European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. October 1986 the stars and stripes Pago 7 when weather cooperated eclipse earned rave reviews by United press intent Tuul of it � gorgeous said Lisa Fowler staring at animate of the misshapen Sun As the moan disk tamed Earth s Star into a fascinating Crescent during a partial solar eclipse one of nature1 grandest cosmic displays. The eclipse Friday visible across Moil of the unite states was a Delight to observers with Clear sky a disappointment to those without and no big Deal to Glen Curran of suburban Duxbury mass., who said he could t care less. I d Only go Blind looking at it any Way said Curran. It was the year s second solar eclipse the first Wason april 9 but it was total Only Over a narrow strip of the Atlantic Ocean East of Greenland. For observer sin Florida however the eclipse clearly lived up to its Billing it looks just like the Moon in a drawing out of storybook because the arc of the eclipse is so perfect said George Oiler who like Fowler is a Nas employee at the Kennedy space Center. In new England where the eclipse was maximum inthe United states viewing was blocked by poor weather. In new York 70 percent of the Sun s disk was blotted out but a steady drizzle from overcast skies sent pedestrian scurrying for cover. I Haven t seen it and i Haven t seen anyone looking for it said Benedicts Navedo a traffic officer at 42nd Street and third Avenue. If you look up you just get wet i almost forgot All about it said delivery Macrussell Williams from underneath a Brown umbrella. I remember an eclipse seven or eight years ago that was really something. Guess the next one will be after i m  overcast skies also interfered with the View for Resi dents in Boston where 74 percent of the Sun s disk was covered at maximum As the Moon chopped off the Sun s rays. Ii s not something that happens that frequently soit s kind of disappointing said Marsha Weber gazing up at the Grey skies. But that s  the percentage of the Sun s disk that was covered bythe Moon Friday was maximum in the East and de creased to the West. In Eugene ore., for example just4 percent of the Sun s disk was blocked out. Technically Friday s event was an annular eclipse meaning the relative distances of Earth Moon and Sun were  hat the Moon s apparent size was not quit enough to completely blog out the Sun even in the path of totality. The eclipse of 1984, in which the path of totality crossed the heart of the Southeast United slates also was annular. The next total eclipse visible in the United state swill not occur until August 2017, said a spokeswoman for the naval Observatory in Washington but a mini mum of two solar eclipses and a maximum of five occur every year somewhere around the world. The us state and Confederate Fatata flyer the sout Carolin state House during the pair tul solar a dote. 1 1 cases of aids traced to single blood donor Boston a a Man who did no know he was infected Wilh the aids virus donated blood 14 times in 17months before officials began screening blood for the deadly disease and at least ii patients at the same Hospital were infected after receiving transfusions. It s a tragic and terrible thing for Histo happen but it s important Lor other physicians to recognize that this is prob ably not a unique occurrence said or. Jerome e. Groopman of new England deaconess Hospital in Boston. The donor s blood was used for trans fusions for 25 patients Judd physicians say Al least ii patients and probably More were infected. All the infected patients Are being treated at the Dana Farber cancer Institute in Boston. Two of the patients have died of aids and five others Are suffering Var ious stages of the disease. Or. John w. Ward of the National Cen ters for disease control in Atlanta Esti mates that there is a 95 percent likelihood that someone who receives a transfusion of aids tainted blood will be infected. Ward said about 75 percent of patients nationwide who received aids co nominated blood had died of the Dis eases for which they were being treated. But As Many As 10,000 Are still alive an infected with the virus. The infection of the Boston donor was discovered by a blood lest that became available in March 1985. Experts believe that the test catches virtually All tainted blood and transfusions now Are Safe. A review of the Boston cases directed by or. Kenneth c. Anderson was published in the october Issue of the annals of internal Medicine Ward s research was presented last week at a meeting of the american society for microbiology in new Orleans. We Don t want people to come away from this Wilh the idea that the blood Supply is unsafe Anderson said. The screening worked in this Case and the risk of getting a contaminated transfusion remains extremely Low. This concern should Noi interfere with Tho care of patient with  when doctors checked cancer patient who bad received the donor s blood they found 13 already had died of cancer but10 were till alive. They were Able to examine Frozen blood samples from two of the dead patients and both had been infected. So had nine of the 10 still alive. By the time the report was submitted for publication six of the 10 survivors had contracted aids or less sever condition called aids related Complex. Two of them had died of aids. Since then a seventh patient has also gotten aids. The donor is still healthy. Copiers Rescue russian Seaman Washington a two air Force Heli copters Friday rescued a russian Seaman after be was spotted in a life raft in the Atlantic by Anair Force cargo plane the Pentagon said. The unidentified Seaman was taken to a naval Hospital at Roosevelt roads puerto Rico where he if being interviewed by state department officials the Pentagon said. Complete details were not immediately Avail Able but the Pentagon said the incident began in mid afternoon Friday when a cargo plane base Dat Homestead fab fla., spotted a life ran with a person aboard two air Force helicopters in route from Myrtle Beach s.c., to puerto Rico were or dered to change course and picked up the Man As he drifted about 40 Miles Southeast of the grand Turk Island in the Bahamas a Pentagon official said the Seaman claimed to have been floating Al sea for about two weeks but tic crewmen of the helicopter said they did t believe the Man could possibly have been on the water that  the official said there were preliminary Indi cations the Man might have Beers assigned to some Type of russian research vessel return Anglo the soviet Union from Cuba but we Haven t confirmed anything yet 3 marines arrested in series of train robberies in California by the los Angela times los Angeles Southern Pacific Railroad Detec Tives have arrested three marines suspected of leaping onto slow moving freight trains in the California de Sert and looting them of television sets radios another merchandise. One of the suspects All of whom Are stationed at the marines corps air combat training Center at twin Tonine Palms is believed to have inadvertently  derailment of a Southern Pacific train near Palm Springs aug. 23, causing j3.s million in property dam age and kiting a transient who was aboard Railroad officials said at a press conference  were out to make a Little spending Money and have a Good time said Joe s. Harlan special agent forthe Southern Pacific transportation co. Railroad detectives who questioned the suspects Saida Many As nine people from the Marine base May be involved in the robberies. The gang used a pickup truck Walkie talkies and Boh cutters to Board enter and raid freight cars Laden with electronic goods authorities  estimated that the ring has robbed 20 trains since june and made off with goods valued at $30,000or More. Much of the loot was sold in an under ground Market in the Twenty nine Palms area or soother marines be said. Some stuff they did t use like women s shoes or sweaters they would give to the salvation army said Railroad special agent Steve Salinas. But they Alto Hada storage pact off the base in twin Lynne Palms where they kept television sett microwave ovens cof fee makers and other stuff.1 Salinas said that the men typically targeted trains in the san Bernardino area without cabooses because  trains were unguarded and vulnerable. The gang would follow a train in a pickup Ruck until it stopped or slowed Down. Some of the gang would would jump aboard and break into freight cars near the end of the train signalling Back to the Driver with flashlights or Walkie talkies he said. The robbers would wait until the train slopped or slowed to a very Low Speed before unloading the merchandise into the  three men arrested on suspicion of burglary and Possession of stolen property were identified u  Patrick Flynn is of Spencer fall . Pfc. Robert Fulton Bryan Iii 19, of big Springs Texas an pfc. Brian Andrew Banks 19, of West Palm Beach Fla they were taken into custody following a join investigation by the Railroad the Fri and the River Side county sheriff s department Harlan  three men have been released to the base where they Are students in the Marine corps communication electronics school said marines corps spokes Man maj. Kerry Gershaneck. No charges have Bee filed pending further investigation. The Case was cracked during the Early morning hours of sept. 27 when Salinas and Railroad detective . Free stopped a pickup truck whose License plate matched those of a truck used in an earlier train  Bery. The truck was loaded with new tires and television sett which Salinas and free determined hid been stolen earlier that night near Loma undo