European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 05, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday december 5, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 Hollywood aids activist Dies at 47 Santa Monica Calif. A Elizabeth Glaser the Hollywood wife who became a tireless aids activist after she and her two children were infected with his through a blood transfusion die saturday. She was 47. Glaser wife of former Starsky and Hutch co Star Paul Michael Glaser died at her Santa Monica Home of complications from aids said Carol Pearlman a close Friend and associate Atixhe paediatric aids foundation which Elizabeth Glaser co fount her health had deteriorated in recent months after she developed a brain infection said her physician or. Michael Gottlieb. President Clin ton called on the nation to Honor her memory by finishing the Worktop which she gave everything Elizabeth con fronted the Chal Lenge of aids in her own life an lost her beloved daughter to aids at a time when our government and our coun try were too indifferent to this illness and the people who had it Clinton said in prepared statement Glaser electrified the 1992 democratic convention in new York with her account of her family s confrontation with his the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids. I am Here tonight because my son Andi May not survive another four years of leaders who say they care but do Noth ing she said at the convention. Referring to former president Bush s slogan for volunteerism she continued a thousand Points of Light just was t enough. My House has been dark for too long.". She brought Many members of the audience to tears speaking of the death of her 7-year-qld daughter Ariel from aids a a she taught me to love when All i wanted to do was hate. She taught me to help others when All i wanted to do was in 1981, when Glaser was nine months pregnant with Ariel her first child she began bleeding and was rushed to Cedars Sinai medical Center in los an Geles where she was Given 7 pints of blood. The baby was delivered Success Glaser in 1992. Alfito three weeks later Glaser read a news paper article telling of the dangers of contracting his from blood transfusions. She said her doctor reassured her and she was not tested for the virus. Four years later Ariel became seriously ill. Hospital tests found her red blood count Low but doctors assured recovery. Four months after that doctors finally tested the family for the virus. Glaser tested positive and she had passed the virus to Ariel through her breast milk. She also had Given the virus to her second child Jake her husband was the Only family member who remained uninfected. _ Jake 10, has shown no signs that he has developed aids Pearlman said. We had been dealt the worst hand of cards any family could have gotten Elizabeth Glaser told the los Angeles times in 1989. I thought about throwing up my hands and giving up. But we decided to play that hand offensively \ y Apolla actor Paul Michael Glaser and his wife Elizabeth appear before a House budget com Mittee hearing of pc Deatric aids in 1990. Elizabeth Glaser died saturday of the disease. After Ariel died Glaser went to Washington to lobby members of Congress. A Friend arranged a White House meeting with president Reagan and his wife Nancy. Y y Glaser concluded that the administration was t doing enough made friends in Congress and got the budget for Pedi Atric aids raised from $3.3 million to $8.8 million. She became a tireless crusader. In 1988 she co founded the paediatric aids foundation and helped raise millions for care and treatment of Young aids Vic Tims. In eight months she raised $2.2 Mil lion to finance 40 research Grants. L in one of her last pubic appearances in september Glaser received a presidential citation for her efforts from first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at a new York Benefit for the paediatric aids 7 she and Paul Glaser married in 1980 after meeting while he was starring in the to show Starsky and Hutch in the late1970s. A pm Swenge survivors of Djibouti a survivors of the sunken Ocean liner Achille Laura reached port saturday and told of terror and courageous passengers who helped fight the fire and Rescue others. When pumps failed passengers joined Crew Mem Bers in bucket brigades that made a desperate attempt to slow the Advance of the fire which broke out in the engine room before Dawn wednesday. When lifeboats jammed on the starboard Side of the listing ship Pas sengers made slings out of life preservers and ropes and lowered fellow passengers into inflatable life rafts it was the passengers who organized everything said Roy Painter a 75-year-old retired Farmer from Krugerville South Africa. i i after the fire broke out passengers choking us the smoke calmly headed to their assigned Lifeboat stations on deck and patiently waited for the order to abandon ship. Y \ " about 11 hours after the fire began the passenger climbed into lifeboats to be lowered into the a. But two of the lifeboats on the starboard Side jammed an nearly dumped people into the sea. Passengers Many retirees bravely climbed rope ladders hanging Over the Side of a White hot ship to get Back on deck. When i was in the Lifeboat and it tipped i thought iwas going to fall into the sea said 67-year-old Kath Leen Phillips of Rumford England. We had to climb up the Side of the ship on lad Ders she said. Then we climbed Down a ladder to the life rafts. I Don t know How we did teen agers would be glad to do what we old people have done beamed her 69-year-old husband Herbert _ it was not As easy for others. Two elderly women falloff the ladders into the sea and had to be rescued. Most of the passengers said they never heard a alarm. Some were at the ship s Cinema watching Basic instinct when they smelled smoke. Others said the were alarmed by the smell of smoke in their Cabins and went to the deck. " ". A few were awakened by Crew members banging on their doors hours after other passengers had gathered Usi Ondeck. By by. V by a by. Two people died arid eight people were injured. One elderly Man died of an apparent heart attack. Theother also elderly died of his injuries about three hours after a falling life raft hit him on the was standing beside me when he was hit on the head said Peter Lateran of Cape town South was put in my life raft but died about three hours later. We could t get a doctor. He died in his wife slap about 50 minutes before we were rescued. T when the fire was going i thought the ship could last. But then there was no water. They were using buckets. The auxiliary pumps were dead. We had no Power and no water to tight the fire so they used Buck lets Lateran said. " it was so hopeless. The buckets were so Small Sai desme Stratfold of Johannesburg,j5outhafrica. My Only concern was that the Damn thing was to explode said her husband Robert a retired Nessman. A we were just pensioned. This was our Holiday of a lifetime Esme Stratfold said. Now it seems like Nightmare that you can t Wake up passengers said that they were told Over and Over again that the fire was being brought under control and that there was no cause for alarm. Even when the order to abandon ship came passengers said they were told it was just a ship had such a list that i was in fear it would capsize at any moment said 75-year-old Jacobus Vanwijk of South Africa. He and his wife Monica were dance instructors aboard the Achille Lauro. At one stage they told us the fire was out said Jacobus Van Wink. However apparently the heat fro the engine room set some of the lower decks on saturday night the first 69 passengers Rescue were brought to Djibouti by the liberian registered bulk Carrier Bardu. They checked into hotels where they told of their ordeal to virtually anyone who would were wearing White sweat suits provided by the shipping company. Return port a Prince Haiti a Calixt Lenotte was one of about 50,000 haitians who risked their lives at sea to escape Haiti s failing Economy and its brutal Lawless military and up lice. A. on Friday he was among 250 men and women who returned with a badge to help establish the Rule of Law in Haiti s nascent democracy. They and 750 More refugees turned cops underwent weeks of police training at the base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba and will augment the current police Force which is under going a Rocky transition from military to civilian i fled Haiti because of insecurity. I have come Back to give my country Security said Lenotte 25,a protestant pastor who had been at Guantanamo since july. I want my country to change to be orderly and disciplined peaceful and during the past three years of military Rule the army police and paramilitary thugs known As v attache s terrorized Many haitians. Returned refugees often shambles off . Coast guard Cut ters to the taunts of attache s. But Lenotte and his fellow Rookie police offi cers stepped proudly ashore Friday evidence of the sea change that has occurred in Haiti . Forces arrived in september to restore elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide. We be returned with a sentiment of reconciliation with our enemies even if they Hurt us f said Carlo Julien another recruit. Creating a haitian police Force Independent of the military and responsible to civilian authorities is seen As critical if democracy is to survive after the . Intervention Force Heads Home. By next weekend 6,000 . Soldiers will be i Haiti said a . Military spokeswoman maj. Regin Largent. Most will slay through january. _
