European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. February 23, 1987 the stars and stripes Paga 7 real life con makes escape in movie truck Joliet Iii. Al l an inmate escaped it Iii .1 minimum Security prison slur Iii in a truck removing equipment from a movie set at the facility authorities said. Afler completion of filming  starring Nick Nolle at state Villa correctional Center the inmate Daniel of Duane apparently boarded the truck and conned i i Crew into letting him slay said Nick Howell of the slate department of corrections. They knew he was in the vehicle and tic conned them into thinking it was appropriate 10 leave with him Howell said. The truck was parked in a restricted area inside the prison which is the backdrop for the him. Some in mates had been used As extras Duane 32. Was serving 15 years for attempted armed robbery. Howell said he did not know How Many people were on the truck or where they dropped Duane after leaving Stateville. Prison officials did not Lear about the escape until several hours after the truck left the Pris on state police sol. James Bolar Jack said. Don t wait for aids vaccine education is key says expert Atlanta a the centers for Dis ease control s lop aids official said sat urday Ilia the United states need t wait helplessly until the time when a vaccine might be developed to fight Llic deadly Dis  often it s said we Only have information and education to control this Dis ease thai s As if we re helpless said or. Walter Dowdle chief of aids research forthe cd. I disagree with  he said. We can prevent this disease Wilh information and  Dowdle speaking on the final Day of a three Day conference on aids in children adolescents and heterosexual adults said it s years before we can consider vaccines part of our Alps fighting strategy and we re not certain if even  the Federal government is spending $33 million on aids vaccine research this year while other such efforts Are under Way at dozens of research institutions worldwide. Bui even the scientists willing to venture a guess say it will Likely be years before a preventive for aids is found. No cure is known for acquired immune deficiency syndrome which has struck More than 30,000 americans so far killing More than 17,000 of them. Dowdle said that through education people can learn How not to gel aids a in thousands of new cases diagnosed per Yaar 12 fl3 w -95 note 74 cases of aids wore diagnosed prior u 1981 Chuako trs Xin or spec sour con Tor Tor Olwe control viral disease transmitted most often through sexual Contact or the sharing of drug Needles. More people recognize the name aids than recognize the name of our president Dowdle said. Hut it Falls of rapidly after that. Too few understand How the disease is  cases have been reported through casual or household Contact Wilh aids patients or carriers of Fth Sims. For two years following discovery of aids in 1981 we Foughi the Battle to avoid Public panic he said. Now we still have a Long Way to go to fight discrimination against patients Long Way to go to fight unfounded fears of Public  in an Effort to explore new ways to control the spread of aids cd researchers have raised the possibility of mandatory blood tests for. Hospital patients pregnant women and engaged couples ideas opposed by some civil right advocates the cd will hold to Days of Public hearings on those ideas this week in at Lanta. Bui Dowdle stressed that those arc not cd recommendations the cd has no recommendations he said. The Federal government has Noth ing it is proposing at the present  the Agency he said is simply exam ining whether there is value to extended use of. Aids screening  three Day conference which Fea tured some 600 researchers educators and officials from around the world was sponsored by the International interdisciplinary aids foundation. Faa to probe nation s air ambulance program Pittsburgh us l the Faa will begin a 60 Day surveillance monday of every non military air ambulance program in the country Federal aviation administration officials told the Pittsburgh press. At least tour medical helicopter services in Western Pennsylvania will be among those examined by the Faa As pan of a nationwide investigation of air ambulance programs Agency spokesman David Kress told the newspaper. Kress head of Fth Faa s new medical evacuation task Force said investigators would look at All aspects of the ambulance programs including equipment maintenance training pilots hours and operations the press reported in a copyright Story in its sunday edition. The investigation is aimed at the nation s 163 Heli copter ambulance programs which doctor say have saved More than 20,000 lives during the past 13 months by providing patients Wilh Quick transportation and sophisticated medical treatment. During that same 13-month period however 19 people two patients six pilots and 11 flight nurses and medics have d cd in air ambulance crashes there is no precedent i am aware of Hal even approaches this kind of fatal Accident rate sen. Al Bert Gore d-tenn., said last month before the Senate aviation subcommittee. I am amazed that the Paa has not done anything in this  anti Contra protests held in Texas California by the associated press protesters chanting Contra murderer tried unsuccessfully to handcuff a supporter of nicaraguan rebels As he spoke in Austin Texas saturday and Insan Francisco nine anti con Ira demonstrators were filed for trespassing at the Presidio army base in san Francisco. The Contra supporter Mario Calero was not injured Austin police said. Calero was identified by sponsors of a fund Raiser the Young conservatives of Texas As the brother of nicaraguan rebel Leader Adolfo Calero Dan Gohl who tried to handcuff Calero was cited on a Misdemeanour charge of Crim Inal mischief and was released police said. Protesters waved a nicaraguan lag emblazoned with the sandinista insignia Dur ing Calgro s speech in which he urged More american Aid in overthrowing the Nicara Guan government. Security guards from the hotel and Young conservatives members dragged the protest away. In san Francisco up to 500 demonstrators protesting . Policies in Central Amanca chanted and picketed outside the gales of Fth Presidio officials said. The nine people cited Wilh trespassing and obstructing a government official were released and ordered to appear be fore a Federal magistrate. About 30 others were loaded onto a bus and escorted off the base after driving in a id car caravan into a parking Tot outside headquarter offices. 2 comics to Moke doily debut beginning March 2, two comic strips will be joining the Stan and stripes daily lineup and one will be leaving. Calvin and Hobbs the comic strip about a Little boy Calvin who brings his stuffed Tiger Hobbs 10 life in his imagination will now run in the daily stars and stripes it has been on our sunday pages for awhile now. Calvin and Hobbes leaving the lineup will be Hubert 3 comic panel that has been Wilh the paper for Many years. In Hubert Scomer you will be seeing a new panel the far Side one of the stranger offerings to come along in a Long time. The far Side May not be to everyone s taste but we think Calvin and Hobbs will be. A Sam ple is be Low. By Bill Witterson 1e5.ws mar torus a we sol von i / think. Farm singles mingle to talk seek mates Urbandale Iowa a it can gel lonely Down on the farm but a group of single banners looking for Amale or just some Good conversation is finally doing something about it. We re isolated. It s hard to get into the City to Meel people. And when you do you feel kind of different not part of the crowd says Craig Stratton 32, of Collins Iowa. He s chairman of the first National convention of singles in agriculture which Drew Iso people to this Des Moines suburb Over he weekend. The non profit group founded last year claims 300members in 38 slates and Canada and says it has a mailing list of 4,000 single people who farm or work in farm related businesses. For a lot of people there s a need to mingle Wil someone in the same circumstances says Jerome Hoelscher so who came to the convention from Gar Den cily Texas where he lives with his Mother. "1 went to supper Wilh some people i had met for the first time and 1 Felt As at Home As if i had known them far longer Hoelscher said. The men and women got together for dining danc ing and group discussions. There were Quiel talks in lobbies and corridors