European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 news updates the stars and stripes tuesday August 23,1988 painting returned Oslo Norway a the Vampire a painting by norwegian artist Edvard Munch that is insured for 15 million Kroner $2.17 million has been returned to the Munch museum by the regretful thief who stole it last february police said monday. Inspector Odd Mathisrud identified the suspected thief As Paal Enger 21, and said he returned the painting to police Headquarters sunday night. He s being questioned now and will be formally arraigned by the probate court later monday Mathisrud said. The Small painting shows a woman kissing a Man on the neck and was one of a series painted by Norway s Best known artist around 1894. An Oslo newspaper Dag bladet quoted Enger As saying he turned to crime because of a 2 million Kroner $290,000 gambling debt. President cancels trip Rome a president fran Cesco Corsiga has cancelled plans for a 10-Day vacation in the far Northern Alto adige Region for fear his presence might provoke new acts of violence by ethnic extremists. There have been a series of bombings in recent months including two within the last week in the area stripped from Austria at the end of world War i. The violence stems from tensions be tween the 300,000 ethnic germans and 125,000 italians in the Region in far Northern Italy. Aids movie script Statesville . A teen age aids victim Ryan White sat at his Kitchen table Back in Indiana with a couple of Holly Wood film makers eating pizza and Reading from a new movie script about his celebrated fight to return to school. He got the role. He s a natural said Linda Otto co executive producer of the Ryan White Story an Abc movie starring George c. Scott that is being filmed in Statesville through sept. 9. To Ryan his Small role in the film reinforces the message that aids cannot be transmitted through casual Contact. It tells the Story plus it helps educate people about aids and the hardships people go through he said in an interview Friday. Ryan will appear As an older he mop iliac who like Ryan contracted aids from a blood trans fusion. Gulf air flights Manama Bahrain a Gulf air has received permission to resume flights to the capitals of Iran and Iraq the Gulf news Agency reported monday. Gulf air owned by the governments of Bahrain Qatar Oman and Abu Dahabi stopped its flights to Baghdad Iraq and Teh ran Iran along with most other airlines shortly after the outbreak of the Gulf War in september 1980. In its report the news Agency operated by Bahrain quoted the airline s Public relations director Abdallah Abdel Karim As saying the flight schedules will be fixed once a  cease fire that took effect saturday appears stable. Much higher aids rate found in Black hispanic gis than Whites by William j. Bartma Washington Bureau Washington Blacks and his panics in the military Are contracting the aids virus at rates Between 2�/2 to Al most four times higher than Whites the latest Pentagon figures show. According to figures periodically re leased by the defense department Blacks were 3.6 times and hispanics 2.5 times More Likely than non hispanic Whites to have the antibody among Active duty personnel testing positive for the virus As of april 24. Although Blacks and hispanics constituted 50.7 percent of those testing Posi Tive for the virus they represented Only 23.4 percent of Active duty personnel. The rate of infection was highest in men unmarried persons and enlisted person Nel. In various age groups the aids infection rate ranged from 0.1 per 1,000 among 17 through 19-year-Olds to 2.1 per 1,000 for those aged 25-29 years. A total of 1,752,191 persons who remained on Active duty As of april were screened. The hiv-1 antibody the tech Nical name of the aids virus was con firmed in 2,232 people. The latest figures by service show the army had 605 members testing positive for the aids virus for an infection rate of 0.9 per 1,000. The air Force had the same rate of infection with 414 members testing positive while the Navy s infection rate with 1,081 testing positive was 2.1 per 1,000. Only 132 marines showed hiv-1 Posi Tive for a rate of 0.8 per 1,000. While Pentagon and Federal health officials warn that military personnel like blood donors Are not truly representative of the . Population the High incidence rate of the aids virus among Blacks and hispanics does reflect a pattern found in the population at Large. A 1986 report from the centers for disease control said Blacks and hispanics were three times As Likely to develop aids As Whites a finding supported by current figures. As of aug. 15, out of 70,702 cases of aids in the United states Blacks accounted for 26 percent of the total and hispanics represented another 15 per cent. Yet Blacks and hispanics represent Only 12 percent and 6 percent of the population respectively meaning that each group has an incidence rate More than double that of non hispanic Whites the cd report said. According to the Pentagon figures the current rate of 1.3 cases of aids per 1,000 military members tested compares to 1.53 per 1,000 reported six months ago. But that does not mean the rate of infection has dropped Pentagon officials said because of a change in reporting  the defense department began screening All Active duty members in january 1986, numbers on aids infections have continued to include retired separated and dead service members who had the disease. From now on the Fig ures will show the rate for the current Active duty Force giving the Pentagon a Chance to Monitor  Pentagon spokesman explained that the reason for the apparent decline was that since april 24, when the new figures were reported 805 of the service Mem ers testing positive for the virus had re tired and an additional 701 had Sepa rated from the service. Since they Are not currently on Active duty their num Bers Are not included in the rate calculations he  reason for the lower Preva Lence rates is the treatment of recent recruits who Are not accepted for military service if they test  testing positive for aids Are ineligible for service. Homosexual men and male and female intravenous drug users Are underrepresented in the Mili tary. Persons with Haemophilia Are also not medically eligible for  officials believe the new aids reporting method will show the level of infection dropping among Mili tary personnel Given the continued test ing of potential recruits for the disease. Arc sees tight fit for holidays reservations will be taken sept. 1 by Charlie Bowde Munich Bureau Garmisch West Germany Christmas is four months away but those considering spending it at one of the armed forces recreation Center s bavarian hotels should plan now. Central reservations at a Fri head quarters in Garmisch will begin accept ing written requests sept. 1, spokesman Harry Connors said. Telephone requests will be accepted after dec. 1. Unlike the arrangement in past years Junior enlisted personnel no longer will have special dates set aside for them Dur ing the Christmas season a Peak period for the hotels and Winter recreation pro Grams. Reservations Are open to All grades military and civilian on an equal basis Connors said. However in an Effort to take care of Junior enlisted personnel reservation clerks will process written requests from military people in grades e-5 and below first each morning Connors said. Because of High customer demand during this time arc is giving priority to individuals requesting a minimum of seven nights in either of arc s two Winter Holiday periods dec. 19-26 and dec. 27 through Jan. 2. Requests for less than seven nights or for periods that overlap the two weeks will be accepted after dec. 1. Central reservations already has received some reservation requests for less than a week or that overlap the two scheduled periods Connors said. Those won t be processed until dec. 1," he said. Others will be held until sept. 1. Arc will have fewer rooms available this year because of renovation work at Chi Emsee and the closing of the Sheridan Plaza hotel in Garmisch. The Section of the Lake hotel at Chi Emsee where Reno vation is completed will remain open but the rest of the hotel and the nearby Park hotel will be closed after the oktoberfest ends in Early october. The Sheri Dan Plaza closes sept. 8 and will Only be used for conferences until it is torn Down to make Way for the new Garmisch hotel and recreation Complex. A total of 708 rooms Are available for the Christmas period. For information on Holiday activities Call the arc sales office at ets 440-2634. Memorial rites set for Dodds educator Wiesbaden West Germany a memorial service for longtime educator c. Kent Rossier will be held at 2 . Saturday at Haine Berg Chapel. Rossier who spent 33 years in the Mil itary s overseas school system died july 24 in a car crash near London. He was 61. Rossier was a science coordinator for the department of defense dependents schools Germany Region. And since 1975, he had directed the Junior science and humanities symposium an International forum for the presen tation of student research. The symposium is sponsored by the Academy of applied sciences and the army re search Center. A Strong advocate of secondary school science education Rossier chaired the development of a High school science curriculum called science technology and  he presented the curriculum before c. Kent Rossier the april meeting of the National science teachers association in the United states. Germany Region High schools began offering a course based on the curriculum last year. During his career Rossier taught in Turkey France and West Germany be fore moving to the Germany Region of fice. In addition to his duties As science coordinator he was a co director of the Region s Early childhood education pro Gram. Rossier also was a founding member and former president of the overseas education association and a member of the association for Young children in Europe. His wife Martha Rossier suffered broken ribs and other injuries in the july 24 crash but a source close to the family said she intends to be in her Haine Berg elementary classroom monday for the first Day of school