European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 25, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 pact to pay teachers up to $64,000 Miami a teachers could earn up to $64,000 under a tentative contract agreement with Dade county that a schools spokesman describes As one of the nation s most progressive and raises salaries 28 percent. The three year contract which the teachers Union and school Board must still approve sets average pay for the new academic year at $33,066, Dade county spokesman Andy Gollan said saturday. Average pay nationally is $28,031, according to National Educa Tion association figures. With 255,000 students in 260 schools Dade county has the fourth biggest school District in the nation behind new York los Angeles and Chicago. Dade s school system with 15,000 teachers received National attention ear Lier this year because of a program that gives local schools More autonomy and lets teachers councils help make Deci Sions. The program also Aims to improve inner City schools by involving various Community organizations offering sat urday classes and various professional growth initiatives. G9llan said the school system enthusiastically favors generous raises so that Overall salaries would average $33,066 in the first year of the contract $36,042 in the second and $39,646 in the third. Brigitte Blanche a French journalist drives her mule drawn covered Wagon on a Highway near Cheyenne Wyo. Wyoming visitors Blanche her husband Gilles Dela Borde and his brother Herve Dela Borde who Are travelling by the Wagon a from Oklahoma to Arizona and Back paused in Cheyenne to attend that City s Fame Frontier Days Rodeo. Of Given to import unapproved aids drugs Boston a the food and drug administration said saturday it has begun allowing aids patients to import drugs that have not been approved for Sale in the United states. Speaking to a hostile crowd at a con Ference on Gay and lesbian health issues Fra commissioner Frank Young unexpectedly announced that the government on wednesday officially began allow ing the import of some unapproved treatments for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. All of us Are dealing with a time Young line that is fierce Young told a crowd of about 300 people who heckled him throughout his speech. Under the terms of the new policy aids patients can import drugs from other coun tries if the product is purchased for personal use and not for Sale Young said. The Fra has the authority to deny any drug ship ments into the country. Young said the Fra was moved to change its policy in part to control the ship ment of aids treatments because some drugs have been imported illegally. He said some of the drugs have been shown to help combat the disease which is caused by a virus that damages the body s immune system leaving victims susceptible to infections and cancer. Despite the announcement protesters charged the government with failing to do enough to permit the use of drugs to help treat aids victims. He announced the policy because he heard there were going to be protests and he wanted to placate us said Debbie Levine of the new York based aids coalition to unleash Power. But we re not going to be placated with just ribs and  the demonstrators most of the crowd attending the speech at the 10th National lesbian and Gay health conference and aids forum held up watches with alarms ringing to illustrate that aids victims can not wait while drugs Are put through years of testing before being approved. Levine said several drug treatments for aids being used in Europe Japan and else where have been proven to be effective and should be legalized in the United states. We be had other epidemics such As toxic Shock syndrome and legionnaires disease which have been addressed swiftly said Alan Klein of act up. But after eight years the commissioner of the Fra is still talking about Hope and we Only have one drug a which is highly  Young said he wanted the meeting at the conference to Mark the beginning of an Effort to build Bridges Between Federal regulators and aids activists. The Fra shares your concern for the individuals who Are suffering from this devastating disease and is painfully aware of their desperate efforts to seek treatment Young said Over protesters shouts which often drowned out his speech. As of june 15, the Fra had approved 178 applications for testing of drugs and other therapies to treat aids Young said. Later saturday reps. Barney Frank and Gerry Studds two Massachusetts democrats who Are openly Gay were presented awards from both the National lesbian and Gay health foundation and the association of physicians for human rights. We would have More Money for health issues if it weren t for increased defense spending said Frank. Studds criticized the administration s response to aids. This president seems to think the answer to this disease is monogamy and marriage he said. About 1,500 homosexual men and women Are attending the we Klong Confer ence which ends tuesday. Attacks blamed on late spawning Uriah Calif. A a spate of mysterious fish attacks on bewildered swimmers at Lake Mendocino May be the result of hungry sex starved Catfish a state biologist says. I think the fish might be a Little Cranky state fish and game Biolo Gist Wendell Jones said. The fish Are spawning real late and in the parts of the Lake where the bites occurred there is a noted absence of food fish. I think the fish Are hungry and Cranky because of the spawning. At least a half dozen attacks on bathers have been reported recently. Jones blamed Catfish As the Likely underwater terrorists after he cruised the Lake on a boat outfitted with a Large fish shocker. He said parts of the Lake especially on the East Side where fewer people go Are full of healthy fish. I Don t know Why but maybe it s the weather Jones said. We be had some real crazy weather this  Northern California has been experiencing drought like conditions and during the last week unusually High temperatures have been breaking re cords daily. After reports that the fish were really biting at Lake Mendocino Jones netted Catfish Bass Bluegill and suckers. He said he got 13 species All of which normally Are found in similar lakes. He said he found no people eating monsters As had been rumoured locally. The Catfish Are found in shallow water have a Large Mouth with curved Teeth and Are known to be feisty when sexually aroused hungry or hassled. Blackie the Slippery pig has Brush with the Law Tampa Fla. A a pet Piglet that led police on a three hour Chase was finally nabbed by a farm agent who got Down on the ground and lured the Ani Mal with a handful of horse feed. It s easy you just have to be faster than the pig said Deputy Jack i to Hrabovsky a member of the Hills Borough county sheriffs office agricultural unit. Blackie an 8-month-old, 40-Pound pig spent the night behind bars at the City s impoundment lot before being sent to the sheriffs farm for wayward Ani Mals in Plant City. The pig s Brush with the Law began As owner David a. Brown carried him along a City Street. Officer Gary Yost stopped to Chat and soon Learned through a computer Check that Brown was wanted for violating probation on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol. As Brown was arrested Blackie took off. For three hours Yost and another Tampa officer pursued the porker at times catching a glimpse of the elusive Swine in the Glare of police spotlights. Finally they called Hrabovsky who got Down on the ground with a handful of horse feed and waited for the pig to come to him. When it did officers nabbed it. Brown remained in the Hillsborough county jail and no hearing Date or bail had been set