European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday september 2, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 0 Nasa working to keep september launch Date from the associated press ape canaveral Fla. Nasa struggled to resolve shuttle equipment problems wednesday that could delay the planned september launch of discovery for a research and space walking Mission. An official launch Date has not been set but preparations remain on track for a sept. 9 liftoff. Nasa s launch attempt of endeavour two week Sago ended in a main engine shutdown. Before discovery s launch Date is set Nasa will wait until the test firing of the endeavour engine that caused the aug. 18 launch abort. The Agency also will wait for further analyses of problems with fuel valves and Cable connector son connectors Are part of the release system for the external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters. 14th death Riecl to heroin new York authorities added a 14th person wednesday to a list of victims suspected of ingesting part of a lethal Batch of heroin sold under the name China Brand is More than 90 percent pure a deadly concentration even for regular users. Most heroin sold on the Street is 45 percent to 65 percent pure police victims All men in their Early 20s to late 50s, died in Manhattan within the past week of apparent heroin overdoses. The latest a Man in his late 20s,was found dead tuesday in a car on the upper East Side said a spokeswoman for the medical \ examiner s say that normally Only three to five people die each week citywide from drug overdoses fail types bomb plot trial delayed new York a Federal trial for 13 me accused of plotting to bomb us. Landmarks has been delayed unti december after a defendant changed his mind about cooperating with the government.. District court judge Michael Mukasey said wednesday that the trial originally scheduled for sept. 19, would begin dec. 5.one defendant began cooperating with the government then switched Back to the defens team. Another defendant s lawyer was disqualified. The delay was needed because both men need new lawyers.". -. Athe defendants Are accused of plotting to disrupt the . Government through assassinations kidnappings and bombings including the february 1993 world Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured More than 1,000 others. Four men charged in the Trade Center bombing Are serving life prison sentences. _ fast Falls Short of goal Columbus Ohio after a 27-Day hunger strike that landed him in the Hospital gubernatorial candidate Billy Inmon admits he probably won achieve his goal a debate with the incumbent. I thank god that i m still alive Inmon said wednesday As he checked out of the Grant medical enter. He was hospitalized saturday after. at the Camp he had set up outside the , an Independent had been fasting since � aug. 1 in an attempt to Force Republican gov. George Voinovich to debate him before the nov. 8 election. We might have lost the first Battle but weight not lose the War come nov. 8," he said. Voinovich has refused to debate Inmon an contends the former Ohio state fair manager is a disgruntled sex state employee. Voinovich has scheduled a debate with democratic challenger sen. Rob Burch of Dover. Stowaways found on ship Newark people were found in a locked Container aboard a docked ship Early the stowaways from the dominican Republic were in extremely poor condition and were taken to hospitals said John Kampfe spokesman for the port authority of new York and new Jersey. The Agency operates port Elizabeth where the ship was docked port authority police were contacted by the ship s Captain about 4 30 a.m.,Kampfe said. Crew members discovered the stowaways in the 40-foot tractor trailer Type Container he said. Behind times study says Washington a the Energy department dismissing out on new technological opportunities to clean up nuclear waste faster and More cheaply partly be cause it relies on advice from contractors with a vested interest in current techniques auditors say. The Doe has spent $23 billion Over the past five years to maintain and clean up nuclear waste Sites but Huttt cute Wanup has resulted partly because of resistance to new technology the general accounting office said wednesday k new technologies Are not being seriously consid ered or used to clean up Doe s contaminated Sites the Gao s report said. In Large part the Gao agreed with the. Recent conclusions of the Western governors association which warned that rapid cleanup is hampered by a system that relies on traditional technologies and cleanup managers who have no incentive to innovate. The Gao said the government officials often re Lyon recommendations Fronton site contractors who May favor particular technologies on the basis of their own experience and investments at the expense of using new relatively untested methods. Developing less costly and More effective cleanup technologies May be the Only Way the nation can afford to clean up the vast amounts of waste generated by the nation s nuclear weapons production Complex the Gao s tudy has been estimated that it May Cost As much As $300 billion to dispose of radioactive wastes at Federal nuclear weapons facilities and take decades to com plete. More than 5,700 individual contaminated areas have been identified on Doe property and so about 10 percent of the Sites have been cleaned or closed the study said. Responding to the Gao findings Energy depart ment officials said they already Are taking Steps to address some of the concerns. We basically agree there Are problems with getting innovative technology implemented due to a lot of Dif Ferent barriers As pointed out in the report said Ger Ald Boyd acting associate Deputy assistant Energy Secretary for technology and development Crater caper framed by the wings of his partner s plane Pilot Phil Parish Powers his Pitts s2b acrobatic Craft up past the Mouth of mount St. Helen Crater in Washington during demonstration stunts Friday. Parish and his partner Eric Beard make up the Tacoma based team. They re preparing for the three Rorers air show at the Kelso Longview regional Airport on sunday. Along with being stunt flier Parish puts an Alaska airlines 737. Diagnosis Boston a a new test for heart attacks could save americans $4 billion a year by eliminating Needles Hospital admissions for Chest pains that turn out to be false alarms a study suggests. /. Vav. 5 million people go to emergency rooms with Chest pains each some heart attacks Are evident Many Are not. Ambiguous cases Are routinely admitted to coronary care units until doctors know for less than 30 percent of those admitted to cardiac intensive care turn outto have had heart attacks. These units Are often the most expensive in the hos Pital. Rates can be $2,000 a Day. The new test typically gives an answer within two hours not the current 12 to 24 hours. It could eliminate most unnecessary admissions which Cost the nation $4 billion annually its inventors say. The test was developed by researcher sat Baylor College of Medicine in hous ton. They used the test on 1,110 Emer gency room patients and published their results in thursday s new England Jour Nal of this test been used As a screen ing test we would have reduced our Cor onary care unit admission rate by 70 per cent said or. Peter r. Puleo principal author of the report. Like the Standard test the new on looks for the enzyme creatine Kinase my which the heart constantly release sin very Low amounts. Levels gradually Rise after a heart attack. But it typically takes a Day or so before Levels Are High enough for doctors to be sure a heart at tack has occurred. With the new test definitive results among those who actually had heart at tacks were available within an average of an hour and 15 minutes. _ Gene defects May Spur skin cancer report says new York a defects in a Gene that Normal to acts As a Brake on cancer May cause an inherited ten Dency toward the skin cancer Melanoma scientists re ported thursday people who inherit a defective version apparently lose part of the anti cancer Protection making them unusually vulnerable to Melanoma the researchers say. About 32,000 Melar Ioma cases and nearly 7,000 Mel Anoma deaths Are expected in the nation this year. Only about 10 percent of Melanoma occurs in people with an inherited tendency and it is not Clear what percentage of inherited cases Are due to the Gene. Defective versions of the Gene May also be involve Din Many or most cases of no inherited Melanoma re searchers said. In these cases it would be inherited informal form but later damaged by sunlight or other the Gene May Lead eventually to better treatments for the no inherited disease researchers said. I
