European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 18, 1987 the stars and stripes pages Wright defends role in c. America a a is White House freezes out leftists Washington a House speaker Jim Wright monday accused the Reagan administration of treating Cen trial americans As inferiors and suggested hat his involvement in regional peace efforts Nils a vacuum left by Rea Gan s Effort 10 diplomatically freeze out he leftist Nicaragua government. The harsh talk followed a meeting by Wicen Unghi president Reagan Secretary of state George p. Shultz and other top administration officials. The meeting failed to Bridge  Over Wright s personal involvement in the peace process. Perhaps if hey had an open door policy to people in Central America those people would go to Sec them in Stead of coming to Sec me Wright said at a luncheon with reporters after the White House meeting. The Reagan administration some times gives the unfortunate impression that it looks upon people in Central America As inferiors by scorning them lecturing them holding them up to pub Lic ridicule refusing to Sec them he said. I guess i m just More egalitarian than they  Wright had sought the meeting with Rea Gan after being hit by a barrage of criticism Over the weekend about his direct participation in meetings last week with Nicara Givian president Daniel Ortega  Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo and  rebels. The combatants with Obando Bravo As intermediary arc seeking to come up wild a cease fire plan to meet the requirements of a five nation Central american peace Accord signed in August. Nicaragua president Daniel Ortega said his government accepted Wright s suggestion that four american advise stake part in cease fire negotiations and he said Obando y Bravo would name his own support team. The four americans named Are Paul c. Wamke head of the arms control and disarmament Agency when Jimmy Carter was president de King a retired colonel who has studied Central Ameri can armies Wilson Morris an aide to Wright and Richard Pena who has worked with Wright on Central Ameri can issues. However Wright on monday said his offer to provide technical help to Oban do y Bravo for the cease fire talks now appeared unlikely to be adopted. My impression from talking with the Cardinal was thai he has people of his  did t need any help Wight said. During the hour Long Seu Iun with Reagan and Bis top advisers Wright sought to reassure hem that he was not trying to usurp the administration s diplomatic prerogatives but was Only urging openness on All sides to keep the peace Effort alive the speaker said. White House spokesman Merlin Fitz Walcer said Reagan used the meeting to Point out the confusion that arises and the misleading impressions that can be left if me Mem of Congress without co ordination with the executive Branch involve themselves in Complex negotiations with foreign head of government in a statement Fitzwater said the president expressed his concern Over inc speaker s role in getting involved in what should be essentially a matter betwee the sandinista government and the nicaraguan resistance both sides kit with i hair positions unchanged. I should t suggest to you that we agreed completely on the Best Way to perform this role said Wright d Texas. He said Reagan profoundly mistrust anything that anybody Down there in Nicaragua says. His ides they re a communists and they la just lie to you. Well they re not All communists. Som of them Are and some Aren  a White House official speaking Only on condition of anonymity called the meeting a fairly tense discussion with each Side trying to persuade the other that it was right. We were unconvinced by Wright s arguments inc offi Cial said. At inc state department spokesman Charles Redman rejected Wright s con in lion that inc administration looks Down on Central americans i m not quite sure which Central Ameri cans Wright had in mind Redman  Ilie Central american democracies at least we have very close cordial relations he said noting that a Fittz and other official meet often with  of who governments. School District sets aside class for aids children Granite City ii. A a 7-year-old boy with an alos linked Dis order began his first Day of school Mon Day alone in a special classroom set aside for students who be been exposed to the aids virus. He was really Happy. He. Got me up at Dawn said Jason s Mother Tarn Mic Robertson recalling her son s excite ment before she walked him to the Porta ble classroom set up near the elementary school parking lot. Jason a Haemophilia a became infected with the aids virus after a transfusion of tainted blood products he suffers from advanced aids related Complex a pot Cut rally fatal disorder Sim Ilar to a ids thai May be a precursor to the deadly disease. At Robertson s urging the Granite City Madison Venice special education District set up a classroom for children with antibodies in their blood that Indi Cate exposure to the aids virus. So far Jason a first grader is the classroom s Only student. Schools superintendent Gilbert Wolm Stey said the program is no different from separate special education classes for handicapped people although the american civil liberties Union of Illinois has criticized it As abject  part of what goes on in the educational process is socialization and inter action said Jay Miller executive Dirac Jason Robertson and his Mother near inc special classroom at Granite City Iii. A 11010 Tor of the organization. All of a Tud ten this child is isolated. I m not surr that child is going to be very Happy Wilb i a and it s going to add to the psychological Burden of inc  Robertson said she opted for the aids classroom because she believed daily tutoring would be insufficient compared with a full school Day. She said she had not pressed to put him in a regular class due to concern about Public backlash. Even the special classroom has met fears. One of two teachers scheduled to Leach Jason backed out Lale last week along with a janitor scheduled to clean inc room she said. And parents threat Enedio pull their children out of school if the principal at nearby Prather  school also oversaw Jason s activities. They though the aids virus would jump out at them like fleas Robertson said. I Don t have 100 percent  but Walmsley said school attendance was average at Prather on monday. Re Mored protests did not material inc. Mrs. Robertson said. Robertson said Jason s health is Good with no serious problems lately except for some occasional headaches. Aids cripples the body s defences against disease leaving a person prey to life threatening infections and certain cancers. Sexual disease test kit developed by Kodak Rochester . A Eastman Kodak co. Says it has devel oped tests for pregnancy Strep Throat and sexually transmitted diseases that can provide answers in 15 minutes in the doctor s office. Kodak expects to sell the sur cell test kits to doctors but has not ruled out sales in stores said Dank Shilt director of diagnostics markets in Kodak s clinical products division. Other companies offer rapid test Kils for pregnancy and Strep Throat but there is no one wish kits for sexually transmitted diseases. Shilt said. The tests Are for his the causative agent for aids gonorrhoea herpes chlamydia and for pregnancy and streptococcus a. Food and drug administration approval is expected within three months. Mark Hughes an analyst with bos ton biomedical consultants in Wai Haiti mass., said several dozen companies Are working on similar products. If Kodak can stick to its schedule and actually have the kits out in the new Frei by Early next year then it May be ahead of its competitors Hughes said. Prices have not been set Kodak said Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. 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