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: «t'%i 'V T Friday, March 7, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9 ongressman says recovervtreasure from Marcos Aaaockutcd Pre»* • MANILA, Philippines — Rep. Stephen Solarz, an ouupoken critic of Ferdinand E. Marcos, pledged support Thursday in recoveting Mil lions of dollars the formef' president allegedly plundered from the public treasury. * ' - ] Solarz met for an hour with Aquino and other offictals of the new government. The. Democrat .from New York told reporters that he had asked how the United States could help but he did oca reveal Aquino's reply. In other developments. l | • The chief prosecutor in the Be- nigno Aquino assassination trial last year acknowledged that Marcos in tervened in the case. He called the acquittal of Gen. Fabian C. Ver, the ^9 ... I former armed forces commander, and the other defendanu “a failure oflustke” that should be nullified. • Joker Arroyo, President Cora- con Aquino's executive secretary, : mid resignations of judges had * :leared the way for her to reorganize the judiciary. | • The government news agency supported an aborted plot by Marcos loyalists to commit arson, bombings and murders during the last days of his rule, tOrbe used as a pretext for declaring martial law. Marcos and his entoufage, includ ing Gen. Ver, fled the counfry in U.S. Air Force planes Feb. 26. Solarz said he believed Congress could be persuaded to increase eco nomic and military aid to the Phil ippines because Americans were im pressed by Aquino's popular support and the peaceful revolution that brought her to power. « “The determination as to what those needs are and how they can be met needs to be made in Manila rather than in Washington/’ said So- tarz, who is chairman of the House subcommittee on Asian affairs and has been a critic of Marcos for years. He said he discussed Marcos’ “hidden wealth" with Aquino and former Sen. Jovito Salonga, chair man of a commission to find ways of recovering it, and promised "our complete cooperation in the effort to facilitate the recovery of these re sources.” Salonga has estimated that Mar cos, his relatives and cronies stole from $5 billion to $10 billion in pub lic funds during his two decades as president. Shuttle crash may be result of internal ice CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Investigators say a puff of steam emerg^l from Challenger's right booster rocket at ignition, sug gesting rainwater collected in a seam, froze and may have forced open critical seals, an Hruiustry magazine reported Thursday. The space shuttle had stood exposed to the elemenu on the launch pad for 37 days, during which time it was pelted by at least one torrential storm with four inches of rainfall. possibility that internal ice U-shaped joint triggered The in the the accident is a new avenue of in vestigation for the presidential in vestigating commission. The steam, newly noticed in photographs, emerged at 0.2 sec onds after ignition, preceding a C ff of black smoke from the Mter segment at 0.44 seconds, the magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology says in its March 10 edition. Experts at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center were asked in an interview February 28 whether anyone had considered that water might have seeped into the joints and turned to ice. Law rence B. Mulloy, the space agen cy's manager for booster rockets, dismissed the notion. AIDS possibly linked to virus found in pigs AiiAoCiatrd Prc„ J NEW YORK — An African virus that causes an AIDS-like illness in pigs may have been present in some American AIDS patients and cduld be a contributing cause of human AIDS infections, according to a new itudy. Evidence of infection with African swine fever virus, or ASFV, was found in nine of 21 American AIDS patients tested, and in only one of 16 Healthy Americans, according to a study to be published Saturday in the Lancet, a British medical jour- 33 V .. . . t If future experiments prove the expet existence of a fink between African * Swine fever and AIDS, it would mean that doctors now searching for * cure for AIDS are aiming at the .wrong target. The new study challenges vol- 7 umes of scientific evidence support ing the belief that acquired immune deficiency syndrome is caused solely by a virus most commonly called HTLV-III that was discovered in j W- John Beldekas, a researcher at the Boston University School of Medi cine and the principal author of the new study, said, “I don’t think we’re trying to say that HTLV-III is out and ASFV is in" as the cause of AM. Beldekas added, "What we’re say ing is that AIDS is complicated. It can't be explained solely bv HTLV- .111* Flossie Wong-Staal, a molecular FREE MINI-BASKETBALL WITH EVERY S10 PURCHASE. biologist at the National Cancer In stitute, where HTLV-III was discov ered, said the evidence showing that HTLV-III is the cause of AIDS is as strong as such evidence can be. "In any other disease where there’s a definite link between an agent and a disease, they don’t get a better correlation,” she said. Fur thermore, she said the AIDS virus "does exactly what we would expect in an AIDS patient.” Jane Teas, a former cancer re searcher now with Human Ecology Research, a firm she established in Boston, was the first to suggest, in a letter to the Lancet in April 1983, that African swine fever virus might have some link to AIDS. That was when she learned that an epidemic of swine fever had occurred in Haiti at roughly the same time that AIDS was discovered there. The researchers cannot lie certain that they have evidence of African swine fever virus in AIDS patients until more testing is done. Teas said. William Hess, a microbiologist at the Department of Agriculture's Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York, has studied African swine fever for more than 30 years and believes that more research should be done. As of March 3, 1986, AIDS had struck 17,871 people in the United States and claimed 9.463 lives. 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