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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday. October 17, 1985 Vandenberg spaceport completed Vandi so Koai a Cuini 1 lie air i Nice declared Ai Ikek i s Seoul  re id  for the fir   Hunch Ufa    2d in ,1 cd Remote feat rim six of the ill he s seven .islroll.lllts. President Reagan in a  message hailed the spaceport As another  step for he Shemie in or i. A e re ready to Bepin preparations for our launch ear next ear air l orc Apt. Kick Sanford said of the flight in which the shuttle discovery will be the first space Inifi of carry human Inlo Polar orbit. Polar orbiting shuttles will Neirele the Harth from in to hot turn rather than roughly around the Equator allowing shuttle launched satellites to phom graph most of the Globe including i he Soviel i Nion. Six of seven members of the March 20 Crew appeared at the shuttle maintenance building after  workers who built the $2,k billion  comp Lex heard air Lorce undersecretary Udward c. Pete Aldridge a member of the Crew read the congratulatory message from Reagan. Another giant step today the country lakes another giant step in the already very successful space shuttle program by the completion of the Vandenberg space shuttle launch and Landing c Omsk a Reagan said. You have added a significant new capability that will allow the space shuttle to Fly Over any part of the world a very important addition to the already impressive  of unique shuttle Ishri Bunius he said. Discovery is tentatively scheduled to arrive at this coastal military base about 150 mites Northwest of los Angeles on nov. 22 after a flight from Florida s Ken Nedy spate Center. A test firing of its engines is expected feb. I i. The new spaceport will be the third place in the world from which manned space flights Are launched. The others Are Kennedy space Center and the so Iet Union s Hai Nuur cosm drome in Kazakhstan. A to ids populated area1 the air Force built the new launch Complex at Vandenberg because a launch into Polar orbit from the base avoids flight Over populated areas. The air Force envisions launching shuttles from Vandenberg twice a year while the two launch pads at Kennedy space Center Are expected eventually to see 24 liftoff annually. Oiher Crew members of i lie March mis Sion attending the ceremony included the Mission commander Navy diet. Robert l. Crippen. A Veteran of four shuttle lights air Force it. Col. Guy s. Jard Ner Pilot Navy cmdr. Dale a. Gardner air Force col. Richard m. Mullane and air Force maj. John Brell Watterson. The seventh Crew member. Air Force Mil. Jerry l. Ross was unable to attend. A Nashville term., photographer gets a close upshot of a biplane doing a Loop a Birds Eye View the Loop Man Euver. The photographer was sitting in Hie biplane s front scat when he took the picture this Meek using a fish cd Lens. Seagram s vhf rink is a drink Campaign refused by networks opens on Cable Washington i i a new Battle of the bottle opened wednesday with a liquor company s Campaign that a Glass of Beer a Glass of wine and a Glass of liquor pack the same alcoholic punch. Joseph i. Seagram & sons is airing advertisements on Cable television to bolster its Contention that a drink is a  the spots also criticise the three major Commer Cial to networks for refusing to run such ads.  Bronfman president of the House of Seagram Seagram s marketing Arm told a news conference tuesday the decision by Abc Abc and lbs not to air its alcohol equivalency ads is not just disappointing it is  Seagram s message is simple whether you drink 12 ounces of Beer 5 ounces of wine or 1u ounces of liquor you Are con suming equal amounts of  but there is some dispute whether the three beverages have the same potential for making a person drunk and whether sea Gram s ads could prompt some people to think they can drink More than they can handle. Seagram cites several studies including some by the government that conclude Al Cohol s Impact is the same regardless if it is in Beer wine or liquor. Refused. Spokesmen for the three networks said tuesday they have reservations about sea Gram s claim. The ads Don t distinguish Between the absorption Rales of alcohol in Beer wine and liquor lbs spokesman George Schweiter said in a Telephone interview. We want substantiation that a drink is a  an Abc spokesman said the Seagram ads so oversimplify the equivalency Issue As to be  he also said the and implicitly promotes consumption of Dis tilled spirits. Longstanding Abc policy prohibits  an Abc spokeswoman said the network wants More information. Seagram said it has provided the net works with material As Well As the outcome of a Federal investigation that concluded its alcohol equivalency claim is not false  the inquiry was conducted by the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms in response to a complaint by the winegrowers of California. Bronfman asked what is so objectionable about this scientific fact of alcohol equivalency he said arc the networks afraid it of fends their Beer and wine sponsors which contributed s450 million Worth of Advertis ing Revenue in 1984?" some aids infections May be reversible report says Stanford Calif. Up a report that a woman recovered from Contact with the aids virus indicates an infection of the disease May be reversible in some cases researchers say. A report published in this month s annals of internal Medicine marked the first Challenge to the belief that people infected with aids can transmit it for the rest of their lives. The Case indicates an aids infection May be reversible in some  the researchers reported. Or. William Robinson of Stanford principal author of the report stressed tuesday that the results do not mean that the woman was cured of acquired immune deficiency syndrome since she had never been ill with the disease. He said that although this is a single instance where the human body has recovered from Contact with the aids virus the Case suggests that avoidance of repealed exposure to Lav the aids virus May sometimes result in recovery of Normal immune  or. Mervyn Silverman health care consultant and for Mer health director of san Francisco said of the report our supposition was that if you were infected you would be infected for life. It was a projection rather than a definitive fact. As we learn More about the disease we Are going to alter Many of our predictions. We arc going to be Chang ing a lot of what we  Robinson said that the woman s recovery May not be unique. I m not sure this outcome is As rare As people must think. The focus has been on people who have gone in the other direction who have taken the disastrous course and gone on to develop aids. We Don t really know what happens to most people who arc infected and Don t develop  the report said the woman s husband a 35-year-old Haemophilia a developed aids from a blood transfusion and infected his wife through sexual Intercourse. N " Java try l98.4 Lucy a old woman from the Santa Clara Valley otherwise unidentified developed swollen Lymph nodes a symptom of aids infection that often is preview to the fatal disease. To prevent further infection she and her husband started  Hur sual in Cri nurse. The report  husband died in september 1984. System appeared healthy. Subsequent tests continued to show no Trace of infection. Vul Nerow je1slrh0ysh, i mum s Stem. Lcavi"8 victim Smithy a a and ?. In acc uns experts estimate that up to 2 hem wind f it aka info Clad and the " 10 a event of them will develop the disease in the next five years  
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