Severe storm hits our region By NAN CRYSTAL ARENS Collegian Science Writer Students should bundle up to head for class as the season's first severe winter storm bears down on Pennsylvania. The storm is expected' to bring be tween 11 and 13 inches before it stops this evening. Heidi Sonen, student meteorol ogist with the Penn State Weath er Service, said near-blizzard conditions are expected as tem peratures drop today and strong winds pick up. "Once we get some cold air in we'll have dryer snow and get a lot of blowing and drifting," So nen said. University President Bryce Jordan said last night that classes would not be canceled unless road conditions prevented people from getting to campus. "I just had an update from (University) Police Services," Jordan said at 5 p.m. yesterday, "and they say the roads are just wet. They have some de-icing substance out on the roads and there shouldn't be any problem." However, Jordan said he will receive updates as the storm progresses. Later today, Sonen said tem peratures will plunge as a pocket of Arctic air swings southward behind the jet stream a band of winds 25,000 feet above the sur face that provides the dividing line between warmer air in the southern states and colder air to the north. As the cold air sweeps south, meteorologists are predicting all time record lows in Florida with temperatures dipping into the 20s in Miami, Sonen said. Complicating the weather pic ture, a strong low pressure sys tem is developing in the Atlantic Ocean off the Carolina coast, Sonen said last night. "I would say this is a severe East Coast storm," she said. As the storm moves northward along the eastern seaboard, coun ter-clockwise circulation around the low pressure system will bring moist air from the ocean over inland areas. Mixing mois ture and the falling temperatures will mean more snow for the area, Sonen said. The strong storm will also bring high winds, blowing snow and limited visibility for today, she said. "We are in a travelers' advi sory, but (for people walking) we aren't advising more than to bun dle up," she said. However, Appalachian Moun tain regions including Centre County have a jump on snowfall because of an atmospheric phe •nomenon called "cold air dam ming," Sonen said. In the Appalachian valleys, cold air is trapped near the sur face, causing snowfall, while to the east of the mountains, Phila delphia was reporting warmer temperatures and rain, Sonen said. In northwestern Pennsylvania, warmer temperatures near the surface combined with little At lantic moisture to produce almost no snow, Sonen said. Harrisburg reported fog and above freezing temperatures at 3 p.m. yester day. "That will change as the storm moves northward (today)," So nen said, adding that cold air and moisture will sweep in through out the region, bringing snow across the state. Following the storm, tempera tures will drop to below normal levels for tomorrow probably into the teens or single numbers, she said. weather This afternoon, snow continuing, high of 15 degrees. Tonight it will become very cold and still windy with additional snow. Low near 5. Heidi Sonen the daily ;~.;; ;, • • , e 1.• ••••• ' ' ••••••'''.: ~• • • •.• ~•••: .:jii.;- . .. 7 .,:•.•• •, ,•, c.:.. , .., ;:••. , . 4 ' . `?•.* . fX 1 .. •,1'.'.'''.:.:::',•:':.::••••••:;•''',‘,....,,,...:;44-',;z4ff,' • • •• • 1.7, t7r , • , .,,, •• • -...•••*, .. • •- ••••:••...;•••••,•i?.! - :,t. .. • • • • •,. ... -- .............L . 1 •• Joepa the Snowman This snow facsimile of Joe Paterno's face was created yesterday on the Old Main lawn by Tracy Rankin (senior architectural engineering); Michael Milne (senior•architecture); Rudy Treichel (senior•mechanical engineering); and Sean Rumbaugh (senior•administration of justice). AIDS: Virus not highly contagious, doctors say By KATHI DODSON Collegian Science Writer With one confirmed case of AIDS in the University community, the direc tor of University Health Services said AIDS victims pose no health threat to the public. Dr. Harry McDermott said the HTLV-111 virus linked to the devel opment of acquired immune deficien cy syndrome is not an easily transmitted virus. Infected people do not pass on the virus through normal daily contact. "This is not a casually contracted disease," said Robin Fox, director of an AIDS study at Johns Hopkins University. In order to maintain confidentiali ty, no further information is available about the condition of the University community member who contracted AIDS. Lawrence Kingsley, an epidemiolo gist with the University of Pitts burgh's department of medicine, said hugging, sharing a room or breathing the same air are examples of casual contact. Casual contact is any activ ity that does not involve sex or the exchange of blood, he said. Fox said HTLV-111 can only be spread by intimate sexual contact, blood transfusions or contaminated hypodermic needles.. HTLV-111 can also be passed from an expectant mother to her unborn child. Kingsley said, "Sexual contact in volving the exchange of semen is the major route of transmission of HTLV III." He added that "the major way a person is exposed to this virus is by the semen of an infected male." Both men and women who have unprotected anal or vaginal inter course with an infected man risk exposure to HTLV-111, Kingsley said. "Anal intercourse is often asso ciated with some level of trauma, which can cause small tears in the lining of the rectum and this appears to help explain why anal intercourse is a primary route of exposure to HTLV-111. (The tears) make it easier for the virus to get into the blood," Kingsley said. ollegian ~ .r,.: ..' ~ '!. . ~.. . : ..''...L : :!!,;::?' .., ,i , ' • • • •• • • I t: 4 ,11;4 4 ,t' i t : • 14,,:x The risk of an infected woman passing the disease to a sexual part ner appears very small, he said. `This is not a casually contracted disease.' The HTLV-111 virus is rarely found in saliva and the chance of transmit ting it through kissing or shared eating utensils is very remote, Kings ley said. In a recent study of individu als infected with HTLV-111, the virus was found in the saliva of only one in 25 people, he said. Researchers have also followed thousands of health workers who cared for AIDS victims and "there is not one case of a health care worker developing HTLV-111 infection as a result of coming in casual contact touching and performing medical procedures with (AIDS) patients," he said. About 1,500 of these health care workers accidently stabbed them selves with needles contaminated with the blood of an infected person but none have developed an HTLV-111 infection, Kingsley added. Fox said that of the almost 17,000 reported cases of AIDS nationwide, no case of a teacher passing on the disease to a student in the classroom setting has been reported. "Absolutely no cases, ever," she said. "Someone with the disease standing in front of a class, grading papers, or talking will not give (an other person) the disease," Fox said. Kingsley said no cases of a student passing the disease to another stu dent' or teacher have been reported. The HTLV-111 virus destroys a type of white blood cell, called T-4 lympho cyte cells, Kingsley said. These cells normally recognize foreign material in the body, such as the common cold virus or an invading bacterium, and stimulate the immune system to re act destroying the invaders, he said. / '~d "~:~;. . 7 MaZ3 , tofr, Collegian Photo / Ylannos Nicolaides Robin Fox Please see 'AIDS,' Page 18 • ,yam 1 • • . • • ; Ugandan rebels in NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) The commander of the Ugandan rebel army said yesterday he had replaced the 6-month-old ruling military council with one of his own and promised to form a broad-based government and punish criminals from previous regimes. Yoweri Museveni outlined his plans during a speech on the government-owned radio yesterday afternoon, a day after his National Resistance Army captured the capital, Kampala, and sent thousands of government soldiers fleeing. Deserting army troops were robbing and beating civil ians and looting as they retreated, said a group of evacuees who reached Nairobi late yesterday afternoon from Northern Uganda. The Radio Uganda broadcast was monitored in Nairobi Monday, Jan. 27, 1986 Vol. 88, No. 117 18 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University 01988 Collegian Inc. U.S. said to hold top KGB defector By BRIAN BARGER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. The Senate Intelligence Committee has been told nothing about a senior KGB major general who, according to published accounts, defected to the United States last year and was in CIA custody, Sen. Patrick Leahy, vice chairman of the panel, said yester day. Leahy, D-Vt., said CIA .officials continued to tell him as late as yester day morning that no such defector existed. "They are denying it today," he said. However, House Intelligence Com mittee Chairman Lee Hamilton, D- Ind., said he had received a "prelimi nary report" on the alleged Soviet defector. He declined to comment further until he received a more thorough briefing on the case and said he was "not yet sure about the information." CIA spokeswoman Kathy Pherson declined comment on the report, say ing only, "We don't comment on defectors." The alleged defection was first re ported in U.S. News and World Re port, which said the Soviet officer "was smuggled out of East Germany in late April or early May by helicopt er and debriefed at a U.S. base in West Germany." The report said the defection was kept secret "to prevent press leaks that might have upstaged the Geneva summit in Geneva." The U.S. News and World Report story described the alleged defector as "extremely valuable," and said he fed secrets to U.S. intelligence even before his defection. He was repored ly given a new identity, and settled in an undisclosed location in the Mid west. Leahy said that at any given time the CIA "handles several significant defectors" whose said are not made public. He said the CIA was responsible for advising the intelli gence committees about defectors, but said he had not received any information on this case. A congressional source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said there were "several defectors over the past few years that have not become public, and it could be one of them." He said that details concern control after coup It was the first time since midday Friday that the radio had been on the air and the first formal announcement to Ugandans that Kampala had fallen to the NRA. Earlier yesterday, Museveni met with U.S. Ambassa dor Robert Houdek, British High Commissioner Colin Mac Lean and a representative of the European Common Market, the British High Commission (embassy) in Nairobi said. The four discussed the evacuation of expa triates and restoration of electric, water and telephone services in the city, said the commission. In Washington, the State Department said a chartered aircraft will take some embassy personnel and American citizens out of Kampala tomorrow or Wednesday. The State Department had no details on how many people were leaving. ing the defector "did not jump out at him," but said "it could be accu rate." The disclosure, and subsequent CIA denials of the report, raised specu lation on Capitol Hill that the story may have been leaked to influence an upcoming debate over whether re sponsiblity for handling defectors should be turned over to the FBI. The CIA was deeply embarrassed last November when Vitaly S. Yur chenko, a senior KGB agent the CIA hailed as one of their "most impor tant defectors" in years, fled his CIA handlers. He turned up two days later at a press conference at the Soviet embassy, claiming he was kidnapped and drugged by the CIA, and an nounced his intention to return to the Soviet Union. The CIA denied the charges, and has since maintained he was a legiti mate defector who later had a change of heart. As a result, criticism has mounted within the administration and Con gress over the ClA's handling of Yurchenko and other defectors in recent years. Some officials, including Leahy, speculate Yurchenko was a double agent sent by the Soviets to disrupt U.S. intelligence operations, and em barrass the Reagan administration prior to the Geneva summit. Leahy acknowledged he has asked for an investigation of the ClA's hand ling of Yurchenko as well as another, undisclosed defector. "I took another case simply to look at the techniques used in a case not publicly disclosed to see if the procee dures used were the same," Leahy said. "I found the techniques used to be largely the same." Leahy said defectors should be handled uniformly "by one (agency) or the other," and said current proce dures involving both the CIA and the FBI leaves "the authority hazy." He added that he had not yet decided on whether to recommend using the FBI or the CIA in defector cases, and would await the results of the investi gation, which he predicted would take "a few more months" to complete. "When it is done right, everyone claims credit," Leahy said. "But when it goes wrong, everyone says, 'it wouldn't have happened if we had handled it." '
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