European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                N Jack s Black takes backseat to Black Jack Page 5 n sen. Barry Goldwater fastest lip in the West Page 16 n royals beat cardinals 2-1, tie world series at 3-3 Page 21 the stars and Stripe sit be vol. 44, no 193 monday. October 28, 1985 d 8693 a Dod reports on aids threat percentage of is exposed Small tests say Washington i a during three months of screening unlit iry blood donors tins summer the Pentagon Dikeou red 44 people who had been co de to the virus  causes aids according to a confidential  report. The 44 cases however amount to less than one tenth of one percent of the 62.000 individuals who were screened raising questions about How much of a threat the disease current poses to the Militar. The results also provide fresh evidence of How unreliable the blood test used for mass screening can be and of the potential Drain on medical resources that the Pentagon faces in confirming initial results said de sense department officials who discussed the report on condition the not be identified. The 44 cases were discovered among 500 individuals who initially tested positive the report said. The remaining 45 6 individuals were Given a clean Bill of health but Only after additional expensive medical exams. Nonetheless. Pentagon officials say the defense department will proceed with its plan to eventually test the by enl of All Active duty Mizilar personnel and those in the reserves. Failure to establish such monitoring As quickly As possible could allow the disease to spread undetected eventually jeopardising combat readiness and wartime  care they say. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a fatal disease that attacks the body s immune system. It has been confined primarily to homosexuals intravenous drug users and individuals who received tainted blood transfusions. However there is now some evidence the disease is spreading to the Gen Era population. The blood screening procedure now being employed by the Pentagon can do no More than indicate a person has been exposed to the aids virus it cannot indicate whether a person actually will contract the disease. As of sept. .10, according to the Pentagon report f�2,74 military personnel who volunteered donations of Bli of had been screened. Of those 62.174. 500 tested Posi Tive Migoc Stag exposure to the virus. Those my were administered the same test a second or even third time with 192 Acain testing positive and being classified repeatedly reactive the sources continued. Those l 2 were then Given a Tiuch More sophisticated test known a the Western see aids on Page 28 screaming Detector dragged Back of ship new  a stale department officials saturday Sunghi to interview a Sailor who officials said jumped from a soviet ship in an apparent Effort to defect but was returned to the vessel by Border patrol agents who thought he was a stowaway. As the Grain freighter Marshall Konyev remained anchored in the Mississippi River . Officials were in touch with the soviet embassy in Washington. State department spokesman Pete Marline said. He said . Officials want to interview1 the Sailor in an environment where he can speak freely. The Sailor May not wish to depart with his ship said Charles Redman another state department spokesman adding we arc now seeking to determine his  the unidentified Seaman jumped into the River Friday while the ship was under Way and swam ashore but was returned to the ship by Border patrol agents who could not communicate with him and thought he was a stowaway David h. Lambert District director of the . Immigration and nalu Rali Alion service said. The Border patrol did t understand what was going on and did t Cali a he was trying to defect and brought him Back to the ship Lambert said in an interview with a newspaper. The times Picayune the states item. The ship remained at Anchor saturday downriver from new Orleans but Redman  to say if it was being held there. The soviet ship is free to leave when we have satisfied ourselves about this individual s intent he said. Redman said a stale department official and a soviet embassy representative were in new Orleans and that the department wanted to speak to the Sailor. We will do what we always do in such cases we will interview him in an environment where he can express his will Redman said. That s where we stand  according to the times Picayune the states item Thomas Richard a shipping agent handling the ship s passage said that on saturday he escorted sonet embassy officials aboard the ship which was in route to Reserve la., to pick up Grain. Richard said the soviet officials refused late saturday to allow an interview to take place until they had Insl Ruc a Lone Sailor Lions from their superiors. I riday s attempt was the second Lime the unidentified Seaman jumped ship the newspaper said. Richard an agent for Universal shipping agents. Inc. Said he received a Call from the Border Patel late 1 hurs Day telling him a Sailor had jumped ship. Richard said he was ordered to put the Sailor  on the ship. Raymond a Guthrie. A boat operator for port ship serv ices said he then ferried the  Back to the Marshall Konyev. Luthner said the Sailor did t want to return. Me did t speak English but we knew he did t want to go  he said. He jumped off our Crew boat when we got near the ship. We pulled up alongside of him and followed him As he swam to Shore. When he reached Shore an american official who had been on my boat and another russian from the strip held on to him Guthrie said. Then an american official and i went Back to inc ship in in Boal and and Goi Aboul seven other russians and we All went Back ashore. The russians picked him up and they carried him onto my Boal and i brought him Back to inc ship and they carried him up inc  Guthrie said. I fell sorry for inc Seaman. He was hollering. He did l w Anilo go Back. There was a language Barrier bul i knew he was pleading nol logo  Jesse Tabor chief of inc Border patrol for inc new Orleans area declined to comment. In another incident involving a soviet Sailor. Simas Kudirka a lithuanian tried to defect in november 1970 by jumping ship onto a coast guard vessel off Martha s Vineyard. The coast guard skipper allowed soviet sailors to drag him Back. Afier the coast guard returned Kudirka to the so vices he was sentenced to 10 years in prison bul was released in August 1974 and came to the United Stales that novem Ber. The soviets said thai the deciding Factor in Kudirka s release was the fad that his Mother was born in new York City. Kudirka now 55. Was the subject of a lbs to movie in which he was portrayed by Alan Arkin. France conducts snatched from his children nuclear test Wellington new zealand a prance has exploded a second underground nuclear device Al ils muru Roa atoll Lesl site in the South Pacific acting new zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer said sunday. Additional less arc Likely to follow he said. Palmer said he was told by seismologists that the Blasl had an App Rommald yield of 15 Kilotons. Three times bigger than thursday s Tysl which trance conduced in the face of regional and incr National opposition. Of Salvador aviation chief kidnapped san Salvador up suspected leftist guerrillas kidnapped Al Salvador s civil aviation chief saturday less than three Days after rebels freed president Jose Napoleon Duarte s abducted daughter. It. Col. Carlos Avils the government s chief military spokesman said col. Omar Napoleon Avalos former commander of the presid Colial guard was Lakin from his farm 20 Miles cast of san Salvador late in the afternoon by 10 men carrying m-16 assault rifles. Avalos was driven away in a White pick up truck. Aviles had no immediate information on the Ide Lily of the abductors but another military source said they had to belong to the Lef Lisl rebel Mac mini Hal has been fighting to overthrow the government for six years. They came with uniforms and m-l6s who else could it be the source said in san Salvador the capital. No one claimed responsibility for the a Duclion. Avalos. 42. Was relaxing with his children see Al Salvador on Page 28