European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday decembers 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 i # activists protest s Atlanta up aids activists chained themselves to the front door of the National centers for disease control monday protesting the treatment of women with aids and demanding a broader definition of the deadly disease. Police reported about two dozen arrests among about 200 demonstrators who gathered in a cold rain outside the Federal health Agency forcing authorities to close a Section of the Street to traffic. Most of those arrested were charged with criminal trespass. The aids coalition to unleash Power or act up wants the cd to revise its definition of aids to include symptoms specific to women As Well As focus on How the fatal ailment affects intravenous drug users and minorities. Police used Bolt cutters to remove about a dozen protesters who chained themselves to the cd cd a doors. A shame shame shame a a chorus of demonstrators cried at police who led a Fay those who were arrested. A arrest the real criminals Quot the crowd shouted referring to officials overseeing the nations policies on aids. The crowd broke up shortly after the arrests with several shouting a a we la be backs As they trooped away. In addition a spokesman for act up said about 50 activists forced their a inside the offices of or. Gary Noble head of the aids Effort at the Federal Agency. Authorities could immediately confirm the number of protesters in Nobles offices. The demonstrators demanded a meeting with Noble to discuss their concerns without the broader definition act up contends Many women with the ices ads causing human immunodeficiency virus or his go undiagnosed keeping the numbers artificially Low act up contends the current definition of the deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome adopted in 1987, ignores the differences Between aids in men and women. Unlike men his infected women often suffer recurrent gynaecological infections and other complications. Women represent about 10 percent of the 154,917 aids cases reported in the United states since the disease was first identified in the Early 1980s. O Christmas tree spectators crowd around the skating rink at new York the 75-foot Norway Spruce is festooned with More cuyp a Rockefeller Plaza As officials switch on lights than 20,000 coloured lights that were turned of monday that illuminate one of the Best known yuletide Trees. In an annual ceremony. On new St. Louis apr a whistle Blower who contended that army helicopters in the persian Gulf were operating without proper Protection against heat seeking missiles began a now Job monday. Calvin j. Weber had been critical of the defensive capabilities of some Huey and Black Hawk helicopters being used in operation desert shield Weber 48, a civilian army employee living in Arnold was removed in Handcuffs oct. 25 from the army Avi Ati Orr systems come after he refused to leave lie was placed on administrative leave with pay while authorities investigated the incident. In his new Job Weber will inspect construction projects and Check Utility was ordered to report for work at the Melvin Price support Center in Granite City 111., until his present Extension from being fired expires Jan. 11. A an army memo at the time of Weber a removal Froni the aviation systems building said he had been asking Nannt Quot i Nuit up inform tinn Ntuli that he lid be highly about a sensitive information and intimating Quot that he would disclose it publicly. Disclosure detrimental to the Security of the United states a the memo said. A since then the inspector general of the Pentagon Hus decided to investigate efforts to fire Weber in response to a request from sen. William v. Roth a Del. In addition rep. John Conyers d-mich., has asked army Secretary Michael Stone to look into the action against Weber. Conyers Heads an oversight subcommittee of the House government operations committee. Quot it appears there May have been an attempt to silence and discredit an army employee a Conyers wrote. A one senior army official has stated that the army does no a disagree with what he Weber is saying just in who he is saying it a a aviation systems spokesman Robert a Hunt said he could speculate what will happen to Weber after Jan. 11, because he has already been granted several extensions since he got his termination notice. Lujan s son Alexandria a. A the son of Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan was formally charged monday with raping a woman who lived in the same apartment building As he and his parents authorities said. A. A. Robert Jeffrey Bujari 28, was indicted on one count each of burglary rape sodomy and use of a firearm during the commission of a crime according to commonwealths attorney John Kloch. If convicted Lujan who lived with his parents could face a maximum of three life prison terms plus two years in prison. Lujan has been held without bail in the City jail after a judge said he posed a an unreasonable danger to the Community. During a court hearing an Alexandria woman testified that the younger Lujan broke into her apartment spoke with her for two hours then led her up five flights of stairs and Back to her apartment before forcing her to have sex with him Early on the morning of nov. 11. Quot a a a a new Day a. A new York Fri agents and new York City police detectives Are investigating a hit list containing the names of 10 prominent palestinian rights supporters who May be attacked by Radical zionists out to avenge the assassination of Meir Kahane according to Law enforcement sources. The list which reportedly was mailed to a new York City television reporter by members of Kananen a militant Kach party vows to retaliate for Kahaney a death and targets Louis Farrakhan the head of the nation of islam Clovis Mak Soud former , ambassador from the Arab league Columbia University professor Edward said and several noted scholars and educators. Also listed were several american jews who have been critical of Israel including new York times columnist Anthony Lewis and a Dartmouth University professor rabbi Arthur the note contained the thinly veiled warning that a things will go Boom in the Kahane was gunned Down nov. 5 while attending a zionist organization meeting in a Midtown hotel. Police have charged City employee Al Sayyid nos air with the killing and said that he apparently acted alone because there was no solid evidence linking him to anti Israel organizations. Police found another list this one with the names of six Well known jews a including a congressman two Federal judges and an assistant . Attorney a at no Sairs Home in Cliffside Park . That list led some within new Yorkus jewish Community to believe Kahaney Skilling was part of a conspiracy. The latest list which bore a new York City postmark said that a time is on our Side. We will make sure rabbi a Hariet a death was in people on the list have been offered police Protection a department spokes Man said. Sources say investigators believe the attacks could begin later this week after the end of the traditional jew ish 30-Day mourning period. Others named on the list include new York attorney Rita Hauser . Mehdi Secretary general of the National Council of islam University of Chicago history professor Rashid Khalid and two others whose identities could be confirmed sources also confirmed monday that Kahane was carrying a list of his own written in hebrew in a secret code when he was killed
