European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday september 14. 1987 under the gaze of the Sphinx one of the largest stages Ever built is being put together on Giza plateau by soldiers As Cairo Egypt prepares for his month s gala performance s of Giu Seppe Verdi s opera the sept. 21-29 production by Tea fro Petruzzelli a photo of Barl Italy will use the Sphinx and the Colza pyramids As backdrops. Doctor s idea to sterilize Tattoo aids carriers angers colleagues Geneva a a Swiss physician s suggestion that carriers be sterilized and marked with tattoos has drawn an outraged response from fellow doctors who said the ideas recalled nazi methods. Recto Tscholl a physician and professor from the Canton of Aargau argued that his suggestions plus mandatory testing for the virus were effective ways of protecting against aids. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is caused by a virus that destroys the body s ability to fight infection and cancers. On Friday the latest Issue of the bulletin of Swiss doctors printed eight pages of indignant responses to Tscholl s proposal which had been made in a letter to the journal s editor two weeks earlier. Aids victims would ultimately be forced to submit to the measures which would violate the right to Pri Vacy Swiss doctors said in letters to the medical Community s publication. Objectors to such measures would Likely be jailed and tourists deported the Doc tors said. The monstrous undertaking could not be implemented due to logistical problems and memories of methods used in Adolf Hitler s third Reich two doctors signing As t. Corny and l. Tschopp said in a joint response. Calling for mandatory testing and sterilization Point to or. Tscholl s totalitarian tendency a letter from or. Juerg Theus said. The danger of these Mea sures is documented in history books. Tscholl defended his ideas in a response published alongside the letters of protest. He said testing Switzerland s entire population for aids every three to five months was an organizational Challenge but did not mean a revision of the Sigma ligation in everyday life could be avoided by tattooing Only the perineum the Bridge Between the anus and genitals he said. Swiss health Laws allow for quarantine of epidemic carriers. Tscholl said so sexual segregation of aids infected people would be similarly useful and Legal. World today yugoslav vice president announces resignation Belgrade Yugoslavia a vice presiden Hamdija Pozderac who was in line to become presi Dent next Spring submitted his resignation in the midst of a major financial scandal in Yugoslavia the official tan Jug news Agency said. In a Brief announcement on saturday tan Jug said Poz Derac 63, announced his decision at a session of the presidium of the bosnian communist party in Sarajevo. Pozderac was one of eight members of the state presidency. They represent the six yugoslav republics and two provinces and take turns serving As president of Yugoslavia for 12-month periods. Tan Jug earlier reported that Pozderac denied any involvement in the financial scandal entering around the agro Komarc company which reportedly issued millions of dollars of uncovered Bills of Exchange. Vietnam freeing 6,685 prisoners Bangkok Thailand a the vietnamese government has ordered the release of More than 6.600 prisoners including generals and senior officials of the toppled South vietnamese regime the Vietnam news Agency said sunday. Among those granted amnesty were 480 military and civilian personnel of the former South vietnamese government who have been held in re cd Calion Camps the official Agency reported. The imprisoned officials had been rounded up 12 years ago following the communist Victor Over South Mark iwo key anniversaries the decision was made to free 6,685 prisoners and reduce the terms for 5.320 others said Vna. Which was monitored in Bangkok. It said at least some of the prisoners have already been released. The former South vietnamese officials include two ministers lit administrative officials nine officers of general rank 248 Field officers and 117 Junior officers the Agency said. They were All convicted of crimes against the peo Vna said. However the government applied a lenient policy toward them by sending them to re Edu cation Camps. In the process they have shown their resolve to mend their the dispatch did not describe the crimes for which the other prisoners ordered released had been held. In 1975, tens of thousands of South vietnamese were sent to re education Camps. Some were released after a few Davs. Others after several years and those Vietnam termed die hards have been incarcerated since the Victory. Recently vietnamese officials have said that Only about 7,000 persons remained in re education. The Vna report said the amnesty was decided upon by the Council of ministers on the occasion of nation Al Day. Sept. 2, and the 42nd anniversary aug. 19 of Vietnam s August revolution when a communist government was first proclaimed in North Vietnam. Troops patrol Fiji capital to quell rampaging gangs Suva Fiji a armed troops patrolled Suva s streets and motorists were stopped at checkpoints on sunday after gangs went on a burning and smashing rampage in the capital. At least six buildings owned by Indian businessmen were damaged but no injuries were reported during the attacks that lasted for about two hours late saturday. Authorities released few details bin radio reports said police were questioning 13 nun Walesa attends funeral of pro Solidarity priest Warsaw Poland a Lech Walesa joined 7,000 mourners saturday at the funeral for the Rev. Teofil Bogucki. A supporter of the outlawed Solidarity Union federation. Bogucki. 79, an outspoken critic of Poland s communist authorities died of a stroke wednesday. He was Provo of St. Stanislaw Kostka Church for 13 years. Father Provost to will not surrender Karol Sadurski a Solidarity Leader from the Warsaw Steelworks said in a Eulogy. The remark brought cheers from the Crow filling St. Stamslaw s courtyard and an adjacent Street
