European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday april 12, 1986 Geldof Unicof plan sports Aid to Benefit Africa United nations a Rock Star Bob Geldo says the whole world will begin running on May 25 for sports Aid a planet wide run for african famine Relief billed As the race against  Geldof the founder of band Aid appeared thursday at a news conference with James Grant director of the United nations children s fund which is co sponsoring the Effort. Runners from Ethiopia and the Sudan will Start in their own countries May 17 and will make their Way in running segments to new York where they will Light a Torch at the United nations May 25, Geldof said. At that moment the world will begin running said the Irish musician whose band Aid Enterprise raised upward of $ 100 million with the global live Aid concert last summer. In towns and cities All Over the world races have been organized under the slogan the race against  each runner will pay $10 for a to shirt that will be the entry fee and the chief Means of fund raising he said. Sports Aid which announced its plans in Early March is also working to get corporate sponsors he said. Asked How much will be raised Geldorf replied Haven t a  Grant said he believed it will be the biggest mass sporting participation in the history of the  he said sports Aid has commitments from hundreds of running groups including 30 in France alone. The director of the new York City Marathon Fred Lebow told the news conference his group which has 25,000 members will stage a race that Day. Geldof said Britain s largest paper the Sun is printing 20 million entry forms a week in that country. Grant said that Unicof s new York office will coordinate distribution of the to shirts to participating groups. He said the run will come two Days before the opening of the . General Assembly s special session on the crisis in Africa. Up photo southbound Gator Dave Gorrill curator at the Boston museum of science prepares a 4-foot-Long Alligator for ship ment to the Okefenokee swamp on the Florida Georgia Border. The 7-year-old reptile originally kept As a pet will be set free in the wild. Of Academy won f commission cadets testing positive for aids Colorado Springs Colo. A seniors at the . Air Force Academy testing positive for aids will be classified As medically unqualified to receive a commission and will be Dis enrolled an Academy spokesman said. The Academy on thursday finished testing 963 seniors for acquired immune deficiency syndrome and All other cadets will be tested soon according to tech. Sgt. Allen Eakle of the Public affairs office. He said it will be near the May 28 graduation before results Are known. Seniors testing positive for aids would be Dis enrolled but would still receive Bachelor of science degrees if Al academic requirements Are met Eakle said. He said All other cadets and staff military personnel will undergo aids testing in regularly scheduled physical exams. About 1,400 incoming freshmen due to report july1, will be tested during processing. Staff officers and enlisted personnel being transferred overseas will be tested before leaving the Academy he said. A Pentagon report says the . Military Academy at West Point will screen its graduating class for aids. The naval and coast guard academies will Check incoming cadets this summer but have announced no plans to test upperclassmen. A defense department spokesman said thursday that older recruits in All the services plus those on the East coast and West coast showed the highest incidence of the aids virus. Young recruits from the Midwest had the lowest incidence. Recruits who tested positive were Given medical coun seling. Aids is a fatal disorder that cripples the body s ability to fight disease. Tests show if aids antibodies Are in the blood but a positive result does not mean the. Person haste disease. It could mean Only that the person has been exposed toads or has had a similar virus. It has been estimated that 5 percent to 15 percent of people carrying the aids virus will get the fatal disease. Donor shortage hinders transplants Chicago up although heart transplants could save the lives of 14,000 americans every year there Are fewer than 1,100 appropriate donors annually and the situation May Worsen As accidental deaths decrease re searchers said thursday. The seat Belt Laws child restraint Laws Drunken driving Laws Are in Many ways reducing the Pool of available hearts said Roger Evans of the Battelle human re search centers in Seattle. Accidental deaths Are the major source of donors of viable organs. It s kind of a social Exchange in a Way because it s a tragedy to have someone die like that but through donations they can save Many More lives Evans said in Telephone interview. Although Public awareness could increase the donor Supply somewhat research on alternatives such As Perma nent mechanical pumps and Cross species transplants is needed to meet the demand for the lifesaving procedure Evans said. He and his colleagues examined records from 80 donor Organ programs nationwide and interviewed 441 heart transplant recipients to estimate the Pool of potential an actual heart donors. The researchers writing in the journal of the american medical association determined that although More than 14,000 people die every year who would be suitable heart donors Only 400 to 1,100 hearts become available for transplant. Part of the problem the researchers said was that while people Are generally supportive of Organ transplant Tion they Are not As enthusiastic about Organ  but Evans said he doubted Public education efforts would be Able to close the Gap Between potential heart donors and recipients. Instead he said new technology and experimentation with animals As donors should be explored. However Evans criticized artificial pumps currently being used As Bridges to heart transplant As counterproductive. By bridging a patient you re not making More heart available you re making More patients available for the hearts that become available he said. Stateside actress dancer Chita Rivera injured in new York collision new York a Broadway show Star Chita Rivera suffered a broken leg and other injuries Early monday when a taxicab broadside the car she was driving As shews making a turn police said. Rivera 53, was in stable condition at Lenox Hill Hospi Tal where she was undergoing surgery for a fractured left leg and cuts on that leg and on her right Eyebrow Accord ing to Merlene Parris a Hospital spokeswoman. The actress and dancer has been appearing in Jerry s girls a Broadway tribute to the songs of Jerry Herman also starring Leslie Uggams and Dorothy Loudon. The Accident occurred shortly after Midnight when Riv Era pulled out of a parking space to make a a turn near Central Park in Manhattan said police sgt. Ron Severin. The Driver of the cab 28-year-old Dae Kang and a passenger also suffered minor injuries he said. They we retreated at the scene and released. Lana Turner daughter bring libel suit against to guide los Angeles up actress Lana Turner and her daughter Cheryl Crane claim in a $101 million suit that to guide lib eled them in a Story falsely stating Crane was tried and convicted for murder in the 1958stabbing death of Turner s Lover. The suit said the Story ignores a Coroner s jury ruling that Crane s april 1958 stabbing of mobster Johnny Stompanato or. Was justifiable homicide in that Crane stabbed Stompanato because she believed he was endangering her Mother s life during a lovers quarrel. Turner a sex Symbol of the 1940s, and Crane Are each seeking $50 million in punitive damages and $500,000 in general damages in their Superior court suit. The suit claims to guide has subjected them to Ridi Cule and hatred. To guide officials were unavailable for comment. The to guide Story written by Bill Davidson is about the lbs movie malice in wonderland based on the lives of Hollywood gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Edda Hopper. Student who accepted dare electrocuted in Tower climb san Diego a a 20-year-old Man who accepted his friends dare to climb a Utility transmission Tower was electrocuted when he brushed against a wire carrying 138,000 volts of electricity officials said. The victim was identified As James Douglas Cole of Sandiego a student at Mesa Community College. The Coroner s office said Cole an experienced Mountain climber was at the base of a san Diego Gas & electric co. Tower with two friends. The friends told investigators the three men dared one another to climb the Tower. Cole had reached the top and was on his Way Down when he touched a line about 40 fee from the ground. Flagpole sitting protester grounded by Detroit judge Detroit a a Man who got stuck on a flagpole he climbed to protest the yugoslavian Flag and communism has been sentenced to six months probation and told to keep both feet on the ground. District judge Leon Jenkins forbade Peter Ivcec to climb flagpoles but said he could distribute pamphlets. The 38-year-old Chrysler worker who lives in Windsor Ontario was charged with disorderly conduct after he climbed a 65-foot flagpole at a yugoslavian ethnic Festi Val in Detroit last summer. Ivcec who escaped from Yugoslavia in 1967, said several friends and relatives have died there fighting for Freedom. Mike Palaic who attended the festival testified tha Ivcec got stuck up the pole. The pole was hot. His legs were burned and he had sunstroke he said. For that they arrest  Maryland lawmakers of Bill to limit personal injury awards Annapolis my. A the Maryland generally has Given final approval to a Bill placing a$350,000 Cap on court awards for pain and suffering in All personal injury cases. The Bill is an amended version of a measure introduced by gov. Harry Hughes and now goes to him for his Signa Ture. & the Bill is designed to hold Down the skyrocketing cos of liability insurance for doctors and others. The Cap on non economic losses will not limit payment for economic damages such As medical Bills and lost wages