European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 othe stars and stripes saturday. September 28. 1985 Fabius blames ship bombing on subordinates a soap prime minister Laurent Fabius has Jenat Tamal a meeting with former defense my Istir the ousted secret service chief convinced him Thamnu my for the bomb ing of the Greenpeace flagship r a formal judicial investigation opened thursday five French soldiers suspected of leaking information on the Greenpeace scandal to the French press. Fabius met wednesday with a Cru and the former chief of the general directorate for external Security adm. Pierre Lacostic. 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 the level where the responsibility Fabius said last sunday that French the Rainbow Warrior in the Harbor of Al Jaffa. New Zea land on july 10. A crewman in the ensuing scandal Jim designed and Lacoste was fired for refusing to me written answers on what he knew about the Pron the ship. The Rainbow Warrior was Shedri of Lead a protest flotilla against French Imp 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 he said a Cru As the minister in charge of the French intelligence 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. L is the mayor of vill Eurbane in Jed at the City but refused to con Fabius explicitly coca Mph resident Francois Mitterrand of any that followed0hiso absolved Bernard Riadi the initial report on the affair that Rich government was blameless. Asked Why it took More than two months to get to the Bottom of the Rainbow Warrior Case 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 Only Learned 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 Cannin 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 mnflftb9ospeh Fourrier capt. Alain Boit of com jul incr Richard Quillet,m0mctnard Davisr and gendarmerie capt Taii but Barril were in custody thursday but hone 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. Authoritative daily be Monde charged the arrests attempt to intimidate the it said if con James of leaking state secrets informers could face a 20-Yramurrn and journalists who used their Loyjean in other developments a Hurt rent named the army chief of staff Gen. Rene Ibbott Tbs the secret service. The Cabinet Orang in of 60, foreign legion Veteran to clean up the Ager on its role in the bombing. New zealand is holding two French secret service 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. Gloria from Page 1 ing in Low lying places along the coast gov. Jim Martin said. Hurricane warnings flew from Little River Intel s.c., on the North Carolina Border northward to Plymouth mass. The Center of the 300-mile-wide storm which awed forecasters with its size and Gale Force winds extending 200 Miles North from its Center was expected to hug the coast As it swept northward. In new York City authorities closed Down the twin 110-Story towers of the world Trade Center and cancelled classes. Gambling was halted at casinos in Atlantic City n.j., and flights were cancelled at Newark n.j., International Airport. At least 30,000 people had been evacuated on the North Carolina coast from Carolina Beach to the Virginia Border said Chrystal Stowe spokeswoman for the state emergency management division. Traffic was bumper to bumper on . 74 West of Wilmington. Another 49,000 people left High Rise condominiums and hotels on the Beach in Ocean City md., a delicate 10-mile Barrier Island Only a few blocks wide. In new Jer sey the 45,000 residents of Cape May county s narrow Barrier islands were or dered to Inland shelters. We be had people going out of Here like crazy said Lyndon Simmerman emergency management coordinator. States of emergency were declared in North Carolina Virginia Maryland Dela Ware and new Jersey. At the Southern end of the Chesapeake Bay sailboats were pressed into service along with police and coast guard vessels to ferry about half the residents of Smith Island. Schools were closed in North Carolina Virginia Delaware Maryland new York new Jersey Connecticut Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Many schools were turned into shelters. People fled their Homes As far North As fire Island which runs along the Southern coast of new York s Long Island. Others who planned to stay stocked up on food batteries and candles boarded up windows and set up sandbags to guard against flood Walers. Israeli warplanes blast palestinian guerrilla base Tel Aviv a israeli planes at tacked a palestinian guerrilla base thurs Day in the syrian controlled Bekaan Valley of Eastern Lebanon the military command announced. It said the base was manned by guerrillas of a rebel faction of Fatah the main Plo guerrilla group led by Yasser Arafat. The rebel faction is led by Abu Musa. The israeli planes scored hits in the area of a two Story building used by the guerrillas and returned safely to their bases the command said. The announcement said the building was situated at the target area about four Miles West of Baalbek near Majd Aloun but did not say whether it was hit. It was the third air attack this year on Abu Musa s faction and the 12th on guerrilla targets in Lebanon. Abu Musa led a syrian backed rebellion in 1983 against Arafat chief of the pales Tine liberation organization demanding tougher action against Israel. The raid came the Day after pro Palestin Ian gunmen seized a yacht in Warnaca Cyprus and killed three israelis. Military sources said the attack was in accordance with Israel s policy of attacking guerrilla bases wherever and whenever it chooses. Prime minister Shimon Peres has Laid that the government reserves the right to order attacks on guerrilla bases when it believes attacks Are being prepared against Israel. Earlier thursday the democratic front for the liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for a morning bomb explosion that wounded two people at a Jerusalem bus Slop. The claim by the group came in a statement issued in Damascus. Aids from Page 1 dormant then Active again. He said the aids connection with prostitutes appears to be drug abuse. Recent studies estimate that at least one third of prostitutes in the United states Are also intravenous drug users he said. Studies show that aids infection in prostitutes is widespread in those parts of the country where a major portion of the drug user population is infected. A current Best guess is that the probability of encountering an infected prostitute in Man Hattan is about one in five and in Boston be tween one in 10 and one in 20," he said. Haseltine said army research also helps identify the pattern the disease takes in its victims. An 18-month follow up investigation of infected soldiers showed a continuing de Cline in health. Those with no symptoms or mild symptoms progressed to More serious symptomatic Stales he told the panel. Those with serious symptoms progressed to death or to terminal he said one third of the soldiers in the study were women. The original focus on the sexual practices of homosexuals As a Means of transmission was misplaced Haseltine said. Studies of blood samples of . Sol Diers show that an infected male Soldier can transmit he virus to his female sexual part ners and that women in turn can transmit the virus to other males he said. In a Small study recently conducted by the . Army More than one half of the husbands of women infected with the virus before marriage were found to be Haseltine appeared before the panel to emphasize the need for increased funding for aids research. He said that almost to a person scientists in Europe and America who had been working on leukaemia turned to studying aids As Well. He said that has hot happened in Japan which has More leukaemia researchers than the rest of the world combined. Evidently they do not View aids As a serious threat to their country a View that seems destined to change Haseltine said. Haseltine said identification of the disease As a problem for homosexuals and drug abusers has led to what he called relative inaction in View of the mounting it is becoming increasingly harder to define those with aids As them " he said. " them now includes not Only Afri cans not Only homosexuals not Only haitians not Only drug abusers not Only Hemo Philiaus but also soldiers and Johns and wives of Johns " meanwhile Public awareness of the Dan Gers of aids is spreading also. A washing ton Post Abc news poll released thurs Day 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. There is no panic among the populace the Post said noting that three of four peo ple surveyed said they were nol afraid of picking up the virus that causes the disease and were not taking special precautions to avoid exposure to it. More than six in 10 adults would allow ads 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 from 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 syndrome kills its victims by destroying the immune system leaving the body fatally vulnerable to diseases that ordinarily could be overcome easily. Statistics from the National Center for disease control in Atlanta show that As of this month 13,402 people in the United states have contracted aids and 6,830 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. 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