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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes thursday april 2, 1992 horror Story of unde de goes Back a generation re the Wnm Hinolan Post by the Washington Post Philadelphia on Street Corners in the working class Irish neighbourhood of Grays ferry teen age boys talked openly tuesday of a Uncle de Quot or a fast , they told what he paid for their socks and underwear and what he offered to pay for sex. They showed How he has been memorialized in Graffiti on a chinese restaurant Wall a Danny d. Expletive fasted on 7-391 for $25.&Quot a a in a heard about him since i was 8,�?� said a 16-year-old who attends a neighbourhood parochial school a when i was 13, a Friend of mine who was older said a do you want to go a i said  then i took him up Quot nodding toward an 18-year-old Friend sitting on a stoop. A Uncle de paid me $10 for bringing him Over Quot said the 16-year-old. This is How authorities allege that Edward Savitz 50, a Philadelphia business executive who has aids operated for several years luring hundreds of youths to his fashionable Rittenhouse Square apartment building and before that to another expensive downtown neighbourhood promising $10 to $30 a visit for satisfying his sexual fetishes. The relationship with the boys and Young men of Grays ferry goes Back a full generation. A when i was a kid they did no to Call him Uncle de Quot said Rich Wyler 40, a truck Driver from the neighbourhood who said he never was tempted to visit the Man. A i think they called him a the underwear  a authorities have charged Savitz an actuary and vice president of his family a benefits consulting firm with corrupting the morals of a minor involuntary deviate sexual Intercourse and a Range of other sexual crimes. He is being held in a prison psychiatric facility on $20 million bail. A preliminary hearing was scheduled wednesday morning. The Case became a citywide horror Story when District attorney Lynne m. Abraham announced Savitz a arrest Friday revealed that he had aids and said he a May have been engaged for several years in both Oral and anal sexual Contact with As Many As several Hundred Young  the horror turned to morbid curiosity monday As City health officials said the vast majority of Savitz a visitors who called hot lines Over the weekend reported Selling him nothing More than socks and underwear. Those admitting that they performed anal sex on Savitz said he insisted that they use condoms greatly reducing fears of aids transmission the officials said. But police Are not reassured. A a in a like to believe those kids just went up there and sold their socks Quot said sgt. Patrick Ghegan a supervisor of the investigation in members of the aids coalition to unleash Power act up protest the handling of Edward Savitz s Case in Philadelphia on tuesday. The police sex crimes unit. A but we know a lot of them did have  the youths who said they visited Savitz reported that they did it for the Money and that they Are heterosexual. They laughed As they told their stories. All said they initiated the visits calling Savitz from a neighbourhood pay phone. He gave them appointments and told them to Wear soiled underwear they said. After they1 arrived he showed pornographic videos and gave them new underwear and socks the youths said. All of those interviewed tuesday said Savitz asked them after a couple of visits to have sex introducing the subject by saying a do you want to earn some extra Cash Quot All said they refused emphasizing that he did not Force them to go further. None said he considered reporting Savitz to police. Youths show High aids exposure risk Washington up male teen agers in the United states Are so sexually Active that a majority of 15 to 19-year-Olds at least potentially have been exposed to the virus that causes aids researchers said tuesday. About two thirds of sexual encounters Are without use of a condom which can protect against pregnancy and transmission of diseases including aids and the most sexually Active Are the least Likely to use condoms the study found. However the nationwide Survey also found that condom use nearly tripled from 1979 to 1988 and that Black youths used condoms More often than White youths. A we were finding an average teen age Man was using condoms about half time a said Leighton Kun of the Urban Institute. His findings were reported in the journal Public health reports. Kun a report was based on the 1988 National Survey of adolescent males a representative sampling of 1,880 15 to 19-year-old boys and men. It used a combination of interviews and self completed questionnaires. Among the findings sexually Active teen agers have sex at an average rate of about once every two weeks and use condoms 56 percent of the time. About one fifth of those surveyed 22 percent never used a condom and about one third 35 percent always used one. The researchers said 43 percent reported using condoms intermittently. Were Truing an average teen age Man was using a using condoms intermittently. Its Don t help fat people much Survey finds Shin ton apr Here s depressing if not the Survey is based on responses of 1,431 pet Washington a Here a depressing if not exactly shocking news. Fat people tend to stay that Way diets or no a government Survey says. Roughly one third of the women and one fifth of the men in this country Are trying to shed some pounds. And or. Alan Levy the food and drug administration researcher who did the Survey said on the average this is their second try in the last two years. Because they have tried diets before they think they know what they Are doing said Levy who was presenting his findings this week to a conference held by the National institutes of health. But about three fourths of women and men say they Are just about As big As they have Ever been in their lives. The Survey is based on responses of 1,431 people who Are trying to lose weight 1,030 of whom Are women. They were chosen at random and were interviewed Between september and november. The Survey also found a the exercise of Choice is walking. Seventy percent of the women and 57 percent of the men reported doing this. A the favorite diet foods Are Low Cal salad dressing for women 65 percent and diet soft drinks for men 55 percent. A dieting men on the average try to limit themselves to 1,460 calories a Day and women 1,230 calories. A a Quarter of the respondents said they skip meals.  woman raped set on fire in los Angeles from wire reports los Angeles a two men raped a woman then doused her with gasoline and set her on fire Early tuesday. The 19-year-old woman suffered second and third degree Burns Over 80 percent of her body said it. Larry Hinrichs adding that she was in extremely critical condition. No arrests were made. The woman had told officers that two men in a Van picked her up Early tuesday said it. Mike Nichol. He said they drove her to an unknown location and raped her then drove somewhere else poured gasoline Over her and set her on  pleads no contest Ocala Fla. A a Roadside prostitute already facing death in the electric chair for the murder of a businessman pleaded no contest tuesday to murdering three other motorists. Aileen Wuornos entered her plea to three counts of first degree murder after circuit judge Thomas e. Sawaya approved her request for a new attorney. Sentencing was tentatively scheduled for  suit scheduled Washington a Federal judge tuesday set a sept. 29 trial Date for a lawsuit by three men who were wounded when John w. Hinckley or. Tried to assassinate president Reagan. Former White House press Secretary James s. Brady and two other plaintiffs contend Hinckley knew what he was doing when he fired six shots from a handgun in an attempt to impress actress Jodie Foster on March 30,1981, in Washington. The three Are seeking damages totalling hundreds of millions of dollars. Reagan was shot in the Chest Bradys fellow plaintiffs in the suit Are Thomas k. Delahanty who retired from the metropolitan. Police department on disability after the shooting and Timothy j. Mccarthy a secret service agent who returned to work after recovering from a wound he received in the attack. Hinckley has been confined to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington since 1982, when he was found not guilty of criminal charges by reason of  fires police chief san Francisco a mayor Frank Jordan fired police chief Willis Casey the Man he once appointed assistant chief in the latest shake up in the troubled 3-month-old administration. In a move that stunned City Hall Jordan on monday picked his former political rival assessor Richard Hongisto to succeed Casey. Hongisto a former police officer and sheriff was an also ran for mayor in  s owner released Dallas a the owner of a sports figurine company who left his family and lived under another name before being arrested More than a year later near Dallas was released tuesday. He was to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. William Karl alleys wife Pam had sought to charge him with non support of his family so police would hold him if he were found. Alleys 13-month Odyssey began when he walked out of a new York hotel and disappeared. The University Park Man vanished feb. 28, 1991, after telling a hotel Doorman a a in a going for a walk.pioneer Black Pilot Dies Washington a a funeral was scheduled for today at Arlington National cemetery for Elwood t. Driver a Pioneer Black fighter Pilot who later became vice chairman of the National transportation safety Board. Driver 70, died of cancer on Friday at his Home in suburban Reston a. A native of Trenton n.j., Driver joined the army air corps in 1942 and became one of the Tuskegee airmen who were trained in Tuske gee ala., and went on to be the nation s first Black combat pilots  
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