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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6the stars and stripes saturday april 18,1987 cd a tit to to a Cal -1 i 1,1.1 i j a walking along Emir Bjelajac native of Yugoslavia curies a american Flag As be walks along interstate 55 North of Jackson miss on i j Way to Memphis Tenn. Bjelajac has carried the Flag with hint As he has walked through 12 slates. He  Cross also. Workers led to probe of Morton Thi Okol Washington a employees of Morton Thi Okol inc. Went to the Fri with substantial allegations of fraud by the company in connection with construction of solid fuel rocket boosters blamed for the 1986 space shuttle disaster according to a Iran script unsealed thursday in Federal court. The Fri began a criminal investigation of Morton Thi Okol after the allegations were made to agents in Salt Lake City on Jan. It said the transcript of a closed discussion Between Justice department lawyers and a Federal judge. . District judge Harold Greene released the Tran script and two other documents that had been placed under Seal in connection with a lawsuit filed by a for Mer Thi Okol Engineer. Roger Boisjoly who worked for Thi Okol on the Booster rocket project accuses the company of defrauding the National aeronautics and space administration by falsely certifying the safety of robber rings that sealed in gases in joints that hold together Rocke Booster sections. According to the transcript. Justice department Law yers told the judge the probe is viewed by the Bureau to be an extremely sensitive investigation. Attorney David w. Long said the investigation was being coordinated by Fri Headquarters in Washington with the informants inside the company the Tran script did not Iden Litvany of Ibe informants who were cooperating with the Fri Greene ordered release of the sealed documents at the request of Morton Thi Okol a Chicago based Aero space contractor. The company filed its request earlier his month after one of the sealed documents which revealed the Fri investigation was inadvertently released by court clerks who later reseated the document after receiving press queries. That document s disclosure resulted in widespread publicity about the Fri investigation. The company argued it needed the additional material to respond to news queries about the investigation and the lawsuit women May be underestimating risk of catching aids study says Chicago a the proportion of women gel Ting aids from mate sexual partners has doubled in five years indicating women May underestimate their risk of getting the fatal disease a new study says. Meanwhile the Cost of the Only drug approved by the food and drug administration for treating aids threatens to put the medication out of reach for Many patients the american medical association s weekly newspaper says. Only 12 percent of women diagnosed with acquired immune deficiency syndrome in 1982 the first full year . Medical authorities tracked it got it from male sex partners researchers at the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta said. By late last year 76 percent of women getting aids were contracting it from men or. Mary e. Guinan and Public health specialist Ann Hardy reported in Fri Day s journal of the american medical association. Drug abuse remains the largest single Way the viral disease spreads to women accounting for just Over so percent of cases the study said. Seventy percent of the 1,819 women in the study were Black or hispanic the researchers said but an accompanying editorial said news stories dramatizing the aids risk typically picture Whites. By focusing on Whites minorities May be receiving the mis impression that aids in heterosexuals is a while disease just As previous reports conveyed the false impression that aids is a Gay disease said the editorial by or. Constance a Wofsy of the University of California at san Francisco. Also on Friday the Ama s newspaper predicted the drug  or at May be too expensive for thousands of people with at is. Most of the estimated 6,000 aids patients on medi Caid will be Able to receive at at Little or no Cost but Many Large health insurance plans do not cover the Cost of drugs taken outside the Hospital the newspaper said. The drug approved by the Fra last month will probably Cost patients $10,000 a year said the Ameri can medical news. Most aids patients taking at require a dose every four hours around the clock the newspaper said. Track Brown a spokesman for the manufacturer Burroughs wellcome co., said thursday the company is considering ways to help those who do not receive reimbursement for the drug to pay for it. Brown said the company spent More than $80 Mil lion to develop the drug and it is expensive to make requiring seven months of work to manufacture. Union Carbide pledges s. Africa dividends in Aid Danbury Conn. A Union Carbide corp. Has said it will Ute dividends from it remaining South Africa operation to finance education Legal Aid and social Justice for Blackt in that country. The decision was announced by Union car bide chairman Robert Kennedy after Consulta Tion with Black Leaden in the i filed states and in South Africa. Valuable violin returned 2 years after it vanished Detroit api authorities have recovered a 237-year-old violin valued at $150,000 that disappeared from a shipping Box two years ago while being sent from Belgium to Michigan the violin was made by Peter Gusmeri in 1750, said Kenneth Walton head of the Michi Gan Fri office in Detroit. The violin belonged to Guarneri House an instrument repair and retail company in grand rapids owned by Philip Greenberg. A former conductor of the Detroit symphony orchestra. Arc Enburg said in april 1985 that he gave the instrument to a violinist on a one week approval to decide whether he wanted to buy it. The violinist look the instrument to Brussels Belgium and sent it Back Federal express. It disappeared from the shipping Box belgian police arrested two men april 7 As they burglarized the Federal express office in Brussels. One of the men a Federal express Tat Loyee provided information that led to the vion. Retrieved from Gorge 3 Days after it fell off Cliff Redmond Ore. A a dog was Rescue from the crooked River Gorge three Days after it fell Oft a Cliff de Schules county sheriff s deputies said thursday. Deputies said Connie Durham of South Lake Tahoe calif., was resuming to Redmond to claim her dog Nicki. The animal is suffering from a cracked Pelvis a wrenched Paw and a Black Eye. The dog which is part Labrador retriever and part pit Bull fell into the Gorge from an Obser vation area of . 97, seven Miles North of Redmond on sunday. The dog was spotted on the ledge wednesday and members of the pcs chutes county search and Rescue team Rappel cd into the Gorge to save the animal. Boy accidentally shoots kills 2-year-old Niece la Pryor Texas a a 1 5-year-old boy playing with a loaded pistol accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old Niece during a family gathering police said thursday. The girl Magdalena Cullar was pronounced dead on arrival at Uvalde memorial Hospital after the shooting at 5 15 am wednesday Zavala county Deputy sheriff Gus Marburger said. He the boy thought in was a gun to play with Marburger said. He just found it in the  s a tragic  the death is being handled As an Accident Marburger said. The girl s Mother Adelita cud tar apparently kept the 9mm automatic hand gun for Protection he said. Investigators said the boy was in a bedroom when the weapon discharged. Dog acc making additions to list of obscene words Washington a More than a decade after George Carlin s seven dirty words Shook the airwaves Federal Regula tors Are issuing their own words to clean up obscene and indecent broadcasts. In actions thursday against three radio stations including one with controversial morning show personality Howard Stem regulators sent word that they will be holding the nation s Broad casters to higher standards. The Federal communications commis Sion is hoping its crackdown on broadcast obscenity Wutt ame the airwaves bul until the Agency details its new guidelines Stem is planning no changes in his new York based radio program. The acc plans to publish its new guidelines soon in the Federal Register to put All broadcasters on notice that it will no longer limit its definition of indecency to the seven dirty words Broad cast in 1975 in a monologue by Comedi an George Carlin. That broadcast led to a 1978 supreme court decision which set an indecency Standard for the air Waves acc general counsel Diane Kollory said the acc had to advise stations about the new standards before in lakes action which could include fines and the revocation of licenses. The acc also took action against Pacifica foundation inc s , los Angeles sending the Case to the Justice department for possible prosecution for broadcasting a program allegedly con Taining graphic depictions of homosexual sex acts the acc also issued a written warning to a cab pm licensed to the University of California at Santa Barbara which broadcast a Rock song with sexually explicit lyrics  
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