European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 15, the stars and stripes Page 3 97% of . Schoolchildren immunized but grown  avoiding the Needle Atlanta a the . Centers for disease control on thursday reported Progress toward 1990 goals far child Hood immunization but said adults arc not showing up As they should for their shots. Phil Home program management officer for the cd s immunization Divi Sion said the problem is especially acute among the elderly. In its report the Agency said 97 per cent of the children entering kindergarten in 1986  been immunized against diphtheria measles mumps whooping cough paralytic polio rubella and tet anus. The goal was 95 percent. The goal was 90 percent immunization against the same diseases for Chil Dren 2 and under. It appears Likely that this objective will not be  the report said. To said measles outbreaks among preschoolers although stabilized in recent years indicate the immunization level at that age is inadequate. Cd figures show mumps in 19b7 at the highest level since 1979, with 12,848 cases. Illinois and Tennessee which  the highest number of eases did not Start enforcing jaws requiring preschool mumps immunization until 1987 and 1988 respectively. The report said the 1990 target for reductions in diphtheria and polio appear to have been met and that there is substantial Progress toward goals for tet anus and rubella. School is the most forceful instrument we have now to assure immunization Home said. But Laws differ from stale to slate. They Are not  he said some states do not require some immunizations or May exempt some students on medical or religious grounds. There is a general perception by the adult population that immunizations Are childhood activities Home said. There is a feeling that if they were immunized As a child they do not need to be immunized us  he said Only about 20 percent of the target population for influenza vaccines get the needed annual vaccinations and that about 10 percent of the target group  the one time Only pneumonia shot. The target groups Tor both shots he said include people Over 65 or adults with any debilitating illness. Home said the National coalition for adult immunizations formed out of concern for the adult vaccination figures is trying to get the word out through Volunteer organizations and Hopes to in clude its pitch with social Security checks. He said it is difficult to measure Suc Cess. With school in levers we can require a statement of proof of immunization for entry into school he said. Most Indus tries would not require a similar statement for example for new employ  vaccinations of target groups for hepa Titis a he said Range from an estimated 5 percent to 40 percent to 50 percent with the High end including health care professional such As dentists and those who handle human blood products. The report identified users of illicit inject Able drugs and Gay men As target populations less Likely to be vaccinated. Boeing Sikorsky i in first team unveiled its prelim Inary design wednesday at the Lux lot the army s the next generation next generation of Light attack and tinned reconnaissance helicopters. The design features shown Here in i Wale Model include a fan in fun All Rotor internal missile Bays and a tandem two seat cockpit. Banker says he managed big Noriega account Washington a an International banker arrested by the . Cus Toms service last week  told Congress earlier that he managed a $20 million secret Bank account for panamanian ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega Accord ing to Senate testimony Mode available thursday the witness Amjad Awan an officer of the Bank of credit and Commerce International bcc1. Said the account was used to make Cash payments to panamanian politicians and to a 1 travel and credit card expenses for Nonga and his family. Awan said he flew to Panama monthly to report to Noriega on the status of his account. I made an Effort to cultivate him Awan told investigators on sept. 30 at a private session of the Senate foreign re lations subcommittee on terrorism and narcotics. Senators attending the session were told that Awan s testimony would be closely held because of our concern Tor or. Awan s life Subco Miguec counsel Jack Blum said in the testimony released by the office of sen. John Kerry d mass. A spokesman for Kerry the subcommittee chairman said that after Awan s arrest the panel voted unanimously to release the testimony and Send a copy of it to the Justice department. Awan was indicted this week on charges of Money laundering. His Bank which is based in Luxembourg was charged in an indictment handed Down in Tampa ha., with laundering 114 Mil lion in narcotics profits for members of Colombia s my Dullin drug Cartel. In his Senate testimony Awan 41, a native of Pakistan who holds British citizenship denied any knowl Csc of Money laundering and said his Bank made an Effort to avoid any Contact with illicit Cash. He also said he  no knowl Csc of whether or not Noriega received drug payments. But he said he made an Effort to solicit accounts from Noriega and in 1982 received from him a Deposit of several Hundred thousand dollars in Cash. He was head of panamanian Intelli gence at the time and told me that this was a secret account a secret service account Awan said. "1 was told that the account should be kept in a highly confidential and secret  Awan said the balances in Noriega s account went up and Down but at one Point reached a High of "$20 million maybe $25 million. He said he paid Cash out of the account Only after receiving a note signed by Noriega preceded by a Telephone Call telling me to expect the person to come in to get these  Awan was asked to whom the Money was paid. Politicians he said this was Dur ing the time of the elections in  he said the expenses for Noriega s trips abroad also were paid out of the account As were personal expenses charged to credit cards held by Noriega his wife and 1 heir three daughters. Awan said that when he reported to Noriega on his account the panamanian was not interested in his balance but wanted to know How Money  been spent when i told him that this month we debited j 50,000 to your account he wanted to know what that s 50,000 consisted of. So it was basically the airline Bills hotel Bills. Visa card debits. Limousines reservations theater tickets schools  a week after his Senate testimony Awan and four other Bocci officials were arrested in Tampa in a customs service sting operation. They  been drawn to Tampa in response to a faked wedding invitation sent by an undercover Cus Toms agent who  known them in the two years he posed As a Money launderer