European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes thursday june 18,1992 sending a message an abortion protester sits on the ground in Milwaukee alter her arrest tuesday and lets her to shirt do her protesting. Meantime another protester takes his arrest lying Down. The two were among 93 people arrested for blocking the Entrance to the Wisconsin women a health Center which performs abortions. Confinement questioned for people with aids virus grand rapids Mich. Apr quarantines Long have been used to combat the spread of contagious diseases but critics say authorities went too far by confining two people infected with the aids virus. Health officials in Muskegon Mich., confined a 31-year-old woman accused of having sex with at least six men without telling them she was his positive. The Oklahoma health department took similar action against a 24-year-old Man there. No criminal charges have been filed in either Case. Or. Douglas Hoch medical director of the Muskegon county department of health last week recommended confining the mentally in a haired woman to an adult Oster Home pending a hearing wednesday. Quot we Felt we had to do something to alleviate the health threat a Hoch said. In Norman okla., state officials said Leo b. Wells had unprotected sex with at least one person but could not understand the need to practice Safe sex because he is mentally handicapped. Last week an Oklahoma county judge lifted the quarantine but ordered Wells to undergo a 60-Day substance abuse program. The judge said the need for a quarantine would be re evaluated afterwards. Aids experts say the two cases arc disturbing but do not indicate a trend. Historically Public health officials ordered quarantines to control outbreaks of highly infectious and deadly diseases such As yellow fever and bubonic plague said Leonard Glantz associate Dean of Bosto guidelines left flexible for aids infected workers Atlanta apr Federal officials said tuesday that they will let state and local health departments decide which medical procedures can be performed by aids infected health workers on a Case by Case basis. But the National centers for disease control is urging states to abide by guidelines issued by the cd in july 1991. Those guidelines listed some procedures that aids infected health workers should not perform because the workers could be injured with a knife or Needle and could bleed into an opening in the patient. They included abdominal or heart surgeries and tooth extractions. Since then the cd and professional health groups have been trying to agree on other procedures to add to the list. Quot we be concluded that scientifically we cannot come up with a National list a spokesman Kent Taylor said. University s school of Public health. The human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids is different because it is spread through the Exchange of body fluids. Federal health officials have never recommended quarantining people with aids. The National centers for disease control recommends quarantines Only for patients who refuse treatment for extreme cases of drug resistant tuberculosis. Many doctors found to support spanking Chicago apr the biblical warning about spar his findings Are published in wednesdays edition of ing the Rod and spoiling the child still carries weight the journal of the american medical association with Many doctors despite modern evidence that a it has to do with the whole Issue of violence a my spanking can be harmful. Cormick said. A its tolerated and accepted and Cor in a Survey of 619 doctors in Ohio 70 percent of poral punishment is tolerated and accepted too. Its a family physicians and 59 percent of paediatricians sup matter of ported the use of spanking. The Ujj surgeon general in 1985 said Corporal Pun it is unknown whether the figures typify the special ashment should be discouraged at Home and forbidden ties nationwide. In schools. The 41,000-member american Academy of but or. Kenelm f. Mccormick said he believes paediatrics also has urged that it be outlawed in schools Many doctors elsewhere think similarly. And avoided in the Home. charged with arson in new York hotel fires from wire reports new York a a teen Ager was arrested tuesday in a string of 12 hotel fires that put the jitters in the City a tourism Industry. Raymond Charles Dunford 17, was charged with five counts of second degree arson in connection with six fires at five hotels said police spokeswoman Suzanne Trazoff. Officials had said there were 11 suspicious fires since Jan. 6. Trazoff and chief of detectives Joseph Borrelli disclosed tuesday that there had been 12 incidents including three at the ramada inn. A second person was questioned for several hours by police and later faces prison new York a fort str rep. Robert Garcia was sentenced tuesday to three years in prison for extorting a no interest loan from the scandal plagued we tech corp. Garcia a wife Jane Lee Garcia was sentenced to three months for her conviction on charges of conspiracy and extorting $76,000 in payoffs from we tech. . District judge David Edelstein allowed both to remain free pending their appeats.3 held in Calif deaths los Angeles a police arrested three men tuesday in the december slayings of five catering truck workers whose bodies were dumped in a Canyon. Police it. John Dunkin provide details of the investigation. Last year officials speculated the workers were killed for $200 in receipts. The killings led hispanic catering truck owners to form an organization to beef up Security for the lunch trucks which have been targets of robberies. Being held without bail for investigation of murder were Tony Rivera Iii 23, and Edward m. Taffolla both of los Angeles and Lawrence Aquinaga 36, of Santa for pregnancy test Hollywood Fla. A a lawyer for the family of a 10-year-old girl plans to sue the Broward county school District because a school Volunteer gave the child a pregnancy test without her parents permission. The girl a slender third grader at Colbert elementary school is not pregnant. She simply has a a Little bit of a pot belly and was humiliated because of it her Mother said. School District officials were interviewing those turning lobbyist Washington a former White House chief of staff John h. Sununu has registered As a lobbyist on behalf of . Grace amp co., a manufacturer of specially chemicals and health care products. The Senate Public records office said tuesday it received Sununu a registration june 5.investigator pleads guilty Santa Ana Calif. A a private investigator has pleaded guilty to setting up the beating of actor John Wayne s daughter. Oded Daniel Gal 35, admitted to conspiracy assault and other charges monday. He could get nearly six years in prison at sentencing july 31. Or. Thomas Gutonis the former husband of Aissa Wayne hired Gal to arrange the 1988 attack during a custody Battle Over the couples daughter. Two gunmen hired by Gal handcuffed Aissa Wayne 36, and her then Boyfriend Roger Luby pistol whipped Luby slashed his Achilles Tendon and slammed Aissa Wayne a face into the garage floor at Lubye a estate in Newport Beach. Gionis 38, was convicted last month of soliciting the attack. One attacker pleaded guilty and is serving an eight year prison term. The other attacker is awaiting trial
