European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday december 10. 1985 soviet journalist survives heart attack at Nobel Parley Oslo my the of a Imam of inc Doc tors tit my receive a Nobel peace i Riff ,i\ Ina m mix in emergency efforts to save .1 Suvil i Viiu realist Wlima Dicarl attack stopped a healed pcs conference Ami witnessed a event soviet doctor Sci Ganv c hav told re porters alter Mure in in half an hour of Nus Sagi and other Rescue efforts on the floor of a hotel conc Crue mum. hours user. Officials mos s said inc j . Lien Tifin b other reporter As foreign correspondent lev Ninika of soviet television was is ill surviving. The thu ii Iun is now stable fortunately there were skilled people present and the Quick assistance have a i Eil Norm s said 1 Ruf. L Rik my lira. A Ductor at the Hospital. No Ivov s collapse abruptly ended a healed news con Ference As can of ind his Arner form . Or. 1 own. Both heart specialists threw off their Jack ets and joined in Rescue efforts ind Cha of arc co founders and co president of i he Lor the prevention of nuclear War in Iowa doctors org Ini Ariun chosen id receive this year s peace pc. 1 he Tafuni Mion claims to Rcpt sent More than 135.000 Dix lors in 41 countries in in Offori to Alert both Kastern and Vestern Public to the dangers of nuclear War. Urn k Utu Jelv inc Core of what our or Ani Alion is Lun a cardiologist with lies to univer sity told reporters after the still unconscious n of Kov was taken o the he Pill. In crisis situations. It cooperate regardless of who it concerns he said. You have witnessed that until Novikov collapsed almost at the Edge of the speakers table Lown and Cha of had been fending off aggressive questioning on hum in rights and other issues. Human rights activist had been in against Cha of who they accused of joining in a 1973 political attack on soviet Diss id Cal Andrei Sakharov. I did not expect questions addressed to me to Start with his topic Chazov told a reporter we o asked if lie regretted his 1973 participation. . Addressing critics who have contended hat the in Pnno favors soviet policy told reporters the Organiza Tion is an american idea. We persuaded our soviet col leagues to come along with he also defended Chi of from questioners saying in pow members opposed nuclear War Anil basically have agreed there will of no linkage to other Lown also attacked charges Ihm Cinzov s official Posi Tion could Bias the organization s politics. American or. Bernard Lown bending Over right Center and Sociol or. Yes Recny Chazov in while snit work together in trying to Rone stricken soviet journalist. We Caifa be faulted Boih ways he said noting thai Early critics charged 1ppnw had been dealing with ineffectual soviet officials. On the other hand you arc criticizing us because of somebody who is effective who has Good sense like , he kind. "1 think people understand it is not 1 who defines he course of politics in Union Cuba Ovaid. Soviet Union acknowledges is time that some of its citizens have aids Moscow a -. A soviet newspaper monday acknowledged publicly for the first Lime that some soviets suffer from aids a disease another official publication has Sugg Csick May have resulted from Pentagon and Cia Experiment. The article in the cultural newspaper soviet culture also Cipri cd to soviet readers for the first time that acquired immune deficiency syndrome has affected mostly homosexuals and intravenous drug users. Professor Viktor m. Zhdanov head of the chief soviet Institute on viruses told inc newspaper in an interview that there arc some cases of aids in the soviet Union. Bui he was quoted us saying icy number less than inc fingers of two no further details were Given or the aids cases where they have been registered or How the disease is treated in Savici funds. Homosexuality is illegal in inc soviet Union and is punishable by up to eight years in jail. Drug Possession and use. Much less of a problem Here Llian in the West arc also punished by heavy jail sentences. Zhdanov did Noi specify whether the soviet aids Vic Tims arc homosexuals or drug users. But referring to he disease in the United Stales he said that 78 percent of those who hair aids Are homosexuals and another 15percent drug addicts. According to the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta ga., 73 percent of the 14,125 people with aids through oct. 10 were male homosexuals. No figure was immediately available on the incidence of the ailment among drug users. Previous soviet reports on aids have referred vaguely to the disease As being by practitioners of sexual aids destroys the body s natural defences and leaves it open to Oiher ailments. The first article in inc soviet Media on aids appeared just before the world youth festival held in Moscow last Smurra. They were seen As a warning to soviet youth not to have sexual relations with foreigners visiting during the festival. Soviet dry lors Lold Wassern reporters in inc Southern soviet Union last summer that there arc aids cases in the country but monday s article in soviet culture waste first official confirmation. 1 he article differed radically in tone from a one Page report in inc weekly literary Gazelle on oct. 30 which Sugg Csick aids was a Rchull of biological experiments bythe Pentagon and the Cia. The literary Guc of ankle vis void cry discus c 1 a muscovites who have become aware of aids in the past six months and often express curiosity about he disease its causes and its spread in the United states. Soviet culture seemed to be answering their questions in Ine most factual Way yet offered by soviet Media. Zhdanov said aids had originated in Central Africa and he suggested without detailing Why that the disease had existed there for Many hundreds or even thousands of years. The origin of aids is widely disputed. I,.ails0 a j is a oms of aids include sudden to disc disc and do Cicar Swiss health officials May ban glycol from tobacco products firn. A a Swiss health authorities arc Eunsik conc t in a the addition to loan Scoof die thy Lenc glycol. A toxic chemical used in the government said. Special concern centers pm use of the subs Nncy in Chew ing tobacco be i Council. Suil i find s collective executive said in a written response to a query from a Nimb Criff parliament. Scandals erupted in several european countries last summer when the oily chemical was discovered in wine where it was used As sweetener. Swiss l in allows addition of dict Helenc glycol to tobacco. Rut tighter rules on the amount of dangerous foreign substances allowed in tobacco such As pesticides cadmium and nitrates could mislead users into thinking the health Hazard has declined the government said. Tar and nicotine remain the prime poisons in tobacco it said. Liechtenstein protests exercise by Swiss army that caused fire an wait 8ll� id Swick s. For the first Lime aids virus May be carried m human blood without the Carrier necessarily suffering from its effects is. Liechtenstein a anti tank grenades launched during an army exercise in neighbouring Switzer land caused j major fire in Liechtenstein stirring official protests. Hundreds of Swiss and Liechtenstein firefighters and volunteers were Busy ii night to control the Blaze which according to local official., damaged Aboul 600 acres of a Forest above this Village. The fire started during a close combat exercise on Switzerland s St. La Steig training area just across the Border South of Here. The army said grenades set off a grass fire that was fanned by Strong Foch winds from the South spreading flames to the Forest. The mayor of Babers Emma null Vogt said the Gre Nades were fired directly into the Forest. He charged the Swiss army with irresponsible practices. Hans Brunhart head of the principality s government said he could not understand Why the army went ahead with the exercise under the Windy conditions. Bridge linking West Berlin to East Germany is reopened Berlin a the Glic Nicker Bridge the Span line ing West Berlin to communist East Germany and Mje famous by last Wesl spy swaps has been reopened lot traffic following repairs authorities said. The Bridge linking the southwestern sector of West bar lir. To Potsdam in East Germany remains reserved mainly for diplomats and officials of the Western Allied military Liaison missions in Potsdam. East German authorities bar German residents on both sides of the Border from crossing the Bridge which sir Elchos Over part of the by Annicc Lake a popular recreation District for West Berliner. Hundreds of Bird watchers look for wayward Warbler in England Potter he1gham, England a is Hundred birdwatchers spent most of the weekend surrounding a two acre Woods in Norfolk on inc Lookout for a tiny american migrant on the wrong Side of the Atlantic. The 5-Inch-Long Black and White should have been enjoying the warmth of Venezuela or Colombia by now bul instead was keeping Cool near this Village near the cast coast of England. The wayward Warbler apparently Biown off course while migrating South from North America was Only the 10th of its kind reported in inc British Isles and the first Ever report cd in Eastern England. Some Bird watching enthusiasts stood at the Edge of the Woods for two Days before catching a glimpse of the visitor. Yugoslavia issues new More valuable Bank note Belgrade. Yugoslavia a the yugoslav government apparently reacting to soaring inflation has is sued a new Bank note that is Worth five times the larg wont in circulation. The new 5.000-Dinar note $16 bears a portrait of Lale president Josip Broz Tilo on one Side and a picture of the historic bosnian town of Jacc. Where communist Yugo Slavia was constituted in 1943, on the other. The country s smallest Coin the Para was taken out of circulation in october since it had become virtually worthless
