European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ama urges doctors to provide warnings about aids patients saturday july 2, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 Chicago not the american medical association breaking with the centuries old tradition of confidentiality thursday strongly urged physicians to warn the sexual partners of patients found to carry the aids virus if there was no other Way to Alert them to the danger. Gay rights groups and civil Libertari ans some astonished by the decision said it could frighten aids victims away from the medical system and undermine efforts to contain the disease. Physicians who have wrestled with the Issue As the acquired immune deficiency syndrome epidemic has worsened have been torn Between the traditional obligation to guard a patient s privacy and the duty to warn potential victims. The association s 420-member House of delegates concluding its annual meet ing in Chicago voted firmly on the Side of the duty to warn the patients sex part ners. At the same time in approving a series of proposals to fight the spread of aids the physicians said state govern ments had the primary responsibility for tracing and notifying sex partners of those carrying the aids virus. The group said it would pursue legis lation to require Public health officials to solicit identify and notify partners of aids patients and virus earners. Active Contact tracing programs Are already in effect in Colorado and Idaho and More limited efforts Are being pursued in several states including new York. The action on the physician s duty to warn sex partners at risk of aids came in a last minute amendment offered by the new York delegation. The delegates stressed that doctors should try to per Suade patients found infected with the aids virus to notify their sexual part ners themselves and failing that should try to have the Public health authorities do so. But if other Means failed the physician should notify and counsel the endangered third party the amendment said. Wii traitor Axis Sally Dies Columbus Ohio a Mildred Gillars known during world War ii As Axis Sally for her propaganda broadcasts for nazi Germany has died. She was 87. Gillars who died june 25, had moved Here after her release in 1961 from Feder Al prison where she served 12 years for treason. During her trial in 1949, Gillars said she was born in Portland Maine in 1900. She said she attended Ohio Wes Leyan University but left before graduating and travelled to Germany where she took a radio Job in 1940. Hello gang her broadcasts to Allied forces began. Throw Down those Little old guns and toddle off Home. There s no getting the germans  after the War american military officials found her living in cellars of bombed out buildings in Berlin. She was shipped Home in 1948 and charged with treason. Gillars testified that she had fallen in love with a German foreign service offi cer who talked her into making the broadcasts. She said she loved her native country and would never have intentionally betrayed it. She was convicted and sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison. She served 12 years at Alderson . Upon her release she moved to col Umbus and taught music at a kindergarten. There was no announcement of her death. A private funeral was held said her attorney James Sauer. He said he knew of no surviving rela Tives. Aid for Farmers a photo South Carolina Farmer Raymond Jack son left and the state s agriculture commissioner Les Tindal Load Hay onto a truck bound for a drought stricken area in Indiana As part of a Fanner to Farmer Relief program. Zip celebrates More planes to use crash recorders 25th birthday Washington a the zip code that string of numbers bringing up the rear of every american address was a Quarter Century old Friday. We d certainly describe it As a roaring Success says John g. Mulligan senior assistant postmaster general for mail processing and delivery. The postal service handles More than double the mail today that it did when the codes were introduced but with Only is percent More people Mulligan said. And the zip system is a big Factor in that saving. No direct calculation of the exact savings has been made it s hard to separate the effect of the zip code from other things. But believe me i think it s up there in the several billions of dollars Mulligan said in an interview. In 1963 the Post office carried 67.9 billion pieces of mail sorted by human beings at a maximum rate of 800 items an hour. The Agency handled is3.9 billion pieces last year using machines sorting at a rate of 27,000 to 35,000 pieces an hour. Public acceptance has been amazing said Mulli Gan with zip codes on about 97 percent of the items mailed. Even better he added 95 percent of mail comes in with Correct zip  variety of coding systems had been under study when former postmaster general j. Edward Day los patience. They were going to be talking for 20 years. They were going to perfect it Day said in an inter View. They were going to study it to death. So i decided we be got to get this thing  he did was simply announce during a speech in december 1962, that a new coding system would take effect the following july 1. New York not the use of crash data re corders on Turbine powered commuter airliners will be greatly expanded under new rules announced by the government thursday. The rules which involve flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders will bring the requirements for the commuter air planes much closer to those already in effect for Large airliners. The deadline for compliance with the new rules is september 1991. The action taken by the Federal aviation administration is aimed at improving the chances of pinpoint ing the precise cause of accidents. The provisions of the rules generally follow recommendations made by the National transportation safety Board. They also respond to a congressional mandate adopted last de Cember. The two types of recorders Are built to withstand the forces of most crashes. Flight data recorders provide continuous information on Speed Altitude direction and other measurements of an air plane s performance. Voice recorders retain not Only the voices that Are heard in the cockpit but other sounds like engine noise. The air planes affected Are those with digital electro Nic systems that can accommodate the improved re corders. Specifically they include the 757, 767 and 747-400 models of the Boeing co. And the a-300-600, a-310, and a-320 models of Airbus industries the four nation european const orium. Hospitalized Presser monitored for blood clots Lakewood Ohio a teamsters president Jackie Presser stricken with brain cancer and hospitalized with a lung clot had a clot catching screen implanted in a vein below his kidneys thursday a Hospi Tal spokesman said. Or. Presser s vital signs Are Good following his sur Gery Lakewood Hospital spokesman David Hopcraft said in a statement. We expect him to continue his recovery throughout the  or. James r. Bekeny who specializes in blood ves Sel surgery implanted a Greenfield filter in the 61 year old labor Leader s inferior Vena Cava a vein below the kidneys. The screen shaped like an umbrella is pushed through an incision in the neck s jugular vein and is opened and lodged permanently to catch potentially life threatening clots moving from the legs to the lungs. Bekeny said Presser s size frequent bed rest and 1987 lung cancer and open heart surgery combined to increase the risk of clots forming in his legs. Presser weighed about 300 pounds before he was stricken with cancer. Presser was hospitalized just hours after the govern ment filed a lawsuit in new York to break the mafia s alleged domination of the 1.6-million member team sters the nation s biggest labor Union. Presser had a brain tumor removed May 17 at a Phoenix Hospital and later was treated for a smaller tumor affecting his pituitary gland. He relinquished his duties As Union president May 4 because of poor health. Three weeks ago a Federal judge in Cleveland accepted a request by Presser s at Torney to postpone Presser s july 12 trial on racketeer ing and embezzlement charges