European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday. January 9, 1986 blood donors Don t risk getting aids p a ii vim 1-irt-Inram s director Empfie Sfear is in usted Neucom program by Joseph Owen so Ultra it Bureau Stuttgart an unjustified fear of contract ing aids May be scaring away some potential blood donors in . Military communities. Several people have said that they would not do ii ale because they might gel aids said army maj. Larry Futlz director of Neucom s military blood program. He Hopes to reverse the trend while promoting National Volunteer blood donor month. Felt said there � a Luck of Public awareness about blood collection techniques so people who Are on lit borderline who Don t understand Are All the More reluctant to  researchers have identified the shared use of hypodermic Needles by users of illegal drugs As one Way aids an acronym for acquired immune deficiency syndrome is transmitted. Workers at blood collection centers use sterilized disposable Needles and containers to draw donors blood and throw the equipment away after a single use Feltz said. I blood doctor system is actual would be  i,., a blood donations Normay arc acc com from no aim Fuwk for i is Sta is silly collects about 10,000 pints of blood in Europe a ional Volunteer blood donor month is observed in january because blood supplies often reach a Crit ical ebb during lire month Rentz a particularly after Christmas and blood donations drop off he Sari. Unfortunately the need for blood a toes i after the holidays. Ii continues to be there. He Ore donation screening process. Military officials began in july 1985 to test for the a Tiv ill antibody the presence of which indicates that a person has at t blood collection officers in their .  Danart the army s 655th medical co the defense Deparl pos work at Gold mines in Laos thai merchant says Fayetteville . A a thai Gold Mer chant payt he has seen americans being used for mining labor in Laos supporting a lawsuit against the Federal government which claim a pow Are still a cig held in Southeast Asia. Hie merchant saying he was using the fictitious name John Abbasy because he said be fears for Ilia life said in an affidavit tiled monday that he also has encountered americans hading in precious Roe lab in Lara who were identified by anti communist forces As former american prisoners of War. Abbasy said he first saw people he believed to be americana working in Gold mining detail in 1978 and since then has seen about 20 � sch work groups. T1w Ulm time 1 Taw such a detail via in october 1985, when i saw a work detail comprised of 39 men which i very along in believe to be americans Abbasy said. The suit was fixed by former special forces Mai. Mark Smith and retired special forces set. Melvin  relatives of servicemen missing in action but declared dead by the government joined the Mil in late  said he contacted u a embassy officials about nil sighting at Early As 1980. After reporting Thia information and after declining employment by the american Cia. My business in thai land waa greatly affected he said. My name and reputation were adversely affected As Well Ai my personal life and my economic  a former British subject who is now a thai citizen Abbasy said Only attorney Mark Waple rep. Bill Hen Don r-., and Smith and Mcintire know hit identity. His affidavit and those from several former military intelligence officers contradict information from the . Defense intelligence Agency which is charged with Gath Erini information on its. Servicemen listed As missing in Southeast Asia As a result of the Vietnam War the affidavits Are part of a response 10 the government s Contention that the suit in t appropriate for judicial re View since it involves political issues under the Aegis of foreign policy makers. Smith and Mcintire claim the government hasn1 done everything possible to gain the release of americans still held in Vietnam Laos and what was formerly known As Cambodia. Abbasy s affidavit was filed Here at the same time As a meeting or High level . Delegation la Hanoi of discuss with vietnamese officials ways of speeding the search for missing us. Servicemen. German firm will pay $2 million to Wii jewish slave labourers Dusseldorf West Germany a a West German company on wednesday said it had agreed to pay 5 million Murks about u million to jews used u forced labourers during the nazi regime the announcement by Fel Muehle Nobel came one Day after tie nation s main opposition political party and the country s powerful labor federation called on chancello Helmut Kohl to intervene in the dispute. The Money will go to jews forced to work for companies controlled by the giant flick Industrial concern or their  Nobel was part of the flick conglomerate. After the november announcement that toe country largest private Bank was acquiring flick West German jewish Leaden revived the claims Tor reparations far the Jewth workers. The jewish lenders bad ailed the flick concert for unto s million Marks about s3,l million a repair Atoui. Jewish leaders estimate that i pm w woo jews who per formed forced labor for the Rick concern Are still Anve White there Are several thousand families of deceased  a statement released to the news Media in this West Ern Industrial City Fel Muehle said the payment agreement came after consultations with the conference on Jeub material claims against Oermann and with Eithe Bank which purchased flick for s billion Marks Fel Muehle called the payments a humanitarian Solu Tion of the claims. Fel Muehle was the Industrial Core of the flick Empire producing textiles steel and other prod on Tum Flay the powerful labor federation Dob an the opposition soc democrats urged Kohl tried use lie demands for reparations. Us the workers were treated As virtual prisoners of the companies and forced to work unpaid s3�b3sat the Nuernberg War crimes trials. Field blood Bank unit collect its other activities the ices Imp T i Sentinel military exercise. The army also draws blood at its hospitals in Mons do churn in Vincnza Italy and it nine places in Ger. Many the Navy takes donations at it hospitals in r win. Ajin of it tests blood at hospitals in Lakenheath in gland Knob ii Turkey Torrejon Spain and Pitburg Ana Wien Den  encouraged people who want to Dpi a blood drives to Contact the appropriate service Oranch. Army official May be mtaclc4 by  6s5lh med co Usa eur flood Bank Apo 09180. The Navy address is us. Navy blood program manager 7/0 us. Navol Hospital Box 1&t4t2, Fpo 09540.vir Force address is Usan blood program r a  Ghl Apo 09011 purchases from cafes Catalon now payable by credit cards Munich customers placing orders the Tajh the change Majl order Catalon can not use Toner mis Percaro or visa credit cards an cafes  new visa and Mastercard ordering system bowl customers to me their credit card account i to it of for purchases new Catalon order forms which Are Waif Cito at change across Europe allow customers to eater their credit card information directly Wilh their  who we the forms included Wita tie it Tong and wish to charge their purchases to their Erdst cud account should enter the card name Vitt a Mastercard toe card dumber and the expire Boa Date on thelast line of the order. The Catalon sales Center will process and charge in credit curd account and ship the merchandise. Airy re funds or adjustments due win be sent directly to the Cus Tomer and not processed As a credit to the charge card account. News update rape Case against Estes dropped Abilene Texas a a judge has  against Billie sol eaten after promo cutout us de sense lawyers said the convicted swindler underwent Vasectomy Long before the purported assault Bales was accused of raping a 38-year-old widow la july. But District attorney Jorge salts sought dismiss which was granted by District judge Don  said an examination confirmed that Tut bad undergone a Vasectomy before lie reported assault ruling out the possibility that eaten it a the source of sperm found in the woman. 6th shopping mall crash victim die Martinez Calif. A a sex la person Hwd Ted from Burn buffered when a plane crashed into a mall cued with Christmas shoppers and commercial Jet service 10 lao a was postponed pending a review of safely issues Chandrima Shaw. 49, of Woi nut Creek died Al aha Bate Hospital in Berkeley from second and third degree Burn �vj3s percent of her body said Hospital spokeswoman care eleven people remained hospitalized Woof . Correction prices quoted for Wedgwood China in a recent Stripe Magazine were incorrect. The Price for Bellefleur pattern of. At the Wedgwood Concession at Raf my Hall 1377 and s452 at concessions in Germany. For 40 pieces of the tame pattern Are $283 at harrods in Ndon including value added tax and 1246, excluding Cir add cd tax these prices