European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 1987 the stars and stripes Ann Landers Page 11 letters dear Ann Landers with All the talk about aids no one has said for certain whether or not a person can get his deadly disease from mosquitoes. It seems log Eal to me that mos -4l oui Tow would be carriers because they bite tuck up blood and go on to bite someone else. Please address this in your column Ann. Several members of my family Are a concerned As i am and we need some answers.  i South Carolina do Soj 1 Hart done a neat Deal of inn Lalog about thai subject became i be seen used the question so often. I in Nappy to remit thit net single scientist with whom tune clucked believes then is toy Chance that a mos Quito pm infect person with the aids virus. I Emte now from an article in the Chicago Tribune by science writer Ronald Kotulak population studies in areas where both aids and mosquitoes Are per Lent have tailed to find a connection Between Mosquito Biles and transmission of the virus. Laboratory Experiment designed to simulate Mosquito transmission of aids have shown that while mosquitoes that were Ted blood containing Large amount of the rims retained the ring in their bodies for at least 48 noon the Sims did no appear to multiply in the mosquitoes. Furthermore when infected mosquitoes were Given healthy human White blood cells to feed on they were unable to trans Mit Ibe rims to these cell although while cells Are the Normal target of the virus mosquitoes transmit about 70 different types of Dis ease causing elms i to humans including those that cause yellow fever malaria Dengue fever and encephalitis. Bat these viruses multiply to mosquitoes while the aids virus apparently does not according Lodr. Gary Noble. Aids coordinator for the National institutes of Zeatta. Scientists at the National centers for disease control s infect Laboratory at fort Collins Colo injected the aids Sims into mosquitoes and bedbugs and found that the virus could neither grow nor replicate in these insects. I repeat there is no scientific evidence to support the claim that inmans can get aids from mosquitoes. So dear readers this is one thing less to worry about. Dear readers while we Are in the health department i would like of set the record straight on genital warts. If there was Ever a doubt As to whether physician read my column let a assure you that they most certainly do. I have hundreds of letters to prove it the Gaffe that appeared in regard to genital warts brought not gynaecologists dermatologists oncologists and  & Large numbers. They made it abundantly Clear that genital warts should not be viewed in a casual manner because certain types can become cancerous. The most effective methods of getting rid of genital warts an by laser surgery cryotherapy Freez ing and potentially interferon which is an Ana viral substance. To add to the helpful information from the doctor who wrote i telephoned or. Stephen Comite in new York and or. Richard Reid in Detroit both were extremely Grandau and generous with their time. I should also make it Clear that while most genital Waits Are contracted sexually thu is not always the my thanks to All who wrote. I owe it to my readers to lift Cornet information and with All of Yoo looking Over my shoulder i am bound to do so. Cafes responds to critics of Catalon i m writing about what appears to be the waste of Lime and Money that is the cafes Catalon. It just seems not to be serving the military Community in anyway. First the things in there arc not what you would Call really popular items. Common sense would ill anyone thai $11,645 rolex watches s250 desk top barome ters and $17.50 japanese Kimono garments just won t hit the spot with the soldiers the Catalon is meant to serve. Second if the soldiers can afford to waste Money on the Range of useless Knick Knacks presented in that Catalon then they certainly can afford logo out an the Economy to buy the same stuff while absorbing some of that european culture. Third and finally it must Cost a lot of Money tomake All of the thousands of those full color 850-Page Cata logs bound in a Nice Glossy cover that would put Sears to shame. And All of it a waste because except for the stereo equipment nobody wants that stuff. My question is the Catalon making Money and where do you think up ideas for what you put in there Robert seyfors Mannheim Germany in april 1985, an air Force suggestion was approved to assist cafes in better controlling the distribution of its mail order Cata logs. The suggestion would have increased the availability of the Cata logs and Al the same time reduced the need to publish so Many. Unfortunately i suggestion was never implemented. Now in 1987, cafes tells us that the Cost of a mail order Catalon will be $3, it also tells us that it will be taking a loss of 27 cents for each of the 500,000 copies and 13.27 for another 200,000 copies that will be Given away. This is a loss overhead of 1789,000 per year. And remember this is just for the overseas Edi Tion cafes is attributing the decline in mail order sales to the better availability of merchandise in their stores and he decline of the Dollar. Can this be True is it just a new Way for cafes to Pat itself on the Back and begin to reduce the merchandise in the stores i would estimate that 80 percent of the merchandise in the cafes mail order Catalon is souvenir and other Nice to have items. All Are High profit High turnover and extremely Low in usefulness. Has cafes consid ered adopting the merchandise selections of the several major retailers to which Gary Haynie cafes spokes Man has so easily compared cafes maybe the cafes captive customers really want useful Merchan Dise rather than souvenirs. It is really hard for me to understand How cafes can justify such management actions when other meth ods have not been exhausted or even tried. If cafes made the Catalon available to All and not just the first to come each with four to Lix copies if cafes did in fact include predominantly essential items instead of Good to Hsc items maybe in sales would go up. This would probably decrease the profit margin and therefore 1 seriously doubt it would Ever be approved by top level management. Cafes you have lost my business with your junk foods and souvenir items. A Rhein Malner editor s note col. Donald e. Gilbert lice commander he makes Europe replies believe it or not there Are people out there who enjoy buying things other than stereo equipment. The Exchange Catalon provides a service to All branches of in military diplomatic missions overseas and other Minto riled customers of All income Levels. The Catalon assortment is intended to meet the de mands of a wide variety of Exchange customers Many of whom Are not close enough to a Large Exchange store. Hems in the Catalon Are added and dropped based of anticipated customer acceptance in the Case of new items or proven customer demand for repeat products. There were 1,220 rolex watches bought through Theca Talog during the past year but Only six of these were in the Price Range you quoted. Customers bought 2,750kimonos and 327 desk lop weather stations. More than 17,000 orders re processed monthly worldwide amounting to $4.1 million in Salea. New items Are selected from Trade shows buyer Market vis its customer suggestions and manufacturers presentations. Historically the Catalon operation has Ben a Profita ble one but the erosion of the Dollar against foreign currencies Over the past year and a half has increased he overseas operating coals. Because of this the Catalon will Cost s3 this year but will also contain some rebate certificates for Hose who use the Catalon. Cafes has also closed two overseas warehouses Andis looking at Oiler Cost cutting options. Conversely the America portion of the Catalon is showing record sales and earnings. The "87-s8 Catalon will have 32 fewer pages than the87 Catalon and the 88-89 Catalon will be reduced by another 340 pages with the reductions being primarily in foreign source merchandise. A suggestion to save Toshiba executives rat annul ten Synott Shumun la Man Newcomn l Voi an imm to or t met Tom Stin no Smon. Apo tall  Fanija 1 read writers decry Toshiba sales  i am impressed by the Luc Kiness of responses which differ from a few previous respondents who exercised their rights to be ignorant and less astute. On the lighter Side i would like to offer a Resoluti Onlo this so called Toshiba juror that should save a Lew japanese executives their fingers and faces. Why does t the \ is subsidize Toshiba to Giveaway a free ghetto blaster and a run dec Lape with every noiseless propeller produced by the rus trading for Stamps i in in Mig Tor Hahn Vantti whom to Trina . 4nd Mofid to Impi a Tom a Vaw mid promptly suit Gui c �  Apo . 09109-�62 sians if the blasters Are used on the subs we should be Able to identify them from a considerable distance at great technological savings. This could also work with russian Mobile missile launchers at even greater savings. 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