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mum fines would be raised by $500, he said.
If, in trial, it is shown that John had an open
container of an alcoholic beverage when he was
pulled over, Cannon said, his term of confine
ment would increase by three days and the mini
mum and maximum fines would increase by
$100. And if this is John’s second offense, his
time of confinement would increase by six days
and the minimum and maximum fines would
increase by $200, he said.
Luckily for John, this is his first DWI, but he
still doesn’t want it on his record. Kuboviak said
he can go to court to protest the conviction —
the breath test results, the officer’s testimony or
the video that was shot when he was brought
into the sheriffs office.
Many people use the video as a defense be
cause the picture isn’t always cleat and the per
son may look sober on tape, he said.
Some offenders, he said, are successful in
clearing their conviction.
“About 15 percent of offenders beat the rap,”
he said.
II John had been picked up for DWI a third
time, Kuboviak said, the crime wouldkl
lied as a felony and the punishments
much stiller. Third-time offendersaretlj
a fine of $500 to $2,000 and can spetJ
where from two to five years in thestitj
tentiary.
Cannon said that if a person is picked]
ter already being charged with a felon !
that person’s car can be confiscatedbvt
trict attorney, just like cars used in then j
union of drugs.
“The county can sell your car at a puli
lion,” lie said. “Whatever is left aftertl
the off lienholders goes to the county.”
Studies link breast cancer
to moderate use of alcohol
BOSTON (AP) — Women who
take three alcoholic drinks a week
have an increased chance of breast
cancer, and just one drink a day is
associated with a 50 percent increase
in the risk of this disease, two studies
conclude.
The findings suggest that alcohol
could be responsible for 10 percent
to 15 percent of all breast cancer, a
disease that strikes about one in 10
women at some time during their
lives.
One expert recommended that
women who are already at increased
risk of the disease, such as those with
a family history of breast cancer, cut
back their alcohol use.
The studies, published in Thurs
day’s New England Journal of Medi
cine, found that women who drink
modest amounts of liquor, beer or
wine are more likely to get breast
cancer later in their lives than those
who don’t drink. However, such sta
tistical links do not prove that alco
hol actually causes the disease.
“I think we can’t be completely
sure there is a cause-and-effect asso
ciation,” said Dr. Walter C. Willett of
the Harvard School of Public
Health, who directed one of the
studies. “Nevertheless, the consis
tency between the different studies
is rather remarkable. So one has to
give this possibility of a cause-and-
effect relationship very serious con
sideration.”
Dr. Arthur Schatzkin of the Na
tional Cancer institute, director of
“A fairly substantial pro
portion of breast cancer
can be attributed to alco
hol consumption, should
this relationship turn out
to be causal. ”
— Dr. Arthur Schatzkin,
director of cancer study
the other study, said,“A fairly sub
stantial proportion of breast cancer
can be attributed to alcohol con
sumption, should this relationship
turn out to be causal. It does have a
lot of public health implications
given how common drinking is and
how important breast cancer is.”
The Harvard study found that
women who consume a drink or
more a day have a 50 percent higher
risk of breast cancer than do those
who never drink. Those who aver
age half a drink a day have a 30 per
cent increased risk. Below three
drinks a week, there was no in
creased danger.
The National Cancer Institute
study broke down women’s drinking
habits differently and reached
slightly different conclusions. In
general, it found that those who
drink are 50 percent more likely to
get breast cancer than are those who
never drink. For those who consume
more than three drinks a week, it
found a 60 percent to 100 percent
increase in risk.
Both Willett and Shatzkin said the
data are too uncertain to be used as
the basis of alcohol recommenda
tions for the majority of women.
It would be reasonable for a
woman to wait until more informa
tion is available before deciding
whether to change her drinking hab
its, Willett said. “But I also think it’s
a rational decision to say, ‘Yes, there
is some uncertainty, but I’m going to
play it safe and reduce my drink-
ing-’ ”
In an accompanying editorial, Dr.
Saxon Graham of the State Univer
sity of New York in Buffalo noted
that moderate alcohol consumption
appears to reduce the risk of heart
disease.
Guatemala calls U.S. transport of soldiers
'isolated incident/ denies Pentagon report
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) —
President Vincio Cerezo confirmed
Wednesday that 18 U.S. soldiers had
transported Guatemalan soldiers in
helicopters, but he denied a Penta
gon report that the troops were
taken to fight leftist rebels.
Cerezo also said it was an “isolated
incident” and would not be repeated
soon.
Pentagon spokesman Col. Marvin
Braman has said about 300 soldiers
were transported Sunday and Mon
day aboard three Army CH-47
Chinook helicopters from Guate
mala City to the town of Playa
Grande about 200 miles to the
north.
The mission was flown from the
Palmerola air base in neighboring
Honduras, where the United States
maintains a military headquarters,
Braman said.
A small leftist insurgency of about
2,000 rebels has been active in Gua
temala for 25 years. Since 1983,
their activity has largely been limited
to sporadic ambushes of army troops
and coffee plantations.
Braman said that the U.S. sol
diers, who carried sidearms, faced
minimal risks and that the helicopt
ers were unarmed and operated
from secure areas.
“The operation was mounted in
response to an official request from
the Guatemalan president to the
U.S. ambassador,” he said.
Study: Strike
cut numbei
of controllei!
WASHINGTON (AP)
ranks of fully-q ualifiedanj
controllers at many of t
tion’s most critical control;
have shrunk by up to 58#
since a nationwide conir
strike in 1981, accord
suits of a federal investigair
leased Wednesday.
Controllers at 43 mai
ports and control centtn
veyed are overworked and
fac ilities understaffed, a
report by the General Accw
Office.
However, the reportsau
t roller errors halve decree'
26 ol the 43 sites, and theft
Aviation Administration is
ing progress restoringcont
to their full ranks.
The GAO’s investip I
based on data collected in) I
and April, reported thats
drops in staff have been;
panied lay massive overtiu
increased pressing of supri
into routine duty.
Of 6,311 controllers
rized at the facilities dt
only 3,802 positions—ji
half — are filled, said die!
by the GAO, an inve>::
agency of Congress.
The survey drew nom
sions about safety threats;
by the understaffing.
But Sen. Frank Lautenh |
N.J., who requested them';
lion, said it shows coni!
shortages to be “widesprs
dramatic.” Lautenbergcha
Senate Appropriations trai I
tation subcommittee, sdw 1
to begin hearings on theli
controllers on Thursday.
"We actually have fewer!
flic controllers thanweass
and their workload is 1
Lautenberg said. “Air" [!
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cases, but across thecounir'l
The GAO collected T
from 16 of the FAA’s20etJ
air t raffic control centers
Shuttle pilot’s widow files $1.5 billion lawsui
WASHINGTON (AP) — The widow
of Michael J. Smith accused rocket
builder Morton Thiokol in a $1.5 bil
lion lawsuit Wednesday of recklessly
placing the Challenger crew “in im
minent peril of death” to protect a
booster rocket contract with NASA
worth billions of dollars.
Jane J. Smith, whose husband was
the pilot on the ill-fated space shuttle
mission, alleges a “conspiracy of si
lence and deceit,” in the building of
space shuttle rocket boosters and
asks that Morton Thiokol be barred
from further work on the shuttle
program.
The suit, filed in federal district
court in Orlando, Fla., was the first
filed against NASA as a result of the
accident. It asks $500 million in ac
tual damages from Morton Thiokol,
the U.S. government and Lawrence
J. Mulloy, who formerly was man
ager of NASA’s booster rocket pro
gram at the Marshall Space Flight
Center in Huntsville, Ala. The suit
also asks $1 billion in punitive dam
ages from Morton Thiokol for
“reckless disregard for human life.”
Smith was one of seven crew
members killed in the space shuttle
explosion 73 seconds, after liftoff
from Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Jan.
28, 1986. His widow had filed a
$15.1 million claim against the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration earlier — a prerequisite
to suing the government — and had
negotiated with Morton Thiokol.
The Rogers Commission, investi
gating for President Reagan, said a
leaky joint on the shuttle’s right
booster rocket allowed hot gases to
sear the shuttle’s huge external tank,
which had been filled with a half
million gallons of fuel.
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The commission concluded that
Morton Thiokol and NASA had
years of warnings about a faulty seal
design but ignored them and came
to accept leaks “as unavoidable and
an acceptable flight risk.”
The complaint, filed by William F.
Maready of Winston-Salem, N.C.,
said Morton Thiokol ignored the
problems “for the sole purpose of
protecting its monopoly in the sup
ply of SRB’s (solid rocket boosters)
to NASA and its very lucrative SRB
contract with NASA, a business in
terest which was worth billions of
dollars to Thiokol.”
NASA spokesman David Garrett
said the agency will not comment on
a lawsuit in progress. Thomas Rus
sell, a Morton Thiokol vice president
in Chicago, said the firm had not re
ceived a copy of the complaint and
could not comment. Mulloy, who has
left the space agency, didn !
a telephone message.
The families of four otte
nauts killed in the explosio
cher Christa McAuliffe.
commander Francis R. Scot*
sion specialist Ellison S. On
payload specialist Gregory
— accepted confidential
settlements from NASAand
Thiokol in December. Ttif* '
not announced, was repo#
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In addition, attorneyRo* 1
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died damages against!
kol on behalf of RonaJdMd*
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