European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday septembers 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 of wants Utah site to test electronic weapons Salt Lake City up the air Force has chosen the uninhabited West Ern Utah desert for a proposed Multi Bil lion Dollar  lest Range for electronic weapons systems the service said. Plans for the proposed National elec tronic combat test rang at the air forces Utah test and training Range were made Public his week in a idler from acting air Force Secretary tidal Mccoy to gov. Norm bang ruler. Mccoy indicated the concept has been evolving since 1985 and the uninhabited Western Utah desert is the desired location for the War games Complex. Mccoy said the air Force was opposed u nearby Sites that Utah has pro posed for the superconducting supercollider because most of the dec electronic combat testing will be highly  the air Force is concerned about pos sible Security breaches if the $4.4 billion supercollider i built in the Utah desert because scientists from East european it Anions would be involved in Collider experiments Mccoy said. This would be a High tech facility ultrahigh tech capt. Mike Laughtin an air Force spokesman said wednesday. La would be the first full scale Range of its Type. Utah is our no. 1  Long term projected Cost of the facility to be completed by 2005, would be 52,6 billion Laughlin said. But these arc very speculative  the proposed project also would mean up to 800 jobs during construction in the mid-1990s, he said. The isl Range is considered extremely important Laughlin said. The not War if Here is one is going to be won or loss in the electromagnetic spectrum. Whoever comes out on lop with this electronic warfare stuff is going to come out on lop in  the Range would lest Bath offensive and defensive electronic weapons sys tems utilizing mock air missions against simulated enemy install Lions laugh in said. The defense department has asked each military Branch to submit proposals for testing electronic weapons systems he said. We will test Pur offensive units going in against a realistic defense and our de sense against an  House subcommittees have endorsed the plan but not officially said a spokesman for rep. James Hansen r Utah. 30% of ads me fed children orphaned or abandoned at birth aids in , mass. Api about one third of the children born with aids Are orphaned or abandoned when hey Are born and some die with out leaving the Hospital because Foster or adoptive parents cannot be found in time social workers say. People resist taking in an aids victim both be cause they fear the disease and Are unable to face he thought of losing he child experts say. These children Are bom in the Hospital they suffer in the Hospital and then they die said Penny Ferrer special assistant to the Deputy commissioner of the department of human resources in new York City. Ferrer said she knew of no adoptions of children Wilh aids in the City although there arc about 30 waiting for placement. She said she knows of four or five who have died. We have children who have wailed almost a year Tor Foster Homes she said. Many children Wilh aids Are born with he disease acquiring it from their Mother and about 25 per cent to 35 percent. Will not be cared for by their biological  according to a june Survey of 25 states by Phyllis Tourse executive director of the Massachusetts adoption resource Exchange. Still she said there Are people who feel their Spe Cial Mission is to help and save aids  in Massachusetts eight families have inquired about caring for some of he 18 children in the slate Wilh aids who need Homes. Tourse said. Among hem is Peggy Marengo 4who with a Friend is the guardian of two 4-Monlh-old aids infants and a 314-year-old infected with the disease. They Are seeking to adopt the oldest child after providing 1 i years of care. My entire family has abandoned me More or less said Marengo and a lot of friends have also left us in the lurch opting not to Cope Wilh becoming emotion ally attached to the babies. A of aug. 24, according to the centers for disease control in Atlanta there were 563 children Wilh aids in he United states compared to 280 at the end of 1986. Surgeon general c Everett Koop has said there will be 3,000 in the next five Yean. Their life expectancy is one to two years social workers Lay. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome damages the body s immune system leaving victims susceptible to infections and cancer. It is spread most often through sexual Contact Needles shared by drug abusers in Mosir icim felted blood or blood products and from pregnant women to their offspring. Tourse said Many states have been slow 10 come up with policies that would help children with aids get placed in Foster or adoptive Homo. Of the 25 sum she surveyed Only California Connecticut Idaho new York and Alaska have such policies she said. Marengo who cares for the children at her Home in Worcester said she and a Friend Are kept by Jav with a Bone wearying regimen of care that includes several five hour Hospital visits a week Tor transfusions and constant attention at Home. Often children with aids swell up a lot she said. They have constant diarrhoea so you re constantly changing sheets watering Down Beds. The fear of death is very anxiety producing but nothing thai can t be worked with she said. We do that Alf the Lime every Lime one of Ihm gels a sniffle because who knows what that s going to turn  annual slate support for each child ranges from $11,000 to $15,000, bul docs not meet expenses that include costs for 450 diapers a week and special for Mula costing each child $25 a Day said Marengo. There s no amount of Money that you could pay to do this said Marengo. We just have a Large Home and a lot of love to  Belgium says it May have 10,000 with aids virus Brussels Belgium a Belgium has one of Western Europe s highest aids Rales the government said thursday estimating that up to 10,000 people in this nation of 9.9 million carry the virus. Public health Secretary of state Wivina do Seesler said 2,25 people have registered with the National aids commission As acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus carriers. Bul it is believed the actual number of virus carriers must be up to 10,000," he statement added. As of june 30, there were 255 confirmed cases of aids up from 81 two years ago and 153 people had died of the disease since it reached Belgium in recent years. The statement said Belgium s High aids rate was largely due to the great number of foreigners mostly from the former belgian colonies of Zaire Burundi and Ruanda. Wrong turn Appolo parking May be hard to find in most european cities but it appear this ear he found a space. Actually the cur is an unusual work of lit created by an artists collective to brighten the facade of a new office building in the Center of Rotterdam Netherlands downtown am. . To fill Post in Cuba with career Diplomat Washington a the Reagan administration has decided to tend a career Diplomat to Cuba to head the . Diplo Matic Mission there. Filling a vacancy thai dates Back to lost january. . Officials said thursday. The Post has remained vacant since then partly As an i prestion of . Concern Over the cuban decision tale last year to suspend the flights the . Government had been chartering 10 keep the Mission supplied the officials said. The officials insisting on anonymity. Saij the  has decided to appoint John Taylor s5. To replace Curt Kamman who was reassigned to the stale department in january. The state department gave serious consideration to ordering the expulsion of Cuba s chief Diplomat in Washington Ramon Sancho i Urix i. In retaliation fur the Supply flight suspension the officials said. Imi Nulty. Hij Lillep  ruled out. The to Junta do Nul hav caul Diplo Matic Racli Iluma bul a of out their business through so called interests sections in each ohm capitals. They were opened 10 years ago this Wal Cuba suspended the Rupply flights last december in apparent retaliation Tor spy the United Sipics periodically sends Over the Island. Cuba also denied . Official unimpeded Licens Al the Airport to Havana to ponchos carrying diplomatic Meta prs the officials said. Tiey added thai Cuba has since relented granting two Rupply flights i n Early summer and in other one this week the problem concerning diplomatic pouches also has been resolved i hey said