European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes sunday september 29, 1991 health care aids provision Dies in conference committee by the new York times Washington a House and Senate negotiators Friday killed a measure that would have forced healthcare workers performing invasive procedures to inform patients if they had the aids virus. The measure which passed the Senate in july and set off tremors of alarm throughout the medical world called Lor prison terms of at least 10 years and fines of up to $10,000 for health care workers who violated the Law. Sen. Jesse Helms r-n.c., had attached the amendment to a spending measure for the Treasury and postal service. It passed the Senate 81-18, but did not appear in the companion Bill in the House. Because of the difference Between the House and Senate versions the aids amendment was one of several issues that became subject to negotiation by a House Senate conference committee on the appropriations Bill. The conferees dropped the Helms provision with Little discussion Friday. Instead their disagreement entered on a second aids related amendment that was adopted by the Senate last summer under the sponsorship of Senate leaders. The leadership proposal sponsored by George j. Mitchell a Maine the Senate majority Leader and Bob Dole r-kan., the Senate minority Leader was originally intended As an alternative to the stricter Helms amendment. It directed the states to require health professionals who Are engaged in invasive procedures to be tested for the aids virus. That proposal followed guidelines adopted by the Federal centers for disease control. In july the Agency issued general guidelines saying health care workers should voluntarily be tested for the viruses that cause aids and hepatitis a and that those infected should Stop doing certain Quot exposure prone procedures until they get permission from a panel of experts and have informed their patients. It left it up to the professional groups to define which procedures posed the highest risks. But several medical organizations have responded by saying that even these restrictions went too far and refused to draw up lists of exposure prone prod cures. Senate conferees led by Sens. Dennis Deconcini d-ariz., and Pete v. Domenici r-n.m., refused to drop that amendment. A a the Senate position was we cannot weaken the language to the Point that we drop Helms and then Are backsliding on Dole Mitchell too a said a Senate aide familiar with the negotiations. Charles no right confers with Michael Burt san Francisco Deputy Public defender during fridays arraignment. Man charged with 11 murders san Andreas Calif. A alleged mass killer Charles no was arraigned Friday on it murder charges accusing him of sex torture slayings Over a two year period. No 30, dressed in a red prison jumpsuit and shackled with chains appeared before Justice court judge Douglas Mewhinney in a packed courtroom amid tight Security. No through his court appointed lawyer did t enter a plea. Several of the counts involve special circumstances that carry the death Penally. No pronounced ing and accomplice Leonard Lake allegedly tortured and murdered their victims at a secluded compound in the Sierra Nevada mountains 25 Miles from Here. Lake committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide Pill during police questioning following a botched shoplifting attempt in 1985. Evidence found in a stolen car in his Possession led police to the compound. No a martial arts expert and a former Marine is being held in an isolation Ward at Folsom prison. No a native of Hong Kong fled to Canada in 1985. He Wras captured a month later and was extradited to the United states on thursday to stand  seeking help from . Peace corps from wire reports Washington a the Ukraine has become the first of the breakaway soviet republics to seek assistance from the . Peace corps and the organization s first representatives May arrive there in november it was announced Friday. Ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk extended the invitation to Jon Keaton peace corps director of International development during a Washington meeting thursday corps director Paul Coverdell said. The possibility of a unit in the Ukraine which has declared Independence from the soviet Union was raised by president Bush at a meeting the previous Day with Kravchuk who agreed to discuss it the White House  get battered View Milwaukee a a group that counsels battered women also provided a Little counselling to the male construction workers who Are expanding the group s Headquarters. The task Force on battered women told construction contractor Leo Balderas that his workers would have to attend a one hour seminar As part of the $200,000 expansion Job. There they were told that catcalls whistles and leers from workers would not be tolerated. They were also shown pictures of abused women. Quot at first the feeling was a of god do we have to go through this a a Balderas said in an interview. A but 1 think afterwards we were More aware of what s going  the Agency s director Deborah Neas said the group sought to make the men aware of the Subtle put Downs faced by women. Quot i really Felt they left with a Good understanding Quot said Barbara Pollock who directs the Agency a courthouse  Deal stresses Bull Decatur Ala. A it was no Bull the Man wanted to Trade his 450-Pound Bull in on a new Lincoln town car and the Dealership said of. But the Bull had other ideas and bolted its pen at Cloverleaf Lincoln Mercury a Bull wrangling veterinarian captured him and brought him Back. Now the car Dealership plans to give him away next month. Sales manager Tim Bates said the incident started when a buyer came up a Little Short of Cash for the $26,000 car. A the Man was i think $450 shy and he threw this Bull in a Bates said. The 7-month-old Bull named Hank charged past a jewelry store and an office Complex before veterinarian Randy Davis got a rope around his N.C.. Davis said Hank was a pretty stressed  the Bull will stay in a specially built pen at the Dealership until next month.2 students on bus shot City of Industry Calif. Guards were posted at High school Gates and Counselor talked to students Friday after a school bus was riddled with bullets in an apparently gang related attack that wounded two. Two girls age 15 and 17, suffered minor gunshot wounds to the tags when a car pulled along the bus thursday and occupants opened fire hitting the bus with at least nine bullets from a 9mm handgun sheriffs deputies said. The bus was carrying 28 students from Nogales High school in nearby la Puente. It was the second attack last week on schoolchildren in los Angeles county. Two Days earlier a 13-year-old boy was killed in a drive by shooting in the Al Screno  uncovers counterfeit work permit cards by the los Angeles times los Angeles a government agents thought they were onto something recently when their 30 separate investigations into counterfeiting and other illegal activities All began pointing to one group of people and a los Angeles print shop. Now after a series of raids Federal and state authorities say their hunches were right working under the code name Quot operation stage fright a agents a seized the shops two printing presses. A arrested nine people and issued arrest warrants for five others described As major co conspirators in a Complex counterfeiting ring. In the process authorities allege they have dismantled the nations largest Ever criminal operation supplying counterfeit work permits for immigrants commonly known As Green cards As Well As bogus Drivers licenses birth certificates social Security cards car registration slips and even $20 Hills. In More than a dozen raids at the bib printing shop and at suspects Homes agents seized 250,000 documents Worth an estimated $8 million three handguns and $5,000 in counterfeit Cash according to . Immigration and nationalization service officials. They said the ring was operating in major cities from coast to coast and As far away As India and Pakistan providing fake identities for As Many As i million people