European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b the stars and stripes Friday. February 27,1987 aids in Europe Bavaria s mandatory tests for aids called Witch Hunt Bonn a the Federal health minister and opposition party officials sharply criticized the bavarian stale government thursday for ils decision to Start mandatory testing of prostitutes drug addicts and others for the aids virus. The social democrats Germany s main opposition party condemned the anti ads measures adopted wednesday by the government of gov. Fram Josef Strauss who also Heads one of the conservative parties in inc Federal governing coalition. The bavarian decisions will not contribute to controlling the disease but stigmatize those with the virus and along with current panic makers stamp them As social outcasts said party Deputy floor Leader re talc Schmidt. Under the bavarian Cabinet decision which took effect immediately aids tests arc required for prostitutes intravenous drug addicts homosexuals prison inmates some foreigners and All applicants for Public service jobs. Prostitutes intravenous drug addicts and homosexuals arc among Hose most at risk of catching aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Bavaria a bastion of conservation in Germany was the first state in the country to impose mandatory testing amid growing concern nationwide Over the spread of aids. Federal health minister Rita Sussmuth who has publicly urged the use of condoms As an anti aids precaution said thursday that Bavaria s compulsory jesting policy was a false  All prior experience shows that the risk groups named there in Bavaria can be located More easily Ona voluntary basis the health minister said in an inter View on the South German radio network. In West Berlin German aids help a private medi Cal testing and advisory group hat includes doctors charged Bavaria s measures would Hindt efforts at preventing the spread of the disease. With this Resolution the bavarian Cabinet is on its Way to becoming a paranoid aids state said group chairman Gerd Paul. Through the totally exaggerated imagination of inc bavarian government As to How aids is spread every schoolyard and every bakery could now be a possible target of raids and  Germany urges aids virus tests for Many who Hod transfusions Frankfurt a anyone who received a blood transfusion in Germany for injuries suffered in an Accident before mid-1985 should undergo an aids virus test German . Aids information a group of respected aids re searchers noted Hospital blood supplies in this country were not routinely tested or the deadly disease s virus before mid-1985. Blood transfusions were often Given while the Acci Dent victim was in Shock or during surgery so the victim was not informed about the transfusion at All the association said. Even if the patients were informed about a transfusion they tended to disregard the information1 it said. Therefore anyone aware of having received a transfusion for Accident injuries before mid-1985 should in their own interest be tested for inc aids virus it said this also goes for people who feel absolutely healthy it said. Health authorities estimate 30,000 to 100,000 peo ple in Germany Are carrying the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus. At last report 416 people in Germany had died in 907 known cases of the Dis ease. As a safeguard measure against the incurable Dis ease Federal health minister Rita Sussmuth has urged the use of condoms in sexual relations. Aids attacks the body s immune system tendering in unable to resist diseases. The disease can be trans milled by sexual Contact blood transfusions the con laminated Needles of drug addicts or from a virus carrying Mother to her child during pregnancy. Soviet Union to begin testing donated blood to fight aids Moscow up the soviet Union plans to introduce mandatory testing of All donated blood by 1989 to counter the spread of aids and is setting up National Telephone hot line to reassure worried soviets about the disease a senior health ministry official said. Speaking in an interview with the Uteralt Krnaya Garcia. Deputy minister of health Gieorgy Khz Labich bitterly attacked unnamed Western drug firms and research Insu Lutes for failing to share information on diagnostic proce dures for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. He said there Are 13 confirmed cases of aids in the soviet Union and another 15 people have been Iso lated in three clinics with suspected cases.  40 soviet medical institutions Are involved in aids research. He said 12 of the 13 confirmed cases were foreigners either residing or studying in the soviet Union. The Lone soviet Case is a woman. His figures contradicted earlier statements by the government that 20 cases had been diagnosed. Besides introducing mandatory testing or donor blood within two years the soviet Union would move to disposable syringes for injections to Cut Down the risk or transmitting the disease in hospitals. Hospitals now Are Only equipped with multiuse syringes which must be sterilized alter each injection. Aids can be transmitted through use of dirty Needles. France easing Law on syringe sales Paris apr French pharmacies Wili be allowed to sell syringes without prescription in a one year Experiment to fight aids among drug users. Health minister Mich la Barzach announced the plan tuesday saying inc government would suspend a 1972 decree permitting syringe sales Only with prescription or after an identity Check. It is not a matter of giving up the fight against drug addiction she said. But we have to be realistic 50 to so percent of drug addicts Are  acquired immune deficiency syndrome which destroys the body s immune system is most often transmitted through sexual Intercourse but also frequently by contaminated Needles shared by drug users. The health minister said the government also was thinking about making a test for the aids virus a part of the requirements for a wedding License. French officials say 1,500 cases of aids have been recorded while about 150,000 people in France have been found to have the aids causing virus in their blood. World today . Agency shipped record amount of food Aid Rome up the . World food pro Gram shipped a record 2,251,000 ions of food id in 1986 in a record Low Cost director James Ingram reported wednesday. This Quantity shipped exceeds the previous record we set in 1984 during the height of the african crisis he said we arc particularly pleased by the fact that we were Able to set i new record while holding transportation costs to an All Lime  Ingram said transport costs dropped to $50.07a ton. Less than half he 1980 figure because of lower Oil prices and because the use of charter vessels permitted larger shipments. Purchases of surplus food from developed countries fur shipment to developing countries in need of food Aid also helped to hold Down costs while boosting the economics of inc pro Ducer countries he said. Haitian medical intern killed by hippos in Zaire Kinshasa Zaire a a haitian medical student serving an internship in Zaire was killed by Hippopotamus is while swimming in the Congo River diplomatic sources reported wednesday. The sources said Liliane Pauyo a student at Wright stale University in Dayton Ohio wat serving As an intern at the Christian Hospital in Bandu Ndu on the Congo River 250 Miles Norlyn East of Kinshasa. Pauyo accompanied a group of friends on a sunday Outing on the River and apparently swam too close to a family of hippos. The parents were made particularly aggressive by the presence of vulnerable Newborn babies and Pauyo was attacked and killed by the adult hippos the sources said. Her age was not immediately available and there was no announcement on the Accident from Zaire police there is no haitian embassy in Kinshasa. Indonesian Leader opens nation s 1st condom Plant Jakarta Indonesia up president Suharto opened Indonesia s first condom manufacturing Plant wednesday simultaneously giving a Boosi to the Economy and bolstering birth control efforts in the world s fifth most populous country. Hartono Tsuyono head of the National family planning coordinating Board said the $16.8 million factory is the most modern of its kind i Southeast Asia with products comparable to those made in Japan and the United Stales. The factory located in the Banjaman Regency some 85 Miles Southeast of Jakarta will have a production capacity of 900,000 Gross Peran num. Its first run of 400,000 to 500,000 Gross will be supplied to family planning centers through out Indonesia. Surplus output will be exported to other developing countries. Plane lands atop another at . Airport 1 injured Bedford England a one Light air plane landed on top of another wednesday at an Airfield in Central England officials said. One of the pilots was injured bul the other escaped unhurt. The two single engines planes crashed As they landed simultaneously in Clear weather at the end or a runway at Cran Fidd Airfield near bed Ford the department of transport said. One of the planes a Trainer was crushed and caught fire when a Cessna 152 landed on its roof just after in had touched Down. The Trainer s Pilot who was not identified was in stable condition at a by droid Hospital i injuries were not disclosed. Neither Pilot was identified. The Trainer is owned by Trent air services one of six compan ies based at the Airport