The Michigan Daily-Thursday, October 8, 1987- Page 5 Reagan requests Contra aid WASHINGTON (AP)- President Reagan, warning he won't be fooled by Sandinista "facades of freedom," asked Congress yesterday to approve $270 million in Contra aid as an insurance policy for peace in Nicaragua. Reagan, in a toughly worded address to the Organization of American States, lauded recent steps taken toward peace under a regional accord. But he also said the pact is "only a beginning" and described a series of steps the leftist Sandinista government in Managua must take in order to assure that U.S. military aid to the Contra rebels ends. "Full, free and fair elections and the open society that alone can make them possible, including full human rights and expulsion of all Soviet and Cuban forces - these must be the bedrock of conditions upon which any further agreement with the Sandinistas is built," Reagan said. Although House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas) has said Reagan has little chance of obtaining renewed military aid, the president lectured Congress against abandoning the Contras after supporting them in the past. "It cannot just walk away," he said. "I have made a personal commitment to them - and I will not walk away." Reagan termed the aid package "the essential guarantee that the Sandinistas will live up to the democratic conditions of the Guatemala Accord," the peace pact signed in August by five Central American nations, including Nicaragua. The president said he would "request and fight for" the $270 million, 18-month aid package, which administration officials have said would go forward before the Nov. 7 cease-fire date called for under the regional peace accord. "Once a cease-fire is fully in effect, only that support necessary to maintain the freedom fighters (Contras) as a viable force will be delivered," Reagan pledged. "Then we, and they, will be watching to see how genuine the democratic reforms in Nicaragua are." He added that he planned to keep a wary eye on Nicaragua. Virus spreads NEW YORK (AP) - Children children in a day c in day care centers may be giving Richmond, Adler fou their mothers an invisible infection them, mostly under th that can cause pregnant women to the infection caused b3 bear mentally retarded children, says cytomegalovirus. a study reported yesterday. Of the mothers The infection thus poses a risk to children, 18 had not be women with children who become to the virus throug pregnant again and is probably to infection, and six o: blame for 1,000 to 2,000 cases of third, got the infecti retardation and other birth defects a children, an infection year, said the author of the new said was "extremely h study, Dr. Stuart Adler of the In the general pop Medical College of Richmond in percentto 5 percent Virginia. infected each year, In a two-year study of 104 reported his findings in day care centers are center in and that 30 of he age of 3, got y a virus called of those 38 ecome immune h a previous f the, or one- ion from their rate that Adler igh." ulation, only 1 of people are he said. He Wednesday at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. In general, day care centers are known to be places where infections spread easily because of the number of small children in the same place. Adler noted that infection rates with cytomegalovirus vary in different regions, but he said that he believes the problem of cytomegalovirus infection in pregnant mothers is not limited to Richmond. "We.think it's a national problem," he said, noting that similar findings have been made in Alabama. Cytomegalovirus is extremely common in the Third World, where children are universally infected before reaching age two, Adler said. The virus produces no visible illness in normal children or adults, Adler said, though it can cause problems in people whose immune systems are damaged as a result of cancer or AIDS. -Associated Press Tiger tees James Robertson sells Detroit Tigers sweatshirts as fans wait in line at the Tiger Stadium in Detroit Monday morning to buy the few remaining seats for the American League Playoffs with the Minnesota Twins this weekend. 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