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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday August 31,1986 Delta rocket to launch Star wars satellites Cape canaveral Fla. A two Star wan satellites that will perform an Orbital Ballet will be launched Here late this week aboard a Delta rocket sources reported Friday. The launch expected thursday or Friday will Mark he first flight of a Delta since it was grounded after failure in May. It also will be the first major space Mission for the strategic defense initiative Organiza Tion which manages president Reagan s missile de sense program popularly known As Star  the Agency had hoped to keep the launch secret until a few hours before liftoff but word was leaked Friday. The sources said that after the three stage Delta places the two satellites in a Low orbit they will Sepa rate and Fly an intricate set of Maneu vers As they Circle each other using Small thrusters to Man Euver. The objectives they said arc to obtain data and to test guidance and navigation systems. One element of the Star wars defense system envisions scores of space based satellites equipped with lasers and other anti missile devices. Presumably the satellites will track each other. A Delta lost first stage thrust 71 seconds after liftoff at Cape canaveral on May 3 and was blown up by the Range safety officer when it went out of control. Destroyed with the rocket was a $57.5 million weather satellite. The failure was Only the 12th for the Delta in 178 launches and ended a Streak of 43 straight successes for the Booster. Investigators affirmed that the Basic design of the Delta is reliable. They concluded that launch vibrations apparently caused wiring to touch Metal Damag ing the wiring and causing two Brief Short circuits. The shorts reduced voltage to the solenoids that controlled engine propellant valves closing the valves and cutting off fuel and oxidizer to the  Delta scheduled for launch this week has a new relay Box a backup Battery and wiring changes. Accident victim s tainted organs used in transp ans Hospital says Greensboro. . Up doctors failed to detect an aids related Sims in an Accident victim whose organs were used in transplants because massive transfusions masked the telltale antibodies official said Friday. After every Organ procurement we learn some thing said Roger Rollman a spokesman for Bowman Gray Baptist Hospital medical Center. In this partic ular instance we have obviously Learned and we shall make changes in our procedures As  the incident involved Joseph Odell Evans 30, who received 58 pints of blood at Moses h. Cone memorial Hospital after a traffic injury aug. 16. Evans was declared brain dead two Days later and his family approved the Organ donations. But it was discovered through a related police investigation last week that Evans had tested positive for the aids antibodies. Late thursday officials at North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Bowman Gray school of Medicine issued a statement saying two organs removed from Evans were implanted in patients and appropriate actions Are being taken by medical authorities at the institutions where the organs were  Hospital officials refused to provide specific details on where the organs were sent or which organs were used. Doctors said the virus apparently was not detected initially because the transfusions masked the antibodies that indicate exposure to the a Tiv Iii virus which causes acquired immune deficiency . Experts said the a Tiv Iii antibody tests Are not absolutely accurate and having the antibody does not indicate the patient has aids Only that the virus is or has been present the Case was uncovered when detectives deter mined that Evans death might have occurred during a robbery attempt Cartton Martin jr., a passenger in Evans car has been charged with murder and at tempted robbery. When homicide detectives asked medical officials to discuss results of Evans autopsy tuesday we were Given the indication that he came Back positive with aids said Greensboro police chief Conrad Wade. Police officer and Hospital officials who were in Contact with Evans will receive counselling and screen ing if they want at Moses Cone said or. Timothy Lane an internist and an aids specialist who Esti mated that about 12 people would be involved. No one knows of any other experience like this one Lane said. This is As far As anyone knows a unique experience and yes it suggests for future Organ harvests transplants the transfusion record May be an important  or. Randy Bellinger chief of surgical transplantation at Duke University medical Center and the school s director of the Southeastern Organ procure ment foundation said the Case Means we have to double and redouble our efforts to avoid the transplantation of aids contaminated  we have been bending Over backward but you have found yet one More of the Pitfalls in applying aids testing Bollinger said. Judge orders halt to stickers Atlanta up a Federal judge on Friday or dered Topps Bubble gum to Stop making garbage pail kids stickers that poke fun at cabbage Patch kids dolls because they Cross the Fine line Between parody and  the stickers show Apple cheeked dolls in violent situations such As blasted Billy whose head is Dis appearing in a mushroom Cloud and Cindy lopper who is kneeling on a Guillotine. The Basic concept behind the defendant s Topps stickers is aimed at capitalizing on the cabbage Patch craze said . District judge Ernest Tidwell in a 23 Page  there is a Fine line Between parody and piracy Tidwell said. Here the primary purpose behind the defendant s parody is not an Effort to make a social comment but is an attempt to make  he noted that both products names Are displayed in an arc on a White Cloud background use the same number of words and syllables and even sound alike. That he said constitutes a trademark infringement original appalachian artworks of Georgia filed suit against new York based Topps the maker of Bazooka Bubble gum in March accusing it of copyright and trademark infringement and unfair Competition. Tidwell said he would Issue a preliminary injunction against Topps Bubble gum in a hearing within 30 Days. Just say we won said cabbage Patch lawyer Wil Liam Needle adding that his company plans to ask for three times the amount of Money Topps made on the garbage pail kids plus attorneys fees. We believed we had a Strong Case Needle said. They were not Only wrong they were intentionally wrong which is even better. Tidwell said Topps which has sold 800 million Gar Bage pail kids stickers is expanding into the to shirts an school notebook markets in Competition with the Georgia firm which has sold 40 million cabbage Patch dolls. The defendant s Contention that the garbage pail kids were not based upon cabbage Patch kids but were modelled after cute dolls such As Strawberry Shortcake Rainbow Brite Barbie and Garfield Are not credible Tidwell ruled. He also said Topps which like cabbage Patch at tracts children 7-12 years old could Hurt the dolls sales by souring children on them. The court finds that garbage pail kids Are Likely to harm the potential Market for or the value of the cabbage Patch kid products he said. The defendant s intention of copying with the purpose of appropriating and using the reputation of the plaintiff and reaping the Benefit of the demand for the Plain tiffs product is an element of bad Faith under the facts of this  stateside firefighter 1 7, accused of setting stable fire Southbury Conn. A a Junior fire fighter was charged Friday with setting a Blaze that destroyed a stable and killed 1 5 horses state police  v. Tooth 17, of Woodbury was held on $50,000 Bond pending arraignment tuesday in Waterbury Superior court on a charge of first degree arson said sgt. Daniel Lewis a state police spokesman. Thirteen horses some valued at More than $30,000 each died in the fire Early wednesday at the River Meadow horse Park where tooth had worked for about a year Lewis said. Two other horses were killed As the stable s owner struck them with his truck As he drove toward his burning barn. Sales of new Homes decline for 4th month Washington a sales of new single family Homes declined for a fourth straight month in july hitting the lowest level since october the government reported Friday. Meanwhile the average Price for houses sold in july hit a record $116,900, said the report from the Commerce department and the department of housing and Urban development new Home sales dropped 5.6 percent to a annual rate of 658,000 last month the report said. And sales have now fallen 28.8 percent since reaching a Post recession Peak rate of 924,000 in March. Conspiracy convictions of oilman lawyer upheld Washington a a Federal appellate court affirmed on Friday the convictions of wealthy Tulsa oilman Robert b. Sutton and former Energy department lawyer on charges of bribery and conspiracy aimed at blocking a departmental probe of Stilton s Oil pricing practices. A three member panel in a 5 1 Page opinion written by judge George e. Mackinnon said that Sutton reputedly once one of the richest men in America and Mark Sucher an attorney in Doe s economic regulatory administration Between april 1980 and 1981, were both will ing participants in a conspiracy to bribe govern ment officials in order to avoid the Lega Conse quenches of Sutton s illegal  san Francisco disturbance spurs Brief jailing of briton san Francisco a a British tourist was jailed after a disturbance broke out with Airport police when an airline overbooked flight to London according to police. Stephen Forman 41, of London had to bedraggled to jail from the pan american world airways Gate sgt Doug Groshong of the san Francisco International Airport police said Fri Day. _ Forman was screaming and Yelling at air line workers preventing them from seeking volunteers to disembark from the overbooked Light Groshong said. Forman was booked at san Mateo county jail on a charge of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest he spent three hours in jail until his wife bailed him out with 5500. California lawmakers bar Bias against aids victims. Sacramento Calif. A the califor Nia legislature has approved legislation barring Job and housing discrimination against aids victims. The measure was approved Friday by the As Sembly on a 42-30 vote and sent to gov. George Deukmejian. It was passed earlier by the stat Senate. Ai g reason for this Bill the aids epidemic itself. It becomes More and More enormous every Day said assemblyman Art Agnos a san Francisco Democrat  
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