European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 28, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Liz Taylor heading new aids foundation West Hollywood Calif. A with $250.000 from aids stricken actor Rock Hudson and support from Nancy Reagan actress Elizabeth Taylor announced creation of a foundation thursday to raise Money to find a cure for the deadly disease. This new foundation will emerge As the National organization to support re search with the staying Power to attract adequate financing and resources from the private sector and to work with the government o turn around the aids crisis said Taylor who will chair the american foundation for aids re search. Aids has struck 13,402 people in the United states killing 6,830 of them. Taylor said Hudson 59, whose aids illness was revealed in july has Given the foundation a $250,000 Check and plans to contribute additional funds from the proceeds of his forthcoming autobiography my  another $ 100,000 donation has been made by j. Paul Getty jr., Taylor said at a news conference. Taylor also read a Brief dear Eliza Beth message from the first lady who said creation of the new foundation will prove to be a very serious step in solving this serious medical problem. Taylor who helped organize the sept. 19 gala Hollywood fund Raiser for aids project los Angeles said she will solicit funds from other celebrities and people from All walks of life to help the foun Dation. The foundation was created by the merger of the aids medical foundation of new York and the National aids research foundation in los Angeles. In will be based in los Angeles with an office in new York and will collect Money and distribute it to aids re searchers nationwide. Co chairmen of the foundation s Board will be or. Michael Gottlieb and or. Mathilde Krim. Gottlieb is a univer sity of California los Angeles scientist who is credited with first recognizing aids As a disease in 1981. He served As a consultant in Hudson s Case before the actor was discharged from the Urcla medical Center. Krim is a Pioneer in research on the use of the drug interferon against viral diseases. Gottlieb was the head of the National aids research foundation while Krim founded its new York counterpart. Aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome is an affliction in which the body s immune system becomes unable to resist disease. 2 health care workers infected with aids on Job Atlanta a for the first time since aids was discovered four years ago Federal health officials reported thursday that health care workers a nurse and a Laboratory employee have contracted the aids Virtu from working with patients and their blood. Neither of the two health care workers has gone on to develop aids since they were infected said or. Ken Castro of the Center for disease control s aids taskforce. Each of the infections apparently occurred when blood contaminated with the virus entered the worker s bloodstream through a Cut or puncture in the skin cd scientists said. But doctors nurses and other health care workers still Are not believed to be risking getting the virus from Normal Contact with aids patients. The risk of transmission of aids virus infection to health care workers from patients is extremely Low the Atlanta based cd said. Of the 1,750 health care workers examined by the cd 26 tested positive for the aids virus but at least 23 of them were considered for other reasons to be at High risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Aids strikes most often among homosexual men and Aubura of inject Able drugs. At least two and possibly three health care workers in the United states Are presumed to have been infected with aids virus on the Job a female nurse who accidentally stuck herself with a Needle in november 1983 and a Jain in March 1984 while drawing blood from aids patients. 0a male part time lab worker who Cut his hand while processing blood from a leukaemia patient in de Cember 1983 and stuck himself with a Needle in August 1984 while processing blood from several sources. It is not known whether either blood Sample was contaminated with aids virus but the Man reported no other risk factors for aids. A third worker who showed signs of aids virus after submitting to an Anonymous blood test. The cd said it does not know if the worker was otherwise at risk for aids or if the infection can be blamed on the worker s Job. Castro said thursday s report must be put in perspective. Out of Over 1,700 health care workers tested Only three had antibodies indicating infection with aids virus and we Don t know anything about one of  even though the infected nurse and lab worker denied being members of a High risk group it is difficult to totally assure that additional risk factors for aids were absent the cd said in its morbidity and mortality weekly report. However these Are probable cases of transmission in a health care setting Castro said. The cd also noted that a nurse in England has shown signs of aids virus infection and that she had no Trace of the virus before sticking herself with a Needle on the Job. In a related report the cd said thursday that tests of blood drawn Between 1978 and 1980 from 6,785 men who went to a san Francisco clinic for treatment of other sexually transmitted diseases revealed signs of the aids virus in 75 percent of the men. However Only 4 percent of the 6,785 patients have developed aids which the cd said is an encouraging indication that infection. Is not necessarily Fol Lowed by rapid development of symptoms and  the cd also said thursday that 1,226 aids cases have now been reported from other countries to the world health organization including 626 deaths. Switzerland with 10 aids cases per million people is second to the United states rate of 48 cases per million. People misunderstood s. Africa stance a we blames Media for drop in contributions Pensacola Fla. A the Rev. Jerry Falwell says contributions to his ministry have dropped by about is million in the lest five weeks because of his stance on South Africa and the news Media is to blame. Falwell is founder of the moral majority fundamentalist movement. In the past five week since we returned from South Africa Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 28, 1945 labor Secretary Lewis b. Schwelm Lenbach announced support for a 65-cent hourly minimum wage for workers covered by the Federal wage hour Law. The Secretary testified before the Senate labor subcommittee which opened hearings on legislation to raise the minimum 40-cent level established in 1938. 30 years ago today. Sept. 28, 1955 Singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds were married in Grossinger n.y., after one of the longest and most hectic engagements in show business history. 20 years ago foe a. Sept. 28, 1965 the Viet Cong announced the exe cution of two captured americans in reprisal for South Vietnam s execution of three communist sympathizers. 10 years ago today. Sept. 28, 1975 the major Petroleum exporting nations meeting in Vienna decided unanimously to boost 011 prices by 10 percent and left the door open for a further Price Rise in mid-1976. I would say we probably lost is million from persons who misunderstood what we were saying he said wednesday. The reason they misunderstood. Was the National Media saw that they did. The Frame of reference presented by the nation Al Media was if you support president Rea Gan s constructive engagement policy you Are  Falwell was questioned at an Airport news conference. He la a spoke during the anniversary Celebration of a Church founded by a graduate of Falwell s Liberty University. He insisted that president Reagan whose policies Falwell generally supports has won the . Debate Over How the United states should respond to racial turmoil in South Africa. After his visit to South Africa Falwell spoke strongly against reducing . Invest ment there saying such a policy would Back fire and Hurt the South african Blacks that disinvestment advocates arc trying to help. Retarded Man must use $22,000 by tuesday or lose his welfare Minneapolis a a mentally retarded Man and his parents who received a Surprise $22,000 social Security Check must spend it by tuesday or lose eligibility for welfare. Alden Keiski 28, received the Check earlier this month and had Only 15 Days to spend All but $3.000 of it on clothing and furnishings or lose the welfare benefits that help him pay the $2,000 a month it costs to live at the Hammer residence a Home in suburban Wayzata for the disabled. We had trouble figuring How to spend it Keiski s father the Rev. Alden Keiski told Minneapolis Star and Tribune columnist Jim Klobuchar. All of a sudden there it was. We be just spent a few Hundred dollars on clothes maybe a Little  the elder Keiski senior pastor of United methodist Church of Owatonna minn., said the family has made a tentative decision to give up his son s welfare benefits. The younger Keiski will live full time with a disabled Minneapolis couple for whom he has worked several Days a week As a live in aide Bis father said. The Large Check came As a Surprise. The Hammer Resi Dence applied to the social Security administration for the Small monthly supplementary assistance to which Keiski was entitled. The Agency decided Kieski was entitled to regular so Cial Security payments of $450 a. Month retroactive to 1979, on his part time earnings As a dishwasher Over 10 years. That gave him Only 15 Days to reduce his Cash holdings to the $3,000 allowed under welfare guidelines. Jan Smaby director of Hon Cpin county s economic assistance department said the 15-Day period imposed by the state is much More Liberal than the 1-Day period required by the Federal government to dispose of excess assets. The elder Keiski said the Windfall was a mixed Blessing. We weren t really worried about the Money part As far As it being a major motivating  he said. Our primary concern was for Alden and his being an Independent  eventually his son wants to move into his own apart ment. That a i always been his goal to be Able to live on his own he said. He s been making very excellent Prog Ress in that direction. His Long Range goal is to become an aide in a Hospital or nursing Home and have his own