European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 29,1994 . The stars and stripes Page 9drug to prolong lives of cancer patients of d from the associated press Washington the food and drug administration has approved a new drug to prolong the lives of advanced lung cancer patients. The Fra approved Nav Elbine to treat non Small cell lung cancer the most common Type of the deadly disease that is too advanced for surgery or radiation to help. A there is no cure for such advanced cancer and Nav Elbine is the first new treatment approved specifically for these patients in 20 years manufacturer Burroughs wellcome co. Said. Studies show Nav Elbine a Semi synthetic derivative of the Vinca Flower family prolongs survival by a median of two months. But in one study of 612 european patients 30 percent who got Nav Elbine alone survived a year As did 35 percent of patients who got Nav Elbine in combination with the cancer drug Cis Platin the company  opposes bomb sales Washington a a human rights group wants Secretary of state Warren Christopher to Block the Sale of Cluster bombs to Turkey on the grounds they might be used against kurdish civilians. In a letter to Christopher released tuesday human rights watch also urged tighter controls on future . Arms transfers to Turkey. It wants to see written guarantees that the Aims would be used a Only in nato contingencies or with the prior approval of the .  turkish forces have Long been fighting kurdish guerrillas in the Eastern part of the country. Human rights watch accused the turks of attacking kurdish villages. Aids virus shown to kill women faster than men Chicago a women who have the aids virus die faster than men with the infection a study found and the reasons May be social rather than medical. A. Y. A y a Quot a v the study tracked 768 women and 3,779 men a All his positive a for about 15 months. The women were shown to be 33 percent More Likely to die than men who were comparably ill when they enrolled in the study. A a. A ����?�./. 7 no medical reason for the difference was apparent. The women did no to seem to get sicker any faster than the men they just died sooner said researchers led by Sandra l. Melnick an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota school of Public health. In women twice As often As in men death was the first sign that his was progressing the researchers found. In men the first signs of the infections Progress were much More Likely to be pneumonia or fungal infections. Ita. A. A by y a. By that led researchers to speculate that women May wait longer to seek care or May be treated differently by the medical system. Women represent Only about 15 percent of . Aids cases out women and children Are the fastest growing group of people with aids a co author of the study or. Renslow snerer said in today a Issue of the journal of the american medical association. A a we re still Way behind in reaching women at risk nationally a said Sherer director of the Cook county his primary care Center in Chicago. A this study just shows the devastating Impact of his in  or. Alexandra Levine chief of Haematology at the University of Southern California school of Medicine and a researcher on his in women said her own findings suggest nonmedical factors play an important role in How infected women fare. A it is extremely common for a woman to say she wants an his test but was afraid to ask the doctor a Levine said in a Telephone interview. A when she does ask he says a no you done to need one you re a Nice girl then she has to say no in a not a Nice girl a a woman also May come to the emergency room with pneumonia and a doctor May not suspect it s related to his although with a male patient the doctor might suspect his and test for it Levine said. The treatment for the two types of pneumonia is different she noted. The study conducted at primary health care centers in 13 . Cities is the largest and longest to explore differences in his disease Between men and women Sherer said. It also is one of the most representative a 50 percent of subjects were Black or hispanic he said. But the study a breadth came at the Cost 6f detail including information on homelessness and poverty a two important factors in life expectancy for people with his snerer said. 1 also he said a we know that there a a very High incidence of Domestic violence in women with his a in some cases extremely High a and that May cause deaths he said. Causes of death in the study were unavailable or unknown for 46 percent of 105 women who died and 36 percent of 700 men who died. Since Many his patients die outside hospitals information on causes of death is difficult to obtain the researchers said. Arkansans denies charge of Christmas contempt new courses from Chicago Little Rock Ark. Apr the Man with the millions of Christmas lights pleaded innocent tuesday to contempt for turning some of them on during the holidays and asked the state supreme court for a jury trial. Jennings Osborne also asked the states High court to appoint a special prosecutor to gather evidence on the contempt charge levied by the court after Osborne flipped the switch earlier this month. The justices did not immediately Rule on the requests. Neighbors sued last year to dim the display saying the thousands of spectators its More than 3 million lights attracted snarled traffic and left trash in their upscale neighbourhood. The court declared the lights a nuisance dec. 5 and ordered the wealthy Little Rock businessman to tone Down the spectacle. Osborne lighted portions of the display for three nights before Christmas ending dec. 19. Gary Corum a lawyer for the neighbors asked for the contempt citation. Corum likened Osborne a behaviour to that of a a Strong willed child in lighting about two thirds of the display to get around the courts order. Osborne a lawyer Sam Perroni said his client deserves a jury trial and a special prosecutor to handle the contempt charge. A this order does not say Jennings Osborne cannot have Christmas lights a Perroni said. A it was written in such a manner to suggest to him that he  study of society social change with All of its conflicts and problems has been the great driving Force in sociology from its beginning. This course will put you in society in groups institutions communities and social. Situations and let you see How sociologists interpret them. Martin Luther King Center orders Park service to leave Atlanta a after 14 years of leading tourists through the Rev. Martin Luther Kings Birthplace and Tomb the National Park service is being ordered off the property As of wednesday by Kings family. V Park service officials asked for a postponement of the deadline. A you Are to remove All Park service personnel and property by close of business december 28, 1994,�?� King Center executive director Sonny Walker wrote the Federal Agency in a letter dated Friday. The ultimatum is the latest development in a dispute that centers on the Park services plan to build an $11.8 million visitors Center in Honor of King across the Street from the Martin Luther King Center for nonviolent social change. The Center is to be completed by the 1996 olympics. The King family opposes the visitors Center because it wants to build an interactive Muse up on the slain civil rights leaders life on the same plot of land which is owned by the Park service. The King centers order Means the Park service cannot conduct Tours inside the King birth Home or the King Tomb both of which the Center owns. The site attracts More than 1 million visitors a year and the Park service has run Tours there for 14 years. Troy Lissimore superintendent of the King historic District said today he wrote to King Center officials asking that the deadline be postponed until a meeting Jan. 21 arranged by rep. John Lewis a a. Walker did not immediately return a Telephone Call wednesday asking for comment on the request. If the King Center does not agree the Park service will continue its daily Tours but rangers will Lead visitors past the King birth Home and Tell them what s inside Lissimore said. Walker has said the King Center has not come up with a plan to give its own Tours. The dispute has divided Atlanta a Black Community. 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