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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 3, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 Marcos fled with Fortune report shows Orange. Calif. Up Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines with a Fortune in Cash and jewelry including such extravagant items As a s150,000 pair of cuff links a customs Manifest obtained by inc commis Sion investigating the deposed president shows. A Cony of he detailed list compiled after the arrival of the Marcos party in Honolulu on feb. 26, was obtained by the Orange county Register from former philippine Navy Commodore Ramon Alcaraz who now lives in Orange. Alcaraz is helping the philippine commission Osgood government headed by officials of president Corazon Aquino s government to track assets held around the world by Marcos and his supporters. The commission has accused Marcos of looting the philippine Treasury of up to is 0 billion. The country s entire budget Tor 1985 was 13.3 billion. In a copyright Story sunday the newspaper said the24-Page document reads like a Stock list for an exclusive jewelry store. The records revealed Marcos lied with at least 70 pain of Bej weled Cut links including one pair valued at 1149,575, the spares were valued at slightly More than $20,000. The items in Louis Villon and Gucci suitcases included seven watches Worth nearly $90,000. The timepieces ranged in value from a 112,000 Gold and Diamond Piaget to a s so Casio. A Brown Alligator bag contained Diamond Sapphire and Emerald jewelry and three tiaras valued at More than $135,000. The most expensive Tiara valued at $58,286, was encrusted with pearls and diamonds. The same bag also contained a Diamond studded hair comb valued at $44,410. To another bag was a 20-Carat Diamond hair command earring set valued at $65,495. In addition to the jewelry the list itemizes neat packets of philippine pesos Worth More than is Mil lion slacked in attache cases and crates along with religious sculptures and several pistols. Rafael Fernando at lot Angeles executive director of the overseas operation of the philippine commis Sion told the Register the value of merchandise was assessed by customs officials but did not give a total value figure. The items were found aboard the . Air Force Jet that flew Marcos his wife daughter and More than 80 friends and personal staff members from Manila into hawaiian exile last february after the tainted 1986 National election and the Leader fall from Power. The eth . Circuit court of appeals ruled unanimously in late october that . Customs is not required to return property seized from the Marcos plane unlit an ownership claim by the Aquino govern ment is resolved. Fernando said the item remain in the custody of customs officials in Hawaii. No. Company gets of to develop anti aids drug Washington a the govern ment has tentatively granted a new Jer sey based health care company the rights to develop and manufacture a new drug aimed Al treating aids. The drug  or  was found in tests conducted by the National cancer Institute to inhibit reproduction of the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome  still is being checked for safely and tide effects and tests on humans for effectiveness against aids have not begun said John poor try spokesman for Hoffman la ,. He said the Commerce department selected Hoffman la Roche from among several Bidden to develop and Market the drug if it gels Federal food and drug administration approval As being Sale and effective. A notice of the intent to Grant the License was published in the Federal Reg ister on Jan. 23. Ii said the License award would go through unless the government receive written evidence and argument which establishes that the Grant of the intended License would not tent the Public  alter the License becomes final Hoffman la Roche will participate with the National cancer Institute in research air pollution Over Dallas could rival . Dallas a air pollution that forms a Brown Cloud Over Dallas an fort Worth is growing and within a Tew years could be As serious As the smog in los Angeles health officials say. Ii used to look like a futuristic Bubble Over downtown Meivin Lewis regional director of the Texas air control Ward which has begun a $500,000 study of in problem. Bui now it s. Not just Over downtown. It s a Blanket that covers the Dallas fort Worth  the foul air endangers people of All Ages said or Peter Raven a physiologist with the Texas College of osteopathic Medicine in fort Worth. He said it Lowers the thresh old Abr heart attn he makes breathing pain nil stows decision making functions and increases  s a great potential we will have air pollution problems in two to three years As significant say As los Angeles Raven said in a Story published in Sun Day s Dallas times Herald. The smog is different from that Over los Angeles and Denver where mountains trap the pollution officials said. Here the smog occurs on Cool mornings Between october and March when Bright Sun creates an air inversion i which warm air traps car exhausts dust and other gases. Testing new drugs in . Phase i tests safety tests on on healthy animals volunteers phase ii phase Iii preliminary safety full scale and Efficacy tests clinical tests on patients on humans Fra must review and evaluate application to lest on humans stages monitored by Fra team Chicago Triune Ort Etc source american medical news get. 24, 1977 application to Market Fra acceptor rejects drug after acceptance company must report quarterly first year semiannual second year and annually thereafter and development of the drug Doorley said. Dec is a sister compound to at or  a drug recently recommended Tor marketing As an Anli aids drug by an Fra advisory panel. Both compounds were synthesized 20 years ago As potential anti cancer agents but were shelved when they proved ineffective for this purpose. At manufactured by the Burroughs wellcome co., lessened symptoms and improved survival in tests with certain aids patients and was triad a available to about 3,000 aids patients on an experimental basis. The drug is not a cure Tor the infectious disease that destroys the body s infection fighting immune system scientists say but it appears to improve the Quality of life of aids patient. Researchers Hope that  which is very close to at chemically will be less toxic and have fewer Side effects than the first chemical. More than 40 percent of at patients have suffered Bone marrow suppression and Nemias that required blood transfusions. Dec As demonstrated in lest tubes is thought to work by interfering with Ihen Ormal Workings fan enzyme produced by the aids virus so that the virus can not replicate itself. If the virus cannot replicate itself in cannot spread from cello cell Doorley said. If found to be Safe and effective he said  would nol be a cure for aids but could Slop it from spreading through the body. From animal studies it appears to be safer than anything being letter so far in terms of Bone marrow damage door icy said. However he added. It s a Long Way to approval by the Fra protest planned against nuclear test Las vegas Nev. Up anti nuclear activists will hike into the Nevada test site this week to try to reach ground Zero and Hall the first . Underground nuclear test of the year a spokesman said. The focus of the activists efforts is a widely publicized but As yet unannounced underground test set Tor thurs Day. The year s first underground nuclear test of the year takes on added significance because the soviet Union has announced it will end an 18-month unilateral testing moratorium with the first . Test in 1987. Our intention is to Slop the test through political efforts and Al ground Zero said Greenpeace organizer Eric Fersht. Fersht the director of Greenpeace s Dis armament Campaign in Washington , said we re under Way when asked if any of the activists actually have entered the 3 million Square mile classified depart ment of Energy research compound. Fersht declined to divulge just Bow Many groups of activists would be sent into the lest site but he said that in Addi Tion to Greenpeace there were teams from the Rocky Mountain peace Center from Boulder cold., and an and hoc group from Berkeley Calif Fersht directed a similar infiltration Effort last year that was credited with delaying the mighty Oak nuclear test in april department of Energy spokesman Jim Boyer said there were 31 infill razors at the lest site in 1986 and 27 were arrested. Among groups taking part will be american Public health association physicians for social responsibility and lawyers for nuclear arms control. This week s protest is expected to at tract at least 500 people according to american peace test spokeswoman jes Sie Cocks. The largest demonstration Ever at the test site occurred sept. 30,1986, with an estimated 4so participants and 136 arrests. Georgia rights Leader moves to Florida gumming a. A the Man whose idea for a March to Honor the Rev. Martin Luther King or. In All while Forsyth county that led to a civil rights demonstration by 23,000 people has moved to Florida after parents withdrew their children from his private school. Chuck Blackburn 42. Said that he decided to pack up for Orlando after most of the youngsters who attended his Small private school and martial arts classes left the fear and the intimidation is one thing i can live with that the parents Are the problem. The kids have been great but i know i m not going to get new students he said. Blackburn had announced plans for a March Jan. It to show that Blacks could safely walk in a county where they were driven out by Whites in 1912, but he backed off saying he had received Doz ens of death threats. Dean Carter a martial arts instructor from nearby Gainesville then took up the Banner. He and Veteran civil right activist the Rev. Hosea Williams  75 marchers Inlo the county Jan. 17 but were stopped by about 400 Kun flux Kjan cd demonstrators hurling Bill Sand rocks on Jan 24, Carter Williams Coretia Scott King and the Rev. Jesse Jackson led 25,000 marchers Back into Cumming under heavy Security and were met by about 1,000 jeering Whites. Authorities arrested 56 . Blackburn who did not participate in either March said he would Tell the Bucknum Center for human development which he built to Leach martial arts meditation and academic subjects to students Ages 7 to 17. I decided thai my usefulness and effectiveness in this county Are zilch said Blackburn who has lived in the county 40 Miles North of Atlanta for five years  
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