European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. March 31, 1987 the stars and stripes Paft s underground clinics pushing aids drugs Chicago a underground clinics in More than 40 . Cities Are dispensing homemade experimental drugs to desperate aids paid Unis fighting for their lives according 10 a report published sunday. The clinics operated clandestinely to avoid Legal problems and anti  activists arc run by volunteers via Telephone answering machines and the mail the Chicago Sun times said. The clinics brew inexpensive versions of an experimental compound and distribute recipes Tor aids medications not yet approved by the government inc newspaper said. Unidentified sources told the Sun times thai sever Al thousand self declared Guinea pigs with aids and other related diseases were treating themselves with inc drugs contacting distributors or the mixtures through sympathetic physicians and ads in the Homo sexual press. A Chicago Contact who called himself Thomas told the newspaper that the underground network stretches from Australia to West Germany with centers in Citie Sas diverse As new York Kansas City London and great Falls Mont. Jim Henry the newspaper said opened the first underground clinic in san Francisco in january 1986. Henry mixes . Or Decd chemical used to develop color film with alcohol and hand lotion into a substance he says helps stimulate the body s immune system according to the report. Henry who suffered from aids but maintains that his immune system has been restored said he saw a Friend make major gains after painting a Nib on the skin. I watched his lesions Clear up he told the Sun times. He gained weight. He was feeling Good i decided to make this treatment available to  last month Henry said he began passing oui a Street formula for Al 721, a food preparation under study As an aids treatment. The Only federally approved aids drug is at. Henry said the a Nib and Al 721 treatments Are much cheaper than at. The experimental substances Cost Between 2s cents and 50 cents while at can run$27 a Day according to the Sun times. So far he says he has not been bothered by the government but he has been criticized by physicians Many of them homosexual who claim the under ground clinics make it hard to recruit subjects Tor medication experiments. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome destroys the immune system making the victim vulnerable to lire threatening disease. It has killed More than 19.000 people in the United states. Or. Renslow Sherr co Dirc Clor of inc aids pro Gram at Chicago s Cook county Hospital is sceptical about the benefits of do in yours if Medicine. It s difficult not to be sympathetic but there Haven t been carefully controlled studies he said. Vaccine for aids unlikely this Century Koop says new York a the Complex nature of the aids virus is Likely to pre vent development of an aids vaccine in this Century . Surgeon general c. Ever Cal Koop warned sunday. A cure i think is very problematical Koop said in an interview aired on face the nation the lbs news pro Gram. And a vaccine Tor this very complicated virus i Don t think is in the cards for this Century in Washington last week experts including or. Robert Gallo of the National cancer Institute a co discoverer of the aids virus said a vaccine should be ready for general use by the mid-1990s. But Koop noting the tenacity and complexity of the deadly virus was less optimistic. Vaccines take Long time to develop he said noting that it look 19 years to produce a vaccine against hepatitis b. This is a much More complicated virus Koop said. He called tests of experimental aids vaccines the very ear Liest preliminary tests and before we have a vaccine available Tor use is a Long Way Down the  without a vaccine Public education is crucial in fighting the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome Koop said. He indicated that the Federal govern ment s $80 million aids education Bud get was adequate. We re Well on inc Way to doing the right thing about education Koop said. He called it a hopeful sign that aids budgets have increased annually. I think we can make do with the Money we  he added but Harvey finc Borg Dean of Harvard University s school of Public health said the Money was insufficient. Where 1 would differ with or Koop s statements is really on inc ques Tion of magnitude where we Are today and where we have to be Fineburg said. He said $80 million was less than Procter Gamble s budget to sell two new household products. The government should attempt a variety of advertising and education efforts Fineburg said especially because it is not known what approach Best could persuade people to Stop the practices that spread aids. Aids spread chiefly by sexual con tact tainted blood and dirty Needles destroys the body s ability to resist disease. In inc United states in has killed More than 19,000 people mostly homosexuals and intravenous drug abusers. House of horrors Man was booted from army Philadelphia up a self styled preacher charged with killing one woman and shackling raping and torturing four others was ruled 100 percent disabled due to psychiatric problems in 1962 and Dis charged by the army a newspaper reported sunday. The Caw of Gary Heidnik 43, and his alleged House of horrors exploded into inc Public View East week As the minister in an obscure religious group called the United Church of inc ministers of god was arrested on rape and murder charges. The army refused to say what Heidnik s problem were. His Hospital records were so sensitive that any one seeking to retrieve them literally triggers a Light and Buzzer alarm the Philadelphia inquirer said. A Philadelphia judge also found Heidnik a danger both to himself and society during a 1978 rial. Heidnik is being held without bail in the Phila Delphia detention Center and police said sunday More charges would be tiled against him. From Heidnik s basement police said they rescued three half naked malnourished women who had been chained raped and tortured for As Long As three months. Another woman escaped and told police of the violence two other women were slain and police said they found human limbs in Heidnik s refrigerator and other body parts in a pot on the stove. Heidnik and another Man Cyril Brown each were charged with one count of murder Heidnik s troubled history became obvious to authorities 25 years ago. In May 1962, Heidnik 18, was sent to Germany As an array medic. Five months later he was sent to a Pennsylvania military Hospital where doctors ruled him 100 percent disabled due to psychiatric problems Appolo Cyril brawn shown alter his arrest in captive woman we in Philadelphia. The paper said. Since his release from the army Heidnik frequented psychiatric hospitals and the courts. Heidnik was charged in 1976 with Sho Olinga neigh Man seeks Money for lost decade in prison Annapolis my. Up a Man sent to prison at 17 for a crime he did not commit Wanis the state to pay him$5 million for his lost decade but gov William Schaefer says 5250,000 May be the top Price for compensation. The amount would not replace what was lost said Leslie Voss who is seeking $1 for every minute he spent in prison. Vass 29, was sentenced in 1975 to 20 years for robbing a drugstore. Joseph Chester a delivery Man who was at the drugstore at the Lime pointed Vass out to police three months later. Ten years later an investigator for the Public de fender s office showed Chester photographs that persuaded him he had identified the wrong Man. Vass was pardoned by Ihnn gov Harry Hughes. The soft spoken Vass a High school student Al inc time of his arrest with no prior record always maintained his innocence. He was stabbed twice in prison and went up for parole three times but was denied each request. Once lie tried to escape. To stand Here and Tell you what i went through. I could t do in it s just real deep. Nothing could replace what could have been. I could have been Abrain surgeon for All i know Vass told state officials last week. Bar in the face when the Man tried to talk Heidnik out of his barricaded basement. The charges later were dropped. In 1978, Heidnik told a Philadelphia judge he had some kind of schizophrenia. 1 mean i do have problems you  judge Charles Mirarchi sentenced Heidnik to thereto seven years in prison for convictions on charges he had kidnapped raped and unlawfully restrained a mentally retarded woman. The defendant will be a danger both to himself and to society. This court is quite concerned the judge said. Heidnik spent the next four years and four months in prisons and psychiatric hospitals. Police described the Case As one of the most bizarre in inc City s history and dubbed Heidnik s Home a House of horrors and a House of  Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 31. 1947 assistant Secretary of stale William bunion said the voice of America radio relay station in Munich had been sabotaged and Amer ican voice broadcasts designed for Russia were beamed to South America instead. 30 years ago today. March 31, 1957 producer Mike Todd and actress wife Elizabeth Taylor confirmed reports of their approaching november parenthood after their arrival in Hollywood where Toad s around the world in 80 Days was named the top picture of 1956, 20 years ago today. March 31, 1967 the . Sch circuit court of appeals in new Orleans aimed a knockout blow at Southern school segregation with detailed orders on How Iota integration should be accomplished every where by september. 10 years ago today. March 31, 1977 movie director roman i Olanski 43, maintaining his innocence was arraigned on charges of rape and sex perversion against a 13 year olt girl