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Scientists claim medical 'miracle' in AIDS research
(c) 1984 Chicago Sun-Times WASHINGTON GovernftMint scientists announced Monday a medical advance hailed By .their boss as a “miracle” (he identification of a virus they saiii is responsible for the mystery disease acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The discovery rivals one announced a year ago by scientists at the world-famous Pasteur Institute in Paris, but may or may not implicate the same virus. .While Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler and her chief assistant for health affairs predicted the discovery would lead to a vaccine against AIDS within two or three years, the most likely fallout appeared to be a screening test for blood banks to use on would-be donors or blood taken from them. • No benefit is expected for the estimated 2,300 Americans already diagnosed as afflicted with the fatal syndrome or for those infected with the disease who have not yet. But, government officials said, it may now become possible to spot early
Hart begins new attack
By WILLIAM M. WELCH Associated Press Writer Gary Hart is beginning the next round of the Democratic presidential race by vigorously renewing his attack on Walter F- Mondale as beholden to special interests, while the former vice president keeps his aim on the incumbent. The third-place candidate, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, put gome minds at ease among Democratic Party leaders Monday when he said he planned no walkout at the national convention this summer even though he says the party’s delegate rules are skewed against him. Hart and Mondale are both back campaigning after an Easter break and were converging today in Cleveland, where 154 delegates are at stake
4 dead in riots over food prices
: * SANTO DOMINGO, ' Dominican Republic (AP) ' Police opened fire with bullets arid tear gas bombs on protesters angry over govern-ment-ordered price increases. ’At least four people were killed arid 100 injured. * Police reported about 300 arrests as riots broke out in at 1 least five cities during the protests Monday, which coincided with a call by businessmen for a 24-hour general strike. • Rioters set fire to three supermarkets and three furniture "Stores in the capital’s old district and smashed windows in' scores of other stores in looting sprees. Police armed with automatic weapons and tear gas grenades patrolled the streets today to try to prevent any new outbreak of violence in this Caribbean
Soviet forces said massing for attack
NEW DELHI, India (AP) Soviet forces have begun a spring offensive against an Afghan rebel stronghold, massing troops in the region and staging bombing raids to retaliate for destruction of a strategic bridge, Western diplomats said today. in Washington, U S. government sources also reported that an offensive was under way. They said the rebels, who are ♦rving to topple the Sovietinstalled regime in Afghanistan, dealt a severe blow to the Soviets’ supply line by blowing up the bridge. A Western diplomat, Speaking in New Delhi on con-
AIDS cases while the disease is still treatable. No such early treatment is currently available. Heckler, suffering from laryngitis that prevented her reading the full six-page text of a prepared statement, told a capacity crowd of reporters at HHS’ headquarters auditorium that an anti-AIDS campaign launched 10 months ago “has hit the target only two or three rings away from the bullseye.” Last June 14, in a speech to the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Heckler identified the conquest of AIDS as the No. 1 health priority of the Reagan administration. Principal credit for detecting,
in Ohio’s May 8 primary. Neither bothered to campaign in Vermont, where caucuses today will determine 13 delegates and where Hart overwhelmingly won a non-binding primary in March. Hart’s fresh verbal assault on Mondale followed a weekend strategy session with his advisers on how to reverse his campaign’s slump and cut into Mondale’s nearly two-to-one lead in delegates. “The incumbent Republican president and the present Democratic front-runner are both beholden to interest groups trying to buy themselves an exemption from the common burden,” Hart told an audience of about 900 people at the University of Texas at Austin. “We cannot defeat an incumbent president in thrall to
nation’s capital. The unrest is seen as President Salvador Jorge Blanco’s toughest challenge since taking office 20 months ago. To meet the terms of a $599 million loan from the International Monetary Fund, he last week ordered a 200 percent increase in prices of all imported goods, including medicine, and also raised prices of domestic foodstuffs by varying levels. The public reacted when the long Easter weekend ended. Gangs of youths set up barricades of burning tires and pelted police with stones. Police responded first with tear gas and then gunfire. Police said three men and a woman were killed. A Dominican radio station said a policeman also was shot and killed, but police would not confirm the report.
dition he not be identified by name or nationality, said Soviet aircraft began high-altitude bombing of the Panjsher Valley on Saturday. He said Soviet troops and equipment are massed in the area of Panjsher. The U.S. sources in Washington, speaking Monday on condition they not be identified, cited one estimate that up to 20,000 Soviet troops might be involved in the new offensive. They said 60 to 80 helicopter gunships and hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles have been readied for what was shaping up as the biggest campaign of the fouryear war.
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isolating and mass-producing the virus went to Dr. Robert C. Gallo, director of a tumor cell biology laboratory at the National Cancer Institute. Gallo said the virus is of a type linked to leukemia-like diseases and known asHTLV-111. “The etiology (cause) of AIDS is fairly clear now, Gallo said. He denied any rivalry or controversy with French researchers who last year identified an AIDS virus. “If what they identified in (the journal) Science a year ago is the same as what we now have produced more than 50 isolates of and in mass production and detailed characterization ... I certainly will say so and I will say so with them,”
the privileged and the powerful by nominating a Democratic candidate in debt to interest group politics,” he said. “We cannot be content with a choice between a president so reckless that he seems ready to take any risk and a candidate so cautious that he offers no real hope of change.” And in a line included in the text of Hart’s speech, but which he omitted in the delivery: “I run because I do not think America should be left with a bleak choice between two failed pasts.” Hart also focused on a second issue, the money special interest groups are giving to socalled independent delegate committees working on behalf but legally apart from Mondale’s campaign. Hart has filed a complaint with the
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Gallo said. Assistant HHS Secretary Edward N. Brandt Jr., head of the U.S. Public Health Service and the nation’s senior physician, skirted the question of how a vaccine against a fatal disease could be tested for safety in such a short period as two or three years. He insisted, however, that no such vaccine will be marketed until safety is proved. Brandt and Heckler both said “a blood test for AIDS” is now within reach and should be available within about six months. An effective screening tool of this nature might eliminate the danger of accidental AIDS infection of transfusion recipients.
Federal Election Commission accusing Mondale of using the committees to evade federal spending limits. Texas’ May 5 caucuses are crucial for Hart, who has said he is looking to the West to reverse Mondale’s pattern of victories set in the industrial Northeast. But a Dallas Morning NewsGallup Poll survey of Texans conducted April 14-17 said Hart trailed Mondale 37 percent to 30 percent among eligible voters and trailed 44-29 among those likely to attend the caucuses. Mondale, who planned appearances in Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee today, picked up a string of new endorsements Monday while blasting Reagan for being “disinterested, if not hostile, to the needs of the cities.”
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Providence mayor will resign after his assault conviction
c. 1984 N.Y. Times PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Mayor Vincent A. Cianci JR. SAID Monday that he would resign Wednesday. He made the statement at a news conference hours after he was given a fiveyear suspended sentence on assault charges. The sentence makes the mayor a convicted felon. The Providence City Charter bars felons from holding office. Members of the City Council met Monday and scheduled an emergency meeting for Wednesday to declare the mayor’s office vacant and set a date for a special election to fill it. Until then, Joseph R. Paolino Jr., president of the City Council, will serve as acting mayor. Also Monday, in a three-line letter that gave no reason, Sanford H. Gorodetsky, the public safety commissioner, dismissed Police Chief Anthony
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five years in prison for assault with a dangerous weapon, a felony, and one year in prison for simple assault. Bourcier suspended the sentences and put the mayor on probation for five years on the felony charge and one year on the lesser charge. The sentences are to run concurrently. The state had asked Bourcier to sentence the mayor to three years in prison and order him to obtain psychiatric counseling. In proceedings televised by all three network affiliates here, the mayor said he was sorry for assaulting DeLeo, a man who the mayor said had been “a friend for 15 years.” “If there was a day in my life I could live over again,” he said, “it would be March 20, 1983,” the day the assault oc curred in the mayor’s rented Providence carriage house.
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Judge sets trials for filmmakers LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge’s decision that three filmmakers should stand trial in the deaths of three actors on the set of the movie “Twilight Zone” could set a dangerous precedent that would send “thousands of innocent people” to jail, a defense attorney says. But Municipal Court Judge Brian Crahan’s ruling Monday in the deaths of Vic Morrow and two children, killed when a helicopter crashed amid special effects explosions, won praise from a lawyer for the family of one of the victims. “There are certain limits beyond which none of us have the right to go for reality and authenticity. Just because we are portraying the war doesn’t mean we have to kill anybody,” said attorney Jerome Berchin, who has sued the moviemakers and Warner Bros, for S2OO million in the death of Renee Chen, 6. Crahan ordered director John Landis, special effects coordinator Paul Stewart and helicopter pilot Dorcey Wingo to stand trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of Morrow, 53, Renee Chen, and Myca Dinh Le, 7. However, the judge dismissed charges against two other filmmakers, associate producer George Folsey and unit production chief Dan Allingham. The deaths occurred July 23, 1982, when the helicopter crashed on the three actors during filming of a Vietnam War scene about 40 miles north of Los Angeles. The scene was being filmed for the first of four segments that made up “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” which was released last summer. The ruling was believed to be the first time a filmmaker has been ordered to stand trial for a movie-set death.
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