European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 8, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 9 bases linked to Navy Marine aids infection rate double other branches Washington a men in heavy and marines Are twice As Likely 10 be infected with the aids virus As Menin other tranche of service according to statistics released Friday. Military doctors attributed this tothe location of Navy bases. The report found that 2.2 of every1,000 men in the Navy and marines Are infected with the aids virus. The rate is 1.1 in the army and 1.2 in the air Force. The infection rate varies Only slightly Between women in the different branches. Generally there were 0.5 cases per 1,000 women. Or. Robert Redfield of the Waller Reed army Institute of research i Washington attributed the higher Navy figures to geographic  our bases Are Consul he  East coast and West coast is where the heart of the epidemic  the figures were presented at the third International conference on aids by or. Donald s. Burke of Waller Reed. He agreed that geography explains he Navy difference. However when asked whether homosexuality might Bemore common in the Navy he responded thai s a possibility As  discounted this idea. I would anticipate hat there in Tany difference in homosexuality in any population be in the army Navy marines or ism he said. A certain percentage of men in any population arc going to be homosexual. So far 1.6 million of the military s2.2 million Active duty personnel have been tested for infection with , the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Experts have found that 2,522 military people or 1.6 per 1,000, carry the virus. Nearly 1 million new recruits have been Les cd before admission to the service. Their infection rate has been 1.5 per thousand. However army doctors noted that4he risk of aids cots up As men go through their 20s. The average age of the recruits was 19. The average age of Active duty personnel is 25. Redfield said that among 25-year-old recruits the infection Rale was 5 per1,000. Among recruits statistics showed thai Blacks Are twice As Likely As Whites and hispanic together to be  said that the aids infection rate among recruits appears to be Dou bling every 10 years. But among Blacks it s doubling every three years the doctors cautioned thai heir numbers May not reflect the level of aids infections among Young Ameri cans in general because some potential recruits might not apply for service if they suspect they arc  was hissed by some members of the audience at the conference when he suggested that military service protect people from aids infections because in prohibits homosexuality and drug use. Us a director protests ethnic weapon charges Moscow a . Information Agency director Charles Wick said he broke off talks Friday with the chief of a soviet news Agency that claims the Ciaphas a biological weapon for killing Blacks. Wide told a news conference at he . Embassy that he received a Cable from Washington on thursday about i dispatch from the no Vosti news Agency that asserted the Central intelligence Agency had developed an ethnic  summarizing the Story. Wick said it claimed that Cia agents employ War gases in the developing countries and that the latest stride in this Field is the ethnic weapon Morbi fic bacteria which is lethal for the africans but harmless for those of european  Wick said he brought up the no Vosti Story during a Torray meeting with no Vosti chief Valentin Kalin. Wick said that when he objected to the account Falin accused the United states of causing epidemic sin Nicaragua and Cuba and of mistreating the Ameri can indians. Wick said he ended the meeting originally scheduled to last 90 minutes after 50 minutes because offal in s non responsive polemical cold War stalinist irrelevant responses we re not afraid of the free flow on information Wick said but condemn this Type of scurrilous denigration of the United  in a Brief dispatch on the meeting no Vosti said Only thai a Sharp Exchange of views showed the sides to have different views out gave no details. Wick was in Moscow to review the results of the november 1985 cultural Exchange agreement Between the superpowers and to attend information .a," Juz peat dizzy Gulet pie who la be 70on oct. 21, was trailed to an Early birthday party Friday at a Manhattan Iel. About 100 fellow Notti Buu in Happy birthday dizzy eluding Carmen Mettle Mongo Sunu Mariaad Lalo Schifrin helped Gules pie nuke Start on a fire tiered cake. After the party the trumpet player and his entourage boarded a special train to Virginia s Wolf trap performing arts Center where another tribute was scheduled saturday . Pilot of after harrier Jet bailout Barnegat . Up a Marine Pilot whose harrier Jet developed engine trouble was unhurt after bailing out and ditching the Jet in Bame Gat Bay Between he new Jersey Mainland and an offshore Barrier Island the coast guard said the British made a so harrier fell into the Bay Friday about 2 Miles off the Mainland but just 150 Yards West of the Bay Side of Island Beach stale Park. Petty officer Dennis Sullman said. The Pilot ejected at about 3,100 feet but the Jet dropped into the rough Shal Low Waters of the Bay nearly intact about 2 to 3 Miles North of Bame Gat Inlet Stallman said. The Pilot 1st it. Richard w. Reagan,26, was picked up uninjured by a private sailing vessel transferred to a coast guard boat and taken ashore stall Man said. The Pilot said engine trouble forced him to eject Stallman said. Reagan was taken by helicopter to Lakehurst naval air engineering Center where he was Given precautionary a Ray Sand blood tests which Are Standard in military air accidents Lakehurst spokeswoman Donna Marie Greco said. Reagan and his flight commander flying a separate Jet were on a routine training flight from Cherry Point Marine corps As in North Carolina to the naval air station in South Weymouth mass., Greco  Reagan ejected the other Pilot diverted to Lakehurst and made a nor Mal Landing there she said. The first travelling . Government exhibit to open in the soviet Union in eight years. He said he told soviet officials the United states was pleased that the soviets had ended jamming of broadcasts by the voice of America in russian and eight other  he said they were still jamming the . Govern ment funded radio programs in polish and in Dan and Pashluk two languages spoken in Afghanistan. Wick said he objected to the continuing illegal practice of interfering with the signals of radio Liberty and radio free Europe two .-funded station that beam broadcasts to the soviet bloc. Wick said he also criticized illegal broadcasts of soviet radio programs from Cuba that interfere with the signals of 100 . Radio stations. Firms get of to construct military Blimp Washington a Westinghouse electric co. And a British firm have landed a si68.9 million contract to build a new military Blimp. The joint venture of Westinghouse an Airship industries of Cardington England is aimed at building a prototype radar surveillance Blimp the Navy said Friday. The Blimp would carry a Crew of a least 10, could be refuelled at sea and would float for Days above Navy Battle groups to provide continuous Long Range radar Protection. The Navy said the contract for a Proto Type includes options for up to five addition Al airships that could be purchased for$294.2 million. The first flight of the Proto Type is scheduled in Yah years the Navy said the contract Calls for construction of a giant Airship that would Dwarf Goodyea blimps in size. Following construction the Airship will undergo extensive flight testing to determine if blimps should be returned to military service. Navy officials believe that radar sys tems carried aboard blimps could greatly expand the warning time for Navy ships. Weiting Ghousi is headquartered in Pittsburgh but the Home of Ike of the new Westinghouse Airship industries venture is near Baltimore sen. Phil Gramm a text said the prototype would be assembled in Lakehurst no but that a full scale production con tract would Lead Westing House to build a new facility outside Corpus Christi Texas that could bring 400 jobs to his stale. Components for the prototype would remade in England and in Elizabeth City n.c., where Westinghouse Airship has an other facility. A photo