European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday. May 4, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 3 ailing Walesa bows out As Leader Gdansk. Poland a Solidarity chief lec Walesa tuesday Lold thousands of cheering workers at the Lenin shipyard thai they must find another Union Lender As a strike look hold at the Birthplace of the outlawed labor federation. Strike leaders said 80 percent of the 12,000 workers had dropped their tools. The Yard s giant cranes were Idle and a Lars poster at the Gate listed the strikers demands higher pay. Reinstatement of Solidarity nationwide release of political prisoners and Rei Slat Cmunt of fired activists. Thousands of workers gathered in the factory s courtyard and perched on rooftops and fences heard in Lisa s speech. We Don t want to be the beggars of Europe and of the world Walesa told the shipyard workers As he endorsed the strike that began monday. Walesa who headed the August 1980 strike at the shipyard that gave Rise to the East bloc s first Independent labor movement received a loud cheer from the workers when he entered the Yard tuesday morning. The 44-year-old electrician had been on sick leave this week complaining of Back pains and Low blood sugar. Walesa Lold workers Lii at Poland s labor struggle had exhausted him i am rot your Leader. I no tired. You have to find for yourself a new he said. He also told the workers they were taking up the same cause he fought for in 1490. We lost eight years he said speaking through a Loudspeaker Here in the Birthplace of Solidarity i stale to the authorities that they arc deepening the losses they Ore facing Solidarity to Lead the nation onto the Road to reforms said Walesa Winner of the i98j Nobel peace prize. The work stoppage at the shipyard was at least the fourth strike in communist Poland in a week and contributed to the worst wave of labor unrest since the government s december 1981 military crackdown on Solidarity. About 1.000 workers Laid Down their tools for sever Al hours at the papaw of Railroad car Plant in wroclaw said Solidarity spokeswoman Barbara Labuda but they resumed work after about an hour following a Promise for talks with Nianne Cmunt government spokesman Jecny Urban confirmed the stoppage. Alojzy Smolensk 52, a 3fi-Yeai Veteran of the ship Yard who led a strike it the Lenin shipyard when mar tial Law was imposed in december 1981, has emerged As the Leader of the strike committee. The nation has to believe somebody. It will believe Only Solidarity Szablowski said in a speech tuesday yet the shipyard Gate. Walesa supports us Sia Blowski Lold the strikers. We listen la him and follow his Walesa endorsed the strike when it began monday. But he stayed off the local strike committee to coordinate Solidarity activities nationwide activists said. When the strike began monday police surrounded the shipyard and authorities reportedly rounded up regional Solidarity leaders nevertheless. Solidarity adviser Jaek Kuron said management had agreed to talk tuesday to the ship Yard s newly formed strike committee. A spokesman for the shipyard was unavailable tues Day and a Secretary said shipyard director Czslaw Tolwinski was in a meeting. The news of the strike heartened strike workers at the Lenin Sec works in Southeastern Poland As the strike there entered is eighth Day. We feel better now said Jan Cisielski a member of the a Eccl strike committee at Nowa Hula outside Krakow. A Solidarity communique signed by in Lisa and is sued Laic monday said a strike a is covering the country. They Are not just local conflicts. They arc across Poland because the cause is the economic crisis and the Lack of convincing Reform policies thai would offer prospects for the workers want pay raises of up to 60 percent because prices have risen about 40 percent this year due to reductions in government subsidies. Aids virus can invade Bone marrow tests show Washington a the virus that causes aids can invade the Bone marrow and infect cells there even when the virus cannot be detected in blood samples a National institutes of health scientist said monday. Anthony s. Fauci director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases a part of the Nih said he and other researchers found that the Bon marrow which is inc body s blood Mak ing Organ can become a quiet Haven forthe deadly aids virus. Our study shows that it the ban marrow can be a Reservoir he said. Ii inc aids virus can reside in the mar Row but not be detected in the peripheral the finding adds to the types of cell sin the body known to be attacked by the virus that causes aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. In addition inc finding demonstrates just How challenging it will be to develop an anti viral drug or vaccine to defeat the aids virus said Fauci. In order to of acct a cure some Way will have to be found to seek oui and destroy the virus wherever it hides. A is going to be very difficult to eliminate each and every viral panicle in the body said Fauci because the virus lakes Refuge in cell groups and an Parent by can live there in a latent stale for Yea without causing any clinical signs of infection. The virus called the human immunodeficiency virus or his was first thought to infect Only to Lymph Cylc cells that have a protein on inc cell surface called cd4. Researchers Laier Learned risk of aids infection for heterosexual Intercourse in the . Estimated risk of infection risk category Perl sexual partner encounter encounter unknown whether infected not in High risk group using condoms 1 in 50.000,000 not using condoms 1 in 5,000,000 1 in 110,000 1 in 16,000 unknown whether infected in High risk group using condoms not using condoms 11n 100,000 to 11n 10,000 1 in 210 to 11n 21 1 in 10.000 to 1 in 1,000 1 in 32 to in 3 tested negative for aids no High risk behaviour using condoms not using condoms 1 in 5.000.000.000 1 in 500.000.000 1 in 11,000,000 1 in 1,600,000 tested negative for aids continuing High risk behaviour using condoms not using condoms 1 in 500,000 1 in 50.000 1 in 1,100 1 if 160 tested positive Lor aids using condoms t in 5,000 1in11 nol using condoms 1 in 500 sin 3 homosexual or bisexual men and intravenous drug users from major metropolitan areas and Haemophiliacs sexual Intercourse or Needle sharing with a member of a High risk group Chi Togo Tribune graphic source journal of die american medical association. That the virus also could invade some brain cells and another Type of blood Mono Ryc. Now said Fauci researchers have confirmed hat the virus also can reside in the celts of the Bone marrow. This is important because the Bone marrow is the factory that makes the various types of blood cells. In routine blood examinations the lest for aids involves a search for anti bodies to inc virus since inc virus itself often is not found in the blood. Fauci said in is yet to be absolutely confirmed but there is a suggestion that the his lives in a Lypp of Bone marrow Tell that is he immature form of inc Monocyte. And unlike the to Lymphocyte the virus does not kill the Bone marrow cell but reproduces with in in cell researchers arc still trying la under stand what causes the latent Vires to Sud Denly Stan reproducing and become an Active infection after living in the body quietly for years Fauci said there i some suggestion thai the triggering mechanism maybe inc response of the immune system to other infections. This May Start a process that in effect turn son the virus. Fauci reported on the research during a lecture at a joint meeting of three or. Yaniz Alicus of physicians and clinical re searchers. Aids is a contagious fatal disease that kills by attacking the Tell lymphocytes a key part in the body s immune system. When the to cells Are killed in body in unable to protect itself against disease and death usually results from opportunistic infections. Fam/7y in . Reunited with amerasian daughter Seattle a a Vietnam Veteran s family Helda tearful reunion with his 10-year-old daughter Sepa rated from them for 16 years by red tape. She s Home Don Benson said after Hariri dung arrived at scale Tacoma International Airport monday night. A few limn 1 had a lot of wonders and a Tot of worries but you Don t give up on something like i never gave up Hope his wife Linh said As she waited for her daughter s plane to arrive. Every night 1 prayed and Linh Benson s prayers were answered. Trembling and smiling nervously she entered the plane to Greet her daughter and husband. Linh Benson and Hanh dung emerged from the aircraft with tears in their eyes with her arms drape around her daughter she funded her to hand dung s 18-year-old sister Kim and her 15-year-old brother Greg. Kim was 2 when the family ital for he United slates Hanh dung had never seen her brother. There were More tears than words. Kanh dung Clad in red Corduroy pants we Ltd and purple sneakers and a Gray jacket Over a White shirt said nothing As he faced dozens of reporters and Tele vision cameras. She sneaks Little English and had been awake for More than 24 hours her father said she s glad to be Here. She s tired and she s worn out said the 49-year-old retired army sergeant she s got some adjusting to Benson and his wife left South Vietnam in 1972, leaving Hanh dung with her grandmother who has since died. Two years later they tried to arrange for their daughter to travel 10 the United states but Progress was slow. In 1975, South Vietnam fell to the communists. Hanh dung has held an evil visa from Vietnam since 1979, but . Officials would nut allow her to emigrate because some medical test results had been Losi. Benson who lives in Puyallup near Tacoma. Trav eled to Vietnam in february in an Effort to bring his daughter to the United slates. After Benson s return to the United Stales in april his daughter finally Wai allowed to travel to Bangkok Thailand. Following final arrangements she flew Tolan Francisco where she met her fall or. The two continued to Seattle. Asked monday night what Kepi him going through the Long tight 0 bring his daughter Home Benson re plied he said his Battle to gel his daughter Back left him bitter and he vowed to help reunite other amerasian families. "1 Don t know what my nest move is Benson there s going to be a next
