European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday november 10, 1985 ids claiming More lives study Ujj Atlanta t up aids has become a major killer of Young be opt according to a new York re searcher who says Ihmi Jeanc will soon be the no. 1cause of premature death Gong that City s men under 65. A study reported thursday by Sonalio Rivil Center for disease control i found that aids ratted new York men age 15-64 or More than five times i Jumber of years of life that it took just two Yean Earl there s no Good news Here Laid or. Alan epidemiologist with the new York City health Ftp mini. This Points out the severity of the Impact of disease. The disease has really changed longstanding Pat terns of health in this country. All of a sudden there s a new major killer of Young 000016." health researchers measure years of potential life lost from deaths before age 65 As a statistical tool to determine the killers of younger  1984. Aids killed 923 men in new York City. But since Many victims of the disease which most often strikes homosexual men and intravenous drug abusers arc relatively Young researchers found aids them of More than 24,400 years they could i expected to live the cd reported. A the main difference Between the in Edh auses of death in 1984 and 1982 a the  the cd report said. Ids robbed amcric�n4pw,000 Yean of life in compared to 1 l,qjjjirt982, and it May emerge As Asung cause Al mature death in 1985," the Agency ssh Cipfl it a bodily and mortality weekly re port. As the number a red immune deficiency in drome Casessa Jertso will the number of life Yean lost to the apr Kristal said. 1985 statistics Are compiled aids  top killer of new York s younger men moving and of even homicide suicide heart disease and can cer he said. Aids was not As great a Factor in the deaths of Newyork women with 132 reported deaths and 4,300 Yean of of trial life lost in 1984. However that still matted tenfold increase in the number of life Yean lost to the disease when compared to 1982. Since the cd began compiling aids statistics in1981, 14,519 cases have been reported in the United states 4,677 of them in the new York area with a total of 7,450 deaths nationwide. U.s., soviet of lion  facsimile link Washington a the unite states and the soviet Union As part of i Effort to modernize the hot line bet Moscow and Washington have such Johniy tested a new facsimile link by  Page documents in each djs non. The test disclosed thu by by Penta gon spokesman Robery Felts occurred late last month. Sims Dedard to say what types of documents was knt by each country in testing the t  i test results More com operational testing will take place Inta Nuary 1986 " once the january tests arc completed we Hope for full facsimile operation by late 1986 or Early 1987," Sims added. The addition of facsimile equipment tallow the transmission of documents maps and other graphic information is part of modernization package approved by the two countries in june 1984. The upgrade using american made an increase in Speed for the existing teletype network. The Communia sons fennel for 22years has consisted if two Jun Speed Tele Type machines one at the pen tag id. Theother at an unspecified location i the machines Are now linked by satellite and undersea Cable lines to provide redundancy and the system u routinely tested 24 times a Day every Day. Sims said the new facsimile equipment was tested using a satellite link Over the Intelsat global  " " reel count Witrol the hot line was activated on aug. 30, 1963, in the Wake o the cuban missile Risu. The hot line is designed to ensure that the Leaden of the United states and soviet Union can communicate directly with each in writing to avoid Misun Renfand in into could Lead to War. Agan signed a Resolution authorizing thu clog the upgrade work last August.  us. And soviet technical experts hard tags four times since the project was announce ust year with  in Septemo Halley s Comet now visible through binoculars Pasadena Calif. A Halley Comet visible through telescopes since 1982 on its return orbit toward the Sun can no be seen with binoculars and is brighter than expected say astronomers who liken it to a Gray Cotto Ball in the  untrained observers will find it easiest to find the Comet by the end of this coming week by looking near a group of faint Star named the pleiades about 45 degrees above the Eastern horizon anywhere in the world except for the extreme Southern latitudes. Dozens of binocular observations have been reported worldwide since mid octo Ber when Halley s appeared to undergo sudden brightening said John Bortle a sky and Telescope Magazine s Comet columnist. There s so far no explanation for Why the sudden brightness occurred be Saio. Adding that the Comet now is three time brighter than predicted. But Halley s Comet is quite famous for its erratic Bright Ness  astronomer Don t want to raise expectations too much. The Comet still is 2 1-2 times too faint to be seen by the naked Eye and Comet watchers will have to go to dark areas far from City lights. Steve Edberg an astronomer at Jet propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said observers should use binoculars of at least 7x50 Power. Through binoculars the Comet will appear As a fuzzy Ball about half the size of the Moon. As Long As the Public goes out looking for a Gray Cotto Ball in the sky a dark transparent sky area they should have Normal trouble seeing it Edberg said. British Mark anniversary of Japan s Wii defeat vets widows visit death railway on River kwai Kanchana Buri Thailand up world War ii veterans and widows from Britain made an emotional visit thursday to the death railway Over the River kwai Laving wreaths and paying a Long awaited tribute at a War cemetery. One woman Elsie French 67, of Cam Bridge England fainted after finding the news update grave of her husband a British army private who died building the infamous Railroad an ordeal that inspired the Oscar winning movie the Bridge on the River  the trip to the Chong Kai War Ceme Tery in Kanchana Buri 79 Miles West of Bangkok was part of a pilgrimage the Brit ish government paid for to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the defeat of Japan and the end of world War ii. A total of 110 British veterans including65 former prisoners of War and 120 widows arrived in Bangkok tuesday aboard a Brit ish Jet. Forty five went to Kanchana Buri and 185 others split into two groups to at tend similar ceremonies in Rangoon drug trial Date set West Palm Beach a. A a judge has set a Jan. 21 trial Date for two men accused of Selling cocaine to David Kennedy before his drug overdose death in 1984. Circuit judge John bom also set nov. 19 hearing to decide whether David Linwood Dorr and Peter Andrew mar chant should be tried separately. Both Are charged with conspiracy to sell cocaine and Sale of cocaine. The defendants were bellhops at the brazilian court hotel in nearby Palm Beach when Kennedy 28, was found dead in his suite april 25, 1984. An autopsy showed Kennedy the son of the late sen. Robert Kennedy died of an Over dose of two prescription drugs demerol and Mell aril and cocaine. Georgia child deaths Atlanta up lawyers for Wayne Williams will seek to overturn his conviction in the Atlanta child murder because they said prosecutors withheld exonerating evidence linking a Kuk Lux Klansman to one of the victims. Defense attorney Lynn Whatley said he has obtained documents that include statements two confidential informants gave police linking a Klansman to 14 year old Lubic Gecler one of the murdered children. Whatley said the informants reported Klansman threatened to kill Oder after the youth bumped his go cart into theman s parked car in late 1980. Geter Dis appeared Jan. 3, 1981, and his body was found a month later. The evidence is crucial. The evidence is exonerating Whatley said. It could have produced a different verdict if it had been  deliberate act London up the Union car bide corp. Says the Gas leak at its Plant in Bhopal India which killed at least 2,500people last december was caused deliberately. Jackson Browning the company s Vic president for health safety and Environ mental affairs told a chemical Industry conference that unknown persons introduced 120 to 240 Gallons or water into storage Lank triggering a chemical re action which led to the release of a deadly loud of Methyl is Cyanate. We have All but ruled out anything but a deliberate act Browning said. Burma and Singapore this weekend. Many in the Kanchana Buri group said they always hoped to pay a visit to Honor their fallen comrades and husbands but lacked the Money. I always wanted to come Here but could t afford it said Doris Jones 77, of Preston Lancashire England. Her husband died in 1943 from the harsh conditions imposed by japanese troops. During the War he came Back born once for a visit Jones said. It was Only after the War that i found out he had died. About 16,000 pos from Britain the United states Australia and new zealand and some 100,000 Southeast asians die from disease hard labor and japanese executions while building what became know Nas the death railway inking Thailand and Burma. There was big ceremony who Man High ranking japanese when the Railroad was finished said former pow Denni Crosley. After the ceremony he said laughing they did t forget us. They gave us five cigarettes apiece. The Kanchana Buri visitors also attended special memorial service at the cemetery and a bugler played reveille and  a tour of a War museum containing relics replicas of pow shacks and photos of the railway s construction followed the serv ice