University Daily Kansan, September 9, 1983
Page 11
Doctors speculate on spread of AIDS
By United Press International
CHICAGO — AIDS, a deadly disease that is spread mostly through contact between male homosexuals, also may be spread either by intimate heterosexual contact or by sexual interaction with someone in a high-risk group, doctors reported yesterday.
Groups at highest risk for contracting Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a breakdown of the body's immune system, are male homosexuals, intravenous drug users, hemophiliacs and Haitians.
Arthur E. Pitchenck and Margaret A. Fischl of the University of Miami and Thomas J. Spira of Atlanta's Center for Disease Control said heterosexual transmission may provide a vector for the spread of AIDS to low-risk populations."
In the Journal of the American Medical Association, the doctors reported on two AIDS patients who were not in the high-risk groups.
ONE WAS a 30-year-old black woman, the wife of an intravenous drug
user. The drug abuser may have been an asymptomatic carrier of AIDS and may have transmitted the disease to his low-risk wife through sexual intercourse, the doctors said.
The other patient was a 30-year-old white man who had no predisposition to AIDS except for minimal contact with a homosexual brother who did not suffer from AIDS.
It is likely that the two patients that we have described, and at least some of the other low-risk patients reported to the CDC,'contracted AIDS directly through intimate heterosexual contact or indirectly with persons in a
The doctors said that they interviewed family members of both the AIDS victims before reaching their conclusions.
"Furthermore, the degree of risk may not have been appreciated because male bisexuality and that of HIV-positive women and AIDS transmitters may be asymptomatic."
or indirectly with persons in a high-rise group," the doctors wrote.
Of all AIDS cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control, 4 percent are patients with no known risk factors.
Many are in the sexually active age range.
IN OTHER Journal articles, Harry L.achim of Leannox Hill Hospital, New York, and a study of lymph-node infections in homosexual men suggested a "lymphotropic agent" — probably a virus caused AIDS as a result of its destructive effect on certain populations of lymphoid cells.
lations of lymphoma
loach*m also said generalized
lymphadenopathy, only the swelling of
lymph nodes, might not only be a
precursor of AIDS but also might
provide evidence for a common in-
fectious cause.
If the generalized lymphadenopathy is induced by a virus and leads to AIDS, the CDC documented cases may be only a small portion of persons exposed to the virus, he said.
Russell K. Brynes of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta found evidence that cellular structure of the lymph node was a predictor of the outcome in patients with generalized lymphadenopathy.
Czech family escapes in homemade balloon
By United Press International
VIENNA. Austria — A Czechoslovakian bicycle racer, his wife and two children defied communist border guards and escaped over the frontier into Austria aboard a homemade hot air balloon, officials said yesterday.
Police said Czech border guards fired flares as the balloon, powered by a bottled gas heater and made of rainbow-hudered, rubberized cloth, floated over them through midnight darkness at a height of 6,000 feet.
Austrian radio quoted the refugees as
saying their 50-minute flight went off "completely without a hitch."
The refugees were identified as Robert Hutry, 38, a former member of the Czechoslovakian cycle racing team, his wife Jana, 36, daughter Jana, 14, and son Karel Bratislava just across the Danube River from Austria.
Austrian radio said Hutyra was a construction engineer who cycled in his spare time and flew hot air balloons as a hobby.
from the Czechoslovakian frontier. Other officials said the family was taken yesterday morning to see relatives in the Vorarlberg province of western Austria.
An Interior Ministry spokesman said Hutryas applied for political asylum as soon as they landed near the northeastern town of Falkenstein a few miles
"They arrived healthy, safe and sound after a smooth landing," the Interior Ministry spokesman said.
"Their request for asylum will almost certainly be accepted, but it still has to be fully processed."
Austrian officials said the escape had been planned for two years. It was believed to be the first such flight from Eastern Europe in a homemade hot air balloon since a group of East Germans made a similar escape in 1979.
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Reagan approves removal of sexist wording
He also overruled Attorney General William French Smith, who had recommended immediate changes in certain laws that protect women so they would conform with strict equality principles.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan yesterday endorsed the removal of existx wording from a variety of federal laws, including the Mann Act, but rejected changes such as requiring him to be authorized the draft or allowing them in combat.
By United Press International
With fanfare inspired by concern over Reagan's rating with women voters, the White House released the third quarterly report of a Justice Department task force on women's rights and a memo from Smith University to "the sincerely of our efforts" to eliminate sex discrimination
The report included recommended changes in the wording of 63 laws not previously identified as gender-based.
Fort-seven of those changes would be added to a pending bill by Sen. Bob Rekke, R-Kan, whose wife, Elizabeth, two women in Reagan's Cabinet.
SIXTEEN OTHER laws also should be changed, apparently through other legislation, Smith said, leaving the draft and combat status of women untouched.
The attorney general said the draft and combat exclusions "reflect very fundamental and reasoned decisions to distinguish between women and men." We should not recommend amendments that would nationwide debate over the extent to which we want to obliterate all distinctions between the sexes."
The Dole bill would change the wording of 51 other gender-biased laws in addition to those recommended by the administration yesterday. It is scheduled for committee consideration next week.
"Although many of these laws are obscure and somewhat inconsequential, their continued existence in some areas may affect some women," Smith said.
AMONG THE laws recommended for revision is the Mann Act, which prohibits transportation across state lines "of any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution, bacchery or other immoral purposes."
The law has come under fire in Congress previously for putting the burden of the law on the male partner of a couple who drive from one jurisdiction to another and have consenting sexual relations.
Many laws the administration wants to change as part of the Dole bill use words such as "widow" and "spouse," instead of "spouse" and "parent."
Smith's memorandum said further study was needed on legislation to
eliminate sex distinctions in insurance classifications, which "would have dramatic practical, legal and economic ramifications which may be undesirable and, in some respects, disadvantageous to women."
Feminist groups back legislation that would bar insurance companies from denying equal benefits to women. The insurance industry says the differential is needed because women live longer than men. Changing the law would force women to pay higher premiums.
REAGAN OVERRULED Smith and kept administration backing for laws that allow military colleges to bar women from military training, allow the military to set different lengths of service for men and women before retirement, require a prescription by the director of the Women's Bureau and require that one of eight national officers of AMVETS be a woman.
Smith's memorandum, which replaced Reagan's assertion that he has done more for women than the former President Jimmy Carter did, began by recognizing criticism of an alleged activity in the interests and rights of women.
"It is indeed ironic that so many of our achievements have gone unnoticed, while certain unfortunate press exchanges have been magnified into perceived substantive hostility to women's rights," he said.
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