European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday october 25.1987 the uni Rosity of mime Sci Hospital s chief of sur very or. John Najarian smiles Ai he discusses the Good health of 5-year-old Jamie hike at a news con Jamie s doing Fine Fence Friday. Jamie of Bridgewater mass retired her transplant in 1982 after her father appealed for a donor on nationwide leter Fotion. Predatory prisoners who test positive for virus will be isolated Washington a Federal inmates who test positive for exposure to the aids virus and who Dis play predatory or promiscuous behaviour will be Iso lated from the general prison population the Justice department says. The department on Friday also released statistics showing that nearly 500 prison inmates about 3 per cent of those tested under a Pilot program were found to have aids antibodies indicating exposure to the Sims. In a news release the Justice department said the government will launch a new five part mandatory aids a Sling program but that plan Drew immediate criticism from a prisoners rights group. As of now 16,372 Federal prisoners have been tested for the deadly aids virus under n program in the prison system that began june 15. Of that number 494, or j percent testified positive for exposure to the virus the government reported. There currently Are 31 cases of inmates with end stage ads in the Federal prison system out of a population of More than 44,000. Among those who will be tested under the new pro Gram Are inmates who have exhibited predatory or promiscuous behaviour said the statement. Inmates in that category who test positive for the aids virus will be separated from the general inmate population the statement added. Bureau of prisons director j. Michael Quinlan was unavailable to answer questions about the new policy which took effect immediately. Inmates who Are segregated will be housed in single person cells and won t eat work or have recreation activities with he prison s general population said Faricia Sledge a Bureau of prisons spokeswoman. Inmates who exhibit predatory behaviour Are those known to rape other inmates she said. At his Point we estimate that this group of in mates would represent less than i percent of the Feder Al prison population Stedge said. The plan was questioned immediately by the National prison project of the american civil liberties Union. There no Probki with isolating predatory in mates said Urvashi Vaid a spokeswoman for the prison project. We be been arguing in favor of that All along. The question of what is promiscuous behaviour is one that s open to interpretation. We think prisoners As adults ought to be Able to engage in consensual sexual other Federal inmates who will be tested for expo sure to aids or acquired immune deficiency syn drome include those who Are going to be involved in Community activities. Our concern is whether the Bureau of prisons will use these lest results to deny inmates who test positive for exposure to the aids virus Access to Community programs such As Halfway houses and family visits Sai Dvaid. Sledge said that a person about to be involved in Community activities who tests positive will receive education and training so that he knows things to do to avoid giving it to anyone and in order to provide information about seeking medical attention. Vaid added that an overriding concern of the plan is the confidentiality of the lest results. Inmates have a hard enough time getting jobs in the free world she said. They would be additionally stigmatized were this information to be transmitted to a potential other inmates to be tested for aids at Federal prisons Are those who expect to be red. A within 60 Days of their release exhibit any clinical indications of the virus or ask to lie tested under the Pilot aids Lesting program the Bureau tested 9,200 newly committed inmates 4,701 inmates who were about id be placed on pre release programs 1,719 inmates who volunteered for the test and 752 inmates who had signs of the disease. Among newty committed prisoners 226. Or 2.5 per cent tested positive for the aids virus. Of those pre paring for pre release 122, or 2.6 percent tested Posi Tive. Of the volunteers 3.4 percent were positive with no total Given. Of those showing outward signs of the disease ii.6percent tested positive. A Justice department commissioned study has Dis missed the notion of a behind the bars aids epidemic concluding that the disease is spreading less rapidly in the Penat system than in the general Public. Stateside . Post will Cut costs by dropping six editions new York a the new York port will drop several editions cease distribution in outlying suburb and eliminate join in a move designed to make the Money losing newspaper viable the publisher said Fri Day. We will begin priming at 5 ., priming to Edi Lioni one at s And one at noon said publisher Patrick Purtill after a meeting with the Allied priming trades Council a coalition of newspaper unions. The change will be effective nov. 23. The Post has been on a 17-hour Cycle printing eight editions throughout the Day. This involves two Sepa rate work schedules for about 1,200 employees. Purcell said he could not give even a rough number of How Many jobs would be lost Mack trucks factory in Allentown pa., closes Allentown a. Up Mack trucks inc. Officially closed its massive 62-year-old production Plant Friday eliminating about 1,800 jobs. The last truck rolled off the Assembly line at the Allentown Plant wednesday without fanfare but it marked the end of an Era in Eastern Pennsylvania s Lehigh Valley. University seeks $ 100,000 to restore Audubon prints Champaign 111. A a collection of engravings of North american Birds made by John James Audubon in the 1830s is being threatened by acid from animal glue used As backing a University librarian said Friday. The University of Illinois is seeking to raise up to $100,000 to try to reverse the aging and save the full set of 435 prints for future go Nealions said Bill Hen Derson the school s preservation librarian. Without the restoration the prints Wilt eventually become so Brittle that the paper will crumble and they will be destroyed. Within the next 25 to 50 Yean he said. Called the Birds of the collection includes the wild Turkey the largest Bird painted by the famous naturalist. The trumpeter Swan snowy egret Blue Heron Canada Goose and american Fumi Ogo Are among the most popular Birds in the collection. Teen Ager who was jailed suing police town officials Philadelphia a a teen Ager who was Pul in jail for being late to school is suing police and town authorities for ii 75,000. Diana Kapp 18, of Ridley township and her parents. Robert and Barbara filed suit in Federal court claiming the girl s civil rights were violated by false imprisonment. According to the suit Kapp then 16, missed her school bus on oct. 22. 1985, and started walking. She was picked up by police less than a Block from Ridley High school and taken into custody for loitering and claims she was placed in a jail cell for 45 minutes. She was cited for loitering. The charge was dismissed last year the suit says. Hammer prize awarded to 3 cancer researchers Pittsburgh a three scientists will share the 1100,000 Hammer priv for cancer research philanthropist Armand Hammer announced Friday. The three Are Bernard Fisher of the University of Pittsburgh school of Medicine Donald Metcalf of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of medical research in Melbourne. Australia and Malcolm Moore of memo rial Sloan a catering cancer Center in new York. Hammer chairman of the Hammer prize foundation made the announcement at a meeting at the University of Pittsburgh. Fisher has studied breast and Colon rectal cancer. Metcalf studied substances in the body that enhance the immune system and Moore researched the Impact of a Cervin Type of Gene cloning on various cancers including acute leukaemia said Hammer chairman of Occidental Petroleum corp. The prize is awarded annually to scientists who have made significant contributions toward a cure for can cer. The award ceremony is scheduled Jan. 7 in los Angeles
