European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday december 18,1988restrictions urged for is exposed to aids by Norman Blackcap military writer Washington the Pentagon s lop health official wants the defense department to continue keeping personnel on Active duty who test positively for exposure to aids defense officials say Despi Letom internal opposition. Bui a working group under or. Wil Liam Mayer assistant defense Secretary for health affaire also is recommending that commanders be allowed to deny Security clearances and Light status for personnel who admit during medical screening to drug use or homosexual activity factors 1 inked to the disease. The proposals were contained in a draft policy statement obtained tuesday by the associated press. The draft is being circulated by Mayer among the armed services and the joint chiefs of staff for comment. Dated dec. 11, it asks for final comments by Jan. 5 so a final recommendation can be for warded to defense Sec relay Caspar w. Weinberger on Jan. 15. The idea of maintaining the Penta gon s policy of retaining personnel found to be exposed to aids is Likely to be contested by army officials said defense officials who spoke on condition they not be identified. The defense department currently Al lows personnel who lest positively for exposure for aids but who show no signs of the actual disease to remain on Active duty. Aids acquired immune deficiency syndrome attacks the body s immune system and its ability to resist infection. No cure has been found Tor the fatal Dis ease. Most of its victims Are homosexuals intravenous drug users and people receiving tainted blood transfusions Al though there is evidence the disease is spreading to the general population. The Pentagon began testing the blood of All military recruits for an antibody associated with aids in october 1985. Early this year the screening was extended to ail Active duty personnel. The testing began under interim guidelines subject to review after the first year of screening. The draft statement is a review of that first Yea Rand would leave most of the current rules unchanged for a second year when Mayer says a second review should be conducted. But he is recommending some change. The draft policy would allow military commanders to revoke Security Clear Ance and flight status to personnel who after toting positively for exposure to aids Tell their doctors they rum my drugs or engaged in homosexual activity. The draft policy say such information provided to doctors cannot be wed to launch a court Martini or some other and verse personnel actions. But the proposed policy would allow such information to be used for removal from flight flatus denial suspension or revocation of a Security clearance or disqualification from a personnel reliability program. The personnel reliability program b an extra layer of Security required of a personnel who handle nuclear or Chemi Cal weapons. I Illinois says mumps burning like wildfire Chicago a Illinois has reported nearly eight times As Many cases of mumps this year As last and the slate accounts for nearly half of All cases of the childhood disease reported in the nation according to health authorities. It s burning like wildfire said Clay Koher director of the Chicago department of health s immunization program. Bernard Turnock director of the state Public health department on tuesday recommended to the state Board of education that it include a mandatory mumps immunization for children entering school. Turnock said the disease is More contagious than perhaps any other childhood  when it s around and you re unprotected you get it he snid. Health officials noted thai Illinois is one of Only 20 states which do not require immunization against mumps. They said about 20 percent of the stale s residents have not been vaccinated. Illinois had Only 292 cases of mumps in 1985, compared with 2,328 so far this year according to the stale department of Public health. Job corps personnel face aids exposure tests Washington not Job corps Stu dents applicants and staff members will detested for exposure to the aids virus under a program expected to begin feb. I labor department officials said tuesday. It is believed to be the first Lime thai the government has screened for aids among people who Are not its employees or part of he military or in  department officials said they were concerned that the Job corps censers might be come Breeding grounds for aids because Man students had men intravenous drug users and some had had homosexual contacts. The Job corps trains unemployed youths in residential Camps. The screening program would affect 40,000 full time students in 106 residential training centers throughout the country. Philadelphia declares gonorrhoea epidemic Alert Philadelphia a a Strain of Gonor Rhea that resists penicillin has reached epidemic proportions in the nation s fifth largest City health official Laid tuesday. Or. Robert g. Sharrar director of the Phila Delphia health department s division of disease control said he sent an epidemic Alert in october to All City physicians outlining a program to fight the  least 330 cases of the Strain were reported Here this year compared with 26 in 1985. The12-fold increase classifies the disease As an Epi Demic Sharrar  17.000 Case of All forms of gonorrhoea an reported each year in the City he said. Reagan honest politician image continues to fade poll shows by the new York times president Reagan s Overall Job rating remains stable but his image As a singularly honest Public figure has continued to slip the latest new York times lbs news poll shows moreover the poll showed substantial Public suspicion that the use of the fifth amendment by official meant the administration was not cooperating with congressional investigations Asil had promised. Forty seven percent of the 1,087 adults interviewed by Telephone on sunday and monday said they approved of How Reagan was handling his Job As presi Dent the same percentage As gave that answer a week earlier. But the share of the Public who agreed when asked if they thought Ronald Reagan has More honesty and integrity than most people in Public life slipped to 50percent from 54 percent a week earlier and 59 percent in a poll taken nov. 30 the interviewing was completed before the presi Dent asked the Senate intelligence committee tuesday to give limited immunity to vice adm. John m. Poin Dexter who resigned As National Security adviser Andelt. Col. Oliver a North a Security Council official who was dismissed. It indicated Public uncertainty about what conclusion should be drawn from their refusing to testify on the ground of possible self Ingrim Mason. The respondents were asked this question the fifth amendment to the Constitution protects citizens from being forced to make statements about themselves that could be used As criminal evidence against them. This last week several White House officials invoked the fifth amendment in congressional hearings about Iran and the contras. Does their taking the filth mean that Ronald Reagan has failed to pro vide the cooperation he promised with the investigation or does t it thirty six percent said it meant Reagan waa not cooperating and 41 percent said it did not mean that. The rest had no definite answer. The poll had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage Points there was a partisan flavor to those answers but it was not overwhelming. Fifty percent of democrats but Only 32 percent of independents and 23 percent of republicans said it meant he was not cooperating. Twenty seven percent of the democrats 46 percent of the independents and 56 percent of the Republican said in did not mean that. Thai partisan difference was not so dramatic How Ever As the difference on How people answered when asked whether they approve or disapprove of the Way Ronald Reagan is handling his Job As  on that question 47 percent of the Public approved and 40 percent disapproved. Among republicans 77 percent approved and 15 percent disapproved. Among independents 46 percent approved and 37 percent disapproved. Among democrats 26 percent approved and 61 percent disapproved. On another question 34 percent of the Public Laid they approved of realm s handling offo Reim policy while 53 percent disapproved. These Percenta tet ire almost identical with those recorded last week and the week before. In late october however before the weeks of disclosures about arms sales to Iran and diversion of funds to it Canguang rebels. 57 percent approved of his handling foreign policy and 31 percent disapproved. The Survey also found that 50 percent of the Public approved of he handling of the Economy and 40 per cent disapproved. This rating unlike the other approval ratings Baa not fallen recently. In late october 52 percent approved and 39 percent disapproved. Remains of Marine aviator identified Washington a the remains of an Ameri can Serviceman killed during the Vietnam War and recovered earlier this year have been positively identified by an army Laboratory in Hawaii the remains of Marine corps maj. Patrick p. Mur Ray will be accorded a full military Honor ceremony and then flown from Chickara fab Hawaii to travisaf8, Calif on thursday the Pentagon said wednes  to the Pentagon Murray was born on ocl. 1, 1942, and listed his Home of record while in the corps As St. Paul Minn. An aviator Murray Wai Toft Over North Vietnam on Jan. 19, 1968, when i Jet disappeared. Murray s remains Wen among a set of 21 repatriated by Vittum to the United stale ii the Semi of oat troop to be be army s Central  Laboratory be and ing 14 in that Gap Ike Pesna a Tai. The return of Hii evict Jiember i re Timit represents jut one of Many continued solve this Longst idiot humanitarian Umic Vigoa Laid in a prepared statement with the identification announce Pentagon said a total of 2,42 1 american counted for in Indochina u a retch of Ike total 1,781 arc Sisung in either North or Nam 552 in Laos 82 in Cambodia and Sfa woman victim of 2 Home fires in 3 East Greenwich  a a woman who Ion All her belongings in a weekend fire saw her new lodgings go up inflames two Dayi later. Barbara Audet said the was sleeping at her Mother in Law s Home tuesday when she was awakened by luckily my son we saying with my Mother said. A still has the fire at our Bouse on his Mana on sunday Audet her husband and lost their belongings in � maw at their a fire officials  heat and it crackling sound. The building by faulty wiring in an adjacent Capaiu Feirt. Burned to the ground to Fly Many an i fun