April 24, 1984

The Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island plans to ship used radioactive fuel on flatbed trucks through New York City in the next several weeks, city officials said yesterday. The city has objected to such shipments on the ground that an accident in New York could subject the densely populated city to peril from radioactivity. The Federal Government has contended, however, that the safeguards for transporting the waste were sufficient and that shipment over interstate highways would reduce any potential exposure to the material. According to the city's Department of Environmental Protection, the proposed route through the city would be the Long Island Expressway to the Clearview Expressway in Queens, over the Throgs Neck Bridge to Interstate 95, then following I-95 through the Bronx.

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Federal researchers announced today that they had found a virus that they believe is the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. They called it HTLV-3 and said they had developed a process to mass-produce it for the purpose of developing the tools needed to finally conquer the mysterious disease that has afflicted more than 4,000 Americans. The announcement follows the attention recently given to the discovery of a virus called LAV by researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. The head of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said over the weekend that he believed the LAV virus was the cause of AIDS. Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services, said today that she thought the two viruses ''will prove to be the same.''

The Standard Oil Company of California is nearing final agreement with the Federal Trade Commission on selling various properties so that its $13.2 billion acquisition of the Gulf Corporation can be approved later this week, Socal officials said today. The properties include 4,000 Gulf service stations in six Southeastern states, unspecified terminals, interests in one or more pipelines and either Gulf's refinery in Port Arthur, Tex., or the one in Alliance, La. The proposed merger, which would be the biggest ever, is to be considered and acted upon at a closed commission meeting scheduled for Thursday morning.

J. David Dominelli, the fugitive currency dealer, said yesterday in a telephone interview from the Caribbean island of Montserrat that the problems that led to his investment company's bankruptcy began when he tried to establish a trust company in Switzerland to trade in foreign currencies. Mr. Dominelli also contended that he had ''some large investors'' who would either redeposit or leave $40 million to $50 million in his investment company. The money would be used to repay investors, Mr. Dominelli said. He declined to be more specific.