European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes saturday. Demonr 28. 1985 army to enact new aids policy in 86 is with virus to be assigned to states by  Swift Washington Bureau Wasiqi Vilon soldiers overseas who lest Posi Tive for sins of the virus associated with aids will be reassigned As soon As possible to the United slates a new army policy says. The policy on acquired immune deficiency syndrome was signed Dee. 2.1 by army Secretary John Marsh. An army spokesman said the policy could be put into effect in inc Field Early next year. The army policy implements for its troops the Broad Pentagon aids policy signed in october by defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. An official in the air Force surgeon general s office said her service s policy will be implemented in about two weeks. The Navy policy dated dec. 3 and signed by Secre tary John Lehman says there will be no geographical restrictions on sailors who lest positive. But the policy gives the chief of naval operations and the commandant of the Marine corps the latitude to bring to Lehman s attention any Job restrictions they believe ought to apply. One question yet unanswered is what about sub duly said one naval officer. Arc you going to break up a patrol for a Guy who has tested positive and has a cold he can t seem to shake the army will keep open As Many assignments As possible Lor soldiers who lest positive an army spokes Man said. Hul rapid deployment units such As the ring cars or cohesion operational readiness and training units due to deploy overseas As a group soul in be a , there would be a medical evaluation be tween the initial identification of the antibody virus and the reassignment he said. Hut he said the tests Are 99 percent accurate and the evaluation probably would just help physicians deter mine what stage the infection had reached and what kind of medical facility in the slates a Soldier needed to be near. Family members could be tested on a voluntary basis and As the army s resources permit the army policy says. The spokesman said a Soldier could apply for re assignment to the states if a family member tested Posi Tive. The Navy policy also permits voluntary testing of family members. The Weinberger memorandum established the out lines of military policy on aids. It left largely up to the services decisions on where to deploy  who test positive and what limitations to place on their jobs. The policy is Broad enough to encompass testing the entire 2.1 million member Force and testing of recruits began in the fall. The Dod policy docs not address mandatory testing of family members or civilian employees. An army policy paper says congressional staff members could accept limitations on assignments and jobs for  but not for family members or civilian employees. No one except recruits May be separated from serv ice solely on the basis of the test results.  who test positive but show no signs of illness generally will be retained on duly. Medical boards will examine the individual cases of. Ill  to Sec whether they should be separated for disability and. If so. How. To gain maximum disclosure about members expo sure to the virus Dod policy makes it difficult to use any data collected during medical examinations or inter views in ways that could jeopardize  Ca Reers or Post service pay and health benefits. An information paper accompanying the army policy says the decision not to deploy abroad troops who have tested positive has these advantages it minimizes the risks to the Soldier and the Readi Ness of overseas units. It helps preclude the spread of the disease overseas. It helps ensure that adequate medical care will be available to the Soldier. It is a reasonable policy to adopt until More is known about aids. In the Laic stages of aids the body s immune system is disabled leaving the victim vulnerable to deadly Dis eases that healthy people normally can survive. It almost always fatal. As of sept. 30. The army had 255,000 Scricc members abroad the Navy 99,000, the marines 29,000 and the air Force 132,000, Dod figures show. Airline turns family s dog into real Rover san dil Cio up a German Shep Herd named go Kie was welcomed Home with a Juicy Steak after spending 12 hours As a piece of lust airline Luggage. Don and Mary Alice Tennison of Scon dido were Able to claim their  Pel at Lindbergh held after their trip from dal Las but not until cookie first made Side trips to Albuquerque n.m., and Salt Lake City Utah. Cookie s misadventure began thursday morning when she was packed into a plastic Kennel Cape and loaded aboard an Ameri can airlines flight the Toni Mons believed was bound for Lindbergh. The Kennel did not arrive in san Diego with the Tennis on. It took to Minifie for airline employees to track Down the missing dog who had landed safely in Albuquerque cookie  relayed to san Diego on a Vav Cmeron airlines flight  slopped in sail Lake City. The litter dog finally got to san Diego thursday night. A Winter Outing six year old Josh Morse lakes a Winter Meads farm in Rural Richmond. Mass. Scouts inc in my or i country Bic Jalc ride past the snowbound arc a while the youth s faithful dog. Rosy ahead. Nil 4 Miami officers arrested linked to drug Deal deaths Miami a tour police officers were arrested Friday in connection with three deaths during an apparent drug rip off police said a Day after two sex officers were charged with keeping nearly $2 Mil lion Worth of cocaine from the City s largest Sei ure Ever. Melro dad police cmdr. William Johnson said four Miami police officers and two civilians were arrested in Dawn roundups. More sup acis were still at Large he said. Three officers were charged Friday with three counts of first degree murder each in the july 29 deaths Johnson said. They and the fourth officer arrested who was t charged with murder face other charges that include racketeering armed cocaine trafficking and aggravated Battery he said. The metro Dade police department which covers unincorporated areas around Miami and helped in the investigation of the deaths identified the Miami officers charged with murder As Armando Estrada 26 roman Rodrigue 29 and Armando Garcia. 23. Officer Arturo de la Vega. 26. Was the fourth officer arrested Friday Johnson said. He said two civilians were also arrested Friday in connection with the Case. Pedro Hae. 43, was charged with second degree murder and cocaine trafficking and Ruben Orti 37, was charged with cocaine trafficking. Five Miami police officers including the four arrested Friday were relieved of duly dec. 10 in connection with investigation into the a Caius of three suspected drug dealers who jumped into the Miami River and drowned. Three other suspected dealers also jumped into the River but survived. Johnson refused to answer questions about the fifth officer. Witnesses told police the victims had been seen unloading drugs from boats and had been talking to men in Blue shortly before their deaths. The latest charges brought to 11 the number of Miami police officers arrested or relieved of duty this year following allegations ranging from drug use to stealing s1  from a vice department Safe. Accusations of wrongdoing have also hit the metro dad police department. One officer has been charged with a Home inva Sion robbery kidnapping and attempted first degree murder. Dismissed Miami police officers Felix a. Cru Vidics 2s. And Armando Lopez 24, were arrested thursday and charged with conspiracy to traffic in cocaine armed trafficking in cocaine armed burglary and grand theft in connection with the missing cocaine. They were fired from the Force earlier this year for drug related incidents Miami police chief Clarence Dickson told report ers. Both were locked in isolated cells at the Dade county jail pending a Bond hearing Friday. Beruvides and Lopez Are accused of boarding the 35-Fooi lobster boat vibrations after being tipped off about a cocaine Load and hoisting several Duffel bags filled with an estimated si.95 million Worth of the drug into the trunk of an unmarked car before other officers arrived. Lopez who joined the Force in 1982, was arrested in late october by metro Davac police for speeding. He was driving 120 Mph in a Candy red porsche and was carrying about $1,100 in Cash police said. One metro dad officer said he smelled Mari Juana in the car. Lope was fired in november after Refus ing to take a urinalysis lest said police spokesman officer Reginald Rounder cd. Beruvides a five year Veteran was fired for refusing to take a urine test in August. The lest was requested after a citizen re ported seeing Beruvides snorting cocaine in a Coconut Grove restaurant restroom Roundtree said. Two other Miami police officers were arrested earlier this month on cocaine charges Roundtree said. Two More were relieved of duty in connection with investigation of the theft of $150,000 from a vice department Safe he said although one was later reinstated