European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday january 30,19b8 the lick of Snow and cold to Lher id Emu pc a i contrasted sharply Ullh the battering off cred by much of the United stoles this Winter. Beneath Winter Highway Briu Lul Junard an Tat surrounded by Only uhte Snow Tow Dean i stretch or interstate 90 near Worth Laloo Mont. Drugs battling aids Are top Fra priority Washington a the food and drag administration is Nutting a top priority on development of drugs to combat aids even if it Means delaying Ibe processing of application for other types of Pharr Ceu Iliou the Fra commissioner Aid Friday. Commissioner Frank Young said the Agency we pulling the highest possible priority on Clearing to diddle drugs for treating acquired immune deficiency White House denies knowing Fri spied on policy opponents Washington a the while House Friday denied any knowledge of Fri surveillance of opponents of the administration s Central America policies and said president Reagan was concerned about the practice. Reagan hns asked Fri director William s. Sessions for a report Aid presidential spokesman Marlin Fili Wilt. Filz Waler Aid Reagan is concerned because there should he no investigation of americans for their Polit ical  asked if Reagan had been aware of inc  filial or said no one in the White Houie urns notional Security Council had any involvement connection or  Agency documents show thai Fri Field offices directed by Headquarters to investigate opponents of the administration s policies questioned the extent to which Chucy could Monitor seemingly legitimate Politi Cal  the questions arose during an Fri Domestic surveil Lanty Campaign that began in 19si and eventually is panned to focus on hundreds of individuals and organisation opposed to . Intervention in Centra America according to the Agency records. Fri Headquarters in july 1984 repealed its instructions to the Field offices adding the proviso that it is imperative that these investigations arc closely super Vised and monitored to ensure our investigations do rot infringe upon the rights of these individuals or groups dul a month later the Denver office sent a message to the Fri director saying. Denver concurs with new Orleans that in spite of attempts by the Bureau to clarify guidelines and fonts for this investigation inc Field is still not sure of How much seemingly legitimate political activity can be  the Fri documents were released this week by the Center for constitutional rights a new York based civil rights and civil liberties organization which of bullfighter Giron Dies Caracas. Venezuela a bullfighter Curro g Iron famed throughout latin America and Spain for his fearlessness in the bullring died after undergoing Emer gency surgery. The stale news Agency Ven pics reported. Ven pres said Giron died thursday night. He was 49. Giron underwent surgery thursday morning to Correct varicose vein in the Colon and died hours later at the Gianico univer Sisario Hospital which he had entered for realm Cal a few Days ago. Ven pics reported. Wined about 1,300 pages from Fri files under the Freedom of information act. Attorney general Edwin Mccase 111 said thursday that he will review the operation in response to allegations that the targets were harassed and their constitutional rights violated. Mccase said he had been aware of the surveillance program and had received reports on it in the past from the Fri. This will be an update to Sec what if anything of the allegations Are True he said. Mccase met at Lite White House with sessions and White House chief of staff Howard Baker following a request by the while House for information on the Domestic surveillance Campaign. William Webster who was head of the Fri when the investigation look place could not be reached for Corn Mcnol thursday. A spokeswoman for he Cia which Webster now directs directed All Calls Back to the Fri. La s an Fri  said the spokeswoman Sharon the Fri acknowledged wednesday thai it had con ducted an investigation into the committee in support of inc people of Al Salvador or Cispus. But maintained that it was looking into alleged criminal activity rather than the motives and beliefs of those being  the Etui documents indicate that the Cispus investigation begun in 1981, Cven Tully was broadened to encompass hundreds of other individuals and groups including labor unions religious groups and individuals who spoke against administration policies. Organizations named in the Fri tiles include the Southern Christian leadership conference a cml rights organization in Atlanta and the Maryk Itou Sis ters based in Ossin ing. . Drug syndrome bul he said the War on the fatal Dehue will be a Long and difficult one. We re leaving no Stone unturned and using what Ever resources we need to help pharmaceutical com panics develop drags that can Battle aids and the diseases thai often go with aids Young said at a news conference. He said the concentration on aids has caused a backlog in processing applications for some other Type of drugs but this was unavoidable. We feel it s important thai people have octets to drugs is soon at possible tie said. We View Ine Fra at a munitions factory turning out Safe and e s War on aids. Effective bullets As soon As possible in Thi Young said the Fra granted approval for azide Why Midline the first drug developed for specific treatment of aids within 107 Days of application an Agency record. There now Are 164 candidate drugs in Dmick trials for the treatment or diagnosis of aids or for the treatment of aids related disease complexes he said. Of these candidate drugs 49 Are immunity Modula tors that would lend to Dull the effect of aids on Ibe immune system. Forty one of the drugs arc proposed As anti viral agents 36 for diagnostic tests and four Lor treatment of a cancer often caused by aids. Only four of the drugs arc candidates for aids vaccine studies he said. Or. Peter Fiodi incr the Public health service aids coordinator said vaccines against aids will be extremely difficult to develop but there is a Hope for such a Prevc native because of recent advances in microbiology the base of knowledge is so intensive we would like to think in an optimistic Way he said. But this aids is about As Lough and a difficult agent As we have  aids is an incurable disease that usually is spread through sexual Contact sharing of intravenous drug Needles or from use of infected blood products. It is caused by his or human in memo virus. The disease attacks the immune system ant a Siroy s the body i ability to fight infection. As a result death often results from opportunistic infections. According to inc Federal Comei s for disease control in Atlanta As of monday there have been 51,916 patients in the United slates Dia Nowd As having aids since 1931, and 28.96s of them have died. Saudi envoy in Vienna robbed on Way to Bank Vienna Austria a the second Secretary at the saudi arabian embassy in Vienna was robbed in front of the main Branch of the country s largest Bank on Friday police said. Assad Euolah was robbed of 900,000 shillings 175,000 in embassy funds he planned to Deposit Al the main Branch of the credit Anstall Bank in Vienna s first District police said. They said the robber was still Al Large. Euolah was not injured in the incident which look place at 10 40 . Lea Udall 141 vmi4lmfr, "-1. _ f Leavenworth readies for injections Leavenworth Kan. A a military Enechi Ion chamber designed for executions by lethal injection is being Buill at fort Leavenworth. The chamber at the fort s . Disciplinary bar Racks the Only Maji mum Security military prison in the United Stales is being built to conform with a 198 army regulation calling for death by injection instead of hanging military officials said thursday the last execution at the disciplinary Barracks occurred in 1961, when a Soldier was hanged for the rape and attempted murder of a girl said Janet Wray a spokeswoman at fort Leavenworth. Two men being held Al the prison Are facing execution Todd Andrew Dock 23, of Frederick kid., who was convicted in 1984 for the slaying of a West cer Man taxi Driver and Ronnie Allen Curtis 21, of Wichita who was convicted in August of the murder or his Marine corps commander and the commanders wife at Camp Lejeune . Wray said both men Are involved in appeals and no execution Dale has been set for either. Paige Eversole an army spokeswoman at the Pentagon said the execution chamber is being built inside an existing build Inland is Nota  my understanding is that it will be a very simple room with sufficient space to accommodate a Stretcher and in intravenous equipment she said. The disciplinary Barracks has about 1,450 inmates