European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes May John Walker holds his infant son and shouts do your Job to Walker was killed after a five hour a photo to sniper ending 5hour siege in Nevada a a former Security guard who begged police to shoot him As he held a pistol to the head of his infant son was fatally wounded by a police ending a five hour do your Job shouted the Man police identified later wednesday As John of Las shoot shoot shortly after As Walker held the baby in his arms in a residential Street of this Las vegas the police Marksman hitting Walker in the he was pronounced dead 20 min utes later at Rose de Lima the gunman 14yearold who also brandished a gun during the dropped his weapon and put his hands in the air when his father police the whose name was not disclosed because of his was taken into custody and held at Clark county juvenile police said Walker fell on the infant after he was but the boy was unhurt and released to his Mother after a Hospital Walker apparently was despondent Over his wife leaving him and the children and his inability to find a police and neigh Bors he said his wife left him with the baby and 14yearold said Geraldine John the manager of an apartment Complex where Walker applied for a Job he seemed i Felt bad for Johnson the incident began about when Walker called a television station and said theres going to be frontage news theres going to be a police said Walker went to a House in this Las vegas where three unidentified girls and the siege began when he fired one shot at in Telephone repeatedly threatened to come out with the baby and Start police police thought at first that the Man was holding the two children but it later became apparent that the 14yearold was helping his said Henderson police de several times during the Walker walked outside the House with the infant in his arms and the gun held High in the he fired five shots into the air before going Back police police cordoned off the area and installed sharpshooters in neighbouring houses and on the roof of an adjacent shopping Center while negotiators tried to talk the Man into inactive7 aids virus can infect Boston up the aids virus can remain in a persons body for five years or longer without producing but it can still be transmitted to other doctors at the Cen ters for disease control said the findings indicate that simply because a person who was exposed to the virus years ago has not shown any symptoms of the does not mean that they cannot infect someone it also underscores the importance of blood donor screening tests for acquired immune deficiency an often fatal condition that cripples the body defences against the study findings were published in thursdays edition of the new England journal of the important thing is the fact that the virus can be found in individuals Over a Long period of time without apparent said Paul the chief of the cacs virology Section in the aids this is perfectly consistent with other viral said the reports primary some such As remain in a persons body for As Long As they the study Analysed 25 people who transmitted aids through blood transfusions and six aids victims who caught the Dis ease after receiving blood we conclude that infection with the aids virus May be persistent and asymptomatic for the report Feorino said the report is not meant to scare people about the possibility of contracting aids from blood he said that of the 3 million people who receive blood transfusions each less than 100 contract the deadly the Point is not the problem with trans fusions but the fact that these individuals carried the virus for this length of he said in a Telephone As of april the cd recorded cases of aids in the United with the incidence of the disease increasing in such High risk groups As intravenous drug users and a total of 143 pases of aids has been reported in people with no risk factors who received blood another 71 people Are believed to have contracted aids from clotting Factor transfusions to treat their Haemophiliacs Are at High risk of the infection because the clotting Factor they require is pooled from thousands of blood Media could breach Pentagon says Washington a assistant defense Secretary Michael Burch said wednesday that tighter rules should govern Media pools covering secret military operations because the other Side can learn a Pool has been convened by using satellites to intercept Telephone Burch said this potential eavesdropping Means secrecy surrounding last months test of the Pentagon Pool was theoretically breached when word spread on the Telephone within news organizations in the Pool and to other news organizations that the Pool had been even though the news organizations didst publish or broadcast the he said Mere knowledge that a Pool is activated can Compromise Security when that fact is known by those without a need to Burch acknowledged that Pentagon officials used regu Lar unsecured Telephone lines on april 20 when they convened the first test of the Pool by notifying eight news organizations that the Pool was being the press Pool was airborne before the journalists were told it was a rather than an actual military the Pool was flown to Honduras to cover a previously announced military within eight hours of the Pool being Pentagon officiate received phone Calls from news organizations not members of the Pool asking for information on what was no news organization published or Broad cast information on the Drill until the Pentagon confirmed its existence on the whether communications within the news Industry amounted to Security breaches was the Issue that dominated a forum wednesday convened by the Washington journalism review to assess the question can the press keep a military secret Burghs answer to that Basic question was some of the press can be but not All of the press All of the he added that secrecy slips away when the news Hierarchy gets a sense of Competition then enters in theres a desire to get on the Street theres a fear of being he said this leads to wider communication As organizations prepare to cover the impending oper much of this kind of planning requires he citing potential satellite he rejected suggestions that the operations secrecy theoretically want impaired by internal communications within news Burch asserted that changed circumstances require a Security Standard higher than in world War in world War the military controlled Communia there was censorship and there want the ability to collect intelligence via electronic Burch but Telephone Calls Over unsecured lines Are capable of being the Pool callup became publicly known the evening of april when Pentagon speaking on the described it to reporters in some Pentagon officials later criticized the news Media because word spread among news organizations that the Pool had been Bill Washington editor of the new York and Ron vice president for news of Mutual criticized the pentagons failure to work out details of Pool operations before the both news organizations participated in the test Kovach said the defense departments planning was amateurish and that journalists were flying Blind be cause of poor he said he had written Burch last year to ask for a planning but such a session was never Lessen said the planning failure was symbolized by the inability of Pool members to file photographs and videotape from the site of the exercise in Honduras