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McHENRY PlAINDEAl^ER Section A Friday. September 20.19t5 Pag* 7 Nation ' lives in jeopardy: Weir REV. BENJAMIN WEIR By Steve Hagey United Press International WASHINGTON - The Rev. Ben­ jamin Weir said Thursday he car­ ried a message to President Reagan at the end of his nearly 500 days captivity in Lebanon - the United States must act quickly or other American prisoners may be executed. Weir, 61; speaking firmly and showing no ill effects of his ordeal, told a news conference that his cap­ tors, Shiite Moselm extremists, have one demand, "namely, the release AIDS 1986: Cases expected to double ByAlRoniterJr. UPI science editor WASHINGTON -- As many as 500,000 to 1 million Americans may have been infected by the AIDS vi­ rus and more than 12,000 of them are expected to develop the deadly dis­ ease next year, federal health offi­ cials said Thursday. That many new cases of AIDS would represent a doubling of the current cumulative toll since 1961 in the United States. A report from the Centers for Dis- *ease Control in Atlanta said more than half of the new cases of ac­ quired immune deficiency syndrome are expected to come from states * other than New York and California, * the states now reporting the highest .numbers of AIDS cases. * "In the absence of vaccine or ther­ apy, the incidence of AIDS in the • United States is likely to increase "during the next few years," six •.AIDS specialists from the CDC said , in a report published in Science magazine. - But Dr. Harold Jaffe, one of the authors of the report, said the rate of increase in the number of AIDS 1 cases is gradually slowing. "A couple of years ago, the dou­ bling time was every six months," Jaffe said in a telephone interview. "The last doubling occurred in about 10 months and we're projecting the next doubling in about 12 months." Infection by the AIDS virus does not necessarily mean a person will develop the deadly illness, which attacks the body's natural disease fighting, power. A five-yearSan Francisco study of homp^e^cu^^tti whose blood contairted evidence of * AIDS infection found 5 percent to 10 percent actually develoo AIDS. On the basis of that study, the CDC officials estimated in the Sci­ ence report that there is an "annual attack rate of from 1 percent to 2 percent of those currently Infected withthe virus." While there is an Infection-to-AIDS ratio of 28 to 1 in the San Francisco group, the CDC officials estimated the ratio throughout the nation, where the virus has not been around as long, is more like 50 to 1 or 100 to 1. That ratio and the current AIDS toll of about 13,000 was used to ar­ rive at the 500,000 to 1 million infec­ tion estimate, Jaffe said. of 17 prisoners being held in Ku­ wait." There are six other Ameri­ cans missing and believed Held by •* Moslem extremists. Weir, a Presbyterian minister kid­ napped off the streets of west Beirut May 8,1964, said he told Reagan in a telephone conversation Wednesday of the demand and said his captors had threatened to execute their hos­ tages -- and kidnap other Ameri­ cans -- if the 17 Lebanese and Iraqis convicted of a string of bombings in Kuwait aire not freed. He said the terrorists, thought to be members of a shadowy funda­ mentalist -Moslem group known as' the Islamic Jihad, or Holy War, "have released me as a sign of their good intentions. However, they are not willing to wait much longer." "They're ready to release the hos­ tages in exchange for the 17 prison­ ers," he said. But he warned a "win­ dow of opportunity" to win release of the Americans may not remain open for long. "They state that if there is not a postive response to their demands in the near future they're prepared to kidnap other Americans and that though they do not want to harm anyone, they will go so far as to proceed to execute their hostages if the demand is not met," Weir said. Reagan consistently has refused to negotiate with terrorists and has been criticized by some family members of the hostages for failing to win freedom for the men, who had become known as the "Forgotten Sdven." In addition to Weir, six oth­ er Americans have beat seized in the Lebanese capital in the past 18 months. Shortly after Weir's appeal, the White House reiterated its hard line, with spokesman Edward Djerejian declaring, "We, of course, are al­ ways willing to negotiate to protect tfye safety of American citizens. 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