European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 113 military victims of aids diagnosed by Clint Swift Washington Bureau chief Washington at least 113 Mem Bers of the american military Community have been diagnosed As aids according to records kept by the armed serv but service representatives viewed the figures with some saying no attempt had been made to make the Fig ures comparable and citing problems in identifying and reporting the which is still relatively new to Many phys an army Dave rus said the army has had some difficulty in obtaining precise partly be cause its reporting system had no code for acquired immune deficiency he said aids sometimes was being coded according to the infectious disease of which the patient showed Russell said the army began keeping figures in in that six soldiers and one family member came Down with the in 30 soldiers and 12 family members contracted the illness and through july this the illness has been diagnosed in whip Worth denies 72 new charges san Francisco a retired Navy radioman Jerry Whitworth pleaded innocent in Federal court thursday to 12 new charges that he sold secret War contingency plans to the soviet Union for approximately the 45yearold former chief Petty offi cer is one of four men accused of participating in a spy ring that officials say relayed Navy secrets to the soviet six of the 12 counts in the indictment handed up tuesday involve documents Whitworth is charged with including a wartime contingency plan for Indian Ocean said attorney Joseph four of the charges were for failure to file tax and two were for Whitworth was arrested in and pleaded innocent to charges of conspiracy to commit he has been held without bail in an undisclosed jail in the san Francisco the indictments accuse Whitworth of conspiring with John Walker from As Early As 1970 to pass along information re lated to National and charge Whit Worth with failure to pay taxes on funds received from walkers was convicted Friday in on spying John Walker and his Are awaiting trial in Vogel Weh area reports 14 soldiers and 13 family most of the cases go to Walter Reed army medical Center because it is a Cen Ter of clinical expertise and a spokesman for the Hospital Russell agreed most Are at Walter but he in the last couple of cases have been showing up at Many where there Are changes every where they will go in the future is one of the policy questions army medical planners Are he if the numbers keep the Strain could be too great at any one he Russell said doctors Are treating aids patients based on the infectious diseases to which their deficient immune systems leave them the doctors Are acting on the premise that the More comprehensive the care the Russell he said that meant they try to identify All the infections the patient May be suffering from because the earlier the diseases Are the better the patients chances he said the army is putting some aids patients on the temporarily disabled retired if somebody is identified As carrying the antibody which the body produces As a defense against aids and certain he is tested Russell if they have no arc not in advanced stages of the disease and can still they Are returned to he they would be advised of the implications of the results of the tests and told to watch for signs of certain if there is evidence of a deficiency in the immune the Soldier is sent to the infectious disease specialists to Sec How Well he can perform his Russell if he cant do his he could be medically weve been putting people on the temporarily disabled retired list because they come Back up automatically for reevaluation of the level of their disability he he said that patients who Are medically discharged still receive care at an army medical we can Cope with that Case Load right he our worry is about the trend to an increasing number of identified a Navy medical Conid said the Lias 21 cases diagnosed As if a Sailor has two things arc Likely to be going on said Navy spokesman Steve Hes probably going through the phys ical evaluation process to see whether he should be placed on the temporarily disabled retired he if there is an admission of or enough evidence of he also May be undergoing an administrative action for Pietropaoli emphasized that there is not necessarily a connection Between aids and and that the Navy has a Clear policy on that but the two actions co occur so often in its hard to keep them sep Arate in the he an air Force Michele said nine members of the air one spouse and one retired per son have died of the five air Force members Are on the temporarily disabled retired list As a result of the she an a plotted Landing workers appear perplexed As to Bow this among the tombstones in Arlington a automobile managed to land upside Down tonal cemetery in the Dpi photo Driver of the car told Park police the cars accelerator bomb threats by phone changes in s african Dol Irv Germany Kuji Iii i d i i j Germany two bomb called in to military Telephone operators Friday morning less than an hour appear to be the work of one according to police a Community Public affairs spokesman said the two Calls were placed by a Man speaking the which was received about said a bomb had been placed in a car in the Vogel Weh officials while the operator who received that Call was at the forces police station in to making a report about the the switchboard received a second Call repeating the the spokesman military and German police units searched the area until 2 but found nothing the spokesman Washington up National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane told president Reagan Friday the South african government is considering some specific changes in policy to end rising racial strife in that White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Mcfarlane briefed Reagan on his re turn Friday morning from a private meet ing in Vienna with South african foreign minister Roelof Pik a second meeting Between Botha and assistant Secretary of state Chester Crock or took place earlier the South african official told Mcfarlane of some specific changes his country has in Speakes the country is now re viewing its apartheid policy of racial separa Tion and is expected to announce the changes in a matter of perhaps he i would think that we Are Speakes said in answer to How the administration viewed what was heard in the state department thursday Reite rated the administrations Call to lift the state of emergency in South the apparent breakthrough came As widespread racial violence was reported in South As Many As 55 people have been reported killed in the past four president Pieter Botha extended the state of emergency thursday and hinted he May make it even More spokesmen at the White House and the state department said the United states remains committed to its policy of constructive in which the United states maintains economic and diplomatic ties to South Africa while trying to per Suade the White minority government to change its policy of racial Crocker is the principal author of the which has come under increasing criticism from members of West Ern european groups and some american the House of representatives last week passed a Bill that would impose economic sanctions on South but the Senate postponed a vote on the measure until after the monthlong congressional