European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday june 4, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 3 classical guitarist Segovia Dies at 94 Madrid Spain a Andres Segovia acclaimed As the greatest classical guitarist of his time lied wednesday at his Home. He was 94. The cause of his death was not immediately known according to i he National news Agency efe. Few classical guitarists in the world could match Segovia s flawless precision and perfect sound. He taught himself to play the guitar after turning away from the violin. I was my own Pupil arid my own Maestro he once told an interviewer. We have travelled All through life with out a single  when he celebrated his 94th birthday at his Madrid apartment he told an interviewer he viewed the future of the instrument As very positive since every Day More people dedicate themselves to studying  just imagine How Large the Public is when there Are 4 million guitarists in Japan alone he said. Segovia was born feb. 18, 1893, in Grenada. His father a lawyer wanted him to follow the Legal profession. In the Southern City the guitar was the pre Emi nent musical instrument of gypsies who played flamenco music in taverns. He began violin lessons at the age of 6 but abandoned them because his teacher had terrible Lone and pitch and pinched me whenever i played a bad  he gave his first guitar concert at the Cerculo artistico in his Hometown at the age of 14. Segovia once compared the guitar to a Small orchestra an orchestra seen through the wrong end of a pair of Bino he liked to explain at length the Gui tar s capacity for Harmony and counterpoint which give it a wider Range beyond he reach of the violin or the cello. When Segovia began his career he saw himself As a missionary trying to con Vince the sceptical hat the instrument belonged on the concert stage As Well As on Smoky flamenco stages. Segovia s International reputation was established following a performance at the Paris conservatory in 1924. Soon afterwards he arrived in the United states where All six concerts at new York s town Hall sold out. He was one of the few classical guitarists to have carried a Gold record for hav ing sold a million copies of a single re cording. His was an interpretation of works by Purcell Scarlatti and Handel. In recent years Segovia limited his Public appearances but still managed about so concerts annually most of them outside Spain. He lived abroad about six months of the year but maintained an apartment in Madrid and a Home on the Mediterranean near Norja. In 1961 Segovia married Emilia Corral a former Pupil. Nine years later at the age of 77 he became the father of a boy Carlos Andres born in 1970 in London. In 1181 King Juan Carlos named him Marquis of Sal Obrcian in recognition of his contribution to music. Shortly after he established the Segovia International guitar Competition for Young guitarists. A year before he had told an Ameri can interviewer he was Happy to have fulfilled the four tasks he assigned him self for his career to redeem the guitar from its Fla Menco associations to develop a real musical repertoire for it to travel to All civilized countries and play there in order to gain a following for it and to influence conservatories to Lake the Gui tar into their curriculum at the same dignified level As the piano the violin the cello or the  a 1970 photo of Andres Segovia who died at his Home in Madrid Spain. A photo British Wii spitfire Ace dizzy Allen Dies London a Wing cmdr. He bed Raymond Allen a spitfire Pilot in the Eattie of Britain who later argued controversially that the Royal Navy was the real Victor and not the Royal air Force is dead at 68, family death notices said on wednesday. Allen known in the Raf As dizzy commanded a spitfire Squadron when he was Only 21, flying against the German Luftwaffe onslaught in the first summer of world War ii. He ended the War with a distinguished flying Cross decoration and seven confirmed German fighters shot Down. After the War. Allen was air defense adviser to the dutch government for three years. He planned the 1953 Fly past for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth ii when 168 Raf fighters flew Over the Monarch within seconds of her stepping onto the Buckingham Palace Balcony. Allen shocked Many in the Raf with two books. In the legacy of lord Trinchard he questioned the value of the rats founder in preserving he air Force As an Independent Force Between the two world wars Allen said the War Effort was weakened by separation and rivalry of the armed services which prevented close collaboration in the first years of the conflict. In who won the Battle of Britain Allen said it was a myth thai the Raf saved the country by defeating the Ger mans in the air. He argued that if the Luftwaffe really had been Defeated that summer it would have been unable to launch the bomber Blitz that devastated London and other cities in the fall and Winter of 1940-41. Ailen said the Navy kept Britain going when the country stood alone against Germany by protecting the convoys sup plying the food and War materials it had to have. To the end of his life he stoutly maintained that the silent service and not his own had been the real Savior of Britain in that dark hour the times of London said in its obituary of Allen on wednes Day. Allen died on sunday at Morton hos Pital near his Home in Banbury 85 Miles Northwest of London. Cause of death was not stated. Scientists puzzled by 5 men Able to clear1 aids virus cos nes service Washington five healthy men once infected with the aids virus now apparently arc nol and scientists Don t know Why an aids researcher reported. Or. Michael polls of the National institutes of health said tuesday the cases suggest that some people infected with aids can Clear the virus from their bodies or somehow remain infected with no delectable signs. It s a real phenomenon Polis told scientists at the third International aids conference. Polis said it reinforces the need to keep men and women who have engaged in High risk sexual activity or drug abuse from donating blood. Blood Bank officials say the nation s blood Supply is Safe because they screen aids infected blood but inc new find Ings suggest that tainted blood May slip through on rare occasions. Polis said the five men were enrolled in 1984 in a massive government study of ,955 people infected with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus. One of them a 31-year-old Homo sexual reported having had 750 ses part ners and said he engaged in receptive anal Intercourse one of the most com Mon ways of transmitting the aids virus. Polis said the Man never suffered night sweats fatigue fever or other ads a called symptoms. When he was tested initially his blood showed antibodies to the aids virus. During his latest test the signs had Dis appeared. In two other men studied antibodies to the virus also had disappeared but some stray proteins remained. Other scientists attending the Confer ence cited similar reports. Before this week Only one similar cae had been reported and it differed in important details. The patient was the wife of a Haemophilia a whose antibody tests went from positive to negative and then Back again. Polis says she died of aids. Senate votes to require aids tests for immigrants Washington a the sen ale voted 96-0, tuesday to require aids tests for immigrants in the first congressional endorsement of Manda tory screening fur the fatal disease. The amendment proposed by sen. Jesse Helms , was added to a fiscal 1987 supplemental appropriations Bills before the Senate. President Reagan announced Sun Day his plans to order tests for Immi Grants and Federal prisoners. In Addi Tion he said the administration would examine whether veterans administration hospitals would also routinely make the test. The Senate amendment would re quire Reagan by aug. 31 to order aids virus tests for All immigrants including the 3 million illegal aliens cup cried to seek Legal status under the immigration Reform Bill passed last year. Immigrants Are already tested for other contagious diseases such As syphilis and leprosy. All this docs is duplicate what the president of the United states has Al ready said he is going to do said sen. Lowell Weicker a Conn. He added that testing was no substitute for the massive research and prevention needed to Battle the disease. The spending Bill would add More than $77 million for aids treatment education and research this year. The Senate last week rejected another Helms amendment on aids testing which was much More controversial be cause it also culled for aids tests for All couples set King marriage licenses. Law makers were eager to find an Amend ment they could support. The people of the United states will hold this Congo a responsible if we Don t Start doing something about it Helms said