European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 7, 1995 . The stars and stripes Page 7 girl a she s Seq Oak Ridge . A Nancy Idlette says she can handle the Rigours of the All male corps of cadets at the Citadel even the pushups. The 17-year-old military Academy senior is picking up where Shannon Faulkner faltered in the fight to be come the first woman to graduate from the Charleston s.c., College.  a /. " " Mellette a second lieutenant at the Oak Ridge Mili tary Academy is on the Cross country track basketball and softball teams. She can run two Miles in 13 minutes and do 28 setups in 30 seconds much faster than  Essary to pass the physical requirements at the Citadel. I can do pushups pretty Well too she told a news conference tuesday at the military Academy she at tends about 15 Miles from Greensboro. Mellette also has the Citadel in her blood her father graduated from the state supported College in 1963, and her brother is a senior Captain there. Nancy had wanted to do this for years said he Mother Connie Mellette. We were certainly not inter ested in blazing trails. We were waiting to see what happened with Shannon Faulkner and hoping she Ould get  Faulkner the first woman to join the College s Cadet corps was taken to the infirmary last month with heat exhaustion on the first Day of training during hell  she dropped but four Days later citing the stress of her 22-year court fight and her isolation on Campus. The Citadel had tried to keep Faulkner out based on her weight which was never disclosed. A school spokesman had said that Faulkner was 20 pounds Over  .1-requirements and that the school doctor had recommended she be rejected. Asked about her weight at the news conference Mellette of irmo.s.c., luckily replied Don t you know you re not supposed to ask women that question sir. ,./ the Citadel is awaiting a court ruling on a women s leadership program that South Carolina has proposed As a Way to prevent women from breaking the All male tradition at the 153-year-old school. Lawyers challenging the Citadel s All male policy last week asked a judge to allow Mellette to Center Nancy Mellette 17, held a tuesday news conference in Oak Ridge ., to announce her fitness for the physical challenges at the Citadel where she Hopes to attend in the fall of 1996. She is shown with her father Bland Mellette and her Mother Connie. V.--. ".  a " " / a a Faulkner s lawsuit. If that in t allowed Mellette prob ably will file a separate lawsuit lawyer Val Vojdik said. Citadel president Claudius Watts said tuesday that it does t matter whether Mellette joins the lawsuit be cause the courts should Rule by fall 1996_ whether the program at Converse College in Spartanburg s.c., is constitutional. Mellette said the program at Converse would not be enough. Converse does t offer electrical engineering courses and i Don t believe that the military instruction they have at Converse would be equal to the Citadel said Mellette who wants to join the Citadel in fall1996.  Mellette said she also was interested in applying to the . Military Academy the . Air Force facade my the . Coast guard Academy and the University of South Carolina. But unlike the military academies the Citadel would allow Mellette to forgo military service after graduation if she wanted. New class of aids i . Soon Washington a a new class of drugs to combat aids will not cure the disease but will provide a powerful new weapon against the deadly infection experts said tuesday. The new drugs called proteinase inhibitors attack a different target in the aids virus reproduction Cycle and May be better tolerated by patients than any of the aids drugs now on the Market said or. Ellen Cooper director of clinical research at the american foundation for aids research. There is every indication that this class of drugs will be useful in treating his infection Cooper said. If looks  Hoffmann la Roche inc. Announced tuesday that it is applying to the food and drug administration for approval to Market a proteinase inhibitor called a Quina Vir. It would carry the Brand name inv Rase. We re prepared to move within four to six months said Fra spokesman a thur who Trapre noting that the aids Community is eager to have Saku Inavie available. Other companies Are developing Simi Lar drugs but Hoffmann la Roche is the first to apply for marketing  a drug in the United states _ Saku Inavie acts on his the virus that causes aids by blocking the action of an enzyme called proteinase which has a key role in the final phases of the replication Cycle of his. Four his drugs currently marketed work by blocking reverse transcript ase a protein Active earlier in. The replication Cycle. Saku Inavie  tested extensively in Europe and researchers report that it " is effective for a time against his. The drug was shown in clinical trials to re Duce the amount of virus in patients blood land to increase the number of cd4 cells the immune cells that Are the Prin Ocipa targets of hit however the stud ies show that his eventually develops resistance to the drug a problem that is seen in All of the other aids drugs. None of these drugs Are curative Cooper said. Some studies have shown that Yaquina Vir was particularly effective when used in combination with other anti his drugs. Guns replacing cars As youth killers by the Washington Post gunshot wounds May soon overtake traffic accidents As the leading cause of death in children and teen agers a Connecticut study has found. Researchers urged doctors caring for families with children to make counselling in preventing firearm injuries a routine part of their advice to  families. The researchers tallied deaths and in juries to people younger than 20 from firearms Over a five year period from 1988 through 1992 in Connecticut. In All there were 219 deaths from gunshot wounds in children and teen agers during that period. Given the declining trend in traffic deaths and the rising trend in shooting deaths it is Likely that firearms have become the leading cause of death in children and teen agers since 1992, re searchers said. The study was conducted by a research team from the University of Connecticut school of Medicine and Hartford Hospi Tal. The findings were published in last month s paediatrics. Handguns account for a disproportionate amount of the firearms trauma in the under-20 age group the study found. Of the shootings where a specific firearm was identified 72 percent involved handguns 21 percent shotguns and 4 percent rifles. Of the 219 deaths recorded 68 percent were homicides 25 percent suicides 6 percent unintentional and the remaining 1 percent undetermined. Researchers also measured the Hospi Tal costs for the 533 children and teen agers hospitalized fur gunshot wounds in the state from 1986 through 1990 $4.4 million during the five year period. Hospitalization for a gunshot injury lasted an average of 6.5 Days and Cost $8,108 per stay the costliest Case ran up a Hospital Bill of More than $305,000. Los. May oust sex official of Khmer Rouge Washington a a for Mer top official of the notorious Khmer Rouge in Cambodia has been quietly living in a new York suburb and the state department is trying to Block his attempt to be come a permanent . Resident officials said tuesday. Thi Ounn Prasith who served As a member of Cambodia s , Mission Between 1979 and 1992, was a top Khmer Rouge official during the group s bloody reign in the late 1970s. After his diplomatic stint ended he was allowed to remain inthe United states based on his wife s employment by the United nations. . Officials said they have no Evi Dence directly linking Prasith to the crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge Rule Between 1975 and 1979.hundreds of thousands perhaps More than 1 million cambodians died from execution forced labor malnutrition and disease. Prasith is believed to have had close ties with Deputy prime min ister Leng sary and there Are reports that he worked As an assistant to the Khmer Rouge Leader pol pot. Based on Prasith s affiliation state department spokesman Nicholas Burns said the processing of applications sent by Prasith s wife has been suspended we Are looking at the question of whether or not there can be a Legal basis to remove him Burns said