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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, August 23, 1989

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 23, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 poll finds . Is goal for 5 million mexicans los Angeles a almost 5 million mexican citizens Hope to emigrate to the United states in the next year despite stringent . Immigration Laws according to a poll by the los Angeles times. Of those who said they Hope to emigrate 1.3 million said they would go to California and 800,000 said they would look Tor work in los Angeles. A lot of those who say they Are going May not make it said Jorge Bustamante a mexican immigration expert and president of Tijuana s Colegio de la Frontc a none in Baja California. The Survey published monday was taken Between aug. 5 and aug. 13. Face to face interviews were con ducted with 1,835 mexicans 18 years and older in 42 randomly selected cities and towns throughout Mexico. Those interviewed were selected through a process called quota sampling which ensures the Sample con forms to mexican census figures according to sex in come age and locale. Economic disparity was the top reason Why most said they would choose the United states. A majority of the poor surveyed 69 percent said mexican Chil Dren sometimes go hungry. Almost 6 percent said they were very Likely to go to the United states by 1990. In a country of about 85 million residents 6 percent would equal More than 4.7 million people. And 23 percent of those who indicated they May move picked California As their destination with 14 percent specifically choosing los Angeles. The Survey showed 41 percent liked the economic Opportunity offered by the United states. Sixteen per cent said they liked the fact that it is a Rich country. . Border patrol spokesman Michael Gregg a supervisor for the san Diego area said stricter regulations Are decreasing illegal Border Crossings. It s a beginning he said. If Only one in five wants to come that s a Good  the poll also measured what mexicans disliked about the United states 38 percent mentioned ethnic discrimination 42 percent cited drug problems and 24 percent said the country is domineering. Bustamante estimates there arc 1.75 million mexi cans living illegally in the United states a figure . Immigration officials dispute. Ker whale Dies offer sea world show collision san Diego a Kandy one of sea world s giant killer whales was killed monday when she and another killer whale collided during a performance. Kandy who weighed about 6,000 pounds and Corky who weighs about 8,000 pounds were in the 5-million-Gal Lon performing tank at Shamu stadium when the Accident occurred during the 4 . Show sea world officials said. The show was cancelled and several thousand people in the audience who witnessed the bloody Accident were escorted put of the stadium. Park officials said they did not know when the performances would be resumed. It s very obvious to you As it is to us that Kandy is  an announcer at Shamu stadium  re not really sure what happened. We can see if we can get the whales calmed  Park veterinarians and animal care staff were preparing to perform a necropsy similar to an autopsy Onk Andu who last september gave birth to baby Shamu. We were sitting Back in the Audi ence in a High spot. The two Large whales apparently collided at a High rate of Speed about 35 to 40 Mph Spectator Gary Gregg told a Kumb to interviewer. I did Sec a Tail Section come out of the water and the whales did a com plete Circle and when the Mother came out she spewed a Large amount of blood from its blowhole he said. Corky who apparently was not seriously injured in the Accident completed part of a shortened performance afterwards witnesses said. A Park spokeswoman who asked that her name not be used said that Corky who was performing under the name of Shamu is about 25 years old and is about 20 feet Long. Kandy was about 14 years old and measured 17 h feet. Discoverer of at Imti aids drug won t profit from $1 billion sales Detroit a or. James Hor Witz was dismayed that his efforts to Cre ate a cancer cure had apparently failed but the drug he discovered 25 years ago at is now being used successfully to treat the then unknown disease of aids. Although Horwitz lacked the foresight to Patent his drug he says he believed at the time that his discovery would eventually be useful. What we said at the time which was very prophetic is that we have a very interesting class of compounds waiting for a disease to cure Horwitz a re searcher at the Michigan cancer foun Dation said in an interview. On thursday Secretary of health and human services Louis Sullivan recommended immediate food and drug administration approval of at for treating peo ple who carried the aids antibodies. A wide open Market for the drug is bittersweet for Horwitz. Since he never took out the Patent when he developed the com Pound in 1964, he stands to gain nothing financially from its Success. Pharmaceutical analysts have predicted is billion in at sales by 1992, and Horwitz could have received huge profits for the first 17 years had he taken out the Patent. At was developed As a cancer fight ing drug but animal studies showed that it was t effective. It remained on the shelf until the mid-1980s, when Bur roughs wellcome co. Looked into its use As a possible treatment for herpes. Children with aids . Victims under age 13, through april 1989 in percent of 1,561 exposure categories Mother is intravenous drug user Mother had sex with in drug user "5-6 child received blood transfusion non Haemophilia a i 111.8 u 40.8% Mother born in Haiti Haemophilia a i s.7 other exposure irom Mother i j13.6 race ethnicity other unknown .8 or other country where heterosexual transmission of aids is common a Tojo tubing Al Bowce co wis Lor disease control that too failed. But in 1985, Bur Muno deficiency virus that causes aids roughs wellcome sent a Batch of at to those experiments showed Promise the National institutes of health in its and More were ordered leading to Sulli search for a drug to fight the human in Van s announcement last week. Inferior official fired foiled Security Check Washington a the Interior department has fired an acting Deputy assistant Secretary who failed to pass a Security Check officials said monday night the official Katherine Chang dress had agreed to resign in june effective july 31, but changed her mind and decided not to submit a resignation said Steven Goldstein press spokesman for Interior Secretary manual Lujan. She was terminated Goldstein said. He said she was a Tine employee and would not elaborate on Why she was fired. The spokesman said dress told her staff she was dismissed because she failed to pass her Security investigation something confirmed by other officials who spoke on condition they not be identified. Dress had been acting Deputy assistant Secretary for territorial and International affairs since Early May. She had not had Access to classified information pending completion of her Security Check when she would have stepped up out of the acting category Goldstein said. The department s office of territorial and International affairs is in charge of the Virgin islands and relations with the Trust territories and other . Dependencies in the Pacific. Just what Classi fied information is involved was not immediately Clear but the Pacific areas contain . Military bases. The Deputy assistant s Job does not require Senate confirmation. Gas canister sent to a act office injures 15 Atlanta not a parcel mailed to the Region Al office of the a act contained a Gas canister that detonated injuring 15 people when the package was opened monday. Eight of the injured were treated at local hospitals and the other seven were treated at the scene after the canister sent a Cloud of stinging fines through a three Story building on Martin Luther King or. Drive in Southwest Atlanta. Three people remained hospitalized monday. -. Only two people were in the office of the National association for the advancement of coloured people when the package was opened and both escaped with relatively minor injuries. Most of those injured and All of those hospitalized were overcome while in medical offices in the build ing. Earl t. Shinhoster the civil rights group s regional. Director said the Gas apparently circulated by the air conditioning system spread throughout the building within moments. I just can t understand the evil that would propel someone to do something of this nature Shinhoster said. He said he was Uncertain which of his organization s current activities might have prompted the attack. We re involved in the kind of issues we be always been involved in Shinhoster said. We have a full plate of issues All Over this Region. It can be  Atlanta fire department officials said the canister bore military markings but it was unclear what Type of Gas was in it. Al a. Adams a postal inspector said a Check of postal files showed no reports of threats against the narc office  
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