European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 8. 1967 the stars and stripes Page 7 Texas Agency s welfare begins at Home Houston a the Agency responsible for caring for inc poor in Texas which ranks 46lh in the nation in the size of its welfare payments has spent1130,000 on furniture or its new offices including a j6.fi 19 conference Lable according to a report published sunday. The Houston Post said inc department of human services spent More Money on one swivel chair for its executive suite than in docs on a year s Worth of payments for one cd i id. I find it distressing thai they arc supposed r years and years scientists were slow to realize aids danger Bloomington ind. A scientists were slow to enter the Batik against aids some because they thought it would be solved quickly like legionnaires1 disease but the virus worldwide Impact has changed thai says an aids expert. Or. Michael Gottlieb co founder and chairman of the american foundation for aids research identified the first cases of the disease in Laic 1980 and is credited with reporting the first aids cases to the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta. Gottlieb who also serves As director of clinical research at Porton medical lab oratories in Encino calif., addressed about 70 social researchers and aids scientists at a four Day conference on the disease at Indiana University s Kinsey Institute. The conference was to end tuesday. In he very first Days in was hard to generate interest on the part of legitimate scientists he said. Some of them resisted abandoning established lines of re search. Some hesitated because of the stigma associated with this specific disease. And others because they thought that aids appeared to be a very Brief episode Short lived and solved quickly like pre nine bodies held hostage in Rwanda amar1llo, Texas a families of nine people killed in an air plane crash in Rwanda say they have been unable to secure he return of their relatives1 re Mains from the african nation. Bob Gerald brother of Nancy Gerald a nurse who died in thursday s Accident received a Telegram Friday from the state department As did other victims families. A form attached to the Bottom told them the remains could be returned to them fora minimum of 110,000 for each person Gerald said. Otherwise the families could have the bodies buried in a mass grave for $ 1,000 each he said. But when the Gerald family later tried to make arrangements the slate depart ment told them a mistake had been made and that they could not have the body Gerald said. We were old we had no Choice be cause of the location of the crash. Be came there was no Way of Selling out to inc site Gerald said. There was no Way of transporting their bodies  he said relatives also were old the bodies including that of a kenyan missionary who hitched a ride on the fatal Feighl were not identifiable. Chicago aids victims Braco in percent or cumulative total in percent of new cases per year hispanic Blacks a Fisaga Tribune chans source Chicago Dapar mum of Hulth 1sb2 8$ 67 Vious epidemics such As legionnaires disease and toxic Shock  the discovery of the aids virus his human immunodeficiency virus and an appreciation of its unique biological behaviour its unique danger As a human Pathogen its worldwide Impact an appreciation of the number of people affected worldwide by his has changed All that he said. Once some scientific successes were made morale in the scientific Community improved and this was helped bythe growing availability of research  aids attacks the body s immune sys tem and is spread through Contact wit blood and semen from infected people. The Kinsey Institute conference is de signed to bring human behaviour re searchers into Contact with aids medi Cal investigators said Gottlieb one of the symposium s organizers. The medical Community can investigate the causes and prevention of aids while behavioural researchers arc Best equipped to help people talk about their sexual practices and suggest which practices Are Hairdo us those at the a infer once said aids can be contracted through contaminated hypodermic Needles and tainted blood products but has been spread primarily through anal inter course both by homosexuals and heterosexuals Gottlieb and others said. Despite the danger to women who engage in such sex Many family doctors Are reluctant to broach the subject with heir heterosexual female a Licals said Gott Lieb adding that 26 percent of aids Vic Tims Are heterosexual. The Basic Point is this we must get Over being  by aids and the fact that it s a sexually Mimi died Dis ease he said embarrassment has been an inappropriate response to this epidemic. Unfortunately it s a response lha Twe have seen for  capturing Kennedy on the Button is goal of Boston memorial panel Boston a the committee As signed to choose a John f. Kennedy me Morial statue to stand outside the a Alehouse has run into a hitch no one seems certain if the top Button of inc Laic president s suit coat should be buttoned. The Issue arose when two models for the statue had the top Button fastened and de Martin an aide 10 sen. Edward m. Kennedy asked if they could be unbuttoned. If you went to Brooks Brothers they d Lei you thai if you Button the top Button it throws the suit out of line. You just Don t do in said state sen. Joseph b. Walsh co chairman of the 28-member special legislative commission on a John f. Kennedy memorial but historical accuracy May beg to Dif Fer. I looked at 200 photographs of Juk and his top Button is buttoned said sculptor Isabel Mcllvain of Concord whose work is one of five semifinalists for the statue. But if you want him unbuttoned that s All right by  essayist . White once said admiringly that Kennedy never feared the weather and that he moved bareheaded and confidently through history. You would think that the lop but ton was always open said Juk Library curator and former presidential aide Dave Powers. But i went Back in the files 60, 61, 62, 63, and it s buttoned in the pictures the Button Issue must be resolve sometime soon the $150,000 statue is expected to be in place by the former president s 72nd birthday in May 1989. Kennedy a Democrat served As presi Dent from 1961 to 1963. He began hit political career As a congressman rep resenting Boston from 1947-53 and Wai elected to the . Senate in 1952. Ai the Vietnam memorial in washing ton Kennedy is depicted in a statue Cre ated by Frederick Hart with his tie and Trench Oai blowing in the wind. Gays arrested in St. Patrick s Cathedral new York a eleven Gay men and women were arrested sunday during mass in St. Patrick s Cathedral when they protested their exclusion from the roman Catholic Church. The demonstrators affiliated with he social Justice committee of dignity in new York were served with a temporary restraining order barring them from tres passing and interrupting the sunday services. Fimbers of the committee Rose in prayer while the homily was delivered and then refused to be sealed when Llie other parishioners sat Down. Police removed the protesters som of whom were sporting purple armbands and buttons with the words Gay and Catholic from the Cathedral. The Rev. Thomas Neilson did not interrupt Hii Sermon during the incident Cardinal John j. O Connor who nor Mally celebrates masses in the Cathe dral was in the Philippines Over inc weekend. Among the Aims being sought by Chr group arc support by the Church for committed Gay and lesbian Loving relationships said Robert Pusilo chairman of the group