European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday april 11, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 Buu Princess of Wales a to with in in  aids patient in his private room Al Ixam loft Middlesex Hospital. Princess i chats shakes hands with aids victims London a Princess Diana Shook hands and chatted with aids patients thursday in a visit to Britain s first purpose built Ward Tor victims of the deadly disease the Princess wife of heir to the throne Prince Charles met nine male patients at least seven of them con firmed aids sufferers at a ceremonial opening of Broderic Ward in Middlesex Hospi Tal a leading Center Tor research and treatment or the disease. Nurse Shane Snape 28, who has himself become a Carrier of the aids virus alter sexual Contact said Diana Shook my hand without wearing gloves and that meant More to me than  experts believe aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome is transmitted through infected blood or semen usually by Means of sex Ual Intercourse or infected hypodermic Needles. There is no evidence the disease can be transmitted through casual social Contact. The Dis ease is caused by a virus that break Down he body s natural immune system making the Vic Tim vulnerable to in factions and cancers the $560,000 Ward which opened on Jan 19. Has 12 Beds and a Day room and is staffed by 16 nurses backed up by specialist doctors. Staff members have stressed that aids patients could be cared Tor in Ordinary wards at other hospitals. Avalanche reportedly buries soviet base in Afghanistan Islamabad Pakistan a an Avalanche Bun red a military base near a Mountain Highway in North Ern Afghanistan and killed As Many As 70 soviet sol Diers Western diplomatic sources said. Reports from Afghanistan also Point to a major up surge in fighting Between moslem guerrillas and soviet and government forces the sources said wednesday speaking on condition they nol be identified further they said the Avalanche struck during the first week of april hitting a soviet military base that guards the strategic Salang Highway linking Kabul the afghan capital and the soviet Border. A Garrison polled there was wiped out they said. Afghan guerrilla officials based in Pakistan said they could nol confirm the report. Jamial i Lola uni the guerrilla group most Active along the Salang Highway said it had heard nothing about the reported Avalanche. Numerous reports from Afghanistan pointed to a major upswing in fighting with the end of Winter the Western sources said. Guerrilla units Art expected 10 launch a major offer Jive against Kabul and appear to be moving reinforce ments toward the capital they said. Heavy fighting broke out North of Kabul last week end with government artillery and aircraft attacking guerrilla units they said. Troops and tanks were seen moving out of Kabul and convoys of up id 30 helicopter gunships were seen leaving the cily on combat missions the sources said. One of the Western sources said soviet and afghan government planes bombed and machine gunned the Malaj i area of Kandahar on March 25-26, causing extensive damage. The diplomatic sources also confirmed earlier guerrilla reports that the insurgents staged two attacks on installations in soviet territory adjoining Northern Afghanistan in March. Soviet forces repeatedly bombed areas or Afghani Stan s Takhar and Gunduz provinces in retaliation killing As Many As 30 guerrillas the sources said. Light exists to solve dispute peacefully turkish Leader says Ankara Turkey a Premier Sturgul Ozal said thursday there is some Light indicating Turkey and Greece May be Able to peacefully Settle the Aegean dispute that brought the two countries to the Brink of a clash last month. Ozal told reporters that a reply from greek Premier Andreas Papandreou to a turkish proposal for bilateral talks was under study. We cannot say anything for certain now. But there is some Light indicating that the problem May be solved through a peaceful approach the Premier said. The greek reply was delivered to turkish envoy Nazmi Akit Nan on wednesday but 11$ contents were not disclosed. Ozal said Papandreou reiterated his request for arbitration by the world court at the Hague Netherlands to resolve the Aegean Continental shelf dispute. However he said court arbitration is not the Only Way for a  turks have been insisting on bilateral talks saying the Aegean dispute is political in nature and a settlement requires constructive political will on both sides. Turkey and Greece nearly went to War last month when Turkey dispatched a research ship to the Aegean for Oil tests. The crisis was defused after Ozal announced the ship would remain in turkish territorial Waters if Greece did the same with its own research vessels. Greece claims Mineral rights across most of the Aegean seabed on grounds that each of its Over 2,000 Aegean islands is entitled to its own Continental shelf. Turkey counters that the Aegean Continental shelf is an Extension of the land mass of the Anatolian Peninsula. French banker invents better Light bulb Geneva a a French Bank manager who invented a magnetic Light bulb won first prize out of some 1,000 entries at the 1987 Geneva International invention fair organizers announced thursday Jean Frisch 42, invented a magnetic bulb that makes changing Light bulbs easier and safer a press release said. The base of the bulb is covered with a sleeve equipped with a metallic plate and the socket consists of two magnets sunk into injected plastic the release said. With just one hand and no Effort the magnetic bulb can be tilled into the electric Supply it said. Fritsch has received some 50 propositions for con tracts from manufacturers and financiers since the fair began april 3, said the release ii listed advantages of the invention As lower production costs than the cur rent system longer bulb life and no risk of electrocution. Fritsch who is from Cornay near Strasbourg in vented his Light bulb in just a few months the press release said. Other entries included a laser beam shooting Simula Tor invented by a Swiss which recreates shooting conditions at Home and is intended for amateurs and  the release said an egyptian invention for agricultural cultivation without soil was also entered. Rodin s sculptures dusted off for show Paris show the evolution of Rodin s Umu  the show looks at Rodin with 20th Century eyes she said. What we see Are aspects never understood before such As his attention to Light and Shadow Bis obsession with space and the subject s relation to it rather than the desire to make the figures look exactly like real life people Many figures took As though they arc struggling to break out of the Marble la  1901-1904 is a half human horse its belly fused to Marble chunks forming the base its outstretched arms blending into an uncut column. In Paolo and Francesca 1905one of the show s highlights the figures arc dominated by the Stone their faces barely chiselled. Whal we know now is that that s the effect Rodin wanted to achieve Barbir said. Besides Many of Rodin s Best known works such As the kiss the exhibition also features Many smaller pieces found recently in storage cellars of Rodin s Home in Mudon. La Petite Mousque Laire 1879for example showing a Young Man with a Handlebar Mustache wearing a uniform his Long curls lucked under a three cornered hat is typical of Early work Rodin did just to Makwa living. Barbir said the hardest part of gelling the show ready was cleaning the Sculp Ture. Regular House Dull was easy to re move Ilic said. The hard part was get Ling off the Finger Marks left by sweaty visitors who could t resist running their hands Over the sensuous  her solution which she Hopes to implement in the Corning weeks is to provide visitors Wilh Cotton gloves. Then they can touch All they want she said