European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 3, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 3 announces it plans to merge French firm it Zikmond a. Ait  Iii � la Sulisky injury claim. Or us a Jalkson shield 1ud. _ Wick tin Friday or Lac froth   Tutun  Merior partners. Riim by a Alier Muesli big Jor .1 1 / hours or Jwo Judy a in  Mcreery offers item Iii Iii. Kor t group inc. Of fan wait Wittkin. Fa.,- mid new Yolk based ainctkan41m� Kru ducts corp. A i Kiln inc hubinsjr., Robins Verc  Thiel executive officer. Said in Rasul Emend Tuil Ilie Bharu fell the Suno i pro Missal beslicrvc4 us to merest of j a1 Jim shield Civit Yanli. Other Kobs Rcd Jun Neil Ilot Kukk Virit Tinidad bus i Hub is hied Lor pro Itee Ulii Trum Ilii editors under tap scr 1 1 h the ineral Bank Iii y code in 49i � in hit Jenci of injury claims from issuers of its Walkon shidu1  ninth Niroj Deviov. I Hobi is poke Iii ii Ruscoe e. Puckli. Pc Jud Jinn ii plans  a con ret a Linic intend. In Robins anti provide rjs2.7-Biiliuii to nitric a Jakon shield  to plate a Doliar value i  offer by the  bused. Sii Nofi or Nice ass wind ions est. Drug firm. Kun Amsl Iii until wed Neimario submit a new Junir aptly  plan 1o .u.s.  Hubert k. Merle go or Ettac mini Jim proposal  Iii Urpo Ihl Cli in Lac unaided plan. Puecell said. A  la Iii Mintum nhan Ajio. Rail age . Robins As an Jujj civic Loree in the Harmm Eulica and 3etiili d Hulu Jeri  Jean Francois a the com shiny s vice innit a Irusle to and Sellic a Jalkson la Iii Jesse Jackson 3jels therapy okeenf1cumaw. Petal Ohio lab j4j1. Jacki Oti went to a Rankin Medl ical Tenter in its Fiield   la a nursing by drug Busi Ness. Puckett said Robins would be merged into Ceva which would Chance its name to . Robins co. Inc. An a result of the merger rabins stockholders would receive 83 percent of the outstanding Hack of the new . Rubins with the remaining 17 percent retained by Tuioti. Or Moi s directors will Vole on the plan Jan. 5, bucket said. The proposal also is subject to confirmation of Robins reorganization plan and approval by Robins stockholders and the necessary govern ment agencies. Kurer with whom Robins once had an agreement to Rae Rae. Last week sweetened its offer to about s2.92 billion. That bid included a $2.2li billion Trust fund for Walkon shield claimants. Last summer rarer proposed buying Kubins fur about 12.63 billion including $1 73 billion to cover potential claims. But that was before Merhige said the reorganization must set aside 12.475 Bil lion to satisfy potential claims. American Home which abandoned an earlier bid far Robins in february re in Lerud the bidding on dec. 23 the con Sumer product manufacturer said that in Exchange for All 24.2 million Ulsund ing Robins shares it would put up $530 million Worth of american Home Stock Jund pay the Dalton claims Over a seven year period. Breaking the ice subzero weather 30-Mph Wolnik us a Mem once to Ridott it Banjo Maine. Chill Factor in the j0 kept the car us ten Bloir Tara Tempe Lurn which coast guard Mcl bridle buy on the aided ice miking kept the ship on Peu Elncol Kulver near the veterans re duty ice breaking for 48 hours. Many spouses of aids patients found fee of virus according to cd study Chicago a Manv spouses of aids Patio no Are virus free despite serial Cumal Between husband and wife Zacconi ing to researchers who a it s unclear How  transmission. Sunn people with aids had Kkt zoo limes without infecting their spouses while one woman in the study contracted the virus after a Sigil a sexual cd Prience researchers said. Some May be More infectious than others or Tome strains May not be easily transmitted. Said study co author or. Hurole w. Jaffe of the Federal centers Jar disease control. We raised Hose but Snukis. But we could t answer them. We just Don t  the study published in saturday s Jour ill of the american medical association said. These data indicate that the risk of., transmission is not simply a function of the number of sexual Coti facts with an Inlet cd  two of Hie 25 men in live study married to women with aids gut the virus through Waal Contact with their wives the study said and 10 of inc 55 women whose Hus bands Hud aids were infected. Qun Domi were rarely used by the subjects who had been unaware of the pres ence of aids researchers said. The demonstration that Hetero sexual transmission can occur emphasises the  heterosexuals to take precautions. With a partner who May be in of cycled they wrote. Researchers worked from a group of so patients with aids and an additional in people who had no symptoms of aids bul tested positive for antibodies to the virus. All 106 were exposed to aids through blood transfusions. The two groups were combined in inc study when researchers determined that their rates of virus transmission to spouses were about the same. Only so of the 106 subjects participated in the study because there was no so Mia Contact after the transfusion in 26 cases researcher said. Among the subjects n husband who toted positive for aids had As a mean 67 sexual contacts with his wife Between inc Lime she received the tainted blood transfusion and was diagnosed Wilh aids or aids antibodies. A wife who tested positive for aids had a mean of 112 sexual contacts Wilh her husband Dur ing the period Between his transfusion and diagnosis. Husbands who tested negative for aids however had a mean of Iso sex Ual contacts with a spouse Between the Lime of her transfusion and her diagnosis. A wife who tested negative had 156 actual contacts with a husband who was Saier diagnosed. The mean represents the intermediate Point Between two Cit reme values. Sexual transmission of acquired immune deficiency syndrome from male to female was first reported in the United slates in i9b3, one year Afler the first recon cd Case of the disease. Subsequent cases documented the Transfer from of Smalc to Malc. Still less than 2 percent of aids cases result from Hetero sexual relations. Researchers worked with people who developed aids after transfusion of tainted blood because the Date of expo sure was known. Researchers were then Able to track Schual Contact and non sex Ual exposure of aids patients and their families. There was no sign of aids in he 63 family members who were examined in addition 10 the spouses though they had Many opportunities for exposure to Small amounts of the infected person s saliva pc pcs and urine the study said. No cases of aids have been reported in which the Only risk Factor was living i the same House a a person Wilh aids researchers said aids cripples the body s defences against disease leaving a person prey to Lite Chr Capening infections and certain cancers. The syndrome is incurable and fatal and is caused by a virus believed to be spread mainly through sexual inter course shared hypodermic Needles and from infected mothers to breast feeding infants or fetuses