European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday. July 17, 1987 military recruits aids rate highest among Young Blacks Boston a Young Blacks have the highest rate of aids virus infection among military recruits and the Rale of infection has remained steady Over 18 months of testing applicants. Army doctors report. An analysis of the first six months of aids screen ing among military recruits was published in thurs Day s new England journal of Medicine. The data show that  of every 1,000 recruits was infected with the aids virus and that infection Rale has stayed the same during the first year and a half of the screening program. All civilians who apply for military service arc checked for infection with the aids virus known As his. Those who carry the virus Are denied admission to the military. His infections now occur commonly among Young adults in their leers and Early 20s," the army doctors write in their analysis. Infection ram Are highest intensely populated Urban centers where Blacks arc Dis proportionately represented but his transmission can occur throughout the United  the report was based on blood samples taken from 306,061 civilian applicants from october 1985 through March 1986. It was Willen by or. Donald s. Burke of the Waller Reed army Institute of research in Washington. Army doctors reported More recent figures at an aids meeting last month in Washington. During the first 18 months of the program with 963,077 Young men and women being tested the infection rate remained at 1.5 per 1,000 people the doctors said. They also reported int 1.6 of every 1,000 people already in the military arc infected. In thursday s report the doctors said the recruit data May not be an accurate Cross Section of the infection Rale among the nation s Young people. Those who Are infected because of homosexuality or drug abuse May be less Likely to apply for the armed services and this could understate the True infection rate. On