European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page i the stars and stripes thursday september 19. 1985 Fra to permit testing of French aids drug new York a the food and drug administration has approved human tests in the United states of the anti aids drug that actor Rock Hudson travelled to Paris to receive a Federal offi Cial confirmed wednesday. Or. Harry Meyer who Heads the Fra s drug testing Center said Hpa-23 had become the fourth drug on clinical trial in the United slates for the treat ment of deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Meyer told the lbs morning news that in French tests the drug has been reported to actually Knock out the virus and suppress virus multiplication in the test tube and there pc been some indications that it May also suppress virus Multi plication in  still it is not Clear that those results continue after treatment when the drug is suspended he said. Testing will also be done on Hpa-23 s Side effects. It s reported to have a certain amount of toxicity Meyer said. He said it could be used on humans within a few weeks. Bob White an american aids victim who underwent treatment with Hpa-23 in Paris and who has pressed for . Tests on the drug said it appeared to have stabilized his Case. I have no longer any Active aids virus he said in an interview with the associated press last month. But he said his treatment started within weeks of his diagnosis and Hpa-23 Only works on Early stage  Hudson was treated in France for six weeks last year with Hpa-23, a spokeswoman has said adding that he was then considered unsuitable Lor further treatment with the drug. He returned from Paris to los Angeles this summer. Aids believed caused by a rare virus. Breaks Down the body s ability to resist disease. It is transmitted through sexual Contact transfusions with contaminated blood and use of tainted hypodermic Needles experts say. Aids has killed about half of its nearly 13,000 victims reported since 1979. Several drugs Are undergoing testing As possible treatments for aids but scientists have Long cautioned that none appears to cure the deadly illness. Also under test arc the drugs Sura min. Rib avidin and Sopr Inogine. In general drugs intended to treat aids either slow or prevent reproduction of the aids virus within the body or boost the Potency of the body s natural immune system. Researchers say current thinking is that a combination of the two types of drugs probably will be necessary to have any lasting Impact on the course of the disease. Of the drugs being tested Only the manufacturers of Sopr Inogine have filed an application with the Fra for Market ing approval. However some scientists question its effectiveness saying the marketing application was based on clinical studies involving Only about 150 patients. The drug Hpa-23, developed by Rhone poulenc . Of France has a n undergoing experimentation in France for several months. In july the Fra granted the French company so called orphan drug status for Hpa-23. That status carries a package of tax concessions designed to encourage development of drugs to treat rare diseases. The Fra said then that the French company would file its application to begin experiments in this country by aug. 15, and that it expected to approve the application within a few Days after its filing. Concert planned to raise funds of fight aids los Angeles up aids sufferers will join victims of starvation in Africa and hard times in the american farm Belt As beneficiaries of entertainment extravaganzas aimed at raising Relief Money. Organizers of an entertainment Industry committee to fight aids announced tuesday they arc putting together a Rock concert and telethon billed As Aid for aids to raise Money to find a cure for the deadly disease. Definite plans for the event were not disclosed but a spokeswoman said the concert is tentatively scheduled for March in the 90,000-seat los Angeles coliseum. She said it May be televised nationwide. It will be a Rock concert with a lot of other celebrities interspersed with the music said Marilyn  Ron an Independent producer who is heading the Talent search for the concert. It will be on the scale of live Aid with Many major music stars and i think it definitely will generate a lot of dollars she said. Live Aid was an internationally televised concert to raise Money for african famine Relief. A major concert later this month farm Aid Hopes to raise millions for struggling american Farmers. Actor Brian Patrick Clarke who portrays or. Grant Andrews on the general Hospital television soap opera joined the news conference saying he represents those in Middle America who want to Sec an end to aids which strikes mostly at male homosexuals. Clarke said aids is not just the Gay Community s problem it s not just a Gay  but even if it were exclusive to the Gay Community that  considerable faction of our society and a consid Erable portion of Mankind As a whole and i think it s very important that we recognize the fact that there is a need for the research and ultimately hopefully for a  also attending was Tom Procter who billed himself As the Token person with aids on this  he said he represents those suffering from the disease who have not Given up Hope. Aids is a human problem he added. We can lick this thing if we work  organizers said another goal of the committee is to finance two residential communities one in California and one on the East coast offering full medical and social services for people with aids who Don t have anyplace else to  hidden Tunnel lab found in Home of guru s sex aide Rajnes Puram Ore. A followers of guru Bhagwan Shorce Rajneesha say murder manuals and a Laboratory where mice were poisoned have been found at the Home of his Secretary accused by the sect of leading a gang of fascists fleeing its commune. The discoveries including a Tunnel concealed by false shelves in a hidden room of a Anand Sucela s Home were reported tuesday As authorities began investigating Rajnesh s allegations that his top aides tried to murder his other close associates poisoned restaurant food and burned a county government office. Sheela an Indian citizen who was living in the United states As a resident alien flew saturday to Zurich Switz Erland said Carl Houseman immigration and naturalization service District director. Rinc Estees say a dozen other sect leaders who fled including the mayor and three Council members followed Sheela to Europe. The oregonian newspaper in Portland quoted a former of Scipic As saying the group plans to open a gambling Casino in Europe. A disciple who helped to build Sheela s House told sect members about the Tunnel and hidden rooms discovered tuesday a Dhyan Rosalie of the City s press relations Bureau told the associated press. We be found a hidden room and Tunnel books that Are things like How to kill mice that arc being fed slow Poison Rosalie said. A hidden door opened into a room equipped with a hot tub when switches on an air conditioner and a closet door were pressed simultaneously Rosalie said. A door led from that room to another with a bathroom and refrigerator and a shelf in the second room slipped away to reveal the Tunnel which ended several Hundred feet away on the other Side of a Creek she said. The lab was found in an adjoining building in a news conference tuesday night Rajneesha said that a Pilot for air Rajneesha the sect s airline told him that sheets exiled him to Europe for refusing to carry out a bomb plot. The guru said the Pilot told him he was instructed to bomb the Wasco county courthouse and eject from the plane before it crashed. Law enforcement agencies began tuesday to coordinate their investigations of the accusations by Rajneesha who a flu photo Mannind Shetsu addresses disciples in 1984. Called his former followers a gang of fascists and accused them of mismanaging the movement s finances. The Oregon stale police the Dalles police and officials from Wasco and Jefferson counties and the . Attorney s office will meet later this week according to state police maj. Robert Monics. In Washington d.c., rep. Jim Weaver Dore said the Fri plans to investigate Rajnesh s allegations. He said Law enforcement officers had been telling him since last year when he called for investigations of the commune City and its dealings that they needed a Stool Pigeon an informant on the inside. We got the biggest one of All Weaver said. The Bhagwan himself. That s going to break  after the weekend exodus the guru accused the former disciples of trying to Poison his doctor dentist and female companion two county officials and water in the Dalles causing a Salmonella outbreak that sickened More than 700 people in the Dalles torching the Wasco county planning office and conspiring to drug Street people brought Here from around the nation in 1984. He also accused the group of mismanaging the move ment s finances leaving it s55 million in debt. Many of the alleged targets of attack played Down Raj Hecsh s claims citing a Lack of supporting evidence. Wasco county judge William Hulsch became ill after drinking water at  in 1984, but said tues Day that he had no proof of the cause. Jefferson county District attorney Michael Sullivan said that he was extremely sick and almost died in 1983, but the illness was pneumonia not a result of poisoning. The source of the september 1984 Salmonella outbreak that hit patrons of 10 of the Dalles 38 restaurants has not been pinpointed. Officials said they would need significant new evidence before reopening the probe. We still Don t have any evidence that sabotage was responsible for the outbreak said or. Laurence r. Foster of the Oregon health division. In the fire that did $69,400 damage last january files were pulled out and tossed on the floor but those relating to the Rayne Csecs were among those that suffered the least damage said planning director Dan Durow. Rajneesha spokeswoman a Prem Isabel said tuesday that the guru now believes his top aides conspired to use a powerful Tranqu Ilizar to drug Street people brought to the commune City in its share a Home program. A Anand Puja of Rajneesha medical corp., who reportedly fled to Europe with Sheela had refused to com ment on charges that the drugs were purchased to control the transients. The allegations resurfaced after drugs pre scribed were found to have contributed to the death of on transient