European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 24, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 comprehensive aids study planned will involve one third of Newborn infants by the Washington Post Washington a pin prick blood test routinely performed on newborns is about to become the source for the most comprehensive study yet on the spread of aids among a Large segment of the general Public. The study will include one third of the infants born in the United states next year according to the lat est estimates by the National centers for disease control the sponsoring Agency. The Survey will be conducted Blind with no names attached to the blood samples tested according to cd. The tests will show whether an infant s blood contains antibodies to the his virus indicating whether the Mother is infected. No consent will be sought from parents and no results on individual tests will be reported the cd said. The nationwide study will be patterned on research that began in Massachusetts in 1986 and has been repeated in new York. Because precautions Are taken to prevent identifying individuals the programs have avoided the controversy that has marked other aids testing proposals. Blood is taken routinely from new born babies by pricking the Heel and collecting a Sample on filter paper to Check for several diseases. In the states that have agreed to participate in the research project a portion of that Sample will be used for the aids test and the results will be reported to cd. Information will be recorded on age and race and on the Mother s area of residence so that Basic demographic characteristics can be reported. This is an enormously powerful pub Lic health management tool to target prevention programs or. Timothy Dondero chief of the Sero epidemiology Branch of the centers aids program said. But it is not meant for individual  Leroy Walters director of the Center for bioethics at Georgetown University s Kennedy Institute for ethics noted that right now there in t much that can be done to cure anyone with aids. But he said that if effective treatment becomes available it would be necessary to recon Sider the ethics of Blind testing. When aids testing is completely Blind we have no problems with it said Chai Feldblum legislative counsel for the aids project of the american civil liberties Union. The Acle has opposed mandatory testing for individual identification and treatment saying it can Lead to discrimination and personal turmoil. If a person does not want to know their test results then they have the right not to know Feldblum said. But she added so Long As there s no connection with the individual name it is an epidemiological study that the government can legitimately  Large scale aids testing has been con ducted in the armed forces and Federal prisons and among donors to blood Banks but or. Marguerite Pappaioanou project director of the Federal study noted that none of those groups is representative of the general population. She said voluntary testing underestimates the extent of infection because substantial i numbers of those most at risk do not participate. Pappaioanou said the study of infants will give a full picture of aids infection among child bearing women. A Mother s antibodies pass to her baby during pregnancy. Medical studies indicate that about half the infants showing the antibodies Are infected with the aids virus. Its shortcoming of course is that it does t include men Pappaioanou said of the Survey. Of the 70,000 aids cases reported in the United states since 1981, Only about 10 per cent have been among women a percentage that Rose slightly this year. Most infected women Are believed to be drug users who contracted the disease by sharing contaminated Needles or who have been sexual part ners of infected male drug users. Health officials in Massachusetts and new York expressed concern about the rate of infection in their big cities after learning the results of their Newborn studies. The new York study showed that 16.4 of every 1,000 babies born in new York City carried antibodies to the aids virus or 1 in 61, compared with a statewide infection rate of 8.6 per 1,000 or 1 in every 116. About 30 states and the District of Columbia Are expected to participate in the Newborn study and that will result in the testing of about 1.3 million of the 3.9 million babies it is anticipated will be born in the United states next year. Running hard a vice president Bush leads a group of 20 supporter through Chicago s Grant Park for a morning jog on monday. Wearing shirts that said Bush 88 Chi Cago runs with a Winner the group ran for about20 minutes before the candidate headed to the open ing of the vow National convention. Al Cio urges . Restrictions on polish imports Washington a the Al Cio said Mon Day it will petition the Reagan administration to re strict polish imports by . Markets under provisions in the new Trade Bill that Are designed to safeguard workers rights. We certainly believe the worker rights provisions of the Trade legislation should be applied in the Case of Poland said Al Cio president Lane Kirkland. They should be denied Access to the american Market under those provisions since they Are in violation of worker  Kirkland made the comments monday As the polish government ordered troops to secure major Industrial plants and clamped curfews on three provinces hit by pro Solidarity strikes following a week of the worst labor unrest since 1981. The United states last year imported some $261.5 million Worth of products from Poland primarily can Ned meat fish Iron and steel plates nails clothing and glassware. Al Cio officials said the retaliation could take several forms including revoking Poland s most favored nation status As a trading partner. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 24, 1948 three Western diplomats including . Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith met with soviet Premier Josef Stalin for More than five hours to discuss the problem of Germany and Berlin. 30 years ago foday. Aug. 24, 1958 health officials reported that encephalitis also known As sleeping sickness was approaching epidemic proportions in Japan and South Korea. 20 years ago foday. Aug. 24, 1968 an International Freedom train with More than 400 refugees aboard arrived in Vienna from Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of the soviet invasion of that country. 10 years ago foday. Aug. 24, 1978 the Senate passed and sent to the state Legislatures for ratification a constitutional amendment allowing District of Columbia voters to elect members of Congress As though they were Resi dents of a state. 6 indicted under neutrality act Miami not in a second such Case in six weeks a Federal prosecutor announced monday that six men had been indicted on charges of recruiting training and arming a Contra group of mercenaries to fight the government of Nicaragua. A six count indictment handed up by a grand jury in fort Lauderdale fla., on june 28 and unsealed monday accused the six All cuban americans of Vio lating the neutrality act which prohibits armed intervention by american citizens abroad. One defendant was charged with violating firearm Laws. On july 13, seven men including Mario Calero the brother of Contra Leader Adolfo Calero were indicted on similar charges. Monday s indictment announced by Mark p. Schnapp chief of the criminal division of the United states attorney s office Here said that in july 1983, four of the cubans Rene Corvo Sergio Becerra Francisco Hernandez and Rafael Torres Jimenez set up a military train ing Camp in Collier county. The Fri said the Camp was in the Everglades 70 Miles West of Miami. The indictment says that 60 mercenaries were recruited and that the two other defendants Eulalio Francisco Castro and Joseph Marcos provided Money for food weapons and military training. . Officials said they did not know the source of the Money which they estimated could amount to several Hundred thousand  Schnapp said the principal organizer of the opera Tion was Corvo 48, a former army paratrooper and a member of brigade 2506, which launched the Bay of pigs invasion in 1961. Corvo Becerra Castro and Marcos surrendered Mon Day and were released on $25,000 Bond. The whereabouts of Hernandez and Torres Jimenez were not known. If found guilty Corvo could receive a prison sentence of 38 years. The others could be imprisoned for 8 years. In february 1984, the indictment charges Corvo travelled to Costa Rica to arrange for his men to join a Contra group led by Eden Pastora Gomez known As Comandante Zero. A month later the indictment says they participated with or. Pastora s insurgency Force in combat raids against the government of  later that year the indictment charges Corvo recruited More men and organized his own Force the Saturnino Beltran commandos which carried out combat raids in Nicaragua from bases inside Costa  indictment says Corvo falsified an Export Decla ration and snipped weapons to his commandos from fort  in the shipments which took place be tween March 1985 and january 1986, were a 20-mm Cannon and a 9-mm mortar launcher the indictment says