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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 23 the stars and stripes saturday january 11, 19be profiteers try to Cash in on Kodak Stock offer Rochester . Up owners at  i outlawed instant cameras flooded a loll free hoi Linc  Jii profiteer a tried to buy lire cameras and Trade i hem i Kodak reported Long delays on phone lines it set up As Par of a reimbursement program Tor the 16 million Cus Lamers who Awn Kodak instant cameras but no longer can buy film because of a court ordered shutdown of the com Pany s Siant photog Typhy business. The company was forced to Slop the production and Sale of instant cameras and film after a Federal judge deter mined that it stole Polaroid corp. Trade secrets a decade ago and the supreme court refused wednesday toil Vonc in 1 he Case. A Kodak unveiled the  within hours of the supreme court s ref a an extra  in to supplement the Iso already on  neb., officials said. The phone Nui tiber jir792-Jdoo. Mcpji�mc7.500 employees who worked either full or part Lime on Kodak in Laai products reported to work us usual thursday not knowing whether they would be relocated or bid off. Idon t care what we re doing is Long As we re work vhf i Mac Usu Matkin Mechanic who services the slant camera  in Kodak has 53,000 workers. Kodak is offering Theca per a Nevi camera and film of Broj Book Worth �50 in Reb on Kodak Cal sror single shares of Stock to the 16 milliqjfcp0picwhoown  Zimeras retailers said they received Calls from people who wanted to buy instant cameras which sell for As Low As $24, and Trade them in for Slock Kodak Stock opened at just under s49 thursday. There s going to be a bit of a scramble said Daniel Beer manager at Carhart photo in downtown Rochester. They re giving Stock away for a 124  Charles Smith a Kodak spokesman said the company realized that the buy Back offer created the potential for profiteering but said it was instituted in the name of customer Good  nerf we hadtiy0mm lcti5klhat people might buy some  Smith said adding that a Fri Nam of three cameras per household could be re turned. The offer extends Only until the end of 1986, the financial Cost of Hie buyback program could reach boo million if every instant camera is returned but some predicted it would be a fraction of hat. Kodak it e write off against its 1985 earning to be  Kodak said it would  limn the company As Man of the 800 full time instar if a to Aker Sai Possi ble. They were to be told thursday and  they have jobs and Many will report monday either for new jobs or retraining Smith said. Although Kodak has said it would not re enter the in Stant picture Field it is appealing he Polaroid ruling Kodak also faces a trial in which it could be Breed 0 pay billions of dollars in punitive damage to rival Polaroid. Aids will Cost . Billions researchers say Washington up the first estimate of the economic Impact of aids in the United states shows the first 10.000 victims will cast s6.3 billion in hospitalization and lost income researchers report cd thursday. The victims of acquired immune def Ncncy syndrome used up nearly As much in Hospital costs a lung cancer victims did even though aids is far less common than the nation s no. I cancer killer researchers from the . Centers for disease control and san Franciscu health department said. The first 10,000 aids patients spent 1.67 million Days in the Hospital at a Cost of about si.4 billion the study said while in 1980 lung cancer patients spent 3.36 Mil lion Days in the Hospital at a Cost of $1.6 billion. Ann Hardy a cd epidemiologist said the 1980 lung cancer figures were the latest available. The american cancer society said the number of new cases that year was about 117,000. Hardy said a eds Hospital costs May have in part been higher because some of the Fig ures were based on data from new York City where patients May use hospitals More frequently and because Hospital costs have in creased dramatically since 1980. As of Jan. 6, the cd had recorded 16,138 cases of aids 8,220 of which resulted in death. In addition to the resources being used or lost due to aids which can be measured there arc some costs due to aids that Are intangible such As pain and suffer ing the Adverse effect on personal and fam ily relationships and social stigma Bizalion the report said. We re losing productive individuals at the prime of their life said Hardy principal author of the study published in he journal of the american medical association. Besides hospitalization aids patients costs were broken Down As follows 8,387 years of work lost and 1189 million in potential earnings future earnings last due la premature death $4.6 billion and 147,000 for the Hospital care of each patient. The total Cost was estimated at s6.3 billion. Words from Page 1 ing it is looked Down upon by the International  calling the United slates a stinking Rotten crusader khad Afy added this hostile position can Only be explained in racist and crusade terms referring to hth-i3lh Century military expeditions by european christians in an Effort to recover the holy land from the moslem. Refusing to give up Hope of support from the allies Shultz said people s thinking is moving it s  he said Whitehead a former new York investment banker would explain the . View and be As persuasive As he  Reagan this week acted to halt virtually All american economic activity with Libya and ordered a freeze on All of the North african country s assets in the United Stales and in Bank branches overseas. Libyan Legal experts Are studying the possibility of freezing american assets and other possible responses khad Afy said. . Sources have predicted that he will seize the assets of . Oil companies in Libya estimated to be Worth $400 million. The estimated 1,000 to 1,500 american workers in Libya were ordered to return Home and with the exception of what Shultz called humanitarian cases were threatened with prosecution if hey walked. But Italy Germany Britain and other West european countries maintain Lucra Tive economic ties to Libya and along with Japan have expressed doubts about the merits of the . Economic sanctions. However the italian government warned italian businesses not to exploit the . Ordered withdrawal of american companies from Libya. Cabinet ministers also said Italy would be careful not o Export to Libya what foreign minister Giulio an Arcotti called particularly dangerous arms during the heightened tension be tween Libya and the United states moslem governments ranging from Radi Cal Iran to conservative Kuwait issued Strong statements of support for khad Afy. At Fez Morocco the foreign ministers of the 45-member islamic conference including Turkey a nato member adopted a declaration tuesday saying the imperialist zionist threat to Libya is a threat to All moslem nations. They followed up on thursday by approving a Resolution that condemns the . Sanctions against Libya and Calls on Mas trivia from Page 1 enough. What did David Janssen portray in the to series the fugitive?1" what country does Superman live in answer he does not live in a country be cause he is not real. It took several months of working evenings to came up with All the questions. The game was ready for stores in late novem Ber just in time for Christmas Sites. The game s popularity has Tucker a Little bewildered but pleased. It started out As a joke Between these two Guys he said. I think what gets peo ple is the name of the game and the Low Price about s5 does t Hurt either. Thai s another reason they sell so a Cal. As Long As the game is priced correctly you la jell a lot More he said. The game includes 48 cards each with six questions. Categories include show Busi Ness athletics countries of the world scientific discoveries Fine arts and publications so world affairs past and present. The cards Are the same size As those of other More challenging trivia games and arc printed on similar Quality paper Mak ing it easy to Spike the decks of the harder games. Pm countries to take the necessary actions deemed appropriate to counter these oppressive american measures Shultz acknowledged to Date we Haven t made much headway with the  but he said the United states has to do what was right even if acting alone and there u no evidence american companies will try to evade Reagan s order to suspend activity by feb. I. Khad Afy said Western Europe and the Arab world should work together to bring America Back to its senses. In another move thursday the transportation department prohibited is. Air lines from Selling tickets for travel to and from Libya or to Fly a plane with libyan registry in the United slates the impel was Likely to be slight be cause foreign carriers would not be affected and no us. Airline flies into Libya. Asked Why Force had not been used against khad Afy accused in a stale department White paper of sponsoring 59 instances of terrorism since november 1979, Shultz said Reagan considered Hie economic Steps he has already taken asap prop Riate for the moment at the same time Shultz said he doubts that the sanctions Are Likely to have a Deci Sive effect on khad Afy and that Force May have to be considered. By this Lime we re pretty much at the end of the Road Shultz said. All of the things that one can think economically have pretty much been done now Shultz has been the Roost outspoken among administration leaders in pushing what he Baa called an Active defense against terrorism including the use of offensive As Well As defensive measures. Two years ago he said Western nations had to consider preemptive action against terrorist groups particularly those that were  he has cited Libya Syria Iran and North Korea As members of a league of  Shull said that in a meeting wednesday with soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin As on a number of occasions the United states raised the Issue of Libya and explained Why we Are so  the estimates were calculated using data from new York City Philadelphia and san Francisco. There have been no previous estimates made to the Best of oar knowledge of the economic losses due to the disability or pre mature death of patients with aids the researchers wrote. The Cost of Bosita Bizalion and lost productivity for Alt infectious diseases was Esti mated at $10.3 billion to $20.2 billion annually. Aids will increase the annual Cost for infectious diseases by 30 percent to ii per cent the study said. The proportion of costs taken up by aids is High because other infectious Dis eases in the United suites lend not to be As severe and usually do not require Hosn Tafi nation or cause death Hardy said. Aids u considered inevitably fatal. Hardy said she has heard of other groups conducting similar studies but none Hii been published yet. Lang cancer considered the top cause of cancer deaths in the United states was expected to claim 130,100 lives in 1986, according to the american cancer society temperatures mix Trul d , i Toronto Vancouver d up Dahl by int Aiu claim t. Lilly Cloudy per of Dell let hour  
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