European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 27, 1994 the stars and stripes Linton oks increase in disabled vets benefits from wire reports Washington a president Clinton has signed legislation increasing benefits to disabled veterans and to the survivors of men and women killed in action. The new Law provides a 2.8 percent increase in such benefits effective dec. 1. People receiving social Security and veterans pensions will receive an identical increase in january. A this act not Only maintains the value of benefits so dearly earned but underscores a debt of gratitude that we can never fully repay a the president said in a statement issued  general Dies new York a Robert Lansing who starred in the television series twelve of clock High has died. The 66-year-old actor who lived in Manhattan died sunday of cancer in a new York City hospice. A native of , Lansing made his acting debut in 1951 on Broadway in stalag 17. His craggy Good looks and stentorian voice earned him continuing stage work. Among his Broadway credits were the Little foxes suddenly last summer Cyrano de Bergerac and Charleys aunt. On television he appeared in episodes of such hits As Star trek Alfred Hitchcock presents the Twilight zone and murder she wrote. But Lansing is probably Best remembered As the authoritarian Brig. Gen. Frank Savage in twelve. Of clock High. The Abc drama series about world War ii bomber pilots aired from 1964 to 1967. Lansing a character died at the beginning of the second  lawyers seek Money los Angeles a Rodney Kings attorneys want the Public to pay them $4.4 million for representing the beating victim including time they spent driving him to the Oprah show and attending his birthday party. A Why Are two hours of or. Kings birthday party compensable a . District judge John g. Davies asked Steven Lerman Kings chief attorney at a hearing monday. The lawyers response made the judge laugh a the time of or. Kings birthday party was spent discussing his cake a discussing his  King was awarded $3.8 million in damages Over his 1991 beating by police. Because he prevailed in court he is allowed to seek payment of his attorneys fees and court costs. Lerman and 22 other lawyers submitted Bills for $4.4 million saying they put in 13,000 hours on the Case. Deputy City attorney Don Vincent said Kings attorneys should be paid for no More than 1,000 hours or $350,000. Lerman also billed for time spent driving King to Oprah and Larry King live and for his own. Commute to work. A you Bill All clients for commuting time a Davies asked. A no wonder lawyers have such a bad  Davies said he would Rule later on what the proper amount should be. Police officers line a Street in Lexington ky., on tuesday following the fatal shooting of a Black teen Ager. Blacks attack cars windows after shooting in Kentucky Lexington by. Apr hundreds of Blacks roamed the City a downtown tuesday overturning police cars and throwing rocks at Whites after a White police officer killed a teen Ager in a predominantly Black neighbourhood. Several people including at least one police officer were injured authorities said. But none of the injuries was believed serious police said a handful of people was treated at hospitals and released. Before night fell and Calm was restored As Many As 500 people took to the streets of downtown and the City a near East Side where the trouble began. By dark most people had left downtown where police in riot gear were called but to protect government and court buildings. Substantial numbers of people remained on the streets of Black neighbourhoods however and some threw objects at passing cars. During the trouble windows in several buildings were smashed and at least five police cars were damaged. Television reports showed Blacks hurling rocks a and other objects at Whites on downtown streets. Police said trouble started after the White officer shot 18-year-old Antonio Orlando Sullivan to death tuesday As the Young Black Man was being arrested. The shooting is being investigated. Police said the killing was accidental but the 18. Year old a Fiancee said her baby Sitter witnessed the shooting and told her it was deliberate. A a we re pleading for Calm in the neighbourhood to let the investigation run its course a said police chief Larry Walsh. He said Black Community leaders also went to the Neighb Rhod to Appeal for an end to the disturbance. Police sgt. Phil Vogel was relieved of duty pending an investigation Walsh said Vogel has been with the Force for 22 years. Mayor Pam Miller pledged that commonwealths attorney Ray Larson would conduct a thorough invest ligation. About 30 Black youths met with Walsh after the shooting but they were escorted from the City government building by club toting officers after the meeting failed to produce any Resolution. A i done to think they accepted the explanation of what happened a Walsh said. A i think they believe it Wasny to accidental. The information we have at this Point it that it was accidental not intentional.�?�. Sullivan was killed after five police officers arrived at a Home with arrest warrants charging him with assault and Wanton endangerment in a sept. 30 Street shooting. A a v. A a. A a a a a Sullivan was hiding in a closet next to the living room and did not answer when officers ordered him out Walsh said. A was Sullivan was in the process of stepping into the living room area a police officers weapon was accidentally discharged striking Sullivan in the head a Walsh  was pronounced dead at the University of Kentucky Hospital. A i have no place to live because the police Sho t my Man in the head a said Sullivan a Fiancee Sonora Clay. A you done to discharge your gun at somebody a head. He came out with his hands up.�?�. On to eat Chicago apr terminally ill people  be Given food and water artificially if they done to want it because it May Only heighten their discomfort researchers say. Starving seems to ease such patients deaths because dehydration lessens consciousness promotes sleepiness and diminishes pain the researchers said. Such patients usually want Little nourishment in their final months a patients terminally ill with cancer generally did not experience hunger and those who did needed Only Small amounts of food for alleviation a the researchers said in wednesdays Issue of the journal of the american medical association. Previous studies reflect similar observations but they run counter to the behaviour of Many doctors and families said the Lead author or. Robert m. Mccann. A a there a that whole thing of food As love. That Type of emphasis is really misplaced in people who Are dying a said Mccann head of geriatrics at Rochester general Hospital in Rochester . A families of the dying a they done to know what to do sometimes. So this artificial feeding is what they  a the study involved 32 patients. All expressed a desire not to be fed or Given liquids through tubes. They were allowed anything they wanted to eat and drink including food brought by families. A they lost their appetite. They did no to want to eat anymore a said or. Annmarie Groth Juncker a co author who has cared for the terminally ill. A it did no to feel Good to them anymore or a Little bit of food and they Felt  people dying of other diseases including alzheimer a have the same experience said Groth Juncker medical director at St. Johns Home a nursing Home in Rochester where the research was done. Almost everyone studied consumed less than 25 percent of the food or fluids needed for Basic nutritional requirements. Those who reported thirst or dry Mouths sucked ice clips or hard Candy and sipped liquids in far smaller Quanti ties than needed to prevent dehydration the researchers said. A this is of course How people have always died before there were hospitals with ivs and feeding tubes a Groth Juncker said. Richard Doerflinger a spokesman for the National conference of Catholic Bishops said the Bishops agreed with the View of the researchers As Long As no food or fluid is withheld to hasten a death. A it can be Good Medicine and Good morality to forgo artificial feeding when it can Only impose additional burdens on a patient who is imminently dying from a progressive terminal illness a he said