European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday augusts 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Agency requests More aids funds health officials want emphasis on education by the los Angel times th0 -trs""1 health of Rich "xingi.thei2o7lber,.of they expect will develop by 1991 makes it very Clear that research an prevention efforts must be intensified have asked for so s?e2se �138 million Over the president s fiscal1987 budget request of $213 million. The Public health service in a confidential memorandum to health and human services Secretary Otis r. Bowen has requested that the new Money reused to expand five major priority the memorandum was Given to the los Angeles times sunday by rep. Henry a. Waxman a Calif. The priority areas mentioned in the memo include health education and risk reduction programs experimental treatment vaccine development surveillance and research into factors associated with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Neither Bowen nor the office of management an budget has responded to the june 23 memo written by or. Donald Ian Macdonald then the acting assistant 5 people in 2 states killed by lightning Secretary for health. In february the Reagan administration proposed a reduction of $31 million in aids spending for fiscal 1987. However the House moving on its own last week approved fiscal 1987 appropriations for aids activities that were virtually identical to the Public health service request the Senate has not yet acted. The House action last week was typical of Capitol Hill behaviour on aids financing. In recent years Law makers responding to the pleas of researchers consistently have appropriated More Money than the Reagan administration has requested. The health service said that the expansion of it programs would require $351 million an increase of $ 138 million Over the president s $213 million budget request for fiscal 1987, which begins oct. 1. The service has proposed �47 million the largest chunk of the increase for education saying that in the absence of a vaccine and an effective treatment this vital activity is our most powerful tool to pre vent and control the spread of the memo described a series of major new Educa Tion initiatives that include voluntary testing for expo sure to the aids virus counselling and partner refer ral for at risk populations school health education programs and intensive outreach efforts to reduce. Transmission among intravenous drug the service also has asked for an additional $14million for research into other factors involved in the development of the factors that determine the expression and progression of disease in an individual Are largely unknown the memo said. Recent developments particularly those that relate to the mechanism of disease in the Central nervous system require expanded re pcs document calling the statistics indeed troubling cited the 1991 projections it released injure. It predicted a total caseload of 270,000 Ameri cans by the end of the next five years with 179,000deaths. In 1991 alone 145.000 people will be ill and seeking treatment and 54,000 of them will die the memo said. By United press International three vacationers huddled under an umbrella on the Beach at Ocean City,md., were killed sunday and two other people were injured when they were struck by lightning police said. In Mobile ala., two teen agers huddling under a huge Oak tree were killed by three victims in Maryland were identified As Sonia Hernandez 30, of Arlington a and Jose Santos Ortiz 19, and detain cd Dirilo 26, both of two injured were identified As Leonides my Jiffas 55, of Arlington Anda Concession stand owner Drew Haugh 27, of spokesman Jay Hancock said the area was overcast and the storm Wasin Progress at about 1 20 . When police received a Call that lightning had struck the Beach. The the dead vacationers and Mejil Las were visiting the resort town on a bus Lour from Washington and Northern Vir Ginia Hancock said. Haub was operating a Concession Standon swat Street adjacent to the spot on the Beach were the lightning mob e teen agers had taken ref Uge under the ree saturday was not a dead hit but close enough said Gary Cumberland a state pathologist. The victims were identified As Anto Nio Singleton 17, and Gregory Ropert 16. Singleton was pronounced dead on arrival at a Hospital and Ropert died Early sunday said drenched new eng land and the North Carolina coast Sun Day but brought Little moisture to the drought stricken storms stretched from new York to Georgia and from Southwest Texas to Southwest Oklahoma the National weather service said. They produced Hail an Strong winds and blew Trees Down and the roofs off Homes in Cheraw 5.5 inches of rain fell at Cape Hatteras. N.c., and 3 inches fell at Cherr Point while Wilmington had less than 1 Inch and other parched areas of the stat received Only a Light sprinkling the weather service said Strong winds from thunderstorms downed Trees and Power lines in Albany by. Where Inch Hail was reported. More than 2 inches of rain fell in easter parts of the state causing some flooding. More than 100 lightning caused fire burned in Oregon and Idaho sunday. Hundreds of firefighters in southwestern mechanics of lightning a poorly understood charge separation occurs within a thundercloud As it Lorms. Many scientists believe up drafts in thedoor separate the upper positive and lower negative charge centers. Negative charge accumulations Send out Pilot streamers toward Earth. As negative charge builds a positive charge is induced around tall objects. First the surrounding air. A poor electrical conductor prevents a Union. Finally the positive ground Streamer strikes the Cloud s Streamer in mid air creating the Brilliant Flash we perceive a lightning. As Many As 20 strokes May follow the same path a series that will last about a second. Chicago to Onchi Row Mil a n Art Hurt rih Jaraad by Den Krohn score tha Book d slams by Felc som. The us Amy Blok by pm Van our. Weikl Boon. To. Mercyd Aputi Manana Idaho battled five blazes that charred19,000 acres of grazing land. In South Central Oregon a 44,000-Acrefire was sweeping across grass and Sage in the Abert rim area 25 Miles North of Lake View Bureau of land management spokeswoman Linda Harmon said. Secret plan suggested in gop repeal move Washington up Coelho d-Calif., Tongue firmly in Check suggested sunday that re publicans want to repeal the 22nd amendment because they have a secret plan to bring Richard Nixon Back As , chairman of the democratic congressional Campaign commit tee said on lbs s face the nation that the attempt to repeal the Amend ment which prohibits presidents from seeking a third term Means re publicans have no Faith in the future of the repeal drive is led by rep. Guy Vander Jagt a Mich. Chairman of the House Republican Campaign committee who said on the lbs pro Gram there s a groundswell of pop ular support to get Ronald Reagan to run for a third , with a wry smile responded i think you have a secret plan and you re not telling the american Public about reason you want the 22nd amendment repealed is you Are really wanting to bring Richard Nixon Back As Jagt laughed but predicted that once the democratic House feels the heat they re going to see the Light and actually have a vote on re peal. Reagan has said he believes presi dents should be allowed to run for a third term if the voters want them to. Britons helping recover revolutionary War ship Plymouth mass. A British army divers Are helping excavate the re Mains of what is believed to be the general Arnold a revolutionary War Brigantine that Sank in a Winter storm 208 years s son of poetic Justice said it. Collin Millar 22, of Tighnabruaich. Eng land As he worked at the Shipwreck on a Sand Flat about a half mile offshore fro this Community settled by pilgrims. The general Arnold built in 1778,captured two British merchant ships just months before the sinking said archaeologist Richard Swete. The recovery Crew which will work atthe site until aug. 19, Hopes to Lay to rest any doubts that the ship is the general Arnold by digging out the Hull and find ing any of its20 cannons that May have been preserved in the Sand. The cannons will prove without doubt that this is the ship said Charles t. Sanderson Iii who discovered the wreck and is sponsoring its recovery. The general Arnold named after Benedict Arnold a widely respected Gen eral during the revolutionary War be fore his treachery ran aground during a violent storm on dec. 26, 1778, an foundered in shallow water. Many of its Crew of 105 froze to death but about 30 were rescued three Days later although several of those died shortly afterwards. A survivor of the wreck Barnabas owns or. Of Bastable wrote in a pamphlet 12 years later of the fierce storm and the ordeal of the Crew that gathered on the Quarterdeck As the ship who were Able to stand were obliged to huddle up close together an breathe in each other s faces to preserve them from freezing he wrote. In the morning a most awful sight presented itself to us 60 of our comrades Lay dead across each Swete said he was convinced that the wreck discovered buried in Sand on White Flat in 1976 is the same ship because of it Structure and location and some of the Arti facts already recovered including cannons hot pottery Glass and shoes. But i think there Are a lot of sceptics and certainly any historian and archaeologist would want More proof he want More Swete and his Crew of 19 volunteers most of whom Are working on the project As pan of their military training also Are racing against time which has eroded the Sand Flat exposing the ship s pieces to air Waves and deterioration. The Crew has been preparing to raise a44-foot Section whose edges jut out of the eroding Flat at Low High tide the outline of the piece and the main Hull is hidden under about10 feet of water
