European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 25, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 5aids blamed for increase in tb4serious epidemic cited in Africa chanting demonstrators join delegates to the san Francisco aids conference on a March Down Market Street on saturday. Toys. A san Francisco apr aids is triggering a global explosion of tuberculosis a especially in Africa a and at least 2 million people Are infected with the microbes that cause both diseases a health official warned on saturday. Meanwhile a top East German health expert cautioned that the opening of the Iron curtain is Likely to Speed the spread of aids in Eastern Europe which has so far largely escaped it. Tuberculosis is already the worlds single biggest bacterial killer and experts fear that his a the aids virus a is Likely to make the problem much worse. A a serious epidemic of to is occurring As a result of the his epidemic especially in sub saharan Africa a said or. Peter Erik of the world health organization. He said africans a were unable to contain a relatively Small tuberculosis problem before the arrival of his and they Are singularly ill prepared for coping with a very Large problem  Erik a tuberculosis specialist who formerly directed the to control program in Uganda described the problem at the sixth International conference on aids. The conference meeting in san Francisco was to end sunday. Sieghart Dittman director of the Institute for Hygiene microbiology and epidemiology in East Berlin noted that the aids virus is still rare in Eastern Europe. The rate of aids cases is 45 times lower than in Western Europe and the his infection rate in the general population is practically Zero. However he attributed these differences in Large part to the Iron curtain and the Berlin Wall and cautioned that the removal of travel barriers is Likely to Speed the spread of aids. A now when Borders Between Eastern and Western european countries have become More open when in Germany the Walls Are broken Down completely the problem of the spread of his infection might become far More serious and special attention should be paid to this threat a he said. About 1,000 conference delegates on saturday joined thousands of whistle blowing chanting protesters calling for More Money and better health care for people with his disease. March organizers said 20,000 people participated in the March and rally. Police estimates put the size of the March at around 4,000. At the rally following the March conference officials joined demonstrators to Call for More cooperation Between activists and scientists. A the apparent divisions Between us Are not real a conference co chairman Paul Volberding told a crowd that gathered in Justin Herman Plaza at the end of the March. A we cannot tolerate it and hopefully this March will help end  now an estimated 1.7 billion people a one third of the worlds population a is infected with tuberculosis Bacilli. Most of these people suffer no outward symptoms. However Erik said that 20 million of the infected people Are sick with to and 3 million die each year most of them in the developing world. Among other reports presented at sat urday a sessions a a Survey of aids screening labs by the National centers for disease control shows most do a highly accurate Job of spotting aids infected blood. A children of aids infected mothers bom free of his May still suffer developmental problems. A a University of California san Francisco Survey of doctors in residency training found that two thirds did not plan to treat aids patients when they started their own practices. Half of them said they would not want to be known As having people with aids among their  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. June 25, 1950 a eighty three year old Queen Mary slept through a predawn break in at her London Home by a burglar who attacked two of her servants. A 26-Ycar-old irishman was charged with assault and attempted robbery.30 years ago today. June 25, 1960 a cuban Leader Fidel Castro threatened to counter possible . Congressional action against cubans sugar quota with total confiscation of $1 billion Worth of american interests in cuba.20 years ago today. June 25, 1970 a a House armed services subcommittee debated whether military exchanges and commissaries should be allowed to sell the same kinds of goods. Rep. Philip j. Philbin d.-mass., who headed the committee indicated More would be heard on the topic.10 years ago today. June 25, 1980 a president Carter said the United states would be prepared to explore a transitional arrangement for governing Afghanistan if the soviet Union agreed to the prompt withdrawal of its troops there. 353,000 now barred from . For political or Security reasons by the new York times the government during the last decade added As Many As 238,143 people to its list of foreigners barred from entering the country for political or Security reasons More than double the number which had been placed on the list since it was created in 1904. The list now has More than 353,000 entries far More than the 40,000 previously estimated by Many immigration lawyers. Of that total of exclusions from the country 341,000 were based on ideological grounds. The figures come from a highly censored version of the list that was released last week by the lawyers committee for human rights a civil liberties advocacy group that had obtained that censored version through a legally enforceable request under the Freedom of information act. Among the lists data that have been censored by Federal court order Are the names of the barred aliens and the document is thought to include some duplications. Chad Vignola an assistant . Attorney who represented the government in the Case said any notion that the 353,324 entries amounted to that number of people barred since the turn of the Century was a simply  but Arthur c. Helton of the lawyers committee said a we estimate conservatively that at least 345,000 individuals Are  he termed the size of the list a astounding a particularly since so Many entries had been added since the Start of the Reagan administration. The Pace has continued under the Bush administration. In the first three months of 1990, in a period of easing International tension there were 4,399 new entries the list shows. The list which is administered by the immigration and naturalization service is called the National automated immigration Lookout system or nails. The version issued by the lawyers committee includes the Date of each exclusion and the Section of Law on which the exclusion was based. The people who were barred came from a total of 146 nations. China accounted for the largest Block 106,777, or almost one third of All entries. The soviet Union was second with 33,064. Then in descending order came Yugoslavia Hungary Poland Czechoslovakia Romania and West Germany. Helton said he had no idea Why so Many chinese were on the list. A it looks like every student in China has found his Way on there a he said. He added that the list raised numerous similar questions that could be answered Only if the occupations of those barred another piece of information that was censored by the court at the governments request were disclosed. The immigration and naturalization service turned Over the list at the direction of a Federal District judge in new York John m. Walker or