European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 17, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 pro Choice petitions Soith 411,000 signatures Are on this taped Loi her Roll of petitions delivered to the Massachusetts statehouse lost Whf a in Boston. The people at the rally sponsored by the group Moss Choice gave the petitions to Senate president William Bulger seeking a pro Choice amendment to the state Constitution. 10-minute tests for aids virus being readied Washington a patients worried they May be infected with the aids virus May soon be Able to get a confidential answer soon with a test that takes Only 10 minutes. The test now undergoing trials at nine centers will enable people to get result quickly in a doctor s office instead of having to wait to hear from a Laboratory. It provides a new Means for patients to learn of their aids status and still retain  said Jarl r. Kelsey president of murex corp. A Norcross oa., firm that developed the test. Once this method is widely available it will encourage More people to determine their  tests for aids now require blood be drawn and sent to a Laboratory for com plex processing. Patients must wait to find out if they have contracted the human immunodeficiency virus or his. Which leads to acquired immune deficiency syndrome or aids. That can Lake a number of Days sometimes said Kelsey. Concern about whether the lest information will be kept confidential and the Long wait for results discourage some people from being tested for aids even though they May be at risk for the Dis ease he said. The new test called suds for single use diagnostic system takes away some of that anxiety. It consists of a Small plastic disk. Slightly thicker than a camera Lens Cap that is filled with an absorbent  Cone shaped indention on lop leads Down to a Small Hole that exposes the absorbent material. A suds test starts with a blood Sam ple obtained from a simple Finger stick. Two drops of scrum the Clear fluid in blood Are separated from the Sample and then combined with two a Lactam solutions. The mixture is poured into the Cone of the test Cartridge. Inside the tester the Sample mixture is absorbed and pulled through a color Reactant. If a Dot on the Bottom of the disk remains White there is no aids virus. Blue Dot Means an aids infection. The whole process takes about 10 minutes. Kelsey said the system works through the use of microscopic Latex beads that Are coated with proteins that react toads antibodies. An antibody is a mole Cule in the blood produced by the body immune system to attack specific invaders such As bacteria or virus. The proteins used in suds react to antibodies created by the immune system in response to both the outer membrane and the Core of the his virus. Suds is being tested at selected Doc tors offices sexual disease clinics Hospi tals and blood Banks. The trials started in july and More than 5,000 tests have been conducted. The trials so far have shown an average accuracy rate of 99.8  said Kelsey. 2 sentenced to prison in Pentagon bribe scandal Alexandria a. A a former Uniss corp. Executive described As a major figure in a de sense procurement scandal was sentenced to 32 months in prison Friday for bribing Pentagon officials for inside information on contract bids. Charles f. Gardner 59, who admitted bribing for Mer Pentagon official Melvyn Paisley by buying a re sort condominium at an inflated Price was also fined $40,000 after also pleading guilty to charges that he set up a slush fund to pay bribes and make illegal Campaign contributions. James g. Cal 65, a former Uniss consultant de scribed by assistant . Attorney Joseph Aronica As the banker for or Gardner and or. Gardner s opera Tion was sentenced to 27 months in prison and fined $30,000 by . District judge Claude Hilton. Both were charged As part of the investigation dubbed operation 111  Aronica said Gardner used slush fund Money for a Broad spectrum of criminal activity that included paying bribes to Public officials and making illegal Campaign contributions to congressmen As Well As for his personal use. It was the american taxpayer that ended up foot ing the Bill for these activities because Gardner billed he Pentagon with phony invoices to replenish the Money Aronica said. Aronica who called Gardner a major figure in the investigation urged Hilton to consider the cooperation that both Gardner and Neal had Given investigators since their guilty pleas in March. Gardner could have received a maximum sentence of 23 years in prison and fines of $750,000. Neal who owes $104,000 in Back taxes could have been sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined $750,000. Defense lawyer Gary Naftalis said information provided by Gardner has already resulted in six guilty pleas and will Lead to More and More convictions of individuals and  Gardner is apparently providing information about his former superiors at Sperry corp., which became Uniss corp. After a takeover by Burroughs corp. Uni sys corp. Says it is cooperating. According to court papers Gardner arranged in 1986 to have Cal buy Paisley s condominium in Sun Valley Idaho for $49,000 More than it was sold for a year later. Paisley former assistant Navy Secretary for re search engineering and systems has not been charged. Gardner admitted arranging illegal Campaign contributions to rep. Roy Dyson d-md., and the late rep. Bill Chappell a Hla. Both had denied knowing the contributions were illegal. According to court papers in another Case Gardner a vice president and general manager of the company s surveillance and fire control systems in great neck n.y., obtained permission from an unidentified Supe rior to bribe a former Navy Engineer for information about an electronics contract. That official. Garland l. Tomlin jr., 59, is awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to taking $400,000 in bribes from Sperry corp. And $75,000 from Honeywell inc. 2 Federal agencies fight Over fish inspections Washington a the Federal government believes it s time to inspect seafood for safely but two agencies arc arguing Over who should put the stamp of approval on fish. Congress is being asked to resolve the turf Battle which comes Down to the question of whether fish arc wild animals or should be treated like chickens and cattle that Are raised for food. Almost certain however is that thelow fat food source health conscious americans have been turning to in Large numbers is going to come under closer government scrutiny. Currently Many Consumers arc wary about the safety of fish said rep. Henry Waxman a Calif. They have heard Many stories about contamination from toxic Industrial and agricultural chemicals medical waste products and red  Waxman s House Energy and com Merce subcommittee on health and the environment began considering legis lation Friday that would have the food and drug administration set up a comprehensive Federal inspection program of the seafood Industry. Contaminants of fish and shellfish in clude the botulism toxin cig toxin Scomkro Trpin Salmonella bacteria and the hip alibis a virus not to mention pcs and other Industrial contaminants. Although everyone at the hearing agreed seafood needs to be inspected Waxman s plan Drew criticism from the agriculture department which wants to bring fish under its meat and poultry inspection program. We would not have to Start from scratch said Lester Crawford adminis Trator of the food safety and inspection service at the agriculture department. Principles of inspection Are the same regardless of the species he said. The agriculture department has been named As the inspection Agency for fish in legislation since 1986, but Waxman s fish and fish products safely acl of 1989 would require the Fra to set safely standards. Fra commissioner Frank Young said it s simple fish Are nol like chickens and  we arc capturing wild  he said. I Don t do this with any kind of turf comparison but when one looks at the Chicken and beef these arc animals that arc raised in Standard ways. They arc housed and they arc brought to the Market in a Chain that is  witnesses said that whichever govern ment Agency gets the task consumer Edu cation should be improved because Many problems Deal with errors in handling seafood at Home. Ellen Haas of Public voice a non profit group dealing with food safety is sues said Federal statistics indicate the risk of a food poisoning outbreak from eating seafood is 25 times greater than from beef and 16 limes orca scr than for either Chicken or pork. Seafood consumption has been in creasing As a Rchull of efforts to find Low fat sources of protein. Young said there have been signs of a decline although he said the reason was unclear