European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes . Thursday october 6,1994laughter, tears at Tail Hook trial Las vegas a Paula Coughlin laughed when a Hilton attorney showed her life size pictures of hotel Security officers and asked if she saw any guards after being attacked by Drunken aviators. A no i did no to see those cardboard cutouts but apparently that show effective they were a the former Navy lieutenant testified tuesday. Coughlin sobbed As Hilton attorney Eugene wait repeatedly asked if Coughlin had seen the guards at the 1991 Tail Hook convention and Why she did no to Tell the hotel or police that she had been groped and fondled. A my Frame of mind was just completely unstable a she said. A when i came out of the end of that Gauntlet after being attacked. I really had no idea what to she also testified that former president Bush wept when she described her experience to him during a White House visit. A president Bush said he had recently found out what happened to me. He had a 30 or 31-year-old daughter and he started to cry and i did no to really know what to do a she said. Coughlin is suing the Las vegas Hilton and Hilton hotel corp. For unspecified damages claiming hotel Security should tuve prevented her from being sexually assaulted by a hallway full of Rowdy Navy and Marine aviators. \ As her second Day of testimony came to a close Coughlin said the Hilton As ultimately responsible for the attack because the convention participants were guests at a the Hilton a Coughlin testified monday that she feared she was about to be gang raped As men tried to pull her skirt and underwear off. She resigned from the Navy earlier this year citing pressure because of her role As a Tail Hook whistle Blower. She settled with the Tail Hook association for an undisclosed amount. Coughlin said she reported the attack to her Boss rear adm. John w. Snyder California ordered to close Gas chamber As inhumane san Francisco a californians Gas chamber was ordered shut Down tuesday by a Federal judge who said execution by lethal Gas a is inhumane and has no place in civilized the ruling by . District judge Marilyn Hall Patel still allows California to execute prisoners by injection a method that was added As an option last year. However tuesdays ruling marked the first time a Federal judge said any method of execution violated the constitutions to an on cruel and unusual punishment. State attorney Genera Dan Lungren said the ruling a Marks a tragic Day for victims of crime an their families and will be appealed. Gov. Pete Wilson said he will do All he can to see that californians a remain protected by the death the ruling came in a lawsuit filed on behalf of several death Row inmates by the american civil liberties Union. Although it leaves California free to continue executions it is still a significant Victory said Acle lawyer Michael Laurence. A there is something intrinsically important in stopping California from slowly suffocating people to death a he said. A the state of California has to be held accountable for what it does even to death Row Patel heard from a Battery of scientific experts and execution witnesses during a two week trial last fall. V a 7 although the scientific evidence was in conflict Patel said she was convinced by eyewitness accounts and doctors records that reported inmates suffering during numerous Gas chamber executions from the time cyanide fumes strike a persons face Patel said the person is Likely to be conscious from 15 seconds to a minute with a substantial risk of consciousness for up to several minutes. During that period she said a the condemned inmate is Likely to suffer intense physical the primary cause is cellular suffocation experienced As an intense a air hunger similar to strangulation or. Drowning the judge said. A file photo shows the san Quentin Calif Gas chamber that a Federal judge has ordered shut. It jr., the following morning because he a was in charge of me and he was supposed to care about the Admiral testified earner that he did t learn of the attack until about two weeks after it occurred. Coughlin said Snyder telephoned her later and shrieked a Paula you be got to help me out Here. In a getting really beat up. We be got to get our stories straight. These investigators Are ail Over after Coughlin went Public with her ordeal about 90 other women said they too were manhandled at the convention As they were forced Down a Gauntlet of aviators. A dozen have sued. Dod wizardry May breast cancer Washington a a new statistically powerful study finds no link Between hair Dye and cancer a finding that contradicts earlier research that suggested artificial hair colouring posed a risk for the disease. A the totality of evidence today is far More reassuring than alarming about any hazards of hair Dye use a said or. Charles h. Hennekens head of the preventative Medicine department at Harvard medical school and co author of the study published wednesday in the journal of the National cancer Institute. Hennekins said a study of 99,000 nurses aged 30 to 55i found that Over a 14-year period there was no increase in what Are called Remato poetic cancers among those who used permanent hair Dye. Remato poetic cancers include leukaemia Quot a multiple myeloma Hodgkin a disease and non Hodgkin a Lymphoma. The study is the largest yet on the Issue of cancer and hair Dye. Hennekens said it is statistically More powerful than most earlier work because the women were interview de about their lifestyles before getting any disease and then were followed for years. Hennekens said most earlier research that had found some association Between hair Dye and cancer involved studies in which women who had cancer were asked to recall things about their diets smoking and cosmetic use. He said those studies Are weaker because the conclusions depended upon the memory of people who Are seeking reasons for their illnesses. Recent studies sponsored by the american cancer society also have found no association Between hair Dye and cancer he said. Hennekens did acknowledge that some Laboratory studies in the past have shown that some mice painted with hair Dye had a slightly increased incidence of tutors. A it is not Clear the precise relevance of these animal studies to humans a he said. Or. Francine Grodstein a researcher at the Harvard school of Public health and a co author with Hennekens of the journal study said the Only possible exception to the general conclusion about hair Dye safety is for won n who use Black hair Dye for More than 2u years. She said a number of studies suggest that a slight increase in some cancers May occur among these women but even this conclusion is Uncertain and needs More study. Washington a the same technology that can find a camouflaged truck in enemy territory during wartime May soon help select the smallest earliest signs of cancer in women a breasts defense experts told Congress. Fighting the War against breast cancer is just one Way that expensive highly advanced military technology can find a new life in the Post Gold War environment officials from the departments of defense and health and human services told a House armed services subcommittee tuesday �?�.�?��?��?�. 7. 7 Quot a 7 it also May be the most Cost efficient Way to boost the efforts to detect breast cancer Early and to improve 40-year-old mammography techno orgy said or. Susan Blumenthal a Deputy assistant Secretary for health and assistant surgeon general at has. A 7-. A a -�7 a i believe that if we can image missiles 15,000 Miles away in Distant skies and with the Hubble Telescope see craters on Mars we Shou id be Able to develop b of Ter tools to image Small tutors in women a breasts that Are right in front of us a Blumenthal said in fact the defense contractor Martin Marietta corp. And Rose health care system of Denver already Are converting a military optical processing system first designed for finding targets a to use in analysing mammograms. A this system has been shown to see things that your Eye cannot see a said e. Michael Henry of Martin Marietta who said the. Company envisions radiologists supplementing their own mammography findings with the sophisticate d analyses. The system can match known features of cancerous lesions with an a Ray image to pinpoint where the patterns occur on the a Ray. Its precision can help Eltomi Nate false positives and its ability to spot very Small cancerous lesions Wilt mean that cancer can be detected earlier Henry said. Researchers also Hope to use it one Day to Analyse other medical tests such As Pap smears he said. A a rep. Patricia Schroeder drcoio., chairwoman of the House armed services research and technology sub commit. Tee said she believes taxpayer Money spent on defense should yield a a double dividend for americans. A we have spent literally billions of Dol Lais developing these cutting Edge detection technologies and Vve have a wonderful Opportunity to capture the benefits of this investment to Advance our fight against breast cancer a said Schroeder. She has pressed for More resources for breast cancer research a
