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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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." '