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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 24, 1994 . The stars and stripes Bride wanted billboard May have been scam from the associated press Columbus Ohio a self proclaimed millionaire has Given up his billboard Bride Hunt atthe prodding of a postal inspector who feared a  Tami Doyle said wednesday that she never Learned who the so called tycoon is or if his offer was legitimate but the people behind the Campaign agreed to close up shop Early. The billboard went up beside a Highway near downtown sept. 11. Millionaire looking for wife Ages 35-45," it said giving a phone number. Callers got a recording asking them to Send Persona information to a Post office Box. The billboard had been booked for a month. Doubt was cast on its legitimacy last week when the recording was changed to add a request for a $10 processing fee. The state attorney general s office said asking for $10 was not against the Law but the better business Bureau speculated it was All part of a scam. Dogs Maul 2-year-old boy Murfreesboro Tenn. Three dogs chewed off a toddler s Arm after he reached through a neighbor s Fence. Surgeons at Vanderbilt University medical enter operated on 2year-old Tyler Thronebery for More than six hours but could t reattach the limb which was torn off at the shoulder wednesday. The boy also suffered bites and cuts on his fac and Chest and was in critical condition. Sheriffs col. Virgil Gammon said two rottweilers and an Akita tried to pull the boy through the Fence after he stuck his Arm  dogs were seized and a judge will decide whether to have them destroyed. 3 undercover police shot Baltimore three undercover police officers were shot thursday by a uniformed officer during a drug raid. Police had no immediate explanation for Why the officer fired on his fellow officers spokesman Rob Weinhold said. An investigation was to begin immediately. The officers were not identified. When police arrived at the East Baltimore Bowhouse a suspect ran but the Back door where several plainclothes officers captured him. As the group came into the House it was met by shots fired by an officer who had come in the front door. One officer shot in the left shoulder was unserious but stable condition after surgery. The other two each shot in the hand were in Good  of the injuries was considered life threatening. Four people in the House were arrested on drug charges. " youths appear Well armed new York a City Council Survey of 800 youths found that More than one third of them have carried a gun at some Point and one sixth continue to do so. The random Survey queried people a Ges 12 to 21in 15 precincts with a High homicide rate and 15 precincts with a Low rate Council speaker Pete Vallone said thursday. The results were virtually the same in both thelow and High crime precincts. Half of the respondents in the unscientific Survey who answered that they carried guns said they did so for Protection. Twenty percent said they did sofar status or respect eight percent said they carried a firearm to commit a crime. Of the 295 youths who said they had carried a gnat one time or another 99 said they still did. They can look in silence los Angeles firefighters can look at but  on racy magazines in most areas of county firehouses under new rules proposed to Settle a 2-year-old  Angeles county firehouses would permit the magazines everywhere except areas often visited bythe Public including garages where firetrucks Are , the physical or verbal flaunting of the magazines termed no consensual sharing would be banned in All areas the department said. The dispute began in 1992 when the department banned Playboy and other sexually explicit magazines from All county firehouses in an Effort to prevent sexual harassment. Woman recalls stumbling o nto to i Hoo k g ant i it Las vegas a Kim Ponikowski was looking of friends and fellow Navy officers when she stepped out of a hotel elevator at the 1991 Tail Hook association convention. She thought the men lining the hallway were waiting for a senior officer so she hesitated not wanting to get in the Way. Then when two men walked Down the Hall she followed. The next thing i knew i was grabbed. I could t my a a sobbing Ponikowski testified thursday in the lawsuit filed by former Navy it. Paula Coughlin who blew the whistle on Bawdy behaviour by military aviators at the convention. Someone grabbed my left breast Ponikowski  hit the Guy in the face. I could t hit him a second time because someone blocked my Arm. It was so  in the hallway just booed. It was so unnatural so  another Man pinned her hands behind her Back she said. There were hands All Over my body. My mind just kind of shut  Coughlin who has yet to testify is suing the Las vegas Hilton and Hilton hotel corp. For an unspecified amount claiming their Security guards should have prevented the attack on her. She settled her suit against the Tail Hook association earlier this month for a undisclosed sum. Ponikowski 26, of Vero Beach fla., is also suing Hilton and the san Diego based Tail Hook association. She is one of about 90 women who claim they were groped and fondled on the final night of the Conven Tion. A dozen women have filed lawsuits. Ponikowski who was an Ensign at the time testified that two hotel Security guards she saw in the hallway at one Point did not come to her Aid but said she did t know if the guards were present when she was at tacked. Welcome to America a woman from India identifies herself to immigration agents wednesday while other agents stand guard Over about 250 alleged illegal aliens in a warehouse in Kent Wash. The aliens were lured to the United states by promises of Green cards which would authorize them to live and work in America. 2 preservatives hailed in cancer fight new York a two widely used food preservatives boosted Levels of a natural cancer fighter in Laboratory animals and appear to do the same thing in humans a researcher says. Advocates of natural foods have Long decried the us of preservatives but or. Andrew Dannenberg of Cor Nell medical College found that the preservatives Baand but revved up the  an enzyme that helps destroy carcinogens before they trigger tutors. When the genes Are cranked up they produce More of the enzyme providing better Protection against can cer causing substances in the environment Dannen Berg reported at the International conference on can cer prevention at Rockefeller University in new Yorkton thursday. Bra and but Are synthetic additives used As preservatives in cookies crackers and a wide variety of other foods. The results do not mean that foods should be pumped up with even More preservatives he said. The findings Are important because they uncover a cancer prevention mechanism that appears to be part of the explanation for the Well known anti cancer properties of Broccoli cauliflower and Brussels sprouts. They Are amazing vegetables Dannenberg  have an amazing array of anti cancer com  his research shows that at least part of the effect of those compounds comes from revving up the same Gen affected by Bra and but. The Gene produces an enzyme with the mile Long name up  or sgt. The study found elevated Levels of the enzyme in the liver kidneys and Small intestines of rats fed higher doses Ofsha and but than Are normally found in foods Dannenberg said. He then found preliminary evidence that the sub stances do the same thing in humans. Dannenberg said he has also found that Sulf Oraphine an anti cancer agent recently isolated in Broccoli exerts its action partly in the same Way by revving up the Gene Forust. In a separate animal study Dannenberg found that a widely prescribed anti ulcer drug called pril Sec also appears to protect against cancer by causing genes to turn up their production of enzymes. The National cancer Institute is conducting More than 20 studies of diet and cancer Many focusing on chemical relatives of Vitamin a called retin oids said or. Lee Wallenberg of the University of Minnesota. Those studies May ultimately show that such feared illnesses As breast cancer Are preventable Wallenberg said  
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