European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes thursday december 16,1993 snowy scene in sierras Public works employees Brave a Winter storm to Clear 16 inches of Snow had fallen above 7,000 feet the National roads tuesday near South Lake Tahoe Calif More than weather service said. Sec weather details on Pagels. Unsafe sex by crack smokers raises aids risk study says Washington f apr women who smoke crack cocaine show a High rate of promiscuity increasing their risk of his infection new research snows. Intravenous drug users who share Needles Are in greater danger of contracting the aids virus but the risk to crack smokers a particularly women a Isnit far behind because they Are Likely to have frequent unsafe sex scientists reported tuesday a Shiv prevention programs that target crack smokers especially women Are needed Quot said or. Brian Edlin of the Federal centers for disease control and prevention a there is an increasing prevalence of his among crack smoking women., that is very  although the majority of aids patients still Are men the fatal disease is increasing almost four times As fast among women. And they Are passing the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids to their babies the cd recorded a 16.6 percent jump in new cases among infants and toddlers last year. Disturbed by those numbers the cd is trying to discover Why despite Safe sex education aimed at women heterosexual Contact has overtaken i trave among those who had never used in drugs male crack smokers were about 1 i times As Likely to have had More than 20 sexual partners or to sell sex than those who did not smoke crack. But female crack smokers were six times As Likely As nonusers to have had More than 20 sexual partners 15 times As Likely to sell sex and four times As Likely to have syphilis or other genital diseases. In another development researchers at the conference also reported that a Haemophilia a who passed the aids virus to his younger brother probably Fay sharing a razor actually gave the teen Ager two strains of the disease. A this does no to have implications for patients Quot said or. Harold Jaffe of the cd. A but it makes the Case interesting academically. Testing for More than one Strain in transmission Isnit routinely  two weeks ago the cd confirmed that the older Ltd the Youngs first details of the Case at the aids meeting. Brother infected the or the Agency released the Nous drug use As the primary cause of infection in women. The crack study presented at an aids conference tuesday shows non in drugs Are one reason in the crack study the cd recruited 2,323 people Ages is to 29 from inner City neighbourhoods in new York Miami and san Francisco and studied them for almost two years. The presence of two strains of aids does no to affect the youth s prognosis but it complicated matters when doctors tried to determine How he got the virus. The Brothers live with a Haemophilia a Uncle. He and his 24wear-Otd Nephew were diagnosed with his in 1985. Both got the virus from tainted blood which was hot tested for his until that year. The 19-year-old brother got i v in 1991. Spreading his through such casual Contact is rare the cd emphasized 12 . Police officers arrested in operation Washington a twelve police officers were arrested for alleged bribery and aug conspiracy tuesday in an undercover Fri sting after an agent posed As a Miami narcotics dealer. The 12 District of Columbia policemen protected cocaine shipments coming into the City by blocking searches by fellow officers according to an indictment resulting from the Fri s operation broken Faith a these officers were witling to join forces with the purveyors of this misery for the basest of reasons to fatten their own wallets a said . Attorney Eric Holder. Bribes totalled $80,000, he said. On three occasions officers provided Protection for cocaine shipments to and from Washington and gave inside police information to the undercover Federal agents the indictment stated. No drugs were Ever distributed As a result of the operation Holder said. The probe began in july 1992 when one of the 12 officers allegedly bragged of accepting bribes to a drug dealer Friend Holder said. The drug dealer later introduced the officer to his a Miami Man a an alleged major narcotics dealer who was in fact an Fri agent. One of the officers provided armed Protection to the undercover agent during deliveries of Large amounts of Cash that the officer was told were related to cocaine trafficking. Eleven of the officers were arrested after being called to a downtown hotel to meet with people they believed were drug dealers. Once inside they were  cancer Washington a the nations health Secretary called on experts tuesday to devise a strategy to cure and prevent breast cancer a disease that a trips at the very soul of  a Donna e. Shalala the Secretary of health and human services made the Appeal in an address at the opening session of a conference on breast cancer at the National institutes of health Shalala urged experts at the meeting to draw up a plan that will give direction to president Clinton to Congress and to Federal decision makers for a renewed War against breast cancer. A the plan must address Why the incidence of breast cancer is steadily rising and what action we must take to detect breast cancer earlier when we have a better Chance of saving lives Quot she said. The conference fulfils a pledge made by Clinton in october. A total of 145 people from professional associations universities drug companies and minority and advocacy groups Are attending the two Day meeting by invitation. Breast cancer strikes about one woman in eight Over a lifetime and kills about 46,000 women a year. A everyone in this room understands that this disease rips at the Yeiyu soul of women Quot Shalala said. A and at the souls of our husbands our children our parents our Sisters and Brothers and our  committees of the conference will draw up recommendations for a final report to be delivered to the department of health and human services in six weeks Shalala said. T Shalala said the report will influence research funding elements of the Clinton a health plan and education efforts. It also will help Point the direction that research should take she said Shalala asked that the plan consider the following elements a a genetic counselling program because a tendency toward breast cancer can be inherited. Researchers Are searching for a breast cancer Gene. A a Strong education program aimed at prevention and Early detection. She Saida 1990 study showed that during a two year period Only 43 percent of women age 50 or older received mammograms an a Ray technique for detecting breast cancer. A Basic research into the environmental influences on breast cancer. Hormones and pesticides Are among factors suggested As the cause of the disease. A ways of speeding research discoveries into clinical treatment. A suggestions for developing screening tests that detect the disease More accurately particularly in younger women. Shalala also summarized what she called a somewhat ambiguous National cancer Institute recommendation last week on mammography screening. She said the recommendation is for annual mammography is for All women older than 50 and for women who Are in a High risk category such As those with a Mother or sister no has had breast cancer. Other women May want to get mammography is As a personal precautionary Choice or on a doctors recommendation she said. The conference Cost $175,000 in Federal funds officials said. Gunman kills 4 workers at Colorado restaurant Aurora Colo. A r a gunman fatally shot four employees at a pizza restaurant just after it closed tuesday night police said. A fifth was wounded. Police had not made any arrests wednesday morning but said they were looking for a former employee described As a possible suspect. Aurora police spokeswoman Mary Schumacher said the shooting at the Chuck e cheese restaurant in a suburban Denver shopping Center did not appear to be a robbery or related to a gang. Margaret Kollberg 50, who was in the restaurant office at the time of the shooting died at the scene. Colleen of Connor 17, Sylvia Crowell 19, and Benjamin Grant 17, died wednesday morn a a a a f i a Vii  Mvi ing. Bobby Stephens 20, a dishwasher fled after being shot and knocked on the doors of nearby a apartments in an Effort to Alert police