European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Saturday july 16,1994 in Good hands an emergency medical technician checks out Danny Mooney after the frightened 14-month-old was thrown from his Mother s Auto during a carjacking according to police in Boston Danny s Mother Anne Marie Mooney left pulled her son away from one of the cards tires As the culprit fled the scene during the theft wednesday. Herpes Medicine found to boost aids survival Baltimore a a drug used to treat fever blisters and related infections from the herpes simplex virus can significantly prolong the lives of his infected patients already taking the drug at according to a new study. Test subjects using at who also took acyclovir after developing aids had their risk of dying decreased by 44 percent according to a study published in Friday s Issue of the annals of internal Medicine. A a it a not a cure but its a significant Advance a said or. Neil . Graham associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins school of Public health an author of the paper. A a it a the first evidence we be had that the combination of anti viral drugs can work together to defeat his a Graham said. The human immunodeficiency virus causes aids. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins medical institutions Northwestern University in Illinois the University of Pittsburgh and the Albany . Medical Center found that the longer acyclovir was used without interruption the More strongly it helped to increase survival. Acyclovir however did not delay the fresh assistance offered to voters living overseas Washington a Federal authorities Are telling volunteers How to help get out the vote when the voters Are out of the country. But they also warn that false information could land advisers in jail for five  a guidelines issued by the Federal voting assistance program have been delivered All Over the world Phyllis Taylor head of the office said in an interview a persons who help should provide procedural assistance Only a the guidelines say. A. ,. A a a estimates of eligible voters. Outside . Borders Range up to 6 million including members of the armed forces and their families a More potential voters than in Many of the 50 states. The voting assistance office is part of the department of defense but helps civilians As Well. Many potential voters abroad do not cast ballots because they do not know How to get them. Others worry that if they try they May be hit by local taxes in Home states where they have not lived for Many years Taylor said her office is making a special Effort this year. Its Survey of the 1992 election showed a drop to 31 percent in the turnout of eligible voters abroad from 38 percent in 1988. Taylor a office is sponsoring an a overseas citizens voters week beginning sept. 5 and trying to get diplomats organizations and Ordinary citizens to take part. It published a list of toll free Telephone numbers in 48 countries from Antigua to Vatican City where voters can get official information. The guidelines note that fines and a five year prison sentence May be imposed for a series of offences such As attempting to deprive an american of the right to vote taking payment for registering a voter or tabulating ballots known to be  d Lonetree May face parole Board soon Onset of aids in men who were his positive. A not Only docs the study suggest that acyclovir prolongs survival in aids patients but the dose needed appears to be no More than that required to suppress a herpes simplex infection a said or. Daniel Stein director of the clinical pharmacology studies unit at Albany medical Center and senior author of the paper. The. Study included 786 his positive men who began taking at before being diagnosed with aids. Of those 488 subsequently took the acyclovir either to treat herpes infections or to treat aids or hive and 242 used acyclovir Only to treat aids of his infection. For men who started acyclovir one year after developing aids 93.9 percent survived for two years compared with 86.2 percent who never used acyclovir. For sicker patients the results were More dramatic. Men who started acyclovir Only after their cd4 cells a Type of White blood cell fell below 50 cells per Millilitre a meaning that their immune systems were severely impaired a had two year survival rates of 69.8 percent compared with 31.4 percent among those who never used the drug. Quantico a. A Clayton j. Lonetree the first Marine Ever convicted of spying against the United states he came eligible for parole this week when a general approved a reduction in his sentence. It. Gen. Charles c. Krulak commander of the Quantico Marine base approved a military judges decision in october to reduce Lonetree a 25-year sentence to 20 years. A commander must review the Deci Sious of military judges Lonetree 31, was an embassy guard in Moscow in the Early 1980s when he met a soviet translator Violetta Sanni and fell in love. She introduced him to a soviet agent she called a Uncle Sasha a Lonetree testified at his 1987 court martial. After his 1986 arrest Lonetree confessed to passing blueprints of the embassy building and other documents to Uncle Sasha he also provided names of american intelligence agents in Vienna Austria. Lonetree was initially sentenced to 30 years in prison. The Marine corps Cut that to 25 years when Lonetree cooperated with . Espionage investigations. The military judge in october who recommended the reduction to 20 years found Lonetree a original attorneys May not have done enough to help him failing to introduce evidence about his troubled childhood or not showing that the information Lonetree passed May have been insignificant. The Shorter sentence Means Lonetree is eligible for parole from the military prison at fort Leavenworth kan., because he has already served a third of the 20-Ycar term. His new attorney Lee Call Garer did no to know when a parole Board might consider Lonetree a release. Krulak also suspended five years of the new 20-year sentence effectively reducing Lonetree a prison sentence to 15 a i f 10 a a a file Marine sgt. Clayton j. Lonetree appears at Virginia a Quantico Marine base in this 1987 photo. Years. That change would be significant Only if Lonetree is denied parole. Krulak did not change the rest of Lonetree a sentence a a reduction in rank from sergeant to private and a dishonourable discharge