European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday March 14, 1986 reporters Access to Reagan again curbed by White House stateside Washington a the while House has quietly taken another Small step to reduce the Opportunity for reporters to question the president on whatever Issue maybe burning on a Given Day. Without fanfare or announcement members of the staff stopped permitting reporters to accompany still photographers into Brief photo sessions at which president Reagan poses with his guests. Reporters now Are restricted from seeing the president and asking their questions on those occasions when the White House staff permits Tele vision cameras to record Reagan welcoming a visitor receiving a report or signing a Bill. By itself the new restriction seems hardly worthy of mention to outsiders. But it is part of a pattern that in recent years has sharply reduced those times when Reagan can be asked about issues of the moment. We Are being literally trampled by television presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said this week in explaining his most recent Rule governing Access to the presi Dent. The new restriction does t affect television coverage. But it does Cut by about half the time that reporters Are Ina position to observe the president. And it helps ensure that the few moments left for cover age on any Given Day will be marked by the frenzy of reporters vying for the president s attention. Clips from such sessions always Over in a minute or two often make the television news that night and invariably give the impression the president spends his time being harangued by self appointed interrogators. The frequency of such photo sessions has been dramatically reduced in recent years As the White House has sought tighter control Over what Reagan will be seen talk ing about on a particular Day. I think a lot of mornings we get in the Roosevelt room Here at 8 o clock for the meeting of Reagan s senior staff and we say a right this is a bad Story out Here. We Don t want to be talking about it we want to emphasize Contra Aid today not whatever it might be not Marcos for example Speakes said in an unusually candid interview. On the other end of the Street Here in the four network offices the Guys Are sitting around say ing hey we be got to get him on camera on Marcos. We re going to Lead with that tonight and so thereby sets conflict. We Don t make any apologies for having to Deal with television the spokesman said. We re going to do it on our terms they re going to try to do it on their  but he acknowledged that sheer numbers and the Over whelming presence of to have caused us to continue to have to make adjustments in the rules governing Access to the president. We have always Felt that the one question one answer press conference did t do anybody any favors Speakes said. It was not a Way for the press to learn about policy and it was certainly not a Way for the president to state policy because it was so easily  recalling his Days As a Junior press officer in the Nixon and Ford administrations Speakes said the ratio of news paper and Magazine reporters to the correspondents and Crews of the electronic Media has shifted from 75 percent print to 75 percent electronic. Bahamas cancer clinic reopens agrees of screen drugs for bacteria new York a patients of a newly reopened Bahamas cancer clinic that was closed last year after dispensing aids contaminated drugs say they Are ecstatic that they can again get treatment. Personally i feel like some person who found himself through some clerical error assigned to death Row said Curry Hutchinson a patient representative who was a patient at the clinic until it was closed eight months ago. I feel relieved he said in a Telephone interview wednes Day. The clinic the immunology researching Center Ltd. Of Freeport grand Bahamas reopened March 3, according to an announcement by rep. Alan Molinari r-n.y., whose District includes Many clinic patients. The clinic dispenses a treatment the american cancer society classifies As an unproven therapy meaning there is no evidence it is effective. Or. Gregory Curt of the National cancer Institute who has relentlessly criticized the clinic for providing treat ments he says Are devoid of medical value has reported finding bacteria hepatitis and aids virus in the clinic drugs. He said the clinic May still be producing drugs contaminated with bacteria. Every reagent drug we be looked at has had bacteria in it he said. I wonder How you would test this  the clinic was closed july 17, 1985, by the bahamian government ministry of health. It was allowed to reopen under an agreement stipulating that it ensure that the product was free from any bacterial contamination said or. Vernell t. Allen the ministry s chief medical officer. That includes screening the drug products which Are derived from human blood for hepatitis b virus and the aids virus commonly designated a tiv Iii Allen said. The agreement Between the ministry and the clinic also Calls for periodic inspections to be sure the clinic is com plying Allen said in a Telephone interview. When Allen was asked if she believed the clinic s treat ment was effective against cancer she said i prefer notto comment about  the clinic run by Lawrence Burton a zoologist and former cancer researcher dispenses a treatment Burton Calls immune augmentative therapy or iat. The clinic i sometimes referred to As the iat Center. The treatment is said by Burton to boost a cancer patient s immune system resulting in control of the cancer Burton did not return a Telephone Call wednesday. Hundreds of patients most of them americans have gone to the clinic for treatment. Former Georgia gov Lester Maddox is among them. We re ecstatic obviously said Hutchinson. I think it s wonderful it s magnificent. So Many people Are now going to be Able to come Here and get the  Curt says they will be coming for a therapy that is Worth less. There s not a single Case where there s been a documented response to iat in patients who have had a documented tumor and who have been treated there he said a photo remembering Christa Steve Mcauliffe widower of challenger astronaut Christa Mcauliffe appears to wipe away a tear during a ceremony at the Massachusetts statehouse in Boston. Mcauliffe and his Mother in Law Grace Corrigan left were present for the renaming of a $1 million a year scholarship fund in memory of Christa Mcauliffe. Golf club denied tax break because it excludes women Annapolis my. A the Maryland Senate has voted to refuse a tax break to burning tree club an exclusive Golf club in suburban Washington d.c., because it does not admit women As members or guests. Since burning tree was founded in 1922, its membership Rolls have been studded with High ranking Federal officials including supreme court justices and members of Congress. The club saves about $186,000 a year on its property taxes because of a reduced rate available to country clubs under a state program offering lower rates to encourage the preservation of open spaces. Sen. Stuart Bainum sponsor of the Bill that was approved by a 27-16 vote in the Senate said burning tree is the Only country club in Maryland that claims the exemption while discriminating against women. . Appeals court judge found dead in new York Home new York a Henry j. Friendly a judge on the 2nd . Circuit court of appeals since 1959 and its chief judge from 1971 to 1973, was found dead in his bed Here with several prescription bottles and a suicide not nearby police said. He was 82. Friendly s body was discovered about 10 . By a family member at his Manhattan apartment a few Miles from the courthouse said officer Joe Mcconville. Friendly s clerk Tom Dagger said the judge had been despondent since the death last year of his wife of 55 years and in recent weeks he had been bothered by physical ailments that hampered his work. Twa strike continues after 3-hour talks fail Philadelphia a no new negotiations Are scheduled Between Twa and striking flight attendants who failed to make Progress in a three hour bargaining session. The tasks wednesday were the first since bargaining stopped Friday at the Start of the walkout by 5,700 members of the inde pendent federation of flight attendants. Helen Witt of the National mediation Board described the talks As intense and Businesslike but she declined to say if either Side had put any new proposals on the table. In Pess has been made in the talks Witt said. We intend to stay in touch with the parties and when there is a basis for resumption of negotiations we will bring them Back  the six member Twa negotiating team left the hotel swiftly after talks broke off avoiding reporters and making no statements. Victoria Frankovich the Union president blamed the impasse on the absence of Carl Icahn who owns 52 percent of the airline Stock. There is no possibility of reaching an agreement without or. Icahn being Here but i am always optimistic she said. Witt said she doubted that Icahn s absence had any effect. Sally Mcelwreath Twa s director of corporate communications said she  explain Icahn s absence. He does t have to be there she added. He has a negotiating  Icahn had been Twa s chief negotiator before the strike began. In an interview tuesday in new York Icahn said he expected the airline to resume All nights by next week. The airline which said the strike Cost it $6 million in the first two Days has tried to lure passengers Back by cutting fares 30 percent. Pilots have stayed on the Job honouring a no strike clause in their contract. On tuesday the airline won an injunction issued in Kansas City mo., that bars machinists from staying off the Job in sup port of the attendants. Machinists reported for work As scheduled wednesday at the airline s Kansas City overhaul base where about 3,000 Union members maintain and repair the Twa Fleet said Mark Burdette Twa Sta Tion manager. The Center had been closed during the sympathy strike. The injunction was a major Victory for the airline which had cancelled Many flights because machinists had Honore picket lines. Twa which reported losses of $193.1 million last year has insisted that flight attendants take a 22 percent pay Cut handwork More hours. The Union offered to accept a 15 percent Cut in base pay which ranges from $16,000 to $28,000 a year although some experienced attendants earn As much As $36,000, including overtime. It walked at accepting greater changes in work rules that have Al ready been accepted by other Twa work ers