European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 27, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 . Joining who fight on aids Agency to receive $5 million donation Washington a the United states is join ing forces with the world health organization to step up efforts against he global Scourge of aids which who estimates has infected 5 million to 10 million people in More than 100 countries. Officials of the Agency for International development and who were to sign documents thursday providing for a . Grant of j5 million to assist Anli aids efforts by the Geneva based health Arm of the United nations. Aids which first emerged As a threat in 1981, now looms Ai a global terror said Jay Morris acting administrator of the development Agency in remarks prepared for a Capitol ceremony Morris said the Grant was evidence of the Commil melt in Congress at who and at this Agency to step up considerably our efforts to rein in aids reign of  he noted that Over the past year the Agency has been bombarded by pleas for help from countries that Are not just seeing the damage aids is doing to their people but to their entire economic  an Agency spokesman Jerry Lipson said the United states Tonij year also is making available 16 million in id to countries in Africa and elsewhere hard hit by the aids epidemic As Well As $3 million to provide con Doms in third world nations. Rep. Jerry Lewis a Calif a member of the House appropriations foreign operations subcommittee said his colleagues in Congress were now just starting to grasp the full seriousness of the aids crisis. Things arc just beginning to get into gear and i Hope to god it s not too late Lewis said wednesday adding that the United Stales needs to undertake a Manhattan project on behalf of world  who has been Active in assisting third world countries in the development of anti aids programs particularly in Africa where unlike the United states and Europe the fatal disease is spread mainly through heterosexual Contact. Or Halfdan Mahler who s director general said wednesday that the . Grant for the aids program contrasts sharply with the United states reluctance to pay its full share to support the organization s world wide activities. Out of 1986-87 assessed contributions totalling $126 million so far the United states has paid Only j7 Mil lion matter said. The funding crunch he said has forced staff cutbacks and freezing of activities including a Vitamin a supplement program in Africa. The american budget Cut also has affected the United nations itself and Oiler specialized agencies besides the who Mahler speaking at a news conference asserted that the impending spread of aids to the populous nations of Asia poses the potential for a major  he said that within the last year we have had a doubling of the number of countries reporting aids. Mahler noted that of More than 52,000 aids cases from 116 countries reported to the who so far Only 151 cases have come from Asia. However he warned. If you allow aids to get into the powder Keg of Asia then we really Are going to have a  Mahler said asian countries including India ban Gladesh Thailand Indonesia and the Philippines appeared to be particularly vulnerable. I fear that once aids is getting in there with their weak health infrastructures. You have a potential for a major catastrophe. 1 really am afraid of that he told reporters. As of june 17, aids cases reported to who numbered 40,970 from the americas 5,840 from Europe 4,582 from Africa 521 from Oceania and 151 from Asia for a total of 52,064. Those figures however arc believed to seriously understate the Overall scope of the aids epidemic. Aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a contagious viral disease that attacks the body s immune system rendering it incapable of resisting other diseases and infections. Its chief victims in the United slates have been homosexual men and intravenous drug users although a Small percentage of cases Are attributed to transfusions of contaminated blood and heterosexual Contact. As of june i aids had been diagnosed in 36,058 people in the United Stales of whom More than half or 20.849, have died since 1979, according to the fed eral centers for disease control. No one is known to have recovered from aids. Roberts says he can raise dead Tulsa okla. A television evangelist Oral Roberts save he has raised people from the dead. I Cau l Tell you about the dead people i be raised Roberts told More than 5,000 people thursday at the closing session of the Charis Matic Bible ministries conference. I be had to Slop a Sermon go Back and raise a dead person. It did improve my altar Call Audi ence response that  Roberts who has endured Ridi Cule and criticism in the past for his descriptions of visits from god also said god told him that Roberts will be coming Back with my son Jesus to  the evangelist said after god told him that he too would return to Earth during the second com ing of Christ he got this picture that i would be coming to  earlier this year. Roberts Drew fire when he made a plea for $8 million for the University s medi Cal school saying god had told him to raise the Money in a year or be would be called  he said thursday that he was Reading a spy novel when the deity appeared to him in March 1986. The fund raising goal was met shortly before the end of March of this year. Seven years ago. Roberts based a fund raising Campaign on a vision of a 900-foot-Lalt Jesus. On thursday Roberts said an accrediting group that recently re viewed the University s medical school expressed sympathy to him for the Way the Media covered the Pica for 18  complimented me for the work we had done and said they were sorry the Media missed the Issue and caused us All this suffer ing Roberts said. I m not holding my breath for an apology from me Media but i will accept it if they  bonkers seek Refuge from holy war9 As pal Board asks Falwell not to quit by the associated press the Rev. Jerry Falwell says he s been asked by his handpicked pal Board to slay on permanently As head of the Trou bled evangelical Empire and replied that he is taking things one Day at a  meanwhile vendors in Gatlinburg tenn., hawked Jim and Tammy Bakker to shirts while the curious kept watch for the couple thursday at a Mountainside Home once owned by the bakkers but now held by a close associate. The bakkers were said to have trav eled from pal s $1.3 million lakefront parsonage in Toga Cay s.c., seeking ref Uge in the Smoky Mountain resort trom the holy War for control of the  to ministry they built. Ben Humphries assistant director of the Gatlinburg chamber of Commerce said an associate had spoken with the bakkers. All i know is they arc Here he said. Falwell who took Over pal in March after Bakker s downfall in a sex scandal has said he intends to leave the scandal wracked organization once it regains its financial footing. On thursday the Baptist minister in Huntington w. Va., for a Bible Confer ence said pal s eight member Board of directors asked him earlier in the Day to reconsider. I told them i would not walk out Falwell said. We re open to the lord one Day at a  Falwell estimated pal is Iii months to a year from straightening out its finances. The ministry filed for bankruptcy reorganization june 12, listing $72 million in debts. We wish the bakkers Well he said but repeated that any future role for the bakkers in pal was not negotiable be cause the ministry s future is in the hands of a bankruptcy judge. The bakkers maintain the South Caro Lina parsonage is theirs but plan to move out soon and make their Home in Gatlin Burg to show they place the ministry ahead of personal Comfort said a Bakker attorney James Toms. Throughout Gatlinburg s commercial the bakkers leave the to folks restaurant in Henderson ilk . Wednesday. District thursday the question was asked have you seen Jim and Tammy to shirts were sold with the message i ran into Tammy Faye in  cars most with out of stale License plates have driven by the Gatlinburg Home in a steady Stream in the last three Days. The Home is ringed by a Stone and Iron Fence and workmen there arc completing $300,000 in renovations including installation of a swimming Pool. A Welcome sign has been Hung outside the Home which was bought for j 148,000 last fall but turned Over recently to building contractor to Messner to erase debts owed him by the bakkers. A letter lacked to the sign read if you want to help others begin by helping yourself. Lei go of your material posses Sions like Jesus did. Across the Street a 12-year-old sold soft drinks for reporters who resorted to interviewing the postman when the Bak kers had not shown. The bakkers mail Box was taken by souvenir Hunters weeks ago neighbors said