European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday septembers 1987 papal preparations Security officials watch u � 90-foot,30-ton White Cross la constructed on the Campus of Florida International University in Miami site of the Pope s open air muss Friday. During is two Day stay in he City the pontiff will visit with president and mrs. Reagan and with is. Jewish leaders. He will then trawl throughout the United states and Canada until sept. 19. Federal panel told airlines discriminate against aids patients Washington a airline trav Elm with aids want to be treated Tike any other passengers but instead the air carriers arc discriminating against hem say an aids patient and an advocate Tor people with the deadly illness. Joseph Mair an acquired immune deficiency syndrome pal enl from Balti More told a Federal panel thursday that people who Lell an airline they have the disease should be treated with respect and not barred from flying. I Don t think people who have that courage should be penalized he Laid the committee which a preparing regulations to Block discrimination by the air lines against disabled people mater and Maura a. Montoya jr.,Legal director of the Whitman Walker clinic s aids program in Washington said there should be no restrictions on air travel by aids patients except for those who require special care such a carrying oxygen tanks. Airlines arc Justi fied in those cases in asking Tor doctors notes Clearing them to Fly they said. Aids is a frightening and deadly Dis Case Montoya said. It is also a hard disease to contract. One cannot catch aids from Silling in an airline scat next to an aids patient. Added Mair there have been and will be aids patients going Home to die unable to Lake air planes. At this stage in our lives we need to be treated with  Over two Days of hearings in washing ton that ended thursday advocates for the Blind deaf and people who ust wheelchairs complained that the airlines often treat the disabled in humiliating ways. They also said the carriers sometimes have insufficient equipment to handle special needs such As bathrooms that would be accessible to people in wheelchairs. Mair and Montoya testified that any rules the panel draws up should Prat Daids patients against discrimination. Certain segments of the airline Indus try have reacted with pm Lional irrational responses based mainly on Public and private misconceptions of the Dis ease Montoya told the committee. Montoya a count a the problems faced by Brent Anderson an Ohio Man suffering from aids who became ill Dur ing a visit to China in july. Several . Airlines refused to Fly Anderson Home and his return was delayed. Eventually he was Down Back by an air Force plane and died on july 25, less than two weeks after resuming. Montoya also said he is representing a United airlines reservation agent he Aid not identify who has been placed on leave with pay after informing his employers that he has aids even though he wants 10 work. United spokesman Joseph Hopkins speaking from airline Headquarters i Chicago said the Carrier does not Dis Criminate against aids patients. He said United officials believe the reservation agent Montoya apparently referred to is physically unable to work. There is no Industry wide policy for Deal ing with travellers who have aids a Mem Ber of the panel representing the airlines said during a break in the hearing. Committee member Waller col Croan an assistant vice president of the air trans port association the airlines Trade group said an airline aware that a passenger has aids usually will ask for a doctor s note stating thai travel is permissible. I Don t think so Coleman said when asked if the airlines discriminate against passengers with aids we re talking about the difference Between what the air lines consider prudent and what is disc rim  aids an incurable disease keeps the body s immune system from resisting other diseases. In is believed to spread after Contact with blood semen and other bodily fluids of infected people. The committee considering the rights of disabled airline passengers has been meeting since june and Hope to propose regulations by Early november. Northwest airlines grounds jets to perform Bulkhead inspection stateside Eagan Minn. Api Northwest airlines is temporarily withdrawing 19 planes from service because it cannot confirm that a required inspection had been performed on them a company spokesman said thursday night said William Wren Northwest s vice president for Public relations. But the airline advised the Faa on thursday that following a review of its records it could not confirm that the Bulkhead inspection had been performed on the 19 planes part of Northwest s Fleet of 112 aircraft Wren said. The review was not related to the aug. 16 crash of a Northwest jetliner at Detroit thai killed 156 people. The Bulkhead located at the rear of the plane is part of the aircraft s Structure and not its mechanical function the spokesman said. The inspection by special teams of mechanics at Northwest s maintenance facilities in Minneapolis St. Paul and Atlanta will take i to 3 Days per aircraft Wren said. Ail planes will be returned to service within two weeks he said. Car Kcf carte s Jet makes forced Landing Omaha neb. A an oven fire on a Twa night carrying presidential candidate Bruce Babbitt forced the plane to return to Omaha on thursday bul Babbitt said the incident Only meant one less speech for him. The dc-9 landed routinely said Don Morrison Twa vice president of Public affairs in St. Louis. Trie flight was headed for St. Louis where Babbili planned to change planes for Austin Texas. We were i would guess 20 minutes in the air when All of a sudden we could smell an electrical Cut that Peculiar acrid thing you knew right away what it was Babbitt said. The Pilot dropped the plane Down made a Sharp turn and headed Back to  the plane carried a Crew of five and 79 passengers. Most passengers remained Calm said Babbitt who kept Reading the sports Page As the plane flew Back to Omaha. One of the stewardesses got kind of Panicky he said. The passengers i would say on the whole were a lot More Calm than the  Morrison said a flight attendant used an filing wish or to put out the fire. The oven located in the Galley is used to heal passengers food. Babbili a Democrat and former Arizona governor had been campaigning in Iowa the past four Days. Crime family members shot to death in . New York not two men described by the police As members of tire Colombo organized crime family were slain in Brooklyn thursday by one or two gunmen who strode up to them on squid sidewalk opened fire leaped into a car driven by an accomplice and sped away the motive Tor he slayings was unclear bul the police said they appeared Tow Gangland Assassin  victims were identified As Frank santeria 51, of Brooklyn and Carmine Variello 31, of stolen Island. Reagan Lazy about Job says retired House Leader new York a retired House speaker Thomas tip o Neil says Ronald Ragap is at the Bottom of the ladder among the eight presidents with whom he served in Washington he i Lazy o Neill said in an interview in the september Issue of Vogue Magazine he reads a three by five card and then hell say Weinberger you take Over or Shutlz. You take Over. He does t participate. He does t do his Homework. He does t like the briefings. He does t read his papers. Is he smart sure he s smart. He just in president enough hours of the Day o Neill said