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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 Meese to cooperate7 in Presser probe Washington a attorney Gen eral Edwin Meese admitting Hes Uncer Tain just How much Senate investigators want to know about the Justice departments Deci Sion to drop an investigation of teamsters Union president Jackie says his Agency will cooperate fully with the the general accounting on be half of the Senate permanent investigations is investigating Why the jus Tice following a lengthy invest decided against seeking an indict ment of who has had close ties with Reagan administration India denies visa to lawyer in Gas deaths san Francisco up the government of India has denied a visa to attorney Melvin who filed a billion damage suit against Union Carbide for the december 1984 pesticide leak in Bhopal that killed at least we were told the Indian government is not issuing any visas to lawyers involved in the Bhopal Mary Anne a spokeswoman for said Fri Hes shocked because he cannot prop Erly represent his More than Indian clients if he is being prevented by the Indi an government from visiting India and see ing his Tabor who planned to visit India in two was told by the Indian consulate in san Francisco that it would take More than three months before the Indian government could respond to his visa Tabor Belli was hired through Indian attorneys to represent people injured in the Bhopal in which poisonous Methyl is Cyanate Gas leaked from a ruptured valve at a Union Carbide pesticide Tabor the leak killed at least but the unofficial toll has been placed at most of them children and elderly people crowded into shantytowns around the another were injured in the worlds most deadly chemical Mary Worth Illustrator Kenneth Ernst Dies at 67 a Kenneth who helped Mary Worth grow from a depression Era Apple Vendor to the con adviser and confessor of a Penang Ink has died of a cancer related heart he was who died at his sons began illustrating Mary Worth in Ernst and Allen from Tole who did the Story made a penniless victim of the great depression into a Stout but regal Middle aged woman whose affairs were closely interwoven with the hundreds of at a news conference Meese elaborated for the first time on Why he took himself out of the Presser Presser had been under investigation in connection with a ghost payroll scheme at pressers Hometown teamster local in last the Justice department decided against seeking his regarding his withdrawal from the Meese said he wanted to avoid any Possi ble implication that there was any political involvement at since one of the figures that 1 was asked about had been a political supporter of Ronald i Felt it was not appropriate to since i had been in the White House for the previous four he the teamsters supported Reagan for president in 1980 and Justice department and congressional sources had said earlier that the Senate permanent investigations subcommittee had been promised Only limited cooperation from the Justice that Assurance came during a meeting last week involving Deputy attorney Gen eral Lowell Fri director William Webster and William r and Sam the ranking members of the Presser had come under scrutiny in connection with a nearly 3ycarold grand jury investigation of an alleged payroll padding scheme at teamsters local 507 in who has repeatedly denied any continues to serve As Secretary treasurer of the Union local in his suspects in murder Case sought police composites show the appearance of a Man and woman seen with an american service member found slain in 4 Edward Pimental was found dead of a head wound about 7 German police witnesses described Pimental companions at a Wiesbaden discotheque on wednesday and composite pictures were the Man was identified As Jeff about 25 years about 6foot Black hair and with an athletic the woman Center was described As 17 to 25 years about with neck length dark hair and Brown anyone who May have seen the victim or his companions Are asked to Contact wies Baden police at Large increase in aids cases feared As virus spreads among women new York up with More than 700 women in the United states diagnosed As suffering from a new report warns the fatal virus May be on the Brink of a dramatic increase outside the homosexual nearly on fourth of the female aids victims do not use intravenous drugs or fit into any other High risk the report in Mademoiselle Magazine said a fatal disease primarily associated with homosexual men and drug acquired immune deficiency syndrome has spread increasingly to who have been thought to be largely free of the report but scientists Are studying whether sexually Active heterosexuals Are poised at somewhat the same stage that homosexuals and drug users were five years ago with aids still confined to a Small Core of peo ple but on the verge of spreading to Over take thousands the report with More women becoming scientists Are studying whether women can pass the disease to and whether prostitutes have had a role in infecting heterosexual men not in High risk the report since the first aids Case in the United states was diagnosed in a homosexual Man in up to 1 million people May have been infected with the the first recorded Case of a woman catching the disease through sexual Contact with an aids victim was in Mathilde head of the interferon lab at memorial Sloan Kettering cancer said the disease could spread ten fold Over the next three the casualness with which Young people engage in sex is very frightening in View of this Krim using data from the centers for disease control in the Magazine report broke Down the 731 diagnosed female aids victims into the following categories 390 intravenous drug users 69 Transf Sion related including Haemophiliacs 95 who had sexual Contact with men in High risk groups drug users and the remaining 177 almost a Quarter of the known female victims got the Dis ease from sources either unidentified or not in one of the established risk Greece threatens to cancel stalled f16 contract Athens a the socialist govern ment saturday threatened to cancel plans to Purchase 40 american made f16 Jet fighters if the Reagan administration continues to delay approval for the government spokesman Costas Laliotis told reporters that approval for weapons sales for allies is a the government has made it Clear to the United states if this foot dragging it will cancel the order and turn to other sources whose offers already have been Laliotis a embassy spokesman said he was not aware of any such Laliotis was responding to a report in the British the which said the delay arose because the United state was seeking guarantees from Greece that there would be no leakage of american technology to the soviet under the billion Dollar Greece would Benefit by being Given permission to assemble electronic equipment for the f16 at the stat owned hellenic aerospace Industry Plant near opposition newspapers Here have speculated that revelations concerning the extent of soviet intelligence penetration in Greece May have contributed to the the revelations came from soviet Diplo Sergei who defected last May while serving in a first Secretary who is said to have been a senior officer in the soviet military Intelli gence is now in the United a letter of intent for the f16 Purchase was signed last March with general by the aircraft the contract was to be signed earlier this with deliveries of the aircraft scheduled to begin in defense ministry sources the f16 expected to Cost around were part of a 20year modernization plan for the greek air Greece last month signed a contract with a French arms assault Bre to buy 40 French made Mirage Jet fighters at a Cost of around Greece spent two years evaluating four types of Jet fighters before turning Down the american made f18 and British West German italian Tornado in favor of the Mirage and  
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