European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 news briefs the stars and stripes thursday january 26, 1989 teen Ager gets aids virus from acupuncture Needle Boston up French doctors wednesday reported what May be the first documented Case in medical literature of someone becoming infected with the aids virus through an acupuncture Nee dle. Doctors at the Necker Hospital in Paris de scribed the Case of a 17-year-old Paris youth who apparently became infected with his the virus that causes the deadly disease when he under went acupuncture for tendinitis. We believe that the incidence of his transmission by acupuncture is very Low the doctors wrote in reporting the Case in a letter in the new England journal of Medicine. Usa eur from Page 1 the no. 1 thing that keeps us from being As ready Forwar As we could  but he said if you re the person being discriminated against and therefore you re not As productive or you re not growing like you ought to grow then i affects combat readiness reflecting on the recent army year of values Saint said in the speech that there Are certain values and actions that must be consistent and  he asked commanders to ensure that they do All they Canto improve soldiers ability to be All they can  the army is run by commanders and commanders Are responsible for soldiers he said. People who have Talent want to serve want to do Well and Are willing to put Forth the Effort ought to have the Chance to do  Saint changed the format of this year s conference to include commanders and command sergeants major in wednesday afternoon s sessions so that they could address the status of the equal Opportunity program he said in the interview. He made the change in part because it allows me to Tell the leadership of . Army Europe that this is a serious subject it deserves your interest if i can come up Here Youcan come up Here he said. He added i Thirft periodically you have to do an assess ment and verify what you re doing and what you need to do. I did t change the conference Agenda because thought something was  among topics Saint asked conferees to discuss during workshops were what the current status of discrimination is what the Content of leadership training should be and How equal Opportunity advisers can be most effectively distributed throughout the command. The Bottom line for Saint is that sexual harassment and racial discrimination Are not tolerated in this  from my Point of View i won t tolerate it he said. So if i catch you at it we will indicate to you that that Type of behaviour is not acceptable. And if you refuse to change then i la remove you from the Opportunity to do  the conference draws equal Opportunity advisers from across the command for training workshops and seminars. About 150 advisers attended along with More than 50 com Manders and command sergeants major. Offices Homes searched for links to libyan Plant Offenburg West Germany a prosecutors on wednesday searched the offices of three West Ger Man companies and the Homes of 12 officials from those firms suspected of helping Libya build a Pur ported Poison Gas factory authorities said. A spokesman for the the prosecutor s office Huber Tus Voegele said the search was conducted on suspicion that Export Laws had been violated in connection with sales to Libya. He said one company searched was Imhausen Che Mie in the nearby Black Forest town of Lahr. Imhausen Cherie is suspected of playing a major role in building the suspected chemical weapons Plant i Libya. He declined to identify the other firms whose offices were searched but said they were in various parts of the country. On tuesday news reports said an employee at Imhausen Cherie had confirmed allegations that the company had played a key role in building the Plant i Libya. In a report released tuesday Stern Magazine said Imhausen Cherie and another government owned company were aware that blueprints that were sup posed to be shipped to Hong Kong to build a pharmaceuticals Plant had ended up in Libya. The Ard television network reported late tuesday that Klaus Hess a technical craftsman with Imhausen Cherie is said to have Given evidence that Imhausen shipped parts and chemicals to Libya and further that Imhausen employees helped build the facility in rata Libya Ard did not disclose its source but said the details were confirmed by the prosecutor s office in Karlsruhe. In another development Stern reported wednesday that West German companies were heavily involved in the construction of a facility in Iraq it said was being used for rocket technology development. The Hamburg based Magazine said West German companies had shipped technology and equipment to Iraq for a research and development Center that by All indications is a rocket  it said the heavily guarded facility near the City of Mosul about 210 Miles North of Baghdad contains research laboratories for rocket Jet propulsion aerodynamic and chemical experiments. As with the factory in Libya West German Compa Nies Are heavily involved in the iraqi project Saad-16complex," Stern said. The Magazine said the general contractor was a company it identified As Gildemeister projekt of Bielefeld. Stern quoted the management As saying that it had contracted for the shipment of Laboratory equipment for general use and installed it according to plans i Iraq. All of the exports had approved licenses the mag Azine quoted the company As saying. The Laboratory Complex was intended to augment facilities at the University of Mosul. We do not know what kind of re search is being conducted  Bonn from Page 1 probably to less than 2,900 from the current number of approximately 4,600. However a necessary minimum needed for the credible deterrence in Europe should be kept cd said in its evening broadcast. The government position still Calls for effective nuclear forces in Europe despite the envisioned reductions and views the . Military presence As irreplaceable according to Adf. It did not say when the government position paper was approved. Defense ministry spokesman it. Col. Werner wid Der said most of Adf s report was already Public knowledge. There is nothing sensational about it Widder told the a. Widder declined to confirm however that the fed eral government in Bonn aimed to reduce the number of nuclear warheads from approximately 4,600 to 2,900. He said the warheads involved Are designed for artillery and Short Range missiles As Well As those flown to their targets by plane. West germans have roundly applauded the treaty signed by the superpowers in december 1987 on re moving intermediate Range nuclear missiles from Europe. Foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher has been leading the Calls for further Steps toward disarmament and for greater Trust in soviet president Mikhail . West German Public opinion polls have found a growing Trust in the soviet bloc. Included among them is a new Survey presented by Adf As part of its wednesday report on the government s stance on mis Siles. The network said 88 percent 9f those polled do not feel militarily threatened by soviet bloc countries and Only 10 percent favor replacing the aging Lance mis Siles pointed at East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Adf said the poll was conducted by an outside re search Institute and surveyed 1,017 West German Citi Zens. It did not provide a margin of error. West German companies have increasingly reached out to the soviet Union arranging major Loans to mos cow and discussing business agreements ranging from Mineral exploration to joint ventures. The United states meanwhile has been urging a St Germany and other european allies to do More 1 " r their own defense in what Washington officials c. Burden  study from Page 1 they plan to present their findings wednesday to members of Congress. When i look at those Levels of expo sure i get a Lump in my Throat said Stellman an associate professor of pub Lic health at new York s Columbia University. We have several units that were right in the midst of very heavy  her husband Steven Stellman an assistant health commissioner for new York City said those men Are at higher risk for a variety of health  some 12 million Gallons of agent Orange were sprayed in Vietnam from 1965 to 1970 to defoliate Jungles and crop land where enemy troops were thought to be hiding. The herbicide contains dioxin the most toxic chemical known. A tiny amount of dioxin causes cancer immune system depression and birth defects in Laboratory animals. Although records of the spraying were compiled in the 1970s, it was virtually impossible to determine whether any troops were exposed until the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta collected and collated data on troop movements. The cd directed by con Gress in 1983 to study the effects of agent Orange on veterans obtained re cords from the Pentagon on battalion movements in the Iii corps military re Gion around Saigon where the heaviest spraying took place in 1967 and 1968. Testing the blood of 646 soldiers who had served in heavily sprayed areas the cd found Normal Levels of dioxin in All but two men and concluded in a septem Ber article in the journal of the Ameri can medical association that most troops were not heavily exposed. But the Stellmann said the cd study was inadequate that blood analyses Are not an appropriate measure of dioxin 20 years after exposure and that the Agency prevented Independent scientific scrutiny by failing until last september to de scribe in professional journals the data it had used. The Stellmann obtained the data last Spring in a Freedom of information request. The two researchers authors of an ear Lier study on agent Orange exposure among american legion members were appointed by a . Federal judge to help determine who is eligible for a $180 million fund that manufacturers of the herbicide agreed in a 1984 court settlement to pay to exposed veterans. The fund s managers tipped off by a Penta gon official that the cd had huge amounts of troop data sought magnetic tapes on 50 army battalions processed by the cd. In their own analysis of the data the Stellmann rated exposure with a formula that calculates proximity of troops in time and space from the spraying. Seven teen of the 35 battalions they have exam ined so far ranked in the upper third of exposure Levels. You can t drop 12 million Gallons of agent Orange on a tiny country in which you have millions of troops without spraying them said Jeanne Stellman the cd had the ability to answer Many questions and share this extremely important material with the scientific Community instead of belittling an obscuring  Vernon n. Houk director of the cd s Center for environmental health said the Stellmann Are pretty Lousy scientists if they did not know of data that he said has often been cited in congressional testimony and speeches to Veter ans groups. Houk accused them of turning logic on its head by ignoring blood tests in favor of historical records As proof of dioxin exposure. The Gold Standard validation is dioxin Levels in people he said noting the Long periods it lasts i blood. But Peter Kahn a biochemist at rut Gers University and a leading dioxin re searcher said that despite its persistence the chemical is not Likely to greatly exceed Normal Levels today unless the Soldier was exposed to huge doses such As agent Orange applicators. Another cases he said the chemical May have been secreted from the body after already causing biochemical havoc in its victim