European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 24, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 5 senator s wife reveals drug horror by Doug Maceachern Cox news service Phoenix she was blonde and Beautiful. Arich Man s daughter who became a politically powerful Man s wife. She had it All including an insidious addiction to drugs that sapped the Beauty. From Ner life like a spider on a Butterfly. Cindy Hensley Mccain wife of . Sen. John Mccain r-ariz., opened for All to see a remarkably ugly wound in her life late last week. For four years beginning in 1989, Cindy Mccain was addicted to a pair of powerful painkillers Perc Ocet and Vico in. Mccain s addiction was so Complete that eventually it led to her stealing painkillers from the american voluntary medical team the heralded Mobile surgical unit that Cindy Mccain herself created in 1988 to provide emergency health service around the world. Ultimately too it led to an investigation of Cindy Mccain by the drug enforcement Agency which acted on a tip that there might be a connection Between the medical team s Sloppy inventory of it potent drug Supply and Cindy Mccain s drug problem. Her husband never knew of his wife s addiction until a year after she had beat the drugs cold Turkey when Aba agents came knocking on his family Soori it s a bit like being in Quicksand said Cindy Mccain. You keep sinking deeper. The drugs Are your life not  Cindy Mccain said earlier this year that she spent time at the Meadows a drug and Alch old treatment facility in  is attend  meetings twice a week which was part of an agreement with the . Justice department which oversees the Dea. According to a political adviser to John Mccain Justice department officials ended their investigation into his wife s theft of painkiller without pressing charges. It was a several month Long investigation said Washington  adviser Jay Smith. Part of the Resolution was that she would seek treatment and continue treatment. For the rest of her life. She must continue the  a spokesman for the Dea in Phoenix refused to make any comment regarding Cindy Mccain. At her North Phoenix Home last week Cindy Mccain told the Mesa Tribune that she decided to go Public with her Battle with drugs before the rum Ormill beat her to it. It was a secret i had kept from my husband. It was my secret. It kept building inside me till i was afraid i might burst she said. Cindy Mccain s descent into addiction began shortly after two surgeries were done in 1989 to repair four ruptured discs in her Back. The operations failed to ease the pain however and she continued obtaining prescription painkillers from both doctors who performed the separate  one knew the other was prescribing me drugs she said. The Back pain continued to torment Cindy Mccain. Until late 1993, when a Hysterectomy removed her enlarged uterus which had been putting intense pressure on her Back. But Back pain was not her Only agony. He addiction also spanned the Keating five Era a torturous time of political morality plays and for Cindy Mccain a humiliating visit to the National spotlight. In.1991, the . Senate convened hearings into whether five senators used their influence to protect financier Charles Keatingjr. From a Federal probe. Although Cindy Mccain s husband eventually was cleared As one of the least culpable of the five he was the sole Republican  face a Senate ethics committee investigation. The turmoil she said strained her marriage. I won t Tell you our marriage has not Bee without its  and Downs from this. But our marriage is stronger for it she  his part John Mccain released a statement of support for his wife. In addition Cindy s serious Back pain i Haven doubt that the inevitable  and Downs of my political career have been rough on her. She has Mylove and support and that of her entire  2 icebreakers bore Way to North pole North pole a . And Ca Nadian icebreakers smashed their Way through the Arctic ice to the top of the world monday part of a science Mission looking for pollution and evidence of Cli mate change. The . Coast guard s 399-foot Polar sea and the Canadian Louis s. St. Lau rent arrived at 90 degrees North latitude a first for surface ships from either coun try. The St. Laurent reached it first by about 300 Yards. Their last port of Call was Nome alas a on july 26. They ran into the Arctic ice pack near Barrow Alaska about 800miles from the pole and since then the two vessels have been leapfrogging Tak ing turns using their weight to crush a zigzagging path through ice As much As 12 feet thick. The vessels Are carrying 70 scientist son a major study of the Arctic Ocean and its role in global climate change. The scientists Hope to gather information about How the world s temperatures Are affected by the Arctic ice As it freeze Sand melts use evidence in sea floor Sedi ments to broaden their knowledge of Cli mate changes. They also Are trying to determine the extent of any radioactive pollution from 4tt a � sit t svr., is. V a the Canadian icebreaker Louis s. St. Laurent foreground and the . Icebreaker Polar sea make their Way to the top of the world their nations first surface ships to reach the North pole. Years of the former soviet Union s dump pediments one after the other said ing of nuclear wastes into the sea at High Knut Aagaard who is with the applied  Laboratory at the University of we be had a marvelous series of sex Washington. 12-year-Olds kill Rock throwing drifter police say Wenatchee Wash. A two12-year-old boys shot and killed a drifter who threw rocks at them because the were making too much noise police say. The boys were being held for investigation of murder. Prosecutors said they would seek to try them As adults. Detective John Matney said the boy were shooting at logs saturday along the Columbia River where transients frequently Camp. The victim whose name was withheld until relatives could be notified yelled at the boys because they were disturbing him. Denver says Airport to open by feb. 28 Denver a this time they say they really mean it. The City Council set a feb. 28 dead line to open the Denver International Airport with or without its recalcitrant Luggage chewing automated bag Gage system. If its conventional baggage system is Upland running by the deadline the $3.7 Bil lion Airport will open whether or not the High tech system is ready Briggs Gamb Lin spokesman for mayor Wellington Webb said monday. Two officers hit by . New York a police officers from two Dif Ferent agencies responded to a report of a Man with a Shotgun on a Jam packed subway platform and opened fire on each other As panicked passengers tried to hide. An off duty City policeman a undercover transit officer and a bystander were wounded during the Rush hour pandemonium in Midtown Manhattan. It was chaos said commuter Kelly Ramchandani. There were people All Over the place. Everyone went Down on the floor in the station and inside the last car. Police commissioner William Bratton called it a Friendly fire  it s going to take us awhile to see what transpired Bratton said. A 19-year-old woman was wounded in the leg apparently by the Man with the Shotgun. She was treated at Hospital and released. One of the wounded officers was in critical condition tuesday .-.," the trouble began shortly after 7 . Monday when several passengers told a pair of uniformed transit offi cers that there was a Man with a gun on the platform below. Four undercover transit officers working pickpocket detail on a different platform responded As did an off duty City police officer who was taking the subway Home. Police were handcuffing one of two suspects when a loud bang rang out apparently from the Shotgun brat ton said. Friendly lire we believe the subsequent shots were Between Theoff duty new York officer in Plain clothes and at least one of the six transit police officers on the platform Bratton said. Undercover transit officer Desmond Robinson 31,was shot four times in the Torso doctors said a Bullet nicked his heart. He was in critical condition tuesday at Bellevue Hospital. Off duty City officer Peter Del Debbie 31, was hit once in the Arm and was in stable condition. In All likelihood transit police spokesman Alberto Leary told new York new Day it appears that Del Debbie fired and hit transit police officer  police seized a .22-caliber pistol from one arrested Man and recovered a sawed off Shotgun at the  not give the name of the arrested men or the charges against them