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12A DETROIT FREE PRESSTHURSDAY, MAY 14, 1987 Inmate's death, poison attempt increase Jackson tension PRISON, from Page 1A turned over to Michigan State Police, said Tom Phillips, administrative assistant to the warden. Corrections Department spokeswoman Gail Light said prison officials don't believe the attempted poisoning is related to the death of Rowls, who apparently strangled while being held against the metal frame of a bed as officers removed his clothing. Rowls had been taken to the cell and was asked to strip for a routine search after assaulting an officer who had been reviewing a misconduct citation with him. Prison officials think the poisoning attempt may stem from an incident in which some inmates, previously cited for misconduct, face possible expulsion from the industrial maintenance program, Light said. Throughout the week, prison officials have had to confront widespread rumors.

One is that medical officials discovered cattle prod marks and broken bones on Rowls' body an assertion Phillips called "ludicrous" and that was denied by a medical official involved with the autopsy. According to another rumor, prisoners took all the handles from brooms and toilet plungers and were sharpening them for use in the event of a disturbance. PHILLIPS SAID broom handles were missing in 4 Block. But that happened last week, two days before Rowls' death, and they later were located. The mood inside the prison is difficult to describe, said Keith Barber, a member of the Office of Legislative Corrections Ombudsman who has worked at Jackson for five years.

The office, an arm of the state Legislature, deals with inmates' complaints about prisons. Some parts of the prison are calm, he said, while others, such as 4 Block long known among corrections offi cers as the "war zone" because of the violent, assaultive prisoners who live there are quite tense. Barber, who was inside the prison earlier this week, said tension has increased since the March 24 rape and murder of corrections officer Josephine McCallum. Detroit inmate Edward Clay Hill, 28, has been charged in connection with her death. On Monday, officials took the names of a handful of inmates in 4 Block who wore their belts around their necks in a gesture officials said apparently was meant to convey possible retaliation for Rowls' death.

McCallum was strangled with a belt. STAFF AND inmates have become "increasingly polarized" since McCal-lum's murder, Barber said in a report to the Legislature on the incident. Corrections officers are made to work a lot of overtime, and the "ability of staff to cope with conflict situations appears to have deteriorated in at least some cases." Barber noted an April 30 incident in which a guard with a good work record told a prisoner to "shut up, you a after the prisoner yelled at him. The incident, Barber wrote, probably stemmed from "staff burnout." The "hottest place in the prison right now is 4 Block," said inmate Kent Schultz, vice-chairman of the Warden's Forum, an elected inmate council that airs grievances between staff members and prisoners. Schultz and inmate Roberto Acosta, chairman of the forum, said 4 Block inmates feel they are being unfairly punished.

The cellblock recently was converted from close- to maximum-security, more officers were added and procedures were tightened to strengthen security. Phillips cautioned the news media "to become a little more focused and restrained" in its reporting about the prison. Physician dispels AIDS myths KRIM, from Page 1A will die," says Dr. Mathilde (her first name sounds like Matilda) Krim. Krim, co-chairwoman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, will be in Detroit on Friday at Cobo Hall, addressing teenagers, then adults at the Michigan Woman Health Expo.

(Her main speech is at 11 a.m. in Ballroom 2001A. For free admission coupons, check today's Free Press on Page 5B, or call 851-6210 weekdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) Krim's presence at Cobo Hall, she says, is prompted by a need for Americans to stop assuming that AIDS attacks only homosexuals. "It is clear from what we are beginning to see from several hundred children who have AIDS, from women who have it, from heterosexual men who have it that AIDS is not a gay disease.

It's a human disease." THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION for AIDS Research (AmFAR), which Krim helped start, has joined some of the nation's best-known Hollywood names with top disease researchers. AmFAR is chaired by Elizabeth Taylor, whose involvement stems from close friend Rock Hudson. Board members Expo to offer a wide range of speakers Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex advice columnist, will be a featured speaker Friday at the Michigan Woman Health Expo at Cobo Hall. The third annual women's health conference also will feature Dr.

Mathilde Krim of the American Foundation for AIDS Research. On Saturday, speakers are to include Mary Hart of "Entertainment Tonight," beauty maven Mira Linder, Doris Biscoe of WXYZ-TV and Detroit News photo-journalist Linda Solomon. About 4,000 people are expected to attend the two-day event, which will include Crowley's fashion shows both days. The expo is produced by Glenda Greenwald, owner-publisher of Michigan Woman magazine, and sponsored by Yugo America WXYZ-TV, the Free Press and the City of Detroit, along with Great Scott supermarkets and Arbor drug stores. For more information, phone 851-6210, 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Interferon is a natural substance the body produces to fight viruses. Finding interferon as Krim did when other, researchers did pegged the ailment as a virus. Krim began meeting her friend's: patients. "We formed a little group to discuss this." But within months, the patients began dying.

CONTINUING HER research, Krim became increasingly outspoken, chafing under what she felt were institutional and political blocks to public funding of AIDS research. In 1983, Krim began a foundation, hoping to funnel private donations to the handful of scientists conducting AIDS research. Two years later, her group merged with one in California begun with a Rock Hudson Today, AmFAR has 43 researchers working under grants totaling $2.65 million. By research standards, the dollars are small. Krim calls it "seed money," quick cash available to qualified scientists within three months of application.

"It's just enough to tide them over until they can get government grants' a process that typically takes AIDS researchers 12 to 18 months, she says. AmFAR supports a wide range of research, from test-tube analysis of genetic codes that control the AIDS virus' explosive reproduction, to studies tracing U.S. and African risk factors, to the development of high school sex education programs. ON MAY 31, Ronald Reagan is to Protesters call election a fraud Protesters carry a black coffin Wednesday to protest alleged fraud in Monday's congressional elections in Manila. Former defense chief Juan Ponce Enrile, his Senate ticket headed for defeat, led the protest and vowed to "defend justice in this country once more." Police said they foiled an apparent plot to set fire to the Election Commission building near where Enrile had addressed about 3,000 supporters.

But police said there was no evidence linking the plot to Enrile's followers. W.a. parolee charged in slaying include Warren Beatty, Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen and Leonard Bernstein. Krim's background and social position reflect her present post. She once headed the Interferon Laboratory at White Lake nere here PAUL SOUTAHDetroil Free Press SLAYING, from Page 1A Strickland is white, 5-feet-11, weighs 210 pounds, has blond hair and blue eyes and should be considered armed and dangerous, police said.

Munday is white and has black hair. Police believe they are driving a 1976 wo-tone blue Ford pickup truck with a camper top or a 1986 blue Chevrolet Camaro. "This whole thing is unbelievable," said James Doll, a Free Press circulation supervisor who knew DeBoer. "He was a real nice man who never missed a day." Strickland and Munday, who are from towns 35 miles apart in the Cumberland Gap area of the Appalachian Mountains, came to Michigan last August from Centerville, federal investigators said. Munday, claiming to be 1 9 and using the name Melissa Strickland, went to work as a cashier at the Union 76 station on Dixie Highway near Andersonville Road in Waterford, police said.

DeBoer, a large, friendly man, had worked for Leemon for seven years and was robbed several months ago. He was reported missing about 10:30 a.m. Monday when his car was found at the deserted Union 76 station by an employe, police said. Munday was the the prestigious Memorial Sloan-Ket-tering Cancer Center in New York City. She is married to Orion Pictures Chairman Arthur Krim, whose entertainment industry career puts the couple on a first-name basis with many stars.

But behind the staid lab studies and Hollywood connections, behind her tony Manhattan address and paneled offices lies an aspect of Krim's personality that fueled her drive to turn what she saw as public hostility about a disease of gay men and drug addicts into a crusade for scientific truth and compassion. Italian-born, Krim was schooled for 25 years in Geneva, where she received a doctoral degree in genetics. Says a long-time friend, New York playwright Larry Kramer: "She was very much of a rebel in her Swiss college days. She had a boyfriend who was a Jewish student from Palestine there was no Israel back then and they ran away to Palestine together, much to her parents' chagrin." In quick succession, the couple married, Krim converted to Judaism, had a daughter, then divorced. She spent the next six years as a researcher at Israel's famed Weizmann Institute of Science, studying cancer- deliver the main speech at an AmFAR dinner with Krim, Elizabeth Taylor and hundreds of other notables to honor U.S.

Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, virtually the only Reagan administration member to speak out on AIDS. Playwright Kramer says Reagan has been "shamefully, inhumanely silent on this issue." "We're into the seventh year of this epidemic and he's refused to talk about it. But Mathilde and Elizabeth Taylor managed to get him to come to this party." Krim thinks the president's first major speech on AIDS could be a turning point for the administration. "I hope he will call for a national effort and he will head it, as the president, to define a national will to do something about this epeidemic." A major character in Kramer's play about AIDS, "The Normal Heart, is Dr.

Emma Brookner. Many viewers believe Brookner depicts Mathilde Krim, but Kramer says that was not his intent. "The Normal Heart" is being performed now through May 24 at the Performance Network in Ann Arbor. For tickets, call 545-4734 anytime. causing viruses.

One day, a Weizmann board member, Arthur Krim, then head of the United Artists conglomerate, showed up to tour the institute. She was asked to be his guide, and "he fell in love with my cooking and my daughter." JOINING HER husband in New York, Krim got research positions at Cornell University Medical School in New York, then at Sloan-Kettering. She was there in 1981 when she got her first calls from a local physician about a mysterious ailment among his patients. "Because his practice was in the Village (Greenwich Village in New York), many of his patients were gay men. He had observed that they had enlarged lymph He was very intrigued and a little frightened," she recalls.

The physician took blood samples from patients and sent them to labs, trying to pin down the ailment. Says Krim, "He sent some of it to me, because we had been speculating that this might be due to a virus that was unknown, so we may be able to find circulating interferon. And we found it." A spokeswoman for the West Virginia Department of Corrections said Strickland was sentenced on Jan. 1, 1984, to a one-to- 10-year prison term after being convicted of grand larceny and "worthless checks." Strickland was paroled on Jan. 9, 1985, and dropped out of sight soon after that, the spokeswoman said.

DeBoer is survived by his wife, Mary; three daughters, Patricia, Susan and Ann; two brothers, and three sisters. Visitation will be from 3-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Friday at Donelson-Johns Funeral Home, 5391 Highland Road, Waterford Township. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m.

Saturday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Crescent Hills Cemetery, Waterford Township. way to a fishing spot. It was in a clearing near a marshy, heavily wooded area about 20 feet from a lake near the intersection of Rose Center Road and Fish Lake Road, state police at the Brighton Post said. Residents who live nearby told investigators they heard gunshots about 11 a.m.

Monday, the state police spokesman said. Finkbeiner said DeBoer, the father of three daughters, died of gunshot wounds to the head that were fired "probably from a distance of within three feet." Later Tuesday, investigators found that a Springfield Township apartment where Strickland and Munday were living with their three-month-old son, Jamie, had been deserted. I attendant scheduled to be on duty at the time. THE BODY was found about 1 p.m. Tuesday by some teenagers on their DIRECT DIAMOND IMPORTERS, LTD.

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