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Surgeon General outraged at untruths
WASHINGTON — Surgeon
General C. Everett Koop told the
White House AIDS commission
Tuesday he is outraged at any sugges
tion that there is no danger of the
disease being spread through vaginal
intercourse.
Acknowledging that only about 4
percent of the known AIDS cases
have resulted from heterosexual
transmission, Koop said, “We know
from the infected spouses of persons
with hemophilia that (this virus) can
be spread through normal vaginal
In Tuesday’s Daily Nebraskan
article “Survey: Ag college must
recruit,” Bryan Kliewcr was mis
quoted as saying the agriculture col
lege has no recruitment programs. He
said there is not an active recruitment
program which jointly uses students,
faculty and administrators.
In a preview for a diversity panel
in Sandoz Hall Linda Brown was
misidentifiedasa Unitarian minister.
Brown is a member of a Unitarian
church and a pharmacist at Bryan
Memorial Hospital.
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intercourse.
“What concerns me is the poten
tial for a more rapid spread... into the
general population,” he said.
“I am outraged at recent newspa
per and magazine articles stating that
there is no danger of heterosexual
transmission from normal vaginal
intercourse,” said Koop. “Although
homosexual sex and IV drug abuse
are the principal modes by which
most cases are transmitted, it is just
not true that there is no danger from
normal vaginal intercourse.
“What is unknown is the level of
danger. There is always a danger
whenever people engage in casual
sex.”
His only mention of condoms was
in citing a National Institutes of
Health study of heroin addicts that
found 93 percent of those entering
methadone treatment programs re
ported sharing needles — a prime
method of transmitting AIDS. Only
14 percent used condoms when hav
ing sex.
Panama ineligible for aid
WASHINGTON — The Reagan
administration on Tuesday added
Panama to the list of countries ineli
gible for aid because of its poor anti
drug efforts, and said 1988 would be
a boom year for cocaine production
in Peru and Colombia because of
ineffective crop-killing programs.
In its annual report on the interna
tional drug situation, the Slate De
partment found major faults with
drug programs in Mexico and Co
lombia, but stopped short of placing
them among countries that have suf
fered aid cutbacks.
The administration, citing na
tional security considerations, also
declined to list Lebanon, Paraguay
and Laos among nations not doing
enough to stop drugs.
Laos was kept off the list out of
concern that a condemnation would
harm U.S. efforts to win Laotian help
in accounting for more than 500 U.S.
servicemen listed as missing there
after the Vietnam War, said Ann
Wrobleski, assistant secretary of
state for international narcotics mat
ters.
Ms. Wrobleski told a news confer
ence that Panama was denied ccrtifi
cation this year because its military
chief and de-facto leader, Gen.
Manuel Antonio Noriega, was in
dicted on drug conspiracy charges by
a U.S. grand jury.
Panama will not lose U.S. aid as a
result of Tuesday’s action because its
assistance from the United States
already has been cut. Wrobleski said,
however, that the decision gives the
president the option of taking further
steps, such as increasing tariffs on
Panamanian goods and withdrawing
certain customs rights that make it
easier for Panama to sell products in
the United States.
Asked whether only the ouster of
Noriega would satisfy the admini
stration, she said, “I’m not at liberty
to say.”
At a White House conference on
drugs, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.,
chided administration officials, in
cluding President Reagan, for claim
ing the battle against drugs was being
won.
“If we are winning the war on
drugs, I wish the commanders would
go out and tell it to the troops in the
field," Rangel said.
Higgins’ captors to put him on ‘trial’
BEIRUT Lebanon — The kidnappers of a U.S. Marine officer said
in a statementreleased Tuesday they aredetermined toputhim on “trial”
for espionage. . .
The typewritten Arabic statement from the Organization of the
oppressed on Earth, said the “trial” would begin once the interrogation
of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins was completed.
The statement, delivered to a Western news agency, said Israel’s
crackdown on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the
Middle East trip of U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz “make us
more determined to try this criminal Higgins.”
“This will be done after the completion of the investigation to make
the world understand that any hand that reaches out to hurt (our) pride,
Islam, or the dignity of our people will be chopped off,” the statement
said.
Soldiers break into West Bank hospital
JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers broke into a Ramallah hospital
Tuesday, fired tear gas and rubber bullets, beat doctors and took away
two Palestinian boys suspected of throwing stones at troops, the hospital
director said.
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Bank town near Nablus, hospital officials in Nablus reported.
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Israel was willing to exchange i
for peace those parts of the occupied territories not crucial to its security, (
but Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has opposed trading any land for
peace. The tow men are partners and rivals in Israel’s tenuous coalition J
government
A leaflet distributed by leaders of what Arabs call “the uprising” — \
the violence that began Dec. 8 — urged Palestinians to intensify an |
economic boycott of Israel through strikes and other actions.
Dole attacks Bush with Iran-Contra ads
GOP presidential contender Bob Dole struck at George Bush in new j
TV ads Tuesday, including one declaring Bush supported arms deals
with Iran, as Pat Robertson sought Cuban-Americans’ support with new
talk about missiles in Cuba.
The biggest delegate day of the primary season is a week from
Tuesday, and the presidential candidates were swarming across the
South, where most of the 20 Super Tuesday stales arc located. Jesse
Jackson started his day in New York, but then he, too, headed South, to j
Baltimore for more campaigning.
Rep. Richard Gephardt paid a call on former President Carter, who
made it clear that with fellow Georgian Sam Nunn not in the race he had j
no plans to endorse anyone before the Democratic convention next July.
Carter also said he thought there was a 50-50 chance that no one will j
have clinched the party’s nomination before the convention.
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