Thursday, January 28 1988/The Battaiion/Page 11
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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.
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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.
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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.
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the
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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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