European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. September 4, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 the Ness is aids Honolulu editor reveals by Cristina. Russell Washington Post today is my last Day As managing editor of the Star bulletin. I am going on the disability Roll because of illness. The illness is  so began an unusual editorial Page column headlined a journalist with aids in monday s Honolulu Star bul Letin Hawaii s largest newspaper As Bill Cox 37, informed his readers and staff that he is suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome. I did in because i wanted to help others with the disease feel less alone an because i m a communicator he said in an interview tuesday the dilemma for people with aids is that by treating iras a secret we help Breed More shame. The Best Way to get rid of that is to be More open. I m sure i m the first managing Edi Tor to acknowledge having aids he said so much Tor loj Grant and the front Page  for years Cox said he had sat at his computer terminal and read stories about aids and knowing that i was at risk always having a dread. It came to life real  he did not detail his history in the column hut said in the interview that he is a homosexual. He Scanu d he was an aids victim in july after coming Down with serious pneumonia often associated with the Dis ease. Last month he returned to his Job initially telling Only a few associates the cause of his illness. Last week after deciding to leave the paper because i did t have the old in  he read of former Washington Redskin Jerry Smith s Public comments in the Washington Post that he was battling aids. We carried his Story in prominent place. That helped inspire me to do it Cox said in the past year several Welt known american have been identified As dying of aids starting with actor Rock Hud son. Recently lawyer Roy Cohn sought to keep his aids diagnosis a secret in sisting that he had liver cancer before columnist Jack Anderson revealed it. Cox noted in his column that his diag Nosis comes As a debate is developing about the ethics of disclosing that an individual has aids. As a journalist 1 have spent my Ca reer trying to shed eight in dark Corners. Aids is surely one of our darkest Cor ners. It can use some Light he wrote. But he added. You cannot blame someone with aids for wanting to keep it a secret Given the hysterical reactions we have seen in this  he cited a news report that a Utility lineman with aids had been threatened with death by co workers if he returned to the Job. Others have been summarily fired and some have been abandoned by their families be wrote. Cox said he was fortunate in that executives at the newspaper and at Gannett the Chain that runs the paper were very supportive he said the Choice to Stop working was his and that he was being Given generous disability leave. Once Cox said a diagnosis of cancer was not openly discussed. Cancer lost its stigma because More and More people with the disease were willing to talk and write about it. We will All have a saner environment if it is of to say 1 have aids " he wrote. Cox concluded that the Media should in most cases Honor the wishes of individuals with aids who do not want it disclosed saying that All out attempts to find out will cad to ethical breaches of private medical records and a backlash from the  Cox said he had not lived an open  but his policy was not to lie about his homosexuality. He said he had taken precautions to minimize his risk of aids and had been involved for to Yean in a relationship with another Man who has been warm and helpful since the diagnosis. In his decision to go Public. Cox said he wanted to show that people who make contributions in the Community who Are considered to be respected Citi Zens can get this  Welcome mat afghan rebel Mohammad null right aided by Mohammad Nader of the afghan Muslim Asso Dauod of the Delaware Valley walk on a soviet Flag on hit arrival a Philadelphia  Airport. Null and two other Affrun rebels ire in  for tar mint of wounds they suffered fighting government and soviet forces in arthut to. Woman fears aids from bite sues airline for $1 2 million Chicago up1 a woman has filed a $12 Mil lion suit against american airlines because she suffers constantly from he fear that she May contract aids from an airline employee who bit her her attorney said. Enrico Mirabelli represents an unidentified Chicago woman who brought the suit tuesday. He said it was the first time a suit has been filed against an employer for actions of an employee in possibly transmitting  the incident occurred feb. 10 when the woman in her 20s, was late for her flight out of o Hare International Airport la Denver and attempted to get on the plane without a boarding pass. An american employee identified in the suit under the pseudonym John 0 Smith stopped her. He Tel her she could not Board without a pass Mirabelli said. The suit tiled in Cook county circuit court said Smith became rude flippant and insulting took his name lag off of his uniform showed it to the woman and began to walk away. When the woman grabbed his wrist to Stop him. Smith turned around and bit her hand until it bled and kicked her in the right leg the suit said. American spokesman Al Becker said the employee tested positive to exposure to aids but does not have  Becker said Smith actions were in self de sense bul refused to comment further. The woman later requested information about Smith from american and took a blood test Mirabelli said. My client tested negative but there in t a Day that she does t think about whether she s going to contract aids he said. Man saves sister from kidnapper Brockton miss. A a Man who saw his sister being kidnapped jumped into the Back of the fleeing pickup truck and reached in to shut off the truck after smashing a window during 8 wild 15-mile ride police said. It was pandemonium said police officer James Dicarli. The Guy led us on a wild Chase and by in time he got to. Boston s Malapan Section there were cruisers closing in on All  Ernest Noble 23, of Brockton is accused of forcing his former Girlfriend Bernice Harmon 21, into his track monday night outside a pizza parlor Dicarl isaid. Noble kicked Harmon s sister Mae. Her brother Jerry 24, jumped into the truck before in sped away. Police chased the truck from Brockton to Boston. The traffic was heavy and he was endangering a lot of lives on the Highway Dicarli said. The Way Noble drove Jerry Harmon should have been popped out on the Highway he said. As police converged on the area Jerry Harmon grabbed a fishing pole in the Back of the truck smashed the window and shut off the ignition Dicarli said. As Noble tried to restart the truck he collided with an oncoming car. Police charged Noble with kidnapping assault with a dangerous weapon operating to endanger and a number of motor vehicle violations. Bernice Harmon was treated for bruises and re leased from Carney Hospital. It s Bock to neighbourhood schools for Norfolk a. Norfolk a. A fifteen years of court ordered busing for racial bal Ance has ended for Norfolk s elementary school students who started the first Day of classes in their own neighbourhoods. Although a lawsuit challenging the neighbourhood schools is pending before the . Supreme court the school Board voted in april to implement a Compromise plan supported by Black Community leaders. Students in grades six and above will continue to ride buses. About 21,000 students were assigned to 35 neighbourhood elementary schools. 10 of  All Black. Of the 36,000 City stud anti 58 percent Are Black. It was a pretty smooth opening Georce a us a schools systems spokes Man mid tuesday. I Haven t been made aware of any protests or  a few Black parents who objected to the change had said they might keep their children at hone. A pro busing group the Norfolk coalition for Quality Public education picketed a teachers meeting lost week. Under the Compromise the Board agreed to keep Many students in integrated classes by moving sixth graders from the elementary schools to Middle schools. Class sizes also were reduced in All Black schools. About 350 Mack students chose to continue Riding buses to elementary schools where Blacks Are in the minority. I Hope now we can gel Down to the business of educating the kids said school Board chairman Thomas g. Johnson or. He drafted the neighbourhood schools plan. Supporters of the plan said the return to neighbourhood schools will halt the flight of while families out of the City and increase parental involvement in the schools. When busing of elementary Stu dents began in 1971, 60 percent of the City s students were White. The pending lawsuit was rejected by Federal judge in Norfolk and the 4lh . Circuit court of appeals in Richmond. The . Supreme court in june Refus Edlo Issue a temporary injunction blocking the plan s implementation the court win decide whether to hear the Appeal when it convenes a new session next month. National desegregation experts have said the court Case could break Legal ground by establishing whether a school system can choose to end busing if it a achieved desegregation. Several Black parents who walked with their children to the All Black Roberta Par elementary school said they Hope the plan will be overturned by the High court i m against the  Taid Retina Fleming. It s convenient walking to the neighbourhood schools but the principle i Quality education and  Fleming said the believes children will get a Good education at Robert Park but would be better off if they could get to know while children in school. Sharon Sanderlin another Black Par ent said she liked having her 5-year-Olddaughter, Nakia in a neighbourhood school a t easier for her to get Back and Forth to school. I Don t really have to worry Loo much about her being on a bus she said