European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday. December 30.1987 $30,000 fails to get Camel Over the Hump Pullman Wash. A an Arab Sheik Wilh in ailing Camel paid $30,000 for a House Call by three veterinarians bul Ihnn tic vels had to be flown in from new Vork and Washington stale. The United Arab liner ii s embassy in Washington . Contacted Washington Szalc University veterinarians Karl White and Barric Grant and Emil Dolce suck. Chief veterinarian of new York s Firon to on Dee. 17 about a $4.5 million racing Camel owned by Sheik Hamdan  Sahyan. The Camel. Air plane had t lost a race in five years but it was sidelined by injured knee Liga ments unable to compete in he popular sport. The Sheik who owns some 350 racing camels sought outside help after local cures such As placing a hot Iron on the animal s skin. Tailed. The americans determined that the beast s injuries would prevent her from Ever racing again bul White and Grant said they Hope their rip will spark interest in Camel husbandry and enable Usu to become involved with nutritional and physiological studies of racing camels in the Middle East. Innis to begin requiring premarital tests for aids Springfield. Iii. A every couple seeking a marriage License in Illinois will have to be tested for exposure to the aids virus when a Tough new package of Laws aimed at combating the deadly disease lakes effect Jan. I. Before county clerks can give a marriage License couples must provide a certificate signed by a licensed physician proving he test was administered said or. Bernard j. Turnock the state s health director. Couples will not be required to provide results of their tests to the county clerk Turnock added. Doc tors must report positive results to Public health officials bul Are prohibited from identifying patients by name. The Law. Passed by the legislature last session docs not prevent couples from marrying if either person tests positive. Linda Haas spokeswoman for the Illinois depart ment of Public health said Only one other state Loui Siana has a premarital aids testing Law. It also takes effect Jan. I. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome cripples the body s defences against disease leaving a person prey to life threatening infections and certain cancers. The syndrome is incurable and fatal and the virus that causes it is spread mainly through sexual Intercourse or shared hypodermic Needles. Testing positive Means a person has been exposed tothe virus out does not necessarily mean the person will develop aids. As of nov. 30, Illinois had 1,371 confirmed aids cases since it began keeping records in he Early 1980s.for the first 11 months of i tl7, the figure had grown by 445 cases. Nationally As of . 7, the National centers for disease control in Atlanta had received reports of 98,139 americans with aids. 27.235 of whom had died. Other key elements of the Illinois package include a requirement that schools teach students in grades 6-12 about aids unless a Parent or guardian elects not to have a child take the course. The slate Board of education plans id provide guidelines on How to fulfil the requirement but How the lessons arc to be taught will be determined by local school districts. Although he Taw takes effect Jan. School official can meet its requirement by providing the lessons at any time during the semester a Hoard of education spokeswoman said. School principals arc to be notified of the pres ence of a student in the classroom who has  school districts will determine what if anything will be done in such situations. State health officials Are obliged to set Forth Rule for racing the Schual partners of people who test Posi Tive for me human immunodeficiency virus his which causes aids. The rules will be published in january and Are expected to be fully implemented by september a health spokesman said. Jet Accident probe suggests Pilot averted fire Pensacola. Fla. A help for an Eastern airlines jetliner that cracked open after a hard Landing was delayed because the Pilot interrupted radio communications when he shut Down electrical Power to prevent n fire a Pensacola regional Airport spokesman said. It Lont firefighters three minutes to reach the plane once Airport Oft cals Cali cd the plane had failed to taxi Louk terminal after Landing late sunday night in a foggy rain Airport spokesman Carllon Proctor said monday. There was apparently no communication to the lower that there was crash said Proctor. After a while when the plane did t come Back from the runway they determined something was  although it remained unclear exactly How much time elapsed Between the Lime the plane landed and fire equipment reached the scene. Proctor said firefight ers arrived in three minutes consid ered within acceptable limits after they were notified. Officials also said they had no word on what May have caused the Accident. We Don t see any problem Wilh the Landing gear so far said Drucylla Anderson spokeswoman for the National transportation safety Board in Washington. In fact in was Down and locked and there was no apparel t damage to the 1  she said the four investigation groups �. Iras a jetliner droops its nil after splitting apart during i Herd Landing it nude at Penu Cott Fla in part. A photo sent to Pensacola will evaluate weather the Structure of the plane human performance and air traffic conditions at the time of the Accident. The human performance group was interviewing the Pilot tuesday morning she said and the cockpit voice recorder and data recorder were sent to Washington. Three people were slightly injured a passengers and Crew used emergency chutes to leave the plane. The injured we retreated and released from emergency rooms at two hospitals authorities said. Escambia county emergency medical services records show a Call for help was received at 11 47 ., while Airport and Federal aviation administration officials said the plane landed at 11 40  Passenger Carolyn Fleming said she walked about half of the mile Long Dis Tance to the Airport terminal before res Cue trucks arrived at the disabled dg9. If that plane had started burning they could t have saved us said Flem ing one of 105 people aboard the twin engine Jet. Most of the passengers had made it to the terminal before a baggage truck from Delta air lines began picking people up Fleming said. The jetliner sat monday on the end of the runway its fuselage cracked open nearly All the Way around its midsection and its Tail Section dragging on the pavement the Pilot s decision to switch off All Power May have prevented a fire Proctor said. Three men and a baby tops Holiday movie charts Hollywood a three men and a baby traded places with comedian Eddie Murphy s raw concert movie to crawl to the lop of the Holiday week end National Box office. Three  starring Tom Selleck Steve Gutlen Berg and Ted Damon earned s10.j million Over the three Day Christmas Holiday weekend. Murphy s raw earned s8.6 million for second place followed b another comedy throw Momma from the train which earned j6.7 million. Broadcast news went into wider release Over the weekend and entered the top 10 list in fourth place earning ji.4 million. The movie about Romance and careers in a Washington broadcast Bureau stars Wil Liam Hun Holly Hunter and Albert Brooks. Wall Street stabilized for the second week in fifth place with j4.6 million in ticket sales while batteries not included was in sixth place with $4.08 million. Planes trains and automobiles he Holiday travel Nightmare movie was in seventh place with just Over $4.02 million. Fall attraction remained in the top 10 for the 15th week earning More than $3 Mil lion. The movie now has earned s 123.5 million. In ninth place was the Goldie hawn Kurt Russell comedy overboard Wilh nearly s3 million followed by the Steven Spielberg directed Empire of the  which earned 12.9 million. The Box office Gross is determined by the amount of tickets a movie Sells during the weekend always a much stronger sales period than the rest of the work. Studios use the weekend to office to determine How Well a movie is doing. Here Are the top films for the weekend As tallied by exhibitor relations co. 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