European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page-6 the stars and stripes . Friday january 20, 1995no risks seen for Gulf vets babies by Scripps Howard news service despite worries about birth defects and deaths among the babies of persian Gulf War veterans much of the evidence so far indicates that these infants Are no More at risk of fatal illness than others. A flurry of news reports last year raised the horrifying possibility that babies of veterans were dying of birth defects caused by unexplained health prob. Lems dubbed Gulf War syndrome. Stories of stillborn and deformed babies swept through some military communities an the supposed level of risk grew each time the stories were told / ,. But new evidence from military hospitals and studies of veterans show that the infant mortality rate for the children of. Thousands of soldiers did not change after the Gulf War and remains better than the National average. A you can ask if there is any effect and the answer is probably unlikely. If therein the stars and stripes 10years ago Jan. 20,1985 a weather conditions remained treacherous in much of Europe As forecasters warned that a thaw in the icy spell that had claimed at least 444 lives could mean the Start of Winter floods.20 year Sago Jan. 20,1975 a two Arab commandos on the observation deck at orly Airport in Paris fired at but missed a departing israeli Airliner. 30years ago Jan. 20,1965 a a gemini spacecraft partially controlled by a pair of Quot Black boxes Quot simulating astronauts performed superbly in a suborbital test flight Clearing the Way for Virgil Grissom and John Young to ride a similar capsule into orbit. 40years ago Jan. 20,1955 a president Eisenhower said he favored a , Effort to effect a cease fire Between communist China and the chinese nationalists. 50 year Sago Jan. 20,1945 a in a sweeping move to replace critical . Infantry losses rear Echelon troops fit for front line duty were being shifted to ground forces reinforcement come and retrained As riflemen. World War ii50 years ago Toda Jan. 201 9 45 French and moroccan soldiers attack the. Germans in the Colmar area of Frances Alsace Region making gains despite stiff resistance and bad _ weather. American troops Advance in the ardennes salient in Belgium. Soviet forces penetrate into East Prussia capturing tilsit and pushing near Tannenberg. On Luzon in the Philippines . Soldiers take Victoria and close in on Tarlac. Source 2194 Days of War. W. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii. Bison books corp., 1981 a is an effect it will be minimal. You re better off worrying about winning the lot try than the Chance of an Adverse effect on pregnancy a said Sorell Schwartz a pharmacologist at the Georgetown University medical Center in Washington . There arc at least two reasons Why such health problems Arentt passed on by most soldiers said Schwartz who also studied agent Orange plaintiffs. The first reason is that a there is no demonstrable exposure to reproductive toxins a Schwartz said. The second a is that the turnover of sperm is about 2vi months so after a certain time you Are out of danger a Schwartz said. Women however Are born with All the eggs they will Ever have and separate studies will have to consider the thousands of female troops who were deployed in the Gulf. The evidence from the Gulf War is far from Complete but it  Normal births Are typical. Army hospitals show a steady infant mortality rate from 1989 to 1993, which covers the first deployment of troops to the persian Gulf in August 1990 and the Start of their return in March 1991. There was a drop in births when the 697,000 people were deployed a and a Steep Rise after they came Home a but the rate of babies dying actually was lower in 1992 than it was before the War. In 1992, army hospitals had 28,44? babies born and 188 of them died before their first birthdays. The infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births was 6.6, compared with 7.8 in 1989. By comparison the National infant mortality rate for 1992 was 10. Even at bases with Large numbers of troops sent to the Gulf infant mortality rates did not show significant changes. At fort Bragg n.c., Home to the 82nd airborne div the infant mortality Fate was 6.9 before the War in 1989 Ana 3.8 after the War in 1992. One weakness of the data collected by army medical come is that it lumps together babies born to persian Gulf vets and non vets which Means further research needs to be done. At least a half dozen More studies Are under Way Richard Haines a reservist from new Albany ind., said he believes he already has evidence showing a High rate of birth defects and chronic illness among children of vets. Although he has no medical background Haines has used his Home Telephone and computer to gather the names of nearly 200 children born with problems some of them very serious. The list got the attention of or. Francis Walkman a specialist in environmental my dicing in Akron Ohio. A the proportion of defects is Way out of line and we need some institution to collect and Analyse this data a he said. Deutch losing interest in Cia Job by the new York times Washington a Deputy defense Secretary John Deutch once regarded As the front runner to become Cia director has expressed serious reservations about taking the Job. Associates said wednesday that Deutch was reluctant to give up his policy position at the Pentagon. They also said he had concluded that because of academic sensitivities about the Cia his serving As its chief could prevent him from. Becoming president of the Massachusetts Institute of technology in Cambridge where he was Provost. White House officials had described Deutch As an Ideal candidate to succeed the former director James Woolsey who abruptly resigned last month. But aides to president Clinton said that while Cut Chi a decision had complicated their search the president would not try to persuade him to reconsider. At the same time officials said it now appeared unlikely that Erskine Bowles the consensus Choice to succeed Robert Rubin As head of the National economic Council would be installed in that Post. Rubin became Treasury Secretary this month the officials said that Bowles had done such a Good Job As Deputy White House chief of staff for operations that Leon Panetta the chief of staff did not want to lose him. The officials said the Job of Cor Ordi Naling administration economic policy might instead go to Laura d Andrea Tyson chairman of the Council of economic advisers. In addition to the economic and intelligence vacancies two other top posts White House political director and Cabinet Liaison remain unfilled. The vacancies underscore the difficulty Clinton has had in picking the right people. Museum rejects vets bid to scrap a bomb exhibit by the Washington Post Washington the smithsonian institution on wednesday turned Down a request from the nations largest veterans organization to cancel a controversial exhibit on the atomic bomb and the end of. World War ii. The american legion which had been working with the institution to revise the exhibit also said the Enola Gay the b-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima should be turned Over to another museum that will show the plane in a More sympathetic Light. Legion officials delivered their de mands to smithsonian Secretary Michael Scyman after learning that the text for the National air and space museum exhibit was being changed again to lower the estimate of casualties that would have occurred if the United states had been Force to invade Japan to end the War. Smithsonian officials had no comment after the terse 10-minute meeting. But National legion commander William Detweiler described the session As disappointing. A i expressed our concerns and reasons for getting involved a Detweiler said. A i thought wed have an open  res Cominio irs Cominio irs Cominio is coming Iris coming watch the stars amp stripes carefully to find out what it is. Paid advertisement history teaching plan called drivel by the Seattle Post intelligencer Washington complaining wednesday of a politically Correct drivel sen. Slade Gorton led the Senate in denouncing a proposed new system for teaching , history in Public schools. Gorton r-wash., said in a Senate speech that the proposed National teaching standards systematically underplayed american achievements and such heroes As George Washington while advancing an Ultra Liberal Agenda of feminism and multiculturalism. He called the standards a perverted a  a anti Western a a terribly damaging Quot and a a Gross  the standards were prepared by Urcla scholars at a Cost of More than $2 million under a Federal Grant. Senators voted 99-1 to denounce the standards and to recommend that they be rejected by the National educational standards improvement Council. The Council was created As part of president Clinton a goals 2000 education initiative. Sen. Bennett Johnston d-la., cast the Lone vote in opposition. He could not be reached for comment. Gary Nash director of the Urcla National Center for history which wrote the curriculum said in a statement that a we Are open and flexible and willing to revise the standards. He said they were produced with the help of hundreds of history teachers and aimed at broadening the issues and personalities taught in history classes to bring history alive. Gorton and other critics complained that the curriculum refers Only briefly to George Washington and pays too Little attention to the Constitution or the role of Congress. Gorton said the curriculum All but ignores such events and figures As Paul reveres ride in the revolutionary War Benjamin Franklin a experiments with electricity the roles of Gens. . Ulysses Grant and Robert e. Lee in the civil War and the achievements of Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright Brothers. Demo Nuernberg has it All Fory oui bargains galore Johnson Barracks bldg. 946 in Fuerth 0911-7006634/7039 saturday january 21st 0900-1300