European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 18, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7. Blast at air bag factory leaves 7 workers Hurt from the associated press Mesa Ariz. Seven people were injured two critically Iri an explosion Friday that rocked a manufacturing Plant for automobile air bags. It was the second explosion in five years at the try Plant in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa. Try officials said that chemicals normally Are mixed in the area where the explosion occurred but that the area was closed for refurbishing Friday and All chemicals had been removed. No cause has been determined. The names of the injured were not immediately released. "  .".-. In 1989, five workers were injured when a blast blew out a Back Wall at the facility lagging team runner shot Galion Ohio a High school Cross country runner who had lagged behind her teammates was seriously wounded when she was shot several times while jogging Friday police said. A suspect was under arrest. Maggie Maloy 15, was listed in serious condition at Grant medical Center in Columbus with six gunshot wounds to her head and Chest. A 21-year-old Man was being held in the shooting but had hot been charged by late Friday. Rise in minorities . Officials say Washington a the Federal government and local groups must redouble their efforts to fight aids among minorities especially Young people top Federal health officials told a gathering of Community leaders. ,. ". The aids virus continues to stalk All communities of color j and the aids rate is climbing at an alarming rate in those communities health and human services Secretary Donna Shalala said Friday in a speech at a National conference on aids among racial and ethnic minorities. Shalala noted that last year 55 percent of the 106,949 aids cases reported nationwide involved members of minorities which represent about 26 per cent of the . Population. She said the aids crisis is made up of hundreds of local  the aids rate is especially dramatic among minority Young people government statistics Ishow. Minorities make up 80 percent of the aids cases reported in Chil Dren under age 13. Aids is the leading cause of death for Blacks aged 25 to 44, and the second ranked killer of hispanics in that age group after motor vehicle acc c dents. -. R v  have to reach these new generations and we have to treat complacency As our enemy Shalala said. She said the key elements Are aids prevention and education services and research. Surgeon general Joycelyn elders told the group thursday that aids is wiping out our communities. It s wiping out whole generations of Young Black men and Young hispanic men. It s reaching out and grabbing our Best and our  at another Washington meeting elders decried the rising homicide rate which is the leading killer of Black men aged 15 to 24. We Are about to lose a whole generation of Young Black men because of our failure to respond she told a congressional Black caucus health forum Friday. Elders also said fewer Blacks Are dying of heart at tacks and strokes thanks in part to Progress made in the 1980s on educating people about diet exercise and hypertension. But there is still a wide Gap in death rates among Whites and Blacks. The National Center for health statistics estimates that the lives of almost 66,000 of the 125,660 Blacks under age 70 who died in 1991 might have been saved if Blacks died at the same rate As Whites from diseases violence and other causes. Lottery Winner gets probation for arson Medina Ohio a a $7.5 Mil lion lottery Winner who complained that people pestered him for Money until he snapped was placed on two years Proba Tion Friday for burning Down the House he built with the Jackpot. Robert Polchek 32, had admitted set Ting fire to the $170,000 House in 1992, he was convicted of aggravated arson. He testified during his trial that winning the Jackpot in 1986 had made his life a living hell because people were de manding Money from him. 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