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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 i the stars and stripes saturday december 17,1988 Bush wants Kemp As Hud Secretary by fat Wmk Irlon font Washington president elect George Bush has selected rep. Jack Kemp r-., the outspoken conservative who challenged him for the Republican presidential nomination to be his Secretary of housing and Urban development. Transition sources said. Kemp met will hush this week and outlined his Hopes for a More activist housing policy source said. They said Bush offered him the Hud Post after Kemp pledged to publicly sup port Bush s Overall policies despite their frequent differences in he past. Although Kemp has Long been on a Short list of potential nominees to the Cabinet Bush aides have been dubious that the energetic and vocal conservative could shed his career Long Rale of critic and assume the place of Loyal team member. Kemp assured Bush he would sources close to him and to the transition said. In another development. Gush said he supports president Reagan s Deci Sion to begin talks with the Palestine liberation organization. However Bush cautioned let s see How things evolve Here s no game  Bush also moved toward several other Cabinet appointments. He met with the president of Morehouse col lege medical school or. Louis Sulli Van who is said to be in line to be nominated Secretary of health and human services and he received a briefing from a Boyden Gray his Legal counsel on the Fri background investigation of former sen. John g. Tower a Texas the leading candidate to head up the defense department. Sullivan 35, is one of two Blacks Bush plans to appoint to his Cabinet according to transition sources. The other is Julius w. Denton jr., the head of the Federal emergency manage ment Agency who is the leading con tender to head the new veterans affairs department. Bush already has decided on Samuel Skinner head of the regional transit authority in Chi Cago for Secretary of transportation Bush also was said to be caring a final decision on the labor Secretary Spost with Federal communications commissioner Patricia do Dennis one of the fron runners. Dennis a lawyer and one time Democrat is a former member of the National labor relations Board. Bush also turned his attention to his White House staff thursday meeting with Robert Teeter whom he has asked to become Deputy White House chief of staff and Counselor to the president. Teeler is n leading Republican poll Star and political strategist. He sold his Michigan based polling firm. Mar Ket opinion research last year when he became involved full time in Bush s Campaign and has been Debat ing whether to take his first Job in government or Start a new business. In the White House Teeter was to have what one official called the ideas mandate Wilh incoming White House chief of staff John h. Sinunu in charge of the operations  Sununu is expected to announce by next week the key posts at the White House although former rep. Tom Locffler a Texas the top candidate for director of congressional relations informed Sununu on thursday he is not interested in the Job. Book fells How Quay a got nickname wets head Washington Dan qua Etc was so bored in the Hvisc of representatives that he missed com Mittee maj kegs to play Golf or work out earning the nickname of it head because i was always Corn ing out of the gyn according to a new Book on the vice president elect. However he Book political scientist Richard f. Mcnno jr., says Quayle quickly matured when he moved to the Senate in l9b sind risked alienating the Republican administration to Quincer passage of an important bipartisan Job training " the freshman Republican senator a so irritated at roadblocks to the Bill thrown up by Labo depart mint officials and then Secretary Raymond Donovan thai he referred to them As the bastards the boo says. The making of a senator Dan Quayle year study by Fenno of Quayle i political career his chief legislative accomplishment the Job training partnership act of 982. It is . Quayle s office said wednesday there would be no comment on. The Book. The senator told the author he was very bored in the House where he served from 1976 to 1980. He missed act Lings and votes and would sneak off to play Golf or work out one unidentified associate is Dan Quayle quoted As saying. People called him a act head because he was Al ways coming out of the House gym the associate said. It s an awful let a especially being a Republic-.1 there. You cancel anything done Quayle said. But when Jfe was elected to the Senate in 1980, As Republican captured the majority there Quayle was Able to get a labor and human resources subcommittee chairmanship and Drew the task of drafting legis  replace the comprehensive employment and tuning act. A his work on the Bill with Edward Kennedy of Mas i accuse tvs the ranking Democrat on the committee j angered the administration which wanted to Frame its i " own proposal. Although the Quayle Kennedy Bill eventually prevailed tension Between Quayle and the labor department was such that the senator told the author they ought to be Hung the bastards contrary to custom no members of Congress were invited to the Bill signing ceremony. And when Quayle later asked to have his picture taken with the president and to have his wife and children accompany him he was told thai the senator could come to the White House unannounced through the Side Gate and with no family members. New aids study to targe heterosexuals at High risk Newark , a Federal health officials thursday announced anew aids Mudy that will focus on heterosexual men and women at High risk of contracting the fatal Tii Soave because of m ii Lille sex partners or other factors. The Simial transmission and progression of aids among heterosexuals is virtually unexplored territory said or. Stanley h. Weiss one of the nation s leading aids researchers who will head the study in Newark. The National Institute of allergy an infectious diseases in Washington said the study is to be conducted Over five years among 2.000 heterosexuals in Newark no and Brooklyn . Or. Anthony s. Fauci director of the Institute said the purpose of the study is to develop More effective strategies forthe prevention and treatment of aids or acquired immune deficiency syn drome in a population that is not Homo sexual or using intravenous drugs. Only about 4 percent of the adult aids cases can be traced to heterosexual Contact but such sexual conduct accounts for 30 percent of All aids cases among women the Institute said. The study will concentrate on heterosexuals with a history of what is consid ered to be High risk behaviour for con ironing ads the factors include an average of 10 or More sex part ners a year. A history of sexually transmit cd disease within the last five years. Sexual Contact with people homosexuals or intravenous drug Urs who Are considered to be at High risk fir aids. Those infected or exp Ped to Fung Al viral Retro viral Baclic Jaror parasitic infections that Are thou gun to increase. The risk of acquiring Al intravenous drug us a a group with one of the highest Raffs of aids infection arc excluded from the study. Newark and Bruf Uklyn were selected for the study Thoj Institute said because they arc Locaco Jlon inner City areas populated by Large Umbers of his  drug users a potential Reservoir of Ince to Vii for  his at human immunodeficiency virus is the organism that causes aids. A thousand heterosexual men and women we be recruited for the new Jersey portion of the study they will come from counselling and lest Sites set up by in cute in Laree health facilities in Northern new Jersey and from a Newark Hospi in. The new York study will concentrate on recruiting heterosexual women but a select group of men who Are sexual part jeers of the study s female members also will be sought. The new York stud also will seek steady mate sexual partners of women who test positive for aids after first testing negative. / -.v-v. .-.-. R.-.#2,0.0.0 a As cans show up a governor s open House jul Frau Alaska a follow ing a Teri year old Holiday tradition about 2,oob$laskans lined up in the slush to get a re look inside the governor s mansion Kohake the chief executive s hand and swarm cider. Gov. Sieve Cowpland his wife Michael played Host Brehe Christma open House  for the third consecutive year Inife colonial mansion overlooking the Stala Pital. Except for two Yea War ii the open House has annual event since the three Story Home was built for Terri rial gov. Walter Clark in 1912. I be been to about 38 of them out of the 40 years i be been Here said 92-year old Ethel m. Montgomery. This is my House and i love  the feeling that the House is a state treasure that belongs to All alaskans rings them out in every shape age and  would t be Able to gel away with it in a place with More Popula Tion said Keren Bosworth one of Juneau s 30,000 residents. It s Nice. It gives people a feeling they re part of it guests mingled about the main floor of the is room mansion carrying plates of food and cups of cider or punch while the cow pcs and a gov. Ste phen Mcalpine and his wife greeted people. The Upit Atra living quarters an the basement were Oft limits in the living room guests were entertained by violinists and a chorus while children lined up to talk to Santa and mrs. Aus. Sandy Fiscus who was sampling the refreshments with her i a year old daughter Robin said they attend the open House every year. The governor s chef John a Caber  and the mansion staff begin plan Ning for he three hour affair in  begins in september and most / the cookies breads and hours d to arcs arc stored in the Freezer. Is year the treats included 1,500 q is 1,400 Artichoke  Savage pastries 1,400 devised. Eggs Anou pounds of brie cheese stuffed wit nipples and pears. By tic end Only a be reals remained. For Many inc open House has be come a family Nadi Tion. Some parents brought visor cameras while. Others look snapshots the state foots the Bill for the open House with expenses coming oui of. The mansion budget cow per spokes Man David Ramseur Aid  
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