European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 23, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 9 tests find High disability rate for Preer Nies Boston a a medical revolution a dec Ade ago that made possible the survival of very tiny premature babies has led to a generation of disabled children who arc often retarded severely nearsighted and inattentive a study shows. The Preer Nies disabilities vary greatly. Some of these children Are Blind or cannot walk others Are virtually Normal. Until the Early 1980s, babies born under about 2 pounds had Little Chance of survival. But the Advent of Newborn intensive care units has Al Lowed Many of these premature infants to live although often with medical Bills in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Even though they survive serious health prob lems persist from birth. Most result because the children s bodies were simply too underdeveloped to Cope with the world outside the womb. Doctors from Case Western Reserve univer sity in Cleveland studied babies who were born Between 1982 and 1986. They gave a Battery of tests to 68 babies who weighed an average of a i pounds at birth. Then they compared them with65 larger Preer Nies and 61 full term babies. Or. Maureen Hack and colleagues described the results in thursday s Issue of the new eng land journal of Medicine. The findings included half of the smallest premature babies Hadis under 85. In the general population 15 per cent of people have is this Low. 21 percent of the smallest babies were retarded compared with 2 percent of the full term babies. 25 percent had extremely poor eyesight including four babies who were Blind. Two percent of the full term babies had eyes this bad. C11 n t o n re p o Rte d by a g Rees to keep nuclear status quo by the Washington Post Washington president Clinton has accepted a Pentagon recommendation that there be no major changes in key nuclear weapons policies set by the Bush administration officials say. His decision puts off new nuclear arms reduction talks with Moscow retains the . Option of a last re sort nuclear retaliation after a non nuclear attack on . Forces and keeps hundreds of . Nuclear weapons deployed in Europe Clinton made the decision at a White House meeting Friday endorsing the conclusion of a yearlong Classi fied Pentagon study to delineate nuclear policy through 2003. His decision rules put for the present any new . Push for further reductions in nuclear arsenals than previously planned. Clinton s endorsement of the nuclear status quo Dis appointed . Officials who for the last year have been arguing for new negotiations with Moscow to Cut Strate Gic arsenals below 3,000 weapons. They have also been urging new military strategies to de emphasize such arms following the end of the cold War and the grow ing danger of nuclear proliferation. But members of the joint chiefs of staff and other senior military officials who backed the status quo argued successfully against any new proposals on the grounds that the uncertainties of Reform in Russia an the slow Pace of nuclear weapons reductions there War rant . Caution. We re kind of in a waiting or holding pattern to see what happens next in .-russian relations before authorizing new arms reduction talks a senior official said we looked at whether we were Content with the dramatic Pace of arms reductions set in motion by the Bush administration and decided that the answer was largely  some officials had urged arms talks but they were overruled in favor of the Pentagon s View that washing ton and Moscow must first ratify arid begin to implement two existing treaties the officials said. Clinton also accepted the study s conclusion that Washington should retain its policy on use of nuclear weapons rebuffing officials who wanted to adopt a no first use policy. Clinton further agreed with the Pentagon study s recommendation that Washington should retain roughly 480 nuclear weapons in Europe to help deter an attack on . Allies. He also endorsed a plan to install More accurate nuclear tipped missiles on four additional . Strategic submarines. Interi itt hike in stamp rate sought Washington a the plan to raise All postal rates by 10.3 percent including increasing first class postage to 32 cents is a unique proposal made in the face of the Agency s toughest Competition Ever a top postal manager says. 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