European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                And off types vol. 46. No. 48 thursday june 4, 1987 d 8693 a in Side stripes o Abrama testifies on note to Monitor Ollie Page 2 d single women coping with a void daily Magazine d favourites win in French open Tennis action sports Page 25 Appolo Leader remembered a  of the be lebanese prime my Niter rashly quiral plasters pictures or the Luln Leader on will in Tripoli. Is Rural was killed monday when bomb ripped the lebanese irony helicopter thai was transport ing him from Tripoli to Lebanon Volcker quitting fed Greenspan named Washington a Paul a. Volcker will step Down As chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in August president Reagan announced tuesday. He nominated economist Alan Greenspan to succeed him. The announcement momentarily stunned . Financial markets but they recovered quickly. In Europe the Dollar fell sharply As dealers began unloading the . Currency in hectic trading following the announcement vol coct appearing with Reagan and Greenspan at a while House briefing said he was relinquishing the Post voluntarily after eight years. The nomination of Greenspan chairman of the Council of economic advisers from 1974 to 1977 under president Ford and now a new York economic consultant came on the eve of Reagan s departure for next week s economic Summit in Italy. Filling Paul vote scr s shoes will be a major Challenge Greenspan 61, said. Volcker 59, told reporters i think the time has now come to return to private  Volcker credited by Many economists with playing a key role in formulating policies that helped bring inflation Down from its double digit Levels of the Early 1980s to its current Levels of less than 3 percent voiced happiness and Delight with the selection of Greenspan As his successor. . Financial markets initially were jolted by the bomb Shell announcement because of the widely held belief that the administration would ask Volcker to serve a third four year term. The Dow Jones Industrial average dropped 24 Points in Kyj Nomen 20-50have aids virus expert Dys Washington a on Tat of every 30 Young and mid dosage men in the United sol tvs already infected with the aids virus a top aids expert started tuesday. Or. James Curran director of the  at the National cents for disease control said a is is beginning an accurate assessment of How Man cans Cany the lethal virus. However he said he accepts an estimate released t ago by the Public health service mat perhaps  in the United Stales Are infected. Curing and this would mean that one in 30 men Between the is of20 and so ire already infected. By 1991, he said aids will be Sec Flonly to accidents As a cause of premature death  men. The disease now ranks eighth. J meanwhile new re Earcy Effim around the world shows aids is spreading  heterosexuals and one study suggests that jew i Lily of aids victims to infect  As their disease gets worse. Among Ihen beings reported at the third International " us was one by belgian scientists Concemi old Engineer who gave aids to 10 women of the disease himself in july 1986. _ reality that heterosexual Contact is an efficient of transmission of aids is established said or. Robert Redfield of the Walter Reed army Institute of re is he major Mode of transmit it will become the major Mode in this search in washing Sion in the v  Tang of military men and women has found . That half of those with aids infections Are land half Are married. _ his is no longer a disease of singles he said. It s a disease of the american  reported monday thai the ability to transmit he virus is lower in the earliest stages of the disease but lbs sharply As the disease progresses studied couples in which one partner was infected with tji Kirus and the other was not. In 19 couples in which one parts Wyjad a mild aids illness three uninfected part ners or 16tfcfcnt of the total became infected through sexual Contact in 25 couples i Wuch one partner had advanced aids however \4uninfecwpartners, or 56 percent became infected Redfield said another study by Margot Fischl of the University of Miami found that the Diseta Fivas spread through Vagina Intercourse in 81 percent of comics in which one partner Hail advanced aids Redfield sail acquired immune deficiency Synave which damages the body s ability to Ward Ofidis Caseman struck 35,980 americans As of May 25, killing 20,79s�cording to the cd in Atlanta. Lakers . M Aba title opener Page 21 the minutes after Reagan s Al 1 Anouna Cuenl but quickly. Recovered. Greenspan asked about his stance on inflation and the Dollar and the of Eccl of his appointment on the i value of the Dollar told re porters i have to go for Senate confirmation and i intend to withhold substantive comment until that  the Economy at the moment looks reasonably Strong and is Likely to re Greenspan main so for the indefinite future Greenspan said. Asl wed about the chances of a . Recession Green Span said i Don t see any evidence of that. On Capitol Hili sen. William pros ire d-wis., chair Man of the Senate banking committee said Volcker s decision amounted to a serious loss to this  re going to miss him miss him very much. He served his country and he served it extremely  banking committee will be reviewing Greenspan s , first appointed by president Carter in 1979 and reappointed by president Reagan in 1983, said he does not know what he will do next he said he told Reagan on monday that he did not want to serve another term and the president immediately mentioned Greenspan. Treasury Secretary James Baker indicated Reagan had wanted Volcker to stay. The president would have been very very pleased had the chairman s decision been otherwise. Baker said. Three ships joining . Fleet in Gulf Washington not the Pentagon said tuesday that three vessels bound for thu persian Gulf would sail from East coast ports on Friday and saturday. The three ships which were not identified will join seven ships already in the Gulf where they will be assigned to escort american Mer chant  administration is expanding its escort opera Tion la provide Protection for 11 kuwaiti tankers that Are changing to american Flag registry. Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims described the three ships bound for the Gulf As replace ments for frigates and destroyers that will be coming horse at some unspecified Dale. The dispatch of the ships to the Gulf came Ashe House of representatives overwhelmingly endorsed a Resolution calling on the administration to provide further details of the operation before it  Resolution also Calls on the administration to detail its plans for participation by Friendly Gulf Stales and european allies in the a flirt to protect merchant ships in the persian Gulf. The 302-105 vote tuesday shows that the congressional Leaden of both parties were Able to maintain support for provisions worked out with the administration last week to proceed with its plan to expand military activities in the Gulf