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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 3, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 a ctn week old great Danes line up for a family portrait id Gale Stallc flu., wearing milk Jug headgear improvised jughead by owner Phillip Harrison 10 protect their cars after surgery. The pups cars were crapped to Mac them stand upright rather than Flop like hound dog ears and thus enhance the adult appearance or the great Dane explained Harrison. When the stitches come out this week the pups will be Back to their Normal playful selves. 64 arrested in aids rally at White House Washington a police wearing rubber gloves arrested 64 people during a demonstration i front of the while House monday to protest what organizers said is the Reagan administration s inadequate response to the aids crisis. We will fill the fails if we need to Dan Bradley aboard member of the human rights Campaign fund told an estimated 325 people during a rally at la Fayette part. What the president has done is not enough said Bradley 47, who was diagnosed As having aids about one year ago and who was one of those arrested. Police wearing Bright yellow rubber gloves began making arrests alter protesters on the sidewalk climbed Over a Low Concrete Barrier into Pennsylvania Avenue and sat Down or stood blocking traffic. Last week police said they would routinely make gloves available to All officers to guard against Capo sure to the aids virus and other communicable diseases. It was in response 10 contagious diseases that arc transmittable. Aids has the spotlight right now. But we re concerned Over communicable diseases said assistant chief Issac Fulwood. As you know when scan Ching persons you May run across body fluids syringes so we try to give officers some reasonable Protection he said. Demonstrators carried signs that said we re dying of red tape and or. Reagan your apathy is  they chanted Money for aids not for War and Reagan Reagan Slop the charades testing is not a cure for  District of Columbia police spokesman Joe Gentile said 64 people were arrested and All would be charged with Inco Moding or blocking the Street a mis Demea nor. Demonstrators called for a medical Manhattan project on aids with a National aids policy to pro Hibit  against suffers of acquired immune deficiency syndrome intensified drug Lesting research and treatment efforts and a National Educa Tion program. We arc Here to protest the Reagan administration s inaction on  said Jean o Leary executive director of the National Gay rights advocates. Silence Means  Poce wearing protective suits against aids virus Columbia . A fear of the aids virus has prompted the stale Law enforcement division to have agents at violent crime scenes begin wearing Dou ble fined rubber gloves and full body protective suits with hoods. Slate crime lab chemists already have refused to test blood samples infected with the virus said sled spokesman Hugh Munn. When our chemists come across blood that tests positive for aids we will Slop further testing until we get authorization to submit the blood Sample to an autoclave a device which kills the aids virus Munn said monday. Once the virus is killed we will continue  killing the Sims also destroys other evidence such As the blood Type of the aids virus becomes riskier with time doctors report Sample but we have to take this precaution he said. It All comes Down to the fact that we Are not presently equipped to protect our chemists Munn said. We arc implementing plans that other crime labs like the Fri Are already doing full body protective suits have Al ready been ordered and will be worn by agents at crime scenes As Well As by Sands of time chemists in laboratories. The suits look something like space suits Munn said and our agents will be wearing them at All crime scenes where they have to handle bodies and  we re going to keep this up until we understand what we re dealing with he said. We feel the first thing we have to do is safeguard and protect our employees and they re very  Washington a the risk of coming Down with aids increases sharply after five years of infection with the aids virus and More than a third of those carry ing the virus for seven years get Trie lethal disease researchers said monday the statistics based on the nation s longest running aids study shows that at least three quarters of those who have the virus eventually have at least some outward signs of their infection. Or. George Rutherford of the Sanfrancisco department of Public health said that the annual risk of aids and related illnesses among infected individuals appears to increase Over  in a separate report doctors described the Case of an outwardly healthy Massachusetts woman who has silently carried the virus for eight years infecting her two children and her husband. The Wom an s infection was blamed on a blood transition during pregnancy. Reports on separate research projects were presented at the opening of the third International conference on aids. They demonstrate the Long latency period of the virus when people May unknowingly carry the microbe. No one knows what proportion of these infected people eventually will get the disease. The san Francisco researchers projected that after 7.3 years of infection 36 he virus will that s really sad news said or Peter Piol of the Institute of tropical Medicine in Belgium. There is no Evi Dence of slowing Down of the incidence Over the  in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. June 3, 1947 Secretary of state George c. Marshall cancelled payment of a s15 million credit to Hungary because of the pro communist regime there. 30 years ago today. June 3, 1957 Britain s Queen Elizabeth ii asked to Fly in a Comet jetliner to show her Faith in the four eng med plane that had been grounded on commercial routes after a series of disasters in 1954. 20 years ago today ,.june 3, 1967 the defense department said it would Cut four army Reserve brigades and 15 army National guard divisions with the reorganization goal of deployment readiness within eight weeks. 10 years ago today. ,. June 3, 1977 . District judge John j. Sirica said former Nixon aides  and John n. Mitchell did not have o report to prison until june 22 so that they could get their affairs in order. The two along with John d. Ehrlichman had beet free since their obstruction of Justice conviction in january 1975, awaiting a supreme court Appeal which they lost May 23  
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