European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news briefs the stars and strikes saturday May 14.1988 Soldier gets 9 months for theft of equipment Heilbronn West Germany an 18-year old private has Beer sentenced to nine months in prison for the theft of 17,500 Worth of night vision equipment. Pfc. Donald a Weisman of Bury a 4lh in 9th Field arty perching56th Field arty come. Pleaded guilty thursday to larceny in a court martial at the Hail nmn Legal Center an army spokesman said. Weisman also was sentenced to b bad conduct discharge forfeiture of nil pay and allowances and reduction in Grade to private one. Weisman stole night vision goggles Worth s4.500 and a night vision scope Worth 13,000 Anim a truck near his Badin Crof Cavern billets in Heilbronn last sept. 8. The spokesman Laid. Bowling Alley personnel found the equipment in Cisman s locker new year s eve during a Rou Tine ins cd of he facility. Body of army Captain found on Rhine River Island Ingelheim West Germany an army Cap Tain who had been missing since May 2 was found dead tuesday at an Island in the Rhine River. Copt. Thomas e. Smith of he co. 118th sup port in Hill inf div Mainz was last seen on the morning of april 30. He was reported missing by his unit May 2 when he failed to report to work. Smith was 29. Me is survived by a son Christopher and a daughter Takara. The children live with Smith s former wife in san Diego. Smith also is survived by his parents Joe and Lue Smith of Barlow Fla. The body was found by West German police. Mainz military police arc investigating the death. Schweinfurt go arrested in arson murder Case Schweinfurt West Germany a . Soldier has been apprehended in connection with last month s triple murder and anon in Schwin Furi n Ord 1 of  spokesman said Friday. The Soldier who is stationed in Schweinfurt. Is in military police custody there Cape. David tip pct said. German firefighters responded to a fire at a civil Ian Home in Schweinfurt on april 18. They found three bodies one female and two males in the House. The two men apparently had been Slabbed and the woman apparently was strangled. German and american military police Are Conli n using to investigate the Cue. Tipped said. Scientists ending efforts to build artificial heart Washington a Federal scientists Are abandoning efforts to develop a completely artificial human heart after spending More than a Quarter billion dollars because every use of such devices has resulted in the eventual death of the patient. From now on government research support will concentrate instead on developing a smaller pump that can assist rather than replace a fail ing heart. There Are still a lot of problems that cannot soon be solved with a Tola heart replacement de vice. Or. Claude Lenfant. Director of the National heart lung and blood Institute said thursday. Every attempt at total heart replacement has resulted in a patient dying of either infection or stroke caused by blood clots that develop within the mechanical heart said a Cifani. . Explodes nuke bomb in 3rd known test for 88 Las vegas nov. A scientists Cip Lod cd a powerful nuclear weapon Friday deep be Neath the Nevada test site in the third announced nuclear lest of he year. The blast which had been delayed twice previously had a yield of up to 150 Kilotons the largest allowed under ensling treaties with the soviet Union. The Energy department suit the test appeared to go smoothly with no apparent release of radiation. Nato allies expect Senate to of arms control treaty Brussels a the nato allies told Secretary of slate George p. Sulu on Friday that settlement of technical dispute Over the .-sovict arms treaty should Spur the Senate to ratify it before the superpower Leaden meet in Moscow. We think the Way is now open for the treaty to be ratified before president Reagan meets soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev on May 29, Laid David Mellor a British official. American and Allied officials have expressed concern that failure to ratify the treaty before the Summit could spoil he atmosphere in Moscow and set Back efforts to reach other arms control deals. Reagan and Gorbachev signed the pod in Washington in december. Shulli briefed Allied official on his two Days talks in Geneva with soviet foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze. In Geneva the two sides resolved differences Over How la ensure compliance with the treaty. A further dispute arose after Shultz and Shevardnadze had pronounced the problems resolved and lower level officials on both fides argued through the night before settling the matter shortly alter Dawn. Shutlz told reporter he was pleased with the out come but he declined to say whether he thought the Senate would be satisfied. The Senate on monday postponed debate on the treaty after some member accused Moscow of backsliding and leaving Tco Polci for possible cheating. All he issues thai anyone has raised have been squared away Shultz told a Newt conference before flying Back to Washington. Ii is he unanimous View of the allies that ratification prior to the Summit is very desirable from their standpoint Shultz said adding that Chi View was made Clear in his meeting Al nato. The treaty Calls for elimination of the superpowers medium Ranee land based nuclear missiles which have ranges of3iolo 3,100 Miles. There will Nof be a Deal Noriega quoted in paper Panama City Panama a Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega maintained his Adamant Public Posi Tion of refusing 0 negotiate his own Transfer from Power even in the face of a possible major . Con cession. Related Story pages Noriega was quoted As saying in the army newspaper Cri Lica there cannot be and will not be a Deal with . Authorities seeking his ouster As Long As aggression against Panama continues. Panamanian dignity and sovereignty Are not negotiable said the general quoted in a five Inch High red headline in thursday s paper. In Washington presidential spokesman Marlin Filz water said thursday that . Authorities were negotiating a Deal with Noriega. Filz Walcer would not con firm or deny reports that the Deal involved dropping drug trafficking charges against Noriega in Exchange for his agreement to relinquish Power. According to a Reagan administration source the cat for Noriega s removal was approved tuesday a a while House meeting Over the objections of the Justice department including attorney general Edwin Meese Iii. The . Embassy in Panama said in a statement we have engaged in discussions with general Noriega and his representatives concerning meant of resolving the current situation in Panama one of Noriega s . Lawyers told the associated press thursday that Noriega is in Fine spirits and heartened regarding the drag smuggling and Money laundering Case against him in . Federal court. The general is not willing to negotiate anything that has to do with panamanian sovereignly he d rather die first said lawyer Raymond Maluff in a Telephone interview shortly after he met with Noriega. I an aware of no negotiation he said. Noriega was charged in a 12-count indictment unsealed in Miami last feb. 5 with taking at least 14.6 million in payoffs from Colombia i Medellin Cartel to protect cocaine shipments launder Money Supply drug laboratories and shelter the gang s Leaden from Law enforcement. Aids from Page 1 since 1981. Thirty six other countries have told the Geneva based organization that they have had no cases. The real number it thought to be much higher be cause reporting has just begun in some placet such As some african countries. Who said aids reporting indicates three Broad yet distinct geographic patterns of transmission regions containing industrialized countries with Large numbers of aids cases such As North America Western Europe Australia new zealand and pans of latin America. In these areas most cases have occurred among to Mote a or bisexual men and among us users of Jec table drugs. Male patients outnumber females As much As ii to i. Heterosexual transmission accounts fora Small but growing number of cases. Areas of Central Eastern and Southern Africa and some Caribbean countries. In these areas most cases have occurred among heterosexuals affecting As Many women As men. In some Urban areas researcher Esti mate up to 25 percent of the sexually Active population is infected with the virus that causes aids. Areas of Lawern Europe the Middle East Asia and most of the Pacific. There the aids virus was apparently not introduced until the Early to Middle 1980s, and Only Small numbers of cases have been reported. Generally cases there have occurred among people who have travelled to aids endemic areas or had sexual Contact with people from such areas according to who. The cd report Analysed 84,256 aids cases re ported to who through March 21, the latest data available at the time the report we prepared. In the America. 42 countries or Terri Lorie have reported 61,602 cases or 73 percent of the world s aids eases he United states accounted for i4,2j3 of those. As of this week however the United stale he reported 7.163 More cases to the cd Brazil has reported 2,32s and Canada 1.517. Eight other countries in the americas have reported More than 100 aids Case Haili Mexico the Domin ican Republic Trinidad and Tobago the Bahamas. Colombia Argentina and Venezuela. Africa has reported 10,973 cases second to the americas. Uganda. Tanzania Congo Kenya Burundi Rwanda Malawi and Zambia have each reported More than Soo aids cases. More than 70 percent of Africa aids cases were reported Lait year. Forty two african countries or territories have reported Al us. In Europe 27 countries or territories have reported 10,616 ads cases with uie largest numbers in France with 3.073 West Germany 1,669 Italy 1,411 and the in lied kingdom 1,221 the lowest rates have come from Eastern european countries. Oceania has reported 8 4 aids cases including 758 in Australia while Asia has reported Only 231 cases. While Asia including the populous countries of China and the soviet onion have reported Only a Small number of cases who director general half Dan Mahler said lost year that some asian nations were most vulnerable to an aids epidemic because of weak health care systems the soviet Union and China however both have very great social Structure and social control As Well at health programs that could help prevent the spread of aids Mahler said. But even there they Are very very concerned now 10 build up very rapidly a kind of surveillance Struc Ture to Deal with ams he said