European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday february 14, 1993 . The stars and stripes 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 Environ int and children s issues an 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 t a turning from the capital where president Clinto nominated nor thursday for the Justice department Helm. Reno said she believed her 15 years 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 atan Airport news conference. I be had the hard experiences with Deal ing with riots with dealing with Urban. Or. Iliff a liw of to title by 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 nominated Reno 54, after two earlier candidates withdrew because the had hired illegal aliens. The Senate must confirm Reno. She said she was ready for Tough questioning from senators. You All have been looking at me for the last 15years," she joked to reporters. T Don t think it s going to be any whose family lived on the Edge of the Everglades amid net 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 Andade 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 Laws 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. 3 Wiwi Iivo we vim vib t Jef a. Rice i i o Friday. E National policies that i e Ca b t. Despite gains aids crisis to last for generations researcher says by Christopher b. Daly know most things in Medicine Are far Hasltine was speculating and said Ti.,xi",.�_ i. A chitin a fish a r � in knew of no Sciont Fie study showman world War ii j 50 years ago today feb. 14 1.9.4.3 two German Panzer divisions attack american troops in Western 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 2i94 Days of War. W. H. Smith publishers inc. Would almanac Bookout world War ii. Bison books corp., 1981 a by Christopher b. Alythe 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 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 ii. 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 Medicine e think everything is possible. Yet we Kofrom possible Haseltine said. We re in 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 in factious doctors he said believe that test ing raises questions of counselling and confidentiality that make self testing a potentially dangerous practice. But Haseltin 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 speculating Hekne o o scientific study showing in crease in infection rates among Gay men. Our data would suggest otherwise Mcnaught said. But we arc concerned that our education efforts have been in sufficient and arc not reaching the younger generation both Gay on a global scale Haseltine said hives 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 a Sullivan of the University of Massachusetts medical Center in Worcester out lined clinical trials aimed at cutting the spread of aids from infected mothers Tonc Borns. In three trials experimental vaccines will be Given to pregnant infected women infected children and at risk will involve trying to induce passive immunity in mothers and infants. Parents defend transplant in face of criticism los Angeles a a father and Mother who donated parts of their lungs to prevent their daughter s death chastised medical ethics experts Friday for criticizing the unique transplant surgery. We tried to save our daughter. That Sall we tried to do James Sewell 55, said before he was discharged from the University of Southern California s univer sity Hospital. Arthur Caplan director of the Cente for biomedical ethics at the University of Minnesota said that asking parents to undergo such a transplant to save Achild s life was inherently coercive and that we should be worried when desperation is the reason to Start a new proce criticism of the Jan. 29 transplant that saved the life of 21-year-old Stacy Sewell is ridiculous and really ticks me off the father said. Stacy Sewell s Mother 49-year-old bar Bara Sewell said critics could not under stand How it Felt to be Able to take a child you gave birth to 21 years ago and to basically have her be reborn. It s the parents spoke during a Friday news conference before James Sewell a aircraft computer Quality control manager for Honeywell inc., returned to the couple s Home in the Mojave desert town of Quartz Hill. His wife will remain hospitalized until Early this week. The couple s daughter also will remain hospitalized for another week to 10 Days said or. Vaughn Starnes the transplant surgeon. Stacy Sewell was the first person to be implanted with two lung lobes from Liv ing related donors. Others have received a single lobe. A pair of human lungs has. A total of five lobes. Because Stacy Sewell is Petite the one lobe donated by each of her parents should act As a full set of lungs for Young woman s own lungs had been ravaged by cystic fibrosis an inherited disease that causes excessive mucous production. As a result scarring occurs Aswell As repeated lung infections. Some medical ethics experts said the surgery was highly experimental and put the parents lives at risk to provide their daughter with a longer but still Uncer Tain life Span. Starnes lung transplant patients havea 65 percent Chance of surviving at least three years. Starnes said the surgical Ruk to the parents were minimal and the decision to perform the transplant comedown to what the human spirit believes u the right thing to
