European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday april 18,1986 swinging into Spring the time for sledding and throwing snowballs is gone and piloting a Swine Heth in the air Anil and enc Benner of Gloucester mass., does t mind a with or Willut a plus from a bit. Springtime brings other Joys for a 4-year-old time pleasure that extends a photo Down again is one i i hmm Bah he about 2,000 aids victims to get experimental drugs under new plan Washington a As Many As 2,000 aids patients will be Given experimental drug therapy under a new Public health service program expected to get under Way this summer at 10 hospitals around the country officials say. The drugs to be tested will be selected from the most promising agents arising from the preclinical development Effort Ian Macdonald acting assistant health Secretary told a Senate committee wednesday. We Are very Well into clinical trials with a number of drugs and some of these will be included in the $20 million a year testing program set to begin this sum Mer he told the Senate labor and human resources committee during its first hearing on the aids epidemic. Macdonald said the 10 hospitals that will serve As drug evaluation centers will be selected in the next few months. As Many As 2,000 aids patients will eventually be give drug therapy at those hospitals he said. The deadly disease acquired immune deficiency syn drome is caused by a virus that attacks the body s immune system. Aids now afflicts 19,560 americans most of whom will die in the next three years Accord ing to the latest government health statistics. The Dis ease already has killed 10,316 americans since it appeared in 1981. Another 1 million americans carry antibodies to the aids virus a Tiv Iii and could become infected with the disease which has an incubation period thought to be six months to six years. The disease primarily afflicts homosexual men and intravenous drug users but it also has been transmitted by female prostitutes. About 250 children also Are Vic Tims of aids mostly the offspring of drug users or prostitutes. The National institutes of health and private research ers have tested several experimental drugs designed to attack the a Tiv Iii virus. But the new testing program will greatly expand the number of aids patients receiving experimental drug treatment officials said. Even though about a dozen anti viral drugs Are being tested there have been no agents right now that have been shown to be effective or. Anthony s. Fauci who Heads the aids research efforts at Nih told the panel. The drugs rib avidin and  or at have shown they can Block viral transmits ability Fauci said but none of the drugs being tested has thus far produced sustained improvement in an aids patient s condition headed. Macdonald told reporters after the hearing that Rizavi Rin and at would be among the first to be tested along with such cancer drugs As interleukin-2. The drug which has been tested on cancer patients has been found to help rebuild the body s immune system. The Public health service s aids task Force will select drugs for testing in the program said Elaine Baldwin Annie spokeswoman. Set Tesini free Sweet potatoes bring out the hungry in Pennsylvania Homestead a. A hundreds of people armed with bags and boxes turned out in this economically depressed Mill town for 24 tons of free Sweet potatoes. I told them to take All they want. They All look too Skinny said Elvis g. Thornton 49, of Hamburg Ark who gave away the food. The Independent trucker was to transport the Sweet potatoes to . Heinz co. In Pittsburgh. His tractor Trai Lor broke Down though and he arrived a Day late. Heinz spokeswoman Beth Adams said the company re fused the delivery because some potatoes were starting to go bad. But while they were not appropriate for the com Pany s baby food products they were Good for immediate use she said. With help from the company Thornton was put in touch with the Rainbow Kitchen a Community soup Kitchen in Homestead. Reagan nominates rear Admiral for coast guard position Washington a president Reagan has nominated rear adm. James c. Irwin As vice commandant of the coast guard transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole said. Irwin commander of the 5th coast guard District headquartered in Portsmouth va., would replace vice adm. Benedict Stabile who is retiring. The nomination is subject to Senate confirmation and would carry with it a promotion to three Star rank. The coast guard s commandant adm. James s Gracey also is retiring. Dole announced earlier he will be replaced by vice adm. Paul a. Yost jr., the Atlantic Are commander. Make believe victims become real thing in mock evacuation new York a the City s largest emergency Drill called for the mock evacuation of 1,600 Staten Island residents but authorities did t expect four of the Vic Tims to really become ill. The fictitious scenario for the Drill began with a Colli Sion Between two rail cars at a chemical Plant in Linden . One car was said to have leaked its cargo of chlorine sending a toxic Cloud Over Western Staten Island. The Drill included closing a Bridge to new Jersey warning motorists to keep windows shut and a mock evacuation. E More than 500 City workers and fake victims took Partin the four hour Drill and four people began suffering trom dizziness and nausea from standing outside so Long said Donna Osso of the City s emergency medical service. One person was taken to a Hospital for treatment. Woman won t face charges for aiding Friend s suicide Detroit a a woman who allegedly helped another woman jump off a Bridge in a suicide pact will not be charged in her Friend s death say Canadian authorities. The woman stopped her car on the ambassador Bridge Between Detroit and Windsor Ontario on april 8 so that her Friend a 24-year-old Northville woman could Jum police said. J f the Northville woman s body was found off the wind Sor Shore. Police did not release the names of either woman. Windsor police sgt. Reg Chevalier said monday that the Driver from suburban Dearborn Heights told police she had talked about a suicide pact with her Friend but she did t believe they would go through with it. Both women had been under psychiatric care at the Michigan osteopathic medical Center in Detroit police s3,lu� it s an arresting concept just Appeal to their greed san  Fapio told Lura of i i. Dieg a the lure of get Ting something for nothing combined with Good old fashioned police work contributed to the successful Roundup of More than 3,500 fugitives in the Western United states authorities said. Fourteen fugitives were arrested when they arrived to pick up income tax refunds officers told them they had coming. Offers of free trips to Las vegas nev., including a Day at the races and gambling Money brought several dozen fugitives into the open. The arrests Over the past eight weeks were made by officers working with the fugitive investigative strike team. It was the ninth such fist operation in the last four years and involved cooperation from 34 local state and Federal agencies official said. At a press conference announcing the arrests wednesday Stanley e. Morris director of the . Marshals service said officers often played on fugitives greed touring them in. One tactic used in san Diego involved having a bogus postman bring a package to the fugitive s last known address. Forty five times we got the package hooked up with the person whose name was on the package Morris said. The Only thing inside was the arrest warrant. It is inexpensive if you can put some bait out he said. Youve got the fugitive thinking about getting something for Noth ing and not thinking about  the operation Cost $1.6 million or less than $500 per arrest he said. But he also expressed frustration that a Quarter of the fugitives were quickly re leased from jail either because of bail Laws or because the jails were overcrowded. If we invest in the front end As we be done Here we must invest in the Back end the jails he said. Among the 3,506 fugitives arrested 45 were wanted for murder 25 for kidnapping and 734 for major drug violations. More than $130 million Worth of drugs and other contraband was seized including 865 pounds of cocaine in the Back of a truck driven by one of the fugitives arrested in Elpaso Texas Morris said