European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 11, 1987 the stars and stripes drug appears to help prevent aids Washington a a pharmaceutical company Friday released preliminary results of experimental clinical drug tests that seemed to help aids Pron patients avoid developing the disease. In pharmaceuticals inc. Did not claim its clinical trials of the drug rib avidin show it is a cure for aids but one official. Or. Weldon Jolley said at a new conference that the results represent a major step for Ward in understanding the disease. The news was greeted with caution in the scientific and financial worlds. A new York based support organization for aids victims Gay men s health crisis said in was puzzled by the action of in officials. We arc deeply concerned that they displayed Insch sit laity to the hundreds of thousands of individuals affected by aids the group said in a statement. We cannot understand Why hey chose to raise the Hopes of so Many people by releasing their clinical trial information through a press conference instead of in a More responsible manner  As an appropriate medi Cal  Samuel Broder a leading authority on aids drug research at the National cancer Institute declined to comment on the details released o reporters. I would be very Happy 1c the primary data As soon As the investigators can make it available to the scientific Community he said. Aids acquired immune deficiency syndrome is an affliction in which the body s immune system becomes unable to resist disease. There is no known cure. As of dec i 1986, in had been diagnosed Indore than 28,000 americans of whom about half have died according to the National centers for Dis ease control. The company said the lest involved 163 patient suffering from Lymphadenopathy syndrome often called Las. Sufferers of Las have been exposed to the aids virus and have enlarged Lymph nodes and some limes develop aids. Of the 52 Given a daily dose of 800 milligrams of rib avidin none developed aids while 10 of 56 receiving a Placebo had progressed into aids by the end of the eight month study in said. Of the 55 Given a daily dose of 600 milligrams a Day Over the 24-week period in which drugs were actually administered is had developed aids by the end of the study. The company said the drug was without significant Side effects and that 119 of the participants elected to continue taking 800 milligrams of rib avidin a Day after the clinical rials ended. In officials declined to Issue further details of the study Al the news conference saying thai information would be published later in scientific journals. The company said it had shared data from the Clini Cal rials with the food and drug administration and will apply for permission to expand usage of the drug. Questioned on whether calling a news conference to release sparse details was a responsible Way to handle  an emotionally charged matter Lawrence Panizz chief executive officer of in said company official Shad been discussing the available data with the Fra for several Days and that they know we Are Here and they know what we Are saying. The Fra released a statement As the ten new conference was starting confirming thai it had been Given clinical data on the Las trial and will continue reviewing the drug. Fra commissioner Frank a Young said later that in had promised the Agency additional data. However until and unless the company actually files an application for expanded use of the drug the Agency can t do much other than identify and Analyse what is Avail Able he said. Screen s Dogwood Arthur Lake Dies at 81 Indian Wells Calif a Arthur Lake who portrayed comic strip character Dagwood Bumstead in More than two dozen Blondie comedy films died Friday. He was81. Lake who suffered a heart attack at his desert Home teamed up with Penny Singleton who played ton die in the siring of films that ran from 1919 to 1950. Columbia pictures was struggling financially when it cast Lake an Singleton in the first Blondie film. The picture grossed $9 million and led to the string of sequels hat included Blondie meets the Doss and Blondie brings up  Don Miller a film historian said Lake made Dagwood a bit More dumb than he was in the funnies and etched the characterization More broadly. He was Dagwood  Lake who was living in quiet retirement was taken to the Eisen Hower medical censer in nearby Rancho Mirage after suffering his heart attack and died in the Emer gency room officials said. The apparent cause of heart fail ure was arterial disease said River Side county s Deputy Coroner Nancy Traver. In the 1950s and the 1960s, there were attempts to bring Blondie to television the first time in a series starring Lake and Pamela Brit ton and the second time with two other actors in the roles. Neither Effort was successful. Lake was born Arthur Silverlake in Corbin by. His father and Uncle were touring with a circus As an Are Arthur Laic in act called the flying Silver  Lake and his wife Patricia co starred in a to series meet the family during the 1950s. Lake a careful investor was Able to live Well with his family after the Blondie films ended. He and his wife alternated living in Santa Mon Ica and the Palm Springs area. Survivors include his wife and a son Arthurjr. Burger King introducing bite sized hamburgers Miami up Burger King Famo Usas the Home of the whopper announced plans Friday to test Burger bundles bite sized flame broiled hamburgers in 522 restaurants nationwide. Burger King is the first major Ham Burger Chain to offer Consumers the convenience of mini burgers said Joyce Meyers a spokeswoman Al corporate Headquarters in Miami. The Success of tests in Greensboro,n.c., and Charleston s.c., led the com Pany to expand the test Market she said. The Public response was excellent she said. Regional advertising for the a ounce lame broiled Burger was to begin Sun Day when the burgers will be introduced in the additional restaurants. The lest Market includes 91 restau rants in Houston 89 in Atlanta 84 i Tampa fla., 81 in Minneapolis 58 in Seattle so in the District of Columbia 46 in the Carolinas 21 in Oklahoma City and 15 in Chattanooga Tenn. The Success of  items As Chicken nuggets and bite sized French Toast Slicks led the company to believe customers want Finger food rather than Large Sand Wiches. Burger King executives decided o lathe mainstay of its menu and a proven Quality product in our lame broiled Bur Gers said Jack Winkler vice president of new product development. Our goal is to provide customers with the same great taste but in a form that fits today s Active  Burger King is a subsidiary of Pillsbury co. Bride seeking annulment wants press barred from trial new York up a jewish Bride seeking a court order to annul her marriage because her husband was not a Vir Gin when they wed asked a judge to bar the press from the sensational Case. Susan Anhalt 22, an orthodox jew claimed her husband did not Tell her of his sexual experiences before their marriage. Her lawyer Raoul Felder first announced the lawsuit to the press Friday and admitted "1 thought she was kid Ding when she came in. Hut mrs. Anhalt presented a chapter in Deuteronomy the fifth Book of the Bible As her reason for the suit and said she would not have married Henry Anhalt 25, a medical student who also is an orthodox jew if she had known of his past there shall be no one dedicated tothe immorality of the daughters of Israel and no one dedicated to the immorality of the sons of Israel the passage reads. Richard Kurtz the lawyer for the Hus band said the reference to the Bible was misinterpreted by mrs. Anhalt who is a pharmacist. Kurtz said there is no word in the orig Inal hebrew for male  asked if the quote was open for interpretation he said i know my hebrew if 1 was your rabbi and i said this Wall is a cow would you Start milking it stale supreme court Justice William Reg scr in Brooklyn heard motions fat the gag order and said he would decide Mon Day. Hookups for phone taps found in . Capitol Santa be . A state police Friday said they had discovered and removed bugging devices in the Capitol that would permit the tapping of Tele phones in the governor s office. The devices found in a Telephone Junction room outside the governor s offices on the fourth floor of the building were described by stale police Cape. John Denko As  someone could walk in and Pui a Jack in and listen to conversations said Denko. He described the devices As Metal clips with a round Jack receptacle attached to the Telephone line and said they were found on six of the eight Telephone lines into the governor s office. There is no Way to Trace or track Down who put those things there or to determine when they were put there Taid Denko. We took them Oul. We eliminated them. They Are no longer there. We found no bugs per so no Active transmitters Denko added. Denko said it is probable the devices were installed within the past eight months. There was an informal sweep some eight to 10 months ago and nothing was found in that room be said. Former gov. Toney Anaya who left office dec. 31, was not at Home Friday night and could not immediately be located for comment. Denko Taid police also found an pm Remote receiver device behind Wall curtain in the governor s main office. He did the equipment had the capability of picking up a signal from a Remote microphone and then transmitting in ova a Power Tine. The receiver wat unplugged and there was no Micro phone found in the office Denko hid. Gov. Carrey Carruthers said Friday thai he had asked the police to conduct the electronic sweep