European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday. April 2,1987 Appow tithe children of Maria von Trapp whose Story inspired the sound of music walk Down the Church Able during memorial Serr jew for their Mother the Are from left Rupert Eleanor Werner Row Marie and Johannes private funeral services held for Maria von Trapp in Vermont Stowe i. Up private funeral services were held tuesday for Maria von Trapp whose singing fam ily s escape from nazi occupied Austria inspired the stage and screen classic the sound of  von Trapp died saturday at age 82 after undergoing an unsuccessful operation for gangrene of the Small intestine. Six of von Trapp s eight surviving children attended tuesday s ceremony. The service held in a tiny Church was open Only Lof Amily members the staff of the Trapp family Lodge and close friends according to the youngest child Johannes von Trapp. The Church is quite Small and we were afraid of having Loo Many people he said. Ii was a very Nice service Johannes von Trapp said gov Madeleine Kunin a Swiss native personally paid her respects to the family earlier in the Day. He said the family has received mountains of let ters from Many friends in Many eases people that Idin t know my Mother had  von Trapp will be buried in Stowe where she settled with her family More than four decades ago be cause of its rugged resemblance to their native Austria. Army lob rejects soviet aids claim Frederick my. A a soviet report claim ing the deadly aids virus is Man made and leaked from an army lab at fort a Crick is absolutely ridiculous according to a base spokesman. But he said the aids virus is a subject of research atthe base. No virus has Ever escaped into the atmosphere. Said Norman Covert the spokesman for the Laboratory. We be never had an incident at fort Dotric where a dangerous organism has gotten into the air from any Laboratory,1 the soviet news Agency Tass said monday the Arti Cle in no Vosti military bulletin did not directly charge the United slates with creating aids but it said the virus was of artificial origin. It said it leaked from the array lab despite a system developed in 1977 Todeal with dangerous pathogens. Covert said the army Only began experiments on the aids virus this year at fort Detrick assisting the Walter Reed army Institute of research less than a thimble Ful of the aids virus is at the army s medical research Institute of infectious Dis eases at the Frederick base coven said monday. Fort Ditrick is a natural target for such stones be cause it once conducted secret biological warfare experiments be noted. Tass said the article s author. Peter Nikolayev said he was reporting the conclusions of u.s., British and East German scientists. It did not identify the scientists. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a fatal disease that attacks the body s immune system leaving it unable to resist disease. It can be transmitted through sexual Contact the sharing of contaminated Needles by drug abusers or infected blood products la also can be be transmitted from Mother to child at or before birth. There is no known cure. In october the soviet newspaper literal Krnaya Gata suggested aids might be the result of Pentagon or Cia experiments. Jetliner Pilot May be suspended los Angeles a a Continental airlines Pilot who nearly landed a dc-9 jetliner on a Small Airstrip after mistaking it for Burbank Airport should be suspended for 45 Days Federal officials said. Pilot Paul Charles Haynie of Long Beach has told the Federal aviation administration thai he intends to ask for a hearing to contest charges of careless Flyings Imming from the december incident a Whilman Airport in Pacoima Faa spokesman Russell Park said monday. An Faa regional counsel do Wilc t. Lawson jr.,informed Haynie on March 13 that he had been found in violation of Faa regulations by operating an air Craft so carelessly As to endanger life and property deviating from an air traffic control clearance flying too Low Over a congested area and failing to exercise the degree of care judgment and responsibility required by a commercial airline Pilot. The recommended suspension was announced Mon Day. Haynie has declined comment except to say that Thefan letter was full of errors. Continental spokesman David Messing said the air line retains its Confidence in Haynie who has More than 24,000 hours of flying experience and will continue 10 use him As a Pilot. The Faa report said Haynie on flight 475 from Denver on dec. 12, brought the dc-9 to within 400 to 600 feet of touchdown at Whitman while on approach to Burbank Glendale Pasadena Airport about five Miles to the South. Whiteman is used mostly by privately owned sin Gle engine propeller planes. It has no control Tower and pilots rely on visual reference alone. Stateside Speakes recalls events of fateful Day 6 years ago Commerce Tan