Show Ocden National Hundreds mourn Liberace 1 brought on by viral diseases The autopsy began after the coroner’s office obtained medical records from ECenter isenhower Medical which refused to turn over the records until served with a subpoena Asked if the records provided conclusive evidence that Liberace had a contagious disease Carrillo replied “That’s cor- rect" He refused comment when asked if that disease was acquired immune deficiency syndrome which is caused by a virus Spokesmen for Liberace repeatedly have denied published reports he had AIDS He died Wednesday at the age of 67 "i’ The autopsy involved the testing of tissue samples such as the lungs and kidneys because the body already had been embalmed Carrillo said He had said Thursday that tissue tests for AIDS would be conducted if the body had already been embalmed and there was no blood available “We have not only an obligation to the public we serve but a legal duty to establish a cause of death and preclude any conjecture about it” Carrillo said ‘ “It is so sad this happened” the entertainer’s publicist Denise Collier said from New York when she learned of the coroner’s move So we aajurm Storewide ‘ i 4l ' It's Happening Today - Sat Feb 7th - r to 6 PM 12:00 Noon to 5:00 PM 10 AM Again Sunday ' A ! r v ' Press Associated sister of famed entertainer Liberace enters Our Lady of Solitude Catholic Church Angelina Farrell (right) The autopsy followed the morning service at Our Lady of Roman Solitude Catholic Church less than a block from Liberace’s home The crowd of about 250 mourners inside the church included stars Kirk Douglas Isabel Sanford and Charlene Tilton Another 200 people stood outside during the service safety commission delayed Air Newspaper President WASHINGTON— Reagan is almost three months overdue in appointing members of a special independent commission to assess how the government is doing its job of keeping the skies safe at a time when aircraft are averaging two a day One of the’ commission's chief’ assignments is to examine the impact of airline deregulation on aviation safety Industry officials say at least two of the people the administration is considering for the played major roles in achieving deregulation An aviation industry official who did not want to be identified said the two are Elizabeth E Bailey and Michael E Levine the former vice chairman and a former policy director respectively Civil Aeroof the nautics Board “They are absolutely wrong for this job” the official said adding it was “crazy" to ask two former architects of deregulation to rule on whether their decisions were right - But critics also charge that the WASHINGTON (AP) — President Reagan will propose legislation designed to foil future home recording of compact discs and other digitally recorded audio material administration officials said Friday The proposal to apply to a new generation of digital tape recorders and not to most now on the market or in homes is part of a competitiveness and trade package to be submitted to Congress in late February said the officials delay in the appointments is a signal that the administration which opposed the commission’s creation does not consider air safety to be a top priority “I can only assume that this administration simply does not share our concern regarding the seriousness of the aviation safety issue” Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd recently told a Senate panel Byrd who authored the legislation creating the Aviation Safety Commission has been trying to prod the White House into action He twice took to the Senate floor in the past week to point out that the administration was supposed to have made the commission appointments by White House spokesman Albert R Brashear said “the president is attempting to fill those vacancies We’ve got a process to go through that includes clearances We’re working as fast as we can" Byrd said that with airline flights increasing and the FAA still recovering from the 1981 controllers’ strike “the nation faces a deteriorating margin of safety in air travel" DROP LID DESKS n D rr O compact disc recording may limit Bill V” w I Under the proposal digital tape recorders could not be imported or sold in the United States unless they contained a device that automatically would block the recording of certain d materiaL This device a computer chip circuit called a “copy code scanner" would “read" a special signal encoded onto compact discs and other audio sources at the time of manufacture Although this signal would be inaudible once its presence was detected the tape recorder would refuse to record the materiaL The legislation would apply only to audiotaping not videotaping Behind the effort the administration’s first foray into the beat-e- d controversy over home taping is the recent surge in sales of compact discs and disc players and expectations of increasing sales of sophisticated digital tape recorders The recording industry concerned about a new generation of pirating as a result in new digital technology has been actively seeking government help to protect copyrights The entire package will be sent to Capitol Hill between Feb 19 and Feb 23 the officials said Other parts of the package include a SI billion program to help retrain workers laid off because of import competition full financing of a $300 million fund to fight foreign export subsidies and revisions in existing trade laws EXERCYCLE r $59 O The decision “doesn’t change The the legal status whatsoever determination of CapL MacDonald’s fate stands He is not unaccounted for” said Ll CoL a Pentagon Keith Schneider spokesman The Pentagon’s reversal on of the remains “They made a mistake they identification admitted it and that’s a step in marked the second time such acthe right direction" said James tion had been taken since the end of the Vietnam War Schneider MacDonald the airman’s brothsaid er The first such case involved Lt Col Thomas Hart who was piloting the Air Force gunship that carried MacDonald and 14 others when it was struck by fire on a combat mission over Laos on Dec 21 1972 “It increases our hope he might still be alne but then we’ve been through this before" he said Thursday "Our hopes have died and been rekindled so many times jfs hard to know how to fed" Replace that BOYD HOSKINS flUMBlW I KEAT1K6 CO r nDinilh 392-8- 1 f 2627 t "itw ii M llM km Off! 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Tests show contagious disease PALM SPRINGS Calif (AP) — Hundreds mourned Liberace at a memorial service Friday and President Reagan sent a telegram while a coroner the pianist's reported cause of death said the entertainer had a contagious disease Riverside County Coroner Raymond Carrillo who wanted to know if AIDS was involved in the entertainer's death said results of an autopsy begun Friday were expected to be announced today The cause of death should be determined positively by Monday he said Sabas Rosas a Riverside coroner’s supervisor told the Los Angeles Times on Friday that a test done for the AIDS virus on a sample of Liberace’s blood “came back positive" Such a result from the test which Rosas said was conducted at Eisenhower Medical Center before Liberace died would mean the entertainer had been exposed to the virus that causes AIDS It would not necessarily indicate he had AIDS approximately 10 percent to 30 percent of those testing positive will develop AIDS Dr Ronald Daniels personal physician had reported the cause of death as cardiac arrest due to congestive heart failure brought on by subacute encephalopathy an in- of-t- he -- brain flammation Encephalopathy is a condition 71987 5A Saturday February r o jTnibr ir cousins 270 - 12th Street 394-G64- G y m U2HiHEZS3MH CMaT Mon Thurs 11 AM 7 PM 11 A M 3 PM 10 AM-PM Sun II AM-PM fri Sat M |