European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday june 26, 1991 old before his time a pc tit Snipes ii 14-year-old from Burlington n.c., who suffers from rapid aging plays with a set of hackers monday at the 10th annual Rogeria reunion in Williamsburg a. Some 16 youngsters with the rare genetic disease Are attending the event this week thanks to the Sunshine foundation which raises Money to Aid seriously ill children. The average life Span for Rogeria victims is 14 years but Many children live longer. Plan for routine aids tests of doctors patients debated Chicago apr the american medical association has taken up the question of whether doctors and patients should be routinely tested Tor aids opening a debate in which one physician said the credibility of Medicine is at stake. The proposal was debated monday at a meeting of the amass health committee. It is to be voted on this week by the 438 delegates who set policy for the.300,00 am a the nations largest organization of doctors. After hearing vice president Dan Quayle Tell reporters he thinks states should require doctors to be tested am a president c. John Tupper said monday that the idea a looks very persuasive Quot on the surface but will not wot Tkv a it would be extremely expensive and give a false Jamse of Security a he said. / Quayle did not mention aids during his speech to the a a doctors have questioned How a system could be set up to test All physicians. They also have questioned How often they would have to be tested since signs of the virus May not show up until months after infection. Aids tests now require written consent of the i tint. Current Ama policy Calls on doctors who think they Are at risk to be tested. The Ama also recommends that infected doctors inform their patients and Stop performing surgery. While doctors discussed the proposal members of an aids activist group protested outside. Police said they arrested about 25 of the 200 protesters from the aids coalition to unleash Power or required aids testing for doctors a would be extremely expensive and give a false sense of a Ama president a c. John Tupper act up. The group protested the amass opposition to nationalized health care its a a repression of alternative therapies such As acupuncture and the move toward regular aids testing. Quayle a speech was interrupted by a protester who walked through the room shouting a people with aids need National health care a guards hustled her out. In his remarks Quayle told the delegates that americans Are frustrated with the nations health care system. A it is time to Start thinking change a he said. Quayle pointed to Bush administration proposals As necessary Steps toward Reform and also promised to work for streamlined food and drug administration procedures for the approval of drugs. Quayle said that drugs on average Are available in other nations six years earlier than in America. A Philadelphia apr the school Board approved a policy monday permitting the distribution of condoms in Philadelphia High schools joining a handful of schools in other cities handing them out. Only five five people were allowed to the Board. They All supported condoms in schools a policy recommended by a 43-member task Force. New York cite schools will begin distribution in the fall. The Philadelphia Board also Hopes to begin the policy in the fall but the specifics of the program have not been determined. Elsewhere condoms Are available at school based health clinics in Chicago and Baltimore As Well As the Cambridge Rindge latin High school clinic in Mas to Sach setts. After the 0-3 vote John Staton of philadelphian for effective sex education passed out a printed statement saving the group a will be in the courts in the schools in the Board rooms Quot until the Board reverses the decision. The new policy Calls for educational programs at All Grade Levels to emphasize that abstinence is the most effective Way to prevent pregnancy and to protect against sexually transmitted diseases including aids. Quot condoms will be available to High school students Only. Individual students will not be allowed to receive condoms it parents object in writing. . Crash kills student Pilot instructor at Texas base from wire reports Wichita Falls Texas a a military Jet crashed and burst into flames at Sheppard fab on monday killing a student Pilot and an italian nato instructor. The air Force t-38 Trainer crashed White attempting to land said sgt. Wes Licer a base. . A a killed were 2nd it. Michael Higley 26, of big Horn wyo., and italian air Force maj Domenico Orlando 33, said maj. Dick Mcnally. He did not know where Orlando lived Orlando was an instructor Pilot in the euro nato joint Jet Pilot training program Ticer said. Instructors and students from 12 nato countries train at Sheppard As part of an International Exchange program he said. Air Force officers will investigate the crash. Rifai peyote use of d Salem Ore. A gov. Barbara Roberts has signed into Law a measure to permit the sacramental use of peyote by american indians. A this. Is a Freedom of religion Issue a Roberts said monday. /. The new Law does not flatly legalize the Hallucinogen but provides a defense against drug charges for people who use peyote in religious rituals sacramental use of peyote is permitted by the Federal government and some other states. Childproofing proposed Washington a the consumer product safety commission on monday proposed that child resistant packaging be required for ibuprofen pain relievers. The proposal subject to Public comment would apply to non prescription ibuprofen medications. Two youngsters who swallowed ibuprofen have died the commission said. It added that Poison control centers received 29,000 reports of Chil Alren under age 5 ingesting the drug in the five years after it was approved for non prescription use in 1984. ,. / sex con charged in death new York a a former convict was charged with murder in the death of a Pushcart Vendor who suffered a heart attack after being punched in the face and robbed of his Flowers. David Brandon 21, was arrested monday m. The june 16 death of Xis to Martinez a 54-year-old mexican immigrant. Brandon and two others demanding Flowers for fathers Day punched Martinez knocked him to the ground and took some of his Flowers then tried to sell them on the Street police said. Brandon was on parole for an assault. Police continue to look for the other assailants. Boy 12, Scales Mckinley Anchorage Alaska a 12-year-old boy whose father died climbing mount Everest has become the youngest person to conquer mount Mckinley North americans tallest Peak. With his Mother watching from a Small air plane Taras Genet of Talkeetna Alaska reached the 20,320-foot Summit on Friday with six members of his expedition the National Park service said monday. The youths father was Ray Genet a a10 Tain climbing guide who died in october do try ing to scale the worlds tallest Peak. Priests target malt liquor Chicago two Catholic priests said they would go to the corporate Headquarters of g. Heileman brewing co. Inc. In la Crosse wis., to protest the company a marketing of a potent malt liquor. The Chicago priests George Clements and Michael Flegar have pledged a protest and Boycott of the Beer company a products if it does not Stop pitching Power master to inner City Blacks. Heileman representatives have refused to meet with the priests the clergymen said. Critics of Power master contend the brewery targets its marketing toward the poor particularly Urban Black men. Power masters alcohol Content is among the highest for malt liquor
