European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday. July 22. 1987 sex envoy takes rare flight across Russia to Moscow stateside Washington a former ambassador Thomas a Watson or. Returned monday from a rare private Light across Russia retracing the Polar route he followed As a Young air farce Captain in world War ii to deliver a b-24 Liberator bomber to the soviet Union. Watson. 72. Landed his Learjet at Washington National Airport to end the flight. The plane he had ferried during the War was one of 8.000 aircraft the United states gave the soviets for the fight against nazi Germany Watson who served As ambassador to Moscow under president Carter said that although not All of his memories of the soviet Union were pleasant he received a Friendly reception this time and was allowed to Fly outside the flight paths normally open to foreign aircraft. Watson jokingly told reporters at a luncheon that he had not landed his Learjet at red Square but that s because i had a soviet German teen Ager Malhias rust has been held in a soviet Jai since buzzing the Kremlin and Landing his single engine propeller plane in red Square on May 28. That flight led to the resignation of the defense minister and the dismissal of the air defense chief. Despite the shake up said Walson soviet officials were chuckling about the incident in private and arc calling red Square Sherem Clevo Iii after the inter National Airport Complex located near Moscow. Just before the 1980 Moscow olympic games the soviets built a Modem Airport called Sherem Yelcho ii along Side the older one named . While in Moscow Watson met Wilh soviet presi Dent Andrei a. Gromyko and politburo member Alek Candy a Yakovlev. He signed a cooperation agreement bet ton Moscow s Usa Canada Institute and the Center for foreign policy development at Brown University in Providence . The Brown Center and the Usa Canada Institute headed by soviet Central committee member Georgy a. Arbatova will hold one conference in Providence and another in the soviet Union to discuss relations Between the superpowers said Walson. Watson a Brown alumnus is the Board chairman of the foreign policy Center. The american and soviet organizations jointly will publish articles on their deliberations. They Hope to stage a satellite Bridge in which citizens of the two superpower will share their views of nuclear weapons said Mark Garrison who served As Watson s Deputy in the Moscow embassy and now Heads the Brown Center. Watson who was chairman and chief executive offi car of International business machines corp. Before becoming ambassador to Moscow said he favors Sharp cuts in nuclear weapons. The More learn about them the More useless they seem he said. With 50,000 of these things i think that the chances of an Acci Dent arc Watson began what he called an icy 14 or 15 months us ambassador to Moscow just before the red army invaded Afghanistan in Decem Ber 1979.he said we were unlucky to have the soviets go into Afghanistan and the whole arms control process went dead As the Senate refused to ratify the second Strate Gic arms limitation treaty signed by Carter acid Ihen Soviel communist party general Secretary Leonid i Brezhnev. Although Watson did not meet the new soviet Gen eral Secretary Mikhail s. Gorbachev he praised Gorbachev s attempts to Reform the Economy and open up the soviet Media i think we have a belter Chance Wilh this Man than we have seen in the past 20 to 30 years for casing superpower tensions % Atson said. j. Wilson or. Confidential mail in aids test submitted for approval by Fra los Angeles up a Southern California pharmaceutical company said monday it has devel oped a confidential mail in blood test to identify the presence of the deadly aids virus. The test produced by town Paulson inc., a subsidiary of applied circuit technology inc., is awaiting approval from the Federal food and drug administration. The test would enable users to submit blood specimens to a clinical Laboratory by mail. The specimens would be identified Only by a confidential code. No names or addresses Are involved in Labelling the specimens. Test results Are reported by Telephone in seven or eight Days said Donald Sweatman chairman and chief ene Culive officer of Towne Paulsen. Sweatman said the anonymity of the test should ease Many of the personal anxieties that go with seek ing a test in the first besides assuring anonymity the kit also allows the blood specimen to be taken at the user s convenience and in the privacy of the Home he said. Sweatman said the to cols if approved by the Fra would be sold Over the counter in pharmacies. He said the company will Complete the filings needed for Fra approval which usually lakes about three months within the next two weeks. Sweatman declined to say How much the lest would Cost or How it would be administered. Sweatman said each blood Sample will be tested twice Wilh the Elisa process. It is the Standard Fra approved test for aids antibodies. If either of the two screenings prove positive the blood will be submitted for two additional tests. Aids was first diagnosed in 1981 in los Angeles san Francisco and new York. As of june 19, the can Lere for disease control in Atlanta reported 37,386cases in the United Stales resulting in 21,621 deaths. In Geneva the world health organization said there were 51,535 cases of aids reported worldwide Wilh 113 countries affected As of june 1. In the United states homosexual or bisexual men account for 71 percent of reported cases intravenous drug users account for 17 percent with haitians Haemophiliacs and heterosexual Man and women account ing for the remainder. Doggone mistake leads to pet being Given away Winston Salem . A Cunis Davis latest classified and dealing with dogs be gins with a single word mistake. It sums up the Chain of events that led to his family s losing their 6-Monlh-old Black and White registered English Springer Spaniel. Davis and his wife Cindy bought jag a Cou ple of months ago for s250 for their son and accompany for their other dog Britain who had just had nine puppies. On july 6, Davis was moving to another House when he Learned that his brother had been in a serious automobile Accident. Davis father sent a couple of men to continue moving the family s things to the new House. While the movers were Here and the family was t a woman called saying that she had seen an and far the puppies and wanted one of them. One of the movers came into the Hospital and said not to worry about anything they would tale care of everything Davis said. And they had Given the dog Arkansas court reverses teen s murder conviction Little Rock Ark. A the stale supreme court reversed the capital murder conviction Ofa teen Ager found guilty of stabbing three people to death. Ronald Ward of West Memphis was 1j when Fie was sentenced to death in september 1985. At the time he was believed to be the youngest inmate on death Row in the United was convicted of stabbing Lois town Send Jarvis 76 Audrey Townsend 72, and Chris Simmons 12. The victims All were White Ward is Black. All of the peremptory challenges exercised by the prosecuting attorney eight in this Case we reused to strike Black people from the jury the supreme court said monday. We find the state s use of the peremptory Challenge violate the equal Protection clause of the United states Constitution and denied Ward a fair trial the court reversed the conviction and re turned the Case to the lower court for a new trial. Escaped convict captured accused of slaying cop Anderson Texas a officers on horseback late monday recaptured an escape convict accused of shooting a sheriffs Deputy to death when lie broke out of jail the Day before a Deputy said. James Herbert Mann 26, was arrested with out incident 12 Miles Southeast of Here said Grimes county sheriffs Deputy Jackie was brought Back to inc Grimes county jail from which he escaped sunday night Sira Cusa said. Stale and local authorities used bloodhounds provided by the state department of corrections. Earlier in the Day Siracusa said the dogs had picked up what appeared to be a fresh Trail. Mann had been convicted on a charge of aggravated robbery and was awaiting Transfer to the state prison to begin serving a 10-year prison term when he escaped she said. The slain Deputy Wesley Alford 22, was the Only one on duty in the jail Al the time of the escape said sheriffs Deputy Larry Adams Navy reported having problems with aluminium Baltimore a the Navy has virtually abandoned the use of alumni num superstructures for newly designed warships because they crack sometimes allowing rain and sea Spray to damage equipment the Baltimore Sun reported tuesday. Navy officials said aluminium s poor performance in shipboard fires was not the major reason for abandoning the construction technique the newspaper said. The problem has been most pronounced in the Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate a class that includes the Stark which was recently attacked in the persian Gulf. But the Navy said that All 263 of the frigates destroyers cruisers and amphibious Landing ships with aluminium super structures have experienced some crack ing. The Navy has spent millions to fix Ihu most severely affected ships. The ships in question have steel hulls. Using aluminium ship designers can accommodate a larger dec House on a Given Hull sue and still have a stable ship. Why is the Navy moving away from aluminium superstructures the prevail ing Rumor is because aluminium will catch fire and Burn Down said rear adm. Myron kill cats. Although aluminium docs not actually bum. It does lose its structural strength at 800 degrees fahrenheit and melts Al 1000 degrees temperatures far lower than those which affect steel. That weakness is thought to have been i Factor in the destruction of the frigate Sheffield during the Falkland islands War Between Britain and Argentina. Fire Only played a tangential part in the decision. The motivation to move away from aluminium is the structural cracking which we be experienced said rickets who is in charge of design and engineering for the naval sea systems omd. The cracking caused by stress does not threaten the ship but in the severest cases in the Perry class frigates we be had a lot water coming into spaces including those that House electronic equipment the Admi ral told the newspaper. The Navy has developed corrective measures for the cracking which the Admiral said could not have been foreseen Al the Lime the ships were designed. There Are 38 Active ships of the Perry class and a Navy spokesman said the average Cost of alterations for each ship has been $445,000
