European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday Augusus. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 Duarte urges peace talks with rebels san Salvador Al Salvador a president Jose Napoleon Duarte called on anti government guerrillas in his nation and in Nicaragua to accept a new Central american peace plan and begin negotiating cease fires. Duarte said thursday that leftist rebels in Al Salvador and  contras fighting the leftist Sand Mista government in Nicaragua should hold simultaneous peace talks with their respective governments sept. 15. That is a study of aids infected men and their female sex partners indicates the Sims is Farless infectious to heterosexuals than once thought Sug Gesting a heterosexual aids epidemic in the United states is not imminent researchers reported. But the Public health authorities from the univer sity of California at Berkeley cautioned thursday that heterosexuals can still catch the aids virus. The risk increases with repeated sexual exposure to an infected person and through High risk sex practices. The probabilities Are Low but it s still russian Rou Lette " said Nancy Padian who directed the study published in the journal of the american medical association. The fact that the infect Ivity of this virus to heterosexuals is Low has to be tempered by the tact that this is a lethal disease for which there is no cure Given the Low infect Ivity of the aids virus it is not Likely the disease will reach epidemic proportions in the Hetero sexual Community any time in the near future said or. Warren win Elsiem another Berkeley researcher. The report was tempered by another study in the journal Hal found homosexuals from areas where aids cases Are rare Are continuing to engage in High risk sex and Many of them Are now infected with the . David Fleming then with the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta reported Hal blood tests of 112 homosexual and bisexual men in new Mexico found that one in seven arc now infected with the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syn drome similar to the infection rate found in san fran Cisco in 1980. A the California study Padian and her colleagues sought to determine the risk of infection to women sexually exposed to men carrying the aids  heterosexual infection has been Well documented there is substantial disagreement about How easy it is to catch the virus. The researchers studied 97 women who had had sexual relations with 93 aids info Clad men in the year before their infection was detected and found that Only repeated sexual contacts with the infected Man and the practice of anal Intercourse increased the chances of acquiring infection. Of 65 women who had had More than 100 sexual encounters with their infected mate Only 20 or 3 percent had themselves become infected. Having multiple sex partners a Well known risk for homosexual men did not increase the Chance of women becoming infected in this study probably be cause the Pool of infected individuals is Low Padian said. The risk of males contracting aids from females was not addressed in the study but it is generally believed to be equal or lower than for women she said. Padian said these facts should not detract from the Public health message that sexually Active people Musl be selective about their partners practice monogamy whenever possible and use condoms when the part Ner s infection status is not known. Expert foresees new computer data revolution from Page 1 de of Racks of vacuum tubes acres of them he said. Time on it was scheduled months in Advance. Only the government and a few research projects could afford to use it. There were three undergraduates whose Job it was to run up and Down the aisles of these things with shopping carts full of vacuum lubes and replace them As they burned out. And because they did Burn out during the time when it a calculating things every calculation was done three limes and they took a Majori by vote on what was the right answer. Thai w8 19s3." some hand held calculators can now do the computations of that computer and do it better he said. The miniaturization process will mop because there is Only so much information thai can be squeezed into a computer Chip. But Wilh in 10 years before the process slops there will be desk top machines More powerful than any current main Frame computers. Essentially the Power per Dollar of these machines doubles every year and a half and has since that Lime and will for about 10 to 11 More years he said. He advised government officials to draw up realistic regulations to a com Modale the change. You d better be prepared Pournelle said. You d better not build institutions that arc built around keeping people from knowing things or assuming that people won t find things Oul because the information revolution in exactly  he also predicted that total Access to information will Render a lot of current education methods obsolete. Our education people right now Are basically geared to try to stuff people s Heads with facts and they Don t even do that very Well Pournelle said. And technology has just taken a giant step past making knowing facts useful. Know ing a fact won t be Worth diddly squat by 2000because anybody can find Hal fact out any time icy want 10. The Only thing that s going to be Worth anything is you be got to organize knowledge and to know what questions to  the information revolution probably will have an even greater Impact in the East Roumelle said in 1947, the author Arthur Koestler said that the necessary and sufficient condition for the collapse of the soviet Union would be the free Exchange of in formation within the soviet society he said. He said communist government officials fret so much about communications that a czech grocery clerk recently received five years in prison for owning an unlicensed mimeograph , and soviet citizens who own typewriters must Register them every  said the soviets fear the Reagan administration s space based Surat Chic defense initiative program be cause in order to keep Pace they would have to provide thousands of their own engineers Wilh Small computers and real data. As a result those engineers and other people would suddenly be aware of what their government is Dom. We find ourselves in the situation in which the old biblical Maxim you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free might actually Start making real live 100 percent hard headed sense he said