European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes Friday february 14, 1992 using at won t extend survival new study shows by the los Angeles times treatment with the drug at can slow the progression to full blown aids among people with the virus that causes the disease but does not improve Overall survival rates researchers say. The findings which were being published in thursdays edition of the new England journal of Medicine Are a dissent to the conventional recommendation that All individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus receive at As soon As they have Laboratory evidence of significant immune system problems. The results Are Likely to disappoint Many his infected individuals who have counted on at to prolong their lives until better treatments become available. For a Long term clinical benefits As measured by survival there is no difference in those treated Early is. Those treated later a said or. John d. Hamilton of the veterans affairs medical Center in Durham n.c., the principal author of the study. Moreover the study found that once they developed aids the Early therapy patients tended to be sicker and have More aids related problems. Only patients with his symptoms were included in the study. But the researchers said it was Likely that their findings applied to asymptomatic individuals As Well. The new study differs from prior trials of the Early use of at in that it measured Overall survival not just the time to the development of aids. Those studies supported the effectiveness of Early at therapy. In an interview Hamilton said the new results Likely reflect a combination of factors such As the development of resistance to at the relentless deterioration seen in the disease and Side effects of the drug such As anaemia. He said that while the decision about when to Start at should be individualized other aspects of Early care remain important such As medications to prevent tuberculosis or Aid related pneumonia. The four year veterans affairs cooperative study involved seven a medical centers. The researchers followed 338 his infected patients. The patients were randomly assigned to Early at therapy or late treatment. After a typical follow up period of two years or More there were 23 deaths in the Early therapy group and 20 deaths in the late therapy group a difference that was not statistically significant according to the study. Acc accused of lax leadership by the new York times Washington the Federal communications commission is failing to protect the reliability of the nations Telephone networks business groups say. The criticism has been building As Federal officials try to forge policy in the Wake of the huge failures that disrupted local telephones for millions of customers in three cities last summer and Long distance services in new York and Boston last fall. A what we expect is some leadership in the commission and we Haven to seen it to Date a said Brian Moir of the International communications association. On thursday the commission was to adopt new rules that require local and Long distance Telephone companies to disclose Large breakdowns soon after they occur. In addition the commission has formed an advisory Council of people from Industry and government. But critics say the commissions actions fall Short of what is necessary. A the commission refuses to admit that there is a serious problem a said Donna Kwak senior vice president of the Chase Bank of Arizona a unit of Chase Manhattan corp. Business groups argue that Telephone companies have experienced hundreds of relatively Small failures that go largely unnoticed but that May signal a problem that is deeper than than the handful of headline grabbing breakdowns that affect millions of customers at a time. Beginning in april the acc began compiling rough data for most Telephone failures. Those statistics show that the regional Bell companies and Large Independent Telephone companies such As get experienced 726 failures that affected an average of 6,490 lines for about 45 minutes apiece. Alfred c. Sikes the acc chairman contends that the commission is moving aggressively to promote higher standards of service. Before the widespread use of Telephone lines for Cable line phone in works Washington a if you re frustrated by Static on your cordless Home Telephone you May be interested in a new kind of phone. It uses local Cable television lines instead of Telephone lines. And it employs digital instead of analog technology meaning the audio signal can be More easily enhanced for clarity. Developers believe that it could be available to Consumers in three to four years. James c. Kennedy chairman of Cox enterprises inc., demonstrated his company a prototype by placing a Call wednesday from a san Diego Home to acc chairman Alfred c. Sikes in Washington. Cox owner of newspapers and radio stations and Cable and broadcast television developed the phone system under an experimental License granted by the acc. It transmits on radio Waves to a Box attached to the Cable line on a Utility pole outside the Home. The Box translates the radio wave into a Cable signal that is carried to the local Public Telephone switching station. But the phone needs to be within half a mile of a Box on the overhead Cable line in order to work properly. Data communications Small disruptions were consid ered annoying but not immensely significant. Now Banks and brokerage firms that use Telephone lines to carry trading information and execute financial transactions View even Brief disruptions As costly As do Catalon sales companies that rely on �?o800�?� numbers ism to Start building supercomputers new York a ism has established a Laboratory to develop supercomputers containing hundreds or even thousands of processor chips machines that would Challenge the fastest computers Ever built. The lab Marks in my sentry into a Niche Market it had previously avoided. Supercomputers Are used for highly complicated scientific calculations such As Long Range weather forecasting pharmaceutical modelling and aircraft design. International business machines corp., based in a Monk n.y., plans to build these machines using the same processor chips found in its desktop workstation computers through a technique called parallel processing. Hundreds or thousands of these chips will be linked to work on a problem at once. Similar machines already Are on the maket from such Start up companies As thinking machines corp., a Cambridge mass., company with which ism entered a joint agreement last year to Advance parallel processing technology. Mainstream computer maker nor corp. I Basing its new top end computers on parallel process ing technology As Well becoming the first Commerce computer maker to embrace the technique. In my a new lab in Kingston n.y., will draw on the resources of in my a mainframe computer workstation research and government sector divisions an Industry source said wednesday night. The Center will build computers Able to calculate by Lions of floating Point operations per second or flops Standard measurement of computer Speed. A eventually ism plans to build computers that Ca calculate trillions of flops the source said. The computers will be aimed at scientists Engineer researchers and financial analysts professions that involve problems with huge numbers of mathematic calculations.  cutting 600 jobs closing offices in overhaul from wire reports Chicago a Sears Roebuck amp co. Said wednesday it will overhaul the management of its merchandise group a move that will eliminate 600 jobs by mid april. The decision will save the retailing and financial services conglomerate $50 million. Sears said it would close its 10 regional offices and 26 of its 72 merchandising District offices. The 10 offices to be closed Are in Chicago Minneapolis Memphis Tenn. Dallas Santa be Springs Calif. Redmond Wash. Pittsburgh be Thesda my. Winter Park Fla. And Albany fetus involved in bidding Fargo . A a pregnant woman accused of jeopardizing her fetus by sniffing paint found herself the object of a bidding contest wednesday. A new York anti abortion lawyer on wednesday offered $10,000 to Martina Grey wind 28, if she goes ahead with her 12-week pregnancy and gives birth for the seventh time. An Anonymous donor promised on tuesday to pay $340 for the abortion Greywind said she could not afford. Greywind was sentenced monday to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to reckless endangerment for sniffing paint. But county judge Georgia Dawson allowed her to withdraw her plea wednesday. No further court Date was  sees grandmother shot Ruskin Fla. A months after a 9-year-old girl saw her Mother shot to death during an argument with a Boyfriend she watched the same thing happen to her grandmother. �?o1 heard the Bullet a said Lisa Lopez a and 1 saw her fall  the third grader had Learned to accept her grandmother Maria Quintanilla As her new Mother following the july killing. But after a night of bitter fighting Quintanilla a Boyfriend Juan Mendoza 25, chased the grandmother with a Shotgun and shot her in the head said Hillsborough county sheriffs deputies. Quintanilla 42, died 250 feet from where Lisa smother was killed. Deputies were still searching wednesday for Mendoza. Lisa smother Maria Lopez 23, was killed during a family picnic by Felipe Grifaldo 25. Grifaldo was convicted last month of second degree  family found dead Seattle a a laotian couple and their three children were found shot to death in their apartment wednesday police said the father apparently killed the others then shot himself. The shootings probably stemmed from a simmering Domestic dispute said police spokesman Hal Kulgren. Ton Chieng Saechao who said he was a Cousin of the dead woman said the victims were fou Saephan in his late 30s, and his wife Mey Choy in her Early 30s, and their children Linda 11, Susan 9, and Scott 8. The husband believed his wife was seeing someone at work Saechao said.2 missing in copter crash fort Collins Colo. A a television stations helicopter crashed into an ice covered Reservoir wednesday. The Pilot was critically injured and two passengers were missing authorities said. Pilot Peter Peelgrane 46, waved to rescuers As they arrived at horse tooth Reservoir near fort Collins but lost consciousness and was under water by the time they reached him said Hospital spokesman Mike Vogl. He was in critical condition wednesday night. Two passengers were aboard the Bell 206l-3 helicopter said Arnold Scott a spokesman for the National transportation safety Board in Denver. The wreckage was in 120 feet of water about 150 feet from snore Scott said. The Pilot was flying through heavy fog to fort Collins about 60 Miles North of Denver for scheduled maintenance said a spokesman for Kusa to a Denver station