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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes n putting the emphasis Back on English Page 7 q health and science news Page 9 d dangers of warfare in the dark daily Magazine the stars  vol. 44, no. 163 saturday september 28, 1985 Don of Jonah 0 8693 a overseas prostitutes spreading aids virus to gis Senate told by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington prostitutes who abuse drugs Are the major route by which the aids virus is entering the heterosexual population and . Soldiers in Germany having sex with them arc very much at risk. That was part of a message a Harvard medical school researcher gave a Senate subcommittee thursday As he testified that studies involving . Military members help show that aids can be transmitted by sexual con tact Between men and women and threatens everyone. Nationwide about 20 percent of All prostitutes in Germany Are infected said or. William Hasltine. He said the rate of infection differs widely depending on whether the women were licensed and routinely examined by health authorities or unregistered. Infectious rates in the registered population Are about i percent whereas the infection rate in the unregistered population largely drug abusers ranges be tween 20 and so percent he told the health subcommittee of the Senate appropriations committee. He said that in one study More than half the prostitutes working the main train station of Berlin were found to be infected. There is accumulating evidence that infection is transmitted from prostitutes to their customers Hascol Tine said. A recent study conducted by the army revealed that 5 percent of . Soldiers reporting to Vene real disease clinics in Berlin arc now infected with the a ids  he said the consequences of transmission from prostitutes to their customers and to other sexual partners of the customers arc predictable a lethal venereal disease is now spreading through our population All the More dangerous because infections May remain in apparent for a Long  Hasltine said the virus often lies dormant for two years or More and has the ability to become Active then see aids on Page 28 Gloria roars info North Carolina Manteo . A Hurricane Gloria struck its first land target Early Friday when its Eye swept Over Cape Hatteras and the storm s 130 Mph winds pounding surf end torrential Rains menaced every Hamlet and big City along a 750-mile coastal Swath from North Carolina to Boston. Winds topped 87 Mph in the Village of Buxton just North of Cape halt Cras at 1 15 . Not before falling rapidly to 35 Mph according to the National weather service on the Cape. We believe the Eye is right Over us now dare county sheriff Albert Austin said at shortly after 1 10 . Not in Hatteras about 65 Miles South of Cape hat Cras. It is really Calm. Winds have shifted. We had a better than 100 Mph wind before the Calm. It was really howling. Extremely  Buxton and Avon harbours in the outer Banks were reported dry with boats resting on Sand As the Low pres sure in the Eye of the Hurricane one of the most powerful Atlantic storms this Century sucked the water out of Pam Lico sound weather officials in Cape Hatteras said. More than 150,000 people fled their Homes in the face of Gloria vacating resort bungalows in North Carolina s Barrier islands and High Rise condominiums in Ocean City my. Parts of three piers were washed out thursday in Atlan tic Beach to the South with Waves 5 feet above Normal said police spokeswoman Cathy Long. One Tornado touched Down in Beaufort county said Joe Dean stale Secretary of crime control and Public safety. No injuries were reported. The storm has already caused a great Deal of damage with Trees being blown Down Inland As Well As some flood see Gloria on Page 28 Waves churned up by Hurricane Gloria break along the triple s pier at Atlantic Loach . Military moves planes ships to Safe hav ii Tim Illin n ii Washington a hundreds of air planes and helicopters and ships from their Home bases on the East coast because of Hurricane Gloria the defense department said. Military bases in the Region also began releasing non essential personnel from duty. The removal of equipment particularly air planes to Tafer Inland areas is being overseen by each of the individual services. According to information gathered at to Pentagon Wright Patterson fab near d has become a primary Safe Haven for and Marine corps aircraft. " the Navy also Ord Eric dipl out to sea from their Home port at qhjjtwn.c., and another 40 vessels from Norfolk va., to ride out the storm either in the Atlantic Ocean or Chesapeake Bay. The aircraft carriers Coral sea and Eisenhower remained at Norfolk How cd they Are undergoing maintenance. Arc away from the Basc met at he exercise. The roughly 200   Han Gars the pcnutj0ir\nother 90 aircraft were sent to Wright Patterson Runy also was moving its helicopters in the re Ion into hangars or flying them to safer areas but specific information was not immediately available. As for the air Force the Pentagon said aircraft arc being moved from Langley fab va., to Wright Patterson. Charleston  Patterson and Eglin each fab . To England fab la., and joins fab a. Pope fab ., to Little Rock fab Ark. Seymour Johnson fab ., to Moody fab a. About 150 planes stationed at the Oceana Nas va., being flown to Wright Patterson. In said plans also were being prepared to move  fab del., if necessary. Six c 130 transport Planck Ellb get Andrews fab outside Washington left at noon to numb  
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