European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday october 15, 1988 study links death in 69 to aids virus Chicago a Laboratory tests on tissue samples taken froma youth who died almost two decades a confirm that he was infected with a virus closely related or identical to the Ali s virus a report said Friday. The authors of the report which appeared in tic journal of the american medical association said their findings surest thai a virus related to the aids causing human immunodeficiency Sims was introduced to the United Stales at least once before the late 1970s. The findings raise important implications about the evolution of the aids epidemic in the United Stales said the report by or. Robert of Garry of the to Lanc University s school of Medicine in new Orleans and colleagues. Acquired immune deficiency syn drome was first clinically diagnosed in the United Stales in inc Early mos. T has been suggested by researchers that the aids virus was imported from Africa to inc Caribbean and from there to inc United slates in he late 1970s, however the report said the Issue of when his was introduced into the High risk populations of homosexuals Intra venous drug users and Haemophiliacs inthe United slates remains unresolved. Its authors raise the possibility that virus related to his May have been pre sent in inc United slates Africa or else where for several decades. They suggested that the current epidemic May be the result often clip changes in the virus or Sodo cultural factors involving sexual practices or the number of sexual partners. The researchers based heir conclusions on inc Case history Ofa 15-Ycar-old a usually Active Black youth who was admitted to St. Louis City Hospital in 1968. He died after being treated for 16 months. There have been been previously published reports in the scientific and popular press about the Case because the youth exhibited several symptoms characteristic of aids using recently developed Laboratory tests for the presence of antibodies related to his Garry and his colleagues examined serum and autopsy specimens from the youth which were fro in in 1969. It appears Likely thai the patient from 1968 was infected with a virus closely related or identical to strains of h1\mthat Are currently in the United slates the report said. His is the most prevalent Strain of the aids virus in Llic United Stales and other countries. A newly isolated Type of the virus h1v-2, has been found in peo ple living in Western Africa. Drug users with aids get Little sympathy new York al1 the Public is generally sympathetic toward people who have aids but in has Little or no sympathy for people who became infected with the aids virus through homosexuality or intravenous drug use a Survey found. A total of 75 percent of the respondents to the new York times Cus news poll said they had a lot or some sympathy for people w to hive aids and 19 percent said they had not much or no sympathy. But the level of sympathy declined when the two groups Al highest risk of getting die disease were mentioned i As polls Tkavc shown negative Public Alti Ludes toward both groups homosexuals and drug Urs. Only 36 percent of those interviewed had a lot or some sympathy for people who get aids from homosexual activity and 26 percent said they had a lot or some sympathy for people who gel aids from sharing Needles White using illegal homosexuals and drugs users make up inc overwhelming majority of people with acquired immune deficiency syndrome we in this caused by a virus that damages the body s immune system leaving victims susceptible to infections and cancer. A total of respondents were interviewed by Telephone sept. 8 to ii. The poll had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage Points. Welcome Home when Steven Monnerjahn arrived in sup die Jjo on oct. A he had a warm Welcome from Hia 3-year-old Nicole who had been waiting for him. Munner Juhn is a member of the aircraft Carrier Independence. The Currier and lie Cru kit Luke Cham Plain ire making i hair new Homi in san do Jed Catfish get last meow in Oregon Hope tf/-Irtt-4 Ashland Ore. A Catfish have won the Bat the of Hyatt Lake and one Fisherman wants to Call out the National guard. After hauling an estimated 32,000 Catfish Oul of the Lake volunteers on thursday gave up their plan to use traps and nets to purge the Southwest Oregon Lake of the Pesky fish. We just Don t have the manpower said Mudford Angler Jim Summers. We need the National guard for biologists had warned Summers and others their Effort would be an exercise in futility. Bui the volunteers said they wanted to do what they could to reduce inc booming Brown Bullhead Catfish population in the Lake about 20 Miles East of Ashland. Earlier this year local opposition caused the state fish and wildlife commission to Hack off a plan to treat the Lake with Poison. Summers and several other Poison opponents said icy would haul the fish Oul of the Lake themselves using live traps and Seine nets. The volunteers decided to rethink their plans Afler Workin i 16 hours wednes Day scooping five ions of Catfish out of the Lake sum mers said. The fish were hauled into the. Woods by the truck Load and buried said state fishery biologist Al Smith. He estimated there Are 7.5 million Catfish in the Lake so Many that inc fish s growth has been stunted the feed on their Young and crowd out most other fish. I m not ready to admit defeat but 1 am ready 10 apologize to the department said Jim Ross a Mcd Ford Angler who joined the Effort. They told me it would t work and i said it stateside Black fraternity members get new House at Ole miss Oxford miss. A members of the univer Siviy of Mississippi s All Black Phi Beta Sigma fraternity whose first attempt at moving onto fraternity Row was met with arson have moved into new quarters on inc previously All White the assistance of about 30 members of White fraternities with houses already on fraternity Row Phileta Sigma members moved furniture into the recently renovated House thursday. We did t expect anything like this said Julius Harris Phi Beta Sigma s Ole miss chapter president. We arc just elated Over our new House. This is a Ste Forward for race relations and for the Mike Stewart inc University s police chief said thursday that no arrests have by in made in connection with the fire two months ago but the investigation was continuing. Letter about abused girl reaches White House late Delaware Ohio a a letter written Lopre silent Reagan by a schoolgirl asking him to help a Girlfriend who was being beaten by her father took nearly two years to reach the proper authorities officials county childrens services workers were investigating the letter mailed Jan. 7, 1987, after it arrived via inc White House and the National Conler for missing &. Exploited children in mean it sounded pretty serious and we gel the letter almost two years later said Donna Bukovec a children s services social was sent to Reagan by a girl who was an eighth Grade student at the time said Bukovec. She would nol divulge details on the girl s identity. Bukovec said serial workers talked to the Girt thurs Day and were try to to determine whether in abuse Case still Cuiss. But Bukovec said she was certain abuse was occurring when the girl wrote the letter. Dims for 3 whales trapped in Arctic ice Anchorage Alaska a biologists held out Little Hope for three Gray whales trapped by 6-Mcn thick Arctic ice off the alaskan coast As temperatures plunged and their food supplies ran California Gray whales continued to swim sever Al Hundred feet offshore thursday near Point Barrow using two holes in the ice to breathe said Geoff car Roll a wildlife biologist for the North slope Borough. Carroll who made an observation flight estimated the holes were about 15 by 30 feel giving the whales barely enough room As they Rose to breathe every four minutes or so. Open water Lay More than four mile Quioto girls believed time was running out for the Grays As nighttime temperatures dropped to 13 degrees below Zero threatening to shrink the whales by eating space
