European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 6 the stars and stripes monday. December 23, 1965 Salute to Samantha a Model sculpture right of the late Samantha Smith is unveiled ii mall in Auburn. Maine. At left is Auburn Myor John Cleveland standing with Ninf j governor. Joseph Brinnin. Behind them Are former classmates of Samantha. The until inc of the Model launches a fund raising Campaign for a life size statue of the girl who captured the imagination of the world in her efforts to promote Friendship Between the United Stiles and the Voricl Union. Homosexuals say aids spurs horrible backlash of hostility los Angeles up after seven years of anxiety that the deadly aids epidemic might unleash a new wave of hostility some homosexuals say the wait is Over and the backlash has arrived. It s horrible said Jane summer a worker for aids project la Angeles. It s like Blind fear. The Public has gotten  Eric rfcs. Executive director of the Gay and lesbian Community service Center said that aids has Given everyone a new excuse to condemn homosexuals adding it s going to be a Lough couple of years " a poll published last a Civ found thai More than half the adults in the Survey support quarantining aids patients and about the same percentage support identification cards for those who test positive for aids antibodies. One in seven of the 2.308 people questioned nation wide supported tattooing people afflicted with acquired immune deficiency syndrome the los Angeles times poll found. Most aids victims Are homosexual or bisexual men. No proven cure exists for disease scientists say u is transmitted through body fluids primarily by sexual Contact or by the sharing of  hypodermic Needles. With the aids death loll now 8,002 More than half of the nation s 15,581 total cases new York has closed homosexual bathhouses where health officers found promiscuous High risk sex Between homosexual men. San Francisco and los Angeles also have threatened to shut Down the businesses despite complaints that to do so infringes on the civil rights of homosexual men. Equally As chilling for homosexual leaders the poll found the Public averse to electing homosexuals and reluctant to support candidates who support homosexuals. I Don t think there s any doubt politicians Are going to try to use the Public s fear of aids against homosexuals said Paula Van Ness executive director of aids project . Conservative rep. William Dannemeyer. R-Calif., recently said that aids victims should be secluded in the modern equivalent of Leper colonies. Mike Antonovich a los Angeles county supervisor and recent chairman of the state Republican party called on homosexuals to go straight for the Good of the Public health. Such comments Are often dismissed by homosexual leaders As confined to right Wing politicians. However a Danny Meyer proposal to outlaw homosexuals from donating blood got a 77 percent voice of support in the poll. After two decades of political and social gains the Gay liberation movement is in a holding pattern forced to scale Back its goals to concentrate on surviving the aids crisis. Rfcs says homosexuals can t Hope for the same amount of Success and Progress they enjoyed in recent years a time when the movement became More organized and gathered clout in Many major cities. That political muscle helped get the first avowed homosexual candidates elected to Public office in states such As California new York Florida and Wisconsin. The Public at the same time displayed a growing acceptance of homosexuality activists say. The acceptance has eroded the poll found. More than one third of those surveyed thought homosexuals had too much Power. Only 8 percent thought they did t have enough. Homosexual leaders Are now trying to educate the Public about aids the Only Way. Most activists agree to prevent the backlash from becoming More intense. Rofes Tayi aids has Given homosexual leaders a Cess to politicians and goers mint institutions that had never acknowledged that we  some homosexuals have come out of the closet to help the homosexual Community in its hour of need a fighting aids. We re facing 3 major test of our political gain right  said Craig Hume of the municipal elections committee of los Angeles it s incumbent upon the Gay Community to show leadership to approach the aids crisis As a Public health Issue that affects the general Public not just  Many of us feared when aids started that every one oud go Back into the closet. I be seen that Hap Peng nowhere a Leader of the homosexual Community said. Slaying suspect who slashed eyeballs arrested while driving Olympia. Wash a suspect in a tavern slay inc who was released from jail after mashing his eyeballs and being declared legally Blind has been arrested while driving police said. Robert George . 41. Charged Wilh second degree murder in the shooting death of Kelvin Green at a Salt 1 acc City bar. Was arrested along interstate 5, police Laid. , of Walla Walla was on parole from washing ton Penitentiary when he was charged in the Utah slaying. After his arrest he slashed his eyeballs authorities said. Judge David dec was told the prisoner was legally Blind and ordered him released from jail on the condition that he not leave his Home. However Lasalle reportedly Wai seen drinking and shooting Pool in the bar where the slay ing occurred and he was ordered arrested. New York transit authority offers free rides new year s eve new York up in an Effort to keep Drunken Drivers off the Road the metropolitan transportation authority is offering new year s eve revellers free rides on subways buses and some trains. Ashbugh Transil police complained about the move it was also seen As a last minute break for bus and subway riders who face an increased $1 fare that goes Inlo effect at 8 . New year s Day. This is the second year the Meta has offered free Rida on the Holiday night Thal typically involves alcohol con sumption. Officials said they Hope to discourage people who have been drinking from getting behind the wheel. 2 pupils find straight pins in Candy bars at school party Simi Valley Calif. Up police say straight pins were found in two Milky Way bars by lot Angela schoolchildren who received the Candy from i hair teacher during a Christmas party. The Candy bars bought from a Simi Valley Market by los Angeles unified school District teacher Susan Cal ers were handed out to children at Hubbard elementary school located in the  Angeles suburb of Sylmar Simi Valley police i. Bob Klamser said. Two 11-year-old children Given the Candy discovered the pins after biting into the treats. Klamser said. They were not Hurt although a pin lodged in the tooth of one of the children. Weapons seizures Rose 14% at airports according to Faa Washington up weapons seizures Row it the Nalion s airports in the first half of 1985, Wilh authorities confiscating 1,448 firearms mostly from Ordinary Citi ens inc Federal aviation administration says. The Agency said the number of weapons confiscated at the facilities jumped 14 percent Over the previous period and officials said they were surprised Al How Many Passen Gers try to take weapons through Airport Security. We re constantly amazed that it remains As High u it  said Frank tartar. A Faa spokesman. To would think by now people would know that you do not carry guns through Airport Security  he said usually people simply forget they have tie weapons or they arc at the Airport just to meet passengers. It s people quite often women who carry a gun to Protection. It s not an attempt to Hijack a plane by Means Farrar said. The seizures led to 602 arrests for weapons violation but Faa officials said they believe Only one of those Iwer visuals planned to Hijack a plane. Woman s missing car not stolen just driven away by her dog Greensburg a. A police were Happy w discover that Sandy Stevens missing car was t a Cue of Auto theft but it gave Ihm pause anyway. Stevens left her car running with her dog inside White she stepped into a grocery store. When she came out to car was missing and she called police. A search of the area found the car neatly parked in a lot 100 it away Wilh the Joyride being none Ouier than severe pet w no apparently knew to keep both paws on the wheel police spokeswoman Linda Crise said the animal apparent y bit the gearshift causing the car to go into reverse Carfl two lanes of traffic and come to a Stop in the parking lot. " i to was at the scene could t believe  said. He said the car was parked almost perfectly u a parking spot and just grazed another car in the lot to parallel parked outside the grocery store and would have had to turn to it. Into the  no citations were issued