European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday August 20,1988 the firing of a deliberately flawed Booster rocket leaves a Trail of flame at a site in Brigham City Utah As engineers make sore their redesigned Morton Hioko rocket meets All safety requirements and next step is liftoff More. For thursday s Booster test two of the three joints the Case to nozzle joint and the igniter to Case joint were riddled with 14 intentional flaw intended to test them to their limits As the rocket burned 1.1 million pounds of propellant after the successful test Allan Mcdonald Morton Thi Okol engineering vice president inspected the Booster and told Nasa officials we re ready to go  got into National guard fairly Quayle says Huntington ind. A sen. Dan Quayle insisted Friday that he broke no rules to get into the Indiana National guard during the Vietnam War but acknowledged that he sought help from a former guard commander who worked for his Grandfather and As Sumes Calls were made on his behalf. The Republican vice presidential nominee said he would do the same thing again. At an outdoor news conference at his Hometown Quayle portrayed the Chain of events leading to his enrolment in the guard As a Normal occurrence Given his relationship with his family and their friends. I got into the National guard fairly he said. Did not ask anyone to break the rules and so far As i know no one  the Indianapolis news had reported thursday that its former managing editor Wendell c. Phillippi had been asked about entering the guard by Quayle. Phil Lippi was a former commander of the state National  Phillippi knew that i wanted to get into the National guard and i Hope that he helped me and think he did Quayle told reporters. I would Hope that he helped me and i expect  said he initially called his parents to discuss his desire to enter the National guard when he was about to lose his College student deferment upon Grad  Why he did not just go Down and fill out papers if his entry into the guard was As routine As he suggested it was Quayle said i do what any Normal person would do at that age. You Call Home. You Call Home to Mother and fatherland say to like to get in the National guard " he said his conversation with Phillippi was Brief. Told him i wanted to get into the National guard. I would assume Calls would be made. I talked to or. Phillippi very briefly. I Hope that he helped me and i think he  said he saw nothing wrong with that. Asked to assess the Way he proceeded As a 22-year-old, he said i would not have done anything differently if he had known he would be running for vice president one  about the circumstances surrounding Quayle s enlistment in the National guard in 1969continued to overshadow George Bush s presidential Campaign and dog Quayle just a Day after he was nominated for the no. 2 spot on the ticket. Quayle said he did not offer to have Bush withdraw his name for the vice presidential spot on the ticket. Quayle said he had reservations about the Vietnam War As Many people of his generation did but would have served if , i did not join to avoid service in Vietnam he said. Aids infection rate May be double that of cd estimate study says Washington a the number of american infected with the aids virus May be twice the Federal estimates and infection among the heterosexual population May be three times As High according to a report released Friday by the Hudson Institute a privately financed research organization. Kevin r. Hopkins a Hudson Institute mathematician said a study using More sophisticated techniques than Are used by the Federal centers for disease control shows that As Many As 3 million americans May be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids. The highest estimate by the cd which is the prime Federal Agency monitoring the spread of aids is that about 1.4 million Are infected with the virus. A Best guess at the Range of total infections As of year end 1987 was from 1.9 million to 3 million per sons with the likeliest Range Between 2.2 million and2.6 million people the Hudson study reported. Over half of the cases Are among homosexual men Hopkins said but estimates the number of heterosexuals infected by the virus May be three times higher than the cd estimate. The Institute estimates that 850,000 to 1.4 million heterosexuals Are infected with the his virus and that 200,000 to 500,000 of this number Are heterosexuals who Don t use drugs. There Are vastly More heterosexuals infected today said Hopkins. A break out into the non monogamous population is  the cd has estimated that the aids virus has infected Only 80,000 to 165,000 of the non drug using heterosexual population. Aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome i caused by a virus that can be spread through sexual Contact through the sharing of Needles such As in drug use through infected blood transfusions or Organ transplants and from Mother to Newborn child. Hopkins said the Hudson Institute aids estimate differ from those of cd because different computer models were used and because More sophisticated statistical analysis techniques were applied to the Model. We re All in a guessing game Hopkins  is trying to do its Best the main conclusion is that we cannot be complacent about this  As of aug. 8, 1988, aids had been diagnosed in70,208 americans of whom More than half or 39,620, have died since june 1, 1981, according to the  one is known to have recovered from aids. The Hudson study concentrated on the projections of those now infected with his but who have not progressed to aids which is the end stage of the infection. Aids is known to do veto from three to eight years after infection. Persons infected with his Are capable of spreading the virus before they actually develop aids. For this reason experts Are attempting to estimate the rate of infection in order to gauge the future size of the epidemic. Mail was missing but never missed Milton Fla. A about 6 tons of magazines letters and free samples some More than three years old were found in the Home of a Mai Carrier but his customers apparently never missed the missing mail officials said. I be seen this Type of thing before but never of this magnitude said postal investigator Richard Jordan. Right now we re  authorities responding to a tip from a neighbor raided the Carrier s Home monday and found the undelivered mail some of it badly deteriorated an infested with bugs piled in the House packed into a storage shed and littering the surrounding  was believed to be one of the largest mail thefts in u3. History said a postal investigator who did t want to be identified because he works  used a front end loader to scoop up the mail hauling away several truckloads by thursday. But authorities could give no precise estimate of How much had been seized except that it had filled 16 3-by-3-by-4-feet postal bins. Postal bins bold about 250 pounds of mail meaning that roughly 2 tons had been hauled off. Jordan said about 32 bins full of mail or 4 tons remained to be collected. About 500 to 600 pieces of first class mail were among the items  name of the mail Carrier was not released but he works out of the Pensacola office and live sin Milton. He has been placed on administrative leave pending charges officials said