European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 1,1994 polio declared eradicated in Western hemisphere from wire reports Washington polio the dreaded Scourge that  paralysed millions of children worldwide and caused near hysteria among  during the first half of the Century has been eradicated from the Western hemisphere the world health organization declared  pan american health organization which is the Western hemisphere office of who attribute the Success to an aggressive and widespread $540 million immunization Campaign launched in the Region in 1985. The last documented Case of polio in the americas was recorded in 1991 in Pic Hanaki a Village in Peru in a 3-year-old boy. The last Case in the United states occurred in 1979. T teen gets new sentence Thomaston a. A teen Ager once sentenced to three years in prison for stealing $20 Worth of ice Cream from a school cafeteria avoided time behind bars by pleading Gurtty thursday to reduced charges. Beh Undra Caldwell 18, was sentenced to a year s probation ordered to perform 40 Days of Community service and pay $600 in fines and court fees. He pleaded guilty to two counts of Misdemeanour criminal trespassing now i want to finish school Ana hopefully within the next month or so choose which College i want to go to said Caldwell a High school  pleaded guilty last year to burglary. His three year sentence sparked an uproar with the 1 National association for the advancement of coloured people and other critics saying it was racist to punish Caldwell who is Black so severely sincere had no prior record. He spent 10 Days in jail before being freed pending a review of the Case. Palau a in nationhood kor or Palau the world is gaining another Independent nation. Ithe 16,000 people who inhabit this archipelago in the Western Pacific Are to begin ruling themselves at 1 0.1 . Local time today As the . Administered Trust territory of the Pacific Island comes to an end. It will enter into a compact of free association with the United states which will continue to provide for Palau s defense and give $447 million Over 15 years and will have the right to Doc nuclear powered vessels. Palau s More than 200 islands Are located West of the International dateline 500 Miles East of the. Philippines. Gand Date defends herself Cheyenne Wyo. Wyoming s democratic candidate for governor says she is simply defending herself against rumours that she is a lesbian. But Kathy Karpan s Republican opponent says she is deliberately keeping the Issue alive through _ allegations of a smear Campaign to get As much political mileage As she  Karpan Calls a whisper Campaign became Public last week when the publisher of a twice weekly newspaper in the gop stronghold of Cody asked heir if she is a lesbian the two term Secretary of state denied she is homosexual and accused several unnamed republicans of using the Long standing rumours tory to scare Herout of running for governor. ,. Karpan who at 52 has never been married also complained of what she considers different standards for women in Public life. She noted in a. Later interview that two single men who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the . House in August were fever questioned about their personal lives. Republican eyes comeback Baton Rouge la. A Republican who lost his House seat to redistricting is seeking a comeback in Louisiana s mostly hotly contested congressional race. Clyde Holloway faces democratic rep. Jimmy Hayes in today s election in southwestern Louisiana s cajun country. With no real issues the race has been a mudslinging affair. Heading into the election a poll done by the republicans put Hayes ahead of Holloway a conservative who served in Pongress until 1, . _-.-. The St is and stripes drug Page results Washington a the most common drug prevention program in american schools has Only a slight effect on pupils in elementary classes but is More effective among Early adolescents a study finds. The program called dare for drug abuse Resis Tance education is in use by 50 percent of local school districts nationwide and is gaining acceptance the re port said. The conclusion is that its Impact on drug use i Small said Susan t. Ennett who headed the study. The Impact on some of the other outcomes most notably knowledge about drugs is a bit greater so i does have some Small positive Impact in those  the study by the private research Triangle Institute in North Carolina was done for the National Institute of Justice an Arm of the department of Justice. It was published in the newest Issue of the american journal of Public health. The National Institute of Justice reaction to the study ignored the criticism and Dweller on its Best Side. The study confirmed the prevalence and popularity of dare revealed that its Appeal cuts across racial ethnic and socioeconomic lines and indicated consid Erable support for expansion of the program the government organization said. A scientific adviser to dare did look at the study s ---.�_. Criticism and criticize the study. Or. Herbert Kleber chairman of dare s voluntary scientific advisory Board said the study had a Funda mental weakness because it was based on old studies of an old curriculum that is no longer being  in the dare program 45 to 60-minute lessons Are usually offered once a week to teach fifth and sixth graders the skills needed to recognize and resist social pressure to use drugs the study said. But it found the effect was not much greater than whatever drug education if any had been offered previously in the schools. The difference said the report except for tobacco use is not statistically  the researchers Analysed other studies done on the subject and measured knowledge about drugs social skills attitude toward the police attitudes about drug use self esteem and drug behaviour. Ennett said the researchers found that interactive programs which stress social skills to resist the drug culture were More effective than traditional lectures. Many of our findings suggest ways dare might be improved she said. The dare Core curriculum for fifth and sixth graders has been recently modified. Perhaps some of those modifications will Lead to greater  Rafael Ibarra left smiles As he leaves his deportation hearing thursday with attorney Clifford Imbro in san Diego. Ibarra who has been an illegal resident for 14 years won the right to stay in the United states and attend school on a University of Chicago scholarship. V  top student gets visa to return to class san Diego  Ibarra High school valedictorian top student at the University of chicagoan illegal alien passed pne of his toughest tests Fri Day. He got a visa. The visa allows Ibarra to return for his Sophomore year when classes Start monday. He s not sorr Leone who came Here and was living on the fringes of society Federal administrative Law judge Kenneth Bagley said after his ruling. He did hot work illegally and take mor than he gave  _ Ibarra was  definitely Felt like i had my hands tied behind my b ack because of this Barrier. Now i feel free he , 20, graduated rom a san Diego High schooling 1993 and won full scholarships from top colleges around the country. When it came time to fill in applications he acknowledged that he is a mexican citizen and not a Legal Resi Dent of the United states where he has lived since his Mother brought him in when he was 6.  University of Chicago said it would take him anyway if he tried to legalize his status. Ibarra asked the immigration and naturalization service for an International student visa. The ins arranged for Friday s expedited hearing because of Ibarra s academic standing spokesman Rudy Murillo said. ,. The judge had to weigh several factors including the hardship that deporting Ibarra would create and How Well he has assimilated. In Chicago about the Only difficulties the biochemistry major had were adjusting to the rough midwestern Winter and school  he did remarkably Well considering All the distractions he had with the trial a school official said. Back in the ninth Grade Ibarra nearly dropped  did use anything for me in school he said. Then he began winning wrestling and Cross country trophies and As part of a racial diversity program hews bused to a High school where he came in Contact with upper Middle class teen agers who considered higher education a Given. That s when i decided i wanted to go to  said he earned a s and of last year giving him a Grade Point average of 3.5 to 3.6 out of a possible 4,0