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Thursday, January 28 1988/The Battaiion/Page 11 Scientists find new AIDS virus in U.S. patient n ut in 1 r and a Pall elative tvlicl anonyminl lias a West dohammecl estifyat tlit| rother, i arged witll ins Ruddfl liiit in 1 ' his brotli | i Frankfurt n Septen NEWARK \ J \P,i - A sec .-nd AIDS virus ihui was diso vered 2‘A years ago in West Vtika md later spread t< Europe has ncrvs been dis coveted loi the In st (line m a patient in the United States rescan hers said Wednesday The reseatchers at the Univet sitv of Metlir !iu and Dentistn of Neu Jersey said it is die first time the vi rus has been seen in the Western Hemisphere. They said the patient was exposed to the virus in West Africa. Researchers call the virus HIV-2, for human immunodeficiency virus, type 2. That distinguishes it from the original AIDS virus, designated HIV-1. Officials at the New Jersey hospi tal said the patient who is carrying HIV-2 has developed AIDS as a re sult of the infection. The officials would not release the identity or location of the patient and would not sa' when the diai sis was made igno- ter ,d Gail Centers lor Disease lanta confirmed that first known diatrnosi runent s >1 in At- se is the >1 the IS re pj - a: uld have 1 40-foot-; n in less ^ a wave in four id lues- infection ii sphere The university said in a statement that investigations have revealed no evidence thai die patient with HI V-2 has spread 'he virus to anybody else in the country ; is that I re the' Dr. Myron Essex, a researcher at Harvard University, has maintained that the HIV-2 virus does not cause illness as severe or in the same fre quency as the HIV-1 virus, a view disputed by researchers m the 1 nited States and France. ft was inevitable that we’d see a case here Essex said Wednesday. But there is no cause for alarm.” Luc Montagniet of the Pasteur In stitute in Paris, who discovered H IV- 2 and was one of the discoverers of the original AIDS virus, said illness caused by the HI V-2 virus is exactly the same as the illness caused by HIV-1. Kirk Petersen, a spokesman for the New Jersey hospital, declined to reveal any more details about the di agnosis and said futher questions would be answered at a news confer ence today. Last June at the international AIDS conference in Washington, re searchers predicted that the virus soon would arrive in the United States, but they said it would not herald a second AIDS epidemic. “It’s not a cause of great concern from the public’s point of view,” Dr. fames Curran, head of the AIDS program at the Centers for Disease ( outrol said in June. ‘ But it will be i problem for scientists trying to de velop vaccines and treatments. The disease is a subset of the cur rent disease,” Curran said. “The same people who art at risk of AIDS now -.'.ill he at risk from this virus. VVe don’t anticipate it creating any other risk groups oi causing a differ ent kind oi disease.” A screening test for HIV-2 has been developed and is awaiting ap proval by the U.S. Food and Dr Administration, Curran said. HIV-2, like HIV-1, is believed to be transmitted through sexual con tact, blood transfusions and contam inated hypodermic needles. rug Wright, r Build- utional nk," he e whole nething f a sec- re the tee on n and a hall le Ash- llapsed million nonths ic steel ed as a when a nd un- Group charges FBI with violiting rights of political activists nitiate lather, lapsed ires as to the it had ,-eland fe nspec- such laid in ink is jefore id has ed to s up- sed, it allow ahela ly cut 3,000 dents thou- serve er in- WASH INC EON (AP) — V New York-based legal group charged Wednesday that the FBI violated the civil rights of hundreds of people in conducting a six-year investigation into organizations opposed to U.S policies in Central America. The FBI acknowledged that it had conducted an investigation intn the Committee in Support of die People of El Salvador, or CISPES, but main tained that it was looking into “al leged criminal activity rather than the motives and beliefs of those be ing investigated. ” And in an interview late Wednes day, Justice Department spokesman Pat Korten contended that the Cen ter for Constitutional Rights, which has had the FBI documents for nearly two months, released the pa pers Wednesday because “they are attempting to influence the Contra aid vote in the U.S. Congress-.” “This has little, if anything, to do with the FBI and has a lot to do with their attempt to influence the Con gress,” Korten added agree with the president?,” Edwards said. The Center for Constitutional Rights, founded in 1966 to provide ‘‘legal support to progressive movements,” obtained 1,320 pages from FBI files through the Freedom of Information Act. Many of the pages contained blacked-' ’Ut sentences or par agraphs, and the center said the doc uments represent only about a third of the government’s files. Margaret Ratner, the center’s ed ucation director, said the FBI began its investigation in 1981 to deter mine if any members of CISPES, a group working to end U.S. interven tion in Central America, were for eign agents. The FBI’s field offices found no evidence to back up that claim, she of tl , Rep. Don Edwards, D-CaliT, chairman of t he House subcommit tee on civil and constitutional rights, criticized the FBI’s conduct. spi the T terrorists and crooks and put them in jail, not keep political groups un der surveillance, even ones that dis- said, so the focus of the investigation was turned into a “foreign intelli gence-terrorism” inquiry “even though no basis for such existed.” “The new category allowed the FBI to utilize ‘special techniques,’ that are considered illegal when ap plied to domestic investigations,” she said. The FBI got its authority to con duct the probe from an executive or der signed by President Reagan in December 1981 that allows the bu reau and the CiA to watch people even if they are not suspected of breaking the law or acting on behalf of a foreign power, Ratner said. New form of cocaine with deadly byproducts surfaces, officials warn ATLANTIC, LT1 \ N J. (API —A deadly new form of cocaine is begin nmg to surface on the streets, and law enforcement Officials say it poses a “triple threat because of its low price, high potency and quick addi< live effect. So-called basuco,” also known as “bazooka.” “little devil.' diesel” or “coke paste.” sells for as little as 8 I a vial and gives a fastei and stronger high than the cocaine derivative ci ack But basuco, the Spanish word for cocaine paste or cocaine sulfate, is made in a simple, one-step process that produces high residues of lead and sulfuric acid "It is incredibly harmful to any in dividual smoking it,” said Lt. Jack Quigley, assistant director of the Bergen County Narcotic Task Force. “The coca leaves are soaked in kerosene and the eventual result is a brown, sticky base, with a high lead content and other additives,” Quig ley said. Bergen C ounty police recently ar- sold 1 people who sold a of basuco to an under small quantity cover agent, he said. [ S Drug Enforcement Adminis tration agents based in Newark have not investigated any cases involving basuco, special agent Steve Morreale said. “We are hearing reports that it's being seized by several county agen cies ' he said. We are presently con ducting a study within the 21 coun ties of New Jersey ... to determine its prevalence.” But DEA agents are aware of the potential basuco threat, Morreale said. “The pockets where it’s being found are where there’s an influx of South Americans,” he said. “Basuco has regularly been used in Bogota, Colombia, and 1 suppose d here those people who have move have tried to spread it around. 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