European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday september 27, 1985 prime minister pins blame on 2 French officials Paris a prime minister Laurent Fabius has old the nation that a meeting with former defense min ister Charles a Cru and the ousted secret service chief convinced him that the two were responsible for the bomb ing of a Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior. A formal judicial investigation opened thursday against five French soldiers suspected of leaking information on the Greenpeace scandal to the French press. Fabius met wednesday with Herne and the former chief of the general directorate for external Security adm. Pierre Lacoste. Afterwards Fabius made his weekly nationwide television appearance. My conviction is that both of them acted under the impulse of their own idea of what was in the interest of our country Fabius said. My conviction is that it is at their level where the responsibility Fabius said last sunday that French agents bombed the Rainbow Warrior in the Harbor of Auckland new Zea land on july 10. A crewman died in the blast. In the ensuing scandal a Cru resigned and Lacolle was fired for refusing to provide written answers on what he knew about the attack on the ship. The Rainbow Warrior was scheduled to Lead a protest flotilla against French nuclear testing in the Pacific. Fabius said wednesday that it was difficult to deter mine who specifically authorized the sinking the Rainbow Warrior because there was no written but he said Herne As the minister in charge of the French Intelli gence apparatus would have to Bear the blame. In a democracy like ours the responsibility for this kind of decision is borne by the civilian authorities that is to say the minister Fabius said. Herne who is the mayor of vill Eurbane in the Lyon suburbs was contacted at the City Hall there thursday but refused to comment on Fabius statement. Fabius explicitly cleared himself and president Francois Mitterrand of any involvement in the scandal or coverup that followed. He also absolved Bernard Tricot a former official who made the initial report on the affair that said the French government was blameless. Asked Why it took More than two months to get to the Bottom of the Rainbow Warrior sinking Fabius said it took a relatively Long time specifically because for a Long time the truth was hidden from the president or. Tricot and Fabius said he Learned Only last saturday that French agents Sank the boat under orders. Opposition politicians continued thursday to demand that Fabius resign or at least appear before parliamentary commissions to explain the affair. Investigating magistrate Philippe Jeannin was appointed by the Paris Public prosecutor s office to pursue inquiries against five men suspected of revealing information of a nature to harm National the office identified the men As col. Josych Foum or capt. Alain Borras warrant officer Richard Guillet master set. Bernard Davisr and gendarmerie capt. Paul Barril. All but Barril Ucic in custody thursday but none have been charged. Newspaper reports have said four of the men in custody were associated with the secret service. Barril was sus Pended from duty for five years in 1983 for his role in attempts by an anti terrorist unit to Frame three Irish nationalists As terrorists. The authoritative daily be Monde charged the arrests were an attempt to intimidate the it said if convicted on charges of leaking state secrets informers could face a 20-year jail term and journalists who used their information could be jailed for five to 10 years. In other developments the government named the army chief of staff. Gen. Rene Imbot to replace Lacoste As head of the secret service. The Cabinet ordered Imbot 60, a foreign legion Veteran to clean up the Agency and report on its role in the bombing. New zealand is holding two French secret service offi cers on charges of murder and arson in the Rainbow War rior sinking. New zealand prime minister David Lange has denied reports that they will be released in a Deal with France. Hurricane Gloria threatens entire Northeast Morehead City. . Up Hurricane Gloria thundered toward North Carolina s vulnerable outer Banks on thursday with 130-Mph winds following a path that threatened the populous North Atlantic seacoast from Virginia to new England. More than 100,000 people fled the storm s fury officials said. Hurricane warnings flew from Cape re main s.c., to Cape Henry va., and storm sirens wailed along the stretch of coast under immediate threat. Families boarded up their Homes packed their belongings and jammed the highways in a muss exodus to higher ground. The National Hurricane Center said Gloria was expected to sweep late thursday or Early Friday Over the historic outer Banks a string of Barrier islands dotted with tourist resorts and fishing villages and then plow northward. The National weather service said new England was looking Down a gun barrel As the storm approached. The whole area of the Northeast is threatened Hurricane forecaster Jim Lynch said. North Carolina gov. Jim Martin placed 2,500 National guard troops on Alert schools were closed and the red Cross rushed to set up emergency storm shelters along the coast. At noon not the Center of Hurricane Gloria was about 300 Miles South of Cape Hatteras n.c., near latitude 31.0 North Longti Tudic 76.5 West and moving North Northwest at 15 Mph. Gloria was gradually turning More to the North and was expected to pass near Cape Hatteras in the Middle of the outer Banks where sir Waller Raleigh founded the first English settlement in the new world four centuries ago. Civil defense officials ordered More than 100,000 residents of the North Carolina counties of cart Crit Brunswick Onslow and Pender to evacuate and warned More than 500,000 people in 14 other counties to prepare to flee. Government and military officials from South Carolina to Massachusetts reviewed emergency plans and made preparations for the storm. Civil defense officials prepared the nation s capital for Gloria s torrential Rains and violent winds. Workers secured scaffolding at the Jefferson memorial to pre vent damage to its Marble and officials said High winds could Force the closing of the Washington Monument. New in glanders were urged to store food and fill up gasoline tanks for what could be the first Hurricane to strike the Region directly in 25 years. Civil defense officials in Providence r.i., began checking a 25-foot High half mile Long Hurricane Barrier protecting the City s downtown and Industrial District. On the outer Banks dare county sheriff Bert Austin said most of the area s 25,000 permanent residents had evacuated by wednesday night but some refused to aban Don their Homes and businesses to Gloria. At one Point Gloria s sustained winds topped 156 Mph making it one of the most powerful storms of the Century. By wednes Day night As the storm churned Northwest toward the coast it had weakened to 130 Mph but Hurricane forecaster Gil Clark warned it s still a potent Force to be reckoned temperatures september 25 Berlin from Page 1 news poll released thursday said eight of 10 americans consider aids a threat to the general Public and that it now equals cancer As the greatest perceived health threat. But there is no panic among the pop Ulace the Post said noting that three of four people surveyed said they were not afraid of picking up the virus that causes the disease and were not taking special pre cautions to avoid exposure to it. More than six in 10 adults would allow aids afflicted students to attend Public schools if health officials said there was no danger the poll said. A Little More than 25 percent of the respondents said they favored putting people with aids into quarantine in special places to keep them away fro the general the poll conducted by Telephone sept. 19-23 among 1,512 adults nationwide had an estimated margin of error of 3 percent the Post said. Aids or acquired immune deficiency syn drome kills its victims by destroying the immune system leaving the body fatally Vulner Able to diseases that ordinarily could be overcome easily. Statistics from the National centers for disease control in Atlanta show that As of this month 13,228 people in the United Stales have contracted aids and 6,758 have died. No one has been cured. Homosexual men have been its principal victims and Many have thought of it As a disease of homosexuality. But said Hasaj Tine in retrospect it appears that the Origi Nal focus on the sexual practices of homosexuals. Was he said the expected route for the spread through the heterosexual population is be coming chillingly Clear. Transmission of the aids virus among drug addicts through shared Needles is occurring with extraordinary rapidity he said with recent surveys snowing 60 per cent to 80 percent of the drug addicts in Manhattan n.y., Are infected with aids. Drug abuse by prostitutes is common providing a link Between addicts and Ion drug abusing heterosexuals. Once among heterosexuals aids can spread like any venereal disease but in addition according to scientists people with aids can spread it for several years before exhibiting symptoms themselves. To estimate the possible spread Asci Tinc said one could look at the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia which also is spread by people who generally do not know they Are infected. An easy test for chlamydia was Only recently developed. When applied widely on College campuses Haseltine said the test found the disease among 20 percent to 30 percent of College women. Unless sexual practices change dramatically in this country it seems Likely that infection of our Young population with the aids virus May reach similar High Levels he said. The Senate hearing was called by sen. Lowell Weicker r-conn., to determine whether the government is doing enough to combat aids. In the fiscal year just ending Weicker said last week the administration has spent $104.3 million on aids research and the Senate is considering an appropriation of $136.6 million for aids research in the fiscal year beginning tuesday. Critics have charged that the administration is Short changing aids research. But in testimony prepared for thursday s hearing administration witnesses repeated Long standing assurances that Progress is being made As fast As possible and that aids research is a major priority of the Reagan administration. Or. James b. Wyngaarden director of the National institutes of health said Nih research efforts on aids Are both logical and . Our efforts fully coordinated with other agencies of the Public health service Are Broad and or. Frank Young commissioner of the food and drug administration said aids has presented challenges which have been unprecedented and unparalleled in anyone s memory. However we Are proud of our accomplishments and will diligently pursue our goals including development of aids treatments and a vaccine. Or. Malcolm . Moore of the memorial Sloan Kettering cancer Center said aids could not be cured simply by throwing More Money at it. He said undisciplined and undirected research will cause Only disinformation premature expectations and outright error based on faulty experimentation and inadequate clinical de sign by under qualified but that View was sharply disputed by Haseltine who said support for aids re search has been woefully budget debates As to How much is enough Are endless Haseltine said. What is Clear is the message As perceived by the scientific Community. 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