European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday. November 27, 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 7 future neighbors friends National tests Greet montagnard refugees begin on new aids treatment Greensboro . Api some 200 Mon lag Nard refugees Wen welcomed Fay their future neigh Borsand friends when they Lew into North Carolina tues Day to begin new live in the United Sui i. They will be resettled by lutheran family service working in conjunction with the stale department and the department of health and human services. The refugees appeared tired after their night fro the philippine but Many of them managed unites White other appeared puzzled by the Welcome. Jim minish president of veterans of the Vietnam War Post no. I presented the refugees with an Ameri can Flag. Welcome to peace and Freedom he said. People wondered Why we were Over there. We have 200 Rea sons right North Carolina was chosen As a Home for the montagnard because the stale has been successful in past North Carolina said the montagnard Are beneficiaries of that Success. I Pray thai this warmth continues for you he said. Florence Catten a Greensboro resident who hat helped coordinate the resettlement flew last August with a group of other americans to the Philippines to meet the montagnard members of a dozen tribes in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. When the United states pulled out of Vietnam Shemonia guards continued to fight North vietnamese troops using supplies and weapons left by the Ameri cans. They thought we d be Back they were Given false promises oaten said. After five years a group of 2,400 montagnard headed West to Thailand by Way of Cambodia. In late 1985, the 201 survivors settled at the massive Refuge Ecamp called site two on the Border of Thailand and Cambodia. Since then Maine real mate Developer Don Scoll has worked to bring them to the United states Callen said. During the Vietnam War Scott directed project concern a group that tried to educate the Montag cards and give them medical help. Last summer the montagnard were Given Permis Sion to go to the Philippines for eventual resettlement in the United states. High school pyramids banned Valley City . A the stale High school activities association has banned so called Pyramid Check leading formations in the Wake of a Accident that killed a College cheerleader. The policy adopted unanimously by the group s Board or director. Will go into effect Dunn the Winter sports season Robert King assistant executive Secre tary for the association said tuesday. The season gets under Way in Earnest next Mont with the Start of boys basketball Competition. Such formations have been a concern. For a Long period of time King said. But the death of Jani Thompson a 21-year-old North Dakota state univer sity cheerleader provoked the consideration and even Tual adoption of the ban. King said. Thompson died oct. 29 in a Fargo Hospital after she fell from the top of a human Pyramid during a practice at the Campus fieldhouse. She suffered Skull fractures when she struck her head it. The 10-foot plunge. Spot ters were unable to prevent Thompson s head from hitting the floor. King said the new policy prohibiting cheerleader from standing on each other s shoulders was unanimously adopted by the i a member Board at a meeting in Minot last Friday. The ban was proposed by the chairmen of North Dakota s 32 class b High school districts who rep resent about 220 schools King said. The association has 241 members. Pyramid formation Are not widespread Amon North Dakota s High school cheering squads but we have some that do some of it to a degree King said guard wakes up in Alaska Anchorage Alaska up a Security guar who took a Nap in the hold of a Boeing 747 at John of Kennedy Airport in new York and woke up3,329 Miles away in Anchorage had one question when cargo handlers found him where am 1?" Steve Kenney dressed in Hli rumpled guard uniform had $3 in his pocket when he arrived unexpectedly in wintry Alaska said Anchorage inter National Airport spokesman John Hynes. When they opened the door be said where am it " said Hyner who recalled tuesday that Kenne also Laid he was kind of Kenney 20, of new York City bad been standing guard sunday Over baggage being loaded onto combined cargo and passenger korean air lines flight to Seoul South Korea with a Stop in Ancho rage. The private Security guard who was unarmed took a break inside the baggage compartment of the jumbo Jet and once the plane was fully loaded ban doers closed the hatches and the plane took off for Anchorage with Kenney peacefully snoozing in Side. Half a Day later Hynes said an embarrassed Kenney was discovered when the cargo doors were opened in wintry Alaska. Hynes said temperatures in the hold were maintained at a comfortable level for sleeping because that s where the dogs he said the area was pressurized and Kenney was none the worse for Wear. But Hynes said Kenney did mention that he bad10 hold on pretty tight when making the approach to korean air lines officials in Anchorage decline comment on the incident but Hynes said the sleepy stowaway completed his free new York alas around trip when be flew Home monday on the first available Al flight strapped in a seat. Asked if Kenney Wai in trouble Hyner said just with his employer i guess the Airport spokesman said police and Airport official questioned Kenney but did not charge him. Ohio traffic helicopter crash kills 2 Cincinnati up a radio station traffic helicopter crashed in a nature preserve tuesday in heavy fog killing a reporter and the Pilot police Laid. The helicopter look off from Mayi heliport Nea Lunken Airport about 4 30 . But Airport offi Culi lot radio Contact with the Craft about one minute later. Another radio Sutlon traffic helicopter look offal about the same time but immediately returned Tala running into dense fog. Killed were Krc traffic reporter Nancy my in risk. A and a Pilot whose name we not in who had been searching the East Side of Cincinnati for the downed helicopter. "1 was driving Down Kellogg Avenue and figured the helicopter to be close Kelly said. Looked into the Woods and saw straps hanging in a tree. Then i Taw debris scattered everywhere. 1 immediately went for Hamilton county authorities arrived on the scene and reported no survivors. Shortly alter the helicopter took off a person reported bearing an explosion near the area where the wrecked copter we located. Krc station official hid Mccormack but radioed them jut before Takeoff and reported that thew it too bid and that the and the Pilot i to take off. The elation never heard from the reporter after Takeoff. Cambridge mass. Up a biotechnology company has begun nationwide testing of a new drug that boosted the immune systems of some aids patients in Early trials and shows Promise As a treatment for the deadly disease officials said tuesday. 1mreg inc. Of new Orleans will test the drag 1mreo-i on a total of i to nations in seven cities who will receive biweekly injections for six months said or. Marisc Gottlieb vice president of medical affairs. Gottlieb said the substance boosted the immune sys tems without any Adverse Side effect in about to aids and aids related Complex patients who have received in so far. We Are very convinced of what we be seen so far but we be got to confirm it Taid Gottlieb we have to be cautious the results of the study should be available by 1987. Gottlieb said. If the drug proves As effective As Hope Din further testing in could be available for More general use within two Yean she said. Irreg i is a naturally occurring protein extracted from White blood cells that enable so called hyper cells to produce substances that regulate the immune system including Inlerleukin-2 and Gamma interferon she said. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome destroy victims immune systems primarily by killing t-4 Helper cells. The drug does not fight the aids virus directly ado other experimental drugs such As act approved recently for wider testing but seems to repair damage immune systems to a degree Gottlieb said. In patients who have received the drug so far Man have gained weight recovered from infections and exhibited a variety of signs of an improved immune sys tem function she said. To be eligible for the study patients must have aids related Complex or aids with the skin cancer Kaposi s Sarcoma no history of infections and a mini mum number of t-4 cells. While these Are the types of patients researchers believe would Benefit most from the drug the substance May also help More severely ill patients Gottlieb said. The study will be conducted at Columbia University Hospital in new York City Eisenhower medical Cen Ler in Rancho Mirage calif., Brooklyn caledonian Hospital in Brooklyn n.y., the state University of new York health science Center in Brooklyn univer sity hospitals in Cleveland University Hospital i Boston and several Sites in new Orleans. Suspect kept loot in Mouth grand Prairie Texas up a suspected jewelry store robber managed to keep 13 diamonds Bidden in hit Mouth during More than a week of strip searches and medical exams to determine if he had swallowed evidence police say. Percivil Lafitte 24, of Shreveport la., gave up the gems saturday nine Days after be and Fate James Gentry 33, of grand Prairie were arrested for the nov. 13 robbery of Zale s jeweler in Oread Prairie police Taid tuesday. He ate. With the diamonds in hit Mouth to drank with them and in that Proeu he swallowed i couple of them detective Bill Board said Bayard said the searches for the Gemi began Early att week after police discovered 36 Gold mounting tucked away in Lafitte i cell and found three look diamonds in hit belongings. Lanne was taken to Park land memorial Hospital in Dallas to undergo a Rayt but officers found out diamonds do not show up on x Ray Bayard Laid Lafitte then contented to a physical exam and was Given a laxative but no Diamond were found. Ballard Taid officers found the diamonds at the prepared to Transfer Lafitte and Gentry to the county jail Dallas. Jul prior to being taken Back to the Dallas count jail we asked him to open hit Mouth and that s when we found tl1 diamonds Ballard Taid. Ballard 15 to 20 it Arnondin ire full it Felt official suspect Gentry May Nave liven them to an Irving Man who was in jail Tor traffic violation to thu for Bond Money. The Man hat been Rdean us warrant Bat been Stu Adfor bit Amat
