European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                W August 1985 the stars and stripes Dallas a the Fate of servicemen missing in Vietnam and the threat of cuts in veterans benefits will be the focus of the annual convention of the nations oldest veterans its Leader said lets resolve the whole Mia said Billy Ray outgoing commander chief of the Veter ans of foreign i would ask our government to have diplomatic relations with that the Only Way were going to resolve the first Vietnam Veteran to head the spoke to reporters Friday As the 2 million member organization opened its 86th National about members and guests Are expected to he said his proposal for diplomatic relations with Viet one of More than 600 resolutions the convention or its committees will has met with a mixed response from vow but most seem to favor the if they the vietnamese have a full account of those missing in i would be willing to go on record for our convention for asking the administration to open Diplo Matic Cameron he said a full account would mean that the Vietnam Ese would take responsibility for returning the bodies of All missing he called the wednesday return of 26 bodies before Vietnam had handed Over the re Mains of 99 a total of american servicemen and civilians Are still unaccounted for in More than half of them in the convention also should address the question of maintaining veterans benefits amid Federal budget he he said he opposes a Reagan administration proposal to make veterans who make or More pay for treat ment at veterans administration that entitlement was formed in the administration is trying to renege on he another program under siege is the a Home loan he Cameron said an increase on Home loan user fees would eliminate the hurting the Viet Nam Veteran the the vow convention will feature speeches by John chairman of the joint chiefs of and Lewis ambassador to Costa it ends the vow ladies auxiliary convention is being held at the same aids virus found in the tears of diseases victims Washington a the virus believed to cause aids has been found in the teardrops of at least one patient with the a finding scientists say is not sur prising because some Levels of the virus appear to be in All the bodily fluids of researchers at the National institutes of health said Friday they found Low Levels of the aids called in the tears of one aids patient and possibly in those of three scientists say it is unlikely that tears could be a route for transmitting acquired immune deficiency a spokesman for the Public health serv ice said the Agency has not addressed what precautions should be taken with tears be cause the findings Are government sources said Public health officials Are considering recommendations to add Eye examination precautions to the judge declines to Rule list of guidelines for dealing with patients with aids related these could include minimizing Contact with tears of wearing rubber gloves when exam ining their eyes and sterilizing they the virus is known to be passed from person to person through intimate Contact with blood and but no other bodily fluids have been implicated so although the germ also has been found in the saliva of some patients with aids and a but less immune Dis ease called aids related not one Case of transmission through saliva has been according to the Federal Center for disease control in it was not a Surprise for the virus to be present in Zaki Salahuddin of the National cancer Institute said in an the who works in the Laboratory of Robert a co discover of the aids said the germ previously has been found in Lymph fluid and fluid from the brain and spinal column of the virus is blood borne and you would expect to find it in any fluids that come in Contact with blood Salahuddin i was surprised that i was Able to detect it in tears because the specimen was so Only a few and there were so few viral particles in he working with Leslie Fujikawa of the National Eye found virus in tears from a 33yearold woman with aids and inconclusive Evi Dence of Low level viral activity in tears from three other aids the soon to be reported in the British medical journal found no evidence of viral activity in tears from two other aids patients and five healthy vol aids is a believed caused by a virus and other that destroys the body immune leaving victims vulnerable to infections and other the disease has been fatal in about half the More than cases reported in the United states since it primarily afflicts promiscuous male homosexuals and intravenous drug but about 2 per cent of the cases involve people who have received blood or blood with aids related a condition sometimes called patients suffer swollen Lymph night weight loss and other symptoms similar to but do not have the full blown Dis school still out for boy with aids Indianapolis a a 13yearold aids victim must go through school channels to fight an order barring him from fall classes before a court can consider his a Federal judge ruled the boys Mother accused District judge James Noland of copping out by declining to decide whether her son should be allowed Back into Ryan a Haemophilia a who contracted aids through a blood has been out of school since when he was diagnosed As having acquired immune deficiency James superintendent of the Western school near has refused to allow the boy to enrol when classes Start fearing that ryans condition could harm other Ryan s physicians say he is capable of attending Ryan and his Mother filed suit against the school offi claiming they illegally discriminated against Ryan As a handicapped person and denied him equal Protection under the they sought an injunction preventing the school from barring the at fridays lawyers for the school District argued that Noland lacked Legal authority to decide the Case because the Whites had not exhausted their administrative remedies under a Federal Law governing handicapped Chil Drens Access to David Day of the school districts said the procedure spelled out in the Law starts with a Case conference involving school officials and the recommendation stemming from that conference is subject to review by the school then by a hearing officer appointed by the state Board of education and finally by the state Board of special education Charles Vaughan of the Whites said the Case could drag on in an aids Case we cannot toy with time is of the essence like in no other Case in the he adding that Ryan needs the environment of his friends and his fellow Vaughan said school officials could accommodate Ryan without going to great in ryans All you need is a pair of rubber gloves and some plastic he Noland said he was not dismissing the Case but rather would stay the proceeding until the administrative proce dures were quoting a supreme court Noland said Congress would not have prescribed the elaborate administrative appeals process in the Law if it had intended that a photo Ryan White with his outside a lawyer could go straight to Federal court and file a dressed in a striped shirt and sat with his Mother at the counsel table with their the decision to keep Ryan out of school has the support of the teacher members of the Western education Asso demonstrators protest new movie As racist new York up several Hundred people demonstrated Friday against a new the year of the charging the film is racist and the coalition against the year of the dragon also called for a Boycott of the which stars Mickey the demonstration was held outside the Loews Astor Plaza in the times Square theater District in Why protest said coalition spokeswoman Amy after previewing the year of the Many in the Community were outraged by its racist and sexist portrayals of Black and women we believe the film grossly distorts the Public perceptions of chinese americans during a time of great misunderstanding and ant asian she in the Rourke plays a police officer fighting crime in new Yorks Chen said the movie portrays Chinatown As an exotic foreign world deep within the City that is dominated by criminals and youth Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today 1945 in the death sentence against marshal Henri Petain was commuted to life imprisonment by Charles de head of the French provisional 30 years ago foday 1955 president Eisenhower advisory committee on prisoners of War Laid Down a Stern code of conduct for All americans who fall into enemy 20 years ago foday 1965 the military curfew was lifted in a 46squaremile District of los Angeles ripped by six Days of officials said the nation s worst Black riot of the Century had to years ago foday 1975 a conscience stricken kidnapper led new York City police and Fri agents to a Brooklyn apartment where they rescued whiskey heir Samuel bronc Man ii eight Days after he had been