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Show UllEflE CONTINUED HTI I CO I Llii TKT Gonorrhea the venereal disease which ranks first com- the reportable municable diseases in the U.S., may soon prove detectable in the female via among test. a blood serum predicts So U.S. Public Health Surgeon General Jesse Steinfeld. During the past year, of 164,000 women screened rouin clinics, one in tinely ten was found to have the Gonorrhea has become pandemic in this country. Pandemic signifies an epidemic of unusual severity affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population. McKenzie-Polloc- medical director de56-ye- and gonorrhea to be pandemic. Those two times were at the end of World War I in 1918 and toward the end of World War II in 1945. The now. it is possible in every ten than half the gonorrhea cases occur in the under-2- 4 age group. "A percentage of these "will never he ability of inducing sterility." transmitted by generally treated and cured penicillin. penicillin-resista- nt But a new strain of the disease is spreading westward from the Far East, from Vietnam particularly where so many of our GIs have contracted gonorrhea from local prostitutes. At one time the VD rate of American servicemen in Vietnam was 200 cases per 1000 GI's. In many of those cases the gonococci, the bacteri- al organisms which cause defense and aerospace gen- erate a domino effect on the economy as a whole. E.G. Mattison, vice president for industrial rela- tions at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, Calif. , reports that ut the butcher, the baker, and even the banker." more dif- have reached an uncomfortable point in our history, however, when some of our We best brains arelying idle. to cutbacks in the Owing defense and aerospace industries, scientists, The Government engi- is wrack- its bureaucratic brains ing best to employ these recently funded an extensive, computerized job registry to match the skills of unemployed tech- nicians with employment opportunities all over the country. The Nixon Administration is even talking about retraining many scientists work and technicians for on the complicated urban besetting our cities. Unfortunately, city ser- problems vices can absorb only a limited number of the un- In specialists. examthe Boston area, for are ple, 10,000 specialists The employed out of work. BONN ENVOY ALLARDT (L) WITH SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER GROMYKO. and an over- neers and technologists in the U.S. are unemployed. ment because the disease has the by is far scientists 5n the national interest. The Labor Depart- become mothers sexual intercourse, is Furthermore, cutbacks in result of employment reductions in aerospace manufacturing plants. "The drop in our industry is being felt, similarly," he maintains, "among other lines of business through--othe state affecting blood serum test, capable of detecting most female gonorrhea carriers, would help reduce the disease to manageable levels. how asserts, Gonorrhea, which there are A 45,000 More young women, at least 45,000 applicants. for there is absolutely no incurable strain of the disease." production of skilled technicians, approximately McKenzie-Polloc- k, American women between the ages of 18 and 24 may have gonorrhea without knowing it. ntial jobs in urban planning "eventually 300,000 to 500,000 other Californians will be without jobs as a education is the ladder to achievement and success. syphilis one pote- MOB IE American dream holds that twice before in its history has the Association declared the prevalence of venereal disease that venereologist, "are definitely accelerating th.e nt rate at which penicillin-resistastrains are de- 3000 to detect in females than in males. clared recently that only ar According to "Casual sexual relations among teenagers," says Dr. Robert Catterall, a British ficult of the American Social third time is biotics. Gonorrhea k, Health Association, junction with other anti- there are only veloping, although thus far disease. Dr. James gonorrhea, are highly resistant to the ordinary penicillin dosage and must be treated with massive doses of penicillin in con- nearby community of Lowell, Mass., has openings for perhaps 20 of them. Over the nation, IRIOMiBIlY trusts the Soviet Anyone who Govern- ment has rocks in his head. This hypothesis has long been held by chancelleries throughout the world. Nowhere has it been more frequently proven than in be found, electronic experts of the K.G.B., the Soviet Secret police agency, bugged the coding device. The machine and its seals were then meticulously replaced so that no one might tell that the crate had ever been opened. West Germany where beehives Extremely knowledgeable of Soviet espionage agents about the Soviets and their continue to thrive. As a sophisticated electronic result West German diploespionage equipment, vetmats remain eternally on eran diplomat Allardt he the alert when dealing with will retire next year the Soviets. refused to open the crate. Some time ago Dr. Helmut it directly to German where back Bonn, Allardt, the West German Ambassador to Moscow, orsecurity agents examined the coding machine, discovdered from Bonn a new coding and decoding machine. ered that the Russians had The apparatus was flown ingeniously planted within to Russia, deposited in the it a miniature microphone of air cargo terminal at Mos- and transmitter capable coded cow Airport for pickup by picking up every Bonn He West German Embassy offi- cials. the officials arrived to claim the machine, they were told it had been misplaced. While the Germans waited 90 When minutes for their cargo to air-shipp- ed message sent between and Moscow. Neither the West Germans nor the Soviets will discuss the affair. 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