European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world sunday. November 21,1993 hepatitis allegation adds to German blood scandal Hamburg Germany a a scandal Over tainted blood spread saturday with a report that Ger Man red Cross officials knowingly distributed blood suspected of being contaminated with the virus that causes hepatitis. The report in Der Spiegel Magazine said employees of the red Cross Mannheim blood donation Center in 1991 manipulated ambiguous test results and shipped to hospitals More than 100 lots of potentially contaminated mood. The report gave no indication that anyone had Bee infected but faulted the red Cross for allowing the blood to remain in circulation after an internal report on the Sloppy testing. The red Cross is one of Many blood suppliers i Germany where donations and preparation of blood products frequently Are handled by private firms. Hepatitis b antibodies in blood Are a potential signal of his infection because the two viruses frequently have affected the same population groups. Homosexuals drug users and Haemophiliacs. The human immunodeficiency virus causes aids. A report Early last month that officials had cover Dup reported his infection through blood transfusions set off a National panic about Germany s blood Supply. Two companies were shut Down after officials said they had distributed blood tainted with his. Millions of germans who got blood transfusions Over the Pas decade were urged to undergo blood tests. Doctors associations have accused the government of undue alarm Over the threat of his infection through transfusions which they put at one in a Mil lion. Officials have confirmed six cases of aids stemming from blood products supplied by the two companies. Nigerian officials vow to fight coup Lagos Nigeria a elected senators dismissed by Nigeria s military Leader vowed saturday to remain in office and urged nigerians to join them in opposing the country s new dictatorship. " a statement signed by All 67 senators did not say How they planned to organic resistance to Gen. Sani Aba Cha who announced thursday that he was dissolving All democratic institutions in Africa s most populous  ousted the civilian government of Ernest Shockan a Day earlier. The military must know that they Are not armed to treat nigerians and Nigeria like a conquered people and an occupied territory the senators said but elsewhere in the country elected governors inthe country s 30 states have been turning their offices Over to military commanders without  officials meanwhile have gone into hiding. Several prominent activists were reluctant to criticize the government noting a rash of disruptions in the Telephone service since Abaca took Power. In a sign of splits within the military state run radio Nigeria reported an imminent military shakeup to Bol Ster the Power of Abaca whose Rule follows months of unrest after Gen. Ibrahim Baban Gida annulled presidential elections in june. In his first speech after assuming Power Abaca announced that he was dissolving 30 state governments the Federal legislature and All local councils As Well As Banning All political activity. He also declared that he would run the country Ashead of a military Council and organize a constitutional conference to devise a new democratic system. Nigerians shocked by the magnitude of his move were sceptical of his promises of democracy. They smacked of similar pledges by a string of other general who have run the country for 23 of the 33 years since Independence from Britain. Snow soldiers stymie deliveries of Aid in Bosnia Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a heavy Snow restricted the in. Airlift into Sarajevo on saturday while Bosnia s warring Side continued to Block Relief efforts on the ground. It. Col. Bill Altai an a spokesman for , described the Lack of supplies As r very  in Sarajevo food has been arriving Only by Airlift which cannot Supply All of the City s needs. Only two Relief planes were Able to land sat urday during heavy snowfall in the bosnian Capi Tal. At least 15 . Flights bring in food an supplies on most Days. Aikman said serbs continued to Block convoys from reaching the surrounded Muslim enclaves of Zepa and Gorade in Eastern Bosnia. Croatian militiamen were still barring traffic except Road Crews from two key Supply routes in Centra Bosnia he said. Leaders of the Muslim led bosnian govern ment and bosnian serbian and croatian nationalists agreed thursday in Geneva to end harassment of Relief operations. On Friday . Officials in new York announced that Aid convoys in Central Bosnia were resuming. 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