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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 22, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 3 dousing a smoker brews up trouble Vandalia Iii. Apr a 76-year-old Man has been fined $25 and ordered to do Community service for throwing Coffee on a Cigar smoker. Veldie Kelley was sentenced for his conviction on charges he threw lukewarm Coffee at a Man who brought a Cigar into the no smoking Section of a Mcdonald a restaurant. Fayette county circuit judge Joseph Fribley said Kelley a conduct was a pretty  a jury last month convicted Kelley who was responsible for establishing a no smoking Section in the restaurant of Battery. He faced a $ 1,000 Fine and up to 364 Days in jail. Fribley put Kelley on nine months court supervision and ordered him to do five hours of Community service a week for two months. Kelley also will be banned from the Mcdonald a from which he once was ejected for throwing a Glass of water on a cigarette smoking employee. Philippine rebels planned to kill senior . Officers Angeles Philippines apr communist rebels had planned to assassinate senior . Military officers near Clark a on the eve of talks on the future of the . Military bases in the Philippines a military official said monday. It. Col. Julius Garcia chief of the Angeles metropolitan District command said the plan was scrapped after the military a Quick response to the killing of two . Airmen near the base on May 13, a Day before the talks began in Manila. Garcia said the killing of the airmen John h. Raven and James c. Green near the base was part of the plan of the new Peoples army to disrupt the talks. He said rebel liquidation teams were in place in five other areas around the base but were a a dispersed when the military immediately began searching suspected guerrilla hide outs for the killers of the two servicemen. A regional commander said troops captured three suspected spa members including one believed to have been involved in the two killings. A it was supposedly the biggest spa operation this year in Angeles City bigger than the 1987 killings also in Angeles Quot Garcia said. Spa a political assassination teams had targeted a several ranking . Military officers Quot Garcia said. He declined to identify the . Officers named in documents obtained by military spies who infiltrated rebel ranks. In 1987, two . Servicemen an american civilian and a filipino citizen of american ancestry were killed by the rebels in simultaneous attacks outside the base. The bases talks ended last Friday. . And philippine officials agreed to discuss a new bases treaty to replace the current agreement expiring in september 1991. On saturday the outlawed communist party of the Philippines condemned the decision to negotiate a new treaty As a a sellout of National  in 5 cities March to Honor aids victims by the associated press thousands of people in at least five cities from san Francisco to the nations capital marched or lighted candles to remember those stricken with aids. Barbara Bush took part by putting lighted candles in White House windows. About 20,000 people marched with candles sunday to san Francisco a City Hall for a solemn Reading of the names of recent aids victims. As gospel music played through speakers the crowd shouted a we will not forget a after each name. Similar activities were held in new York Washington Salt Lake City and Seattle in an annual Observance organized by the mobilization against aids based in san Francisco. A it helps to remember a said Harvey Maurer an aids activist at the san Francisco ceremony. He was diagnosed with the disease 1 i years ago. A from an intellectual Point of View i still can have Hope that Well see a cure. But i also know that i keep losing  Barbara Bush participated by placing a Candle in each of 10 White House windows facing Pennsylvania Avenue said spokeswoman Anna Peres. The candles were on the second floor in the residential portion of the White House she said. A i think this is encouraging that the lights Are in the White House windows tonight. Its a wonderful symbolic gesture of support a said Andy lives spokesman for the mobilization against aids. The Washington group lifeline estimated 2,000 people lighted candles and walked around the reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln memorial. In new York about 25,000 people walked 6.2 Miles and raised nearly $4 million for the fight against aids organizers said. A we Are Here because we care because we love life because we love each other a playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein said. The walk benefited the Gay menus health crisis an aids service organization in new York. Mayor David Dinkins addressed walkers at Lincoln Center reiterating his Call for an end to prejudice. An estimated 25,000 people in new York City participate in a walk sunday to raise Money for aids victims. A was we work together to conquer the health crisis of aids we must also work to promote Unity to denounce discrimination and division a he said. Several groups in Seattle also observed the Vigil first organized in 1983 to draw attention to the toll aids was taking on homosexuals. About 250 people gathered for a candlelight ceremony in Salt Lake City to remember 186 Utah residents killed by the disease and 272 others diagnosed with it. A you can either be living with aids or dying with aids a said Carolyn Spriggs whose son has the Dis ease. A we arc raising him As a child with aids who is  the largest and loudest contingent in san Francisco came from the largely homosexual Castro District where As Many As 10,000 joined the pilgrimage to City Hall Many dressed in Black most holding hands or with arms linked and some in drag. A this is the 1,000 Points of Light that Bush has t looked  said Robert George a member of the interfaith aids coalition. A we need More funding to help the aids programs which Are just strapped and  re emerging As new threat to aids patients Boston apr tuberculosis a once deadly disease now largely forgotten by americans is re emerging As a health threat primarily among aids patients health officials said sunday. Tuberculosis cases increased 35 percent in Newark n.j., in 1989 Over the previous year alarming health officials who had noted with satisfaction a slow steady decrease in to cases Over the last few decades. On the National level to cases Rose 5 percent in 1989 Over 1988, a jump largely attributable to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome crisis said or. Philip c. Hopewell chief of Chest service at san Francisco general Hospital. Aids attacks the body a immune system and to is one of the so called opportunistic infections that can accompany the disease. Hopewell and other health officials discussed the link Between aids and to Here during a four Day world conference on lung health which ends wednesday. About 4 percent of americans identified As having aids also have been diagnosed As being infected with tuberculosis said or. Dixie e. Snider jr., director of the division of tuberculosis control at the centers for disease control in Atlanta. The american lung association estimates 20,000 americans a year develop to which worldwide kills an estimated 3 million persons each year. In parts of Africa where aids already is epidemic tuberculosis is also reaching those proportions said or. Annik Rouil-19m executive director of the International Union against tuberculosis and lung disease in Paris. Snider stressed that to unlike aids is curable and can be effectively treated even in aids patients. He called for to screening at drug rehabilitation programs prisons Ana wherever else aids tests Are Given. However unlike aids to is highly contagious and can be spread by airborne particles coughed up by a person with untreated clinically Active pulmonary to. Untreated to kills about 50 percent of its victims within two years according to the cd. The doctors said minority groups in the United states have become increasingly susceptible to to especially As the incidence of aids among those groups increases. Snider stressed that sustained Contact is necessary for to transmission although he noted that there had been an increase in positive to tests among aids health workers  
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