European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 systems merger affects Many in Safe now  be in two Fields photos by Laura Brown staff writer we Bruecken Germany Edward couture says Hes a telecommunications operator at not a computer under a worldwide merger of two air Force career couture will have to be the change merged data processing and communications to form an information systems career begun i in the merger combines the opera maintenance and administrative duties of both its tougher for us old folks because Well have to learn More said Cou a technician at Wei Bruecken he is one of about air Force Mem Bers in Safe affected by the the merger came about when advancing technology blurred the distinction be tween the communications Field and computerized communications operators in Safe work on base ground weather equipment and ground control approach computer opera tors and programmers maintain computers and handle base Supply data such As finance and personnel in the new workers Are learning both duties through ont Ejob training and courses at both areas Are under one and updated equip ment has been there was a real need to pass inform not just vocally but also electronic said Robert null is commander of the 2143rd information systems so at the thought was if its going to Deal with regardless of what it Well put it under one so to null said the merger should save Money in the Long run because it consolidates manpower one commander does the Job Edward couture the More help the better of two and paper the merger of such units in Safe is Complete the merger is expected to be finished by next couture and fellow communications workers at we Bruecken say they approve of the the More help the he learning computer skills will be thing different for but those skills Are More marketable than his specialized communications he its impressive computer operator in today data processors also said the merger is a Good idea and will result in More positions available to them for Sev eral said their jobs would not change much As they Cross Over to Communia Robert null put it under one Czar its just another Extension of the said Herbert supervisor of the computer the Basic stuff is the he said he will receive training on new officers in charge of the two units said workers were apprehensive at first about How the merger will affect they Felt there goes my promotion and my null on youre Only half where yesterday you were an null said More workers in the Field will make the jobs More but workers Are competing Only against each not trying to attain a standardized score on the promotion he workers currently Cross training will be exempt from testing on specially knowl James Keffer will be learning new skills Edge As they take the first tests in the new As an example of How the new system null told about a truck that pulled Down a Cable on base about a week knocking Down nearly a poles and strewing Cable across the no one was but the communications and Dat processing centers were disabled because one end of the Cable was hooked to the Telephone the other end to the computer in the old they probably  have known what was going null he explained under the new the problem can be solved within hours rather than Days because it can be handled at a lower level of com Guyana president Dies new chief sworn in Guyana a prime minister Desmond Hoyte was sworn in As president following the death of president Forbes who led Guyana to Independence from Britain in 1966 and then into his self styled cooperative truckloads of soldiers and paramilitary troops patrolled the streets within hours of the 62yearold Burnhams death from an apparent heart attack during Throat surgery although there had been no violence and no signs of a government speaking on condition he not be you can never Rule it out in this he said the government was prepared for any even the new president said a state funeral would be but no details were announced vice presi Dent Hamilton became prime Hoyte and Green Are founding members of Burnhams socialist Peoples National Congress in his late has held key ministry including serving As minister of economic development and Agricula he was once described by Burnham As a trustworthy Guyana once prosperous Economy now is filled with government corruption and a billion a year Black per capita income has dropped 25 percent the last four and a brain Drain of educated Guya Nese has some guyanese sources worried that because of the dismal economic the loss of Burnham respected even by his enemies for his intellectual brilliance and nationalism could result in Burnhams Brand of authoritarian socialism had distanced him in recent years from the United states and the protest nations of the English speaking he touted his nations nonaligned foreign Point ing to its condemnation of the soviet invasion of Afghani but in recent years he improved ties with the soviet North Korea and other East bloc Guyana Only close ally in the Western hemisphere is which dispatched medical specialists Here to per form tuesday mornings announced initially As minor Throat in an Effort to preserve Burnhams Long faltering aids virus found in drugs at Bahamas clinic Atlanta a the National Cen ters for disease control confirmed tuesday that patients who received blood derived drugs dispensed by a cancer clinic in the Bahamas were exposed to aids the patients at the immunology re searching Center also were exposed to the cd said in a the associated press reported last month that As Many As of the clinics patients might have been exposed to the aids and in september Gregory Curt reported in the new England journal of Medicine that drugs at the clinic were contaminated with hepatitis virus and Bac Teria and had caused at least one Case of hepatitis and 16 serious cases of bacterial infection in the clinics in a statement released tuesday by spokeswoman Betty the cd said its findings suggest patients who received serum proteins for injection at the clinic Are at risk for hepatitis b and it Viii aids the statement also said the cd had documented the presence of aids in vials prepared at the it said no aids cases have been reported As a consequence of treatment at the but it said that patients who received therapy at the clinic should consult their the statement said the cd has documented hepatitis in two clinic patients with no history of susceptibility to it said several other cases Are under invest the Bahamas government on july 17 or dered the closing of the clinic after the Dis covery of the possible aids the closed clinic is in grand a Hama attempts to reach its Lawrence on tuesday night were there is no Telephone listing for him in Freeport and the clinic Telephone has a recorded message saying it is in an interview with the Curt said Burtons drugs consist of pooled samples of blood products from his Burton has filed patents in the United states de scribing the Curt Curt said he has a recording of a Burton lecture made in 1983 at the fourth annual health by Choice conference in Atlanta at 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 among those who have been treated for cancer at the clinic is former Georgia Lester earlier this the serum he was Given by the clinic tested positive for the aids virus and who has battled prostate cancer for More than two is scheduled to undergo tests to determine if he has contracted either acquired immune deficiency syn destroys the ability of the body to Ward off it is primarily associated with intravenous drug users and Haemophiliacs and has no known