Monday, Jan. 21, 1986
Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
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English Channel link discussed
United Press International
LILLE, France — Almost 200 years after Napoleon proposed it, President Francois Mitterrand and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher meet today to choose a method of spanning the English Channel, which separates their nations.
Under review are four multibillion-dollar projects, which would utilize railroads or roads and travel over or under the channel — the waterway that separates Britain geographically and culturally from the European mainland.
The two leaders will meet in the northern city of Lille to discuss the final recommendations of their transport ministers. Then Mitterrand and Thatcher are to appear at a news conference to announce their decision, making a reality of a proposal Napoleon voiced in 1802 as a way to invade England.
"I hope the French have given up that aspiration," a British
dinlomat inked
None of the proposed projects would be operating before 1993.
The only way to cross the channel now is by ferry, an often stormy 75-minute trip. Whatever the method, the new link would probably spell doom for 40,000 ferry workers in the French port of Calais and the English port of Dover, who on a busy day handle 3,000 trucks and more than 10,000 cars.
Two British newspapers reported Sunday that a proposal for a rail-only link under the 23-mile-wide channel had already been selected, a $3.31 billion project calling for twin 31-mile-long railway tunnels. The crossing would take about 30 minutes, the Sunday Times and Observer newspapers said.
The British government called the reports "speculation." The French government withheld comment.
The proposal cited by the British newspapers — the so-called
"Chunnel!" link - would be the least expensive and the simplest of the four proposals.
The twin tunnels would carry trains only. Cars would drive onto two-level trains and their passengers would stay inside for the crossing. Shuttle trains operating at three-minute intervals could carry up to 4,000 vehicles an hour in each direction.
The "channel" concept, developed by a consortium of 10 British and French companies called the Channel Tunnel Group, would take about six years to complete and create some 60,000 construction jobs.
Another strong contender was the $3.7 billion Channel Expressway proposal, which calls for four 31-mile tunnels, two for roads and two for trains, which would allow travelers to either drive or take the train.
A third proposal, the $7.5 billion Euroroute project, envisions a combination of bridges, tunnels and artificial islands.
LOS ANGELES — A private company intends to open on Monday the first of what it hopes to be a chain of AIDS testing centers in large cities across the country, despite sharp criticism and a city council order for an investigation.
United Press International
The National Association for AIDS Awareness, a private, for-profit company, plans to sell an identity card that says the bearer is free of AIDS antibodies.
Judi Bloom, a spokeswoman for the West Los Angeles company, described the firm as "dedicated to stopping the spread of the AIDS virus."
AIDS-free cards criticized by LA city council members
She said the organization hoped to attain this goal by counseling clients about safe sexual practices and by encouraging the use of identity cards to confirm that sexual partners have tested negative for the antibody to
the virus that causes AIDS.
But the city council has passed an emergency measure calling for an investigation into the firm giving the $100 AIDS tests. City councilman Zev Yaroslavsky introduced the motion Friday, ordering the city to look into the company's operations and also asking for county and federal investigations.
Customers who test negative for the HTLV-III antibody will be issued a "tamper-proof" identity card with their photographic, signature, expiration date, the words "National Association for AIDS Awareness" and the letters OK. The card can be renewed every three months for $45.
Critics said the HTLV-III test alone was not conclusive enough to detect the AIDS virus that strikes mainly homosexual and bisexual men, intravenous drug users and recipients of contaminated blood transfusions.
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