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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                . Bush visits school a for disturbed children. From wire reports Yonkers . A first lady Barbara Bush do lighted dozens of boys and girls wednesday during a visit to a Westchester county school for abused abandoned and emotionally disturbed children. On the second Day of a new York visit mrs. Bush spent time among children at the Julia Dyckman Andrus memorial Orchard school designated by the . Department of education last year As a a Blue ribbon7�?Tschool. Andrus a private non profit residential Center on 107 acres in Yonkers is the temporary Home of about 70 emotionally troubled boys and girls from kindergarten to High school age. Mrs. Bush visited the school one Day after dedication of a $2.4 million diagnostic Center designed to help determine the condition and needs of the schools children. Or. Gary Carman said he hoped the first lady a visit would Spur contributions throughout the country to facilities such As Andrus As Well As promote legislation focusing on the needs of disturbed  uses skyscraper new York a parachutist made a daring leap from the roof of the 107-Story world Trade Center on wednesday and drifted More than 1,300 feet before Landing safely on a City sidewalk. Stunned workers in the adjacent world Trade Center saw the parachutist jump from the observation  of the Gigantic skyscraper a the tall Cost building in the City and the second tallest in the world a at 5 30 , said d. Joy Faber a port authority of new York and new Jersey spokeswoman. The jumper spread a multicoloured Nylon Parachute in mid fall and used Landing equipment to alight safely near a Street Corner. A a the seems to have been a professional parachutist and he must have jumped out of air planes at equivalent altitudes before a Faber said. Immediately after the Landing the jumper scurried into a nearby car and sped away she said adding that he has not been seen since the  pleads guilty Columbia . A the former second ranking member of the South Carolina state House pleaded guilty to racketeering wednesday admitting he took bribes and tampered with witnesses in an undercover Fri corruption sting. Jack Rogers a Democrat also agreed to testify in other cases stemming from the investigation nicknamed a operation lost  Rogers 53, entered a guilty plea to one of 10 counts in a Federal indictment. The other charges against him which included allegations similar to those he admitted to were dropped As part of the plea bargain. Rogers the highest ranking South Carolina official nabbed in the Fri sting faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 Fine. . District judge Falcon Hawkins did not set a sentencing  a a. A. Friday. May 10, 1991 the stars and stripes. B Page 7 military alerting patients of dentist with aids virus fort Bragg . Apr a military dentist tested positive for the aids virus and officials arc notifying his patients base officials said wednesday. Officials would not identify the army dentist but said he had treated about 1,000 patients Many of them children during the past 21/ years. Letters were mailed tuesday to the patients and former patients at a fort Bragg dental clinic offering free aids testing and counselling. The dentist stopped treating patients immediately after he tested positive for aids according to a statement read by base spokeswoman Carolyn Malkinski. A Malkinski said she did no to know when the dentist was tested for aids or when military officials were notified she said patients treated from aug. 1, 1988, to april 30, 1991, were among those being notified. The dentist did not show symptoms of acquired immune deficiency syndrome but did test positive for the virus. A. A. A v a. A a a. A a. A based on the most current scientific evidence the probability of any former patients  is most Likely very Low a said col. Donald Vire who is charge of dental services on the base. The american medical association and the american dental association recommend that aids infected doctors inform their patients of their condition or Stop performing surgery. The National centers for disease control is considering new guidelines for doctors and dentists infected with the aids virus. Debate on patient notification intensified last year when a Florida dentist notified his patients he had aids Days before he died. Authorities believe three of his patients were infected by him. According to cd figures 40 health care workers have been infected with the aids virus on the Job As of dec. 1. As of september cd figures show More than 5,six health care workers had developed aids but were believed to be infected through the common modes of transmission such As homosexual sex and drug abuse. The cd has estimated the probability of transmission of the aids virus from an infected dentist to a single patient at Between 1 in 263,158 cases and i in 2,631,579 eases. It has cautioned that the estimate is based on limited data and a number of statistical assumptions. Malkinski said army personnel Are tested for aids every two years. She did not know any test dates for the dentist. All health care workers at dental activity Are required to follow rigid precautions to prevent transmission a it of communicable diseases including aids she  state officials said they were notified by the military wednesday. A it is strictly a military matter Quot Don Follmer head spokesman for the state department of environment health and natural resources. Helmsley comes to the Rescue of dying tenant facing eviction san Francisco up Leona Helmsley and the san Francisco sheriffs department traded compliments wednesday after she stepped in to halt the eviction of a terminally ill cancer patient from a Helmsley owned san Francisco apartment. A the sheriff deserves a medal a Helmsley said after learning that sheriffs representative Ray Towbis had refused to carry out the eviction of Deborah Worland from her Park Merced apartment. A a in a gratified a replied Towbis. A mrs. Helmsley is to be  Towbis said he received a phone Call from Helmsley on wednesday assuring him that Worland would not be evicted. He Sai Helmsley told him she is sending the cancer patient Flowers and a personal note. Left out in the Exchange of verbal bouquets was Helmsley spark Merced manager Claude Scovill who touched off the anger of the sheriffs department by telling Towbis that Nis new York Bosses would give the woman no More than two weeks to move out. Helmsley said however that she knew nothing of the tenant until she received Calls from the new York Media wednesday. A a in la Deal with the. Manager separately a Helmsley said a the  have done  she also said Worland will be allowed to keep her apartment rent free until she recovers. �?o1 and my family have suffer Dover the years and understand the tragedy this woman faces a Helmsley said. A she needs compassion and  Helmsley was widely and sometimes savagely criticized As being arrogant and stingy after she and her husband Harry were charged with tax fraud in 1988. The charges were thrown out but la Elmsley a reputation As what her attorney described As a a Slough Bitch Quot has endured. For Towbis at least that reputation is Over. A a she a a living Saint Quot he enthused a but maybe you  quote me on  Worland 42, is hospitalized for treatment of inoperable spinal cancer. She was expected to be released from the Hospital by the end of the week. The apartment Complex sought her eviction after Worland who lives on social Security disability payments fell some $5,9 k behind in her rent. Sheriffs officials who Are obligated to carry out court ordered evictions acknowledged that the woman had failed to pay the rent for several months but in examining the Case Towbis concluded that she should be helped to find housing rather than be evicted. By Eric Lichtblau the los Angeles times Eltoro Calif. The Marine corps on wednesday removed the commanding general of the Western air bases from his Post and reassigned him to Virginia amid an investigation into the general a use of base planes for personal purposes. A this action was deemed necessary to ensure a fair and thorough investigation and to preserve the efficient and orderly functioning of the commands a officials from marines corps Headquarters said in a prepared statement. The decision to remove Brig. Gen. Wayne t. Adams 51, from his Post at the Marine corps air station at Eltoro Calif., came less than a month after the los Angeles times detailed five flights taken by Adams on a Marine owned c-12 Beechraft that raised questions about his use of base planes. Named As a temporary replacement for Adam was Brig. Gen. Harold w. Boot assistant commander rear of the 3rd Marine aircraft Wing based at Eltoro. Blot was out of the state wednesday and could not be reached for comment. Adams was said to be in Washington d.c., or on his Way Back to California and also was unavailable to discuss the reassignment. It. Col. Ron Stokes a spokesman for the Marine corps in Washington said that a basically  is being assigned As a special assistant to the commanding general of the Quantico command it. Gen. Ernest t. Cookjr. A this specific duties have not been  Adams suspended two of his top aides in january after allegations entering on their own use of the Beechraft for golfing jaunts around the country. One of the aides col. James h. Sabow killed himself As the inspector general a office in Washington investigated the Case. But just three months before disciplining Sabow and col. Joseph e. Underwood then chief of staff at i Toro the times investigation found Adams had ordered a base plane to shuttle him Between the Al Tomb air station and a Marine Lodge at a Southern California Mountain resort during a combination military inspection and vacation with his Fiancee. In route to a military convention in Virginia Adams had flown a 552-mile Side trip to Florida during a tropical storm in the c-12 Turboprop and signed a divorce decree. He also met his Fiancee in Washington state after flying there on a training Mission and spent a weekend with a Friend and Golf partner in Pennsylvania during another training exercise. Moreover he ordered a plane to pick him up from the suburban Burbank Airport just North of downtown los Angeles after a family emergency in 1987 and to Fly him to the air station at Yuma. Adams a 28-year Veteran of the Marine corps has defended the trips As proper paying he was getting in flight time at the controls of an aircraft. Military officials have said that All of the flights raise questions about the mix of business travel and personal flights. Such a mix in strictly prohibited by military guidelines  
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