European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Davis stepping Down As Sac chief Offutt a the com Mander of the strategic air come says that when he retires this the most important aspect of his career will be that the military is Back on track in terms of strategic the scheduled deployment of the my missile system and production of the b1b which entered sacs strategic Force this Are proof that the military is headed in the right Bennie Davis said in an it  have been possible if the president had not had the courage to follow through on the commitments he the 35year Veteran Davis said the military forces reached our Peak in followed by a hiatus in weapons production that jeopardized the nations he defended president reagans philosophy that the Only Way to guarantee peace is to be Able to negotiate from a position of military the idea is never to use those he adding that the chances of being engaged in a nuclear confrontation Are extremely Remote to peace will be he to the extent that we continue to convince the so Viets we Are willing to the Oklahoma native entered the air Force after he was graduated from West during his he served As an aircraft a Pilot bomber Pilot and operations officer for the joint chiefs of staff in Davis became Sac commander in chief in directing people and being responsible for the bombers and land based missiles that make up two of the three areas of the nuclear the other leg of the triad is submarine based he said the four years he has held the Post have been filled with pressures and and said most of them have been the kind experienced any time youre dealing with convincing the Congress that we really do need to modernize our nuclear forces by upgrading existing systems was the source of most of his Davis Davis said he disagrees with people who claim emphasis on nuclear weapons has led to weakened conventional theres no question you get More for your Dollar with nuclear although he talked a great Deal about the importance of upgrading existing weapons and producing advanced Davis also emphasized the importance of attract ing Good people to the armed he said Congress and military leaders have done a lot in the people category in the past few offering pay Cost living raises and improved living All the rest of it is unimportant if you dont have Good he file photo Bennie Davis aids suspected at Center in Bahamas Dpi photo Lester Maddox new York Apas Many As including former Georgia Lester might have been exposed to the aids virus in blood derived drugs dispensed by a cancer clinic in the according to unconfirmed the discovery of the possible aids contamination led the Bahamas government on july 17 to close the immunology researching initial tests show evidence of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus in Many samples of the but the results Are confusing and have been impossible so far to said Harold Jaffe of the National centers for disease the tests were conducted by three state health departments and the he on Florida state health officials said they had found aids virus in samples of the drugs and issued a warning that patients who continue treatment with the drugs Are at risk of developing the closed clinic is in grand Bahama its Lawrence has administered a cancer treatment he Calls immune augmentative Maddox said he attended the clinic beginning in May and fears he will come Down with i Hope and Pray to god not to contract mad Dox said 69j was diagnosed As having cancer in he has made about five trips to the the last in he Ive been taking about injections a Maddox he said he Doest know if the treatment helped according to Gregory assistant director of the National cancer institutes division of cancer Burton has not produced any scientific evidence to Demon Strate whether the treatment is in september Curt reported in the new England journal of Medicine that Burtons drugs were contaminated with hepatitis virus and bacteria and had caused at least one Case of hepatitis and 16 serious cases of bacterial infection in the clinics at that Burton said curls report was the latest in a series of attempts by the National cancer Institute to shoot the lies All Over the country about in an Curt said Burtons drugs consist of pooled samples of blood products from his Curt said he has a recording of a Burton lecture made in 1983 in which Burton said he was treating aids if that is Curt then the blood from the aids patients could have been pooled with blood from the cancer spreading the aids virus through the resulting Curt said Burtons own publications indicated that Bur ton has treated some patients since Jane author of a Book about Burton entitled diagnosis prognosis said she received a press release from Burton monday in which Burton denied he was treating aids Ronald chief of epidemiology for the pan american health organization in inspected the clinic in Early july at the request of the bahamian govern we recommended that the clinic be John there were not even rudimentary measures in place to Gua Rantee the safety of workers working with blood and blood in Samuel Insalaco and Gale Katterhagen of Tacoma general Hospital in Washington state told Curt that eight of 18 samples of drugs Insalaco had obtained from a patient of Burtons showed evidence of the aids officials Appeal ruling to return teen to soviets Washington a the government is trying to prevent a 17yearold soviet from being returned to his parents in the soviet Union after five years in the United on the Justice department asked for a departure control order bar ring Michael and Anna Polovchak from re turning their to the soviet if i go id probably be put in the Chicago High school student i would like to see my Mother and exavia Tion executive Dies not Wil Liam Langhorne a former vice presi Dent of the China National aviation in world War helped organize the air route that brought supplies from Burma to China Over the Hump of the Himalaya has died in Ponte he was 91 years old and a resident of War but Freedom is something you cant buy for the teenager has been living in the Chi Cago area since when he refused to return to the soviet Ukraine with his Par the family had lived in the United states for about six Walter took Refuge with his Cousin and was placed in the custody of the Illinois department of children and family since the government his parents have made Only halfhearted Legal attempts to reclaim his but District court judge Thomas Mcmillen in Chicago sided with the parents in the custody he held that the govern ment violated their rights by preventing them from taking Walter the government monday asked the 7th circuit court of appeals in Chicago for a stay of Mcmilleni Deci arguing that the order would Force Walter to return to the soviet Union against his there was no immediate indication of when the Appeal court would Bronx zoo keeper killed by two siberian tigers new York a two siberian tigers mauled a zoo keeper to death monday at the Bronx zoo As she entered an outdoor apparently with out looking to make sure the animals we rent zoo officials zoo keeper Robin was attacked by two female tigers when she entered the Large pen As part of her daily routine of cleaning the exhibit and removing uneaten said William director of the new York zoological a Volunteer who accompanied Silver Man climbed a Fence to said zoo spokeswoman Merle miss Silverman had apparently failed to ascertain whether the tigers were in the enclosure before Frimark Reading a she said senior keeper Patrick Thom As and maintenance Man Greg Kalminow Witz used a fire extinguisher to keep the tigers away from Silverman until she could be taken from their the in the wild Asia Section of the is a two acre area with shrubbery and a said the tigers Are shifted each Day through a series of Conway they spend every night in a in the they Are moved out into so called play pens or into the big exhibit Conway the Normal procedure is to Check where the tigers he for whatever she did not do the tigers behaviour was expect Able under the Conway there healthy tigers and they should in no Way be he it was the first such Accident in the zoos Conway Silverman had worked As an assistant manager and Trainer at a pet store be fore going to the Bronx she be came a full fledged keeper in february after volunteering in the mammal department for six Frimark