European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 24, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 5progress reported on aids vaccine san Francisco apr Large scale testing of aids vaccines could begin in two years and a vaccine could be widely available by the Middle of the 1990s, researchers said Friday. In an address at the sixth International conference on aids or. Jay a. Berzofsky of the National cancer Institute said the most effective vaccines will probably be synthetic a made through recombinant Dan technology or genetic engineering. A a we re now in a position to take advantage of recent advances in immunology to design an artificial vaccine a Berzofsky said. A and it should be possible to develop such a vaccine in the near  near the Moscone Center convention Hall More than 200 protesters mostly women gathered in the latest of a string of daily demonstrations sponsored by act up the aids coalition to unleash Power. More than 140 people were arrested when the group of demonstrators marched from near the convention Hall into the Center of an intersection and Lay Down in a symbolic  another group of 100 activists demonstrated Friday afternoon in front of the Hall of Justice. Fridays demonstration focused on what act up contends is the exclusion of women children and minorities from research treatment and other services. Inside the conference the aids vaccine group led by or. Jonas Salk reported that the Salk aids vaccine has boosted immunity in about 60 percent of the 82 people with aids virus infections who have so far received it. The vaccine is intended not to prevent the aids infection but to Ward off disease in people already infected. None have died up to 2 i years after being Given the vaccine said Alexandra m. Levine of the University of Southern California. Three developed the aids related cancer Kaposi a Sarcoma. One developed pneumonia and another developed an Eye infection she said. The results were encouraging enough for the researchers to announce that Large scale trials of the vaccine will begin in several months with the approval of the . Food and drug administration. A san Francisco Community research group also reported improvement in aids patients Given a drug called compound a derived from a chinese Herb. Before being Given the drug the patients suffered a steady decline in immune system cells called cd4 cells. After administration of the drug to 46 patients 38 of the or. Jay a. Berzofsky addresses the aids conference. Patients showed either a stabilization of cd4 cells or an increase said the study a director Martin Delaney. A at this stage we have seen a major and dramatic change in what happens to these patients a Delaney said. But he said he could not yet recommend that the drug be taken widely because of potentially dangerous Side effects. The protest on Friday marked the fourth Day of demonstrations by aids and  rights activists. Fridays arrests brought the total to 299. Nearly All the protests have taken place outside the conference. The Only incident inside the Moscone Center came Friday morning when several demonstrators briefly interrupted a morning seminar. There were no arrests. The demonstration a few blocks from the conference included a March and several women speakers including those advocating the rights of prostitutes. Many protesters bound themselves to Metal barricades with symbolic red paper chains and waved signs Reading a health care now a women gets aids too and a prostitutes make Safe sex their  the crowd shouted slogans such As a women die faster its a disaster a and a Nih we think you re vile. We need clinical  the Call refers to the National institutes of health a trials of experimental drug which rely heavily on male subjects. Carol Leigh a prostitute from san Francisco complained that prostitutes Are being wrongly persecuted As aids carriers. Dressed in a  90s music Hall dress and a red Feather Boa Leigh said prostitutes help Stop the spread of disease by using condoms. A prostitutes Are Safe sex educators a she said. Protesters moved from their spot near the Moscone Center and marched through crowded lunchtime streets chanting and blowing whistles before finally halting for a a die in at a Busy intersection. Police issued what has become a Standard warning to Clear the Street. When a group of protesters elected to stay police circled them and began the Long process of arresting them As noon time shoppers and other demonstrators looked on. Most were booked for failure to disperse and then released. A half hour later a second group of demonstrators ran Back into the Street starting the process All Over again. Many shoppers were trapped on the Street until police finished the arrests. Most watched patiently but some expressed frustration with the week of demonstrations that have tied up the City. A i can understand their emotions but i question their tactics a said Lillian Schneiderman a shopper from nearby East Bay. But not everyone was aware of the ongoing protests. An elderly woman startled by the crowds asked what was going on. When told it was an aids demonstration her face wrinkled in disgust. A a it a their own fault a she said. A they  have Ever taken that  for Franklin d. Roosevelt approved Washington apr ending 25 years of controversy Over its design and location the commission of Fine arts has approved a $47 million memorial to president Franklin d. Roosevelt. Frances Campbell executive director of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial commission said the panels vote on thursday in favor of a modified design by san Francisco landscape architect Lawrence Halprin will enable the memorial to be completed by 1995. Halprin a design Calls for Long sequences of paved walkways and shaded exterior a a rooms containing sculptures and inscriptions dealing with various aspects of Roosevelt a four terms As president from the great depression in the Early 1930s through world War ii. Roosevelt died of a cerebral Haemorrhage in warm Springs ga., on april 12, 1945, less than a month before nazi Ger in Sacramento manholes disappear Ever so quietly Sacramento Calif. Apr manholes have disappeared from the streets of californians capital City. They have been replaced a in deference to the City councils female majority a with a maintenance  the Public works department in april announced an informal contest to find a gender Neutral name for the places in the Street where workers go to make underground repairs. The contest brought suggestions from far Flung locations. A radio station in Hamilton new zealand a Sacramento a sister City a came up with a sewer  others suggested a peo ple holes or even  a the no sexist word finder a dictionary of gender free usage a by Rosalie Maggio suggests a sewer Hole or a Utility Access  the City Council was to have named a Winner at a May 9 meeting but it ducked the Issue. The new name came finally without any fuss reporters noticed that a maintenance Hole had replaced a a manhole in a sewer code packet adopted without discussion by the Council last week. The women on the Council never ordered the name changed. The idea came from City engineering staff members who noted women controlled the Council. A i noticed the different references in the staff report but i done to know Why they handled it that Way a mayor Anne Rudin said. A i think they just wanted the matter to quiet  Public works officials said the new name was adopted for a practical reason officials wont have to change the a a Mhz abbreviations already in use on City Utility maps. Many surrendered to the Western allies and the soviet Union. The proposed memorial will have a a Gard Evesque Quality with rough Hen Granite Walls fountains pools and water alls. It will be located on a site in West Potomac Park within sight of the Potomac River close to the Southeastern Edge of the tidal Basin about 400 Yards West of the Jefferson memorial. Not yet decided is the Fate of the Only existing Roosevelt memorial a simple Block of White Stone with a plaque in a Small triangular Park in front of the National archives building on Pennsylvania Avenue. Efforts to build a suitable memorial to the 32nd president Date to the mid-1950s. Two previous designs for abstract monuments were withdrawn in the Sands of time 1960s after criticism a one was denounced As a instant stonehenge a and the project languished for Lack of Money. Congress appropriated $5.8 million last fall to begin construction on the condition that the commission take another look at Halprin a design which the panel originally approved in 1979. As a result of complaints voiced at a commission meeting in april Halprin revised his design to reduce the amount of paved surface increase the amount of grass and shrubbery and move the memorials Entrance farther away from the Potomac River. Commission member Adele Chatfield Taylor abstained from the 4-0 vote expressing a anxiety about something this hard edged going into a landscape like  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. June 24, 1950 a the House voted 201-86 to permit 2,500 aliens who were a skilled military specialists and technicians to join the . Army abroad and receive benefits and privileges of american soldiers.30 years ago today june 24, 1960 a president Eisenhower said his successor would find Summit diplomacy and Goodwill travel inevitable despite their hazards.20 years ago today. June 24, 1970 a on the eve of americans troop withdrawal from Cambodia defense Secretary Melvin r. Laird said there was nothing to prevent South vietnamese ground forces from staying there indefinitely.10 years ago today. June 24, 1980 a the communist party newspaper pravda said soviet tanks armoured personnel carriers and infantry troops were withdrawing from Afghanistan in keeping with the Kremlin a announced pullout