European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday May 2,1988 news updates airlines safety report Washington a Feder Al authorities in More than 2,000 inspections or Eastern and Continental airlines jets have so far found no grossly unsafe aircraft according to the chief of the Feder Al aviation administration. Faa administrator Allan Mcartor said 5 percent of the inspections uncovered minor safety infractions that required planes to be taken out of service and at times flights to be delayed. He characterized the percentage As not unusually High. Bhopal death toll Bhopal India a India fears that 1,750 More people will die Over the next seven years As a result of the 1984 Bhopal Gas disaster according to a report released by the Adhya Pravesh state government. The toll to Date was put at 2,998, nearly 200 higher than the previously reported estimate of 2,800. The report said the deaths were conclusively attributed to toxic effects of the Gas and added that 816 other deaths were under investigation to determine if there was a link to the Gas leak. Graham optimistic Hong Kong a Ameri can evangelist Billy Graham said he is encouraged by the growing but still limited religious Freedom in Chin and is optimistic about christianity s future in the communist nation. Graham also said he has been unable to substantiate reports that a chinese itinerant preacher who spreads the gospel in Defiance of the slate sponsored Church was arrested after arriving in Beijing to hear the Southern Baptist minister. Graham speaking at a news con Ference in this British Colony at the end of his 16-Day visit to China said he contacted High level chinese authorities and the . Embassy to get information about the reported arrest of Xuy Yongzhi but receive neither verification nor denial of the report. . Team in Kabul Islamabad Pakistan a members of a . Team flew to Kabul on saturday to begin preparations for monitoring the withdrawal of soviet troops from Afghanistan. Maj. General Rauli Helm inn of Finland is heading the nine Mem Ber . Implementation assistance group which was established under a memo of understanding signed april 14 in Geneva. Pakistan Afghanistan the United states and the soviet Union signed the memo and an agreement to end nine years of soviet military involvement in Afghanistan. Second round of talks fails to produce Nicaragua pact Managua. Nicaragua not the second round of peace talks Between the sandinista government and Contra guerrilla leaders ended saturday without an Accord. Government officials said a third round would begin on May 12, but the contras said they had not agreed to a Date. For the nicaraguan government the fact that the meeting has ended this Way does not mean there have not been advances said the chief sandinista negotiator defense minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra. It Only Means that As we reach the Central questions the contradictions become  earlier in the Day a government spokesman had announced that some of the Contra negotiators would remain in Managua to continue talks. But the con tras apparently rejected that plan. Ortega said there had been tense moments at the end of sunday s talks. Other matters also were not resolved As the government had hoped. Ortega read a communique that he said the contras had refused to sign. The com Munique said the government would Dis cuss guarantees for future elections if the contras would free sandinista prisoners and ask the Reagan administration to lift the commercial embargo against Nicara Gua. Even the location of the next round of talks remained Uncertain. The govern ment wants All talks to be held in Nicara Gua but the contras have suggested that the next sessions be held in another country. Ortega said a decision would be announced in the coming Days. The general said Contra negotiators were taking a hard line because of the policy of sabotage Boycott blackmail and pressure advocated by the Contra military commander in Nhuc Bermu Dez and by assistant Secretary of stat Elliott Abrams. Abrams met with Contra leaders in Miami before they left for the recent talks in Managua. Another Issue in the talks was the re Supply of the contras. The cease fire agreement specifics that during the truce Contra forces May receive exclusively humanitarian sup  nonetheless Contra leaders arrived for the talks demanding hat they be allowed to receive weapons and munitions As Well. They also insisted that Al sandinista officials in the cease fire zones including mayors and other administrators be withdrawn. The government proposed that any supplies delivered to the contras during the cease fire be channelled through the International committee of the red Cross. The contras deeply mistrust the red Cross and want to select a Commer Cial delivery service for their supplies. As the talks proceeded the contras dropped their demands for military re Supply and for evacuation of the Sandi nista authorities from cease fire zones. However they insisted the red Cross was not an acceptable Agency to deliver their food Medicine and clothing during the truce. On saturday Contra and government negotiators had sought to reach a formula under which Contra forces would feel secure inside cease fire zones without in fringing on the government s sovereignty. Bosco Matamoros the Contra spokes Man said before the talks broke off on saturday that Contra delegates had pro tested police actions against striking construction workers in Managua on Friday. The strike which is principally Over wage demands is now two months old. On Friday As the police arrived at the Union Hall and arrested several striking construction workers a leading opposition radio station. Radio corporation broadcast live reports from the scene. The station also carried extensive inter views with Contra leaders and commentaries encouraging them. This apparently angered Interior min ister Tomas Borge. Who summoned the station s director Jose Castillo Osejo to his Home on Friday. Castillo later said proc had shouted at him and attacked him physically. The official sandinista newspaper barricade charged on saturday that radio corporation had waged a viru Lent Campaign of exhortations against  it said Castillo had insulted Borge and As a result suffered minor  open ministers fail to approve plan for 2-month production Cut Vienna Austria a open Oil ministers failed Early sunday to agree on a production Cut that analysts said could boost prices. The Oil ministers were to resume their debate sunday night officials said. Eight of open s 13 member nations backed a proposed two month Cut of 300,000 barrels a Day in the Cartel s production that analysis said could raise gasoline prices by 2.5 cents a gallon. But Gholamreza agh Azarch the Irani an Oil minister said saudi Arabia an three other persian Gulf Arab slates rejected the plan. The saudis proposed that the organization of Petroleum exporting countries Cut Only about 200,000 barrels a Day he said. The saudi idea was rejected by the eight country majority and the talks adjourned in the Early hours sunday. The minister shave been meeting since thursday. We re still studying the Issue said i Sham Nazca the saudi Oil minister As he left the 3 a hour meeting. The other three holdouts Are Kuwait Qatar and the United Arab emirates whose 91 ministers also said they needed More time to consult with their govern ments. The 13th member not voting on the proposal is Iraq which normally docs not follow specs production quotas. The venezuelan Oil minister Arturo Hernandez Grisanti said the Cartel leaders were still stuck on the same questions we arc giving time to the four Gulf Arab countries to think again about the  Hernandez said. Several officials including Iran s Agha Zach said the saudis insisted any cuts in production be shared equally rather than following the usual practice of assigning cuts in accordance with each member s share of current open production. In other words the saudis insisted that Gabon which pumps Only 150,000 barrels a Day Cut As much As saudi Arabia which produces 4.3 million barrels daily. Analysts and open officials said the proposal to Cut open production by 300,000 barrels or 2 percent could boost Oil prices by As much As $1 a bar Rel meaning an increase of 2.5 cents per gallon at the gasoline pump. Open Oil currently is Selling for $14 to $16 per 42-gallon barrel Wen below it target of $18 a barrel. The saudis proposal to Cut output by 200,000 barrels a Day would match the reduction that a group of six non open producers has offered to make in tandem with the Cartel according to delegation sources. They reported the saudis said they would be willing to accept the 300,000 Fig ure if the non open group raised its Cut Back offer to that level. The six non open nations include mex Ico Egypt China Oman Angola and a  together the cuts would rep resent a loss of Only about i percent of Oil supplies in the non communist world. Aids vaccine test produces immune reaction Washington a the first american lest of an experimental aids vaccine produced an immune response in six volunteers and is an important step toward developing a vaccine against the deadly disease officials said. The National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases announced saturday that the men showed the immune re action to injections of a purified protein called gp60, derived from a portion of the human immunodeficiency virus. His is the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. An immune response is determined when the test subject s blood develops antibodies against the vaccine that was injected. Many Steps remain however before the work could result in an aids vac Cine. Or. Tony Fauci director of the Institute said the vaccine tests were con ducted to determine if the up 160-Dcriycd vaccine is Safe and if it evokes an immune response. It is Clear that it is Safe and the study indicates that several volunteers did develop an immune response he said. The lest also is designed to help deter mine the proper dosage of the vaccine for maximum beneficial effect. A report on the study was presented at the annual meeting of the american foundation Lor clinical research. The next step a to remove antibodies from the test subjects and determine if these antibodies will react in test tubes to the aids virus. This would establish if the test subjects have developed what is called cell mediated immune response. It is this reaction that provides Protection against a targeted disease. The test of gp60 started with 59 volunteers divided into four groups. Each group received injections of a different strength of the up 160. Two subjects in a group that received the injections but no Booster shots devel oped immune response. Four of a group that received both the initial shot and a Booster also developed immune response. The study will continue with a group of volunteers receiving an even stronger dose of the up 160 vaccine. Aids is a contagious disease that at tacks the body s immune system Ren Dering it incapable of resisting other Dis eases and infections. The Sims most often is spread through dose Contact with blood blood products or semen from infected persons. As of april 21. Aids bad been diag nosed in about 59,500 americans of whom More than half or about 33,000, have died since june 1981, according tothe National centers for disease control