European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 14, 1993 . The stars and stripes b Page 5 Reno to focus on violent crime environment Miami a Janet Reno said Fri Day that As . Attorney general her first priority would be prosecuting violent crime. She also pledged to focus on the environment and children s issues and stay in touch with the american people. Too often i think when you go to Washington you sometimes forget the communities and neighbourhoods of America Reno said after returning from the capital where president Clinton nominated Ner thursday for the Justice department Helm. Reno said she believed her 15 years of experience As Miami s top prosecutor would help her develop National pro Grams that work on the local level and to Foster better cooperation Between Federal and local Law enforcers. She also stressed that she wants a fiscally responsible jus Tice department. I think i have an understanding and experience of the Day to Day life of America the problems the frustration the crime the youth gangs the violence that threads its Way through All of America she said at an Airport news  be had the hard experiences with Deal ing with riots with dealing with Urban ". A. Pm Moffa of w v we a attorney general designate Janet Reno left is welcomed Back from Washington d.c., problems and i think i can translate that by her staff members at the state attorney s office in Miami on Friday. Into some National policies that i Hope can be effective for local  Clinton nominated Reno 54, after two earlier candidates withdrew because they had hired illegal aliens. The Senate mus confirm Reno. She said she was ready for Tough questioning from senators. Yoxall have been looking at me for the last 15 years she joked to reporters. I Don think it s going to be any  w Reno whose family lived on the Edge of the Everglades amid pet peacocks an alligators said her trip Back from Washington reinforced her desire to protect the environment. It was really something As the plan started to descend to look out across that Ocean and then to look West across Florida and Sec Blue skies still existing she  said her top priority in washing ton would be similar to what it was As Dade county s state attorney. When we develop priorities with limited resources we have to focus on Vio Lence and do everything we can she said. She added that she wanted to develop a True partnership across this nation with All state Federal and local Law enforcement  she also vowed to try to curb violence by and against youth. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago feb. 14,1983 bulldozers and Snow lows cleared roads through major cities in the Northeast immobilized by a record blizzard that claimed at least 56 victims. 20 years ago feb. 14,1973 the american Dollar was devalued by 10 percent to 2.90 Marks to the Dollar in a sur prise announcement from washing ton that climaxed the latest world wide currency crisis. 30 years ago feb. 14,1963 a Northwest air lines Boeing 720 jetliner crashed in Florida s Everglades shortly after Takeoff during a vicious Squall kill ing All 43 aboard. 40 years ago feb. 14,1953 Pope Pius Xii was reported to have appealed for clemency for condemned atom spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg whose person Al Appeal was rejected by president Eisenhower two Days earlier. World War ii j 50 years ago today feb. 14 1943 two German Panzer divisions attack american troops in Westen Tunisia seeking to break through to Kasserine and Rebessa. More than 100 Royal air Force bombers strike Milan opening a series of British raids on the important business Center in Northern Italy. On the Southern soviet front Rostov and Oroshi Novgrad fall to the red army. Source 2194 Days of War. W. H. Smith publishers inc. World almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp.,1981 a is Sci combo pack Iro was Mungion u.v., Pru Vicma Usu i Iii Iii a Saiia Kuiv in. M. Nice in Miami on Friday. O some National policies that i Hope can b t. Despite gains aids crisis to last for generations researcher says by Christopher b. Daly know most things in Medicine Are far Haseltine was speculating and Saiti.  Nonn in from nos Siulc " Haseltine said. We re in knew of no scientific study showing an by r d. Dalthea Washington Post Boston Basic science has yielded dozens of promising ideas for treating aids but by the time most such treat ments Are ready the disease May have infected As Many As 1 billion people world wide a prominent researcher said Friday. Speaking to the annual meeting of the american association for the Advance ment of science Here William Haselt Neof the Dana Farber cancer Institute in Boston said that after a decade of Dee involvement in the search for a cure he is convinced that his the virus that causes aids is so prevalent and so resilient that it will be a serious problem for the indefinite future at least for several generations. He warned against a plan now under consideration on Capitol Hill to appoint National aids Czar or to create the his equivalent of the Manhattan project that developed the first atomic bomb during world War h. Too Many Basic questions Are unknown for an Overall commander to begin assigning tasks Haseltine  also cautioned against complacent. Most of us Are lulled by  think everything is possible. Yet we Onofro possible Haseltin. This for All of our lifetimes and All of our children s  individuals he said should not expect science or government to make them Safe. They must protect their own health. As on Means of doing so Haseltine advocated widespread use of simple tests using saliva or a Small amount of blood. These tests have been developed and tested but the Yare not available Haseltine said. He said five corporations have devised such test but Are reluctant to Market them because of the general Issue of diagnostics for infectious  most doctors he said believe that test ing raises questions of counselling and confidentiality that make self testing a potentially dangerous practice. But Haseltine urged prompt release of Home tests. The need is urgent he said because even among a group that has had consid Erable Success at cutting infection rates Gay men in the United states the disease is spreading More rapidly after several years of decline. This year has been a disaster for aids transmission inthe homosexual Community he said. Thomas Mcnaught spokesman for the aids action committee in Boston said Haseltin Hekne in crease in infection rates among Gay men. Our data would suggest otherwise Mcnaught said. But we Are concerned that our education efforts have been in sufficient and arc not reaching the younger generation both Gay and  a global scale Haseltine said his is spreading rapidly in the third world and has reached More than 20 percent of the general adult population in Many areas including Central Africa India Thailand Indonesia and parts of South America. At that rate and assuming no vaccine is forthcoming by the year 2025 there could be 1 billion cases worldwide Haseltine said. Earlier at the alas meeting John  of the University of Massachusetts medical Center in Worcester out lined clinical trials aimed at cutting the spread of aids from infected mothers to newborns. In three trials experimental vaccines will be Eiven to pregnant infected women infected children and at risk  will involve trying to induce passive immunity in mothers and infants. 3 fatally shot near Florida College noted Black school plagued by violent student deaths Daytona Beach Fla. A three Young men were shot to death and another was bounded at the Edge of the Bethune Cookman College Campus the latest in a series of tragedies at one of the nation s most distinguished d Black col  Friday night shootings May have stemmed from a traffic dispute said a Tolley a police spokesman. Police were searching Early saturday for an unknown number of  four victims including two be Thune Cookman students and a former student apparently knew each , police  of those killed was found in the Street 20 feet from a car that apparently was involved in the altercation. The other body was found behind a College office building. An automatic weapon was apparently used in the shootings police  Are not discounting anything Tolley said adding that he did not knowhow Many shots were fired or How Many assailants were  identified the dead As 18 year old Kenneth White David Thomas whose age was not available and Henry Eaddy 19. Police listed the third victims Henry Eaddy Williams but his Mother told the Hospital his name was Henry Eaddy a spokeswoman at Halifax medi Cal Center said Bernard Smith jr., the 24-year-old son of a former Daytona Beach City commissioner was treated for a Bullet wound to the leg. Smith was being interviewed by police at the Hospital Early saturday Tolley said. Tolley said Williams and White were students at Bethune Cookman. Thomas was formerly a student at the College. Officers spoke to relatives of at least one of the victims and Tolley said police have some leads. The tightly knit Campus of about 2,300students has been plagued with violence within the last year. Six students have died since june in unrelated incidents. Wayne Simpson was slain in a robbery at his family s Delicatessen in Dayton Beach. Two other students were murdered last year and three others died in Auto crashes