European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 1,1994 . The stars and stripes Page 75 children injured by Cor that toddler set into gear from the associated press los Angeles a a car left parked with the engine running struck a group of children saturday after a 2-year-old put the vehicle into gear. Five youngsters were injured three critically. A a Estela Lopez told the los Angeles times that she was going to take her three children to breakfast and had Lefther thunderbird running in the driveway As she ran Back to the House to grab her purse. Her youngest child a 2-year-old boy climbed into the Drivers refit and knocked the car into gear. The car lurched Forward 20 to 30 feet said police officer. Richard Prindle. Two 10-year-old girls were in critical condition with head and Chest injuries at children a Hospital los Angeles said Brian Humphrey a fire department spokesman. A 5-year-old girl was in critical condition and a 6-year-old girl was in serious condition at Urcla medical Center he said. A 7-year-old boy was hospitalized with minor injuries. The 2-year-old was not  ship sails again new York a hundreds of passengers streamed aboard the horizon on saturday for thei ships first cruise since it was dry docked to purge its water system of the bacteria blamed for legionnaires disease. With Straw hats in hand and cameras around their Necta the passengers did not seem concerned about the ships safety despite 10 confirmed and 25 suspected cases of legionnaires disease among passengers on horizon trips earlier in july a passenger on a july 2 cruise died two weeks after contracting the disease according to the stat health department. The ship was taken to a dry Dock in Baltimore for decontamination. Its water system was purged with 25 times the usual amount of chlorine to kill the bacteria. On thursday the centers for disease control and prevention gave the ship a clean Bill of health. Cyclists face helmet rules Washington the government decided Friday to set a safety Standard for bicycle helmets. The consumer product safety commission said it will Issue a helmet Standard with the aim of reducing the 165,000 head injuries and 600 fatalities that occur each year in Bike crashes. The commission said it reviewed voluntary safety standards set by several organizations and would publish its proposed rules in the Federal Register. The rules will cover the general construction of Quot helmets reduction of Impact and the ability of the helmet to stay on a rider during an Accident. Studies Bave shown that helmets reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent in a Bike crash the commission  Follower gets life Hillsboro Ore. A a Man described As a a a Hells Angels a a Wannabe was convicted saturday of murdering a woman her 6-year-old twins and a family Friend 17 years ago allegedly at the orders of 3 Rolert g. Mcclure 47, was sentenced to four consecutive life terms immediately after the verdict reached by the jury after about six hours of deliberations. A a a a a a a a a Mcclure who claimed he was framed by the bikers club sat impassively  verdicts Anck sentences were read. His lawyer Lisa Maxfield of Portland said Mcclure would Appeal. A prosecutors contended Mcclure was under orders from Odis a a Bucko Garrett to kill Margo Compton .24, in retaliation for her testimony against several Hells Angels in a 1976 san Francisco prostitution trial. Also killed at her Gaston Home were Gary Seslar 19, and the twin girls. Prostitutes turn in rivals Central Falls . Local prostitutes reversed tactics and sought out police snitching on out of state rivals who were cutting into their business., police broke up a minor prostitution ring from Massachusetts after being alerted to its activities police chief Robert Sasso said Friday. A a a there a no Honor among thieves Sasso Saia. A a they la rat each other out m a second a drug dealers and prostitutes. Its unbelievable. Police arrested two women who had been living m Massachusetts. K Mitchell seeking Unity on limited health plan by Cox news service a Washington a Senate majority Leader George Mitchell is secretly pleading with health Reform advocates to scale Back their demands from the Broad coverage envisioned in the House democratic leaders health plan. Mitchell said two political hot potatoes a Universal coverage and employer mandates a will Divide the Senate Bill he Hopes to unveil tuesday from the one introduced Friday by House majority Leader Richard Gephardt do. At a somber secret two hour briefing Friday night Mitchell a Maine outlined the options As he described the views of uncommitted senators. Several dozen advocates from Union consumer Church Maverick business care providing and other coalitions that support comprehensive Reform took part a a in the session with Mitchell. Participants listed these key differences a the House plan requires covering 100 percent of the people by 1999. The Senate plan Aims at 95 percent by 2000. If the Senate target is reached a commission would recommend to Congress ways to reach 100 percent. A the House plan requires that a firm with More than 100 workers pay 80 percent of their health insurance costs by 1997, while smaller firms would pay 80 percent by 1999. The Senate Bill sets no requirement before .2000, but if the Senate target Isnit met in that year there would automatically be a 50-50 split of the premiums Between employees and employers. One lobbyist told Mitchell that support for stronger reforms could be generated once Mitchell has introduced a specific Bill. But Mitchell said the time to switch from Public relations to policy making and legislative Compromise had come. Pleading for support or at a minimum neutrality toward his version Mitchell told the lobbyists that reforms could All die if his plan is attacked As vigorously by those on the other Side of the Issue. Dante stretches Snowshoe legs for 7 St walk into Alaska Volcano mount Spurr Alaska a Dante ii took its first stiff Steps on Snow into a volcanic Crater lifting its erector set like legs in an Experiment Nasa Hopes will Lead to robot explorations on other  1,700-Pound machine whirred into action Friday guided by operators 80 Miles East in Anchorage where its moves were tracked on a computer screen. Dante ii stepped off the Crater rim on Quot mount Spurr and into a Snow pack estimated at More than 10 feet deep. It was the first time the eight legged robot had walked on Snow. Rubber snowshoes were made specially for the occasion. A my first reaction is in a real glad we pursued putting snowshoes on the robot Quot said John bares a robotics scientist from Pittsburgh Scarnegie Mellon University. The 10-foot robot began walking six Days after a helicopter lowered it onto the Crater rim 6,500 feet up the 11,000-foot Mountain an Active Volcano a rotating laser on Dante a Mast will produce a topographical map of the craters Interior. Scientists will use the map and information about volcanic gases to help predict when a new eruption May occur. Scott Boehmke a research Engineer from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh said the machine will walk 12 hours a Day on Power from a diesel Generator parked Uphill from the robot. The _ test could run from three to six Days. Nasa worked with Carnegie Mellon to develop a robot that could be Remote controlled for explorations on Mars Neptune and Jupiter a Moons. Dante ii descends to the volcanic Crater of alaskans mount Spurr on Friday sending live video to an Anchorage telecommunications site. Bill would Aid  elite panel told Washington apr a Law Quot professor told senators Friday that extending Job discrimination Protection to homosexuals would give special privileges to an a elite group that is affluent and influential. Joseph Broadus a Law professor at George Mason University in Fairfax va., said it would a result in special privileges for an elite group that has unjustly played the victim card to Advance. Several business executives a Union official and another Law professor spoke in support of the legislation at the Senate labor committee nearing. Also testifying Loyee of Cracker barrel were Cheryl Summerville a former employee of tracker barrel Frt fired for being a lesbian and Ernest Dillon a . Postal Rorri Bremen ga., who was service worker from Detroit who was beaten and severely injured by a co worker for being . Legislation introduced last month by Sens Edward Kennedy d-mass., and John Chafee r-., would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in hiring firing promotion and pay. The legislation defines sexual orientation As real or perceived homosexual bisexual or heterosexual orientation. A the legislation has been endorsed by several civil rights leaders including Coretta Scott King religious organizations the Al Cio business leaders and former Republican sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Broadus who is Black cited studies he said showed that  people have incomes far above the average level. A it is the profile of an elite a he said a an Elit whose insider status has permitted it to abuse the political process in search not of equal Opportunity but of special privilege and Public endorsement. Gays Are Al read realty disproportionately represented in the higher Hes of our