European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 10, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7theory traces aids to polio vaccine Philadelphia up a theory that aids originated More than 30 years ago with a particular Batch of polio vaccine distributed in the belgian Congo will be validated or disproved with the release of samples of the original vaccine the Wistar Institute said Friday. An article in the March 19 Issue of rolling Stone Magazine speculates that the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids May have been present in tissue from a Monkey kidney used by or. Hilary Koprowski to grow a polio vaccine. Koprowski one of the pioneers of the polio vaccine and former director of the Wistar Institute developed a vaccine that was used to immunize humans in what was then the belgian Congo. Wistar is an Independent research facility on the University of Pennsylvania Campus. Free Lance journalist Tom Curtis Story outlines a theory originally proposed by Blaine Elsewood of the University of California at san Francisco. Elsewood is not a doctor but a treatment activist for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. His academic paper on the subject has been submitted to a european medical journal. Curtis approached an Independent scientist or. Robert Bohannon and asked him to test the theory. Bohannon agreed but said Friday that he has not yet performed the test because the Holder of the Early polio vaccine has yet to release samples to him. The theory is that the virus accidentally was transmitted to human beings from an unknowingly contaminated polio vaccine manufactured at the Wistar Institute. Bohannon requested samples from the Institute More than three months ago so he could test them. A a it a just a theory. You do a theory and test it and see How it works a he said. Bohannon said he wants to test the polio vaccine samples for a variety of Monkey borne viruses. He previously tested two Small samples of vaccine obtained from a Public health source in Chicago for a retrovirus called Monkey virus Type d that he identified earlier in an aids patient at the University of Texas . Anderson cancer Center. But the results were inconclusive he said adding he lawmaker s remarks labelled anti semitic by jewish group Chicago up a a speech by rep. Gus Savage d-ill., criticizing a political opponent for accepting support from . Jews and also saying jews pose a threat to Blacks was a out and out anti semitic a the american jewish committee said sunday. Savage complained saturday that his democratic primary opponent accepted Money from . Jews. His remarks came during a forum sponsored by the task Force for Black political empowerment and the Black Independent political organization. A a he la spend five times the Money i can raise most of it coming from jews a Savage said of his opponent Melvin j. Reynolds an educator and third time challenger against Savage. Savage said a political advertisement aired on a Black oriented radio station criticizing Savage was paid for by a lawyer named  Savage then spelled the name for his audience which gave him a standing ovation at the end of his remarks. There is a a danger of genocide against african americans Savage said and a the jewish population is contributing to this pending  Savage said the March 17 primary election will show a How you feel about jews rather than How you feel about  Jonathan Levine Midwest regional director of the american jewish com Mittee termed Savages remarks a out and out  Savage was a trying once again to ignite Pas Sions by scapegoating jews by preying on common anti semitic stereotypes a Levine said. Levine said Savage pulled a similar a a stunt two years ago at a rally Reading the names of his opponents jewish supporters. A we make no apology for american jewish involvement in american politics a Levine said terming it a part and parcel of the american  Levine said his group does not support or oppose candidates for Public office. However he added a when somebody makes anti semitic statements we feel obligated to speak  Savage stolen revolutionary War diary found Chicago apr a revolutionary War journal written by Benedict Arnold and stolen from a museum in Maine was recovered and a former trainee museum clerk was arrested an official said saturday. John p. Conley 39, who was charged with theft had worked As a clerk at the Maine historical society museum in Portland in a Job training program. He moved to Chicago last May shortly before the journal was discovered missing. The Fri arrested him Friday and recovered the journal after he allegedly showed it to a Bookstore the Agency said in a statement. Daniel Weinberg owner of the Abraham Lincoln Book shop said a Man brought the Book to his shop in a paper sack a couple of months ago. He said he put it in his vault until he had time to authenticate it. When he finally got around to looking at the journal he said he was immediately suspicious. A the most disturbing part was the frontispiece which said it was presented to the historical society by col. Aaron Burr in 1831,�?� he said. Burr had been an aide to Arnold. He traced it to the Maine historical society and called the Fri. The journal includes Handwritten copies of letters Arnold wrote to George Washington in 1775, As Arnold then a colonel in the revolutionary army led 1,000 men through the Maine wilderness in an unsuccessful attack on Quebec. Arnold became one of the nations most notorious traitors a few years later when he joined the British. The monetary value of the journal has not been established said Elizabeth Miller the museums executive director. A it is of great historical significance to Maine history in particular a she said. Heroic bus Driver divers honoured Houston up a gov. Ann Richards applaud no their a bravery and selflessness a presented awards sunday to a school bus Driver and three divers who saved four children in wheelchairs who were trapped in i swirling flood. The children were aboard a school bus that was aught in floodwaters last wednesday. The Strong current picked the Small vehicle up and spun it slowly witnesses said. As the water swamped the bus Driver Luvenia Blackmon 34, undid the straps that secured the children a wheelchairs to the floor and held the youngsters within an air pocket at the top of the vehicle. She screamed for help. A a it a just All of a sudden you get the strength a Blackmon said. A and i just got the strength and started holding onto them. That was my first priority. To get my  three divers who had been helping to Pluck people out of Trees and off the tops of flooded cars managed to get Blackmon and the four children out of the bus and to safety. One child was unconscious and the others suffered from Shock and exposure. The children along with Blackmon were treated at hospitals. Did not have. Enough of the Sample to test the vaccine for i v or Siv Simian immunodeficiency virus. Tests for such viruses arc done using a method called per which amplifies tiny genetic material so that it can be identified. Like the better known polio vaccines developed by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin Koprowski a vaccine was grown in kidney tissue obtained from monkeys. Siv has been found in monkeys and is similar to his. The vaccine in question was used in mass testing in Africa where it was Given to an estimated 325,000 people in Rwanda Burundi and the former belgian Congo now Zaire from 1957 through 1960, Curtis Aid. Wistar officials said that while viruses similar to his have been found in monkeys no one has identified a virus identical to the one found in humans. Wistar director Giovanni Rovera said he is in the process of assembling a team of researchers to evaluate the theory presented in the rolling Stone article. Rivera said he called for the study a in the interests of responsible scientific research and accurate reporting.jobless husband arrested a in editor s shooting death from wire reports Irving Texas a a suburban Dallas newspaper editor was shot dead in an apparent Domestic dispute and her unemployed Pressman husband was arrested. Louise Whitmer 43, editor of the Irving news died Early Friday at an Irving Hospital. She had been shot once in the face during an apparent Domestic dispute at her Home officers said. Police arrested the woman a husband Roger Whitmer. He was released on a $3,500 Bond. Whitmer 55, had been employed for five years at the Dallas times Herald before the newspaper closed in december and had been out of work since police said. A son who lived with the couple told authorities he heard five shots then his father came into his room and admitted killing the woman. A the Whitmer apparently fired five shots a police capt. Travis Hall said. A two were found m a Wall and two others in the  his wife had been editor of the Irving daily news since november 1986.taking a swipe at Saddam new Orleans a a businessman who thought people might want to take Saddam Hussein washing literally has about 200 Pinata portraits of the iraqi dictator on his hands More than a year after the persian Gulf War ended. A a they re just sitting there for right now. In a not really pushing them a said Robert g. Evans jr., an importer and exporter in new Orleans. Evans said he created 350 of the papier Mach figures which Are hollow slightly bigger than life size and depict Saddam with a Green uniform and feathery Mustache. Pinatas arc a tradition at mexican children a parties where children smash them to get at the treats  stiffens penalty san Francisco apr a Federal judge frustrated by sentencing constraints he considered too lenient Nas ordered two confessed robbers to pay $1,492 a month in prison costs. . District judge Vaughn Walker gave Brothers Elvis and Manuel Robinson sentences of six and Lxi years respectively in the armed robbery of a credit Union. The prison terms were the maximum sentences allowed under Federal guidelines. Both Brothers who Are from Oakland have robbery convictions on their records. Walker told the Brothers who pleaded guilty to the sept. 10 robbery that they deserved much worse. A if i were not restrained by these guidelines i would hand out a far greater sentence a Walker said. A the conduct in this Case deserves serious  the Brothers lawyers and a prosecutor said it was the first time they had heard of such a Fine which was to run the length of each sentence. The defense objected saying the Brothers were too poor to pay the Money