European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 4, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 5boy, 5, with aids awarded $26.7 million Phoenix apr a 5-year-old boy who contracted aids through an unauthorized blood transfusion was awarded $26.7 million and his parents $1 million each by a Maricopa county jury. The awards were made on Friday to Alex Edwards and his parents Roy and Pat Edwards. R Douglas Dalton the Edwards attorney said he beliefs it is the largest award of its kind. He said the largest previous jury award he was aware of for an aids related Case was $12 million awarded March 8 in Columbus Ohio to an 8-year-old girl who received the aids virus in a 1985 blood transfusion. The jury on May 23 found or. Abraham Kuruvilla and the neonatology associates Ltd. Liable for Alexis aids infection it Ough the unauthorized transfusion shortly after the boy s birth in 1985. Duane Olson the lawyer representing Kuruvilla and the clinic said he would Appeal. He said the award was railroads plan to evict . Homeless criticized a worse than i Ever could have  Alex can neither walk nor talk and needs 24-hour care due to damage to his nervous system from the disease. Jurors said they did no to know How Long the boy would live but that they wanted to make sure he had enough to provide for his needs. A a what a going to happen if he lives to be 30 or 40?�?� asked jury Foreman Ray Howell. Alexis parents a a won to have the Money to care for him a he said. A a we re just real Happy and pleased that the jury worked together and came up with a reasonable sum Roy Edwards told reporters. The boy dressed in Blue jeans and a yellow to shirt was cuddled by his Mother As jurors announced their decision. Holding her son on her Lap she sometimes kissed his forehead and stroked his Blond hair. Judge David r. Cole had dismissed two other defendants a blood systems inc., the Parent company of the firm that provided the blood and Samaritan health services which runs the Hospital where the transfusion was administered a after a settlement was reached in february. Alex was born suffering from severe respiratory problems due to fluid in the lungs. He was transferred to Good Samaritan Hospital where Kuruvilla ordered the transfusion. That corrected the fluid related problems Olson said during the trial. Olson argued that mrs. Edwards signed a consent form allowing doctors to treat her son As they saw fit. But Dalton argued that not enough was known about the risk of aids by transfusion and that Kuru Villa should have received consent from the boys parents for the procedure. The boys father testified that the couple expressed concerns about aids and offered to donate their own blood when the boy was Given a previous transfusion. The boy tested positive for the aids virus in 1987. New York not a the new York civil liberties Union and other advocates for the homeless saturday lambasted a plan by the Long Island rail Road to evict homeless people from Penn station. The eviction plan is an Effort to enforce strict new regulations that prohibit people from loitering panhandling or lying Down in the train station. The metropolitan transportation authority the Parent Agency of the Long Island rail Road adopted the new rules in april after passengers complained that they were fed up with the growing number of homeless people and beggars in the station. In a related move the new York City transit authority which is also part of the Meta said that transit police would eject All panhandlers including people silently extending cups from the subway system. That move followed a Federal appeals court decision last month that upheld the transit authority a ban on begging in the subways. But at a news conference saturday in Penn station advocates for the homeless said the new rules and stepped up enforcement Are driving homeless people to beg and sleep in City Parks and streets. Officials of four groups representing the homeless called on mayor David n. Dinkins and gov. Mario m. Cuomo to meet with Robert r. Kiley the a tax a chairman to find what they called a a More humane solution to the  the groups Are the new York civil liberties Union the partnership for the homeless the Doe fund and the United homeless organization. A sweeping people onto the streets is not the solution. Homeless people Are Here because its a last resort and they have nowhere else to go a said Peter Smith president of the partnership for the homeless. Norman Siegel executive director of the new York civil liberties Union said that enforcing the rules without violating civil rights would be difficult for the Railroad police. A do you kick a person out if they Are lying Down and suddenly stand up when the police walk by a Siegel asked. A if there is a homeless person who feels that his or her rights Are being violated by this Effort we will defend  on any Given Day hundreds of homeless people loiter in Penn station panhandling stealing sleeping on the floor and benches and often fighting. At night the station which serves the Long Island rail Road new Jersey transit Amtrak and the new York subway system turns into a huge shelter where people have been allowed to sleep from 11 . To 5 . A Safe after the storm four year old Justin Sharp holds a which was destroyed by a Tornado Fri Kitten found in the wreckage of his Day. Jason and other family members grandmothers Carney Texas Home sought shelter behind a  rescued after abandoning burning yacht Miami apr Dennis Elliott drummer for the Rock band foreigner and his wife jumped into the Atlantic Ocean As fire engulfed their yacht saturday and were res cud after a coast guard Jet spotted them and dropped a raft into the water. The 43-foot yacht Charisma Iii exploded and Sank As Elliott and his wife Lona were picked up in Good condition by the Crew of a nearby freighter said last guard Petty officer Terry Johns. The couple who were alone on the yacht said the fire broke out in the engine room around 3 . Saturday when they were about 45 Miles East of the Florida coast while in route from the Baha Mas to fort Lauderdale. A i got out a fire extinguisher. But i was choking so badly a we just had time to get out a mayday Call a a bedraggled Elliott said. A the heat in the boat got so bad that the windows shattered and the flames went up so we knew we had to abandon the  a coast guard plane was already airborne when the Call came at 3 10 . And was Able to drop a raft to the couple 10 minutes later Johns said. The 600-foot liberian cargo ship Stena trailer also responded to Elliott a distress signal. As the freighters Crew helped them from the raft the yacht which had a full tank of diesel fuel exploded and Sank Johns said. The Elliotts were hoisted from the freighter into a coast guard helicopter and taken to Freeport Bahamas from where they were flown to opa Locka air Sands of time port North of Miami. The couple who were unable to save anything from the boat left opa Locka to spend the night at a fort Lauderdale hotel before returning Home to Sherman conn., Johns said. 15 injured in . Subway new York apr escalator Steps at a subway station for Yankee stadium non i a  injuring 15 people officials said. In urn eps of the a a up escalator col an that lust fore 9 ., said transit thl y spokesman termaine Garden. Non Bronx occurred stadium is Sites name m Yankee three of the 15 injured suffered Bro Ken limbs but none of the injuries appeared to be life threatening he said. Some of the injured were taken to hospitals and others were treated at the scene by emergency medical service technicians said capt. Jeffrey Armstrong an Ems spokesman. The escalator connects an underground train line with an elevated line Garden  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. June 4, 1950 a France and five neighbors a Belgium the Netherlands West Germany Luxembourg and Italy a plunged into a daring economic Experiment pooling its heavy Industry resources after talks designed to bring Britain a Coal and steel production into the plan failed.30 years ago today. June 4, 1960 a soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev lashed out at president Eisenhower saying he was not fit to a head a mighty nation.20 years ago today. June 4, 1970 a George c. Wallace called his winning the Alabama democratic nomination for governor a warning to president Nixon a from All the people in the South to halt Federal interference with Southern schools.10 years ago today. June 4, 1980 a the number of cuban refugees reaching the United states since the april boat lift passed 100,000, with the arrival of 847 people aboard a freighter