World & Nation
Tuesday, September 3, 1991
The Battalion
Page 11
\kore spent on AIDS research than cancer, heart disease
Bush defends approach to AIDS crisis
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine
|AP) — President Bush defended
kis administration's approach to
!he AIDS crisis Monday and urged
changes in sexual behavior to halt
ihe spread of the disease.
"Here's a disease where you
;an control its spread by your own
personal behavior. You can't do
that in cancer," Bush said on the
morning after 1,500 AIDS activists
staged a "die-in" on the road near
his vacation home where a few lo-
tal merchants shut down "on the
best weekend possible."
Sunday's march by ACT-UP —
the AIDS Coalition to Unleash
Power — was noisy but orderly,
with no arrests. The group has dis
rupted Bush speeches in the past.
Bush said he opposes federal
funding of clean-needle exchanges
— one of the demonstrators' de
mands — and wants effective re
search on AIDS, which has
claimed 114,000 American lives.
The virus is transmitted through
contaminated blood or body flu
ids. Most U.S. victims are homo
sexuals or intravenous drug
abusers.
Bush said the $4 billion AIDS
budget was far more per capita
than the government spends fight
ing cancer and heart disease.
"I'm in favor of behavioral
change," he said. "Here's a dis
ease where you can control its
spread by your own personal be
havior. You can't do that in can
cer. You can't — well, to some de
gree some might argue you can in
heart disease, if you run and stay
fit."
Bush made no mention of
cigarette smoking, which the sur
geon general blames for hundreds
of thousands of deaths each year
from cancer, heart disease and
other ailments.
Dennis Lyons, an activist with
ACT UP's Maine branch, said of
Bush's behavior remarks: "I think
he's implying a value judgment
against people who happen to be
s a y-'
"He talks about behavioral
change, but he has yet to institute
a national AIDS education aware
ness program for school children.
Until he does that, kids are grow
ing up in schools without being
taught anything about safe sex,"
said Lyons.
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East German guard admits to shooting
BERLIN (AP) — One of four former East
German border guards on trial for manslaugh
ter admitted today that he shot at two young
men who tried to cross the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Andreas Kuehnpast was the first of the bor-
Jer guards to testify about his role in the Feb.
j, 1989, shooting of Chris Gueffroy, a 20-year-
Id waiter who died trying to reach West
Serlin. Gueffroy died at the scene; a compan-
on, Christian Gaudian, was wounded.
The 27-year-old Kuehnpast, who at times
ippeared near tears, told the court he heard an
■larm go off that night and ran with other sol-
iiers toward Gueffroy and his companion.
The guard said he heard another guard
ihoot and then began firing his Kalashnikov ri-
■k. He described how both would-be escapees
vere dragged away after being shot.
"I was shockea. I really didn't know what
jsido," he said.
Under questioning by chief Judge Theodor
sidel, Kuennpast acknowledged he got "three
jrfour days vacation," and 150 East German
marks — then worth about $25 — for stopping
the attempted escape.
Gueffroy, who died nine months before the
wall fell, was the last person known to have
died trying to flee over the wall. He was
among about 200 East Germans killed trying to
escape since the wall and other fortifications
sealed off East Germany in 1961.
Gueffroy's mother, Karin Gueffroy, is a co-
prosecutor in the case, under a standard provi
sion of the German law. She briefly held her
head in her hands as the indictment describing
the death of her son was read by Prosecutor
Herwig Grossmann.
Defense lawyers argued that ousted East
German Communist Party chief Erich Honeck-
er, state security minister Erich Mielke and oth
er officials of the former regime should be held
accountable, not guards who carried out
"shoot-to-kill" orders.
Ralf Bossi, Kuehnpast's lawyer, said "the
wrong people are in court."
He argued those really responsible for Gu-
effroy's death are "the people who made these
laws and who knew what contempt for human
beings there was in them."
Honecker, the former Communist Party
chief, is now in the Soviet Union and his extra
dition is being sought. Mielke, 84, and report
edly ill, is in custody and remains under inves
tigation.
The guards, who are charged with
manslaughter and attempted manslaughter,
say they are not guilty because they had no
choice and were following orders.
The defendants, Mike Schmidt, Peter
Schmett, Ingo Heinrich and Kuehnpast, face a
maximum of 15 years in prison if convicted.
Defense lawyers contend the killings were
legal under East German statutes and thus can
not now be criminalized by a unified Germany.
The trial, which began today, is the first
prosecution of its type, and its outcome may
signal how prosecutors will fare in later trials
involving abuses of the East German govern
ment.
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in Ohio
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio
(AP) — Four young men were
found shot to death early
Monday morning in a house
on the city's far east side, po
lice said.
The victims were found
about 3 a.m., said police Capt.
Donald Komara. Police had
been notified after the fire de
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an incident at the house.
The men were shot in the
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been tied and gagged.
The identities of the men,
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notification of relatives.
Police found one in the
kitchen, two in a bathroom
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No arrests had been made.
The Mahoning County
coroner's office was expected
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Komara said.
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100,000 near the Pennsylvania
state line in northeastern
Ohio.
Cocaine bust
totals $500
million
BOSTON (AP) - Federal
j^ents have seized 4,800 pounds
pure cocaine valued at $500 mil-
on and arrested nine people, the
J.S. attorney's office announced
Monday.
U.S. Attorney Wayne Budd
Jlled a special Labor Day news
inference yesterday morning to
bounce the bust, and said that,
'>nce June, federal officials have
fized more than 9,700 pounds of
°caine in New England.
"It's much more difficult to
J lculate the harm, the danger, the
kstruction this cocaine would
J ve had on the thousands of peo-
! leitwas destined for," he said,
!l| rveying the bundles of white
?owder and cash stacked on a
'%by table.
Three of four alleged leaders in
^ Massachusetts-to-Florida co-
ring were arrested Saturday:
i^rcos Garzon of Colombia, and
Jhaco Garcia and Marco
(Otnez, both of Miami. All are
%ged with conspiracy to sell co
sine and could face life in prison
^ a maximum fine of $4 million.
A fourth alleged ringleader,
8 bert Reister, was still at large.
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