European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday april 25,1992 the stars and stripes a Pagas Doggone Good treats amps Jim Morhaim a furry Friend doggedly licks his whiskers As Marine Lance Chi. Todd Brown feeds him Peanut butter. The pair was taking a pause for some snacks on mount Etna Sicily. Brown with the 24th Marine expeditionary unit out of Camp Lejeune n.c., has been helping in the Effort to Detour the flow of lava from the erupting Volcano away from the nearby town of Zaft Crana Etna. When it came time for a break the Marine  help but share his meals ready to eat Peanut butter when the Friendly canine hounded him for a Little taste. Sec pages 14, 15 and 16 for a related Story and photos on How the Battle against the raging mount Etna is  sail past coast guard to . Base Miami up a Navy and immigration officials thursday processed a group of 234 haitian refugees who bypassed the coast guard and arrived at the . Naval base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba aboard their own vessel. The coast guard said the haitians were aboard a 40-foot Sailboat that arrived at the base on wednesday and was escorted by Navy port control officers. The refugees were Given food and medical care and immigration and naturalization service officials interviewed them thursday to determine whether they had a legitimate claim for political Asylum in the United states. It is believed to be the first time a group of refugees fleeing the Island nation went directly to the naval base. Others have arrived on . Coast guard cutters that rescued them from rickety overloaded boats found floating in International Waters off Haiti. The coast guard said thursday it rescued 227 haitians from three sailboats. The refugees were taken aboard cutters and will be transferred to Guantanamo. As of thursday the coast guard had rescued 22,327 haitian refugees from 312 vessels since oct. 29, a month after a military coup ousted the democratically elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide. The refugees who arrived at the naval base on their own were not counted in that number. The haitians claim they seek political Asylum in the United states because of violence and political persecution following the coup. The Bush administration has contended the refugees arc fleeing poverty do not qualify for Asylum and should be returned to Haiti. Earlier this week the supreme court for the second time in three months allowed the government to resume repatriation of haitian boat people despite a lower court stay that would have provided them with Legal counsel. The court late wednesday by a 5-4 vote stayed a preliminary injunction issued april 6 by a Federal judge in new York that had required the United states to allow certain haitians being processed at Guantanamo Bay to be represented by  detected among India s naval officers new Delhi India a detection of aids among some Indian naval officers in Bombay has sparked off a scare in one of the nations top naval bases a newspaper reported thursday. A total of 1,200 officers were tested for the human immunodeficiency virus and 13 of them have tested positive the Pioneer newspaper reported quoting an unnamed defense spokesman. A this has sparked off an aids scare of sorts a said the newspaper without elaborating. This is the first time that the armed forces admitted existence of aids among its 1.2 million personnel. Bombay indians business capital is the Headquarters of the Western naval command. The entire Navy has 52,000 personnel. Ominous warnings that India Home of 844 million people is on the threshold of a catastrophic aids epidemic Are largely ignored by the government. But the world health organization predicted in a february report that India and its smaller neighbors will be the worlds worst affected area by the turn of the Century outpacing sub saharan Africa. Who experts estimate that 400,000 to 1 million people in India Are infected with his that causes aids. By the year 2000, they say India could have 5 million his carriers or about one sixth of the worlds total projected cases. In Bombay alone 30,000 prostitutes May be infected with his up from 10,000 two years ago says the Indian Council of medical research. Studies suggest that they infect at least 300 new customers every Day. Since 1985, when aids first came to Light in India the government has recorded 7,050 cases of his infection and 112 aids patients. But even the government admits the figures grossly understate reality. Testing is done Only on High risk groups in 62 of the country a 457 administrative districts. Quacking Man bares assets after loan denial san Antonio a an upset Bank customer was arrested after he stripped off his clothes and quacked like a Duck when his loan application was denied. A it was a first for us a Bank one spokeswoman Diane Vaughan said. The unidentified 40-Ycar-old Man was seated naked in a vice presidents office in the loan department when police arrived thursday. Authorities said he replied with Duck quacks when he was questioned by police. After his arrest police said he caused $1,000 damage to a police vehicle by butting his head into a window Frame and kicking a door. Magistrate Gabe Quintanilla ordered the Man held for psychiatric evaluation. Bank one officials would not disclose Why the Many Sloan was rejected. Convicted vote seller gets jail term Columbia . A a former state representative convicted of Selling votes was sentenced to two years and three months in prison. A Jesus Lead me. It looks like the government wants to feed me a Ken Bailey said thursday As he left . District court. It was his Only comment. Bailey has three months to report to a minimum Security prison. The sentence imposed by . District judge Falcon Hawkins was the lightest allowed under Federal guidelines. He was convicted in August of extortion and of conspiring to extort $500 from a lobbyist serving As an Fri informant