European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 10,1992 the stars and stripes b 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 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 Boston apr the chairman of the Board of the Christian science Church resigned monday following controversies that included the use of employee pension funds to prop up Media operations. The Church also put its Cable television operations up for Sale. Church leaders said that if no buyer can be found by june 15, the Monitor Channel will be shut Down. Church Board chairman Harvey w. Wood resigned and was replaced by Virginia s. Harris who had been a Board member. A this internal restructuring is a return to the original form of administration established by Church founder Mary Baker Eddy a Harris said in a statement. Wood did not immediately return messages left at his office in Boston. Annetta l. Douglass manager of the Christian science publishing society for two years also has resigned Church officials said. She will continue As executive pro Houston up a gov. Ann Richards applauding 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 a swirling flood. The children were aboard a school bus that was caught 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 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. American jewish committee termed Savages remarks a out and out  Savage was a trying once again to ignite passions 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 sup Savage porters. 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  Ducer of radio and television programming and As president of Monitor television inc. The Monitor Channel which went on the air last May Cost $250 million to launch and takes $4 million a month to operate. It has roughly 4 million Cable subscribers. The Channel features mostly news and Public affairs shows. The Christian science Monitor newspaper will not be affected by the changes Church officials said. Officials said last week that the newspaper is losing about $13 million a year. The Church acknowledged last week that it had borrowed $41.5 million from its employee pension fund since Jan. 1 to underwrite the Christian science Monitor and the Monitor Channel. Beside the pension fund the Church has borrowed $20 million from its own endowment and $5 million from an account established in new Hampshire by Eddy a will Church officials have acknowledged. 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 his or Siv Simian immunodeficiency virus. Tests for such viruses Are 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 i960, 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  .jobless husband arrested 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 in 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 bashing 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-m5ch6 figures which Are hollow slightly bigger than life size and depict Saddam with a Green uniform and feathery Mustache. Pinatas Are a tradition at mexican children a parties where children smash them to get at the treats  keeps id Tarod Lead Shaktoolik Alaska a covering ground at a record Pace Martin Buser headed toward the treacherous ice of Norton sound on monday As he continued to pull ahead in the id Tarod Trail sled dog race. Buser a Swiss born Musher from big Lake finished second in 1991 to Rick Swenson the Idi Tarodd a Only five time Winner after they pushed through a blinding blizzard. But weather Hasni to been much of a problem so far in the race which is nearing its final stages. Running behind Buser were four time Winner Susan Butcher Tim Osmar and perennial front runner Deedee Jonrowe. The three left Unalakleet the checkpoint before Shaktoolik in that order about 1 15 . Monday. If Buser keeps up the Pace a and the weather holds a he could reach Nome today and shave hours off the record of 11 Days 53 minutes set by Butcher in 1990, radio station know in Nome reported. But the results were inconclusive he said adding he lawmaker s remarks labelled anti semitic by jewish group Christian science Leader resigns heroic bus Driver divers honoured