European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 2, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 City to give drug addicts Needles new York handouts an Effort to Fig if aids Albany . A new York City will be allowed 10 give clean hypodermic Needles to drug addicts in an attempt to curtail the spread of aids in an Cip Crimont believed to be the firs in the Nalion slate health officials announced sunday similar programs have been instituted in the Netherlands and Britain. . Surgeon general c. Everett Koop Laid inc glob Al Summit on aids in London last week that Sulci programs had been misled in the United states be cause of concern thai they would abet drug abuse. The United slates often has been criticized for lagging in the War against inc fatal disease. Stale health commissioner or. David air lord had opposed such a program but changed his mind be cause the proposal was modified to require addicts receiving tree Needles to enter drug treatment pro Grams said a Elrod s spokesman Peter Slocum. The program developed by new York City health department officials would use the offer of a free clean Needle As a Carrot to lure drug addicts into treatment programs where Counselor could then try to persuade them to quit Slocum said. It would nol be just walk in the door gel your Needle and turn around Slocum said. Rather the addict would get the Needle during a drug treatment session and could Exchange it Tor a clean one at a subsequent session Slocum said the key tiling is not 1o share lie Needle Slocum said. It does t matter if you get the Needle from the City or on the is  Slocum said he believed the program to be the first of its kind in the United states. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome which destroys the body s ability to fight infection and a no known cure has been found to be spread through Shar ing of infected intravenous Needles As Well As through so Ual Contact. New York stale has about one third of the More than 40,000 known aids cases in the United states and most of those Are in new York City. The uni cd states has the highest number of known aids cases of any Nalion according to the world health Organiza Tion. A state health department study that found that one of every 60 women who give birth in new York City in december carried antibodies to the virus that causes aids. Slocum said lha in his knowledge the program would include a couple of Hundred addicts to Start and would be expanded to several thousand later this year if officials determine that giving out the free Needles helped lower the number of addicts and reduce the transmission of aids the program which would be administered by the new York City health department would probably begin in the Spring Slocum said. Slocum said Axlrod and new York City health commissioner or. Sick Hon Joseph had planned to announce the joint program this week. Francis Shechan a spokesman for gov. Mario Cuomo had no comment on inc program and would Only acknowledge that a Elixt has been working on the plan As part of a  program to combat aids in the  the program which has been opposed by Law enforcement officials who feel it would encourage Intra venous drug use would t need the approval of the stale legislature. An addict in the program would be issued an identification card that contained his photograph and fingerprint. Returned Needles would be tested for blood types that differ from the addict s Wood Type. The new York times reported in sunday s editions. Makeup of state prison inmates Little changed Washington a ninety five percent of state prison inmates in 1986 were repeat offenders or were serving Lime for violent crimes the government reported sunday. Among the other 5 percent about half were convicted drug traffickers or burglars concluded the study by the Justice depart ment s Bureau of Justice statistics. The data based on a Survey of 11,700 inmates showed the percentage of Vio Lent and repeat offenders among a nationwide state prison population of 450.000 to have remained about the same As the figure for 1979, the last time such a study was conducted despite a period of rapid growth in the site of inc inmate population its composition has remained stable concluded the study by Christopher i fines of inc Bureau of Justice statistics. Stale prison Popula Tion in 1979 was under 300,000. Detainees my cuban Refuge Tough a by on us. Immor atom and a Tura Stelion Svicius. Pantie Abaiy. Atlanta " 1,3g Federal detention Center 996 stats and local a Omar detention camera so Babeth mental Hospital we Momo 0-c. Tow 3,806 inc ago Tribune graphic Sara us. Rimml ghion and  Santo the Survey did find that the state prison population has gotten somewhat older less educated and increasingly hispanic. The median age increased from 26 in 1979 to 28 in 1986, while education among prison ers fell by a year from 11 to 10. Hispanics were 12,6 percent of the prison population in 1986. Compared with 9.9 percent in 1979. The percentage of while prisoners about to percent and Blacks 47 percent remained about the same from 1979 to i98fi, hispanics de pending on their race were also counted As either Black or while. The Survey found that four out of five stale inmates had previously been imprisoned or placed on probation. Two thirds of the initiated were serv ing time for a violent crime or had previously been convicted of one. About is percent of All inmates were repeat offenders who also had a record of at least one violent conviction. Of the 5.3 percent of the inmates who were first time offenders and serving Lime for non violent crimes in 1986. 25 percent had been convicted of burglary and 26 percent for drug trafficking. More than 60 percent of the state in mates had two previous convictions. 45 percent had three and nearly 20 percent had six or More prior terms of probation or prison. Half the inmates said they were under inc influence of drags or alcohol when they committed their crimes. There was an increase from 1979 10 1986 in the percentage of inmates who mud drugs during or shortly before the time of Fth offence. Thirty five percent of the inmates in 1986 said they were under the influence of drugs at the time of the offence com pared with 32 percent in 1979. 1,000 support Dallas police in rally of City Hall Dallas a about 1,000 people rallied at City Hall sunday in defense of the police department and called for an end to racial tensions heightened by the staying of an officer by a deranged a Grant. The mostly while crowd carried signs backing the police and blasting the City Council for some members disparaging remarks about the department. I thank cod for every police officer in Dallas Texas and our police chief said Joanne Karr head of a citizen s crime watch group. On Jan. 23, White officer John Chase 25, was shot three times in the face by a Black homeless Man Carl Dudley Wil Liams who had grabbed the policeman s gun. Williams was later killed in a shoot out with pursuing officers. According to sworn statements by some witnesses two or three people in the crowd had egged Williams on say ing shoot him. Shoot him As the offi cer pleaded for his life. Other witnesses said they heard no such thing. Police chief Billy Prince has blamed deadly Force. Dallas Jackson a radio talk show Host and one of the few Blacks at the. Rally told the crowd sunday that some White officers have been harassing minorities bul he praised inc department and said the divisive Ness Only helps criminals. We have lost sensitivity of working together no matter what color and nationality. The criminal right now is hav ing n Ball about Dallas Texas he said. Reports of Trade sanctions on Fox upset vow dealers Washington not Volks Wagen dealers arc complaining in Wash itt Gion because of reports that their in parts from Brazil could be hit by Trade sanctions president Reagan is now weighing against that country the president  Mil lion in reprisals against Brazil for its reluctance to satisfy . Demands for broader assurances of Market Access in Brazil s computer software Market. Trade officials said that sanctions against the Fox a hot brazilian made Volkswagen that Sells for around 56,000 and competes chiefly with South korean and some japanese models arc a possibility. However they stress that no decisions have been made and that diplomatic efforts to avoid a Trade confrontation with Brazil continue. About 40,000 foxes were sold in the . Last year and the projection is for 70,000 this year if they escape the 100 percent punitive tariffs Liat would he imposed under the sanctions. Volkswagen was caught in a similar action in the 1960s in a dispute Between the United Stales and the european common Market. The shooting on Council Mcm Bere re Marks about inc department Over past shootings involving minorities and alleged racism. He said the bashing set the stage for violence against police. After the shooting and Prince s com ments tensions Between inc department and some minority representatives erupted again. Black Council members have accused the deportment of racism in hiring promotions and the use of Sandrof Tinnie in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feb. 2, 194s new Delhi police arrested a member of an extremes hindu political party following an official declaration thai Premier Jawaharlal Nehru and two other top Indian politicians had been marked for murder along with Mahatma Gandhi 30 years ago today. Feb. 2. 1958 a Pupil or a rocket carrying the first successful . Satellite. Explorer was launched at Cape canaveral Fla. 20 years ago today. Feb. 2.1968 Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoe loan the chief of the South vietnamese National police was pictured firing a Bullet into the head of a captured Viet Cone officer in the streets of Saigon during guerrilla raids. 10 years ago today. Feb. 2, 1978 Tel Aviv authorities said that israeli oranges exported to Europe were injected with non toxic metallic Mercury in an attempt to disrupt Israel s econ omy