European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday june 9. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 High priced greek artwork might be fake los Angeles a the j. Paul Getty museum is investigating the authenticity of two prize greek sculptures valued at up to is Mil lion but which some an scholars say arc fakes. Officials of he Seaside museum refuse to comment in detail on their studies or on the origin of the pieces a Marble head attributed to the 4th Century . Sculptor Skopas and a Sec Tion of carved Relief said to come from a 6th Century . Grave Monument. We might be in the position of resuming these pieces to the Sellers said Marion True he Getty s curator for ancient Art. If we talk about our doubts now we would be telegraphing our arguments in Advance and we Don t want to do  recently several pre columbian Art work from Mexico once considered priceless and on display in museums in Dallas St. Louis and new York were determined to be fakes. Both or the greek pieces have been consid ered major attractions at the museum which specializes in greek and roman antiquities. It is among the world s richest with a $2.8 Bivion endowment in the name of the late Oil magnate j. Paul Getty. Museum officials have refused to disclose the Purchase Price of the works but published reports put their combined value As High As $5 million. The museum says the head was acquired fro Paris collector Michel de dry in 1979, but will not name the source of the Relief. Doubters in the an world question the frag ment from the grave Monument in particular. I do believe it is a forgery " said Brunhilde Ridgway a specialist in ancient Art at Bryn mawr College in Pennsylvania. None of the details arc right Carolyn Houser an an history professor at Smith College in Northampton mass., also is suspicious about the head of Achilles siding wild scholars who think it is a 19th or Early 20thcentury copy of a work on display at the nation Al museum in Athens. Marine infected by aids sues Navy for $55 million Boston a Martin Gaitney is still proud to be a Marine but he believes in is the military s fault that his wife and son Are dead of aids and that he is facing certain death from aids. Tattney 38, a chief warrant officer is suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome. His wife Mutsuko 38, died May 31 of complications from aids and Bis son John died at the age of 13 months last summer from be incurable disease. Gaffney has filed a j55-million claim against the Navy alleging its doctors botched his wife s first preg Nancy which resulted in a Stillbirth and gave her a blood transfusion contaminated with the aids virus. The claim is under review by the judge advocate general of the Navy according to a Navy spokesman in Washington . He declined further comment. Gay they said he wants to Spur a congressional investigation into military medical care and to provide Fortis daughter 3 a who is not infected and will Likely be an orphan. Military hospitals Are understaffed and doctors. Are not adequately trained to do what they re asked to do Gaffney said in an interview last week. I feel like i hive an Opportunity to make a  Gay they and his wife were married in 1981, three years after they met in Okinawa Japan. Their first child was due in August 1981, but after they moved to California complications developed. Doctors allowed the birth o extend past the due Dale by about four weeks saying let nature Lake it course Gaffney said. Gaffney recalled that Mutsuko went in and out of the Navy regional Mcdoal Center at Long Beach. The baby was still alive when Mutsuko went in one Day convinced she was about to give birth but a nurse sent her Home Gaffney said. Two lays later doctors Dis covered the baby had died he said. Mutsuko underwent a caesarean Section and received two units of blood. Navy officials later traced the two donors one of whom tested negative for the aids virus. The other refused to be tested but in was Learned he had been discharged from the Marine corps for homosexual activity according to Gaffney s claim a second child Maureene was bom in 1983 at civilian Hospital followed by a son John Bam in 19s5. Marcene was healthy but John soon developed chronic health problems Gaffney said. The family was stationed in Hawaii in May 1986 a photo Martin Gaffney holds photo of wife and himself. When doctors discovered John and his parents had aids and summoned the Gaffney. "1 thought they finally had an answer for what was wrong with my son he said. They did. They told us we Alfrad  Gaffney has arranged for his brother to raise his daughter. Doctors do not know How she escaped the infection. No evidence1 tears saliva can pass aids virus Washington not no Evi Deuce exists that the aids virus can spread through tears or saliva the world health organization said sunday in an attempt to dispel persisting anxieties that the virus can be spread by casual Contact a group of expert from aids centers throughout the world meeting Here Over the weekend to review lie scientific Dat presented at the third International con Ference on aids lost week also noted that Normal kissing has not been documented to pose a risk of spreading the virus. Some Laboratory scientists have found a few aids virus particles in saliva fro some people with the infection. But fed eral health officials have said the disease docs not spread through kissing. The statement the first by who on the subject was made because we arc constantly besieged with questions about kissing or. Jonathan Mann who Heads the organization s aids program said in an interview. He said the conclusion was based on data accumulated in studies in several countries not from new research by the organization. The statements from the Geneva based health organization reiterated that there was no evidence that the aids virus can be spread by casual person la person Contact in any setting including household social work school or prison  the experts stressed thai Only three routes of spread had been documented homosexual or heterosexual inter course. Contact with semen transplanted organs or blood. From Mother to child before or Dur Sands of time ing birth and perhaps through breast milk. They said there is no evidence indicating that the virus could be spread by in sects food water toilets swimming pools sweat tears shared drinking creating utensils or other items such As second hand clothing and  the experts said a very Low occupational risk exists to health care workers. Such workers who have become infected with the virus Are believed to have caught it by pricking themselves with Needles contaminated by he blood of aids patients. Clear tobacco from shelves -. J f i f 11v j we j it f u Ujj Wiljo says Minn pharmacy group 40/ears ago today. In the stars and stripes Duluth Minn. A pharmacy owners should dear their shelves of cigarettes and other tobacco products the Minnesota state pharmaceutical association said in a Resolution it passed Sun Day. The association s 65-member House of delegates passed the non binding Resolution unanimously at the dose of a i rec Day convention. When 1 counsel an emphysema patient that his smoking is ruining what is left of his breathing capacity and i do that in the Back of my store then he comes to the from of my store and buys Cifarelle that makes me a hypocrite said Robert Hermans a member of the association s Board of directors. Hermans owner of Magnuson Lake Side pharmacy in Duluth last week publicly bumped his License to sell tobacco products. He said even his smoking customers supported the idea about 10 to 1. Everybody who smokes cigarette realizes they should quit Hermans said. The Resolution reads the Minnesota state pharmaceutical association recommends that the Sale of tobacco products in the pharmacy be discontinued and encourages a smoke free  another Resolution approved by the House of delegates bans smoking at All association meetings. The association represents 1,700 of the stale s 3,000 pharmacists. June 9, i94t the United slates said it would abandon its efforts for an Early austrian peace treaty and continue la occupy the country if it became necessary to prevent a communist takeover. 30 years ago foe a. June 9, 1957 a Resolution was introduced in the House of representatives urging the administration to reconsider its decision to allow army spec. 3 William s. Girard to be tried by japanese authorities instead of a military court. The 21-year-old Soldier was accused of murdering a japanese woman. 20 years ago today. June 9, 1967 Egypt accepted the United nations Call for a cease fire after israeli troops in the Sinai Defeated an egyptian counterattack in a Daylong Battle and won control of the Suez canal area. J 0 years ago today. June 9, 1977 ugandan vice president Gen. Mustafa Adrisia barred 300 British residents from leaving the country until president Idi Amin returned from London