the study or. Randall Tackett of the University of Georgia in Athens the research represents the first time that veins were used to study racial differences in High blood pressure said or. Elijah Saunders of the University of Maryland a co founder of the International society on hypertension in Blacks. The results were not startling but significant Saunders said. Previous work had found Blacks arteries do not dilate As Well As Whites he said. Dilation helps blood get to the heart in times of demand. High blood pressure affects an estimated 62 million americans and heart disease is the nations no. 1  Flag draws new suit in s. Carolina from wire reports Columbia . A mayor Bob Coble and a group of business leaders Are suing South Carolina to Force removal of the Confederate Flag from atop the state House dome. The lawsuit filed Friday asks the stale supreme court to appoint a mediator to find a solution that avoids another trip to court and removes the Flag. The National association for the advancement of coloured people and other civil rights groups have fought to remove the Banner for decades and in recent months have pushed for a nationwide Boycott of the state the lawsuit Marks the most aggressive Public action state business leaders have taken to get the confederacy a most enduring Symbol off the state House. The president Onali Onbank Carolina Joel a. Smith Iii said lower key efforts at finding a solution failed when the general Assembly walked at a Compromise earlier this  carries new name Cape canaveral Fla. An Atlas rocket bearing the freshly painted name of Martin Marietta blasted into space Friday with a Navy communications satellite built to withstand nuclear attack. Until Friday Martin Marietta corp. Had launched Only Titan rockets. Martin Marietta in Hughl Atlas maker general dynamics space systems division for $208.5 million in a transaction completed in May. The new owner had to paint Over the Genera dynamics name on the rocket. The satellite which uses ultrahigh frequency communications is the third in a series of 10 ordered by the defense department. It is supposed to replace a 16-year-old satellite currently used by the Navy for ship to Shore and other kinds of  shares lottery Braintree mass. A a Man who won $25 million in a Massachusetts lottery game last week collected the first instalment of the prize Friday and split it with his twin brother. Lee Dubin of Lexington mass., and his brother Michael of los Angeles were accompanied by their wives and Young sons when they arrived at the Massachusetts lottery Headquarters in Braintree to pick up the first of 20 annual checks for $85 8,000. The 40-year-old twins said they also will use the Money to help care for their ailing father and Mother who has alzheimer s  kills son in collision Pine Bluff Ark a a Man was charged thursday with driving while intoxicated after his pickup truck collided head on with a motorcycle driven by his 16-year-old son who was killed. Roy Dewayne Mccann was Riding his motorcycle with the tights out and without a helmet when the Accident occurred about Midnight on a Road outside of town said capt. Boe Fontaine of the Jefferson county sheriff s office. He was thrown off the Cycle and into the Windshield of his father s truck both vehicles caught fire and the father Roy Gene Mccann was burned trying to free his son from the wreckage. The elder Mccann was listed in stable condition at Jefferson regional medical Center with Burns to his arms Chest and face. His son was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities said Mccann 40, was charged with driving under the influence driving Over the Center line of the Road and having no proof of  trims Nea budget Washington a a raucous House agreed thursday to trim the National endowment for the arts budget by 2 percent after democrats staved off Republican attempts to slash the Agency a spending by even More. 222-204 vote followed a Stormy debate in which conservatives accused the endowment of distributing taxpayers dollars to some artists who Are porno  democrats accused republicans of censorship As Well As of hypocrisy Tor tolerating a gop lawmakers comments last we nor it a we Nian s breasts. The fight marked a renewal of the annual Bailie Over the endowment which is now headed by actress Jane Alexander. Opponents tried unsuccessfully to eliminate its entire $171 million budget and then half of its funds. They next proposed shrinking it by 5 percent