European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 17, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9terrorist plots against Bush foiled Fri says Washington up a a Fri official says agents thwarted several Domestic terrorist threats against president Bush during the persian Gulf crisis including one involving a new Orleans biochemist who planned an assassination using a deadly nerve Gas. Neil Gallagher chief of the Federal Bureau of investigations counter terrorism Section described two cases monday in testimony before the Senate governmental affairs committee which was holding a hearing on the threat of International terrorism in the Wake of the persian Gulf War. He said both involved . Citizens who attempted to Contact the iraqi embassy in Washington about taking the presidents life. A Gallagher labelled the cases As involving a individual zealots who were not believed to be connected with International terrorist groups or the iraqis. In an interview after the hearing Gallagher said the two cases were a a illustrative of the Type of Domestic threat posed during the crisis. He said a a number of other potential Domestic terrorists were a reaching out to official iraqi presence in the United states by various Means during the crisis. Steve Ashburn a new Orleans biochemist pleaded guilty feb. 22 in . District court in Orleans for making a threat against the president. Ashburn was quite capable a Gallagher said of developing the potent nerve Gas known As Sarin which could have been delivered As an aerosol Spray. A Asburn who made his threat in january unsuccessfully reached out to iraqi embassy officials Gallagher said. Quot in the second example Jamal Warrayat a palestinian from Jordan who is a naturalized american citizen was convicted in . District court in Newark n.j., on april 16 of making a threat to the president. He phoned the iraqi embassy and offered to kill Bush. Gallagher said however that the embassy was unresponsive and a in severe turmoil after . Officials expelled dozens of iraqi diplomats. Instead Warrayat met with an Fri agent posing As an iraqi intelligence officer. The agent determined that Warrayat was acting alone and not As part of a terrorist network Gallagher said. Gallagher said there were no incidents of International terrorist groups acting inside the United states during the crisis. The last time an International terrorist group struck in the United states was 1983, with a minor pro Castro bombing of a Miami building. A while there has been Little International terrorism in the United states the possibility certainly exists that we could be targeted by International terrorists particularly Given recent events in the Middle East a Gallagher told the committee. Doctors dentists urged to get aids tests if they do surgery pull Teeth fired up martial arts expert Letche Manasah has a burning desire to defy death. On sunday for instance he covered his head with a Black Hood and then leapt through a ring coated with flames and lined with knives. The jump was part of a half hour show he performed in Kuala Bumpur the capital of Malaysia. Atlanta apr Federal officials recommended monday that doctors and dentists who do surgery or pull Teeth take aids tests and Stop such procedures if they Are infected. The recommendations could affect tens of thousands of dentists and surgeons nationwide. The guidelines a drafted by the Federal centers for disease control a urge infected doctors and dentists to refrain from invasive procedures involving blood exposure unless an expert panel concurs and patients Are informed. High risk procedures Are defined As those in which a health worker could be injured a perhaps with a knife or Needle a and bleed into an opening in a patient not just on skin. Examples include abdominal gynaecological or heart surgeries tooth extractions and Root canals. Health workers limited to performing simple tasks such As cleaning Teeth or giving injections Are not included in the proposal. The cd stopped Short of recommending mandatory aids testing for health care workers. In Congress Senate minority Leader Robert Dole r-kan., said monday that he and sen. Orrin g. Hatch a Utah would introduce legislation thursday requiring states to adopt the cd cd a recommendations. Under the measure states not doing so would be barred from receiving Federal health Grants. In Illinois a Bill was sent to the governor requiring that patients be notified about aids infected doctors or dentists who had performed invasive procedures on them. If enacted it would be the Tim such Law in the nation. The cd has reported just one Case of aids transmission from doctor to patients a Florida dentist now dead of aids who is believed to have infected five patients with the virus. Voluntary compliance was criticized by the Mother of Kimberly Bergalis one of the Florida patients who is now near death from aids. Doctors a should have been getting themselves testing right along but they Haven to said Anna Bergalis. A this it sounds to me is the same old  a i done to know what dentist in their right Quindor what doctor in their right mind to going to voluntarily give up a $200,000 practice a she said. A patients deserve accurate information and they deserve the Best measures to protect them from disease transmission a health and human services Secretary Louis Sullivan said monday. The guidelines do not have the Force of Law since states regulate the practice of Medicine. But cd officials said they expect the guidelines to strongly influence professional standards and requirements. Earlier this year cd statisticians estimated that the nation has about 300 infected surgeons and 1,200 infected dentists a and that the chances of patient infection Range from one in 41,667 to one in 2.6 million. In addition to the infected patients of the Florida dentist patients of several other doctors infected with the aids virus have been warned or tested. Pro Thomas Campaign launched by the Baltimore Sun Washington a facing a steady barrage of criticism from opponents of supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas the White House has launched a Campaign style Public relations counteroffensive in his behalf. The Bush administration wants to feed the news Media a steady diet of pro Thomas stories to counter the almost daily Stream of negative news about the 43-year-old Federal judge an administration aide explained. Vice president Dan Quayle an outspoken Thomas supporter has been Given a leading role in the administrations counterattack. On Friday during a speaking engagement in new York City he delivered a Strong defense of Thomas a background and character. On monday at a hastily arranged session in the White House Quayle posed for pictures with Thomas after receiving a Short Progress report on his meetings with members of the Senate judiciary committee which is expected to begin confirmation hearings in Early september. A a in a going to continue to take out after or. Thomas critics because they re wrong a Quayle said. Reporters queries for Thomas during the photo session reflected the growing list of questions about the Georgia born Jurist and the controversy surrounding his nomination. Included were a a vote last week by the congressional Black caucus opposing his nomination. A reports about his 1983 speech praising Black Muslim Leader Louis Farrakhan. A the disclosure that he was admitted As a student to Yale Law school under a quota system for minorities. A his reported membership on the advisory Board of a conservative journal that takes an anti abortion slant. A recent Praise for Thomas conservative views from Louisiana state rep. David Duke a former Leader of the Kun flux  learns to shoot gun by watching television new York apr a 9-year-old boy who said he Learned How to shoot by watching television fired a 9mm automatic handgun at an office building police said. A i watch a lot of to a the child replied when police asked How he Learned to Load and fire the 6-Pound Cobray automatic handgun which resembles an Uzi sub machine gun. A i  believe it a sgt. John of Malley said. A a it a not something you see everyday. Its pretty  one shot was fired at the Bronx office building monday narrowly missing a woman inside said of Malley. No one was injured. The boy was charged As a juvenile delinquent and referred to family court. A he told officers he found the gun in a bedroom where it had been left by a Man staying with his aunt