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Study: Factor in saliva
prevents AIDS infection
CHICAGO (AP) — Preliminary
studies have found that human sa
liva contains a factor that blocks the
AIDS virus from infecting cells, indi
cating the body may have a natural
defense against the deadly disease,
researchers said Thursday.
Isolating and understanding the
inhibitory element in saliva may help
researchers learn how to naturally
prevent transmission of the virus,
said Philip Fox, head of clinical stud
ies at the National Institute of Dental
Research and senior investigator in
the study.
“The significance is that it’s a
demonstration of a natural defense
that people have against the AIDS
virus,” Fox said in a telephone inter
view from the National Institutes of
Health in Bethesda, Md.
A report on the study appears in
the May issue of the Chicago-based
Journal of the American Dental As
sociation.
The research also provides a bi
ological explanation of why the
mouth isn’t a transmission route for
the disease, Fox said. That’s good
news for dentists and others con
cerned about catching AIDS
through contact with the saliva of in
fected people.
“This supports biologically what
we have been seeing epidemiologi-
cally,” said Irwin Mandel, director of
the Center for Clinical Research in
Dentistry at Columbia University in
New York. “There is essentially no
chance of transmission of the virus
through saliva.”
“Fears about kissing, contact with
eating implements and so on could
be dispelled bv this kind of evi
dence,” said Enid Neidle, an assis
tant director of the American Dental
Association.
Fox and four co-workers collected
saliva samples from the mouths of
three healthy men and secretions di
rectly from their major salivary
glands.
None of the three was at risk for
acquired immune deficiency syn
drome, which destroys the body’s
defenses against disease and leaves a
Officials say deadline
won’t stop illegal aliens
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans
watched the deadline for amnesty
under the new U.S. immigration law
pass on Thursday but didn’t expect
the measure would stop the flow of
job-seekers crossing the border.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the gov
erning party’s candidate in the July 6
E residential elections, said the new
iw cannot defeat the economic real
ity that is experienced in the United
States, where Mexican workers con
tinue to be needed.
He said extra steps must be taken
to make sure workers’ human and
labor rights are protected on both
sides of the border and to increase
employment opportunities in Mexi
co’s northern states.
Salinas de Gortari said in a cam
paign speech Wednesday in Morelos
state, southwest of the capital, that
some in the United States might try
to take advantage of Mexican work
ers after the law takes effect.
“The concern that I have is that,
with the deadline passed, this law
might be invoked as a pretext to
abuse Mexican migrant workers,” he
said. “We also must increase effort,
vigilance and attention for our coun
trymen who might return from the
United States so that they might not
be abused or exploited by Mexican
authorities on our territory.”
Salinas de Gortari is the candidate
of the Institutional Revolutionary
Party, which has not lost a presi
dential race since its inception in
1929. It is almost certain he will de
feat five minority candidates and be
inaugurated to a six-year term suc
ceeding President Miguel de la Ma
drid on Dec. 1.
The speech dominated front
pages Thursday in local newspapers.
The newspapers gave ample atten
tion to developments in the United
States, where 107 immigration of
fices closed their doors to the one
time offer of amnesty for millions of
illegal immigrants.
Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, presi-
Poland
dential candidate of the tiny Revolu
tionary Workers Party, said the Mex
ican government must bear
responsibility for workers’ need to
go to the United States in search of
jobs because of difficult economic
conditions here.
The minimum daily wage in Mex
ico is 8,000 pesos, or about $3.50.
She said the government doesn’t
defend the undocumented workers
and accused the United States of giv
ing dollars to Mexico in exchange
for cheap labor.
The government newspaper El
National said in an editorial that no
law alone can solve economic prob
lems of any country.
It said oespite the law, the United
States still will require the labor, the
vigor of Mexican workers who, at ex
tremely convenient prices for Amer
ican employers, made possible the
economic flourishing of that coun
try, along with millions of other im
migrants.
Many here see the traffic across
the border as part of centuries-old
patterns that date back to when the
American Southwest belonged to
Mexico.
Although some Mexicans have
said they returned because of the
new law in the United States, no sta
tistical studies have been completed
since the start of the period which
amnesty began. Fears that the new
law would lead to mass deportations
of Mexican workers in the United
States appear to have abated.
Others believe the impact of the
new law will not be fully seen until
after June 1, when companies em
ploying illegal aliens could be fined.
Hilda Patricia Neira, a researcher
at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte
in the border city of Tijuana, said
the law likely will fuel a black market
in false documents.
Tijuana Mayor Federico Valdes
Martinez told reporters there is
space available there for any Mexi
cans who might return, at least on an
emergency basis.
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the steelwork’s pressing department
at 2 a.m., only hours after the strike
committee, which said it represented
15,000 of the 32,000 employees, was
told it would have its first talks in a
week with management.
As police came in, they set off per
cussion grenades, terrorizing the
“paralyzed, defenseless and sleeping
people,” said Krzystof Kozlowski, a
senior Roman Catholic journalist in
Krakow.
Most strike committee members
were detained immediately. Later,
special riot police entered and or
dered all strikers to leave.
“The whole thing took place with
out one bruise,” Urban said in a tele-
Dorm
phone interview. “Nobody suffered
any harm or injury.”
But Zygmunt Lenyk, of the con
servative opposition group Confed
eration of Independent Poland, said
32 people suffered cuts, eight peo
ple were left unconscious and one
man had two legs broken.
The state-run news agency PAP
said some plant departments re
sumed work Thursday while others
remained idle for maintenance..
But workers emerging from
Nowa Huta at Thursday afternoon
said some people inside had re
sumed striking. PAP reported that
absenteeism at the plant was 30 per
cent to 40 percent.
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stay,” Montgomery said.
Miller agreed contract revisions
are not possible, but said the rules
are creating unexpected conflicts.
“We are not supposed to go out of
town during the interim period (be
tween finals and graduation), but
one of our RA’s parents are coming
down and he needs to go pick them
up at the airport,” Miller said. “He
does not yet know how he is going to
be able to get them here since he
can’t leave.
“All of us are required to stay but
there will only be one or two people
in each wing. For example, I have
duty Friday night so I have to watch
the five people who are remaining in
my doim. iiowcvei, tucy win an uc
at graduation.”
To ease boredom, the staff coun
cil has planned activities to keep the
resident advisers occupied. The
council has planned a staff apprecia
tion banquet for May 10 and a coo-
kout for May 11, Montgomery said.
“We are trying to make the best of
it,” he said.
“We are a really close-knit staff
and usually do not have time to visit
and have fun together. This will al
low us the time to see people who we
would be too busy to see during the
normal check-out time.”
Also in the period before gradua
tion, resident advisers will inspect
each room in their dormitories thor
oughly, which in past semesters
person prey to life-threaii
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MIDLAND (AP) - A
company that lost itsbidto
the story of Jessica McClurt
matic rescue to television is
to court to change a local™
tee’s movie-maker of choice
A citizens’ panel appoi:
mediate the dispute ™B wou [d”i)<
mended April 22 that La
geles-based Interscope
nications Inc. film thestoo
toddler’s rescue after
trapped inside anabandone;
for 58 hours.
Producer I^irry Spivey,
iated with rival production
pany Highland Commui
Inc. of Van Nuys, Calif.,
company’s attorneys are
depositions in preparation
gal action.
“We have seven law finr
s olved in reviewing that sin
with a recommendation in
counsel next week,” he
Wednesday. “We’ll probably
some announcement in the
10 days.”
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movie contract with an
tion of volunteers who
pated in the girl's rescue,ai/L.
vey said that contract remai
force
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other, now-disbanded rev
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employees have agreed to if
by the selection of Intersco:
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million, Ms. Clifford said.M
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cation in Midland.
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