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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, August 22, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes August 1985 help from above a photo a helicopter sends a Stream of water Down on a burning Burlington Northern freight train tuesday near Rock several cars caught fire As the train derailed while crossing a Bridge Over the Columbia blocking a major rail line across the it will take about two Days to remove the cars and two weeks to put the Bridge Back into a Railroad spokesman new Jersey to end investments in firms with Africa links a Thomas Kean says he will sign a Bill to end new jerseys billion pension investments in firms doing business in South Mak ing it the sixth state to take Steps against the racially segregated we can no longer stand by and watch while a system predicated on racism at tempts to subjugate an entire the time has come for action to change and to once and for All the oppressive system of Kean said at a news conference the other states with similar Laws Are Mas Michigan and in an Ingham county circuit judge upheld a Michigan Law prohibiting state colleges and universities from investing in corporations that do business in South the elimination of discrimination is a valid exercise of the states police said judge Carolyn she struck Down arguments by univer sity of Michigan regents that lawmakers violated the states Constitution by forcing colleges and Public schools to sell their Stock in companies doing business in South about 20 percent of new jerseys billion pension investment portfolio is in companies that conduct business in South Kean also said he will ask lawmakers to pass a Bill allowing him to modify the states investment policies in South based on future actions of that nations gov and he said he will direct the treasurer to determine if the state buys products manufactured in South Africa and to review the practices of companies doing business there from which the state purchases major goods and Kean said the legislation May cause some losses for the but the Issue of invest ments in South Africa is not merely an economic it is a profoundly moral Issue As one so compelling that eco nomic arguments against divestiture Pale in comparison to the moral imperative of working to end record 750 pounds of Gold hauled from sunken Galleon key a divers excavating a sunken Spanish Galleon found the largest single haul of Gold Ever recovered from an ancient an official with trea sure salvos said the Gold find was estimated at 150 it was hauled to port from the 1622 wreck of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha while armed guards looked on tuesday of said Beth vice president of the key West salvaging firm owned by Mel the recovery includes 76 Gold Golden chains and Gold Mchaley the treasure was found this is the largest single Gold find from an ancient Shipwreck in modern Mchaley no one has seen this Many Gold bars come out of one spot since they loaded them on the Fisher spent 17 years searching for the Ato which was sent to the Ocean floor by a Hurricane on her Maiden voyage from Havana to he found the main treasure on july about 40 Miles West of key divers so far have brought up More than 900 Silver and 101 Gold bars from the Mchaley she said the ships Fortune has an estimated Worth of about faulty Bank computer consumes cards Pittsburgh a a Bank computer ordered its automatic Teller machines to gobble up about of its customers plastic but Bank officials say the com Puter did its Job in erring on the Side of Mellon Bank customers using their Cash Stream cards Between 8 and 10 tuesday went away empty when they inserted their cards and typed in their secret identification a glitch in the computers program directed the machines to capture the cards As possible George executive vice president for information said a computer containing information about each customers was destroyed and a backup system failed to the computer thought it was Reading a Blank magnetic strip on the Back of the he it said if theres nothing this is a potential Dinardo said Mellon programs its computers to have Teller machines collect the cards rather than return them to customers if there is anything in our rather conservative choose to risk customer but err on the Safe Side and collect the he we still Are convinced that our conservative approach is the right Dinardo said the computer will be reprogrammed to sound an alarm if such an occurrence is repeated at least 20 consecutive were making every Effort to see the customers Are this is not the customers this is a com Puter he there Are no customers attacking but i cant Tell you they Arent running to branches and he Bank officials began returning the confiscated cards rather than the two to four weeks it usually Dinardo he said officials Are still convinced that the system is a sound were absolutely he if Nasa can have problems on the space so can Hospital defends ban on aids garb san Francisco a aids patients should not be made to feel like contaminated a san Francisco general Hospital official in defending a policy barring the staff from wearing protective garments around the during a hearing on the matter Ronald assistant head of the hospitals aids compared protective gear with defensive Armor and said it is not we care for aids patients and make them feel like they still belong As part of this said a cancer specialist and a leading expert on acquired immune deficiency fear transmitted by nurses actions could jeopardize four of the hospitals aids Ward nurses filed a complaint with the state division of labor contending that they were improperly disciplined for wearing gloves and masks around aids the disease Breaks Down the body de lenses and allows invasion by a variety of the Hospital has stated it follows federally approved guidelines holding that protective garments such As masks and gloves Are not except when coming in Contact with secretions or blood from a or if the patient suffers from on at the Start of the today Lawrence a state safety inspector who investigated the hospitals aids said nurses should be Given a Choice of wearing masks and gloves even if they Are not Abrams said such a policy would be mis representative and and threatened to quit if the state forces san Francisco general to change its prohibition against masks and he called it contrary to the Type of philosophy we try to he said that the National Center for Dis ease control in Atlanta has studied 600 health professionals who either stuck them selves with Needles while drawing blood from aids or had secretions splash in their eyes or and that none developed  
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