European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes aids research focuses on dormancy of virus new York a scientists reported thursday that aids appears to lie dormant an average of eight years in adults who Are infected by tainted blood and eventually develop the disease and Aboul two Yean in very Young children. The eight year estimate is a statistical projection from data on 297 aids patients who were infected with the aids virus from blood or blood products. Then a study also suggests that aids appears sooner in males than females but the difference May not be statistically significant said Graham Medley of the University of London. He wrote the study with University colleagues and Lynne Billard of the University of Georgia in  appears in the British journal nature. Medley said the study does not necessarily apply to people infected through Means other than blood trans fusion or injection of blood products. Nor Doe it Esti male what percentage of infected people will develop aids he said. Transfusions arc blamed for 912 of the nation s 40,532 aids cases and tainted blood products arc blamed for 395 cases. The risk of getting acquired immune deficiency syn drome from transfusions was virtually eliminated by blood screening that began in March 1985, health officials say. The new study used data from aids patients who were infected with the virus Between april 1978 and february 1986 and diagnosed As having the disease Between january 1982 and june 1986. It estimated average dormant periods of 1.97 year for children up to age 4 at the time of infection 8.23 years for people aged 5 to 59 years and 5.5 years for people 60 and older. Most children studied were less than a year old when infected. Doctors have Long observed that they develop aids faster than adults probably from Imma Ture immune systems Medley said. Results for the oldest patients Are probably a statistical quirk he said. Older Wop la Are More Likely to die of other causes before a ids appears artificially lower ing the average incubation time he said. The analysis also projected average incubation of8.77 years for females and 5.62 years for males. Re searchers cannot explain the difference and Are Check ing to see if it is statistically significant Medley said. In a Telephone interview Harold Jaife of the Federal centers for disease control said the result May be statistical illusion. Many men who get transfusions Are undergoing Cor onary bypass surgery so heart disease May shorten their average life expectancies and distort the aids data he said Medley said researchers Are checking for such a explanation. The gender analysis did not account for any differences in age of recipients or in amounts of blood or blood product received which might Bias the gender comparison he said. Thomas Peterman of the National institutes of health said it is real hard to have a lot of Confidence in any projection of aids incubation limes. Relatively few transfusion cases a available and you re trying to predict a very King incubation period from a Short observation period he said. Another nature paper suggests that aids infection May spread from one cell to another without the virus entering the bloodstream if the cells make Contact. Experimental vaccines should be tested to see if they can Block this poorly understood process said study co author Klaus Street of the Nih. Flossie Wong Staal also of Nih said an Ideal vac Cine would prime the body to attack infected cells As Well As the virus itself. Cin Wel computer Buff s Book Moy offer High tech tips to win monopoly Downers Grove Iii. A a computer Buff for players. And. Monopoly fanatic who spent six months testing son of the recommended tactics might Surpri tactics says his How to manual cuts Down the role of Mono nov Alicinne Dansand monopoly fanatic o spent six s testing Chance for investors in Boardwalk and Park place and maybe even Wall Street. Winning monopoly based on a computer Analy Sis of 87,000 games is a strategy packed paperback guide to improved Odds for the popular Board game. But it could have broader applications said author Kaz Darzinskis. Basically winning at monopoly is like winning in the business world Darzinskis said wednesday. If you Don t have the skills and a pocketful of Money you re Likely to fall on your  the project was based on the premise that two computers arc belter than one human mind said Darzinskis 39, a safety Engineer. So he set his two personal computers to work in his basement last Winter testing thousands of game tactics 24 hours a Day for six months straight. Everyone has opinions As to what Are the Best properties and what you should do when you land in Tail and so on but nobody s Ever tested it before Darzinskis said tuesday. His findings fill 226 pages published in june by Harper & Row s perennial Library. The Book offers 108 investment suggestions and 139 strategic moves Japan Asia airways orders Boeing jumbo Seattle Wash. A Japan Asia airways wholly owned subsidiary of Japan air lines has or dered a new Boeing 747-300 in a Deal Worth More than Sion million the Boeing commercial air plane co. Announced wednesday. The plane a version of the jumbo Jet with a length ened upper deck will be delivered in october 1988. It will augment Jaa s Elcel of three 747s.the airline was established in 1975 to resume Japan Taiwan flights formerly flown by its Parent company. It is the Carrier s first transaction with the Boeing company. Of some f t Surprise monopoly aficionados. For example statistics show the closer a piece of game property is to the free parking Square the More Likely a player is to land on it Darzinskis said. And players who buy every piece of property they land on Are doomed. They Are Likely to be strapped for Cash and unable to buy the houses and hotels needed to bankrupt opponents and win the game he said. High rent Boardwalk and Park place everybody s favorite monopoly Are merely of properties to obtain in terms of strategy Darzinskis said. Better Are the greens and yellows and especially the oranges new York Avenue Tennessee Avenue and St. James place which have the highest Landing fre Quency the guide says. All this is pretty High tech stuff for the Parker Bros game whose original design was sketched out on Tablecloth by unemployed heating Engineer Charlo Darrow in 1933, said spokeswoman Patricia Morgov pm of the Beverly  toy and game company. The game look off during the depression and to govern said More than 100 million have been sold. Monopoly has been printed in braille and 22 foreign languages and sold in 33 countries but not Cuba and the soviet Union where it is barred As too Capitalis tic she said. Aside from the computer conclusions Darzinskis Book offers lips on negotiation trading and even psychological warfare tools of the Trade for Many successful capitalist. For example players can puff up the psychological value of a certain piece of property by gesticulating wildly when pitching it to another player Darzinskis said. Darzinskis says he look on the project because win Ding is More fun than  perhaps the Best thing about winning monopoly games is to avoid losing to particular people says Darzinskis who works for Rockwell International s graphics systems division in Chicago. Examples include new players one s spouse younger siblings and one s own  statewide former mayor s name removed from building sea Isle City . A the Dominic c. Raft Community Center in this seashore town is now jus a generic Community Center because residents demanded a name Chang after the Tanner mayor Dominic c Rafla became a convicted Felon Raffa s name was removed quietly wednes Day from the building s Brick exterior after the City commission responded to a petition signed by More than 200 residents. Raffa 69, recently completed a six month prison sentence on his guilty plea in connection with charges that he arranged false registration papers for stolen cars while serving As director of the local division of motor vehicle Branch office. Raft served us a sea Isle City official for More than to decades with hit tenure ending in 1985. Those terms included 12 years As mayor. Omission of insulator spurs recall by Motorola Schumb , Iii a Motorola inc. Announced wednesday a nationwide recall of South korean made Battery chargers for radio pagers. The inadvertent omission of an insulator in the manufacturing process by Hwa Sung electronics inc. Creates a potential electrical Shock Hazard in the Battery connectors for Charger units used with several Motorola radio Paten. Moto Rola said. Motorola based in this Northwest Chicago suburb said the radio pagers themselves were not part of the recall chargers for the following pacers Are affected sensor Sinsar display apr 2000, dimension 2000, minitor ii and director ii. Motorola said the recall program provides for the repair or replace ment of charge sat no Cost to the consumer. The company said it decided logo ahead wit the recall even though it had not received any customer complaints or reports of injury concerning the chargers. Drug busting Highway cop shot dead on Fla. Interstate Bradenton Fla. A a Florida High Way patrol trooper honoured for his Knack of stopping drug couriers was shot and kilted tues Day night after making a traffic Stop official said wednesday. A Mammoth three hour search for a suspect who fled on foot into a swampy area ended when lawmen in an airboat picked up a Man Aboul 11 p.m., said maj. Charles Hall of the Highway patrol. Another suspect fled North on interstate 75 in a Black Cadillac Hall  Jeffrey d. Young was shot on i-7s, just East of this coastal Manatee county City. He died at the scene Hall said. Early indications arc that one of the suspects shot the trooper with his own weapon he said. About 100 lawmen from area agencies searched for the suspect who was armed with Young s .357 magnum handgun authorities said officers carry ing machine guns and wearing combat fatigues lined the Highway embankments. Informer to be dropped / from Protection program Washington a the government is Roppi no former organized crime Leader Altadena Jimmy the Weaser Fratianno from its witness Protection program nearly a decade after be be came an informer a Justice department spokes Man said thursday. Fratianno one time acting Boss of the los Angeles crime Syndicate will be dropped from the government program that provided him witha stipend a new identity and pre Lection in Exchange for his testimony against other organized crime figures said John Russell a spokesman for the department. When asked Why Fratianno was being dropped from the program now Russell replied eventually everybody is terminated and it Vas determined that his time has  Russcol initially said Frati Aitano would have his Protection by . Marshals Cut off and no longer would receive the payments to cover his routine expenses. In a later Telephone conversation however Russell said Only the payments would be ended