European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday july 24, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5 Dod steers pro environment course Washington a Sherri was Serman Goodman has the imposing task of improving v the environmental con science of one of the nation s largest pol Luters the department of  the new Deputy undersecretary of defense for environmental Security is talking about reducing the Navy s plastic waste. Speeding the cleanup of closed Mili tary bases. And protecting endangered species on the 25 million acres of Federal land the Pentagon controls. Goodman acknowledged that the department has not had a shining record. The military does have a legacy of environmental contamination she said in an interview thursday. There s no ques Tion that the military can do a better Job of cleanup. We need to show we can achieve  there Are signs that the times Are changing. Goodman has announced that the Pentagon is dropping its opposition to legislation that would create a vast protected wilderness area in the califor Nia desert where the military has five major  Security is vital to National Security she told a congressional committee. Goodman is a former environmental attorney in Boston who earlier worked for the majority staff of the Senate armed services committee. She Heads a new Pentagon office of about 60 people an expanded version of an earlier environmental division led by a lower Rankin official. V the military often is accused of insensitivity to the environment and is criticized for not acting until lawsuits refiled or political pressure is applied. One of Goodman s first efforts has been to mend fences with the Environ mental Protection Agency the regulator Agency that frequently has crossed swords with the  acrimony which had started to ease in recent years will be a thing of the past in the Clinton administration Good Man  be tried to forge a partnership with Epa including giving a joint statement to Congress with an Epa official on base closings she said. She plans to enhance the cooperation by putting a Pentagon environmental representative in each of the Epa s 10 regional offices. Tad Mccall Epa s acting Deputy administrator for Federal facilities enforce ment said such a move is a refreshing change because they really see them selves As an integral part of accomplishing an administration s environmental  Goodman s Early emphasis is of clean ing up about 1,800 past and present Mili tary Sites where fuels solvents and other contaminants have created a $25 billion hazardous waste problem. A major focus is on the closing an conversion of military bases. The administration has allocated 40 percent of the$5 billion in Community assistance for environmental cleanup. Each of the 129bases being closed will have a team that will Speed cleanup and provide Environ mental Impact statements. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago july 24,1983 president Rea Gan approved a plan for a substantial increase in . Military involve ment in Central America and preparations for a possible limited blockade of Nicaragua officials said. 20 years ago jury 24,1973 president Nixon formally refused requests by the Senate watergate committee and the special watergate prosecutor for tape recordings of personal conventions about the wiretapping scandal. 30 years ago july 24,1963 the United states Britain and the soviet Union completed negotiations on a partial nuclear test ban agreement the Deal was expected to be initiated within a Day. 40 years ago july 24,1953 persistent re ports circulated in p Panmunjom Korea that the allies and the communists could sign a korean Armi Stice within three Days ending three years of fighting. 50 years ago july 24,1943 . B-24 liberators based in Australia flew 2,400 Miles round trip to blast the Japa Nese naval base at so Rabaya in Java dispatches from Gen. Douglas Macarthur s Headquarters said. World War ii 50 years ago today july 24 1943 some 780 British bombers rain 2,300 tons of bombs on the port of Hamburg As much As the total of the five biggest German air raids on London Germany reports 20,000 people killed and 60.000 wounded. . Troops capture Cefalu on Sicily s North coast. In the Pacific american forces prepare a big attack toward Munda Airfield on new Georgia. Source 2�94 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. World manac Book of world wot ii. Bison books corp. 1981 sex surpasses use As conduit in . Women Atlanta a for the first time More . Women were infected with the aids virus through sex than through drug Needles last year officials say. Acid while the vast majority of patient still Are men the fatal disease is increasing almost four times As fast Amon women the centers for disease control and prevention said thursday. It s a continuing evolution of the Epi Demic said or. John Ward the centers chief of aids  need to know their sex partners and they need to know the drug and sex practices of that partner so they can. Make a More informed decision about whether to have sex with that  about 47,095 new aids cases were diagnosed in the United states last year a 3.5 percent increase from the 45,499cases reported in 1991. New cases among females 6,642 increased 9.8 percent. That increase com pares with a 2.5 percent Rise among males who accounted for 40,453 cases. Fifty percent of the new female aids cases were caused by heterosexual con tact compared with 44 percent from intravenous drug abuse Ward said. Still about 57 percent of the women infected heterosexually reported having had sex with a drug user making drug san indirect threat the cd said. The cd expects the trends to continue because All aids cases from Hetero sexual Contact increased 17.1 percent Las year while those blamed on tainted Needles increased Only 1 percent. Increased aids in women the biggest jump in new aids cases last year was among women who were infected More through sex than drug use. Cam of aids in 20-29-Yetr-Oklwomtn attributed to drug injection and  Contact 25 20 15 10 in of aids in 2049b o4dwoman, by nce eth Nefty Black non-his0anic my hispanic. Imp White Hon his pane 1961 1989 1990 1991 6t92 6t89 8t90 6rt1 6t92 Flate is number per 100.000 women score centers Lor disease control and prevention More than half of 1992 s new female aids patients lived in 10 metropolitan areas with 1,581 concentrated in Newyork City. Homosexual and bisexual men the first group hit by his a decade ago still account for most new diagnoses. But new cases in that group decreased 1.1 percent last year the cd said. The slowing trend in this population reflects the prevention efforts in these communities Ward said. It shows that yes you can have prevention programs that teach or urge or motivate people to change their behaviour and reduce their ? it was just a matter of time before sex ap/b4s became women s biggest aids risk said David Kirby of the american foundation for aids research. Not Only do they have sex with i drug users but with bisexual men he said adding that bisexuality is More Prev Alent in the United states than is commonly  underscores the tremendous need for highly specific education aimed at sexually Active women Kirby said. We have to help them empower them selves so they re Able to negotiate having safer sex with their  april the cd had recorded 289,320 cases of aids in the unite states since 1981. First Black in army to become four Star general Dies at 64 Washington a Gen. Rosco Robinson jr., a distinguished combat commander and the first Black to become four Star general in the army died thursday of leukaemia. He was 64. Robinson died at Walter Reed army medical Hospital in Washington the army  retired from the army in october 1985 after serving his last assign ment As a . Representative to the North Atlantic treaty organization military committee. Shortly after graduation from the .military Academy in 1951, he saw action in the korean War and was a battalion commander in  awards and decorations included the distinguished service medal Silverstar with Oak Leaf Cluster legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf clusters distinguished flying Cross and Bronze Star. His posts included Deputy chief of staff for logistics in Viet Nam commanding general of the 82nd airborne div in fort Bragg n.c., and commanding general of in corps in Japan. Robinson a St. Louis native earned a master s degree in International relations atthe University of Pittsburgh. He is survived by his wife the forme Mildred e. Sims of Falls Church a. Daughter Carol Robinson Royal of Burke a. And son capt. Bruce e. Rob Inson who is stationed at the Pentagon. Robinson will be buried at Arlington National cemetery. Robinson Man convicted in fatal rampage Nap a Calif. A a Manas convicted thursday of killing four people and wounding 10others in an attack at his former High school that prosecutors said was carried out in retribution for failing Grade. Eric Houston 22, sat motionless at the defense table As the Napa county jury s verdicts were read. If the jury finds that Houston was sane at the time of the ram Page he could be sentenced to die. The sanity phase of the trial is expected to be held next week. On May 1, 1992, Houston held 85 people hostage at Lindhurst High school in Olivehurst a farm ing Community about 40 mile North of Sacramento