European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes thursday August 13, 19b7 40 illegal aliens found locked inside truck Garrison Texas a aul homilies found 40 illegal aliens locked in the Back of a rental truck after it was slopped on a Highway in Eastern Texas police and an immigration official said. The aliens All men had punched holes in the Side and lop of inc truck for air Nacogdoches county authorities said. The 40 aliens in inc Hack of i he truck and three up front were discovered tuesday night after the truck was stopped on . 39 at Garrison deputies said. There were 40 of Ihm standing in there. They could barely Nacogdoches county sheriff Joe Evans said wednesday. Thai s How pitiful it Evans said the vehicle was a a haul Van about 10 Fccl-by-12-feel and weighing about a ton. The door locked after it was shut and it could not be opened from the inside he said. The men were transferred by bus to Houston where they arrived about 7 30 . Wednesday said Charles Giggs head of the immigration and naturalization service s Anli smuggling unit in Houston. They re All Fine he said. They be been in an air conditioned bus for three Griggs said he did not know any details about How the men got into the truck. The men were to be inter viewed by ins officials wednesday. I believe they Are All from Mexico he added. Evans said the Van had been rented in Corpus Christ sometime tuesday morning and he believes the men had been in the truck ill least eight hours. None of the men appeared to need medical attention and All refused such help he said. The men used a crowbar and a piece of an a Blade to rep Iii Long links in inc run fail several Small holes in the front of the vehicle the sheriff said. It probably got up to 120 degrees in that Van he said. It was real hot and humid up Here last authorities were alerted Loine vehicle after it slopped at a store where some men bought 14 loaves of bread and 13 packages of luncheon meat and threw Ihm in the Back of the Van Evans said. When a con stable slopped the vehicle Abdul four Miles Down Ibe Road All the food was gone. In july Border patrol agents found is illegal alien had suffocated in a Boxcar at Sierra Blanca while a 19th survived a night in the airtight compartment the following week agents in he Bronville discovered 19 aliens in trailer on a Railroad car. Although weakened by a lick of water All survived. Bewildered by Bike no no three kids in Lakeshore mn., look puzzled after being told not to ride heir bikes an the streets anymore. Michael or Igiulio 3, and his Simers Amy 7, left and Emily 5, can t understand local ordinance limiting their cycling to driveways. Residents of the St. Louis suburb Are carrying out an attempt to net police chief Gerdl Anderson s order repealed. Founder of aids program stricken with the disease Baltimore a the founder of the Maryland health department s aids program has been stricken with the deadly disease and says he will use his illness to educate the Public. I Don t mind dying publicly Scott h. Stamford 38, Lold the Baltimore Sun in an interview published wednes Day. I think it s important that aids have a human face that it not be something that s whispered in the Hall Way. Every family in this country eventually is going to be touched by this disease Stamford who ran the aids program for four years said he wants to help pro Mote open discussion and education about acquired immune deficiency syn drome. Stamford founded the health Educa Tion resource organization in i b3 and quit when diagnosed with the disease. Aids which is spread primarily through sexual Contact the sharing of intravenous Needles and contaminated blood products has killed More than 22,000 americans since iqs1. Stamford who is a homosexual Lold the newspaper he lost his companion to aids in july 1983, six years after Ibe two began living together. He was inter viewed for the aids Post two Days after burying Larry whiled. Grief can be an enormous motivator he said i did t want one More family one More couple to face what Larry and i had been Stamford who had previously worked As a surgical representative fora pharmaceutical company used his medical contacts to spread inc word about the Dis ease. Adele Wilzack Secretary of the Mary land department of health and mental Hygiene described Stamford As a wonderful person who was there in the begin Ning when nobody wanted to confront the problem of Al is thai was growing in the clinic s tests show Brennan does t have prostate cancer Washington a supreme court Justice William j. Brennanjr. Was leaving the Mayo clinic wednesday after tests revealed he docs not have prostate cancer inc court said. Although the prostate is somewhat enlarged the condition is not malignant and no surgery is required Brennan 81, said i n a slate men issued through the court. Brennan said earlier oils week that he had been experiencing prostate trouble for some months. He Well to the Mayo clinic Al the recommendations of Justice Harry a. Blackmun and former Lewis f. Powell jr., both of whom had been treated there for prostate cancer. In 1979 Brennan s right hand was partially paralysed by a stroke and he was treated inc previous year for a cancerous growth on a vocal Cord. Brennan is the court s leading Liberal and its senior member. He was appointed by president Eisenhower in 1956. Brennan was flying Back to washing ton from Rochester. Minn., wednesday court spokeswoman Toni House said. He arrived in Minnesota on sunday. Hospital overwhelmed with offers to test sex drug Cleveland a a Hospital testing a drug for its usefulness in boosting sexual desire has been Over whelmed with inquiries from potential volunteers a few Days after disclosing inc research project. Or. Stephen b. Levine who had Given several inter views with reporters after last week s statement is no longer granting interviews on the subject said fran Arman. University hospitals of Cleveland spokeswoman. We had Aboul 1,000 phone Calls in priday Arman said. A secretary1 said she went through four message pads. We brought in a second Secretary to answer the Calis and routed the Calls to others in the Arman Vaid inc Calls were coming from All Over the country and continued Inlo this Iveel. I heard people Are begging to be enrolled in the she said i Don t know Cien if people were qualified to meet the Levine said list week he had been experiencing problems finding qualified people who were interested in participating in research on the drug known As lyi63so. He Laid he had Only nine people sign up during the past three months although lie nerds 40. Eli Lilly & co., the Indianapolis based pharmaceutical company is sponsoring Hie research but would not Dii Cim details of the project. spokesman Ted Mcki Nuiet. In a Brief Malton in tuesday conic Mcd Hal the company is conducting research Inlo a a impound aimed Al dealing with sexual Jas function. Bui he or cased the research was in a preliminary shaif. It s Loo Early to make an Tuimil Lusiani Mckinnly said. Csc Eland metropolitan ii in ral Hospital is inc Only other Center in Ohio where the research is being conducted. Or. Taylor so Graves who Heads the project Al that Hospital did not return a Call to his office Tun Day. The Cleveland hospitals Are among 15 institutions nationwide conducting research on the drug. Univer sity hospitals said in is statement last week. The statement did t identify inc others. Mickinney also would nol identify tie other places saying that such information is confide Lial. said Psi neck Hal the project requires a yearlong cumin Ilmoni and candidates must have Lim Ned Llu Melies to having had one Schual partner for the past car candidates must also have experienced Low sexual licit re for i years or less i skier than 21 and be Heier Simual. They also May nol he diabolic or hyper lensjm1, a in Outing Ami depressant or anti psychotic medications
