European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and Stripe thursday october 31, 1991fan convicted of killing to actress los Angeles apr the obsessed fan who stalked actress Rebecca Schaeffer and shot her to death on her Doorstep was convicted of murder after failing to convince a judge he was insane. Robert Bardo 21, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. Sentencing is set for nov. 22. Schaeffer starred in the to series my sister sum which ran from 1986 to 1988. A the defendant is not a Normal person. The defendant May even have schizophrenia of some sort a Superior court judge Dino Fulgoni who heard the Case without a jury said on tuesday in rendering his verdict. A but. Schizophrenics can lie in wait and can premeditated and can have the intent to  the prosecution claimed that Bardo of Tucson ariz., paid a detective $300 to find schaeffers address induced his brother to buy him a gun took a bus to California and waited near schaeffers apartment in 1989. Finally he rang the Bell and shot the 21-year-old actress in the Chest As she answered the door. Bardo carried an a Assassin s kit Quot in a plastic bag including a postcard from Schaeffer the Book the Catcher in the Rye and extra bullets prosecutors said. For two years before he killed her Bardo sent Schaeffer gifts Flowers and rambling letters and tried to see her at the to studio where she worked. Bardo admitted shooting the actress. But defense attorney Stephen Galindo argued that Bardo was guilty of not More than second degree murder because he was too mentally ill to have planned the slaying. Galindo said he would Appeal. Deputy District attorney Marcia Clark said Bardo wanted to gain Fame As a celebrity killer. She attacked the defense testimony of psychiatrist or. Park Elliott Dietz who concluded that Bardo was schizophrenic. Dietz said Bardo was a a very sick Young Many who was influenced by the song exit by the Rock group u2. The song included the words a pistol weighing  Bardo who had sat motionless through the trial sprang to life when the song was played in court. He grinned bobbed to the music pounded his knee like a drum and mouthed the lyrics. Dietz testified that Bardo tried to emulate Mark David Chapman who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980 outside the Rock stars Home in new York. In the months before Schaeffer was killed Bardo went to new York to see the spot where Lennon died. As Bardo was led out of the courtroom tuesday schaeffers Mother Danna Schaeffer shouted a have a Nice life have a Good time in jail Quot aids Carrier sentenced to sexual abstinence Portland Ore. Apr a 27-year-old Man has been sentenced to sexual abstinence for five years and House arrest for six months for knowingly spreading the aids virus by having sex with a Girlfriend. Alberto Gonzalez. Who was accused of infecting 22-year-old Bridgett Pederson pleaded no contest monday to third degree assault a felony and two Misdemeanour counts of recklessly endangering others. Shawn hop a Gonzalez previous Girlfriend who would have been a key witness for the prosecution has said she and Gonzalez both discovered that they were aids infected in 1988. A the intentionally kept Girlfriend one and Girlfriend two from Ever meeting a said David Peters the Deputy District attorney who prosecuted Gonzalez. Both women said they fear Gonzalez has infected others. Pederson remains in Good health. Gonzalez told mul Tomah county District judge Janice r. Wilson that he suffers slight symptoms of aids. Gonzalez was Given a one year prison term. But instead of going to prison he will remain at Home for six months wearing an electronic surveillance Bracelet when he a not working at his Job As a cabinetmaker. It will be up to a probation officer to make sure Gonzalez abstains from sex during his probation. If Gonzalez does no to comply he will be sent to prison. The sentence was the first of its kind in Oregon. Similar cases Are pending other states. In High aids Cost predicted by the Baltimore evening Sun the annual Cost of treating everyone in the United states infected with the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids May reach $10.4 billion by 1994, according to a new Arm of the . Public health service. Findings of the first study to assess the medical costs of treating All persons with his a those who have the lethal full blown acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and those who have the virus but not the disease a Are reported in the october Issue of the journal inquiry. People with aids account for two thirds of the estimate while those who have the virus but not the disease make up the balance the study reports. The study a author is Fred j. Hellinger of the Agency for health care policy and research in Rockville my. Hellinger calculates that the Cost of treating people with his in 1991 will be $5.8 billion and that it will increase by an average of 21 percent a year Between 1991 and 1994. Costs Are borne mostly by medicaid private insurers and people who cover their own medical Bills. The study estimates that it costs an average of $32,000 to treat a person with aids during a Calendar year and an average of $85,333 Between the time aids is diagnosed and when the patient Dies. The lifetime average Cost is higher than earlier estimates the study says because people afflicted with the disease Are surviving longer and because new and costlier outpatient drugs Are now available. The estimated yearly Cost of treating a person with his but not aids is $5,150, the report says. The tears come first Donna Foley of Scituate mass., hugs a sobbing Nicolai Arshinov during their first meeting tuesday in Boston. Foley is adopting Nicolai who immigrated to the United states along with four other children from the soviet Union. The five youngsters were p aced in new England families through the efforts of adoption support  report faults prison drug abuse treatment Washington apr a tougher policy has filled Federal prisons with drug abusers but Only 364 of 27,000 inmates with serious problems received any intensive treatment congressional investigators found. The Federal Bureau of prisons a May have contributed to the Small percentage when it failed to actively recruit inmates for its new intensive treatment programs a fearing too great a demand the general accounting office said. This strategy left the voluntary programs with less than half the current 8 h slots filled the congressional investigative Agency said. A drug treatment in prisons is locked out Quot said rep. John Conyers d-mich., who ordered the report As chairman of the House government operations committee. Conyers said the Bush administration a has sent criminals Back onto the streets with the almost guaranteed likelihood they will repeat their crimes and reenter the prison  the investigators also faulted the prison system for a failure to establish sufficient a after care programs for probationers a initially making admission criteria to the program too restrictive. A keeping Many professional staffers in the dark about the intensive programs including the Opportunity for inmates to change facilities in order to enrol. Bureau of prisons officials said they would comment Only after Reading the report. The Gao credited the Bureau of prisons an Arm t the Justice department with having a a generally Wel designed a drug treatment strategy but sharply criticize the implementation. As of april 1, 1991, Only 364 inmates were receiving treatment in the intensive residential programs an less than half of the treatment slots were filled. For inmates who Complete the. Intensive program alter care services to help inmates from returning i drug use Are not in place a the report said. The Federal prison system on april 1 housed 62,0 inmates including 27,000 estimated by prison official As having a moderate to severe substance abuse Prol lems