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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday. December 20, 1985 Shultz says he d quit before taking lie test Washington a Secretary of slate George p. Shuli/., Reading sharply to a White House proposal to give lie Detector tests to holders of classified information said thursday he would resign rather than submit to such procedure. The minute in this government that i m told that i m not trusted is the Day that leave Shultz said. Speaking to reporters at the state department Shultz said lie Detector tests arc not reliable and can implicate innocent people As guilty. He added spies or professional leaders probably can train themselves to avoid being exposed by such tests. Earlier appearing on Abc s today show Sulu said i have great personal reservations about the Utility of so called polygraph tests and i will discuss my views within the administration about  Sulu said he talked to president Reagan about the Mailer at the while House wednesday immediately after returning from a trip to Europe. Last week White House spokesman  up cakes said in the administration s Security drive following a series of major spy scandals people with Access to classified material would be subject to polygraph examination. He said even Cabinet members might not be exempt from the  was reported to be outraged by the request but had repeatedly refused to discuss the Issue with reporters travelling with him throughout  experts have questioned the accuracy of such tests and they arc not generally admissible As evidence in criminal trials. Advocates of the examinations say that even if the tests Are no definitive they Are often a useful investigative tool. Meanwhile the Union that represents some 13,000 for Cion service officers and stale department workers also has registered grave reservations about the lie detection in a statement approved wednesday the Union said Piil graph tests arc unreliable and could undermine the constitutional rights of people forced to take them. The american foreign service association said Quick action was needed to protect the nation s Security. It Sug gusted such tried and True Means As better and More frequent background checks and larger counter espionage  statement concluded with an Appeal to the White House and Congress not to use unreliable methods that Trammel the rights of the innocent people they entrust with protecting the  evidence is mounting that aids in t spread by kissing sneezing Boston a new studies showing that the aids virus is rarely found in the saliva of people infected with the disease arc further evidence it can t be passed through kissing sneezing or sharing eating utensils researchers say. "1 can t say that saliva is incapable of Ever transmitting the virus said or. Mar tin s. Hirsch one of the Boston researchers writing in the new England journal of Medicine. If it occurs it s a very rare  experts believe acquired immune deficiency syndrome is transmitted almost exclusively through blood to blood Contact such As can happen in homosexual encounters or the use of tainted hypodermic Needles or blood products. However reports of finding the aids germ in saliva raised concern the disease could be transmitted by Contact with the spittle of an aids victim. The National conference of Catholic Bishops Liturgy committee recently issued a statement attempting to ease fears thai aids could be spread through a shared communion cup the committee quoted a letter from the Federal centers for disease control saying there has been no suggestion that the aids virus is transmitted by sharing utensils including the common communion cup or through any other Means involving  in Flint mich., earlier this month a Man with aids antibodies in his blood was charged with assault with intent to murder for allegedly spitting on police officers. Saliva tested the researchers tested the saliva of 71 homosexual men who carried aids anti bodies indicating past exposure to the virus. The germ could be recovered from Only one of them. However when they tested the blood of 50 of these men they found the virus in 28 of them or 56 per cent. The virus can on rare occasions be there Hirsch said. But the research would suggest that saliva is not a major Mode of transmission of aids. We know from Cpd Etiologic studies that saliva is not an in Orland or proven body fluid in terms of transmission Groopman said. If it is infrequently there or even frequently it does t change what we already know. It s not spread by sneezing or anything like that studies of families of aids patients show the disease does not seem to be spread through close household Contact even when relatives share toothbrushes and rating utensils with aids victims. Another letter in the journal by or. Susan m. Saviteer and colleagues from the University of North Carolina school of Medicine also concluded the risk of aids infection after exposure to the Oral secretions of an infected person is Proba Bly quite  they followed two nurses who gave Mouth to Mouth resuscitation to a Man with aids related Complex a less severe form of the disease who suffered cardiac arrest. Nine months after the incident neither nurse showed signs of aids infection. Possibility of vaccine a separate report in the journal said the development of a vaccine against a virus that causes leukaemia in cats raises the scientific possibility that an aids vac Cine is also possible. A paper by or. Donald p. Francis of the cd and John c. Petricciani of the food and drug administration reviewed the difficulties involved in trying to develop a vaccine to prevent aids. If such a vaccine can be made they said the ultimate goal will be to Stop the spread of the aids virus. For transmission to be interrupted successfully in ail areas of the world wide spread immunization of Large segments of the population of several countries May have to be considered they wrote. Square in lop picture locales ornament hanging from a Pine Needle lower left. In lower right picture is the hollow Glass Ball which was etched by laser. World s smallest ornament created in laser Laboratory Livermore Calif. A a Feder Al nuclear weapons Laboratory s latest invention is just the thing for the holidays. It s the world s smallest Christmas Orna ment. Unveiled wednesday at Lawrence Liv Ermord National Laboratory the Bauble i barely visible to the human Eye. A Micro scope is needed to set the tree and the Mes Sage that have been etched on it my Rev Christmas 1985 target  scientists at the lab said the tiny Glass Ball has a diameter of 200 microns a Micron being one Millionth of a meter. For the non scientist that meant tie miniature trinket is Small enough to it comfortably Between two pillars of the us Coin memorial on the Back of a Penny Stephenson said. We do have a problem a spokeswoman said. We Haven t found a Hook mall enough to hang it from a  target fab stands for the is i target fabrication group which makes the Mana Cule Glass targets at which the lab s Taien shoot. The group s work involves laser w Sion research with an Eye toward new Energy sources. Hijacked copter picks up 3 inmates from . Prison Pelzer . A a helicopter hijacked by a woman landed in a prison Yard thursday and scooped up three inmates including a convicted murderer officials said. One guard was shot. The helicopter later landed about 10 Miles away and the inmates apparently fled in a car according to authorities. One of the prisoners attempted an escape two years ago but he got stuck in a ceiling at a Law Center officials said. According to Greenville county sheriff Johnny Mack Brown a woman went to Palmetto helicopters in Greenville thurs Day morning and said she had never Ridden in a helicopter. She leased a chopper and when it was airborne pulled a gun on the Pilot Larry Green and forced him to Fly to the prison 15 Miles Southwest of Greenville brow said. The red and White helicopter landed in the prison Yard behind a dormitory and three inmates ran to the aircraft be said. Guards fired several shots at the helicopter but were unable to bring it Down he said. One officer tried to pull the inmates off Ujj " Agogun Brown $38&&s�s 2s? that was " n u 0 robbery receiving stolen goods Anand Battery with intent to kill. Leonard tried to escape from the Green Ville county detention Center two yews ago. He managed to work his Way through the jail ceiling but was found a Day i a Over the lobby of the Greenville cow Law enforcement Center adjacent to tie jail. About 25 minutes after the escape thursday morning the helicopter Landeo officials said. The Pilot was left in the Heb copter  
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