European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 29, 1991 the stars and. Stripes a _ Page 5pioneer wants to escalate War on aids or. Michael Gottlieb who 10 years ago described a disease that was later identified As aids. West Hollywood Calif. Apr. Michael Gottlieb made history 10 years ago with a report published by the centers for disease control on the discovery of a malady he observed in five homosexual men. The disease was aids although it Hadnot been named when Gottliebe a Brief technical paper was printed in a cd newsletter june 5, 1.981. Since then Gottlieb treated dying actor Rock Hud son and Many other aids patients and co founded an aids research group with Elizabeth Taylor. After a decade of death and despair society still refuses to do enough to combat the aids epidemic Gottlieb said in an interview. A where is acknowledgement from president Bush or others at High Levels of the importance of aids As a Domestic policy Issue a he asked. Many people View aids Quot As one of those insoluble social problems right there with homelessness hunger and drug abuse a he said. Quot but it was and is eminently solvable. There Are still opportunities being overlooked to curb the spread of this  Gottlieb a native of new Brunswick n.j., was fresh from immunology training and working As an assistant professor at the University of California los Angeles in late 1980 when he asked colleagues to Alert him to unusual ailments. Between october 1980 and May 1981, five patients were brought to Gottliebe a attention. All were previously healthy homosexual men who developed ongoing fevers and severe weight loss. They suffered various infections including an unusual form of pneumonia. Blood tests showed their disease fighting immune systems were crippled. In May 1981, Gottlieb and Wayne Shandera a cd investigator in los Angeles wrote the report describing the new disease. Other researchers discovered the virus that caused it two years later. As soon As the report hit print Quot the telephones rang off the Hook from doctors around the country a a Gottlieb said Quot Rhey were seeing the  the world health organization estimates aids will infect up to 40 million people by the year 2000. Nearly 110,000 americans already have died. Gottlieb 43, spent the 1980s treating aids patients and writing 70 aids research papers. Hudson was among his famous patients. After Early reports that Hudson had aids Gottlieb urged the hospitalized actor to confirm it publicly. Quot he said,. Or. Gottlieb you can Tell them. Maybe it will do some Good a a Gottlieb recalled. The doctor made the announcement in. July 1985. Hudson a going Public is credited with spurring increased funding for aids research and putting a recognizable face on the disease. A the was the closest thing to a family member with aids a Gottlieb said. Quot in that Way it did enormous  Gottlieb met Taylor whom she visited Hudson before his october 1985 death with a Grant from Hudson Gottlieb and Taylor helped establish the american foundation for aids  big school bus carries just one Lone boy Santa Clara Calif. A on his Way to school each Day 11-year-old Anthony Vincent can have his pick of any of the 72 seats on the bus. He a the Only student on Board with five weeks left in the school year Anthony had to change schools when he and his father Ron Vincent moved from South san Jose to Santa Clara. Vincent figured there would be no problem a Montague elementary is right around the Corner. A Tam so close to Montague school i can spit on it a he said. But that school was full so Santa Clara unified school District decided to bus Anthony to . Haman elementary a four Miles across town. A on the first Day it was kind of weird because i asked the bus Driver if she was going to pick up any More kids. She said no a Anthony said. His father also thinks its weird Given the states current budget crisis and the letters he a received from the school District asking parents to Send their children to school with their own pencils and paper. A they can to provide pencils and paper but they can provide a $200,000 bus to take him to school by himself a Ron Vincent said. A Linda Ferriera transportation manager for the District said the Only costs of busing Anthony Are gasoline and maintenance on the bus but those amounts weren to available monday. She said the District has about 160 overloads a students unable to get into schools nearest their Homes. Massachusetts hard budget lessons extend into classrooms across state Ron Vincent is losing patience. Among other things his son is late to school every Day a but that s of because nothing happens in the morning anyway Quot Anthony said. And if lie misses the bus a As he did last week when a teacher kept the class late a a he has no Way to get Home unless his father leaves work to pick him up. A a in a a single dad and we re on our own Here a Vincent said. Quot every time i punch out a that san hour. When you Are living paycheck to paycheck that a a lot of money.�?�. In the stars and stripes Whitman mass. A first grader Alex Kanelopulos laboriously printed sentences using the Days spelling words on a Sheet of computer paper. The 6-year-old was running out of room but he  turn the paper Over the paper was donated by a local business and the other Side was covered with a dense printout labelled a backup customer information  the Whitman school budget allocated no funds for paper or other classroom supplies this year or next. And Whitman Isnit unique. Across Massachusetts school districts have reduced or eliminated spending for materials and books to. Make ends meet during the states fiscal crisis. A a we re the first generation in our country to look at our kids to say a have less. Take less than we got a a a said Jim Wilcox a fall River history teacher and president of the City a teachers Union. A a they re going to hold us  youngsters bring their own crayons to draw on used paper donated by businesses. Parents hold fund drives to buy textbooks. Teachers dig into their pockets to buy glue pens pencils rulers and tape. A was school budgets get ratcheted Down further and further non personnel areas Are the first to get Cut a said Stephen Wollmer spokesman for the Massachusetts teachers association. Massachusetts has been $1 billion in the red for each of the past two years one of More than two dozen states across the country that have Cut budgets or face whopping deficits. New York faces a potential Gap of $6 billion. California has Cut.$2.7 billion. In a statewide Survey the state teachers association found that Many communities Cut their Supply budgets by25 to 50 percent this  some it was much More. Two years ago. Whitman budgeted $147,000 for supplies textbooks and workbooks superintendent John Pirn said. But that was before town voters twice rejected proposed overrides of the tax limitations set by the states proposition 2 i. Since then the District has Laid off 26 teachers and expects to Lay off about 30 More Pini said. Many teachers now buy one Workbook then photo spy lessons Lor use in class. But even that approach can backfire. In Hanson Quot our building principal came to us a month ago and said there a no More copy paper a said kindergarten teacher Susan Thevenin. Eventually the faculty got enough paper to finish out the year Quot but we re very very frugal about what we copy a she said. Districts increasingly turn to parents for help. In Whitman parents bought nearly 100 phonics books at about $12 apiece for the systems first graders. Hundreds gather for rapid fire Good time san Antonio apr some came for the contest others for the camaraderie but they All left with the rat a Tat Tat of machine gun fire ringing in their ears. About 300 people converged on the san Antonio suburb of Helotes Over the memorial Day weekend for the fourth annual Hill country machine gun shoot and show. A a in a Here for the social a said Georgia resident Robert m. Lewis Iii. A i get along with everyone i meet  a lightning fast chorus of machine gun fire filled the air As participants blasted junked cars Oil Drums and discarded refrigerators. A the right to own a gun is More than just the ability to defend yourself against a rapist or a mugger a said event organizer Bill Junke. Quot it is one Symbol of our attempts to resist any kind of repressive  while most gun control debate has focused on legislation that would require a seven Day waiting period for the Purchase of handguns the machine gun Industry would not be affected said Kay Tumlinson an event organizer. Machine gun buyers already wait Between three weeks to three months to buy a weapon while the prospective buyers background is checked by the Fri Tumlinson said.10 years ago May 30, 1981 a an expert on motorcycle gangs said that outlaw bikers make up a multimillion Dollar operation which deals in narcotics gambling Union and anti Union enforcement and other jobs for anyone who will pay them.  ���.�?�. 20years ago May 30, 1971 a Al Unser of Albuquerque n.m., on his 32nd birthday became the first defending. Champion in 17 years to win the Indianapolis 500 Auto race. Before the race the Pace car driven by an Amateur Driver and carrying astronaut John Glenn skidded into a trailer carrying news photographers injury ing 19. Glam was uninjured. V 30years ago v May 30, 1961 a Texas elected the first Republican senator in its history John a Tower a 35-year. Old professor of government at mid Western University in Wichita Falls 40years ago May 30, 1951 a the european Exchange service announced that a 100-gallon Book of gasoline coupons will Cost $16.25, attributing the increase to the higher Cost of Gas procured from the quartermaster