European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 9 sri Lanka rebel blast news updates Colombo sri Lanka to red Cross and want to select a Commir my physically Sci food Medicine and clothing during the truce. On saturday Contra and government negotiators had sought to reach a formula under which Contra Force would feel secure inside cease fire Jones without in fringing on the government s sovereignty. Boseo 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 Borg who summoned the station s director Jose Castillo Osejo to his Home on Friday. Castillo later said Borge had shouted Al him and attacked Cial delivery service for their supplies. As the talks proceeded the contras dropped their demand 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 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 borne and As a result suffered minor  drop in Oil prices expected As open foils to agree on cuts a production Vienna. Austria a open Oil ministers Early monday suspended for a month i hair efforts to agree on a proposed Token Cut in Oil production raising prospects of a fresh drop in Oil prices. Ministers of Fth organization of Petroleum exporting coun tries said they would reconvene june 8 to discuss proposed reductions. Several ministers expressed disappointment at the break Down of negotiations which they had viewed As a Chance to Shore up Oil prices and open a new Avenue to cooperation with non open producers who had proposed the production cuts. I would be much happier if we could have agreed on Cuis now said Libya s Oil minister Fawzi Sha Shuki. Analysis said the failure to agree on production cuts would almost certainly Send Oil prices tumbling on world markets. Open president i Lanu Lukman of Nigeria told re Portis thai the Cartel needed More Lime to consider the proposed cuts of 300,000 barrels a Day or about 2 Percy no of total open output. The proposal was aimed at raising prices to open s Largel of Sis a barrel from the current Range of in to $16 and was intended to satisfy the requirements of the offer by the six non open Oil producers. The non open group had told the Cartel last week that in would Cut its exports by about 200,000 barrels a Day or s Percy no of its total exports for two months if open did likewise. More Lime is required 10 clarify some of the Points of the offer said Lukman who favored accepting the Olfer. Saudi Arabia led the opposition to the proposal arguing that the non open group should make larger reductions and lint open should do no More than match any non open cuts Banc for barrel. The saudis were supported by three diner Membra. Eight open members who strongly favored the offer argued that while h was not Ideal it Al least was a Starling Pool for More meaningful agreements. Lukman said that Between now and he june meeting five member open committee would be in direct Contact with the six non open countries that made the Olter. Mexico China Egypt Oman Angola and Malaysia. All open countries also pledged to do their utmost in the weeks ahead id stick strictly to their existing production que our in order to minimize any buildup Foex Ecsi supplies Inai could push Down prices Lukman said. Hisham Mazer the saudi Oil minister told reporter by was pleased Wilh the outcome of the conference. It s a very Happy ending he said As he left open head quarters. Aids vaccine test produces immune reaction _. .1  .  Muin. Arth i Amft uni to it Tif Ftp a Pruun that received Bot 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 vac Cine against the deadly disease officials said. The National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases announced saturday that the men showed the immune reaction to injections of a purified protein called gp60. Derived from a portion of the human immunodeficiency virus. His is the vim that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. An immune response is determined when the lest subject s blood develops antibodies against the vaccine thai was injected. Many Steps remain however before the work could result in an aids vac Cine. Or. Tony Fauci director of the i Tut said the vaccine tests wer Ficon ducted to determine if the gp60-Dt Rived vaccine is a Frand if it evokes an immune response. In it Clear thai it is Safe and the study indicates thai several volunteers did develop an immune response he said. The lest also is designed to help de Termine the proper dosage of the vac Cine for maximum beneficial effect. A report on the study a presented Al the annual meeting of the am Raj foundation for clinical ses Careter the next step Isis a trove antibodies from Lune Al subjects and deter in Frt Al tip antibodies will react in St lubes to the aids virus. This would establish if the test subjects have developed what is called cell mediated immune response. It is this re action thai provides Protection against a targeted disease. The test of gp160 started with 59 volunteers divided into four groups. Each Giroud received injections of a different strength of Fth gel 60. Two subject-4p a group thai received the inject blk but no Booster shots developed immune response. That both the initial shot and a Booster also devel oped immune response. The study will continue with a group of volunteers receiving an even stronger dose of the up 160 vaccine. Aids is a con Agioni disuse that attacks the body s immune Lyile rendering it incapable of resisting other diseases and infections. The virus most often is spread through close Contact Wilh blood blood products or semen from infected Benoot. As of april 21, aids had been do nosed in about 59,500 american of whom More than half or about 33.000, have died since june 1981, according to the National centers for disease control